Abstract This essay highlights some of the unexpected leadership roles that women have played in relation to oil industry on St. Croix U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) from 1965 present. The people (Crucians) a long and proud history strong as community family leaders. Despite their invisibility contemporary narratives refining under colonialism Croix, Crucian contested commonly held stereotypes wome...

The investigation of medieval slavery is still rooted in an approach first laid down by the likes of Adam Smith and John Millar over two hundred years ago. They conceptualised history as a series of stages through which societies moved, driven by the motor of increasing economic sophistication. In this conceptualisation, slavery was an economic institution and its decline in Britain during the ...

This article examines the concept of Bedouin culture in Middle East as it is perceived both by themselves and various scholars. Like other cultures, has undergone extensive continuous change. process can be understood a dynamic construction related to agents change, flexibility, liquid borders, identity politics, enabled enter modern age under conditions that will ensure its continued existence...

Mutations in genes involved in the biosynthesis of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor cause autosomal recessive glycosylation defects, with a wide phenotypic spectrum of intellectual disability, seizures, minor facial dysmorphism, hypotonia, and elevated serum alkaline phosphatase. We now describe consanguineous Bedouin kindred presenting with an autosomal recessive syndrome of intel...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the six-phase Global Youth Voices model (EIPARS) for engaging youth in community health promotion in the Middle East: 1) engagement, 2) issue identification, 3) planning, 4) action, 5) Rs; research, reflect, reward and 6) sustainability. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING 20 Grade 9 students (10 boys, 10 girls) from two Bedouin communities: 10 from Tuba-Zangaria in North ...

PURPOSE The impact of secondary trauma, such as watching powerful images on television, on the etiology of posttraumatic stress disorder in adults remains controversial. We explored the impact of a powerful TV drama ("Warriors") on the psychological health of U.K. peacekeeping troops compared with other military personnel who also saw the program but did not deploy on the same mission. METHOD...