BACKGROUND Understanding different patterns of fish consumption is an important component for risk assessment of contaminants in fish. A few studies on food consumption had been conducted in Malaysia, but none of them focused specifically on fish consumption. The objectives of this study were to document the meal pattern among three major ethnics in Malaysia with respect to fish/seafood consump...

The title is Mixed Marriage Between Javanese and Acehnese Ethnics in Pante Ceureumen District, West Aceh Regency. research problem how the process of mixed marriages between ethnics purpose writing to determine implementation intermarriage method used ethnographic methods or reports on an ethnic group, which are written based results field use a gradual progression. In this study, authors conce...

One of the most contentious features European politics in recent years, particularly Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), has been increased engagement many states with their kin-minority...

background: pulmonary function tests (pfts) are used in assessing physiological to clinical status of the respiratory system, which is expressed as a percentage of predicted values. predicted pfts values are varies in different ethnics. predicted pfts values were studied in a sample of iranian children. materials and methods: prediction equations for pfts were derived from urban children in the...

Overview This 26-month investigation examines the relationship between inter-ethnic interactions, perceptions, and the cultural content of ethnic groups. Evidence from ethnography, psychological experiments, and evolutionary models supports the intuition that inter-ethnic interactions among individuals play an important role in the changing “cultural content” of an ethnic group, i.e., the norms...

Allele frequencies for 15 short tandem repeat (STR) loci (D8S1179, D21S11, D7S820, CSF1PO, D3S1358, TH01, D13S317, D16S539, D2S1338, D19S433, vWA, TPOX, D18S51, D5S818, and FGA) were obtained from 7,636 unrelated individuals of Chinese Han population living in Qinghai and Chongqing, China. Totally 206 alleles were observed, with the corresponding allele frequencies ranging from 0.0001-0.4982. C...