Ultrasound features of Cytotoxic venomous snake bite and implications for surgical management – A systematic review by Karundat Bhola, Samson Mashele, Yoshan Moodley

“…The majority of VSB victims were male (76.9% in the American study and 57.1% in the South African study). …”
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Influence of interethnic ideologies on responses to intrusive cultural inflows and outflows by Lau, Yun Mei

“…Also, highly patriotic Singaporeans (Study 1), not Americans (Study 2), who adopted polyculturalism showed elevated favourable responses for foreign inflows. …”
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IL23R variation determines susceptibility but not disease phenotype in inflammatory bowel disease by Tremelling, M, Cummings, F, Fisher, SA, Mansfield, J, Gwilliam, R, Keniry, A, Nimmo, ER, Drummond, H, Onnie, CM, Prescott, NJ, Sanderson, J, Bredin, F, Berzuini, C, Forbes, A, Lewis, CM, Cardon, L, Deloukas, P, Jewell, D, Mathew, CG, Parkes, M, Satsangi, J

“…This extends the findings of the North American study, providing clear evidence that genome-wide association scanning can successfully identify true complex disease genes. …”

Adaptation and validation of the Johnson-Lecci scale to assess anti-white bias among black UK minority group members. by Kim Dierckx, Alain Van Hiel, James D Johnson, Len Lecci, Barbara Valcke, Eva Kefilwe Sekwena

“…Our novel measure of anti-White bias-which we called the AWB scale-was based upon the Johnson-Lecci scale (JLS; 2003) a questionnaire designed to measure anti-White attitudes among Black Americans. Studies 1 and 2 provided converging evidence for the AWB's four-factor dimensionality, its structural characteristics, its temporal stability and its external validity in Black UK samples, attesting to the consistency of minorities' experience of anti-majority bias in two very different societal contexts. …”
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Adaptation and validation of the Johnson-Lecci scale to assess anti-white bias among black UK minority group members by Kim Dierckx, Alain Van Hiel, James D. Johnson, Len Lecci, Barbara Valcke, Eva Kefilwe Sekwena

“…Our novel measure of anti-White bias–which we called the AWB scale–was based upon the Johnson-Lecci scale (JLS; 2003) a questionnaire designed to measure anti-White attitudes among Black Americans. Studies 1 and 2 provided converging evidence for the AWB’s four-factor dimensionality, its structural characteristics, its temporal stability and its external validity in Black UK samples, attesting to the consistency of minorities’ experience of anti-majority bias in two very different societal contexts. …”
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Chemical Sensitivity: Perspectives from North America and Europe by Miller, C.S., Ashford, Nicholas A.

“…A synopsis of the largest North American study of the condition conducted to date is provided and its findings are contrasted with observations fro recent nine-county European study of chemical sensitivity. …”
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Concrete Messages Increase Healthy Eating Preferences by Emily Balcetis, Madhumitha Manivannan, E. Blair Cox

“…We exposed 1676 online, American study participants to messages that described the gains associated with eating healthy foods or the costs associated with not eating healthy foods. …”
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Standing in the glory or shadow of the past self : cultures differ in how much the past self affects current subjective well-being by Kim, Young-Hoon, Cai, Huajian, Gilliland, Matthew, Chiu, Chi-yue, Xia, Stephen, Tam, Kim-Pong

“…However, positive evaluations of the past self were accompanied by higher subjective well-being only among Asian Americans. Study 2 showed that when induced to think positively (vs. negatively) of the present self, both European and Asian Americans judged their current lives more favorably. …”
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Enterprise Risk Management – Approaches Determining Its Application and Relation to Business Performance by Jozef Klučka, Rudolf Grünbichler

“…Methodology/Approach: The paper compares the results of an American study with the results of a Slovakian study. …”
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Vachel Lindsay’s Visionary Theoretical Reflections on Film by Srebrenka Mačković

“…Although neglected for decades, American poet, journalist, and painter Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) made a significant contribution to the rising film theory with his book The Art of The Moving Picture, the first American study of a kind, published in 1915. Having noticed the widespread popularity of silent movies among the millions of film lovers in the USA, Lindsay proposed that this new visual art form, which, according to him, represented a combination of a traditional theatre play and diverse elements of painting, sculpture, architecture and other forms of visual expression that he called photoplay, could, in due time, become a truly American art brand. …”
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A Pilot Study on the Use of Low Doses of CBD to Control Seizures in Rare and Severe Forms of Drug-Resistant Epilepsy by Gabriela Pesántez Ríos, Luciana Armijos Acurio, Ruth Jimbo Sotomayor, Victor Cueva, Ximena Pesántez Ríos, Hugo Navarrete Zambrano, Samuel Pascual, Galo Pesántez Cuesta

“…This is the first Latin American study that demonstrates that long-term CBD added to the usual drugs significantly reduces the frequency, duration, and type of seizures in the different etiologies of epilepsy, being especially effective on the seizures that are the most incapacitating, improving the quality of life of the individual and their family.…”
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A Classification Model to Predict the Rate of Decline of Kidney Function by Ersoy Subasi, Munevver Mine Subasi, Peter L. Hammer, John Roboz, Victor Anbalagan, Michael S. Lipkowitz

“…The African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension (AASK), a randomized double-blinded treatment trial, was motivated by the high rate of hypertension-related renal disease in the African-American population and the scarcity of effective therapies. …”
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‘Looking sharp’: price typeface influences awareness of spending in mobile payment by Park, J, Velasco, C, Spence, C

“…The robust typeface effect documented for Japanese participants (Studies 1–3) is not observed in North Americans (Studies 4 and 5), highlighting the role of culture. …”

The Importance of Inhaler Adherence to Prevent COPD Exacerbations by Jose R. Jardim, Oliver A. Nascimento

“…The clinical trial Towards a Revolution in COPD Health (TORCH) study clearly showed in a three year follow up that patients with good adherence to their inhaler treatment presented a longer time before the first exacerbation, a lower susceptibility to exacerbation and lower all-cause mortality. The Latin American Study of 24-h Symptoms in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (LASSYC), a real-life study, evaluated the self-reported inhaler adherence in COPD patients in seven countries in a cross-sectional non-interventional study and found that approximately 50% of the patients had good adherence, 30% moderate adherence and 20% poor adherence. …”
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Circulating Proteins and Mortality in CKD: A Proteomics Study of the AASK and ARIC Cohorts by Nityasree Srialluri, Aditya Surapaneni, Pascal Schlosser, Teresa K. Chen, Insa M. Schmidt, Eugene P. Rhee, Josef Coresh, Morgan E. Grams

“…The study analyzed data from the African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension (AASK) study and validated the findings in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. …”
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Standardization of the Food Composition Database Used in the Latin American Nutrition and Health Study (ELANS) by Irina Kovalskys, Mauro Fisberg, Georgina Gómez, Attilio Rigotti, Lilia Yadira Cortés, Martha Cecilia Yépez, Rossina G. Pareja, Marianella Herrera-Cuenca, Ioná Z. Zimberg, Katherine L. Tucker, Berthold Koletzko, Michael Pratt, On Behalf of the ELANS Study Group

“…The objective of this study was to describe our procedures and rationale for the selection and adaptation of available food composition to a single database to enable cross-country nutritional intake comparisons. Latin American Study of Nutrition and Health (ELANS) is a multicenter cross-sectional study of representative samples from eight Latin American countries. …”
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The slow violence of racism on Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic by Gloria Wong-Padoongpatt, Aldo Barrita, Anthony King, Michelle Strong

“…Currently, two studies tracked the unique relationships between psychosocial factors, such as experiencing everyday racism, and the self-reported wellbeing of Asian Americans in the United States and compared these associations with Latinx Americans. Study 1 (April 2020–April 2021) examined how Asian and Latinx Americans varied in their levels of wellbeing, fear of the coronavirus, internalized racism, and everyday experiences with racism. …”
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Introduction to the Special Issue: Study Abroad in the Twenty-first Century by Timothy Wolcott

“…Intensifying globalization processes have facilitated a sustained proliferation of American study abroad programs and have created discourses that legitimize, motivate, and mediate study abroad. …”
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Mandibular Second Molar Impaction-Part II: Etiology and Role of the Third Molar by Yehoshua Shapira, Yon Lai, Shirley Schonberger, Nir Shpack, Tamar Finkelstein

“…This study evaluates early radiographic characteristics of MM2 in the process of its impaction and the role of the third molar (MM3) in this process. (2) Materials and Methods: Panoramic radiographs of orthodontic patients of Chinese-American origin (n = 5575), age 9–15 years (mean 13.13) were examined for MM2 impactions and the presence of MM3. (3) Results: A total of 151 patients with 212 impacted MM2s were detected in the Chinese-American study group. Unilateral impactions were found more than bilateral and were distributed equally between the left and right sides. …”
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Development of an Application for Electronic Retrieval of Patient and Sample Information in Latin American Regions with a High Incidence of Gallbladder Cancer by Sergio Guinez-Molinos, Jaime Gonzalez Diaz, Carol Barahona Ponce, Justo Lorenzo Bermejo

“…We decided to develop an application for electronic data collection to facilitate the retrieval of sociodemographic, clinical, lifestyle, dietary, and sample-related information from 15,000 Latin American study participants. The application EULAT eCollect will facilitate the work of study nurses, reduce time spent by participants, limit the use of paper and ink, minimize costs and errors associated with filling out written forms and subsequent digitisation, and support the monitoring of local recruitment rates and data quality. …”
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