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Families in venture capital

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This exploratory paper introduces a new type of family business by studying the investment strategies of family‐managed venture capital funds (“Family VCs”) across a multi‐country setting. It shows that Family VCs are more likely to invest in (syndicate with) geographically proximate startups (investors), indicating a ...
Valerio Pelucco
wiley   +1 more source

Flipping the (Surname) Script: Men\u27s Nontraditional Surname Choice at Marriage

open access: yes, 2018
Using unique, nationally representative data that asks individuals about their surname choice in marriage, we explore heterosexual men\u27s nontraditional surname choice.
Christensen, MacKenzie A.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

ChatGPT in public policy teaching and assessment: An examination of opportunities and challenges

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents the findings of an innovative assessment task that required students to use ChatGPT for drafting a policy brief to an Australian Government minister. The study explores how future public policy students perceive ChatGPT's role in both public policy and teaching and assessment.
Daniel Casey
wiley   +1 more source

Schimbarea numelui pe cale administrativă în România

open access: yesRevista Transilvană de Ştiinţe Administrative, 2013
By changing the surname or the first name we understand the operation for replacing them or only one of them, at the request of the interested party, with a different surname or first name by administrative decision.
Andrada TRUŞCĂ
doaj  

Ripples on the surface. Surnames and genes in Sicily and Southern Italy

open access: yesAnnals of Human Biology, 2018
Background: Southern Italy and Sicily played a key role in the peopling history of the Mediterranean. While genetic research showed the remarkable homogeneity of these regions, surname-based studies instead suggested low population mobility, hence ...
Alessio Boattini   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mr "Py" is Probably a Good Mathematician: An Experimental Study of the Subjective Attractiveness of Family Names

open access: yesNames, 2011
Research suggests that surnames are associated with connotations such as ethnicity, liking, familiarity … In this experiment we tested the effect of a symbolic connation associated with a surname. Several ads offering private math lessons for pupils were
Nicolas Guéguen, Alexandre Pascual
doaj   +1 more source

‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
wiley   +1 more source

Surname dynamics in avian nomenclature

open access: yes, 2017
This article begins by explaining the roles surnames play in formal scientific nomenclature, where surnames may appear in both the vernacular names (Wahlberg’s Eagle) and the scientific names (Aquila walbergi) of birds, as well as in the descriptions of ...
Koopman, Adrian
core   +1 more source

A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

When Everything Changes: Using Critical Family History to Deconstruct Keesing and Fitzpatrick Surnames

open access: yesGenealogy, 2020
DNA analysis has enabled a much deeper interrogation of our surnames, Keesing and Fitzpatrick, than was possible via traditional genealogical research. This can inform us regarding the potential ‘hidden’ complexities of some surnames. Through
Esther Fitzpatrick, Mike Fitzpatrick
doaj   +1 more source

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