Common Sharks of Florida by Florida Sea Grant

“…Among the species that grow to this size and have been known to attack humans are bull sharks, tiger sharks and great white sharks. Whites are seasonal visitors to Florida waters, and bulls and tigers are year-​round residents, along with these other common species. …”
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Insight on the Genetics of Atrial Fibrillation in Puerto Rican Hispanics by Ariel F. Gonzalez-Cordero, Jorge Duconge-Soler, Hilton Franqui-Rivera, Roberto Feliu-Maldonado, Abiel Roche-Lima, Israel Almodovar-Rivera

“…Non-Hispanic whites present with higher atrial fibrillation (AF) prevalence than other racial minorities living in the mainland USA. …”
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Polymorphism of genes associated with infectious lung diseases in Northern Asian populations and in patients with community-acquired pneumonia by S. V. Mikhailova, L. V. Shcherbakova, N. I. Logvinenko, I. I. Logvinenko, M. I. Voevoda

“…No significant difference in rs5743708 or rs8177374 was found between adolescent and long-lived white samples. Carriage of the alleles studied is probably not associated with predisposition to longevity among whites in Siberia. …”
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Sociodemographic disparities in influenza vaccination among older adults in United States by Huan Tao, Jin Chen, Xue Zhang, Xue Zhang, Tao Wang, Nenggang Jiang, Yongqian Jia

“…Higher vaccination rates were observed among non-Hispanic Whites [63.16%; odds ratio (OR) 1.38, (95% CI 1.33–1.42)], individuals with education above high school [63.89%; OR 1.16, (95% CI 1.12–1.19)], and those with an income above $50,000 [65.86%; OR 1.47, (95% CI 1.43–1.50)]. …”
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The Effects of Slavery on Enslaved People and Eighteenth-Century Antislavery Arguments by Julia Jorati

“…They often use this contention to combat the racist claim that Black people are naturally inferior to Whites and that this natural inferiority justifies enslavement, insisting instead that the disparity is simply an effect of enslavement. …”
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Force de la pudeur by Suzanne Fraysse

“…Other slave narratives are then examined to show how the slave narrators’ reticence does not simply stem from their desire to live up to the prudish expectations of their readers but constitutes a rhetorical strategy aiming at opposing fugitive slaves abiding by conservative moral values to slaveholders whose profligacy blurs the conventional boundaries between males and females, Blacks and Whites, animals and human beings. As a result, try as they may to challenge the scale of values associated with these stereotypes, slave narrators get trapped in a conservative system of polarities that define them as inferior. …”
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“When the war is over […] we will all enlist again” (The Lice): W.S. Merwin P(r)o(ph)etic by Hélène Aji

“…This essay takes Kenneth White’s description of “a quiet apocalypse” as a starting point to read the complexities of W.S. …”
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Alt Lit, Illuminati Girl Gang and Porn Carnival: A Decade of Online Poetry Communities (2010-2020) by Laura Marie Marciano

“…Online communities and publications that emerged between 2010 and 2016 such as Alt Lit, Internet Poetry, Illuminati Girl Gang, and others, have in fact paved the way for provocative multimodal poetry books such as Rachel Rabbit White’s Porn Carnival (2019). These groups of writers, now many in their early to mid-thirties, are the founders of new digital discourse communities, online journals, and digital reading series, which experienced renewed relevance during the Covid-19 crisis when in-person readings were not possible. …”
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Measuring Distributional Inequality: Relative Body Mass Index Distributions by Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Education, United States (1999–2006) by Brian C. Houle

“…For men, comparisons between Whites and Blacks show a polarized relative distribution, with more Black men at increased risk of over or underweight. …”
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Edward Jurgens i Karol Ruprecht. Polacy z wyboru wobec polskich ruchów niepodległościowych w XIX wieku by Tadeusz Stegner

“…Edward Jurgens was one of the leading activists of the Whites faction, who was arrested and then died in 1863 in the infamous tenth pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel. …”
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Students of the PU for uses sources of political information and expectations of the new South Africa, by Annelie Naudé, L. Serfontein, P.J. Schutte, D. Van der Waldt, H.J. Groenewald

“…It was found that the most negative expectations, which the students identified, included the following: more unemployment and poverty, the introduction of reverse discrimination, unsafe living conditions, emigration of whites and far-reaching increases in taxation. Positive expectations that were raised included more foreign investments, better relations with overseas countries and increased entrepreneurship. …”
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Dynamiques identitaires anciennes et actuelles chez les Aché du Paraguay oriental : éléments de compréhension by Philippe Edeb Piragi

“…The return of people raised as captives among the Whites also had a great sociological impact, adding complexity to Aché knowledge and the challenges that awaited them. …”
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Unveiling the Power of Race and Education in Shaping Entrepreneurial Dreams: An Empirical Study in Florida by Donovan Collier, Ravi Chinta

“…Blacks and Other Nonwhites are compared to Whites in the logistic regression analysis. As the largest empirical study of its kind at the state level in the U.S., it addresses a gap in the literature by focusing on a narrowly defined geographic area. …”
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Ambivalence and Ambiguity in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Monica Michlin

“…I examine Miss Jane’s almost constant suppression of emotion, and frequent displays of ambivalence towards other black people; her ambiguous relationship to oppressive, but familiar whites like Albert Cluveau or Robert Samson; and her conflicted relation to black heroes and heroics. …”
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Melanoma Disparities among US Hispanics: Use of the Social Ecological Model to Contextualize Reasons for Inequitable Outcomes and Frame a Research Agenda by Valerie M. Harvey, Charlene W. Oldfield, Jarvis T. Chen, Karl Eschbach

“…Early detection and diagnosis are critical given the poor prognosis and limited treatment options of advanced-stage disease. While non-Hispanic whites have higher incidence rates of melanoma, Hispanics are typically diagnosed at later disease stages and suffer higher morbidity and mortality. …”
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Evaluation of Transforming Growth Factor Beta-1 Gene 869T/C Polymorphism with Hypertension: A Meta-Analysis by Wenquan Niu

“…Likewise, ethnicity-based analysis exhibited a contradictory association between Asians and Whites. Conclusively, these findings support the notion that TGFB1 gene 869T/C polymorphism may influence the risk of hypertension, especially in Asian populations.…”
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Self-Rated Health Trajectories among Married Americans: Do Disparities Persist over 20 Years? by Terceira A. Berdahl, Julia McQuillan

“…Results from complex intersectional models show that white men with any college had the highest initial SRH. …”
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The PPARγ Agonist Rosiglitazone Is Antifibrotic for Scleroderma Lung Fibroblasts: Mechanisms of Action and Differential Racial Effects by Galina S. Bogatkevich, Kristin B. Highland, Tanjina Akter, Richard M. Silver

“…We present novel data demonstrating that the expression of PPARγ is reduced in lung fibroblasts from black SSc-ILD patients as compared to white patients. Activating PPARγ with the agonist rosiglitazone increased the expression of MMP-1 and inhibited collagen type I in lung fibroblasts isolated from white, but not black, SSc-ILD patients. …”
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«The steamer started moving, the music began to play ...»: son of military expert of the Red Army M. N. Artamonov on the journey from Omsk to Obdorsk (1922) by D. I. Petin

“…In the practice of studying the situation of the former whites after the Civil War, archaeographic work, as a result of research, is rare. …”
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Loeys-Dietz syndrome by Bogumiła Wójcik-Niklewska, Erita Filipek

“…Eye disorders include lens subluxation, myopia, retinal detachment, and the bluish colour of eye whites. To present a case of a child with ocular manifestations of Loeys-Dietz syndrome. …”
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