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Ethnobotany of the Monpa ethnic group at Arunachal Pradesh, India

open access: yesJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2011
BackgroundThe present paper documents the uses of plants in traditional herbal medicine for human and veterinary ailments, and those used for dietary supplements, religious purpose, local beverage, and plants used to poison fish and wild animals ...
Nima D Namsa   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Czech minority in Banat-Romania: A social geography survey [PDF]

open access: yesGeographica Pannonica, 2011
This paper describes the Czech minority living in SW part of Romania, namely in the Banat region. The community is concentrated in six villages, where they still keep their language and national habitudes since 1820, when the first families came.
Costachie Silviu   +3 more
doaj  

Ethnic Segretation in England's Schools [PDF]

open access: yes
We document ethnic segregation in secondary schools in England in 2001 in order to contribute to the debate on the degree of ethnic group social integration. We use indices of dissimilarity and isolation to compare the patterns of segregation across nine
Deborah Wilson, Simon Burgess
core  

Obesity alters the fitness of peritumoral adipose tissue, exacerbating tumor invasiveness in renal cancer through the induction of ADAM12 and CYP1B1

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Tumor microenvironment drives cancer formation and progression. We analyzed the role of human cancer‐associated adipocytes from patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) stratified as lean, overweight, or obese. RNA‐seq demonstrated that, among the most altered genes involved in the tumor–stroma crosstalk, are ADAM12 and CYP1B1, which were proven to be ...
Sepehr Torabinejad   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Migration signatures across the decades: Net migration by age in U.S. counties, 1950−2010 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: Migration is the primary population redistribution process in the United States. Selective migration by age, race/ethnic group, and spatial location governs population integration, affects community and economic development, contributes to ...
Johnson, Kenneth M., Winkler, Richelle
core   +2 more sources

Targeted metabolomics reveals novel diagnostic biomarkers for colorectal cancer

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study employed targeted metabolomic profiling to identify 302 distinct metabolites present in platelet‐rich plasma (PRP), revealing aberrant metabolic profiles amongst individuals diagnosed with colorectal cancer (CRC). Compared to carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and cancer antigen 19‐9 (CA199), our metabolite panel showed improved sensitivity ...
Zuojian Hu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predicting Race and Ethnicity From the Sequence of Characters in a Name [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2018
To answer questions about racial inequality and fairness, we often need a way to infer race and ethnicity from names. One way to infer race and ethnicity from names is by relying on the Census Bureau's list of popular last names. The list, however, suffers from at least three limitations: 1. it only contains last names, 2. it only includes popular last
arxiv  

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