Recent studies investigating the relationship between crop genetic diversity and human cultural diversity patterns showed that seed exchanges are embedded in farmers' social organization. However, our understanding of the social processes involved remains limited. We investigated how farmers' membership in three major social groups interacts in shaping sorghum seed exchange networks in a cultur...

BACKGROUND Lithuania is a Northern European country consisting of two main ethnolinguistic groups: Samogitians and Highlanders. The objective of the paper is to investigate differences in nutritional habits of 18-65-year-old Lithuanians living in different ethnolinguistic regions. MATERIALS AND METHODS A representative, population-based, random sample of the 18-65-year-old ethnic Lithuanian p...

Population data was collected for the STR loci F13AO1, FES/FPS, HUMvWA, and HUMTHO1, in three major Philippine ethnolinguistic groups and used to estimate statistical parameters for identity testing in forensic work on Filipinos. The Cebuano, Ilocano, and Pampango populations in the Philippines were studied because they are among the biggest linguistic groups in the country, thus their genotypi...

Understanding the effects of actions undertaken by human societies on crop evolution processes is a major challenge for the conservation of genetic resources. This study investigated the mechanisms whereby social boundaries associated with patterns of ethnolinguistic diversity have influenced the on-farm distribution of sorghum diversity. Social boundaries limit the diffusion of planting materi...

Global patterns of ethnolinguistic diversity vary tremendously. Some regions show very little variation even across vast expanses, whereas others exhibit dense mosaics of different languages spoken alongside one another. Compared with the rest of Native North America, prehistoric California exemplified the latter. Decades of linguistic, genetic, and archaeological research have produced detaile...

1. Background The Mende problem arises from the observation by Hair (1968:54), that unlike the other ethnolinguistic groups in Sierra Leone, "the Mende cannot be identified decisively in the pre-1700 sources." Although the term Mende was employed before 1700, "it was not yet the name of a single ethnolinguistic unit" (Hair, 1968:54-5). Moreover, the oral histories of the Mende chiefdoms collect...

OBJECTIVE To explore the research lessons learned in the process of conducting qualitative research on cervical cancer screening perspectives among multiple ethnolinguistic groups of immigrant women and to provide guidance to family medicine researchers on methodologic and practical issues related to planning and conducting focus group research with multiple immigrant groups. DESIGN Observati...

The Internet has been hailed as the ideal medium to facilitate expressions of cultural diversity and individualism in cyberspace. But the dominance of a few Web giants also exerts a homogenizing influence over users and audience in this space. To assess the relative influence of these two opposing forces, we examines the top ranking websites of several ethnolinguistic groups to determine whethe...