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Beliefs about collective victimization in contexts of ongoing and historical oppression: A Q methodology study among Kurds from Turkey and Northern Kurdistan in Germany

Political Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The scarce political and social psychological research on the Kurdish–Turkish context primarily addresses intergroup relations and general perceptions of the conflict. Conversely, Kurds' experiences of and beliefs about collective victimization in this context have not been examined much to date.
Helin Ünal, Johanna Ray Vollhardt
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Ethnic Integration and Development in China [PDF]

, 2017
This paper pursues an inquiry into the relationship between ethnicity and development in the largest authoritarian country in the contemporary world, the People’s Republic of China.
Agnew, Alesina, Alesina, Alesina, Baldwin, Baldwin, Barabantseva, Baranovitch, Berman, Bovingdon, Brown, Bulag, Chen, Christopher Paik, Clarke, Collier, Cooray, De Juan, Dong, Easterly, Ebener, Enze Han, Fearon, Fearon, Fischer, Fischer, Fischer, Fischer, Fischer, Gisselquist, Golden, Goldstein, Goldstein, Goldstein, Goodman, Grousset, Habyarimana, Han, Han, Han, Hannum, Hasmath, Hassler, Henderson, Holbig, Hu, Jagchid, Kasara, Knight, Lafitte, Lai, Lieberman, Maurer-Fazio, Michalopoulos, Miguel, Millward, Millward, Montalvo, Ngan, Nooruddin, Nordhaug, Paik, Perkins, Pirie, Rogers, Rosenzweig, Sala-i-Martin, Sautman, Schündeln, Shakya, Sneath, Sutton, Taydas, Tsai, Vogel, Wimmer, Yeh   +76 more
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Low Serum Vitamin D Is Associated with Anti-Thyroid-Globulin Antibody in Female Individuals

International Journal of Endocrinology, 2015
Objectives. Some evidence has pointed out that vitamin D plays a significant role in reducing the incidence of autoimmune diseases, especially autoimmune thyroid diseases.
Xinling Wang, Jazyra Zynat, Yanying Guo, Reziwan Osiman, Aihemaitjan Tuhuti, Hongli Zhao, Munira Abdunaimu, Huili Wang, Xiaoping Jin, Shuqing Xing   +9 more
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Influences of APOA5 variants on plasma triglyceride levels in Uyghur population. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in apolipoprotein A5 (APOA5) gene are associated with triglyceride (TG) levels. However, the minor allele frequencies and linkage disequilibriums (LDs) of the SNPs in addition to their effects on TG levels vary ...
Shuyuan Li, Bin Hu, Yi Wang, Di Wu, Li Jin, Xiaofeng Wang   +5 more
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The Need for Improved Public Transparency in the Era of Due Diligence Regulations

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To address environmental and human rights issues in global commodity supply chains, governments increasingly require information from companies on their sourcing, as part of due‐diligence regulations (DDRs). This shift towards accountability to the regulator rather than to the public calls into question the role left for public transparency ...
Valentin Guye, Patrick Meyfroidt, Erasmus zu Ermgassen   +2 more
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Civil society, human rights and religious freedom in the People's Republic of China: analysis of CSOs' Universal Periodic Review discourse [PDF]

, 2017
This article examines religious freedom in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) using critical frame analysis of state and civil society organisations’ (CSOs) policy discourse associated with the United Nations (UN) Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
Chaney, Paul
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Ethnodemographic specifications of Xinjiang (P.R. of China) [PDF]

Zbornik Radova: Geografski Fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu, 2019
The paper examines ethnic, demographic, cultural and linguistic aspects of China's Xinjiang Province. It analyzes regional specifications and through cause-and-effect explains historical process of formation of different ethnicities and nations, their ...
Grbović Vladan
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Doing Business in Zones of Legal Risk: Patterns of Corporate Involvement in Atrocity Crimes Since World War II

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Involvement of corporations in international crimes and conflict atrocities, such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, are neither isolated events nor uncommon. Importantly, corporate involvement in atrocity crimes is shaped by conditions in “zones of legal risk” (International Commission of Jurists), where gross human rights ...
Susanne Karstedt, Wim Huisman, Annika van Baar, Rebecca Endtricht, Lorena Rivas   +4 more
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Vasijas conectadas: Asia Occidental y Asia Oriental en la Geopolítica de China [PDF]

, 2016
East Asia and West Asia (the Middle East)2 are usually treated in the academic literature as two distinct and separate issues in Chinese foreign policy. Studies of China’s policy in East Asia hardly mention the Middle East and studies of the Middle East ...
Shichor, Yitzhak
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The origins of Uyghur medicine: Debates and perspectives

Journal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences, 2015
Uyghur medicine refers to the traditional medicine of the people residing in the oases of the Taklamakan desert in the North-West corner of modern China.
Amir Abdukadir, Denis Dubrovin, Nurmahamat Amat, Wenxian Liu, Ayshamgul Hasim, Anwar Aikemu, Batur Mamtimin, Halmurat Upur   +7 more
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