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Redoing Family After Estrangement
Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study theorizes estrangement as a catalyst for redoing family through a dynamic process of rebuilding kinship's meaning, structure, and content. Background Research on family estrangement has overwhelmingly focused on its emotional, social, and financial consequences, overlooking how estrangement holistically reshapes the ...
Rin Reczek
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Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2017 Consanguineous marriage, which is common in many regions in the world, has absorbed much attention as a causative factor in raising the incidence of genetic diseases.
Narges Nouri +6 more
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Recent studies acknowledge that the contribution of female directors at the board may not be uniform but instead varies depending on their individual characteristics and board context. In this study we focus on a pivotal yet insufficiently explored facet of female directors – their affiliation with the business owning family – and assess its ...
Yuliya Ponomareva +3 more
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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
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An immunocompetent patient with a nonsense mutation in NHEJ1 gene
BMC Medical Genetics, 2019 Background DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are among the most deleterious types of DNA damage. DSBs are repaired by homologous recombination or non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ).
Hossein Esmaeilzadeh +7 more
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That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
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Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.ABSTRACT UK breastfeeding rates are low, with health inequalities in initiation and continuation. Breastfeeding peer support interventions are recommended in UK and global policy. The Assets‐based feeding help Before and After birth (ABA‐feed) trial tested the effectiveness of proactive, woman‐centred support for infant feeding delivered by trained ...
Joanne Clarke +13 more
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The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
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Journal of University College of Medicine and DentistryOBJECTIVE: Thalassemia is a genetic condition caused by the mutation or damaging hemoglobin synthesis on the alpha or beta globin chain. The most significant risk factor for rise in the thalassemic rate is consanguinity.The current study was ...
Farhat Ijaz
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Gelar: Jurnal Seni Budaya, 2016 Gathutkaca Gandrung dance is a single dance that symbolizes character of Gathutkaca who falling in love. Gathutkaca has a jolt caused inner conflict. His behavior presented in this dance full of inner conflict for loved his cousin or took his beloved ...
Suharji Suharji
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