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Geodesic flows and contact toric manifolds [PDF]
arXiv, 2002 These are notes for a course on contact manifolds and torus actions delivered at the summer school on Symplectic Geometry of Integrable Hamiltonian Systems at Centre de Recerca Matem\`atica in Barcelona in July 2001. To be published by Birkhauser.
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Enhancing rigor and justice in genetic counseling research with reflexivity and positionality
Journal of Genetic Counseling, Volume 34, Issue 3, June 2025.Abstract In the rapidly evolving landscape of genetic counseling research, acknowledging the dynamic interplay between the researchers and the research is critical. Positionality, which encompasses how researchers' social, cultural, and professional identities intersect with their work, along with reflexive practices that promote self‐awareness, emerge
Kimberly Zayhowski +2 more
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Cahiers d’histoireThis article examines the issues surrounding the First International Eugenics Congress, held in London in July 1912. After outlining the origins of eugenics, it examines the way in which this gathering can be described, testing the concepts of 'epistemic
Marius Bruneau
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Our other Others: on perpetration, morality, and ethnographic unease
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 454-473, June 2025.Abstract This article critically assesses the impact of political and moral positions within contemporary anthropology. Re‐examining ideas of advocacy and the ethical within the discipline, it argues for an alternative political anthropology that focuses on perpetration rather than victimhood, offenders rather than the offended.
Trine Mygind Korsby, Henrik Vigh
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Animal Genetics, Volume 56, Issue 3, June 2025.Abstract One hundred years ago, the first book with the phrase “Animal Genetics” in its title was published. It was written by F.A.E. Crew, then Lecturer in Genetics and foundation Director of the Department of Research in Animal Breeding at the University of Edinburgh. The 352 pages of text provide a most interesting summary of the knowledge of animal
Frank W. Nicholas
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Domestic Misfits, Social Physics and the Problem of International Statistical Standardization
Sociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 111-122, June 2025.ABSTRACT During the 19th century, driven by the ideas of Adolphe Quetelet, population statistics were actively being developed and debated by many nascent nation‐states. The International Statistical Institute (ISI) was one of the premier statistical organizations of the 19th and 20th centuries that possessed a very international and prestigious ...
Kathryn Barber
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La promoción de la eugenesia en México a inicios del siglo XX
EleutheraAt the beginning of the twentieth century, the eugenics movement become popular in various parts of the world. Mexico, like many other Latin American countries, considered it appropriate to analyze the eugenic knowledge of the time and then apply it to ...
Víctor Octavio Hernández Ávila
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