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The Marginalisation of Akha Ancestors [PDF]

Pacific Viewpoint, 1992
The article discusses the marginalisation of Akha phímas, shamans, and priests and thus the corresponding marginalisation of their functions related to death, sickness, genealogy, and ancestor rituals and systems. The author gives a quick overwiew of the
Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Effects of ethnicity and geography on the fecal microbiota and dietary habits of Tibeto-Burman hill tribes in Northern Thailand. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Numerous studies have shown that both ethnicity and geography influence gut microbiota composition; however, the effects of these parameters remain understudied in Thailand.
Tanapon Seetaraso, Lucsame Gruneck, Vasana Jinatham, Sitanan Kantakat, Marie-Lou Albert, Phatthanaphong Therdtatha, Angkhana Inta, Metawee Srikummool, Jatupol Kampuansai, Siam Popluechai   +9 more
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Novel immunoinflammatory blood markers in Graves’ orbitopathy: insights into activity and severity [PDF]

BMJ Open Ophthalmology
Objective This prospective case–control study examined the novel immunoinflammatory markers obtained from blood counts of patients with Graves’ orbitopathy (GO), Graves’ disease (GD) and healthy subjects.Methods Demographic data, white cell count ...
Mohsen Pourazizi, Mahdi Abounoori, Mohsen Bahmani Kashkouli, Ozra Akha, Reza Jafari, Marzieh Movahedirad   +5 more
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Predictors of basic and instrumental activities of daily living among older adults with multiple chronic conditions [PDF]

BMC Geriatrics
Background Understanding the predictors of functional status can be useful for improving modifiable predictors or identifying at-risk populations. Researchers have examined the predictors of functional status in older adults, but there has not been ...
Azar Jafari-Koulaee, Eesa Mohammadi, Mary T. Fox, Aliakbar Rasekhi, Ozra Akha   +4 more
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The language of Akha ritual texts

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 1991
This conference paper handout discusses the problems that the author had analyzing the Death Ritual texts from a grammatical point of view as it pertains to historical grammar and phonology. Working from a recorded version of the Death Ritual done by the author.
Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Inga-Lill Hansson Collection

, 1978
Akha songs and narratives. 0-51 Àbɔ́qɔ: On Akha; 51-end Àbɔ́qɔ: on Thá-hà's marriage.
Hansson, Inga-Lill
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"If You Come Often, We Are Like Relatives; If You Come Rarely, We Are Like Strangers": Reformations of Akhaness in the Upper Mekong Region [PDF]

ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 2013
In my paper, I offer a brief analysis of just some of the ways in which certain members of the Akha transnational minority group are redefi ning Akhaness amidst the Upper Mekong Region’s ongoing transition from “battlefields to markets”.
Micah F. Morton
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Natural history of liver disease in a large international cohort of children with Alagille syndrome: Results from the GALA study

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Natural history of liver disease in a large international cohort of children with Alagille syndrome: Results from the GALA study. Abstract Background and Aims Alagille syndrome (ALGS) is a multisystem disorder, characterized by cholestasis. Existing outcome data are largely derived from tertiary centers, and real‐world data are lacking.
Shannon M. Vandriel, Li‐Ting Li, Huiyu She, Jian‐She Wang, Melissa A. Gilbert, Irena Jankowska, Piotr Czubkowski, Dorota Gliwicz‐Miedzińska, Emmanuel M. Gonzales, Emmanuel Jacquemin, Jérôme Bouligand, Nancy B. Spinner, Kathleen M. Loomes, David A. Piccoli, Lorenzo D'Antiga, Emanuele Nicastro, Étienne Sokal, Tanguy Demaret, Noelle H. Ebel, Jeffrey A. Feinstein, Rima Fawaz, Silvia Nastasio, Florence Lacaille, Dominique Debray, Henrik Arnell, Björn Fischler, Susan Siew, Michael Stormon, Saul J. Karpen, Rene Romero, Kyung Mo Kim, Woo Yim Baek, Winita Hardikar, Sahana Shankar, Amin J. Roberts, Helen M. Evans, M. Kyle Jensen, Marianne Kavan, Shikha S. Sundaram, Alexander Chaidez, Palaniswamy Karthikeyan, Maria Camila Sanchez, Maria Lorena Cavalieri, Henkjan J. Verkade, Way Seah Lee, James E. Squires, Christina Hajinicolaou, Chatmanee Lertudomphonwanit, Ryan T. Fischer, Catherine Larson‐Nath, Yael Mozer‐Glassberg, Cigdem Arikan, Henry C. Lin, Jesus Quintero Bernabeu, Seema Alam, Deirdre A. Kelly, Elisa Carvalho, Cristina Targa Ferreira, Giuseppe Indolfi, Ruben E. Quiros‐Tejeira, Pinar Bulut, Pier Luigi Calvo, Zerrin Önal, Pamela L. Valentino, Dev M. Desai, John Eshun, Maria Rogalidou, Antal Dezsőfi, Sabina Wiecek, Gabriella Nebbia, Raquel Borges Pinto, Victorien M. Wolters, María Legarda Tamara, Andréanne N. Zizzo, Jennifer Garcia, Kathleen Schwarz, Marisa Beretta, Thomas Damgaard Sandahl, Carolina Jimenez‐Rivera, Nanda Kerkar, Jernej Brecelj, Quais Mujawar, Nathalie Rock, Cristina Molera Busoms, Wikrom Karnsakul, Eberhard Lurz, Ermelinda Santos‐Silva, Niviann Blondet, Luis Bujanda, Uzma Shah, Richard J. Thompson, Bettina E. Hansen, Binita M. Kamath, The Global ALagille Alliance (GALA) Study Group   +93 more
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Ritual Care: How the Akha Take Care of Their Small Kids?

Antropologia Portuguesa, 2023
This article draws on long-term fieldwork materials to explore a cosmological approach to the process of childcare among the Akha, an ethnic minority community in southwest of China. The article introduces the Akha definition of childhood in relation to
Ruijing Wang
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Two Flavors of Hydrogen Atoms: A Possible Explanation of Dark Matter

Atoms, 2020
In one of our previous papers, it was shown that for the ground state of hydrogenic atoms/ions, it is possible to match the interior (inside the nucleus) solution of the Dirac equation with the singular exterior solution of the Dirac equation, so that ...
Eugene Oks
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