Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Signaling Pathway: An Update on Molecular Biomarkers by Warut Tulalamba, Tavan Janvilisri

“…Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is an uncommon cancer, which has a distinctive ethnic and geographic distribution. Etiology of NPC is considered to be related with a complex interaction of environmental and genetic factors as well as Epstein-Barr virus infection. …”
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“Haciendo un freestyle con los qompas”: juegos verbales y recontextualización de géneros discursivos en el rap qom by Victoria Beiras del Carril, Paola Cúneo

“…Likewise, we argue that rap makes it possible to permeate own and valued discursive genres among the Qom people—such as certain formulas of everyday speech, rogative, advice or lullabies—, in a process of recontextualization that allows to mold and create their own ways of ethnic and age self-identification. Finally, we discuss the scope of this emerging genre in terms of visibility and promotion of the indigenous language.…”
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Nommer les biens du Patrimoine mondial : processus de patrimonialisation et réinvention toponymique by Christophe Gauchon

“…In the whole list, many names can be found with historic, national or ethnic mentions which aim at specific character more than universality promoted by Unesco.…”
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Genetic Polymorphism in Peripartum Cardiomyopathy by Ivana Purnama Dewi, Johanes Nugroho

“…Many evidence supporting a contribution from gene mutations in PPCM includes genome-wide association studies, familial occurrence, variable prevalence among different regions and ethnicities, and more recent investigations of panels of genes for mutations among women with PPCM. …”
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Rhinoplasty by Bernardo Canto Vidal, Tania Canto Vigil, Luis Gerardo García Moreno

“…<strong>Results:</strong> The type of ethnical nose with more incidence was the Caucasian with 49 patients. 47 endonasal approaches and 30 open rhinoplastias were carried out. …”
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Zamucoan ethnonymy in the 18th century and the etymology of Ayoreo by Luca Ciucci

“…Previously undocumented ethnic denominations emerge, including the endonym of the Old Zamuco-speaking people. …”
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Representation and Reception of the Image of the Zulu. From Travel Accounts to the Public Sphere in Mid-Victorian and Edwardian Great Britain (1850–1914) by Patricia Crouan-Véron

“…These written descriptions have become precious sources for the contemporary readers and scholars as they produce knowledge on local ethnic groups living in distant places at that period and they also inform on the people who met them for the first time. …”
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Nation vs. People: The Axiology of Group Identity by H. T. Sardaryan

“…It reviews the political philosophy arguments explaining conditions and reasons for individual ethnic groups to become nations. The author emphasizes the role of religion in this process as the main factor in forming national values and identity beyond tribal ties. …”
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The relativistic attitude in development: reflections on the implementation of the Ethiopian multinational Constitution by Marco Bassi

“…The developmental policy adopted since 1991 in Ethiopia illustrates it in relation to small-holding farmers, pastoralists and ethnic minorities. At the international level, alternative development paradigms have evolved along with progress in human rights. …”
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Le nouveau Xinjiang : intégration et recompositions territoriales d’une périphérie chinoise by Alain Cariou

“…The rapide decline of the proportion of ethnic minority nationality is the result of a political strategy of Chinese national expansion and territorial intergation in order to control the Xinjiang.…”
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A Miss Kayapó: ritual, espetáculo e beleza by André Demarchi

“…Held in the city of São Félix do Xingu, in the State of Pará (Brazil), before a large number of indigenous and non-indigenous people, the Beauty Contest is an important ritual to understand the inter-ethnic relations between the contemporary Mebêngôkre and the other Brazilian inhabitants of the region. …”
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From Friends to Enemies: Negotiating nationalism, tribal identities, and kinship in the fratricidal war of the Malian Tuareg by Georg Klute

“…Friendship ties which had cut across interethnic and intraethnic boundaries were replaced by ethnic and even tribal identities during the fights. …”
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Los nahuas de Tzintzuntzan-Huitzitzilan, Michoacán: historia, mito y legitimación de un señorío prehispánico by Hans Roskamp

“…Modern historiography on 15th and early 16th century Michoacán emphasizes the political-economical success of the Tarascans and their uacúsecha lineage but pays relatively little attention to other ethnic groups that lived in the region. This article deals with the nature and strength of the historical traditions of the Nahuas in Michoacán, paying special attention to the case of Tzintzuntzan-Huitzitzilan, a place which at the time of the Spanish conquest was the capital of the uacúsecha señorío. …”
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De los candires a Kandire. La invención de un mito chiriguano by Isabelle Combès

“…The assimilation of « Kandire » to a « land without evil », or at least its inclusion in a religious complex of representations, can only be attested among the Itatin branch of the Chiriguano and not among the ethnic groups that gave birth to the current Bolivian Chiriguano. …”
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Iwolefu Funeral Insurance and the Socioeconomics of Burial Ceremony in Ikorodu area of Lagos State by Faruq Idowu Boge

“…The Ikorodu (Remo) sub-ethnic Yoruba group has a traditional form of funeral insurance that makes funeral arrangements and expenses a communal responsibility. …”
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Queering the City: Understanding Gravitational Forces by Petra L. Doan

“…Because these forces are unique to each LGBTQ space, the analytic strategy provides for greater generalizability across different sizes of cities, across various cultural and ethnic areas, and a wider array of geographies.…”
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Yorùbá Philosophy and Contemporary Nigerian Realities by Adeshina Afolayan

“…Premised on the fundamental assumption that Yorùbá philosophy constitutes a fundamental site of scholarship within which the task of understanding and reinventing the Nigerian state and societies can be achieved, the Introduction weaves this assumption into the analysis of the fourteen essays that explores Nigeria’s postcolonial realities ranging from overpopulation, public (im)morality, ethnic conflict, injustice, and democratic deficit to environmental degradation, disability, depersonalization, youth culture, and a glaring disconnection between educational theory and practice. …”
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De la revendication kabyle à la revendication amazighe : d’une contestation locale à une revendication globale by Nassim Amrouche

“…By creating and mobilizing historical references such as appealing to ethnic identity and sense of Tamazgha, these local disputes have garnered support and acquired a transnational dimension. …”
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Guerre sainte dans le Cône sud latino-américain : pentecôtistes versus umbandistes by Alejandro Frigerio, Ari Pedro Oro

“…Since this historical narrative assigns a specific place to the different ethnic and religious minorities within the nation, it constitutes a cultural resource that may be mobilized to vindicate a group’s rights or to deny them to its opponents.…”
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Votian Village Feasts in the Context of Russian Orthodoxy by Ergo-Hart Västrik

“…This phenomenon of celebrating collectively certain days of church calendar, which included ritual activities in village chapels or other local sanctuaries, common meals and heavy drinking as well singing and dancing in the course of 3–4 days, was a part of common Russian Orthodox tradition shared by several ethnic groups throughout North-West Russia in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. …”
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