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Abnormal X : autosome ratio, but normal X chromosome inactivation in human triploid cultures

Norwood Thomas H, Luo Ping, Varadarajan Kartik R, Gartler Stanley M et al. • BMC Genetics (2006)

Abstract Background X chromosome inactivation (XCI) is that aspect of mammalian dosage compensation that brings about equivalence of X-linked gene expression between females and males by inactivating one of the two X chromosomes (Xi) in nor...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-7-41

Genetics of Obesity

Claude Bouchard, Louis Përusse • Annual Review of Nutrition (1993)

Genetics of Human Obesities: Introductory Notes (C. Bouchard). Etiology and Prevalence of Obesity (G.A. Bray). Nongenetic Determinants of Obesity and Body Fat Topography (J.O. Hill, M.J. Pagliassotti, and J.C. Peters). Overview of the Adopt...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.nu.13.070193.002005

THE CHRISTIANITY OF ANTHROPOLOGY*

Fenella Cannell • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2005)

This article critiques the way in which the discipline of anthropology has construed Christianity, arguing that too narrow and ascetic a model of Christianity has become standard and questioning the claims of the ‘secular’ social sciences t...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2005.00239.x

The Development of Cognitive Anthropology

Roy G. D’Andrade • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1995)

In an historical account of the growth and development of the field of cognitive anthropology, Roy D'Andrade examines how cultural knowledge is organised within and between human minds. He begins by examining the research carried out during...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139166645

Anthropology and Psychiatry

Arthur Kleinman • The British Journal of Psychiatry (1987)

To illustrate the contribution anthropology can make to cross-cultural and international research in psychiatry, four questions have been put to the cross-cultural research literature and discussed from an anthropological point of view: 'To...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.151.4.447

Partial replacement of red and processed meat with legumes: a modelling study of the impact on nutrient intakes and nutrient adequacy on the population level

Niina E Kaartinen, Heli Tapanainen, Mirkka Maukonen, Essi Päivärinta et al. • Public Health Nutrition (2023)

Abstract Objective: The shift towards plant-based diets with less meat and more legumes is a global target and requires an understanding of the consequences of dietary adequacy on the population level. Our aim was to model the impact of pa...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1017/S1368980022002440

The influence of patient self-efficacy on value co-creation behavior and outcomes in chronic disease management: a cross-sectional study

Jiamin Tang, Jie Jia, Yuan Gao, Weixiao Yu et al. • BMC Public Health (2025)

Abstract Background In the medical field, value co-creation involves patients’ active involvement. By collaborating with service providers, patients can contribute to the creation of more targeted and effective value. Patients’ self-efficac...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12889-025-22917-8

Continuity and Change in Public Policy and Management

Christopher Pollitt, Geert Bouckaert • Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks (2009)

© Christopher Pollitt and Geert Bouckaert 2009. All rights reserved. Combining theory development, international comparison and original case study analysis, two of Europe's leading public policy and management scholars apply and develop so...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849802291

Colonias and Public Policy in Texas and Mexico

Peter M. Ward • University of Texas Press eBooks (1999)

Today in Texas, over 1500 colonias in the counties along the Mexican border are home to some 400,000 people. Often lacking basic services, such as electricity, water and sewerage, fire protection, policing, schools, and health care, these "...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.7560/791244

Toward an Anthropology of Public Policy

Janine R. Wedel, Cris Shore, Gregory Feldman, Stacy Lathrop • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2005)

As the rational choice model of “policy” proliferates in “policy studies, ” the social sciences, modern governments, organizations, and everyday life, a number of anthropologists are beginning to develop a body of work in the anthropology o...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716205276734