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A Comparative Analysis of the Chloroplast Genomes of Four Polygonum Medicinal Plants

Shuai Guo, Shuai Guo, Xuejiao Liao, Xuejiao Liao et al. • Frontiers in Genetics (2022)

Polygonum is a generalized genus of the Polygonaceae family that includes various herbaceous plants. In order to provide aid in understanding the evolutionary and phylogenetic relationship in Polygonum at the chloroplast (cp) genome-scale l...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.764534

Causal relationship between genetic-predicted uric acid and cervical cancer risk: evidence for nutritional intervention on cervical cancer prevention

Chunge Cao, Dajun Cai, Hao Liu, Xia Zhang et al. • Frontiers in Nutrition (2024)

IntroductionThe relationship between serum uric acid (SUA) and cervical cancer is inconclusive. This study aims to investigate the causal relationship between SUA levels and cervical cancer incidence, and to evaluate the potential role of n...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2024.1464046

Genetics of MDS

Seishi Ogawa • Blood (2019)

Our knowledge about the genetics of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and related myeloid disorders has been dramatically improved during the past decade, in which revolutionized sequencing technologies have played a major role. Through inten...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2018-10-844621 PMC: 6587668

Families, kinship and genetics

Martin Richards • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1996)

I am the family face; Flesh perishes, I live on, Projecting trait and trace Through time to times anon, And leaping from place to place Over oblivion. Thomas Hardy , 1840–1928: Heredity. Introduction Genetics concerns families and kinship. ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511570049.014

Reproduction and the Reduction of Genetics

James R. Griesemer • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2000)

In this essay I develop a new, unified perspective on genetics, development, and reproduction. I suggest a heuristic use of theory reduction to address an issue of contemporary theoretical importance: the framing of a theory of developmenta...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511527296.013

Anthropological Theory

David Kaplan • Routledge eBooks (2017)

Anthropological theory has been much discussed in recent years, yet the crucial questions still remain--how can it be defined, how is it developed, how is it to be applied, and how can one confirm it? The editors of Anthropological Theory a...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315082271

The Anthropology of Christianity

Jon Bialecki, Naomi Haynes, Joel Robbins • Religion Compass (2008)

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2008.00116.x

Anthropology and Voice

Amanda J. Weidman • Annual Review of Anthropology (2014)

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102313-030050

The Anthropology of Online Communities

Samuel M. Wilson, Leighton C. Peterson • Annual Review of Anthropology (2002)

▪ Abstract Information and communication technologies based on the Internet have enabled the emergence of new sorts of communities and communicative practices—phenomena worthy of the attention of anthropological researchers. Despite early a...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.31.040402.085436

Information systems and anthropology: and anthropological perspective on IT and organizational culture

David Avison, Michael David Myers • Information Technology and People (1995)

Considers the potential role of anthropology as a source discipline for information systems. Although anthropology has been largely neglected in the IS research literature, it is argued that important insights can be gained by adopting an a...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/09593849510098262

Ethnicity: Anthropological Constructions

Marcus Banks • Routledge eBooks (2003)

Ethnicity has been a key concept in anthropology and sociology for many years, yet many people still seem uncertain as to its meaning, its relevance, and its relationship to other concepts such as `race' and nationalism. In Ethnicity: Anthr...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203417935

Phenomenological Approaches in Anthropology

Robert Desjarlais, C. Jason Throop • Annual Review of Anthropology (2010)

This review explores the most significant dimensions and findings of phenomenological approaches in anthropology. We spell out the motives and implications inherent in such approaches, chronicle their historical dimensions and precursors, a...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092010-153345

THE CHRISTIANITY OF ANTHROPOLOGY*

Fenella Cannell • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2005)

This article critiques the way in which the discipline of anthropology has construed Christianity, arguing that too narrow and ascetic a model of Christianity has become standard and questioning the claims of the ‘secular’ social sciences t...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2005.00239.x

A History of Anthropology

Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Finn Sivert Nielsen • Pluto Press eBooks (2013)

This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. Avoiding geographical bias, the authors provide summaries of ‘Enlightenment’, ‘Romantic’ and ‘Victorian’ anthropology, from the cultural theories ...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt183gzx9

Challenging Anthropology: Anthropological Reflections on the Ethnographic Turn in International Relations

Jon Harald Sande Lie • Millennium Journal of International Studies (2012)

Ethnography and anthropology are intrinsically linked, but recently other disciplines have started to draw inspiration from anthropological methods. The ongoing ethnographic turn in International Relations has spurred debate on what ethnogr...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829812463835

An Anthropology of Knowledge

Fredrik Barth • Current Anthropology (2002)

Whereas previous Sidney Mintz lectures have celebrated Mintzs work on inequality, racism, and ethnicity, I have chosen to speak to the broadest scope of his research and teaching in anthropology. A comparative perspective on human knowledge...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/324131

Design and Anthropology

Keith M. Murphy • Annual Review of Anthropology (2016)

In this review, I examine the recent turn to design in anthropology in three different configurations: anthropology of design, anthropology for design, and design for anthropology. Although these three configurations represent different cut...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102215-100224

Animals and Anthropology

Molly H. Mullin • Society and Animals (2002)

Anthropology encompasses four distinct subdisciplines: biological anthropology, social anthropology (known as “cultural anthropology” in North America), archaeology, and linguistics. Beyond these basic four Želds, one could further divide a...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/156853002320936854

Anthropology and Colonialism

Diane Katherine Lewis • Current Anthropology (1973)

Anthropology emerged from the colonial expansion of Europe. Colonialism structured the relationship between anthropologists and the people they studied and had an effect on methodological and conceptual formulations in the discipline. For e...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/201393