Nearly 45% ofyouth in the United States are ethnic minority or multiracial, and minority youth currently represent a numerical majority or near majority in 25% of U.S. counties (Pollard & Mather, 2009). Not surprisingly, ethnic minority youth also make up a large percentage of those who utilize mental health services in the United States (McCabe et aI., 1999), particularly in large metropolitan...

background: the main objective of this study was to assess the malnutrition and some socio-economic related factors based on three ethnic groups among primary school children in north of iran in 2010 . methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out through multistage cluster random sampling on 5698 subjects (2505 fars-native, 2154 turkman, and 1039 sistani) in 112 schools. well-trained sta...

We have examined the extent to which ethnic diversity in neighbourhoods and municipalities in The Netherlands is related to personal contact with neighbours from ethnic in-groups and out-groups among the native majority as well as among ethnic minorities. The results indicate that ethnic diversity is negatively related to personal contacts with native neighbours, but positively to personal cont...

Social discrimination, defined as the relative preference for intra-ethnic over inter-ethnic relationships, nter-ethnic relationships ultilevel p2 model eighborhood composition ocial discrimination was studied in pupils’ networks in Dutch secondary school classes. While native Dutch pupils (ethnic majority members) mainly named fellow majority members, ethnic minority members reported ties with...

Given the steady increase of ethnic diversity in the US, greater numbers of people develop the ability to negotiate ethnic boundaries and form multiple ethnic identifications. This paper explores the relationship between intra-ethnic and cross-ethnic relationships—defined in terms of social networks—and patterns of ethnic self-identification among New York City (NYC) Latinos. Drawing on theory ...

Studies indicate an ethnic density effect, whereby an increasing proportion of persons of the same ethnicity as oneself (co-ethnics) in one's area of residence is associated with reduced risk of morbidity among ethnic minorities, though evidence is mixed. Measures of ethnic density are commonly taken from small-area census data using predefined categories of ethnicity. In a United Kingdom study...

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...

As the XML functional dependency and multi-valued dependency impact on the normalization design of semi-structured data, definitions of XML functional dependency, XML multi-valued dependency, path dependency base and the minimal dependency set are given in this paper. Algorithms for minimal dependency set and membership with path expression based on the coexistence of XFD and XMVD are then prop...