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Elite persistence in family: The role of adoption in prewar Japan

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Why do elite families often maintain their social and economic status across generations? This paper examines the role of adoption in sustaining elite persistence in prewar Japan. Under the Japanese inheritance system, families without a biological son could adopt an heir to continue the family lineage and transfer assets and social status ...
Hiroshi Kumanomido, Yutaro Takayasu
wiley   +1 more source

Consanguinity in the Lebanese population: knowledge, attitudes and practices. [PDF]

J Community Genet
Chouery E, Ibrahim JN, Deeb ME, Sobh A, Ghanem M, Sobh J, Choueiry FE, Rashwan R, Swaidan D, Abdelrazzak A, Massad C, Fouani AE, Mehawej C, Megarbane A.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the Current Public Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceptions Regarding Consanguineous Marriages in the United Arab Emirates. [PDF]

Cureus
Alali SN, Hasan JH, Musleh B, Salama SA, Alzaabi H, Alkhatib A, Hussein A, Talaat IM.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Organisational dehumanisation: Authority as remedy

European Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract According to orthodoxy, the human relations movement was a watershed in rehumanising scientifically managed workplaces. In the wake of such purported reform, pundits (theorists and practitioners alike) have typically taken for granted that 21st century approaches to workplace superintendence, birthed in the wake of the Hawthorne Studies and ...
Jean‐Etienne Joullié, Anthony M. Gould, Jeffrey Muldoon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Honouring the Past, Embracing the Future

The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The United Church of Canada, founded in 1925, represents an ambitious experiment in church union that blends Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist traditions. Over the past century, the church has played a pivotal role in shaping Canadian society by advocating for social justice, Indigenous reconciliation, interreligious dialogue ...
Hyuk Cho
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of biotinidase activity changes over time in biotinidase deficient patients. [PDF]

Front Pediatr
Gülbahçe A, Muderrisoglu A, Güneş H, Erdoğan M, Dündar M, Kardaş F.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Leadership and Accountability in Faith‐Based Institutions: Evidence From UK Mosques

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates accountability in religious institutions on the basis of evidence obtained from interviews with relevant parties in UK mosques. We mobilize prior theoretical contention regarding servant leadership and constraints on personal accountability to expose perceptions of seriously deficient discharge outcomes.
Umair Riaz, Anwar Halari, Bruce Burton, Theresa Dunne   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developmental Delay and Macrocephaly Unraveling a Leukodystrophy: A Case Report. [PDF]

Cureus
Potru M, Pandey A, Rawat J, Shekhar P, Khandelwal K.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Perceptions of Parenting Beliefs and Practices in Fathers of Adolescents

Family Relations, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective We examined how fathers' identity beliefs relate to their parenting behaviors during their children's adolescence. Background Although identity theory has been used to understand parental roles, fathers' identity beliefs and parenting behaviors during adolescence remain understudied.
Marcus Gottlieb, Jessica P. Lougheed
wiley   +1 more source