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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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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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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 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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A System of Ethnic Dance Notation

Ethnomusicology, 1965
s a student of ethnochoreography I found myself facing a major problem while trying to record and discuss ethnic dances: namely, how can one notate quickly while doing field work, and then write papers for others in related fields to study. The need seems to be for a system that is basic, flexible (for use with various forms), yet with a minimum set of
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Ethnic and geographical differences in systemic lupus erythematosus: an overview

Lupus, 2006
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is one of the most heterogeneous autoimmune disorders known. There is production of a variety of autoantibodies and patients present with a wide range of symptoms due to multiple organ involvement by the disease process. The underlying cause is not fully understood but it may involve genetic and environmental factors.
Mok, MY, Yin, G, Lau, CS
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Family, community, and ethnic capital as entrepreneurial resources: Toward an integrated model

, 2020
Our study investigates social mechanisms that facilitate the reproduction of an entrepreneurially oriented community structure. We combine qualitative and quantitative data collection, analysis, and interpretation to compare the entrepreneurial attitudes
Léo-Paul Dana, C. Gurau, I. Light, Nabeel Muhammad   +3 more
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Disparities In Outcomes Among COVID-19 Patients In A Large Health Care System In California.

Health Affairs, 2020
As the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic spreads throughout the United States, evidence is mounting that racial and ethnic minorities and socioeconomically disadvantaged groups are bearing a disproportionate burden of illness and death.
K. Azar, Zijun Shen, R. Romanelli, Stephen H Lockhart, Kelly Smits, Sarah C. Robinson, S. Brown, A. Pressman   +7 more
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The Economic System and Ethnic Culture

Problems of Economic Transition, 1994
Russian economic science, after freeing itself from the procrustean bed of social class determinism, found itself confronted by three Western approaches to the description of economic systems. The first is based on the universal significance of the uniform, immutable principles of a rational economic mechanism.
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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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