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Defining and measuring homicide rates for birth cohorts: Methodological and theoretical challenges and solutions

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Social scientists have long been interested in understanding how age, period, and cohort effects shape long‐term homicide trends. Yet fundamental measurement challenges remain pervasive in estimating age‐specific homicide rates for birth cohorts.
Jason Robey, Matt Vogel
wiley   +1 more source

The significance of SNODENT [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
SNODENT is a dental diagnostic vocabulary incompletely integrated in SNOMED-CT. Nevertheless, SNODENT could become the de facto standard for dental diagnostic coding.
Ceusters, Werner   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Cultural contacts and ethnic origins in Viking Age Wales and northern Britain: the case of Albanus, Britain's first inhabitant and Scottish ancestor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Albanus, an eponymous ancestor for the kingdom of Alba, provides an example of the extent to which the creation of an ethnic identity was accompanied by new ideas about origins, which replaced previous accounts.
Evans, Nicholas J.
core   +1 more source

CSR Performance in Family Firms: The Pivotal Role of the External Auditor and the Moderating Impact of Family Influence and Eponymy

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The debate surrounding the corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance of family firms remains inconclusive. In order to unravel the dynamics that lead to better CSR performance of family firms, accounting for their heterogeneity is essential.
Bennet Schierstedt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

What’s in a name? Problems, facts and controversies regarding neurological eponyms

open access: yesArquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2016
The use of eponyms in neurology remains controversial, and important questions have been raised about their appropriateness. Different approaches have been taken, with some eponyms being excluded, others replaced, and new ones being created.
Hélio A. G. Teive   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Terminologia Anatomica; Considered from the Perspective of Next-Generation Knowledge Sources [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This report examines the semantic structure of Terminologia Anatomica, taking one randomly selected page as an example. The focus of analysis is the meaning imparted to an anatomical term by virtue of its location within the structured list. Terminologia’
Rosse, Cornelius
core   +1 more source

Dickensian Eponyms

open access: yesNames, 2013
Charles Dickens created almost a thousand fictional characters, many of whom have become synonyms for distinctive types of people or their pecu- liar traits.
Ernest L Abel
doaj   +1 more source

Abdominal Physical Signs and Medical Eponyms: Movements and Compression

open access: yesClinical Medicine Research, 2018
Background Prior to the advent of modern imaging techniques, maneuvers were performed as part of the physical examination to further assess pathological findings or an acute abdomen and to further improve clinicians’ diagnostic acumen to identify the ...
Vaibhav Rastogi   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Hegel and Utopia

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT G.W.F. Hegel is usually held to be anti‐utopian in his political philosophy. I aim to challenge that standard reading, outlining and defending a more positive account of his relation to utopianism. The rational state described in Hegel's Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts (1820) is shown to fit an uncontroversial account of utopia without ...
David Leopold
wiley   +1 more source

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