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Resilience Practices and Post‐Traumatic Growth Among Sudanese IDPs

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper we examine the resilience of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sudan who have endured various forms of suffering resulting from being targeted or trapped by militants involved in large‐scale violence. Upon escaping the conflict zones, the civilians exhibit strength, adaptability, and wisdom in the face of various threats to ...
Karina Korostelina, Daniel Rothbart, Beltina Gjeloshi   +2 more
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Recessive disorders and consanguineous marriage [PDF]

BMJ, 2005
EDITOR—Dyer in his news item misquotes Alison Shaw.1 The doubling of risk from 2% to 4% with marriage of cousins is for all congenital or genetic disorders, not recessive disorders, which are much less common in …
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Severity of effect considerations regarding the use of mutation as a toxicological endpoint for risk assessment: A report from the 8th International Workshop on Genotoxicity Testing (IWGT)

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, EarlyView.
Abstract Exposure levels without appreciable human health risk may be determined by dividing a point of departure on a dose–response curve (e.g., benchmark dose) by a composite adjustment factor (AF). An “effect severity” AF (ESAF) is employed in some regulatory contexts.
Barbara L. Parsons, Marc A. Beal, Kerry L. Dearfield, George R. Douglas, Min Gi, B. Bhaskar Gollapudi, Robert H. Heflich, Katsuyoshi Horibata, Michelle Kenyon, Alexandra S. Long, David P. Lovell, Anthony M. Lynch, Meagan B. Myers, Stefan Pfuhler, Alisa Vespa, Andreas Zeller, George E. Johnson, Paul A. White   +17 more
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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of the frequency of dentoalveolar deformities in consanguineous ‎marriages and non-consanguineous marriages in Kerman, Iran

Journal of Oral Health and Oral Epidemiology, 2015
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Consanguineous marriage is one of the causes of congenital deformities and genetic diseases. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of consanguineous marriage in dentoalveolar deformities in 16-18 years old adolescents with ...
Javad Faryabi, Razieh Hoseinifar
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Traditions matrimoniales dans la région de Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaer au Maroc

Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2007
The practice of consanguineous marriage has been widespread for hundreds of years, and is still very common, especially among various Middle Eastern, Asian and African populations where 20 to 50% + of marriages are consanguineous.
Hinde Hami, Abdelmajid Soulaymani, Abdelrhani Mokhtari   +2 more
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External validation of calculator for cesarean delivery during induction of labor

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective To validate a published risk calculator to predict cesarean delivery (CD) among singletons undergoing induction of labor. Methods Our retrospective cohort study included singletons undergoing induction of labor. A predicted CD score was calculated for each individual based on a previously developed calculator.
Claudia J. Ibarra, Rachel L. Wiley, Han‐Yang Chen, Estefania Guthrie, Ipsita Ghose, Hector Mendez‐Figueroa, Suneet P. Chauhan   +6 more
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Traveller mothers: Obstetric and neonatal outcomes in an Irish maternity unit

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Travellers' ethnicity was only formally acknowledged by the Irish State in 2017. They experience persistent racism and discrimination, resulting in poorer outcomes in terms of health, education, employment, and accommodation. Previous studies have reported higher rates of infant mortality and stillbirths among Traveller mothers. This
Nessa Hughes, Stephen W. Lindow, Lynsey Kavanagh, Barbara Burke, Lyndsay Creswell, Emma McNamee, Mark P. Hehir, Michael P. O'Connell   +7 more
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Caste as a Social Kind

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social kind because it affects the lives of many people, and because it presents itself as an important test case for philosophers of social kinds.
Ajinkya Deshmukh
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Consanguineous marriage and childhood health [PDF]

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2003
As previously described, the subject of consanguineous marriage became a source of major scientific and public interest in the UK and the USA from the mid-19th century onwards. Much of this interest centred on the claimed deleterious outcomes of consanguinity, although there were also scientists and clinicians who denied any adverse effects and instead
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