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Consanguinity and reproductive health among Arabs

Reproductive Health, 2009
Consanguineous marriages have been practiced since the early existence of modern humans. Until now consanguinity is widely practiced in several global communities with variable rates depending on religion, culture, and geography.
Al Ali Mahmoud T, Obeid Tasneem, Nair Pratibha, Tadmouri Ghazi O, Al Khaja Najib, Hamamy Hanan A   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Loneliness and the Customer Journey: Toward a Framework for Customer Experience Management

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How can customer experience (CX) frameworks be used to understand and support service firms to mitigate loneliness and social isolation? This paper addresses this question by developing the Lonely Customer Journey, a conceptual framework that uses the Touchpoints‐Context‐Qualities (TCQ) framework (De Keyser et al.
Nina Veflen, Lars Witell, Lars Fuglsang
wiley   +1 more source

Consanguineous marriages, and the relationship between consanguineous

, 2011
Consanguineous marriages are common in Turkey. The rates and types of consanguineous marriages, and their relationship to abortions and infant mortality were investigated in Acipayam, a rural area of Denizli, Turkey. 795 families were interviewed using a pre-designed questionnaire. The total prevalence of consanguineous marriages is 17.5%.
Keskin, N, Bozkurt, AI, Keskin, A
openaire   +2 more sources

Exploring the Role of Special Events in Relationship Fundraising

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The relationship fundraising paradigm conceptualizes charitable giving as an outcome of ongoing interpersonal engagement between donors and organizations, often depicted in practice as a cyclical process with multiple phases. This study examines how special events—a widely used but understudied relationship fundraising tool—factor into this ...
Jason L. Jensen, Benjamin J. Kassow, Genevieve G. Shaker, Paul E. Sum   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Heredity and the Prevalence of Strabismus in Families with Accommodative, Partial Accommodative, and Infantile Esotropia

Türk Oftalmoloji Dergisi, 2020
Objectives:To investigate the prevalence of strabismus in families of a proband with accommodative, partial accommodative, or infantile esotropia (IET), and to evaluate the mode of inheritance and the role of consanguineous marriages in this prevalence ...
Fatma Çorak Eroğlu, Sibel Oto, Feride İffet Şahin, Yunus Terzi, Özge Özer Kaya, Mustafa Agah Tekindal   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mobilizing Presence across Borders: Devotion to Papua New Guinea's Blessed Peter To Rot in Australia

Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article engages with the conjunctures between migration and religion by focusing on the celebration of Papua New Guinea's ‘National Patron Saint’, the Blessed Peter To Rot, in the Australian diaspora. Both in Sydney and Brisbane, Catholic Papua New Guinea (PNG) migrants have been ‘relocating’ PNG shrines, regalia, relics and ritual ...
Anna‐Karina Hermkens
wiley   +1 more source

Do cultural taboos regulate hunting in transitioning Indigenous communities? The case of the Idu Mishmi of Northeast India

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract There is rising recognition of resource‐use rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) within wildlife conservation. Historically, sociocultural institutions ensured wildlife sustainability in many IPLC areas. However, the future viability of such institutions is uncertain as IPLCs change in response to external pressures and ...
Sahil Nijhawan, Achili Mihu, Iho Tapo, Alinji Rondo, Jibi Pulu, Marcus Rowcliffe   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
openaire   +2 more sources

Comparison of decisional conflict levels regarding prenatal screening tests among pregnant women who had consanguineous and non-consanguineous marriages: a cross-sectional study

Middle East Fertility Society Journal
Objective Consanguineous marriages increase the incidence of rare genetic diseases within society. During pregnancy, screening and diagnostic tests are performed for certain diseases.
Dilan Mercen, Ilknur Yesilcinar
doaj   +1 more source

Plants, people and their shared heritage: A comparative medicinal and wild food ethnobotany of Albanians, Greeks and Aromanians living in the Gjirokaster area, southern Albania

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Traditional knowledge about wild plants connects people to nature and sustains both cultural identity and biodiversity. This study explores how cultural exchange among Albanians, Greeks and Aromanians in southern Albania shapes the use and naming of medicinal and food plants.
Evanthia Dina, Ani Bajrami, Mousaab Alrhmoun, Naji Sulaiman, Konstantinos Ntinas, Marjol Meço, Bledar Pulaj, Nektarios Aligiannis, Avni Hajdari, Andrea Pieroni   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source