Personality traits influence food cravings in pregnant women.

Food craving is a common phenomenon during pregnancy. This behaviour may be influenced by personality traits that have been known to be linked with obesity and addiction affecting pregnancy outcomes. We identified the prevalence of food cravings and evaluated its relationship with personality traits in pregnant women.

The role of the 30% threshold for Islamic parties: A fast-growing middle class and religion-based political preferences in Indonesia.

Recently, Indonesia's middle-class Muslims have come under suspicion for strengthening the religious foundation of their political preferences. However, while this suspicion has been triggered by their increasingly confident expressions of Islamic identity in political, social and economic spheres, these public expressions do not consistently translate into electoral outcomes. Despite the significant growth of the middle class, the proportion of votes cast for Islamic parties, encompassing both pro-s or Islamist and Islam-inclusive parties, has declined from 37% in 1999 to 30% in 2019.

Combined clinical and ultrasound criteria could accurately predict the Y chromosome in primary amenorrhea patient.

This study aimed to assess the combined clinical and ultrasound criteria as a diagnostic tool for screening the Y chromosome related to primary amenorrhea. This cross-sectional study involving 59 subjects was taken from medical records at the Reproductive Immunoendocrinology Polyclinic of Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia. The medical records of subjects were then cross-checked with karyotyping analysis results.