Contextual factors such as ethnicity, gender, place, and their intersections determine the social condition that populations and individuals live in. As a result, environmental stressors that shape exposures, and also resilience and vulnerabilities are specific to the population. This emphasizes the role of the intersection of such contextual factors in studying psychosocial causes of depressio...

semantic strategies are a kind of discourse strategy that include the sum of language and cognitive moves which are used to reach an adequate goal of communication normally resulting in text comprehension by the reader or listener. here, the language user takes a number of steps in order to perform a complex task. semantic strategies in prejudiced talk have been examined extensively in western ...

background: ankylosing spondylitis (as) may manifest with heterogeneous patterns according to ethnic origins. the objectives of this study were to describe the influence of various iranian ethnic origins on clinical measures in patients with as. methods: 0ne hundred sixty-three as patients diagnosed by modified new york 1984 criteria were enrolled consecutively in a cross-sectional study. the p...

Although a considerable proportion of serum lipids loci identified in European ancestry individuals (EA) replicate in African Americans (AA), interethnic differences in the distribution of serum lipids suggest that some genetic determinants differ by ethnicity. We conducted a comprehensive evaluation of five lipid candidate genes to identify variants with ethnicity-specific effects. We sequence...

We use a mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) dataset provided by the FBI to build classifiers that can guess the ethnicity of the bearer of an mtDNA sample, using a number of different algorithms. Mitochondrial DNA is the genetic material that is found in mitochondria, organelles that reside inside the cells. The DNA found in mitochondria is relatively small in size but is highly informative and is there...

Research in the field of ethnic politics is especially important in the context of Latin America, a region that continues to struggle with the incorporation and increasing participation of ethnic minorities, particularly Indigenous peoples, in the regional and national political arenas. Unfortunately, the correct approach to ethnicity research remains an unresolved contention between the Primor...

background: to test if social support and ethnicity mediate/moderate the association between religion involvement and subjective health in the united states. methods: this is a secondary analysis of national survey of american life, 2003. hierarchical regression was fit to a national household probability sample of adult african americans ( n = 3570), caribbean blacks ( n = 1621), and whites ( ...