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Large-scale diversity estimation through surname origin inference [PDF]
, 2018 The study of surnames as both linguistic and geographical markers of the past has proven valuable in several research fields spanning from biology and genetics to demography and social mobility.
Barth F +12 more
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Regional surname affinity: a spatial network approach [PDF]
, 2019 OBJECTIVE We investigate surname affinities among areas of modern‐day China, by constructing a spatial network, and making community detection.
Chen, Jiawei +5 more
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Post-hérité:Un retour du patronyme en Turquie contemporaine ? [PDF]
, 1954 La réforme du nom de 1934 en Turquie, qui instaure l’obligation du nom de famille, est souvent lue comme l’imposition par les institutions à tous les citoyens d’une dénomination uniforme, dans une logique d’identification et d’encadrement de la ...
Massicard, Elise
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A review of name-based ethnicity classification methods and their potential in population studies [PDF]
, 2007 Several approaches have been proposed to classify populations into ethnic groups using people's names, as an alternative to ethnicity self-identification information when this is not available.
Mateos, P
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Roles and responsibilities in agile ICT for development [PDF]
, 2010 This paper examines the different roles in designing interactive software in a ICT for development context. Using experiences from a participatory action research project, in which we used agile methods to design and deploy an system to support ...
Dearden, Andy +2 more
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Forenames and Surnames in Spain in 2004 [PDF]
, 2008 This paper quantifies the corpus of forenames and surnames in Spain in 2004 using the telephone directory. It describes their frequency patterns, major measurable characteristics, and gives some geographical distributions, international comparisons, and ...
Mateos, P, Tucker, DK
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Surname studies with genetics [PDF]
, 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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The fourteenth-century poll tax returns and the study of English surname distribution [PDF]
, 2015 The modern-day distributions of English surnames have been considered in genealogical, historical, and philological research as possible indicators of their origins.
Parkin, D.H., Parkin, D.H.
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The Implications of Patrilineal Surnames [PDF]
, 2014 Current Western tradition dictates that a woman is to take her husband’s surname upon marriage and pass it along to her children. In order to explore the reasons behind today’s relatively unchanging adherence to this trend of patrilineal surnames ...
Smalara, Raymond
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'Descended from immigrants and revolutionists': how family immigration history shapes representation in Congress [PDF]
, 2019 Does recent immigrant lineage influence the legislative behavior of members of Congress on immigration policy? We examine the relationship between the immigrant background of legislators (i.e., their generational distance from immigration) and ...
Feigenbaum, James +2 more
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