(1) The prevalence of 24.4% among Mexican American men was similar to that among men from other ethnic backgrounds.
(2) Furthermore, their distribution in various ethnic groups residing in different districts of Rajasthan state (Western-India) is also reviewed.
(3) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
(4) The results were compared with those obtained by Hess and Goldblatt, and were further analyzed for possible differences by age, sex, ethnicity, and family size.
(5) Relative to the perceived severity of their asthma, both Maoris and Pacific Islanders lost more time from work or school and used hospital services more than European asthmatics using A & E. The increased use of A & E by Maori and Pacific Island asthmatics seemed not attributable to the intrinsic severity of their asthma and was better explained by ethnic, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors.
(6) These results might help to explain why only a minority of individuals with a susceptible HLA type develop uveitis, as well as the variable incidence of disease in HLA-identical populations of different ethnic backgrounds.
(7) Broad-based secular comprehensives that draw in families across the class, faith and ethnic spectrum, entirely free of private control, could hold a new appeal.
(8) Care for black and minority ethnic communities is seen as a "major faultline in mental health".
(9) The impact of ethnicity on the stress process in old age was examined using two surveys of Australians aged 60 years and older.
(10) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(11) Logistic regression analysis was used to determine the relationship of ethnicity to diagnosis in both outpatient and inpatient samples.
(12) Analysis according to clinical importance, gestation at booking, maternal age, parity, birth order, ethnic origin, and certainty of gestational age.
(13) Differences in prevalence in these areas, and between different ethnic groups, are discussed and compared with previous studies in Southern Africa.
(14) Late stage at diagnosis is common among Filipino and ethnic Hawaiian woman, and their risk of death is 1.5-1.7 times that of Caucasian, Chinese, and Japanese women with the disease, even after adjustment for age, extent of disease, and socio-economic status.
(15) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
(16) However, during the last four years 1980-1983, no significant difference between ethnic groups was observed.
(17) We studied the incidence and mortality of stroke in northern Israel to determine possible reasons for the differences previously found in mortality from this condition between the sex and ethnic groups in Israel as a whole.
(18) The majority (70) were of the Han ethnic group; 24 out of 41 Hainanese belonged to the Li ethnic group.
(19) The consequences for Syria have been multiple massacres, ethnic cleansing, torture, a humanitarian crisis and the risk of the country's breakup.
(20) There are no credible reports of ethnic Russians facing threats in Ukraine.
Folklore
Definition:
() Alt. of Folk lore
Example Sentences:
(1) The rich ethnopharmacological descriptions in the ancient books of herbal remedy and those scattered in the folklore medicine contribute the possibility of this approach.
(2) As she states in her editor’s forward to the first issue, Toor decided to publish a bilingual journal because she intended the magazine to be read by “high school and University students of Spanish … as well as to those who are interested in folklore and the Indian for their own sakes.” She adds: “Moreover, much beauty is lost in translating.” Toor presents herself as a competent cultural translator, should there be any doubt on the part of her readership.
(3) Chandler Parsons scored on a reverse layup with 0.9 seconds left to give Houston the lead but there was just enough time for Lillard to hit a 3 that will go down in Blazers folklore.
(4) If that was a stroke of luck Everton were even luckier in the second half, when Joe Allen made his contribution to derby folklore with what may well be the miss of the season.
(5) Considering a previous contribution presented by the author in reference to alcoholic families (Prize 1981, Journal of Family Therapy) findings highlight that alcoholism and folkloric medicine persist and increase insomuch as the possibilities for adjustment to a new culture decrease.
(6) According to Buddhist folklore, it blooms only once every 3,000 years; someone feared it would encourage superstition.
(7) A brief review of the significance of the hand in the mythology, folklore, and religion of Ireland from ancient times is presented.
(8) The story has been denied by everybody, but it has entered the Rudd folklore, nonetheless.]
(9) The interest taken in traditional African Therapies was classically supported by a system of anthropological eurocentric references, motivated amongst other things by a folkloric curiosity.
(10) "When she came out with some particularly garbled bit of folklore and was met with the usual amusement and incomprehension, she retorted 'It may be an old fallacy, but it's true!'
(11) Once he had assembled his cast in the rehearsal rooms, Lepage mixed in some of his own family folklore, the tale of a grand-uncle who became so indebted to Chinese gamblers that he was forced to barter his pregnant daughter.
(12) For Chipperfield, his installation for the Mies building not only recalls the forest’s dense symbolism in German literature and folklore, but has much to say about the notion of the column in architecture: “The column has a very particular relationship with Germany because Nazi architecture in a way confiscated it by using it as a sign of authority.
(13) Chrysin (5,7-di-OH-flavone) was identified in Passiflora coerulea L., a plant used as a sedative in folkloric medicine.
(14) This paper lists and discusses many of the folklore beliefs attributed to blood and shows that many of these primitive beliefs still can be found today.
(15) In retail folklore, middle-class southerners carry the orange rosette that is a Sainsbury’s bag for life, while a bootful of heavy duty Tesco carriers points to a more workmanlike existence.
(16) The prevalence of such feelings in folklore and in literature is noted.
(17) The 82-year-old, a member of the 1960 title-winning team, saw a younger generation carve their names into Burnley folklore.
(18) The use of modern microbiological techniques demonstrates that higher plants frequently exhibit significant potency against human bacterial and fungal pathogens, that many genera are involved, that many folkloric uses can be rationalized on this basis, that the active constituents are readily isolated by bioassay-directed techniques, that their chemical structures are types uncommon amongst fermentation-based agents but are familiar to natural product chemists, that their antimicrobial spectra are comparatively narrow but that their potency is often reasonable, that they are comparatively easy to synthesize and the unnatural analogues so produced can possess enhanced therapeutic potential and, thus, it is concluded that such work generates a gratifying number of novel lead structures and that the possibility of finding additional agents for human or agricultural use based upon higher plant agents is realistic.
(19) It is concluded that folklore information should be considered seriously in programs designed to yield prototype, biologically active molecules from plant sources.
(20) A visibly triumphant Sisi stood on the vessel’s upper deck, waving to wellwishers and folklore dance troupes performing on the shore.