socio-political metatheories based on ontological and epistemological foundations, could be devided to different objectivist and subjectivist fronts. according to such a devide, different interpretation of individual-society and agent-structure could be renderd. in contrast,critical metatheories that seek to transcend the contradiction between objectivity-subjectivity in the individual-society ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by ritualistic-repetitive behaviors and impaired verbal/non-verbal communication. Many ASD susceptibility genes implicated in neuronal pathways/brain development have been identified. The Lebanese population is ideal for uncovering recessive genes because of shared ancestry and a high rate of consanguineous marriages. Aims here are to analyze for ...

Social stratification, formation of various classes and appearance of various layers in the society is a fact resulting from social conditions of public life and a wide variety of material, economic and subsistence factors as well as political situation, religious beliefs and public customs and thoughts; also ethnic divisions play an essential and undeniable role in this field. Greed and coveto...

Based on the revised social contact theory, correlates of cross-ethnic friend nomination among 580 African American, 948 Asian-descent, 860 Latino, and 3986 White adolescents were examined. Socioeconomic and academic disparities between ethnic groups differentiated cross-ethnic friend nomination between schools for all groups but African Americans. For all groups, cross-ethnic friend nomination...

Based on the new classical “Structure-Function Theory” this article, by putting a traditional ethnic festival under background of modern society investigate how festival, as kind “structural heritage”, can come to an adjustment with in process integration and development tourism, it becomes important embodiment tourism and, at same time, optimize its tourist economic structure. The research sho...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND In Lebanon, Type 2 diabetes (T2D) has a major public health impact through high disease prevalence, significant downstream pathophysiologic effects, and enormous financial liabilities. Diet is an important environmental factor in the development and prevention of T2D. Dietary patterns may exert greater effects on health than individual foods, nutrients, or food groups. ...

Results Among the 243 patients, we detected a total of 433 pyrin mutations and 22 different sequence variants, including one new mutation (p.Gly488Asp). The four most frequent alterations were p.Met694Val (55%, n=238), p.Met680lle (12%, n=52), p.Val726Ala (10%, n=44) and p.Glu148Gln (8%, n=34). Ethnic origin could be determined in 224 cases; the prevailing ancestry was Turkish (83%, n=185), 8% ...