The increasing prevalence of allergic diseases in the past decades has been caused by environmental rather than genetic factors. Recent research focused on relationship between mother’s exposure, especially during pregnancy, and outcomes offspring. Intervention studies to prevent have also conducted. Environmental factors, such as diet induce changes mother's intestinal flora, signals generated...

The number of international students seeking a foreign education, particularly in Westernized countries, has grown dramatically over the past decade, and is predicted to continue increase, despite period disruption due COVID-19. Given this growth, there significant body research on key insights into initial transition experiences, both academic personal, host country, with developing exploring ...

It is frequently argued that Talent Management (TM) has been derived from Western, and there are gaps between spread westernized TM format contexts of non-western countries when adopted practiced in a business daily basis. The cultural institutional to adopt analyzed this paper through comparing the differences practices foreign owned subsidiaries local firms South Korea using an theory lens. A...

In the 2016 Bir Zeit University elections Hamas’ women launched two videos in which un-veiled, western-dressed young girls urged viewers to vote for Hamas. The sparked a passionate debate: Religious forces accused of being ‘westernized’ and abandoning norm Islamic modesty; while secular them promoting form women’s empowerment linked their success accommodating religious values ones. debate mirr...

The objective of this research was to shed light on the dietary experiences and perspectives Tongan Americans, which play a role in higher prevalence obesity among population. findings aim provide insights that can inform culturally sensitive health strategies, nutrition education, policies. Using grounded theory approach, data were gathered through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with div...

Daga (the Bulgarian word for “rainbow”) was a comic magazine launched in 1979 and regularly published until 1992. Its remarkably westernized aesthetic greatly impacted an entire generation of readers. Included its variety stories (history, sci-fi, literary classics) is action-packed account Spartacus’ exploits. For ten consecutive issues (1979–1983), the story spanned hero’s life from more fanc...

A 118 microbial agents ancient gut microbiomes shed light on modern Disease People in westernized, urban environments host different gut microbes than people in remote, undeveloped parts of the world. Children in remote regions of Burkina Faso, for instance, have been shown to harbor bacteria alien to the guts of Europeans. A similar pattern has been found in comparing the microbiomes of rural ...