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Ethnic Differences in Pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

The Journal of Rheumatology, 2009
Objective.Prevalence and severity of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in adults is suggested to be distinctly different between ethnic groups. The impact of ethnicity is not as well delineated in pediatric SLE (pSLE). We compared prevalence and extent of major organ involvement, disease activity, and damage in pSLE between different ethnic groups ...
Linda T, Hiraki, Susanne M, Benseler, Pascal N, Tyrrell, Elizabeth, Harvey, Diane, Hebert, Earl D, Silverman   +5 more
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SYSTEMIZATION OF ETHNIC POLICIES AND CONCERNS

Tạp chí Nghiên cứu dân tộc, 2017
Vietnam is a unified country of 54 ethnic groups, including 53 ethnic minorities (EMs). As most of the EMs reside in massive strategic areas; play an important rolein politics, economics, national defense - security and ecological environment, the Party and the Government pay the utmost attention to ethnic minority (EM) issues and EM policies.
Tran Trung, Luong Thi Tinh, Nguyen Thi Huong   +2 more
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Ethnicity, instructional communication and classroom systems

Communication Quarterly, 1990
The present study is the third in a series investigating how students' ethnic backgrounds relate to their views of instructional communication processes. Paired measurements of teacher immediacy, effectiveness and course utility were taken from Anglo‐American, Latino, African‐American and Asian‐American students at the middle and end of a ten week term.
Mary Jane Collier, Robert Powell
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Children with systemic autoinflammatory diseases have multiple, mixed ethnicities that reflect regional ethnic diversity

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, 2021
To evaluate the ethnic diversity of children with a systemic autoinflammatory disease (SAID) in a multi-ethnic Canadian province.Self-reported ethnicity of 149 children and adolescents with a SAID in British Columbia, Canada, was analysed for ethnic representation among individual patients, across the cohort, within particular SAIDs, and compared to ...
Lori B, Tucker, Iwona, Niemietz, Preet, Mangat, Maria, Belen, Jenny, Tekano, David A, Cabral, Jaime, Guzman, Kristin M, Houghton, Kimberly A, Morishita, Mercedes O, Chan, Andrea, Human, Martina, Sundqvist, Kelly L, Brown   +12 more
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Ethnic Groups and Knowledge Systems in Agriculture

Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1991
and limits our explication of the range of farming practices. In this article I develop a social-systemic approach to farmer decision making, with emphasis on background differences within farmer populations and the social subsystems through which farmers acquire, evaluate, and apply farming information. An understanding of this social complexity helps
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Party System Nationalization and Ethnic Conflicts

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
Party system nationalization, defined as the extent to which national parties receive similar vote shares across regions, has a huge impact on the nature of programs and policy outcomes from party systems. Nationalized party systems are characterized by nationalized broad based policies and programs while less nationalized or regionalized party systems
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Ethnicity as adaptation: Strategies and systems

Reviews in Anthropology, 1976
John W. Bennett, ed. The New Ethnicity: Perspectives from Ethnology. 1973 Proceedings of The American Ethnological Society. St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 1975. xi + 334 pp. Tables, figures, and references. $9.95. Leo A. Despres, ed. Ethnicity and Resource Competition in Plural Societies. World Anthropology: An Interdisciplinary Series.
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Ethnic disparities in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

Current Rheumatology Reports, 2003
Ethnic disparities in health care have been historically well documented, but their causes still remain poorly explained. In the US, ethnic minorities have a higher incidence and prevalence of systemic lupus erythematosus and also experience less favorable outcomes when compared with the Caucasian majority.
América G, Uribe, Graciela S, Alarcón
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Ethnicity, Political Systems, and Civil Wars

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2002
The effect of ethnic division on civil war and the role of political systems in preventing these conflicts are analyzed, using the importance of religious polarization and animist diversity to explain the incidence of ethnic civil war. Findings show that religious differences are a social cleavage more important than linguistic differences in the ...
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Electoral Systems and Ethnic Minority Representation

2017
Every democratic process short of unanimity produces opinion minorities. Political divisions along anchored demographic characteristics like language, religion, race, or ethnicity challenge pluralist models of governance by threatening to entrench the exclusion of minority groups from political power.
David Lublin, Shaun Bowler
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