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Next of Kin

Proceedings of the 4th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2010
Family members may in a significant manner contribute to the care of the elderly. The paper discusses, on the basis of a field study, the involvement of family members in the care of elderly living independently in their own homes. It argues that it is prudent to include family members when designing pervasive healthcare for the home of the elderly ...
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Non-kin as Kin

1979
The pervasive influence of the family in Chinese society did not stop at the boundaries of physical kinship. The Chinese applied kinship terms to people who were unrelated to them, and they also had a penchant for organizing non-kin institutions along kinship lines. Perhaps we could say quite simply that, since it was for the Chinese a dominant element
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Kin

2022
The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and obligation between human and nonhuman lives. Through a close engagement over many decades with the Aboriginal communities of Yarralin and Lingara in northern ...
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Kin adopting kin: In the best interest of the children?

Children and Youth Services Review, 2010
Abstract Foster children in the public child welfare system are increasingly likely to find lasting homes through kinship adoption by their relatives. The aim of the present study is to examine how the kinship adoptive experience differs from other adoptive types.
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Refactoring Tools and Their Kin

2017
Refactoring is the process of changing a program in such a way that its design improves with respect to some specific goal, while its observable behaviour remains the same. Trivially, the latter includes the preservation of the program’s well-formedness, since arguably, a malformed program has no behaviour to be preserved.
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