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Hydroxylamine nitrate (HAN)-based liquid propellants are characterized by high energy content and low toxicity ionic monopropellants, offering great potential application prospects in the space engine. This paper proposes an experimental system for electric ignition and combustion of HAN-based liquid propellant. The energy for decomposition, current, and combustion image of HAN-based liquid propellant are measured under different initial voltage, propellant volume, and the initial pressures in Ar and air atmospheres. The results show that the energy for decomposition decreased with an increase in initial voltage, propellant volume, and initial pressure. An increase in the initial voltage accelerates the reaction speed of HAN-based liquid propellant, and the energy for decomposition is approximately 3 J. An increase in the propellant volume decreases the equivalent resistance in the circuit, increasing the current and enhancing the thermal effect of the propellant. The accumulation of decomposition products and heat under high pressure reduced the energy for decomposition; the energy for decomposition is less than 1.5 J for the pressurization condition. Compared with the Ar atmosphere, the energy for decomposition of HAN-based liquid propellant shows better stability in the air atmosphere. The flow combustion device of HAN-based liquid propellant for the flow state is designed. The HAN-based liquid propellant is successfully ignited for different initial voltages and flow rates. The research results provide a reference for the design of space engine for HAN-based liquid propellant based on the electric ignition method. • Experiments for HAN electric ignition on different initial U , V , P were carried out. • The effects of initial conditions on the ignition energy of HAN was studied. • The comparison of ignition energy in air atmosphere and Ar atmosphere was analyzed. • The propellant flow combustion based-on the electric ignition method was achieved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective To analyze the difference in response of antiplatelet therapy guided by cytochrome P450 family 2 subfamily C member 19 (CYP2C19) gene detection in ischemic stroke patients of different ethnic groups. Methods The prospective study consecutively included Han (the control group) and Zhuang (the experimental group) patients with non-cardiogenic mild ischemic stroke who were hospitalized for treatment at the Third People’s Hospital of Nanning from January to July 2023. All patients were administered antiplatelet therapy, with the choice of medication guided by CYP2C19 gene detection results. Fast metabolizers were given clopidogrel bisulfate, while intermediate or slow metabolizers were given enteric-coated aspirin or ticagrelor. A follow-up period of 90 days was established to record the mRS scores, activity of daily living scale (ADL) scores, NIHSS scores, and the cumulative recurrence rates of ischemic stroke at 90 days. Results A total of 1036 patients with ischemic stroke were included, with 743 in the control group. The results of the CYP2C19 gene detection showed that there were 299 (40.24%) fast metabolizers, 345 (46.43%) intermediate metabolizers, and 99 (13.32%) slow metabolizers of clopidogrel. In the experimental group, there were 293 patients, with 107 (36.52%) fast metabolizers, 161 (54.95%) intermediate metabolizers, and 25 (8.53%) slow metabolizers of clopidogrel. The differences in the proportion of different CYP2C19 genotypes between the two groups were not statistically significant. After a 90 days follow-up, there was no significant difference in mRS scores, ADL scores, and NIHSS scores between the two groups. The cumulative recurrence rates of ischemic stroke at 90 days for the control group and the experimental group were 5.52% (41/743) and 5.12% (15/293), respectively, with no statistically significant difference. Conclusions Antiplatelet therapy guided by CYP2C19 gene detection has similar effects in preventing the recurrence of ischemic stroke in Han and Zhuang patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hydroxylammonium nitrate (HAN; NH3OH+NO3-), a green and non-toxic monopropellant, finds wide application in liquid and controllable solid propulsion. Gel propulsion enjoys advantages such as a high throttling capacity and encouraging operational safety. This study prepared three HAN-based gel propellant samples with gelling agent contents ranging from 2 to 4 wt%. Their decomposition processes were analyzed using thermogravimetry (TG), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and mass spectrometry (MS), and a microthruster was designed to investigate their combustion characteristics under varying voltages and flow rates. Results reveal the presence of three exothermic peaks in the HAN-based gel propellants at temperatures of 204, 306 °C and 441 °C. The gel propellants experienced violent decomposition between 100 °C and 400 °C, producing low-molecular-weight organics such as C3H8, C2H6, H2O, O2, and NH3. For the initial ignition, the flow rate exerts a greater effect of reducing the delay time than the voltage. The reignition exhibited a shorter delay time than the initial ignition, and increasing voltage led to a more significant decrease in the reignition delay time than increasing the flow rate. Under a gelling agent content of approximately 4 wt%, the reignition delay time decreased from 2.35 s to 0.65 s as the voltage increased from 150 V to 250 V, with the flame length and light intensity during the reignition greater than those in the initial ignition. At the end of combustion, the extinguishment delay time changed insignificantly under high voltage. As revealed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) analyses, residues with numerous cavities emerged due to incomplete combustion and the severe agglomeration of the gel propellants, exhibiting a maximum chlorine content of up to 77.73%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Intermarriage between different religions and ethnicities can lead to diversity and conflicts due to differing social preferences and incompatible value orientations. This is especially true when a nonreligious Han woman (87% of Chinese mainland adults are nonreligious) marries a Hui Muslim man, as Islam requires religious endogamy. The strict conversion doctrines and Islamic rules can make family life more difficult and conflicting for these Han women compared to those who have not chosen mixed marriages. This study examines how this group of Han women negotiate their identities and handle conflicts in a multicultural context. Drawing on Hermans' Dialogical Self Theory (DST), this study identifies four strategies the women use to negotiate conflicts between their identifications during interactions with Han and Hui families, and finds that the women develop new, hybrid I-positions, as a way to achieve internal stability, continuity, and belonging while resisting uncertainty, bi-marginalization, and insecuritization. By providing insights into understanding how these individual and micro struggles help to resist macro-societal prejudice and insecuritization for those whose marriage choices do not conform to mainstream standards, this paper holds that a combination of sociolinguistic analysis and psychological perspective can help us grasp the minute and complicated variations and struggles for identity negotiation and the construction of those in mixed marriages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disability characterised by the impairment of social interaction and communication ability. The alarming increase in its prevalence in children urged researchers to obtain a better understanding of the causes of this disease. Genetic factors are considered to be crucial, as ASD has a tendency to run in families. In recent years, with technological advances, the importance of structural variations (SVs) in ASD began to emerge. Most of these studies, however, focus on the Caucasian population. As a populated ethnicity, ASD shall be a significant health issue in China. This systematic review aims to summarise current case-control studies of SVs associated with ASD in the Chinese population. A list of genes identified in the nine included studies is provided. It also reveals that similar research focusing on other genetic backgrounds is demanded to manifest the disease etiology in different ethnic groups, and assist the development of accurate ethnic-oriented genetic diagnosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study seeks to examine the process by which han was established as a core emotion in salpurichum (salpuri dance), and uncover the background and triggers leading to its formation. From the early 20th century to the early 1960s, salpurichum was known as the "impromptu", "heoteun", and "handkerchief" dance, and it included an aspect of playfulness. However, since the mid-1960s, it has been increasingly interpreted as an expression of women's sorrow, reflecting the view that the tradition encapsulates women's suffering. In the 1980s, in the wake of the shamanic origin hypothesis proposed by Byeong-ho Jeong, the historical value of salpurichum was legitimized. It was performed at protests and was used as a shamanistic dance in accordance with this hypothesis. Accordingly, it began to be interpreted as a women's and national han. Concurrently, the authoritarian government promoted shamanism as part of Korea's indigenous identity during the 1988 Seoul Olympics, with salpurichum emerging as a representative traditional dance imbued with han. Therefore, the incorporation of han into salpurichum can be seen as a result of the nationalist political agendas advanced by two opposing groups. After salpurichum was designated as a national intangible heritage in 1990, han was academically completed and salpurichum became institutionalized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• The study investigated the differences in cardiac structure and clinical features among Tibetan, Han, and Hui patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. • The researchers analyzed data from over 3000 patients and found significant differences in gender, age, smoking history, comorbidities, and cardiac parameters among the ethnic groups. • Han patients had a lower proportion of dilated cardiomyopathy and heart failure, while Hui patients had the highest proportion of comorbid diabetes. Han patients also had lower levels of certain blood markers compared to Hui patients. Global nonvalvular AF rises, impacting health severely. In Qinghai, China's diverse setting, studying AF among varied ethnic groups is crucial The purpose of this study was to compares cardiac features in AF among Tibetan, Han, and Hui patients to develop tailored prevention and treatment strategies for this region, the goal was to enhance the understanding of AF and provide an empirical basis for developing prevention and treatment strategies specific to this region This study included a total of 3445 Tibetan, Han, and Hui patients diagnosed with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation and treated at the Qinghai Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Specialist Hospital, China, between January 2019 and January 2021. We analyzed the differences in cardiac structure, comorbidities, and other influencing factors among the different ethnic groups We found significant differences in gender, age, smoking history, lone atrial fibrillation, left heart failure, dilated cardiomyopathy, and diabetes between Tibetan, Han, and Hui patients (P < 0.05). Tibetan, Han, and Hui patients also differed with regard to left ventricular end-diastolic volume, left ventricular ejection fraction, fractional shortening, NT-proBNP, glycated hemoglobin, red blood cell distribution width, platelet count, platelet hematocrit, platelet distribution width, homocysteine (Hcy), C-reactive protein, and superoxide dismutase (SOD) (P < 0.05) Our study revealed variations in comorbidities, cardiac structure, and blood indexes among Tibetan, Han, and Hui AF patients, highlighting distinct patterns in complications and biomarker levels across ethnic groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Min Zhao,1,&ast; Ming-Zhu Gao,1,&ast; Rong-yan Gu,1,&ast; Lei Luo,1 Song-rui Ding,1 Liang He,2 Yue Jia,3 Hong-ping Zhang,3 Hong-ying Yang,3 Gao-feng Li1 1Medical Administration Department, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University (Yunnan Cancer Hospital, Yunnan Cancer Center), Kunming, Yunnan, People’s Republic of China; 2Medical Laboratory Department, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University (Yunnan Cancer Hospital, Yunnan Cancer Center), Kunming, Yunnan, People’s Republic of China; 3Gynecological Department, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University (Yunnan Cancer Hospital, Yunnan Cancer Center), Kunming, Yunnan, People’s Republic of China&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Hong-ying Yang; Gao-feng Li, Email yanghy913@126.com; ligaofenghl@126.comBackground: Research on the risk factors for cervical cancer in Yunnan Province’s four characteristic ethnic groups (Han, Bai, Dai, and Hani) is lacking.Objective: To study the risk factors of cervical cancer in four ethnic women in Yunnan Province, and to provide evidence for its prevention.Methods: The cervical cancer patients of Han, Bai, Dai and Hani ethnic groups in Yunnan Province who were first diagnosed in the Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University (Yunnan Cancer Hospital, Yunnan Cancer Center) from January 2011 to December 2020 were selected as the research objects. The 1:1 matched case-control study method was used, and single factor and conditional logistic regression were used for statistical analysis.Results: HPV types 16, 18 and 58 are mostly related with cervical cancer, the younger the age of the last pregnancy, the more times of pregnancy, childbirth and abortion, especially the younger the first marriage age of Bai and Dai, are the risk factors of cervical cancer; the infection of genital tract bacteria, mycoplasma and chlamydia is closely related to the incidence of cervical cancer in four ethnicities. Multifactorial analysis showed that demographic characteristics and environment/behavior were not included in the influencing factors of cervical cancer; among Han, Bai, Dai and Hani ethnic minorities, contraception (OR=0.29, OR=0.03, OR=0.09, OR=0.16, P< 0.05) was positive factor, HPV infection (OR=64.77, OR=128.71, OR=71.89, OR=40.07, P< 0.01) was a causative factor of cervical cancer.Conclusion: Risk of high parity with cervical cancer could be due to a complex interplay of factors, it is very important to formulate prevention strategies and measures in line with the cervical cancer of Han, Bai, Dai and Hani ethnic groups women in Yunnan Province.Keywords: cervical cancer, risk factors, case-control study, Han, Bai, Dai and Hani ethnic minorities, Yunnan Province

Studies have shown that facial recognition among racial groups exhibits not only an other‐race effect but also an other‐ethnicity effect within the same racial group. To explore differences in facial recognition and visual scanning patterns due to the other‐ethnicity effect, behavioural and eye‐movement data were used to investigate the other‐ethnicity effect in the facial perception of Tibetan and Han Chinese individuals and whether the visual scanning patterns varied between them. Behavioural data revealed an other‐ethnicity effect on facial recognition of Tibetan and Han individuals. Eye‐movement data indicated that Tibetan and Han individuals fixated more on the eye and mouth regions when recognising Han faces and on the eye and nose regions when recognising Tibetan faces. The other‐ethnicity effect appeared to influence facial recognition in Tibetan and Han individuals, who adopted similar visual scanning patterns when scanning the faces of individuals of their own ethnicity and those of other ethnicities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China (XUARC) harbors almost 50 ethnic groups including the Uyghur (UGR: 45.84%), Han (HAN: 40.48%), Kazakh (KZK: 6.50%), Hui (HUI: 4.51%), Kyrgyz (KGZ: 0.86%), Mongol (MGL: 0.81%), Manchu (MCH: 0.11%), and Uzbek (UZK: 0.066%), which make it one of the most colorful regions with abundant cultural and genetic diversities. In our previous study, we established allelic frequency databases for 14 autosomal short tandem repeats (STRs) for four minority populations from XUARC (MCH, KGZ, MGL, and UZK) using the AmpFlSTR® Identifiler PCR Amplification Kit. In this study, we genotyped 2,121 samples using the GoldenEye™ 20A Kit (Beijing PeopleSpot Inc., Beijing, China) amplifying 19 autosomal STR loci for four major ethnic groups (UGR, HAN, KZK, and HUI). These groups make up 97.33% of the total XUARC population. The total number of alleles for all the 19 STRs in these populations ranged from 232 (HAN) to 224 (KZK). We did not observe any departures from the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) in these populations after sequential Bonferroni correction. We did find minimal departure from linkage equilibrium (LE) for a small number of pairwise combinations of loci. The match probabilities for the different populations ranged from 1 in 1.66 × 1023 (HAN) to 6.05 × 1024 (HUI), the combined power of exclusion ranged from 0.999 999 988 (HUI) to 0.999 999 993 (UGR), and the combined power of discrimination ranged from 0.999 999 999 999 999 999 999 983 (HAN) to 0.999 999 999 999 999 999 999 997 (UGR). Genetic distances, principal component analysis (PCA), STRUCTURE analysis, and the phylogenetic tree showed that genetic affinity among studied populations is consistent with linguistic, ethnic, and geographical classifications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Debates within ecclesiology on the nature and possibility of ecclesial sin have regained interest in the midst of rising awareness of the church's historical wrongs. Most theologies and metaphors of a sinful church, however, fail to consider the theological identity of the "sinned against" within the church. This article reads Andrew Sung Park's theology of han (a Korean concept denoting a complex sense of woundedness) as the underside of sin against Karl Rahner's theology of a church of sinners to point toward a vision of ecclesial han that attends to the woundedness within the church and its healing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Manual bone age assessment (BAA) is associated with longer interpretation time and higher cost and variability, thus posing challenges in areas with restricted medical facilities, such as the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau. The application of artificial intelligence (AI) for automating BAA could facilitate resolving this issue. This study aimed to develop an AI-based BAA model for Han and Tibetan children. Methods: A model named "EVG-BANet" was trained using three datasets, including the Radiology Society of North America (RSNA) dataset (training set n = 12611, validation set n = 1425, and test set n = 200), the Radiological Hand Pose Estimation (RHPE) dataset (training set n = 5491, validation set n = 713, and test set n = 79), and a self-established local dataset [training set n = 825 and test set n = 351 (Han n = 216 and Tibetan n = 135)]. An open-access state-of-the-art model BoNet was used for comparison. The accuracy and generalizability of the two models were evaluated using the abovementioned three test sets and an external test set (n = 256, all were Tibetan). Mean absolute difference (MAD) and accuracy within 1 year were used as indicators. Bias was evaluated by comparing the MAD between the demographic groups. Results: EVG-BANet outperformed BoNet in the MAD on the RHPE test set (0.52 vs. 0.63 years, p < 0.001), the local test set (0.47 vs. 0.62 years, p < 0.001), and the external test set (0.53 vs. 0.66 years, p < 0.001) and exhibited a comparable MAD on the RSNA test set (0.34 vs. 0.35 years, p = 0.934). EVG-BANet achieved accuracy within 1 year of 97.7% on the local test set (BoNet 90%, p < 0.001) and 89.5% on the external test set (BoNet 85.5%, p = 0.066). EVG-BANet showed no bias in the local test set but exhibited a bias related to chronological age in the external test set. Conclusion: EVG-BANet can accurately predict the bone age (BA) for both Han children and Tibetan children living in the Tibetan Plateau with limited healthcare facilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We consider stratifying ideals of finite dimensional algebras in relation with Morita contexts. A Morita context is an algebra built on a data consisting of two algebras, two bimodules and two morphisms. For a strongly stratifying Morita context - or equivalently for a strongly stratifying ideal - we show that Han's conjecture holds if and only if it holds for the diagonal subalgebra. The main tool is the Jacobi-Zariski long exact sequence. One of the main consequences is that Han's conjecture holds for an algebra admitting a strongly (co-)stratifying chain whose steps verify Han's conjecture. If Han's conjecture is true for local algebras and an algebra Λ admits a primitive strongly (co-)stratifying chain, then Han's conjecture holds for Λ. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractDance and feminism share the epistemological understanding of the body as a site for agency, potential for change, and knowledge creation. This clinical case illustrates how a joint, indigenous dance and what are referred to as complementary and alternative medicine in the United States can enact a decolonizing psychotherapy framework for co-creating a space to access and embody cultural knowledge. Gimoo, a practice founded on traditional Korean dance and traditional Korean medicine, attends to an intergenerational trauma and resilience response, han, in a Korean immigrant woman to the United States. An indigenous dance that is inherently cultural can be a resource to empower a person to be an agent of their own liberation through support and solidarity, even in a virtual setting, and to expand Western notions of what healing might entail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the concept of "han" in Korean culture, which is a complex and elusive emotion associated with chronic sorrow, grief, and unresolved resentment. Han is deeply rooted in Korean history and the experience of oppression, but it is important to avoid essentializing it or assuming a homogenous Korean identity. Han is also seen as a medical condition called "hwabyong" and is particularly relevant to Korean women. The text discusses the historical, political, and cultural factors that have contributed to the presence of han in Korean culture, as well as its presence in literature, film, and the experiences of Korean-Americans. [Extracted from the article]

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This study seeks to examine the process by which han was established as a core emotion in salpurichum (salpuri dance), and uncover the background and triggers leading to its formation. From the early 20th century to the early 1960s, salpurichum was known as the “impromptu”, “heoteun”, and “handkerchief” dance, and it included an aspect of playfulness. However, since the mid-1960s, it has been increasingly interpreted as an expression of women’s sorrow, reflecting the view that the tradition encapsulates women’s suffering. In the 1980s, in the wake of the shamanic origin hypothesis proposed by Byeong-ho Jeong, the historical value of salpurichum was legitimized. It was performed at protests and was used as a shamanistic dance in accordance with this hypothesis. Accordingly, it began to be interpreted as a women’s and national han. Concurrently, the authoritarian government promoted shamanism as part of Korea’s indigenous identity during the 1988 Seoul Olympics, with salpurichum emerging as a representative traditional dance imbued with han. Therefore, the incorporation of han into salpurichum can be seen as a result of the nationalist political agendas advanced by two opposing groups. After salpurichum was designated as a national intangible heritage in 1990, han was academically completed and salpurichum became institutionalized.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the risk factors involved in revision surgeries in primary hand infections presenting in emergency department in Civil Hospital Karachi. METHODS: This prospective observational study was conducted in Department of Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery, Dr. Ruth K. M. Pfau Civil Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan during August, 2021 to April, 2022. Patients of any gender of age 12 years and above, requiring surgical management of primary hand infections were included in this study. The data was recorded in a pre-designed proforma. RESULTS: Out of 270 patients, 174 (64.4%) were males. Median age of patients was 47 (IQR= 35-55) years. Trauma (n=132, 48.9%), boiling water (n=38, 14.1%), idiopathic (n=34, 12.6%) & foreign bite (n=25, 9.3%) were common mechanisms of injuries. Common infection types were felon (n=80; 29.6%), superficial abscess (n=81; 30%) and deep abscess (n=66; 24.4%). Culture growth was positive in 226 (83.7%) cases. Multiple culture growth (>1 culture) was seen in 15 (5.6%) patients. Methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus auerus (n=85; 37.8%) and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (n=75; 33.3%) were most common pathogens isolated. Forty-nine (18.1%) patients underwent reoperation. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) (aOR 10.95; 95% CI: 1.40-85.41), Diabetes Mellitus (aOR 3.33; 95% CI: 1-11.02), positive culture-growth (OR 0.18; 95% CI: 0.04-0.78), increasing total leukocyte count (TLC) [aOR 1.60; 95% CI: 1.27-2.01] and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) (aOR 1.05; 95% CI: 1.02-1.09) were identified as independent predictor for reoperation. CONCLUSION: A considerable number of patients underwent reoperation. CKD, Diabetes Mellitus, increasing TLC and ESR at the time of presentation were significant predictors of reoperation.

The development and change in the other-race effect (ORE) in different age groups have always been a focus of researchers. Previous studies have mainly focused on the influence of maturity of life (from infancy to early adulthood) on the ORE, while few researchers have explored the ORE in older people. Therefore, this study used behavioral and eye movement techniques to explore the influence of age on the ORE and the visual scanning pattern of Han subjects recognizing own- and other-ethnicity faces. All participants were asked to complete a study-recognition task for faces, and the behavioral results showed that the ORE of elderly Han subjects was significantly lower than that of young Han subjects. The results of eye movement showed that there were significant differences in the visual scanning pattern of young subjects in recognizing the faces of individuals of their own ethnicity and other ethnicities, which were mainly reflected in the differences in looking at the nose and mouth, while the differences were reduced in the elderly subjects. The elderly subjects used similar scanning patterns to recognize the own- and other-ethnicity faces. This indicates that as age increases, the ORE of older people in recognizing faces of those from different ethnic groups becomes weaker, and elderly subjects have more similar visual scanning patterns in recognizing faces of their own and other ethnicities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper explores household income per capita for the rural Yi and Manchu ethnic minority groups and the Han majority using data from the China Household Income Project 2002, 2013 and 2018. The disparity between total per capita income for the Yi and Han populations narrowed, while the average per capita income for the Manchu population remained relatively similar to that of the Han population. Decomposing total income to its sources shows that the rapid increase in agricultural income among the Yi was a main reason why the disparity in income, compared to the two other ethnic groups, narrowed. Nevertheless, reliance on agricultural income among the Yi was reduced as wage employment and migration increased. The Manchu group and the Han group also experienced rapid increases in wages and self-employment income. The aggregated value of transfers from the public sector was similar for all three ethnic groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article explores Christian liberation theology in the Korean context, namely minjungsinhak, literally meaning ‘people’s theology’, discussing its history, characteristics, recent developments, and implications. This article shows how the new theology arose as a theological tradition in the 1970s, committed to the promotion of justice and the stoppage of economic exploitation and political oppression. Korea at the time was undergoing rapid industrialization at the expense of the working poor, while a de facto dictatorial regime harshly suppressed not only political opposition but also any type of labour or student activism. It will be argued that the ideas of minjung – literally meaning ‘the people’ – and han – often translated as sorrow, resentment, bitterness, grief, or regret – are central to Korean liberation theology. Han expresses both personal sorrow and ‘shared suffering’ of Koreans throughout history, for example through continual foreign invasions and occupations, including the exceptionally atrocious Japanese occupation (1910–1945). This article also examines how minjung theology in due time focused on the issue of reunification with North Korea and how it inspired many religiously-motivated social movements that are collectively serving as a major force in struggles for various causes in Korea, including those for human rights, the environment, and gender equality. Lastly, this article reflects on the role of religion in light of minjung theology, arguing that religion can be, and should be, a force of reform and change in society, hence the increasing relevance of the concept of ‘ecclesiastical social responsibility’ (Kim 2018: 12) in contemporary settings.

Background: Due to the distinctive living environment, lifestyle, and diet, the Tibetan community in China has the lowest prevalence of T2DM and prediabetes among numerous ethnic groups, while Han community shows the highest statistic. In this study, we aim to conclude the clinical manifestations of both Tibetan and Han T2DM patients and their association with transcriptomic and epigenetic alterations. Methods: A cross-sectional study including 120 T2DM patients from Han and Tibetan ethnic groups were conducted between 2019 to 2021 at the Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The various clinical features and laboratory tests were recorded and analyzed between the two groups. The genome-wide methylation pattern and RNA expression were determined by Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing (RBBS) and Poly (A) RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) from leucocytes of peripheral blood samples in 6 Han and 6 Tibetan patients. GO analysis and KEGG analysis were conducted in differentially expressed genes and those with differentially methylated regions. Results: Compared to Han, Tibetan T2DM individuals intake more coarse grains, meat and yak butter, but less refined grains, vegetables and fruit. They also showed increased BMI, Hb, HbA1c, LDL, ALT, GGT and eGFR, and decreased level of BUN. Among the 12 patients in the exploratory cohort, we identified 5178 hypomethylated and 4787 hypermethylated regions involving 1613 genes in the Tibetan group. RNA-seq showed a total of 947 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between the two groups, with 523 up-regulated and 424 down-regulated in Tibetan patients. By integrating DNA methylation and RNA expression data, we identified 112 DEGs with differentially methylated regions (overlapping genes) and 14 DEGs with promoter-related DMRs. The functional enrichment analysis demonstrated that the overlapping genes were primarily involved in metabolic pathways, PI3K-Akt signaling pathway, MAPK signaling pathway, pathways in cancer and Rap1 signaling pathway. Conclusion: Our study demonstrates the clinical characteristics of T2DM differ subtly between various ethnic groups that may be related to epigenetic modifications, thus providing evidence and ideas for additional research on the genetic pattern of T2DM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Yong-Hang Li,1,&ast; Wei Huang,1,&ast; Man-Yu Xiao,2 Shi-Qing Huang,1 Hui Chen,1 Zai-Fang Li,1 Xue-Song Li,1 Yong Cheng1,2 1The Third People’s Hospital of Foshan, Foshan, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China; 2Center on Translational Neuroscience, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Minzu University of China, Beijing, People’s Republic of China&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Yong Cheng; Xue-Song Li, Email yongcheng@muc.edu.cn; fs83315006@163.comBackground: It has been suggested that the pharmacogenomic response to antipsychotics in schizophrenia patients partially contributed by drug metabolism enzyme polymorphism, including P450 2D6 (CYP2D6). However, CYP2D6 gene polymorphism across populations is largely unknown.Materials and Methods: Here, we investigated the differences of CYP2D6 gene polymorphism between Chinese Han and Tibetan schizophrenia patients. We analyzed five CYP2D6 gene related polymorphic locus in 103 patients with schizophrenia, including 60 Han ethnicity and 43 of Tibetan ethnicity, by nucleic acid MALDI-TOF.Results: Polymorphisms of rs1065852, rs1135840 and rs16947 were significantly different between Han and Tibetan patients. rs1065852 AA genotype had a low frequency of 9.3% in Tibetan patients in comparison with a frequency of 41.7% in Han patients, whereas rs16947 AA genotype had a low frequency of 3.3% in Han patients in comparison with a frequency of 34.9% in Tibetan patients. Additionally, the two patient groups showed distinct distribution of CYP2D6 haplotypes, with the highest frequency of &ast;10/&ast;10 and &ast;1/&ast;2 in Han and Tibetan patients, respectively. Furthermore, Han and Tibetan patients showed differential CYP2D6 metabolic activity.Discussion: Taken together, this exploratory study showed the differences of CYP2D6 gene and metabolic polymorphism between Han and Tibetan schizophrenia patients, and therefore may improve our understanding of the pharmacogenomic response to antipsychotics in schizophrenia patients across populations.Keywords: schizophrenia, CYP2D6, Han, Tibetan

• The molybdenum material was used as an electrode to enhance the efficiency of HAN-based gel propellant fuel ignition. • The combustion wave structure of HAN-based gel propellant was divided. • Combustion mechanism of electric-thermal coupling on HAN-based gel propellant was established through the self-built combustion diagnosis system and instrumental analysis. Hydroxylammonium nitrate (HAN) serves as a monopropellant fuel, renowned for its low toxicity and high-performance in space propulsion systems. HAN-based gel propellant may offer additional advantages, including long-term stability and excellent throttling capabilities. To better understand the ignition performance and combustion characteristics of this gel propellant, we prepared HAN-based gel propellant, and monitored its decomposition products using thermogravimetry (TG), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) and mass spectrometry (MS). Electrode materials of Mo, Cu, Ti and SUS 304 were fabricated to investigated their impact on ignition performance. It was found that the Mo electrode exhibited the shortest ignition delay time (t i) compared to Cu, Ti, and SUS 304. Meanwhile, the role of surface roughness of Mo electrode on the ignition delaytime (t i) and the ignition energy (Q i) were also studied. Our results revealed that, as the voltage increased from 100 V to 200 V, the fine-surfaced Mo electrode demonstrated a lower sensitivity to changes in ti compared to the rough-surfaced electrode. Additionally, the Q i of the rough-surfaced electrode decreased from 43.5 J to 16.7 J, while the Q i of the fine-surfaced electrode decreased from 52.5 J to 17.6 J. Combining a thermocouple, the combustion wave structure of the gel propellant was divided into pre-heating zone, condensed phase, electro chemical reaction zone, microexplosion-gases mixing zone and flame zone. Finally, the combustion model of HAN-based gel propellant was inferred to explain its combustion mechanism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses some “discrepancies” in the development of Nangnang society with a view to finding an alternative historical narrative for the territory, namely one that can explain some processes in Nangnang’s history from the point of view of the local people. In the absence of any records written by contemporaneous inhabitants of Nangnang, we try to examine some discrepancies in the course of the local culture’s development, aiming to glean some evidence that could be interpreted as resistance—a form of silent reaction to external rule. Though we are well aware of the limits of this kind of approach, mostly due to the scarcity of primary sources, this attempt is relevant in consideration of the sensitive nature of this chapter of East Asian history, which has often been constrained to narrow identities and ideological frames.

Jia Jie Lu, Munila Maimaiti, Huan Liu, Wei Dong Liu, Wen Jia Hui, Xiao Ling Huang, Feng Gao Department of Gastroenterology, People’s Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Feng GaoDepartment of Gastroenterology, People’s Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, No. 91 Tianchi Road, Urumqi, 830001, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of ChinaEmail xjgf0991@163.comBackground: Ulcerative colitis (UC) is one of the main subtypes of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The incidence of UC in the Xinjiang region is relatively high in China and the manifestations of UC in Uyghur and Han patients are usually differential. This study aimed to identify potential biomarkers of UC.Methods: All miRNA and mRNA were extracted from the tissue samples obtained from participants in Xinjiang. Differential expression analysis was performed on all mRNAs and miRNAs. The target genes of miRNAs were predicted via three databases. The clusterProfiler package was used for GO and KEGG pathway enrichment analysis.Results: Preliminarily, four miRNAs and 15 genes were associated with the differential manifestations of UC in Uyghur and Han patients. Through the co-expression network construction and further screening in more samples, two miRNAs (hsa-miR-141-5p and hsa-miR-378a-5p) and three genes (ARNTL2, CLDN1 and SLC6A14) were found to be more crucial. These 15 genes were enriched in tight junction, NF-κB, and several other pathways.Conclusion: Two miRNAs (hsa-miR-141-5p and hsa-miR-378a-5p) and three genes (ARNTL2, CLDN1, and SLC6A14) associated with the differential manifestations of UC in Uyghur and Han population were identified, which were potential biomarkers.Keywords: ulcerative colitis, miRNA, biomarkers, Uyghur, Han

In developing countries today, population growth and the penetration of higher standard of living appliances in homes has resulted in a rapidly increasing residential load. In South Africa, the recent rolling blackouts and electricity price increase only highlighted this reality, calling for sustainable measures to reduce overall consumption and peak load. The dawn of the smart grid concept, embedded systems, and ICTs have paved the way for novel Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) design. In this regard, the Internet of Things (IoT), an enabler for intelligent and efficient energy management systems, is the subject of increasing attention for optimizing HEMS design and mitigating its deployment cost constraints. In this work, we propose an IoT platform for residential energy management applications focusing on interoperability, low cost, technology availability, and scalability. We addressed the backend complexities of IoT Home Area Networks (HAN) using the Open Consortium Foundation (OCF) IoTivity-Lite middleware. To augment the quality, servicing, reduce the cost, and the development complexities, this work leverages open-source cloud technologies from Back4App as Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) to provide consumers and utilities with a data communication platform within an experimental study illustrating time and space agnostic “mind-changing” energy feedback, Demand Response Management (DRM) under a peak shaving algorithm yielded peak load reduction around 15% of the based load, and appliance operation control using a HEM App via an Android smartphone.

Hwabyeong is known as a Korean cultural-bound syndrome which is situated at the intersection between depression and anger syndrome. Translated as “anger illness” or “fire illness”, hwabyeong is a mental illness resulted from repressed feelings, which has a specific somatization in middle-aged Korean women: lump in throat or chest, feeling of suffocation, palpitations, heat sensation, burning feeling in the stomach, insomnia etc. While this syndrome is often stressed as a clinical study case, hwabyeong can also be found in Korean literature, proving the power it holds within the society. Two such cases from Korean contemporary literature are The Vegetarian, by Han Kang, and Kim Jiyeong, born 1982, by Cho Nam-joo. Despite the fact that no one mentions hwabyeong, the main characters show clear symptoms of the disorder. They also match the pattern of those who suffer from this disease. At first glance, someone might say they are gone mad, but looking more closely at their background, their symptoms and behavior, they are no different from many other Korean women. Yeong-hye and Kim Jiyeong are two women from South Korea who experience body rebellion because of society’s failure to let them express as individuals with personal needs, ambitions and feelings.

Leisure satisfaction is associated with overarching individual characteristics such as life satisfaction, perceived quality of life, subjective wellbeing, and happiness. However, what predicts leisure satisfaction is less well understood, especially in non-Western cultures. To address this lacuna, we compared Han and Uyghur residents of Xinjiang, China, in terms of leisure satisfaction, community satisfaction, perceived stress, and self-reported frequency of participation in leisure activities agreed upon as high in importance to a good lifestyle. We found that the groups are indistinguishable by these variables. After combining the two samples and including demographics in our analyses, we determined that community satisfaction, cultural consonance in activities agreed upon as high in importance to a good lifestyle, and leisure constraints best predict leisure satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este artigo delineia algumas aproximações entre os conceitos de “violência simbólica”, de Bourdieu, e a noção de Eros, desenvolvida por Han em diálogo, sobretudo, com Lévinas. Aparentemente vinculados a instâncias opostas da experiência humana, os dois conceitos permitem aproximações em termos de sua potência política, seja no reforço de regimes cotidianos de dominação, seja na fabulação e elaboração de formas de insurgências e resistências de sujeitos ligados pelo vínculo solidário de ação. A partir de pesquisa bibliográfica, propõe-se aqui uma leitura cruzada dos autores no sentido de destacar possibilidades de aproximação, mas também de contraste, entre os dois conceitos.

The development and change in the other-race effect (ORE) in different age groups have always been a focus of researchers. Previous studies have mainly focused on the influence of maturity of life (from infancy to early adulthood) on the ORE, while few researchers have explored the ORE in older people. Therefore, this study used behavioral and eye movement techniques to explore the influence of age on the ORE and the visual scanning pattern of Han subjects recognizing own- and other-ethnicity faces. All participants were asked to complete a study-recognition task for faces, and the behavioral results showed that the ORE of elderly Han subjects was significantly lower than that of young Han subjects. The results of eye movement showed that there were significant differences in the visual scanning pattern of young subjects in recognizing the faces of individuals of their own ethnicity and other ethnicities, which were mainly reflected in the differences in looking at the nose and mouth, while the differences were reduced in the elderly subjects. The elderly subjects used similar scanning patterns to recognize the own- and other-ethnicity faces. This indicates that as age increases, the ORE of older people in recognizing faces of those from different ethnic groups becomes weaker, and elderly subjects have more similar visual scanning patterns in recognizing faces of their own and other ethnicities.

Hwabyeong is known as a Korean culturally-bound syndrome situated at the intersection of depression and anger. Translated as "anger illness" or "fire illness", hwabyeong is a mental illness resulted from repressed feelings, which has a specific somatization in middle-aged Korean women: lump in throat or chest, feeling of suffocation, palpitations, heat sensation, burning feeling in the stomach, insomnia, etc. While this syndrome is more frequently discussed as a clinical study case, representations of hwabyeong can also be found in Korean literature, proving the prominence it holds within the society. Two such cases from Korean contemporary literature are featured in The Vegetarian, by Han Kang, and Kim Jiyeong, born 1982, by Cho Nam-joo. Despite the fact that no one mentions hwabyeong, the main characters show clear symptoms of this disorder. At first glance, one might say that the characters have gone mad, but looking more closely at their background, symptoms and behavior, they are no different from many other Korean women suffering from hwabyeong: Yeong-hye and Kim Jiyeong are two women who experience bodily rebellion because of society's failure to let them express as individuals with their personal needs, ambitions and feelings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]