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Family names as indicators of Britain’s changing regional geography [PDF]
, 2009 In recent years the geography of surnames has become increasingly researched in genetics, epidemiology, linguistics and geography. Surnames provide a useful data source for the analysis of population structure, migrations, genetic relationships and ...
Cheshire, JA, Mateos, P, Longley, PA
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Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary We introduce the concept of pay‐for‐prominence, a system where employees are monetarily incentivized to become knowledge hubs in the intrafirm network and examine its effects on employees' networks and attrition. Integrating social network theory with relational incentives theory, we argue that pay‐for‐prominence motivates ...
Alessandro Iorio +2 more
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Usability of Dialogue Design Strategies for Automated Surname Capture [PDF]
, 2004 Surname capture via automatic speech recognition over the telephone has many commercial applications, including automated directory assistance and travel reservation services. This paper presents a usability evaluation of three different dialogue designs
Fergus McInnes +5 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses the ways characteristics associated with the ‘Schedule Tribe’ (‘ST’) category in India shape situated acts of relating to others with either deference or assumed superiority. Ethnography shows how within an indigenous Adivasi community the traits that determine identification within the group generate feelings of entitlement and ...
Thomas Herzmark
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) manages Pakistan's biometric‐based national identity database, one of the largest identification systems of its kind in the world. This article examines bureaucratic practices used during identity registration to record ‘vital events’ in the lives of citizens: birth, marriage, divorce, and death.
Zehra Hashmi
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Schimbarea numelui pe cale administrativă în România
Revista 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
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Flipping the (Surname) Script: Men\u27s Nontraditional Surname Choice at Marriage
, 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
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
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Ripples on the surface. Surnames and genes in Sicily and Southern Italy
Annals 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
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Names, 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
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