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Beyond Supply and Demand: The Moral Economy of Price Formation in Slab City

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates the unique economic practices of Slab City, California, an off‐grid community that rejects mainstream US values. Despite operating within the broader US economic system, Slab City residents have developed alternative forms of exchange, using cigarettes and cannabis alongside US dollars.
Bailey C. Hauswurz
wiley   +1 more source

Genealogy in the development of ancient historiography: Genealogy and history in Herodotus

Revista de História, 2022
In this article, I suggest that genealogy was a rhetorical strategy to build authority in the ancient history writing. In this way, I divide my argument into four parts.
Camila Condilo
doaj  

The Role of Māori Values in Corporate Culture and CSR: A Comparative Study in Aotearoa‐New Zealand's Fishing Industry

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the interaction of organisational culture, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and Indigenous values in Aotearoa‐New Zealand's fishing industry, focusing on Māori‐owned and non–Māori‐owned companies. It reveals how Māori values shape company culture and how CSR aligns with them. Using Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory,
Davood Askarany, Jenny Lam
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“I’m trying to figure out who the hell I am”: Examining the psychosocial and mental health experience of individuals learning “Not Parent Expected” news from a direct-to-consumer DNA ancestry test

BMC Psychiatry
Background According to recent estimates, around 30 million people have taken Direct-to-Consumer DNA ancestry tests, typically marketed as a fun, harmless and exciting process of discovery.
Juliette Careau, Maarten H.D. Larmuseau, Rebekah Drumsta, Rob Whitley   +3 more
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Borgaren Olof Nenséns i Sundsvall barn i äktenskapet med Christina Gäfverholm

Släkthistoriska Studier
Som en led i ett pågående arbete med att identifiera föräldrarna till kopparslagaren Carl Olof Nensén i Trondheim, som enligt uppgifter i norska arkiv var född i Sundsvall omkring 1760, redovisas här en utredning av fiskaren och borgaren i Sundsvall ...
Daniel Eriksson, Harald Korneliussen
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The role of mutation rate variation and genetic diversity in the architecture of human disease [PDF]

, 2013
Background We have investigated the role that the mutation rate and the structure of genetic variation at a locus play in determining whether a gene is involved in disease.
A Hodgkinson, A Hodgkinson, A Kong, Adam Eyre-Walker, B Charlesworth, B Charlesworth, C Park, CJ Pink, CL Chen, FA Kondrashov, G McVicker, H Ellegren, H Huang, I Hellmann, I Hellmann, I. King Jordan, J Maynard Smith, JA Stamatoyannopoulos, JJ Michaelson, KH Wolfe, L Duret, MJ Lercher, MT Maurano, MW Nachman, NG Smith, R Blekhman, RS Hansen, S Tyekucheva, TI Gossmann, Ying Chen Eyre-Walker   +29 more
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Freedom of Scientific Inquiry and Democracy. A Systems‐Theoretical Approach

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines the relationship between democracy and one of its inherent features: freedom of scientific inquiry—a multi‐layered concept closely intertwined with the broader notion of academic freedom—both of which are increasingly under threat worldwide. The paper advocates for the use of Luhmann's theoretical framework to analyse this
Krešimir Žažar, Steffen Roth
wiley   +1 more source

Ur snåren kring Snärle i Bäckseda

Släkthistoriska Studier
Att det funnits ofrälse personer som kallat sig Trolle på det småländska höglandet är känt sedan länge. I arbetet med att försöka kartlägga dem ska i den följande studien fem bröder belysas vilka omtalas i Västra härads dombok 1734. Samtliga var avlidna,
Göran Sparrlöf
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Lineage: Visualizing Multivariate Clinical Data in Genealogy Graphs

bioRxiv, 2017
The majority of diseases that are a significant challenge for public and individual heath are caused by a combination of hereditary and environmental factors.
C. Nobre, Nils Gehlenborg, H. Coon, A. Lex   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Stable isotope analysis reveals individual variations in feeding habits among wild Japanese macaques

Ecological Research, EarlyView.
In this study, we conducted a dietary analysis using stable isotopes on the Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) group on Koshima Island, Japan. As a result, we clarified the variation in isotope ratios at the individual level, and indicated that this variation is affected by attributes such as sex or dominance‐subordinate relationships in this group ...
Kazuho Funakawa, Takafumi Suzumura, Keisuke Koba   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source