Low birth weight (LBW) rates remain the highest among African Americans despite public health efforts to address these disparities; with some of the highest racial disparities in the Midwest (Kansas). The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) perspective offers an explanation for how LBW contributes to racial health disparities among African Americans and informs a community direc...

The Pioneer Fund was created in 1937 "to conduct or aid in conducting study and research into problems of heredity and eugenics . . . and problems of race betterment with special reference to the people of the United States." The Fund was endowed by Colonel Wickliffe Preston Draper, a New England textile heir, and perpetuates his legacy through an active program of grants, some of the more cont...

Lithuanian conjurations (zagovory) constitute a unique part of folklore. In the collection conjurations’ manuscripts described in publication Daiva Vaitkevičienė (2008), we will find records these archaic texts various languages, including Polish. Polish-language separate subgroup Balto-Slavic context. Following chronological criterion, are dealing with pre-Christian and after-Christ origins. D...

Russian maintains a contrast between non-palatalized and palatalized trills that has been lost in most Slavic languages. This research investigates the phonetic expression of this contrast in an attempt to understand how the contrast is maintained. One hypothesis is that the contrast is stabilized through resistance to coarticulation between the trill and surrounding vowels and prosodic positio...

The alternation of vowels with zero in Croatian and the other Slavic lan­ guages is a complex phenomenon that has lang attracted the attention of linguists. This article examines previous phonological analyses that have been developed to account for these alternations in the contemporary Slavic linguistic systems and proposes an alternative approach to this problem within the theoretical framew...

This article presents a discussion of differences between the Slavic languages regarding the historical productivity of -no ̨as an aspectual suffix. It is shown that a class of prefixed pf a-stem/n-stem doublets has been more productive in a group of western languages (primarily Czech, Slovak, Upper Sorbian) and that this productivity declines in the languages farther to the east, reaching a min...

We typed 100 unrelated, healthy Poles from the region of Lower Silesia for HLA-C using low-resolution polymerase chain reaction sequence-specific primers (PCR-SSP) and compared the observed allele frequencies with data published for other human populations. Poles appeared to be most similar to the Germans and English more distant from the French, Catalans and Basques and most dissimilar to non-...

Opshta i lokalna dijalectologija na Balkanot: Podatoci od slovenskite jazici [ " Broad versus Localistic Dialectology in the Balkans: Evidence from Slavic " ]

background & aim: the artificial teeth are produced with same standards for all the ethnics and countries in the world. the purpose of this study was to establish a normative size distribution in a group of students and staffs of shahid beheshti university of medical sciences. methods & materials: 320 individuals participated in this descriptive study. a vernier caliper was used to measure the ...

The present study explores the phonetic and phonological grounds on which postalveolar fricatives in Polish can be analysed as retroflex, and considers whether postalveolar fricatives in other Slavic languages are retroflex as well. Velarization and incompatibility with front vowels are introduced as articulatory criteria for retroflexion, based on cross-linguistic data. According to these crit...