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The Survival of the Royals

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the effect of royal status—a historically rooted legal privilege enjoyed by hereditary monarchs and their families—on human longevity, a proxy of individuals' health capital. We disentangle the effect of royal status that encompassed serving as heads of state from that of other royal family members and compare it to their contemporary
Alberto Batinti, Joan Costa‐Font, Vasuprada Shandar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Constipation as an Atypical Presentation of Hyperparathyroidism: A Case Report. [PDF]

Am J Case Rep
Xefteris I, Periferakis A, Goran L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Ancestral Irrigation and Women's Political Empowerment

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the adoption of irrigation agriculture during the preindustrial period is a predictor of contemporary cross‐country variation in women's political empowerment. Countries whose populations historically relied on irrigation agriculture as their primary subsistence mode tend to ...
Roberto Ezcurra
wiley   +1 more source

The phenotypic state of biallelic <i>SERPINA1 Q0</i> variants in α₁-antitrypsin deficiency. [PDF]

ERJ Open Res
Papiris SA, Veith M, Ferrarotti I, Balduyck ML, Filosa A, Papaioannou AI, Lombard C, Ottaviani S, Rovina N, Kolilekas L, Zerimech F, Odou MF, Dechomet M, Prountzos S, Kontopoulou C, Kallieri M, Cuvelier A, le Rouzic O, Apollonatou V, Antonogiannaki EM, Osaba L, Entrena E, Traclet J, Weisenburger G, Cottin V, Vogelmeier C, Greulich T, Monti MC, Mornex JF, Manali ED.   +29 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
wiley   +1 more source

Inference of human pigmentation from ancient DNA by genotype likelihoods. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Perretti S, Santos P, Vizzari MT, Tassani E, Benazzo A, Ghirotto S, Barbujani G.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

“CONSCIENCE AND THE ENDS OF HUMANITY: CHRISTIAN HUMANISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE”

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The astonishing speed of the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has sparked reflections by theologians and philosophers on what distinctiveness, if any, human beings possess as individuals and as a species. This article addresses this question with respect to an ancient idea in Christian thought reaching back to St.
William Schweiker
wiley   +1 more source

Between Air and Artery: A History of Cardiopulmonary Bypass and the Rise of Modern Cardiac Surgery. [PDF]

J Cardiovasc Dev Dis
Leivaditis V, Maniatopoulos A, Mulita F, Katsakiori P, Baikoussis NG, Mitsos S, Liolis E, Garantzioti V, Tasios K, Leventis P, Kornaros N, Antzoulas A, Litsas D, Tchabashvili L, Nikolakopoulos K, Dahm M.   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source