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The New Ice Age: Addressing the Deficiencies in Arkansas\u27s Posthumously Conceived Children Statute [PDF]
, 2020 The ability to conceive a child using the preserved genetic material, or gametes, of a deceased person presents a number of legal issues for inheritance, estate planning, Social Security, and parental rights.
Grecu, Patrick
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Who were the urban gentry? Social elites in an English provincial town, c.1680-1760 [PDF]
, 2011 This paper explores the identity and social worlds of the ‘urban gentry’ of Chester as they developed from the late seventeenth to the mid eighteenth century.
Stobart, Jon
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Basic Arkansas Intestate Succession, Rights of Surviving Spouses, and Related Curative Techniques for Lawyers and Landmen [PDF]
, 2009 Mineral interests may lay dormant for decades before becoming productive. In the interim, however, the owners of these interests do not lay dormant. They live long lives, marry, have children, and eventually, they die.
Robinette, J. Mark, Jr.
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Worth, age, and social status in early modern England [PDF]
, 2010 This article introduces a new source for assessing the distribution of wealth in early modern England derived from witness depositions taken by the church courts.
Shepard, A., Spicksley, J.
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Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background With a rising prison population, a substantial portion of whom are identified as substance misusers, it is important to understand the availability of treatment pathways, their successes and areas for improvement. Given the likely importance of national factors in criminal justice and substance use service provision, we chose to ...
Kim Barnett +9 more
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Future in Educational Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This conceptual essay, grounded in a close reading of Plato's Theaetetus, argues that before educators can effectively operationalise critical thinking as the rigorous evaluation ('stress‐testing') of competing knowledge claims, university students must first understand foundational epistemological principles rooted in Plato's tripartite ...
Gerry Dunne
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Lewis M. Simes as Teacher [PDF]
, 1975 A Tribute to Lewis M ...
Sparks, Bertel M.
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Policy Capacity Under Decentralization: Kindergarten Education Reforms in the Philippines
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper examines the relationship between policy capacity and policy effectiveness in decentralized governance setups. It challenges the conventional view that policy functions should only be decentralized when requisite capacities already exist at lower levels of government. Instead, the paper proposes that capacity can follow function ‐ as
Kidjie Ian Saguin, M. Ramesh
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Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is an evidenced scarcity of micro‐level research integrating perspectives on structure and agency to theorize how corruption manifests at an individual, organizational, and institutional level phenomenon. We address this gap by exploring qualitatively whether there is evidence of an overriding role of the institutional context over the ...
Konstantinos Tsanis, Vasilios Stouraitis
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Property Law: The Estates of Missing Persons [PDF]
, 1966 This comment compiles and critically analyzes the various statutory provisions enacted for the preservation and distribution of the property of missing and unaccounted-for persons.
Johansson, Pernilla
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