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This study aims to investigate the relationship between weight-adjusted-waist index (WWI), a new body index, and sarcopenia, while also assessing the potential of WWI as a tool for screening sarcopenic patients.
Haojing Zhou +6 more
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Between Duty and Romance: The Attraction of Sounding “Black” in Paris [PDF]
The histories of Black Americans who significantly influenced French life and culture in Paris are hardly marked or visible across the most frequented tourist destinations or within state-sponsored museums dedicated to national history.
Wilson, Anndretta Lyle
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Homefront: Black Servicemembers and Black Voters in the Civil Rights Era
ABSTRACT The role of Black World War II veterans in the Civil Rights Movement has been well documented, but the effect of Black military service on Black voting patterns remains unclear. Combining detailed information on World War II enlistments and Civil Rights Commission data on voter registration by race, we estimate the role of Black veterans in ...
Thomas Koch +2 more
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Prior evidence suggested inconsistent findings in terms of the relationship between obesity and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) occurrence. We demonstrated that both general and central obesities were associated with an increased risk of developing IBD, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn's disease in a large‐scale prospective cohort.
Qian Zhang +5 more
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Background Insulin resistance and obesity are significant factors contributing to the incidence of stroke. The present research examines the association between stroke risk and both the triglyceride glucose-weight adjusted waist index (TyG-WWI, a ...
Shiming He +9 more
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Gender differences in weight-adjusted waist index in elderly inhabitants of a geriatric center [PDF]
Introduction and aim: Weight-adjusted waist index (WWI) represents a novel anthropometric measure for assessing obesity. Bearing in mind that there is insufficient data in the literature regarding gender differences in WWI values, the aim of the current ...
Amila Huremović +4 more
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Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture
ABSTRACT Recent critiques of multiculturalism contend that it is the ethnic or cultural majority in Western democracies that is now most vulnerable to cultural and identity dissolution, thus entitling it to majority rights on much the same grounds that multiculturalists defend minority rights. These critiques follow and perpetuate the binary opposition
Geoffrey Brahm Levey
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Background The weight-adjusted waist index (WWI) is a quantitative anthropometric index that can be applied to evaluate obesity. This study examined the relationship between adult United States (US) residents’ risk of diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2DM) and ...
XinMeng Li, Dan Zhao, Hongkun Wang
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The impact of new borders on trade: World War I and the economic disintegration of Central Europe [PDF]
This paper investigates the impact of changes in national border demarcation on economic integration. It treats the national breakups in Central Europe due to WWI as a natural experiment, which allows for evaluating the particular effect of new national ...
Heinemeyer, Hans Christian
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National Colonialism: Nation‐State, Colonialism and Colonisation of Kurdistan
ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of ‘national colonialism’ to capture colonial relations in the nation‐state form. It does so through a critical appraisal of the concept of ‘internal colonialism’, which largely fails to explain the links between nationalism and colonial relations.
Behnam Amini
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