Search results for "ethnic"

“Italian American Crime Fiction from the 1890s to the 1930s.”

2000

Passion and prejudice in research

1997

In every country examined, there are far fewer women in senior positions in science than the number who begin a career in research — and those who do achieve success are paid less than their male colleagues. Irrespective of gender, the distribution of grants for scientific research is grossly skewed in favour of the few at the expense of the many. And members of some ethnic minority groups tend not even to begin careers in research. Why are these discriminatory practices tolerated, and what (if anything) is being done to change this state of affairs?

Determining a healthy reference range and factors potentially influencing PRO-C3 – A biomarker of liver fibrosis

2021

Background & Aims Progressive fibrosis has been identified as the major predictor of mortality in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Several biomarkers are currently being evaluated for their ability to substitute the liver biopsy as the reference standard. Recent clinical studies in NAFLD/NASH patients support the utility of PRO-C3, a marker of type III collagen formation, as a marker for the degree of fibrosis, disease activity, and effect of treatment. Here we establish the healthy reference range, optimal sample handling conditions for both short- and long-term serum storage, and robustness for the PRO-C3 assay. Methods PRO-C3 was measured in 269 healthy volunteers…

Interwencja NATO w Jugosławii w 1999 roku. W dwudziestą rocznicę ataku – przyczyny i konsekwencje

2019

Głównym celem jest przedstawienie uwarunkowań historycznych i politycznych ataku NATO na Jugosławię oraz ukazanie konsekwencji tej operacji, której głównym efektem było powstanie tzw. niezależnego państwa Kosowa, będącego w istocie niestabilnym te- rytorium spornym, stanowiącym bazę dla rozwoju przestępczości zorganizowanej i in- nych zagrożeń asymetrycznych. Operacja powietrzna o kryptonimie „Allied Force” roz- poczęła nowy rozdział w historii Sojuszu, który po raz pierwszy podjął działania zbrojne bez mandatu Rady Bezpieczeństwa ONZ, stwarzając tym samym niebezpieczny prece- dens na przyszłość. Serbowie w wyniku tej operacji zostali zmuszeni do pozostawienia Kosowa pod nadzorem ONZ. Trudn…

Humanities and Social Sciences Latvia. Vol. 23, N. 1

2015

Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls. 2016, Nr. 4 (101)

2016

Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds

Tamil Diaspora Schools—Ethnic-National Education in a Transnational Space

2012

Shifting between cultural identities: The voice of preschool children

2018

 
 Aim. The purpose of this research is to capture the shift between two cultural identities, for a group of Romanian children enrolled in a German teaching preschool class, and to closely analyze the impact on cultural identity components.
 Methods. In this study 27 children, aged 3 to 6, were involved, together with their parents and two teachers. During one year of investigation, they were analyzed using participative observation, focus groups and in-depth interviews conducted in a public preschool.
 Results. The analysis reveals witch cultural identity components of this children undergo transformation, in what amount and with what impact considering the school environmen…

Development and Validation of a New Prognostic System for Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma

2016

Background Prognostic assessment in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains controversial. Using the Italian Liver Cancer (ITA.LI.CA) database as a training set, we sought to develop and validate a new prognostic system for patients with HCC. Methods and Findings Prospective collected databases from Italy (training cohort, n = 3,628; internal validation cohort, n = 1,555) and Taiwan (external validation cohort, n = 2,651) were used to develop the ITA.LI.CA prognostic system. We first defined ITA.LI.CA stages (0, A, B1, B2, B3, C) using only tumor characteristics (largest tumor diameter, number of nodules, intra- and extrahepatic macroscopic vascular invasion, extrahepatic metas…

Prevalence of HPV infection in racial-ethnic subgroups of head and neck cancer patients

2017

Abstract The landscape of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in racial/ethnic subgroups of head and neck cancer (HNC) patients has not been evaluated carefully. In this study, a meta-analysis examined the prevalence of HPV in HNC patients of African ancestry. Additionally, a pooled analysis of subject-level data was also performed to investigate HPV prevalence and patterns of p16 (CDNK2A) expression amongst different racial groups. Eighteen publications (N = 798 Black HNC patients) were examined in the meta-analysis, and the pooled analysis included 29 datasets comprised of 3129 HNC patients of diverse racial/ethnic background. The meta-analysis revealed that the prevalence of HPV16 was h…