Constitutional patriotism, as is fairly well known, emerged from debates about national identity in a divided country facing an extremely difficult past: post-war West Germany. It had initially been advanced in the late 1970s and early 1980s by the political theorist Dolf Sternberger, who had been heavily influenced by Hannah Arendt and who conceived constitutional patriotism as a republican, s...

Ethnic divisions, according to empirical democratic theory, and commonsense understandings of politics, threaten the survival of democratic institutions. One of the principal mechanisms linking the politicization of ethnic divisions with the destabilization of democracy is the so-called “outbidding effect.” According to theories of ethnic outbidding, the politicization of ethnic divisions inevi...

background: for psychiatric disorders, comorbidity is a rule rather than exception. thus it is particularly important to study additive and multiplicative effects of multiple mental disorders on suicidal behaviors. objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the ethnic differences in multiplicative effects of mental disorders on suicidal ideation among black adults in the united states...

Objective(s):Organic anion transporter polypeptide 1B1 (OATP1B1) encoded by solute carrier organic transporter 1B1 (SLCO1B1) gene; a transporter involved in the uptake of drugs and endogenous compounds is present in hepatocyte sinusoidal membrane. Aim of this study was to investigate the frequencies of functionally significant SNPs (388A>G and 521T>C) and their haplotypes in 6 ethnic groups of ...

CYP2C19 polymorphism is associated with pretreatment drug response prediction, metabolism, and disposition. Pakistan consists of a population comprising of various ethnic groups residing in different regions of the country each claiming diverse ethnic origins. The identification of CYP450 genotypic composition of these populations is therefore necessary to avoid adverse drug reactions in these ...

Social development undoubtedly requires people participation in different domains. It seems without participation, we cannot achieve a people-centered, inclusive and sustainable social development. In the social development process, all citizens with various ethnic and religious interests are able to affect on all the social phenomena and variables, based on their competencies and mental capaci...

It becomes the important issue for the medical supplies administration to solve the drug lag in our country. As means to overcome both the slow speed and high cost of clinical trial for new drug application in Japan, it seems useful to carry out clinical development simultaneously in East Asia countries such as China, Korea and Taiwan where it is thought that each country has similar ethnicity ...

The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review mode-division and spatial-division optical fiber sensors, mainly encompassing interferometers advanced gratings. Compared with their single-mode counterparts, which have very mature field many highly successful commercial applications, multimodal configurations developed more recently advances in device fabrication novel mode control de...