IMPACT OF SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTORS ON DEMAND FOR INSURANCE POLICY AND PRODUCT IN NIGERIA by Rukayat Bukola ADEJARE, Ismaila Daudu ALIU

“…However, the Islamic religious belief and ethnicity of the customers do not have statistically significant relationship with demand for insurance policy. …”
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Gender Classification Based on Iris Recognition Using Artificial Neural Networks by Basna Mohammed Salih, Adnan Mohsin Abdulazeez, Omer Mohammed Salih Hassan

“… Biometric authentication is one of the most quickly increasing innovations in today's world; this promising technology has seen widespread use in a variety of fields, including surveillance services, safe financial transfers, credit-card authentication. in biometric verification processes such as gender, age, ethnicity is iris recognition technology is considered the most accurate compared to other vital features such as face, hand geometry, and fingerprints.  …”
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Bisphenol A and Metabolic Syndrome: Results from NHANES by Srinivas Teppala, Suresh Madhavan, Anoop Shankar

“…Increasing levels of urinary BPA were positively associated with MetS, independent of confounders such as age, gender, race/ethnicity, smoking, alcohol intake, physical activity, and urinary creatinine. …”
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Ironies of Christian Presencein Southern Africa by Sibusiso Masondo

“…It became a serious problem for the Christianized and educated natives to find themselves excluded from the Christian family on the basis of their ethnicity.David Chidester’s work on the history of religion in Southern Africa provides a very useful background for exploring the ironies of Christian presence in Southern Africa. …”
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Evaluation of Transforming Growth Factor Beta-1 Gene 869T/C Polymorphism with Hypertension: A Meta-Analysis by Wenquan Niu

“…Stratified analysis by study design demonstrated stronger associations in population-based studies than in hospital-based studies with OR, except in the dominant model, being increased by 7.94–18.61%. Likewise, ethnicity-based analysis exhibited a contradictory association between Asians and Whites. …”
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Diagnostic properties of differing BP thresholds for adverse pregnancy outcomes in standard-risk nulliparous women: A secondary analysis of SCOPE cohort data. by Laura Slade, Maya Blackman, Hiten D Mistry, Jeffrey N Bone, Milly Wilson, Nuhaat Syeda, Lucilla Poston, Peter von Dadelszen, Laura A Magee, SCOPE Consortium

“…Women were mostly of white ethnicity, in their 20s, and of normal-to-overweight body mass index (BMI). …”
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Impact of donor CYP3A5 genotype on pharmacokinetics of tacrolimus in South African paediatric liver transplant patients by C Wheeler, C Masimirembwa, B Mthembu, J Botha, J Scholefield, J Fabian

“…In this study, we showed that all CYP3A5*1 homozygote donors were of black African self-reported race and ethnicity, and tacrolimus CDRs in paediatric living-donor liver transplant recipients were significantly affected by donor graft size and donor CYP3A5 genotypes. …”
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ELECTORAL VIOLENCE IN KADUNA STATE: THE IMPLICATION FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT by Abdullahi Umar, Abubakar Abdullahi Muhammad, Awwal Muhammad Shafiu, Abdulrahim Mahmud Dogara, Amina Lawal

“…Despite their disparities in ethnicity and religion, the paper's conclusion argues that Kaduna State's many subpopulations must work together. …”
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Children of Middle Eastern Descent by Christina Mai Ying Naidoo, Steven T. Leach, Andrew S. Day, Daniel A. Lemberg

“…The SCHR IBD database was used to identify patients of self-reported Middle Eastern ethnicity diagnosed between 1987 and 2011. Demographic, diagnosis, and management data was collected for all Middle Eastern children and an age and gender matched non-Middle Eastern IBD control group. …”
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Glaucoma among the Malaysian Community by Redhwan Ahmed Al-Naggar, Hisham Alshaikhli, R. R. Al-Rashidi, Bahaa Saleh

“…This study showed that only 25.2% of our respondents were aware of glaucoma and it is associated with ethnicity, religion, education, and household income. …”
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PARTY POLITICS AND ELECTIONS IN KOGI STATE BETWEEN 1999 AND 2015: A CASE STUDY OF THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY by ADAVIZE EMMANUEL JATTO, SUBERU OCHI ABDULRAHMAN

“…The paper argues that the major factor that influenced politics in Kogi state are ethnic issues or what is known as ethnic politics between the three major ethnic groups of Ebira, Igala and Okun. …”
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Prevalence and Associated Factors Related to Tobacco Consumption Among University Students in Malaysia by Chui Yi Chow, Md Zobaer Hasan, Anton Abdulbasah Kamil

“…In Pearson's chi square test and Fisher's exact test, current use of tobacco was significantly associated with nationality, ethnicity, religion, school, current level of education and parents, siblings and friends use of tobacco (*p*\<0.05). …”
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Leukocyte Telomere Length and Cognitive Function in Older Adults by Emily Frith, Paul D. Loprinzi

“…Leukocyte telomere length was associated with higher cognitive performance, independent of gender, race-ethnicity, physical activity status, body mass index and other covariates. …”
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Putting the broken pieces of life together, Baloch family caregivers’ confrontation with schizophrenia: a phenomenological study by Nastaran Heydarikhayat, Fatemeh Darban, Jamileh Farokhzadian

“…This study aimed to explore the lived experiences of family caregivers who are caring for a family member with schizophrenia within the Baloch ethnicity. Methods This is a qualitative study, using a descriptive phenomenological approach. …”
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Social capital of women who have been subjected to domestic violence by R. M. Sadykov, N. L. Bolshakova

“…Mistreatment of relatives and domestic violence do not depend on social and economic status, level of education and profession, ethnicity, and race. The manifestation of violence and abuse in family negatively affects health and well-being of women’s capital. …”
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Meeting the Challenge of Diabetes in Ageing and Diverse Populations: A Review of the Literature from the UK by Emma Wilkinson, Muhammad Waqar, Alan Sinclair, Gurch Randhawa

“…We explored the evidence about diabetes care for older people with South Asian ethnicity to understand the contexts and mechanisms behind interventions to reduce inequalities. …”
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Comparative analysis of diabetes risk in patients with obstructive sleep apnea undergoing different treatment approaches by Nai-Chen Shih, James Cheng-Chung Wei

“…However, potential biases and confounding variables should be considered, such as race, ethnicity, socioeconomic factors, BMI, glucose levels, HbA1c values, medication use and healthy dietary habits. …”
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Prevalent symptoms and characteristics of the Long COVID-19 population: a scoping review by Karina Marques Prediger, Ana Cristina Ribeiro, Sílvia Carla da Silva André Uehara

“…Future studies are recommended on the approach to the persistence of symptoms in Long COVID and the relationship between adherence to the vaccination schedule against COVID-19, gender, race/ethnicity, degree of susceptibility in the different age groups, level of education and income, as well as the most recurrent comorbidities in the population…”
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Physical Activity among Veterans and Nonveterans with Diabetes by Erin D. Bouldin, Gayle E. Reiber

“…After adjusting for sex, race and ethnicity, household income, education level, body mass index (BMI), and recent health checkup, veteran status was associated with a small but significantly larger amount of average weekly moderate PA (2.2 minutes, P=0.0058) but not average weekly vigorous PA (−0.02 minutes, P=0.98). …”
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Peace Building and Social Media in a Cosmopolitan Society by I. Omotayo Adeshina

“…Africa represents a cosmopolitan society given its multi-cultural and multi-ethnic richness. Nigeria is the most heterogeneous and multicultural society in Africa with over 300 ethnic nationalities and concurrent religious diversities. …”
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