Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha Gene Promoter Region Polymorphism and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease by Gul Zareen Asifa, Afrose Liaquat, Iram Murtaza, Syed Ali Raza Kazmi, Qamar Javed

“…Controversy exists regarding the link between the cytokine’s variant genotype and CHD among different ethnic groups. There have been fewer studies on the TNF-α gene −1031T>C and −863C>A polymorphisms in relation to CHD. …”
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Correlation Assessment between Three-Dimensional Facial Soft Tissue Scan and Lateral Cephalometric Radiography in Orthodontic Diagnosis by Piero Antonio Zecca, Rosamaria Fastuca, Matteo Beretta, Alberto Caprioglio, Aldo Macchi

“…The study sample comprised 312 subjects of Caucasian ethnic origin. Exclusion criteria were all the craniofacial anomalies, noticeable asymmetries, and previous or current orthodontic treatment. …”
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IgG, IgM, and IgA Antinuclear Antibodies in Discoid and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients by Sheridan A. Jost, Lin-Chiang Tseng, Loderick A. Matthews, Rebecca Vasquez, Song Zhang, Kim B. Yancey, Benjamin F. Chong

“…In this cross-sectional study, sera from age-, gender-, and ethnic-matched SLE N=35, DLE N=23, and normal patients N=22 were tested for IgG, IgM, and IgA ANAs using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) and indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) with monkey esophagus as substrate. …”
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Chemical Composition and Microbial Contaminants of Poha Beer: A Local Nonalcoholic Beverage in the Bolgatanga Municipality, Ghana by Julius T. Dongdem, James Abugri, Clement A. Asakedola

“…Poha Beer as it is referred to in Dagbani, is a Tamarindus indica fruit extract, a local nonalcoholic beverage originally processed and sold by rural women of the Dagomba ethnic descend. Morphological examination of bacterial cultures, Gram staining, and biochemical confirmatory tests were used to detect the presence of microbial pathogens in 45 samples of Poha Beer. …”
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Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi (Eds). Encyclopedia of the Yoruba. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. 371pp. by Ibrahim A. Odugbemi

“…Across these entries, the encyclopedia gives a complex, yet detailed, presentation of the Yorùbá, a dominant ethnic group in West Africa and the most prominent African cultural population, identity and presence in the African diaspora including North America, the Caribbean and South America. …”
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Evaluation of Environmental and Neighborhood Satisfaction Across the Socio-demographic Gradients Using and Geospatial Data by Ntombifuthi Nzimande, Lwando Royimani, Thabo Lephoto

“…Regression results found education level, gender, ethnic group, and tenureship to be the socio-demographics variables that significantly affect overall residential satisfaction. …”
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Progress Towards a Gene by David A van Heel, Jack Satsangi, Alisoun H Carey, Derek P Jewell

“…The apparently conflicting data in different studies from around the world may be explained by ethnic differences, case mix and genetic heterogeneity. …”
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Methylation sites of human papillomavirus 16 as potential biomarkers for cervical cancer progression by Sha Ji, Nannan Ji

“…Methylation patterns exhibited no significant differences between the Han and Uygur ethnic groups but correlated with viral load and age within each group. …”
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Understanding Effectiveness of International Sanctions by Thomas Biersteker

“…Taking into consideration the difficulty of conflicts and issues over which sanctions are applied – North Korea’s nuclear program, Iran’s potential development of nuclear weapon program, ethnic and religious conflicts in Africa, the Middle East – 20 % should not be considered a small figure. …”
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Picking interstitial lung disease out of the myositis haystack by Jennifer Hannah, Harsha Gunawardena

“…Anti-MDA5 DM has a distinct cutaneous pulmonary phenotype and is significantly associated with the development of ILD with different patterns seen in different ethnic groups. Other autoantibodies associated with ILD include those targeting nucleolar autoantigens such as anti-PM-SCL, again with characteristic syndromes. …”
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Huaqiao Nongchang: Isolated Settlements of Overseas Chinese Inside China by P. E. Strukova

“…Initially, they functioned as agricultural entities, predominantly inhabited by ethnic Chinese returning en masse from countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and others to the newlyformed People's Republic of China in 1949.The author's primary objective is to fill gaps in our understanding of this phenomenon and to dissect the logic behind the stages of their creation, settlement, and subsequent reforms within China. …”
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CONSEQUENCES OF THE REALIZATION OF NATO STRATEGY IN THE CONFLICTS OF "THE ARAB SPRING" FOR THE STATES OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA by E. A. Antyukhova

“…In the course of the Arab crisis there appeared new ethnic (Kurdish) and territorial ("The Islamic State") enclaves. …”
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REPUBLIC OF YEMEN: OVERCOMING SEPARATIST TRENDS by A. V. Fedorchenko

“…The article deals with ethnic and religious problems of modern Yemen. Based on the analysis of the main barriers between Yemeni societies, the author assesses the political and economic basis of separatist tendencies in the country. …”
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O bibliografii pszczelnictwa polskiego by Roman Tomaszewski

“…The article discusses the beginnings of the periodical press covering problems of apiculture and points out at the fact that there is no full and comprehensive listing of titles published in the areas historically or ethnically related to or associated with Poland. The article also recalls apicultura] periodicals that have been published locally in the Wielkopolska region. …”
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Sexual Dysfunction in Asian Males with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Vurmila Venggadasamy, Loon Shin Ho, Badariah Ahmad, Khalid Abdul Kadir

“…However, people from different cultural backgrounds and ethnicities perceive QoL differently. Therefore, future studies must be done on other predictors of life in a multiethnic population like Southeast Asians. …”
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Security Challenges: Appraisal of Threats to Nigeria’s Sovereignty in the Fourth Republic (1999-2019) by Olanrewaju Rafiu Memud, Solomon A. Ojo

“…In the recent past, insecurity has been the greatest challenge to Nigeria‟s corporate existence as a sovereign state.Ironically, these challenges are not externally propelled rather, they areinternally impelled byinter-ethnic conflict, religious insurrection, electoral violence, banditry, kidnapping, ritualism, pipeline vandalism, separatists‟ agitation, and farmers[1]herders crises among many others.These generate insecurity in the polity to the boiling point of fractured and failed state.The objective of the study, therefore, is to investigate the nexus between internally induced insecurity and failed stateposture experienced in the Nigeria‟s Fourth Republic. …”
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FREQUENCY OF RH-D NEGATIVE & WEAK D IN PAKISTANI POPULATION by Muhammad Usman et al

“…Variableincidence of weak D worldwide,lack of awareness, proper data & multi-ethnic population of our country propelled to analyze it. …”
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Katar of Hindustan: the dagger of tiger hunters (composition, structure and properties) by Kamil S. Haydakov, Dr. Dmitry A. Sukhanov

“…Katars are a vivid demonstration of ethnic bladed weapons, which were originally used for hunting large predators and later, under the Mughal dynasties, were used as an integral part of the ruling elite’s traditional costume. …”
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The United States and the Events of 1965–1966 in Indonesia by E. N. Glazunova, A. S. Manykin

“…In 1965–1966 Indonesia experienced mass killings of communists and Leftists, as well as ethnic Chinese, who were thought to be members of pro-communist organizations. …”
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Three-Rooted Permanent Mandibular First Molars: A Meta-Analysis of Prevalence by Nyan M. Aung, Kyaw K. Myint

“…The authors postulate that globalization, together with blending among ethnicities, may have a great impact on the reduction or accentuation of the anatomical significance in some populations.…”
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