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Ancient Sumer: special law tradition

RUDN Journal of Law, 2013
This article is devoted to the analysis of specific political and law culture and the clay law of ancient Sumer, its concept of «sacred kingdom» and «good governance».
E N Trikoz
doaj  

More Productive Bodies Faster! Human Capital and Anti‐Intellectualism in Danish University Reform

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the current Danish reform of master's programmes as a case of contested marketization in higher education. While the reform aims to produce “labour‐market‐relevant” graduates by shortening degrees, introducing corporate programmes, and reducing enrolment, it reveals a fundamental tension between two competing economic ...
Johan Gøtzsche‐Astrup, Kaspar Villadsen   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial Note: Immuno-PCR - A New Tool for Paleomicrobiology: The Plague Paradigm. [PDF]

PLoS One
PLOS One Editors.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

Refining filtering criteria of Kraken family of tools for accurate taxonomic profiling of ancient metagenomic data. [PDF]

Front Microbiol
Oskolkov N.
europepmc   +1 more source

Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
wiley   +1 more source

From ancient healing to modern litigation: a historical journey through medical negligence and tort law. [PDF]

J Med Ethics Hist Med
Mashayekh M, Abbasi Sarmadi M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Evaluation of bone preparation approaches using length‐based analysis and targeted sequencing for forensic human identification of historic skeletal remains

Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Advances in DNA technology have significantly enhanced the forensic community's ability to develop genetic profiles from unidentified human skeletal remains. However, sampling requires mechanical grinding of hard tissues before DNA isolation. This processing can compromise genetic profiles, particularly in aged bones.
Ciara Rhodes, Jacqueline Tyler Thomas, Kimberly Sturk‐Andreaggi, Tal Simmons, Sarah Seashols‐Williams   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of medieval burials from Ibiza reveals genetic and pathogenic diversity during the Islamic period. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Rodríguez-Varela R, Pochon Z, Mas-Sandoval A, Yaka R, Fortes-Lima CA, García Rubio A, Márquez-Grant N, Marí J, Graziani G, Ferrer Abárzuza A, Vicente M, Lorca-Francisco L, Linderholm A, Lagerholm VK, Arauna LR, Pérez-Ramallo P, Krzewińska M, Schlebusch CM, Götherström A.   +18 more
europepmc   +1 more source