BACKGROUND In November 2016, the Dutch Health Council recommended hepatitis B (HBV) screening for first-generation immigrants from HBV endemic countries. However, these communities show relatively low attendance rates for screening programmes, and our knowledge on their participation behaviour is limited. We identified determinants associated with the intention to request an HBV screening test ...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Our aim was to obtain a clearer picture of the relevant care experiences and care perceptions of incurably ill Turkish and Moroccan patients, their relatives and professional care providers, as well as of communication and decision-making patterns at the end of life. The ultimate objective is to improve palliative care for Turkish and Moroccan immigrants in the Netherla...

The monthly variations in metal concentration of Cadmium (Cd), Zinc (Zn) and Chromium (Cr) were determined tissues Mytilus galloprovincialis seawater obtained from the mussel farm installed along Al Hoceima coasts, during sampling period 2018. heavy metals encountered bivalves higher than those observed their environment with a decreasing order Zn > Cr Cd. results also showed trend for studi...

Allelic distribution of 15 STR loci (D3S1358, D5S818, D7S820, D13S317, vWA, FGA, TH01, TPOX, CSF1PO, D16S539, D8S1179, D21S11, D18S51, D19S433, and D2S1338) were analyzed in 80 unrelated Moroccan men from two regions using AmpF/STR Identifiler kit. The combined power of exclusion (PE) was 0.999993525 and the combined power of discrimination (PD) was >0.999999999. Comparisons with other publishe...

In this survey, we analyze acoustic and ultrasound data from two subjects in order to characterize a secondary articulation generally analyzed as labialization in Moroccan Arabic. Our results show that the so-called labialized consonants are rather labiovelarized. They also show that the vowel [a] adjacent to the labiovelarized consonants is velarized.

BACKGROUND Childhood overweight/obesity is a major public health problem worldwide which disproportionally affects specific ethnic groups. Little is known about whether such differences already exist at an early age and which factors contribute to these ethnic differences. Therefore, the present study assessed possible ethnic differences in overweight at age 2 years, and the potential explanato...