Posttraumatic stress disorder and associated factors in the aftermath of the 2015 earthquake in Nepal: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Prayash Paudel, Asutosh Sah, Anil Khanal

“…The subgroup analyses revealed that the incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder after an earthquake varied significantly across studies in terms of the time of assessment, sex, age, marital status, ethnicity, educational level, disease history, bereavement, injury to the body, witnessing death, social support, loss of property and damage to one's house. …”
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Selection and appointment of higher education leaders in Ethiopia: An assessment of implementation by Abebaw Yirga Adamu

“…It is also understood that the Directive is a necessary but not sufficient condition to promote ethnic diversity given the politicization of ethnicity in the country. …”
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Literature review of spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage: risk factors, diagnostic features, and complications (Part I) by J. Grigaitė, G. Rutkauskaitė, L. Piliponis, J. Ščerbak, D. Jatužis, J. Valaikienė

“…SAH is more common in females than males, among non-white ethnicity, and is most commonly diagnosed in Finland and Japan. …”
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Understanding geographical variations in health system performance: a population-based study on preventable childhood hospitalisations by Daniel Exeter, Pushkar Raj Silwal, Arier Lee, Tim Tenbensel

“…No consistent time trend was observed for the adjusted childhood ASH at the national level, but the DHBs demonstrated different trajectories over the years. Ethnicity (being a Pacific child) followed by deprivation demonstrated stronger relationships with childhood ASH than the geography and the health system input variables.Conclusion The variation in childhood ASH is explained only minimal at the DHB level. …”
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A Sociolinguistic Investigation of the influence of power in Ālam-ārā-ye Safawi by Manizhe pourali, Ghahreman Shiri

“…The reflection of ideology, mentality, language, and the path and practice of the pillars of power have both direct and indirect effects on shaping the content and structure of the writings, which play a major role in giving identity to the ethnicity, language, and intellectual discourse. The ruling power in the Safavid period was composed of a triad of the Safavid kings, the military commanders, and the religious scholars, each of which used mystical, military and religious discourses, respectively. …”
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Hair Loss Associated with Sertraline: A Case Report by Seyed Hamzeh Hosseini, Hamed Ghazvini, Seyedeh Masoumeh Seyedhosseini Tamijani, Raheleh Rafaiee

“…In the present study, we report the case of a 16-year-old Iranian female of Persian ethnicity who had been treated for panic disorder. …”
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Gender forgery of faces by fusing wavelet shortcut connection generative adversarial network by Wanze CHEN, Liqing HUANG, Jiazhen CHEN, Feng YE, Tianqiang HUANG, Haifeng LUO

“…The mainstream methods in the field of facial attribute manipulation had the following two defects due to data and model architecture limitations.First, the bottleneck structure of the autoencoder model results in the loss of feature information, and the traditional method of continuously injected styles to the source domain features during the decoding process makes the generated image too referential to the target domain while losing the identity information and fine-grained details.Second, differences in facial attributes composition between images, such as gender, ethnicity, or age can cause variations in frequency domain information.And the current unsupervised training methods do not automatically adjust the proportion of source and target domain information in the style injection stage, resulting in artifacts in generated images.A facial gender forgery model based on generative adversarial networks and image-to-image translation techniques, namely fused wavelet shortcut connection generative adversarial network (WscGAN), was proposed to address the these issues.Shortcut connections were added to the autoencoder structure, and the outputs of different encoding stages were decomposed at the feature level by wavelet transform.Attention mechanism was employed to process them one by one, to dynamically change the proportion of source domain features at different frequencies in the decoding process.This model could complete forgery of facial images in terms of gender attributes.To verify the effectiveness of the model, it was conducted on the CelebA-HQ dataset and the FFHQ dataset.Compared with the existing optimal models, the method improves the FID and LPIPS indices by 5.4% and 11.2%, and by 1.8% and 6.7%, respectively.Furthermore, the effectiveness of the proposed method in improving the gender attribute conversion of facial images is fully demonstrated by the results based on qualitative visual comparisons.…”
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Prevalence and Associated Factors of Hypertension: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study in Municipalities of Kathmandu, Nepal by Raja Ram Dhungana, Achyut Raj Pandey, Bihungum Bista, Suira Joshi, Surya Devkota

“…Age, gender, education, ethnicity, occupation, smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, diabetes, menopausal history, and family history of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and hypertension were significantly associated with hypertension. …”
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Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors for Spousal Resemblance in Obesity Status and Habitual Physical Activity in the United States by Hsin-Jen Chen, Yinghui Liu, Youfa Wang

“…Correlation coefficient between spouses’ BMI was 0.24, differing by race/ethnicity and family size. Kappa coefficient for weight status (obesity: BMI ≥ 30, overweight: 30 > BMI ≥ 25) was 0.11 and 0.35 for HPA. …”
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The Pragmatics of Stereotypes in Trevor Noah’s Stand-up Comedy Routines by Idania Rosa Castro Bravo

“…In addition, the use of race/ethnicity, political, and language stereotypes are frequent and follow the cultural stereotypical views in aiding the construct of Trevor Noah’s humorous discourse. …”
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Customized birthweight standard for a Polish population by Anna Kajdy, Oliver Hugh, Jan Modzelewski, Michał Rabijewski, Andre Francis, Jason Gardosi

“…Material and methods Maternal height and weight, ethnicity, gestational age, weight and sex at birth as well as pre-existing and gestational complications were collected. …”
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Disparities in the Diagnosis of Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy: A Narrative Review of Current Literature by Joseph Burns, Philippe Jean-Pierre

“…Similarly, males of African American ethnicity that participate in basketball are the most likely demographic to be affected by HOCM based on the data available from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). …”
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Medullary breast carcinoma: a pathogenic review and immunohistochemical study using tissue microarray by Ming Lee, Ana Richelia Jara-Lazaro, Poh Yian Cheok, Aye Aye Thike

“…Clinicopathological parameters, including ethnicity, age, tumour size and concurrent ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), showed no statistically significant correlation with review diagnoses and immunohistochemical findings. …”
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Final-year university students’ mental health and access to support as they prepared to graduate by Megan J. Magier, Madelyn Law, Sarah Pennisi, Tanya Martini, Markus J Duncan, Hussain Chattha, Karen A Patte

“…Differences in past-year support access were found by gender/sexuality, financial stress, age and race/ethnicity. Availability/scheduling was the most reported barrier to accessing campus-based services. …”
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The Experience of Embodiment Scale: An examination of its psychometric properties in women from the Republic of Cyprus. by Viren Swami, Christophe Maïano, Marios Argyrides, Elly Anastasiades

“…The bifactor-ESEM model had the best fit of all the models tested, and was invariant across ethnicity (Greeks and Greek-Cypriots) and was unaffected by differential item functioning based on age and body mass index. …”
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The Obesity Paradox and Cardiorespiratory Fitness by Paul A. McAuley, Nancy S. Smith, Brian T. Emerson, Jonathan N. Myers

“…Associations of baseline fitness and adiposity measures with all-cause mortality were determined by Cox proportional hazards analysis adjusted for age, ethnicity, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, family history of coronary artery disease, and cardiovascular medication use. …”
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The Prevalence and Risk Factors of Hypertension among the Urban Population in Southeast Asian Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Azmawati Mohammed Nawi, Zulkefley Mohammad, Kavita Jetly, Mohamad Aznuddin Abd Razak, Nur Suhada Ramli, Wan Abdul Hannan Wan Ibadullah, Norfazilah Ahmad

“…The common risk factors that we found were male, ethnicity, education and socioeconomic level, body mass index, waist circumference, smoking, and dyslipidaemia. …”
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Light to Moderate Alcohol Consumption Is Protective for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Normal Weight and Overweight Individuals but Not the Obese by Patricia A. Metcalf, Robert K. R. Scragg, Rod Jackson

“…Compared to the group with no alcohol consumption and adjusting for age, sex, and ethnicity, the group consuming alcohol had relative risks of T2DM of 0.23 (95% CI: 0.08, 0.65) in normal weight individuals, 0.38 (0.18, 0.81) in overweight individuals, and 0.99 (0.59, 1.67) in obese individuals. …”
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Inferential Statistics from Black Hispanic Breast Cancer Survival Data by Hafiz M. R. Khan, Anshul Saxena, Elizabeth Ross, Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy, Diana Sheehan

“…In this paper we test the statistical probability models for breast cancer survival data for race and ethnicity. Data was collected from breast cancer patients diagnosed in United States during the years 1973–2009. …”
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