(1) Of the several possible explanations which might account for the increase in fertility of downward migrants on migration from high to low altitude (migration, socioeconomic factors, acculturation, seasonal male emigration from high altitude, and removal of hypoxia stress), altitude appears to be the most significant.
(2) The group that was most acculturated to Western culture had a three- to five-fold excess in CHD prevalence.
(3) Ranks of these variances were not significantly associated with acculturation rank.
(4) In addition, socioeconomic characteristics, acculturation, and health status fail to explain the observed differences in the structure of the CES-D among the three generations.
(5) Comparisons were carried out with 1,894 dentate Mexican-Americans who had high acculturation status.
(6) The most important factors found to be associated with smoking were the presence of other smokers in the immediate social environment (home and workplace) and the degree of acculturation (particularly among women).
(7) The results indicate the importance of acculturation-related factors, including educational attainment, language preference, and nativity for predicting symptomatology among Mexican Americans.
(8) This study sought to determine if cultural heritage and acculturation influence the perception and expression of pain and anxiety.
(9) Hypertension is a clinical disease with a prevalence sufficiently high in acculturated societies to warrant it being designated a serious public health problem.
(10) All foreign medical graduates have acculturation problems, but they are especially aggravating among foreign psychiatric residents.
(11) The 6-month-olds' better performance on the major and augmented interval patterns than on the pelog interval pattern is potentially attributable to either the 6-month-olds' lesser perceptual acculturation than that of the 1-year-olds or perhaps to an innate predisposition for processing of music based on a single fundamental interval, in this case the semitone.
(12) Considerations of culture stress (deculturative and acculturative) and cultural intoxication-permitting factors are essential in any dynamic formulation of Native Americans' problem drinking.
(13) Abnormal glucose tolerance was rare (less than 1% over all) in Melanesians regardless of acculturation, but was present in 9.7% of adult Micronesians in whom it was associated with age; obesity; female sex; and a diet that was high in energy and refined carbohydrates.
(14) Through acculturation, the therapist becomes aware of a new set of value orientations.
(15) In women, obesity also appeared to be a more important mediator of the relation between socioeconomic status and diabetes than of the relation between acculturation and diabetes.
(16) The influences of acculturation, patterns of prenatal care and pregnancy outcome among Hispanic adolescents are discussed.
(17) There is increasing evidence that nutritional factors are critical in the pathogenesis of essential hypertension typical for acculturated societies.
(18) An experimental method using literature as a creative and acculturating instrument is described.
(19) While differences in acculturation existed at the time of the initial survey, the interval between surveys was marked by rapid acculturation in almost all societies.
(20) After controlling for sociodemographic and economic factors, health status, and insurance coverage, Mexican Americans who were less acculturated had significantly lower probabilities of an outpatient medical visit for physical health problems and of a visit to a mental health specialist or human service provider for emotional problems.
Assimulation
Definition:
(n.) Assimilation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The structural gene (glnA) encoding the ammonia-assimulation enzyme glutamine synthetase (GS) has been cloned from the obligate methanotroph Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath).
(2) With zinc wire the assimulation decrese was 44.2% (p less than .001), and with copper wire, it was 69.6% (p less than .001).