OBJECTIVE Migrants tend to present higher overweight and obesity levels, but whether this relationship applies to all nationalities has seldom been studied. The present study aimed to assess the prevalence of overweight and obesity according to nationality in adults. DESIGN Cross-sectional population-based samples. SETTING Five-year nationwide interview surveys (Swiss Health Surveys - SHS) ...

Computer Art in the (Former) Soviet Bloc Introduction I. Experimental visual art in Yugoslavia A. The Maoist Critique of Yugoslavia 1. Revolutionary Definitions 2. Criticisms of Tito B. New Tendencies 1. NAMA DEPARTMENT STORE 2. Other Examples of New Tendencies C. The Successors to New Tendencies: II. Computer art in East Germany A. Programme Funken! B. Computer Art in DDR C. Conclusions D. Pos...

The Nuremberg trial, later followed by the Tokyo trial, is a milestone in the development of international law. For the first time in modern history, the leaders of a defeated country were indicted for committing serious crimes jeopardizing the bases of peaceful coexistence among individual human beings and peoples: crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. German objections...

In this paper certain attractive explanations, present in sociological and other scholar­ ship, on the dismemberment of Yugoslavia are considered, by reviewing them in light of cer­ tain thus far unpublished survey and census data on the former Yugoslavia, immediately pre­ ceding the dismemberment. Particularly one influential, but biased explanation of the dissolu­ tion of the former Yugoslavi...

BACKGROUND Immigrants to Norway from South Asia and Former Yugoslavia have high levels of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. Yet, the incidence of CVD among immigrants in Norway has never been studied. Our aim was to study the burden of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and stroke among ethnic groups in Norway. METHODS We studied the whole Norwegian population (n = 2,637,057) aged 35-...

The very fact that an international meeting of experts convenes to consider the issue of impunity for international crimes and serious violations of human rights is itself a measure of changing times. Although some legal obligations to investigate, prosecute, and punish perpetrators or compensate victims already existed, until the 1990s the issue was not on the agenda of either the human rights...

The recently granted “independence” to Kosovo by the transnational elite, in flagrant violation of international law and the UN, has completed the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia. As I pointed out elsewhere the dismembering of Yugoslavia was an attempt by the transnational elite to fully integrate the area into the New Economic Order of the internationalised market economy. Thus, given ...

Abstract Legal narratives about collective violence have given an outsized explanatory role to propaganda in conflicts such as the Rwandan genocide and Yugoslav Wars. While post-conflict ethnographies examined what Rwandans remember violence, similar studies not been undertaken territories of former Yugoslavia. The present ethnographic study fills this gap. After introducing theoretical empiric...