Academic Articles & Research Papers

The Genetics of Eating Disorders

Over the past decade, considerable advances have been made in understanding genetic influences on eating pathology. Eating disorders aggregate in families, and twin studies reveal that additive genetic factors account for approximately 40% ...

Conservation Genetics

Contributors. Prologue. 1. Introduction: The Scope of Conservation Genetics Part I: Case Histories with a Focus on Particular Taxonomic Groups. 2. Population Structure, Molecular Systematics and Forensic Identification of Whales and Dolphin...

Landscape genetics: combining landscape ecology and population genetics

Concepts of Genetics

Part 1 Heredity and the phenotype: cell division - mitosis and meosis Mendalian genetics modification of Mendelian ratios linkage and chromosome mapping in eukaryotes recombination and mapping in bacteria and bacteriophages extensions of ge...

Genetics and Reductionism

With the advent of the Human Genome Project there have been many claims for the genetic origins of complex human behavior including insanity, criminality, and intelligence. But what does it really mean to call something 'genetic'? This is t...

Infrastruktura sportowa dla potrzeb piłki nożnej w Częstochowie w okresie międzywojennym

W pracy przedstawiono infrastrukturę sportową dla potrzeb piłki nożnej w Częstochowie w latach międzywojennych. Artykuł powstał głównie na podstawie źródeł archiwalnych i prasowych. Przeprowadzone badania wykazały, że w Częstochowie w okres...

Calidad de las aguas meteóricas en la ciudad de Itajubá, Minas Gerais, Brasil

El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar la calidad del agua meteórica en la ciudad de Itajubá, ubicado en la parte sur de Minas Gerais, Brasil. Para ello, se realizaron la colecta y análisis de la calidad de las muestras de agua de lluvia d...

Hegemonía hotelera. El rol del Estado en la reactivación de la tasa de beneficio hotelera tras la crisis de 2008

Se analiza el ejercicio de la hegemonía empresarial hotelera para reactivar su tasa de beneficios tras la crisis de 2008. El Estado –la administración autonómica- apoyó normativamente obras y reformas hoteleras antes prohibidas, abandonando...

Long-term farmland abandonments remarkably increased the phytolith carbon sequestration in soil

Abstract Background Phytolith-occluded organic carbon (PhytOC) is an important mechanism of long-term stable carbon sinks in terrestrial ecosystems. Farmland abandonment is a widespread land use change in the process of urbanization and ind...

Urban Aboriginal Creation Stories and History: contesting the past and the present. The Eleventh Doireann MacDermott Lecture

This paper is based on the 11th annual Doireann MacDermott public lecture presented at the Universitat de Barcelona in November, 2010. It is a critique of discourses and representations in Australian society, and indeed, embedded in all w...

Pěstitelská gramotnost – sonda znalostí u žáků na druhém stupni základních škol

Článek přináší výsledky sondy znalostí v oblasti pěstitelské gramotnosti u žáků na druhém stupni základních škol. Pěstitelská gramotnost je definována jako schopnost porozumět pěstitelským postupům a pochopení jejich dopadu na život každého...

Hobbes and Kant: Materialism and Rhetoric

This article examines the subtle nuances of Hobbes’s and Kant’s perspectives on rhetoric and materialism, contextualising them within the broader framework of political philosophy. Despite both philosophers being critics of rhetoric, their ...

Anthropology Art and Aesthetics

Abstract This collection of essays on anthropological approaches to art and aesthetics is the first in its field to be published for some time. In recent years a number of new galleries of non-Western art have been opened, many exhibitions ...

World Anthropologies: Anthropological Cosmopolitanisms and Cosmopolitics

To present the world anthropologies project (WA), this article explores the existence of three kinds of anthropological cosmopolitanisms and cosmopolitics: imperial, liberal, and radical. Imperial cosmopolitics reproduces the hegemony of th...

The Anthropology of Christianity

Abstract This article surveys the literature that constitutes the newly emergent anthropology of Christianity. Arguing that the development of this sub‐discipline was impeded until recently by anthropology's theoretical framing and empirica...

Adolescence: an anthropological inquiry

The anthropological study of adolescence -- An ethological approach to human social organization -- Looking at adolescent socialization across cultures -- Adolescents and their families -- Peer groups and community participation -- Marriage...

Anthropology and Voice

Voice is both a set of sonic, material, and literary practices shaped by culturally and historically specific moments and a category invoked in discourse about personal agency, communication and representation, and political power. This rev...

Comparison in Anthropology

Why and how do social and cultural anthropologists make comparisons? What problems do they encounter in doing so, and how might these be resolved? What, if anything, makes one comparison better than another? This book answers these question...

Anthropology: An introduction to the study of man and civilization.

Anahuac: Or Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern [1861] 392pp Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization [1865]386pp Primitive Culture [1871]468pp/436pp (2 volumes) Anthropology: An Introduction ...

Rethinking Visual Anthropology.

For many years the field of visual anthropology has been dominated by a focus on the production and study of ethnographic film, leading many anthropologists to dismiss it as of little importance to their work. This book shows that the scope...