Asthma and the westernization ‘package’

Iranian Cinema: The Puzzle of Westernization and Self-Orientalism

Gut Microbiome: Westernization and the Disappearance of Intestinal Diversity

The environment shapes our intestinal microbiome. By contrasting the gut microbiomes of African hunter-gatherer and European subjects, a new study reveals that urbanization is associated with a loss of microbial organisms and genes. What will be the consequences of the lost biodiversity in the sanitized, western-diet world?

The Prospects of Democratization of Russia: Between Slavophilism and Westernization

of the report This report on the Russian democratic prospect in the contexte of civilization strugglespresents the cultural factors of the regime transformation in that country. It is generallyestimated that the democracy in Russia will fail, because there are too many obstacles to it. Tothem belong, first of all, the perplexity of many the Russians, being in an awkward position...

Conceptualizing dietary Westernization, observing dietary transitions.

In this issue of Public Health Nutrition, Uusitalo et al. address the issue of how dietary Westernisation might be conceptualised in research. This is a novel question because we mostly believe that we already know what dietary Westernisation is. Many of us eat a Western-type meal every day, or we are surrounded by others who consume Western-type diets, or we experience Western diets vicariousl...

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...