the human leukocyte antigen has become a key component in investigating the genetic relationships between populations. the aim of this study was to determine the genetic diversity of hla class i and ii alleles among zaboli ethnic group of south-east iran to establish a database for further investigations on ancestry and the genetic factors contributing to complex diseases in this region. unrela...

The immature stages of freshwater insects can sometimes be found in densities of up to 25,000 m -2 in saltwaterinundated regions of estuaries, however little is known of their condition there. The gut fullness and contents of larvae of two species of hydropsychid caddisfly (Hydropsyche siltalai and H. instabilis) from freshwater and saltwater-inundated sites on the Aber Estuary, Wales were comp...

Human populations are well known to have undergone secular trends in height. Due to the sensitivity of stature to nutrition in early life, these trends in height imply complementary trends in birth weight, albeit displaced in time by a few generations. This article presents a simulation of birth weight in past populations, based on the assumption of an inherent association between birth weight ...

Introduction As written by Warsan Shire, “no one leaves home until the is mouth of a shark”. UNHCR defines forced displacement as “displaced because persecution, conflict, generalized violence or human rights violations" Objectives to study prevalence common Mental health disorders among forcibly displaced people and comparing with mental host community members. Methods The OPD BIPBS in SPH BMC...

• Displaced revenge is targeted at a different person than the original transgressor. • We examine conditions under which displaced revenge can be satisfying. • Displaced revenge is satisfying when the transgressor group is highly entitative. • Interconnectedness and similarity between transgressor and target are both important. • Displaced revenge is goal-directed and can achieve a sense of ju...

Alcohol use is common in many conflict-displaced populations; population perspectives of alcohol use have not been well studied. Interviews were conducted with a convenience sample of 97 people (September-December 2009) in Mae La, a long-standing refugee camp on the Thai-Burma border, and analyzed thematically. Intimate partner violence (IPV) emerged as a prominent theme, with four subthemes: a...

To the Editor: In the editorial Responding to Gender-based Violence in Disasters: Grappling With Research Methods to Clear the Way for Planning, Rosborough et al discuss challenges to measuring and reporting on gender-based violence (GBV) in disasteraffected populations.1 The authors also comment on our research contribution, which documented an increase in GBV among female internally displaced...

Syria’s ongoing three-year civil war has displaced 6.5 million Syrians, left hundreds of thousands wounded or killed by violence, and created a vacuum in basic infrastructures that will reverberate throughout the region for years to come. Beyond such devastation, the civil war has introduced epidemics of infections that have spread through vulnerable populations in Syria and neighboring countri...