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Low physical activity is related to clustering of risk factors for fracture—a 2-year prospective study in children

Summary: The study investigates the effect of physical activity (PA) on a composite score for fracture risk in pre-pubertal children. Low PA in children is related to the composite score for fracture risk and the pre-pubertal years seem to be a period when PA positively affects the score. Introduction: This study evaluates if PA in children is related to clustering of risk factors for fracture. Re

Denmark as the Big Satan : Projections of Scandinavia in the Arab World and the Future of Multiculturalism

During the winter and spring of 2006, Denmark and Scandinavia faced its most serious crisis since World War II. The conflict started as a Danish newspaper published a number of cartoons, some of which portrayed the prophet Muhammad. After the Danish government rejected their requests to censor the media, Danish Islamists distributed these pictures to some senior political and religious figures in

Organized Anti-Semitism in Contemporary Ukraine : Structure, Influence, and Ideology

In the wake of the Orange Revolution, Ukraine has witnessed a substantial growth in organized anti-Semitism. Central to this development is an organization, known as the Interregional Academy of Human Resources, better known by its Ukrainian acronym MAUP. It operates a well-connected political network that reaches the very top of the Ukrainian society. MAUP is the largest private university in Ukr

Resilience Engineering: current status of the research and future challenges

This paper offers an extensive literature review on the field of Resilience Engineering (RE), encompassing 472 contributions, including journal articles, conference proceedings and book chapters. Adopting the numbers of co-citations as a metric of conceptual proximity, this paper details the application of Factor Analysis and Multi-Dimensional Scaling, as groundbreaking means to extract relevant r

Multiculturalism, Memory, and Ritualization : Ukrainian Nationalist Monuments in Edmonton, Alberta

Canadians of Ukrainian descent constitute a significant part of the population of the Albertan capital. Among other things, their presence is felt in the public space as Ukrainian monuments constitute a part of the landscape. The article studies three key monuments, physical manifestations of the ideology of local Ukrainian nationalist elites in Edmonton: a 1973 monument to nationalist leader Roma

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Collapse of the Communist system caused similar tendencies in sociopolitical development of the most former Warsaw Pact’s countries, and in particular led to an increase in ethnic nationalism. Mongolia is not an exception among them. Historically, ethnic nationalism was a means of decolonization in Asian countries. Then, in 1990s, it was used for de-Sovietization. In Mongolia, this trend began to