1. In the RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS section of the abstract, the sentence was corrected to read: “Targeted metabolic assays were performed on cord blood plasma samples from European ancestry, Afro-Caribbean, Thai, and Mexican American newborns (400 from each ancestry group) whose mothers participated in the Hyperglycemia and Adverse PregnancyOutcome (HAPO) Study andwho had anthropometric meas...

BACKGROUND Avian influenza viruses (AIV) have been detected in wild birds in West Africa during the northern winter, but no information is available on a potential year-round circulation of AIV in West Africa. Such year-round circulation would allow reassortment opportunities between strains circulating in Afro-tropical birds and strains imported by migratory birds wintering in West Africa. O...

The frequencies of four mitochondrial Native American DNA haplogroups were determined in 1526 unrelated individuals from 11 Departments of Colombia and compared to the frequencies previously obtained for Amerindian and Afro-Colombian populations. Amerindian mtDNA haplogroups ranged from 74% to 97%. The lowest frequencies were found in Departments on the Caribbean coast and in the Pacific region...

AIMS To investigate differences in serum lipid, lipoprotein and apolipoprotein concentrations in pregnant women of different ethnic origin. METHODS Serum lipid, lipoprotein and apolipoprotein concentrations were measured in 232 women (114 Caucasians, 118 Africans/Afro-Caribbeans), who presented consecutively for screening for gestational diabetes in the third trimester of pregnancy. RESULTS...

1. For consistency and to avoid confusions, the term dimension is used across PCA, CFA, and RSM analyese. Validity evidence is provided for a Persian blog attitude questionnaire (P-BAQ). P-BAQ was administered to 565 Iranians and factor analysis and rating scale model identified affective, behavioral, and perseverance, and confidence dimensions underlying the data. P-BAQ's validity argument was...

This text addresses the decolonization of Afro-Brazilian domestic oratories and its implications as a magic device European-based religion that finds subsidies in African-based religions over centuries, assumes an acculturation allows it to result symbiosis rites, where Catholic was imbued with particular religiosity. In this way, we seek understand decoloniality imposed on use creation these o...

Esta contribuição propõe uma reflexão decolonial a partir de produções orais compartilhadas entre sociedades africanas e comunidades afrodescendentes Abya Yala. É um corpus oral contos animais oralidades rituais que produzem conjunto saberes descentralizados expressam necessidade esses grupos simbolizarem pensarem sua relação como comunidade, com seu ambiente natural sobrenatural.

Attitudes towards eating, weight and shape were examined in 479 Caucasian, Afro-Caribbean and Asian British women. The Asian women were found to have significantly more disordered eating attitudes than the Caucasian women, but no difference was found between the three groups in their concern with their body weight and shape. However, while in the Caucasian group disordered eating attitudes were...