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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

The mortality gradient in town and country: Social class and childhood mortality in Sweden at the turn of the twentieth century

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines social‐class and urban–rural differentials in childhood mortality in Sweden from 1880 to 1910, a period of steady mortality decline, ongoing industrialization, and urbanization. Urbanization brought improvements in water quality and sanitation but also increased risks from overcrowding, pollution, and infectious diseases ...
Marcos Castillo, Martin Dribe
wiley   +1 more source

MalKinID: A classification model for identifying malaria parasite genealogical relationships using identity-by-descent. [PDF]

Genetics
Wong W, Wang L, Schaffner SF, Li X, Cheeseman I, Anderson TJC, Vaughan A, Ferdig M, Volkman SK, Hartl DL, Wirth DF.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Tracings

, 1988
Newsletter of the the Anderson County Genealogical Society containing genealogical information such as generation charts, family histories, and lists of records (births, deaths, church records, etc.).
Gregory, Mary, Wolf, Kay, Brown, Marie, Brown, Mary, Woolverton, Bonnie, Anderson County Genealogical Society   +5 more
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Love and the Basis of Dignity

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract It is often said that dignity is the ground of human rights. But what grounds dignity? According to proponents of the metaphysical view, dignity is grounded in our rational capacities, our sense of justice, or a disjunctive list of valuable capacities.
Jordan David Thomas Walters
wiley   +1 more source

"The clan carries us": kinship, honor, and the collective enactment of family resilience among Yi households living with HIV in rural Southwest China. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Zhang X, Shang Q, Chen Q, Zhong W, Tang J, Liu M, Tang L, Tan D, Cheng J, Mao X, Ma L, Yu Z, Chen Y.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

List of maps, genealogies and tables [PDF]

, 2015
openaire   +1 more source

Beyond Immediate Givenness: Husserl's Content‐Apprehension Schema in Light of Merleau‐Ponty's Critique of Sensation

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Merleau‐Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception (2012 [1945]) opens with a detailed critique of traditional philosophical accounts of sensation, generally understood as having Husserl's “content‐apprehension schema” among its targets. The schema sees perception as resulting from the interpretation (“apprehension” or “apperception”) of “raw ...
Yamina Venuta
wiley   +1 more source

Neighbors and relatives: How do speech embeddings reflect linguistic connections across the world? [PDF]

PLoS One
Törö T, Suni A, Šimko J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Johnson County Genealogical Society Newsletter

, 1991
The quarterly newsletter of Johnson County Genealogical Society contains information related to the activities of the society and its members as well as genealogical notes and history for the Johnson County, Texas and surrounding ...
Johnson County Genealogical Society (Tex.)
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