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Genetic Risk and High Burden of Depression and Suicide in the Maya‐Mestizo Population of Yucatán, México

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Major depression and suicide are critical public health concerns, particularly in underrepresented populations with unique genetic and sociocultural contexts. The Maya‐mestizo population presents the highest suicide rates in the country but remains understudied in psychiatric genetics. This study evaluated the association between three genetic
Marta Menjivar, Erandi Bravo, Margarita Rivera‐Balancan, Barbara Itzel Pena Espinoza   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Descriptive Epidemiology From the Myhre Syndrome Foundation Registry: The Value of Self‐Reported Data

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Myhre syndrome is an ultrarare genetic disease characterized by short stature, distinct craniofacial features, cardiovascular and respiratory fibrosis and stenosis, neurodevelopmental delays, autism, intellectual disability, and hearing loss. The natural history of Myhre syndrome is still not fully understood due to a small patient population ...
Mary K. Young, Armelle Pindon, Maggie R. Brand, Kate Wears, Katherine H. Young, Alyssa Mendel, Michael J. Lyons   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

There is something special about a woman who dominates a man’s world: an African feminist critique of women characters in indlal’Inamanyala (obscenity) (1994)

Cogent Arts & Humanities
The (re)production of women in isiXhosa literature cannot be disjointed from the social realities that women experience. Young girls are no exception to this view.
Mlamli Diko
doaj   +1 more source

LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES AND THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE IN POST-COLONIAL AFRICA

STELLENBOSCH PAPERS IN LINGUISTICS PLUS, 2017
Africa is highly ideologised in terms of two antagonistic positions. Facing two extreme ideological positions, namely what one might call ‘19th century European nation state-ideology’ vs ‘20th/21st century African Renaissance-ideology’, language planners and decision-makers in Africa are caught in a complex dilemma.
openaire   +5 more sources

Introducing AI & Innovation

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
Mirko Farina, Xiao Yu, Rongrong Ji, Chen Jin, Vincent Blok, Paolo Ciancarini, Ngcaweni Busani, Witold Pedrycz   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Determinants of Health and Health‐Related Quality of Life: The Potential Mediating Role of Social Activities, Access to Medical Services, and Access to Social Services

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explored the mediating influences of access to social activities, social services, and health and medical services on the relationship between social determinants of health and health‐related quality of life. A survey of 602 adults was conducted in a regional area of Australia.
Candice Oster, Ashleigh Powell, Claire Hutchinson, Richard Leibbrandt, Svetlana Bogomolova   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anthems of oppressed voices: a postcolonial deliberation of the South African apartheid phrase dubul’ibhunu (kill the Boer or shoot the Boer)

Cogent Social Sciences
Given the reality that South African colonialism and apartheid officially ended in 1994, there is a continued visibility of racial and controversial words, phrases, and sentences that prominently seek to dehumanize Black South Africans. Having said that,
Mlamli Diko
doaj   +1 more source

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Harmonizing Africa’s linguistic symphony: navigating the complexities of translating African literature using a postcolonial theory

Cogent Arts & Humanities
Whereas translation, as a theoretical and professional discipline, has fairly been scrutinized in the African context and elsewhere in the world, it cannot be downplayed that it continues to suffer a great deal of challenges.
Mlamli Diko
doaj   +1 more source