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Odvrácená tvář otce egyptské archeologie William Matthew Flinders Petrie a eugenická věda // The Dark Side of the Father of Egyptian Archaeology William Matthew Flinders Petrie and Eugenic Science [PDF]

Pražské Egyptologické Studie, 2016
The text aims to bring attention of the Czech readers to Petrie's contributions to the eugenics movement in Great Britain. It describes his close association with Francis Galton and his resulting pronounced views on eugenics and shows how Petrie's ...
Kamila Tomášková
doaj  

Discussions on the “Physical Degeneration of the Proletariat” and the Soviet Eugenics Project of the 1920s

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2018
This article considers the background and features of the formation of the Soviet model of mass sports and physical culture development in connection with the theory and practice of Soviet eugenicists of the 1920s.
Ilya Victorovich Sidorchuk
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Keeping the Backdoor to Eugenics Ajar?: Disability and the Future of Prenatal Screening.

AMA journal of ethics, 2016
Noninvasive prenatal testing arguably constitutes a form of eugenics in a social context in which certain reproductive outcomes are not valued.
G. Thomas, B. Rothman
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Signature of Attention: Historical Ambiguities and Elisions in Contemporary Psychological Framings of Attending

Educational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract In contemporary contexts of digitalization, proliferating media, and generative AI, various “life hacks” are regularly recommended to disconnect and resist distraction, ranging from meditation to getting back to nature to unplugging. This paper traces contemporary concerns over “the attention crisis” into a longer signature — the frequently ...
Antti Saari, Bernadette M. Baker
wiley   +1 more source

Moufang symmetry VIII. Reconstruction of Moufang loops [PDF]

arXiv, 2008
Reconstruction theorem for the Moufang loops is proved.
arxiv  

Eugenics and euthanasia – then and now

Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2009
A main objective of this article is to give a presentation of the widespread acceptance of eugenics in the twentieth century and to show how the German euthanasia programmes were embedded in eugenic ideology. A second objective is to challenge the notion
Lars Grue
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Lowering and raising operators for the free Meixner class of orthogonal polynomials [PDF]

arXiv, 2008
We compare some properties of the lowering and raising operators for the classical and free classes of Meixner polynomials on the real line.
arxiv  

Saturation 2005 (mini-review) [PDF]

, 2005
This talk was given at DIS'05 (Madison, April 27-May 2, 2005). It is a brief review of ups and downs of high density QCD during the past year.
arxiv   +1 more source

Between Germanic and Latin eugenics: Portugal, 1930-1960

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos
This article assesses critically the participation of Portuguese eugenicists in “Latin eugenics” and traces the continuities and discontinuities with respect to this model.
Richard Mark Cleminson
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Motherhood amidst reprimands and advice: Parenting and class in Rio de Janeiro

Ethos, EarlyView.
Abstract The article explores how the moralization of women mothers in contemporary Brazil reinforces structural inequalities. The analysis focuses on two forms of communication: reprimands and advice directed from experts toward mothers or circulated between mothers of young children in two different social contexts in the city of Rio de Janeiro ...
Laura Lowenkron, Camila Fernandes
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