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Genealogy of the Arab tribes living in Syria during the Caliphate of Imam Ali (AS)Typology of the Arab Tribes Living in the Levant during the Caliphate of Imam Ali (AS) Typology of the Arab Tribes Living in the Levant During the Caliphate of Imam Ali (A.S.). [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش های تاریخی
Muawiya, who proclaimed himself the avenger of Uthman, established the Levant (Bilad al-Sham) as the base for his political agenda. This allowed the Levant to emerge as the stronghold of opposition against the caliphate of Imam Ali (AS), paving the way ...
Akram sadat Hoseini, Yahya Mirhoseini
doaj   +1 more source

Research Trends & Emerging Technologies for Genealogists [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This study examines current research methods utilized by genealogists, and seeks to discover the impact of emerging tools and technologies on their information seeking needs and behaviors.
Lucy, Catherine
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Making and breaking power laws in evolutionary algorithm population dynamics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Deepening our understanding of the characteristics and behaviors of population-based search algorithms remains an important ongoing challenge in Evolutionary Computation.
Pham, Dr Q. Tuan   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Surname studies with genetics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Genetic studies of surnames are briefly reviewed. In particular, such DNA studies can sometimes provide clues to a surname's meaning. A few surnames are being found to include unusually large single families, which are far more populous than computer ...
Plant, Dr John S
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Rüdin's Unpublished Family Study From the Early 1920s: “On the Inheritance of Manic‐Depressive Insanity”

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ernst Rüdin, an important and controversial figure in the history of psychiatric genetics, published only one major empirical study on siblings of dementia praecox (DP) probands in 1916. He conducted a parallel study of siblings of probands with manic‐depressive insanity (MDI), but the resulting monograph, written in the early 1920s, was left ...
Kenneth S. Kendler, Astrid Klee
wiley   +1 more source

‘The Other Parent’: A Critical Policy Analysis of Fatherhood Discourses in the Australian Government's Paid Parental Leave Scheme

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Australian paid parental leave (PPL) government scheme aims to support working parents through financial assistance and the promotion of gender equality in caregiving responsibilities. However, the scheme's implementation has been critiqued for its gendered design, which marginalises fathers and reinforces traditional gender roles.
Lily Lewington   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bantu lexical reconstruction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Lexical reconstruction has been an important enterprise in Bantu historical linguistics since the earliest days of the discipline. In this chapter a historical overview is provided of the principal scholarly contributions to that field of study.
Bastin, Yvonne, Bostoen, Koen
core   +2 more sources

Controlling the Field: Memory, Labor, and Ethics in Oral Histories of Brazilian Human Genetics

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
This article examines how oral histories of twentieth‐century human genetics in Brazil reveal the politics of memory of fieldwork. Through a comparative analysis of interviews with prominent geneticist Francisco M. Salzano and technician Girley V. Simões, who worked with him for most of his career, this study explores the narrative strategies each ...
Rosanna Dent   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

For King, not Tsar: Identifying Ukrainians in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1918 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Canadian-born men, followed by those born in the British Isles, made up the bulk of the 620,000 men who enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) during the First World War. Many Americans, perhaps 20,000 to 30,000 or more, enlisted in Canada or
Broznitsky, Peter
core   +1 more source

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