background: in 2-4% of couples in fertile ages, recurrent pregnancy loss (rpl) occurs which consisted one out of 300 pregnancies. the aim of this study was to comparison insulin resistance (ir) in patients with rpl to normal individuals. materials and methods: in a case-controlled, prospective study, 49 non-pregnant, non-diabetic women with early rpl as the case group and 49 non-pregnant, non-d...

BACKGROUND We examined independent influences of contextual variables on cardiovascular risk factors in Shilin county, Yunnan province, South-west China. METHODS Three villages were selected from each of the ten townships based on probability proportional to size. In each selected village, 200 individuals aged > or = 45 years were chosen based on simple random sampling method. From 6006 indiv...

Every year in Haiti and its diaspora, the Lenten Vodou festivals of Rara occur through Easter Sunday. In this article, I argue that religious performances, such as Rara, are critical sites Black women's social economic empowerment. particular, women performers or queens use to empower themselves. Based on long-term ethnographic research Haiti, attend way transform play expression into labor wha...

posed to have tlie right to exercise his discretion as regards fasting for a certain number of days, but it is no less than gross cruelty to experimentalise with dogs to ascertain how long they can live without sustenance. Such experiments, however, have been lately carried out in Paris, where Dr. Laborde laid a report before the Paris Zoological Society on the results of two cases carried on u...

This paper applies indigenous research methods to understand the motives of visitors attending Penitensya (a Lenten Filipino ritual involving violent ritualistic performances) which we introduce as a novel form religious-dark tourism. The also examines tourism product potential controversial, yet potentially valuable feature public culture. in Philippines during 2019 schedule events are examine...