Social and Psychological Underpinning of the Bar-Tal and Antebi's Concept of General Siege Mentality within Different Ethnic Groups

The aim of this research was to find out 1 whether social alienation right-wing authoritarianism RWA and primary psychopathy are significant predictors of Daniel Bar-Tal Dikla Antebi s concept of general siege mentality GSM and 2 whether the components of the path model are invariant across different ethnic groups The survey was carried out on the adult population in the region of eastern Croatia where live Croats and Serbian ethnic minority and in the northern region of Serbia where live the members of Croatian ethnic minority The Province of Vojvodina The convenience and purposive sample consisted of 1431 full aged participants Multiple-group analysis of structural invariance was used to test whether differences observed in the structural parameters across different ethnic groups are statistically significant All path estimates were significant in the expected direction and indicated much similarity in structural relationships across different ethnic groups It might be concluded that social alienation right-wing authoritarianism and primary psychopathy had expressed the causal effects on emerging general siege mentality across different ethnic groups The structural paths for different ethnic groups can be considered identical if Chi-square does not reveal a statistically significant difference between unconstrained and constrained models It was found out that difference in path estimates for different ethnic groups had not been significant which means that constrained multiple group model was accepted Results showed that ethnic belongings did not significantly moderate relations between variables About 36 of the variance of general siege mentality was explained by social alienation right-wing authoritarianism and primary psychopathy for the full sample in the accepted constrained model There is an evidence that a more complex and severe political-psychological disorder is underpinning the Bar-Tal Antebi s concept of general sieg

Using semiparametric‐mixed model and functional linear model to detect vulnerable prenatal window to carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on fetal growth

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Influences the Aeromath in the Way of Ending Births

Air pollution represents a significant health problem in the Czech Republic (CR). Originally, the most polluted region was Northern Bohemia, later Northern Moravia. These specific conditions were used to study the impact of air pollution to children in those two regions. In Northern Bohemia, the impact of the increased concentrations of carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (c-PAHs) to fetal growth was observed, expressed as intrauterine growth retardation and impact of air pollution to respiratory morbidity and neurodevelopment in children. In Northern Moravia was studied the effect of air pollution to the morbidity of preschool children; to asthma bronchiale—gene expression, children susceptibility to benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P); to genetic damage in newborns; concentrations of PAHs in the urine of mothers and newborns, content of PAHs in human breast milk and diet

EnviRisk. Report providing an economic assessment of protocols looking at available options.

The aim of this report is to provide the relevant information for assessing the available options for exposure protocols in the view of providing a cost-benefit recommendation for exposure and health impact assessment. It includes: (i) define the exposure scenarios, methods and protocols for both PAHs and PCBs; (ii) summarize the data needs and describe the available data; (iii) analyze the cost for data and information gathering relevant for methods and protocols in several countries

Biomarkers of exposure and effect—interpretation in human risk assessment

The effect of exposure to carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons adsorbed onto respirable air particles (PM2.5, diameter < 2.5 μm) on DNA adducts and chromosomal aberrations was repeatedly studied in Prague, Czech Republic, in groups of policemen working in the downtown area and in bus drivers. Personal exposure was evaluated using personal samplers during working shifts. DNA adducts were analyzed in lymphocytes by the 32P-postlabeling assay and chromosomal aberrations were analyzed by conventional cytogenetic analysis and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH). The impact of environmental pollution on DNA adducts and chromosomal aberrations was studied in a total of 950 subjects. Our results suggest that the environmental exposure of nonsmokers to concentrations higher than 1 ng benzo[a]pyrene/m3 represents a risk of DNA damage, as indicated by an increase in DNA adducts and the genomic frequency of translocations determined by FISH