DEVELOPMENT OF A NIGERIAN CULTURAL ATTIRE RECOGNITION SYSTEM by OGUNBIYI DIMPLE, JIMOH KUDIRAT, ADEBAYO OLAJIDE, OKELOLA LOVELYN

“… This paper presents the development of a system to automatically recognize Nigerian traditional attire worn by major ethnic groups. Samples of clothing images depicting the cultural groups were obtained from publicly available online sources and an architecture to classify the images classes was designed using the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model. …”
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The The street names in East Central European cities and towns in the pre-industrial period from a comparative perspective by Orysia Vira

“…These names, carrying echoes of professions, ethnic origins, and geographical landmarks, serve as windows into urban evolution and societal dynamics. …”
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« Indiens ou Noirs, libres ou esclaves » : travail et métissage en Amazonie portugaise (xviie et xviiie siècles) by Rafael Chambouleyron, Karl Heinz Arenz

“…Analysing colonial sources dealing with and produced in Portuguese Amazonia, and based on the specific economic and social dynamics of this region, this paper examines the construction of an ethnically diversified world of labour, where Indians, Africans and Mestizos were interacting in an inextricable way.…”
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Environmental Racism: Slow Death and the Displacement of Ancestral Afro-Ecuadorian Territory in Esmeraldas by Maria Moreno Parra

“…These forms of racism are expressed in environmental suffering, which affects health and livelihood, and should be understood as a way to ethnically eliminate people in territory, causing the slow deaths of Afro-Ecuadorian populations through actions and a lack of actions that comprise their health. …”
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Jak mohlo docházet k národnostním sporům v Čechách druhé poloviny 19. století? by Milan Hlavačka

“… This article attempts to outline three areas within which ethnic conflict was stirred up in Bohemia in the second half of the 19th century and accelerated the formation of a strong national identity. …”
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Etnogeneze Slovanů: staré a nové otázky a spory by Michal Téra

“…“The Vistula-Odra theory” looks for the original homeland of the Slavs in the territory of today’s Poland, and the roots of the Slavic ethnic group in the Lusatian and Przeworsk cultures. …”
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The Deer Hunter : essai de topologie imaginaire américaine by Jacques Pothier

“…In this film the dichotomies between civilization/the wilderness, male space / female territory, national vs. ethnic identities present in the American imagination from Cooper to the classic western through Washington Irving or Mark Twain, are thoroughly revisited through the tragic counterpointing of a Russian working-class community in a Pennsylvania small town and an Asian heart of darkness. …”
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Paul, rhetorically gifted, or discursively manipulative? by J. Punt

“…Using discourse as a broader category than rhetoric, several instances of discourse manipulation, which at times remind us of imperialist discourse, are identified, including kinship language and ethnic stereotyping, military metaphors, as well as gendered power discourse and sexual slander, illustrated with examples mostly from Philippians. …”
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Pour une ethno-trichologie tibétaine by Christian Bromberger

“…Head and body hair: these corporeal excrescences, which can be modified at no great risk, convey four types of information: on sexual statuses and differences between genders, as well as general differences established by societies; on ethnic, social and personal identities; on order and disorder, on the norm and the margin within a society; on the aesthetic trends in a given period. …”
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Residential special schooling: the inclusive option! by Robin Jackson

“…Assimilation, however, is at odds with the kind of empowerment strategies adopted by most other devalued groups (for example: ethnic minorities; women; people with physical and sensory disabilities) who celebrate their differences and welcome congregative identity and activity.…”

Risk prediction models for breast cancer: a systematic review by Jiang Li, He Li, Jie He, Ni Li, Yadi Zheng, Zheng Wu, Maomao Cao

“…All the models included in the review had high risk of bias.Conclusions No risk prediction models for breast cancer were recommended for different ethnic groups and models incorporating mammographic density or single-nucleotide polymorphisms among Asian women are few and poorly needed. …”
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The effects of war-related experiences on mental health symptoms of individuals living in conflict zones: a longitudinal study by Doron Amsalem, Shilat Haim-Nachum, Amit Lazarov, Yossi Levi-Belz, John C. Markowitz, Maja Bergman, Alexandra Klein Rafaeli, Lisa A. Brenner, Nitsa Nacasch, Milton L. Wainberg, Ido Lurie, Shlomo Mendlovic, Yuval Neria

“…We anticipated greater symptom severity among individuals who experienced traumatic loss, were forcibly displaced, or suffered income loss, as well as among women and members of ethnic minorities. This three-wave online survey study assessed mental health symptoms in a sample of 1052 individuals, aged 18–40, residing in conflict zones in Israel from February 2024 (day 1), through March 2024 (day 30), to May 2024 (day 90). …”
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Service delivery and the role of clinical pharmacists in UK primary care for older people, including people with dementia: a scoping review by Alice Burnand, Abi Woodward, Vladimir Kolodin, Jill Manthorpe, Yogini Jani, Mine Orlu, Cini Bhanu, Kritika Samsi, Victoria Vickerstaff, Jane Wilcock, Jane Ward, Greta Rait, Nathan Davies

“…Research focused on the experiences of underserved groups, such as people with dementia or from minority ethnic backgrounds, is lacking. Conclusions and implications The review enhances our understanding of the primary care clinical pharmacist service in the UK and identifies gaps in evidence, emphasising the need for empirical studies on the experiences of older people with cognitive impairment and those from minority ethnic backgrounds. …”
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Women and Diabetes by Marcia Brown, Linda Bobroff, LaToya J. O'Neal

“…It also notes that women from certain racial and ethnic groups are more at risk. The Take Time to Care campaign by the FDA aims to educate women on diabetes risk factors and encourage testing. …”
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El botín y las culturas de la guerra en el espacio litoral rioplatense by Raúl Osvaldo Fradkin, Silvia Ratto

“…In the first revolutionary decade, very diverse actors – Creoles, Spanish, independent indigenous- participated in the revolutionary wars, in which they defined the identity of their enemies, forced the political alignment of the populations, supported their forces and channeled tensions between social and ethnic groups. This article is divided into two parts. …”
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Human Leukocyte Antigen Diversity: A Southern African Perspective by Mqondisi Tshabalala, Juanita Mellet, Michael S. Pepper

“…Despite the increasingly well-documented evidence of high genetic, ethnic, and linguistic diversity amongst African populations, there is limited data on human leukocyte antigen (HLA) diversity in these populations. …”
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Pourquoi filmer sa culture ? Rituel et patrimonialisation en Amazonie brésilienne by Chloé Nahum-Claudel, Nathalie Pétesch, Cédric Yvinec

“…The creation of cultural patrimony, which occurs within the framework of relations with Brazilian and international society, fits into a key dynamic of Amazonian social reproduction and inter-ethnic relations, that is, the drive to integrate alterity.…”
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On issue of Nikifor Chernigovsky’s citizenship in connection with development of Amur region by Russia by M. S. Novikov

“…The author concludes that, regardless of ethnic origin, Nikifor Chernigovsky participated in the Russian development of the Amur region neither as an initiative Polack or Ukrainian, nor as a foreigner in the Russian service, but as an Orthodox Christian and a citizen of the Russian state…”
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A sociobiodiversidade como estratégia para o desenvolvimento sustentável no Sudeste do Pará, Brasil by Bernardo Tomchinsky, Felipe Fernando da Silva Siqueira, Jeronimo da Silva e Silva

“…Southeast Pará is part of a complex ethnic and environmental territory in the Eastern Amazon, with a long process of occupation by indigenous peoples, accompanied by migrants and other traditional peoples and communities. …”
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TO UNITE OR NOT TO UNITE? A CASE STUDY OF PRESBYTERIANISM IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1897-1923 by G A Duncan

“…Their histories and traditions, as well as their demographic and ethnic composition were all issues, despite their similarities. …”
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