Cultural disaster: A threat to the preservation of Minangkabau culture by Oktavianus Oktavianus, Nopriyasman Nopriyasman, Zahid Indirawati

“…Culture is something essential and a marker of the identity of an ethnic group. Therefore, culture must always be part of human life. …”
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Reference Intervals of Total Testosterone in Adult Filipino Men by Myrna Buenaluz‐Sedurante, Mark Isaiah K. Co, Daryl Jade T. Dagang, Racquel G. Bruno, Annie Jane N. Sarmiento, Michael L. Tee

“…The reference range of total testosterone needs to be established locally as ethnic differences in adiposity, insulin sensitivity, and sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) levels may affect total testosterone levels. …”
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From natural threat to disaster: A historical construction of the earthquake and tsunami of 1960 in Saavedra by Cristián Inostroza-Matus, Francisco Molina-Camacho, Hugo Romero-Toledo

“…Despite the undeniable role of nature in the construction and production of disasters, these disasters are conditioned by historical processes of accumulation that make certain populations vulnerable. The ethnic and racial component of this vulnerability plays a central role in determining who will be more affected. …”
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Choice of Unmanipulated T Cell Replete Graft for Haploidentical Stem Cell Transplant and Posttransplant Cyclophosphamide in Hematologic Malignancies in Adults: Peripheral Blood or... by Shatha Farhan, Edward Peres, Nalini Janakiraman

“…However, some issues are still of concern regarding finding a donor like shrinking family sizes in many societies, underrepresentation of the ethnic minorities in the registries, genetic variability for some races, and significant delays in obtaining stem cells after starting the search. …”
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Photoreceptor metabolic window unveils eye–body interactions by Shaopeng Yang, Zhuoyao Xin, Weijing Cheng, Pingting Zhong, Riqian Liu, Ziyu Zhu, Lisa Zhuoting Zhu, Xianwen Shang, Shida Chen, Wenyong Huang, Lei Zhang, Wei Wang

“…Our work, replicated across cohorts of diverse ethnicities, reveals the potential of photoreceptors to inform systemic health and advance a multisystem perspective on human health by revealing eye–body connections and shared metabolic influences.…”
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Creation of national regions as a means of ensuring rights and freedoms of Russian Germans: on the example of Azovsky Nemetsky (German) National District by M. S. Novikov

“…It becomes especially relevant in cases where different territories of the state have ethnically different populations. Areas with mixed populations, especially those driven by migration, are potential areas of stress. …”
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Western Balkans in the Russian-Ukrainian war: The instrumentalization of the past through dominant political discourses in the media by Surlić Stefan, Milić Kristina

“…The author's intention is to answer the question of how the war in Ukraine, through the dominating discourses of the political elites in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina and Kosovo, confirm the already existing ethnicized and onesided views of the past. The authors used critical discourse analysis with a methodological approach based on the discourse historical method by Ruth Wodak, which, by placing the topic in a specific socio-political context, willshow how the instrumentalization of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict by leaders becomes very useful for strengthening internal political support regarding sensitive national and status issues. …”
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Medicinal Plant Use in North Karelia, Finland, in the 2010s by Renata Sõukand, Natalia Kuznetsova, Julia Prakofjewa, Sabira Ståhlberg, Ingvar Svanberg, Baiba Prūse, Giulia Mattalia, Raivo Kalle

“…Finnish North Karelia is a region with a rich cultural history of ethnomedicinal plant use, shaped by centuries of interactions among various ethnic groups. This study identified both similarities and divergences between local Finns, Karelians war refugees, and individuals of mixed origin compared to historical records. …”
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The Relationship between Alcohol Consumption and Incidence of Glycometabolic Abnormality in Middle-Aged and Elderly Chinese Men by Siwen Zhang, Yujia Liu, Gang Wang, Xianchao Xiao, Xiaokun Gang, Fei Li, Chenglin Sun, Ying Gao, Guixia Wang

“…The relationship between alcohol consumption and glycometabolic abnormality is controversial, especially in different ethnic population. In this study, a cross-sectional survey was carried out to examine the relationship between alcohol consumption and glycometabolic abnormality in middle-aged and elderly Chinese men. …”
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Role of Forest Resources to Local Livelihoods: The Case of East Mau Forest Ecosystem, Kenya by D. K. Langat, E. K. Maranga, A. A. Aboud, J. K. Cheboiwo

“…Absolute forest income and relative forest income (%) were not significantly different across study locations and between ethnic groups. However, absolute forest income and relative forest income (%) were significantly different among wealth classes. …”
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Discrimination of the Gypsy Population in the University Environment by Jesús María Aparicio-Gervás, Miguel Ángel Carbonero-Martín, Lorena Valdivieso-León, Raquel Vázquez-Ramil

“…Of the students, 72.2% are disturbed by the same negative behaviors, regardless of the ethnic group, and half of them are disturbed by behaviors based on prejudices. …”
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An Updated Review of the Molecular Mechanisms in Drug Hypersensitivity by Chun-Bing Chen, Riichiro Abe, Ren-You Pan, Chuang-Wei Wang, Shuen-Iu Hung, Yi-Giien Tsai, Wen-Hung Chung

“…The associations identified by these studies are usually drug, phenotype, and ethnic specific. The drug presentation models that explain how small drug antigens might interact with HLA and T cell receptor (TCR) molecules in drug hypersensitivity include the hapten theory, the p-i concept, the altered peptide repertoire model, and the altered TCR repertoire model. …”
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Allelic Frequencies of 20 Visible Phenotype Variants in the Korean Population by Ji Eun Lim, Bermseok Oh

“…Therefore, we need to validate prediction models in diverse ethnic populations. In this study, we selected potentially useful variations for forensic science that are associated with hair and eye color, iris pattern, and facial morphology, based on previous studies, and analyzed their frequencies in 1,920 Koreans. …”
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Are you understanding what I am saying? The critical importance of communication competency in epidemiology by Alison G. Abraham, Alison G. Abraham, WayWay M. Hlaing

“…Most epidemiology programs in academia do not focus on the skills needed to translate scientific evidence and its uncertainty into a comprehensible and culturally appropriate message to the diverse public composed of varying race/ethnicities as well as varying health and numerical literacy levels. …”
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CHINESE MIGRANTS IN ITALY: POSITIVE INTEGRATION EXPERIENCE OR A CHALLENGING FACTOR? by K. G. Muratshina, K. M. Tabarintseva-Romanova, Ya. I. Mukhamadiyeva

“…In spite of sustainable ethno-religious tolerance of Italian society (conditioned by the historical and geographical factors, such as longterm fragmentation of Italian state, the presence of a large number of ethnic minorities in a rather small area, intensive North-South internal migration), the multiculturalism policy, imposed by the European Union, has not been accustomed in this country. …”
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An Evaluation of Language Learning, Sentence Construction and Writing Developed for Third Graders with Hearing Impairment by Ahmad Ramezani, Abdossaeid Mohammadshafiei, Zeinab Yazdani

“…Some strengths of the textbook were the good title, no racial/ethnic and gender biases, and attention to students’ favorite activities. …”
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Book Review Horizons of Arabic Hair in Mamlooki Period Written by Yasin Alayvuby by Sadeq askari

“…The results of this review indicate that along with strengths such as proper bookbinding, precise layout and typography, complying with the writing and editing rules, multiple attachments and profiles, appropriate arrangement of the triple chapters, and using numerous and valid references, this book has deficiencies in terms of form and content, the most important of which include: using lexical obscure and ambiguous words, confusion in referencing and the arrangement of references, the broad and repetitive subject of the book, the lack of a methodical introduction and ending to some parts and many chapters, the incomplete arrangement of some chapters, and thus the similarity and even the overlap of the themes of some chapters, using common and cliché titles for the chapters, exaggeration in defending Arabic poetry and literature in the Mamlouki era, and unscientific compliment and praise, some ethnic and religious orientations and biases, lack or weakness of analysis and criticism due to relying on the collection of content from multiple references, and weakness of science innovation and production.…”
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Human immune system: Exploring diversity across individuals and populations by Kim Han Hoang Nguyen, Nghi Vinh Le, Phuc Hoang Nguyen, Hien Hau Thi Nguyen, Duy Mai Hoang, Chien Dinh Huynh

“…The presence of genetic diversity, particularly across different ethnic and racial groups, significantly contributes to the impact of incidence of diseases, disease susceptibility, autoimmune disorders, and cancer risks in specific regions and certain populations. …”
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Understanding The Scope of Regional Geography: A Perspective from Indonesia’s Geographic Region by Astari Annisa Joviani, Aliyan Silmi Afina, Bratanegara Alnidi Safarach, Muslim Ahmad Bukhori, Nurawaliyah Vira Islami, Mohamed Assem Abdelmonem Ahmed

“…The results of this study shown the scopes have been identified including the territorial boundaries, continent boundary, administrative border, and its position; physical and landscape; biodiversit y and natural resources; marine resources; the culture: ethnic groups, languages, arts, customs; natural disasters and tourism. …”
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Independent Benefits of Meeting the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines to Insulin Resistance in Obese Latino Children by Nazrat Mirza, Matilde Palmer, Johanna O'Connell, Loretta DiPietro

“…Efforts to promote 60 min or more of daily MVPA among children from ethnic minority and high-risk communities should assume primary public health importance.…”
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