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In Good Company

American Journal of Islam and Society, 2018
Women’s participation in the Tablīghī Jamā‘at, an Islamic reform movement launched in the 1920s that emphasizes personal piety, remains underexamined, impeded by the organization’s strict pardāh requirements but also by the popular perception that it ...
Darakhshan Haroon Khan
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Does the Combination of Abdominal Obesity and Vitamin D Deficiency Increase the Risk of Death in Individuals Aged 50 or Older? Evidence From the ELSA Study

Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aims Despite the known association between abdominal obesity (AO) and vitamin D deficiency, it remains unclear whether this combination is associated with higher mortality risk. We investigated whether the coexistence of AO and vitamin D deficiency elevates the risk of death.
Joyce da Silva Milliati, Thaís Barros Pereira da Silva, Roberta de Oliveira Máximo, Mariane Marques Luiz, Sara Souza Lima, Andrew Steptoe, Cesar de Oliveira, Tiago da Silva Alexandre   +7 more
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Reconfiguring Functional Solidarity: Typologies of Intergenerational Support in Contemporary China

Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study provides an updated typology of intergenerational support between parents and adult children in contemporary China. Background A growing body of research has documented the diversity of intergenerational relationships among Chinese families, yet existing studies often lack granularity in capturing functional solidarity ...
Yanjun Zhang, Chengbin Liu, Wenhao Yu, Litao Zhao   +3 more
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CONJUGATIONS WITH GLUTATHIONE. THE ENZYMIC CONJUGATION OF SOME CHLOROCYCLOHEXENES [PDF]

Biochemical Journal, 1965
1. alpha-3,4,5,6-Tetrachlorocyclohex-1-ene and gamma-2,3,4,5,6-pentachlorocyclohex-1-ene are conjugated with glutathione in vitro by a rat-liver enzyme that is probably glutathione S-aryltransferase. 2. Chlorocyclohexane and the alpha-, beta-, gamma- and delta-isomers of hexachlorocyclohexane were not substrates for rat-liver glutathione S ...
P, SIMS, P L, GROVER
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Sexualidade e conjugalidade: a redefinição das relações de gênero na França contemporânea Sexuality and conjugality: the redefinition of gender relations in contemporary France

Cadernos Pagu, 2003
Um laço novo se estabeleceu entre sexualidade e vida conjugal nas últimas décadas do século XX. Tradicionalmente o direito à atividade sexual era adquirido com o estatuto de sujeito casado; hoje em dia, o intercâmbio sexual passou a ser o motor interno ...
Michel Bozon
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Similar Stressors Different Expression: Ethnic Disparities in Temporomandibular Disorders and Bruxism During Wartime

Journal of Oral Rehabilitation, EarlyView.
Wartime stress was associated with higher perceived stress and increased odds of TMD and bruxixm among Arab compared to Jewish participants. ABSTRACT Background War, an intense and enduring source of stress, exerts wide‐ranging impacts on psychological well‐being, provoking significant stress and anxiety reactions even in individuals not directly ...
Alona Emodi‐Perlman, Khalil Masarwe, Nour Mahajne, Lihi Keren, Ilana Eli   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
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O casamento entre pessoas do mesmo sexo. Sobre “gentes remotas e estranhas” numa “sociedade decente”

Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2006
This paper presents a first reflection on the data of a research study carried out in Barcelona. The public debate on same-sex marriage reveals social tensions around issues of gender, sexuality, conjugality, procreation and parenthood.
Miguel Vale de Almeida
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Obstetric racism in Europe: Linguistic racism, exoticization, and uneven reproduction in the Netherlands

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we conceptualize how Davis’ two concepts of uneven reproduction and obstetric racism—both rooted in the US context—are effectuated in the Netherlands. We consider uneven reproduction to consist of bio‐ and necropolitics, namely the management and regulation of a population's bodies, life and death.
Rodante van der Waal, Alana Helberg‐Proctor, Dána‐Ain Davis, Bahareh Goodarzi   +3 more
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Retrovirus molecular conjugates [PDF]

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (CMLS), 2001
Retrovirus-derived vectors are currently the preferred vectors used for human gene therapy protocols. Serious safety concerns persist, however, which are specifically related to the formation of a replication-competent virus, and no synthesis method currently employed precludes its formation with certainty.
Q, Zhong, J K, Kolls, P, Schwarzenberger
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