Search results for "Genea"

Digeneans of cetaceans: taxonomy, evolutionary history and host specificity.

2016

Parasitism is an extremely successful lifestyle among animals. In fact, every free-living organism is believed to harbour at least a parasite species, and cetaceans are not the exception. Host-parasite systems offer a suitable model for studying systematics, evolution, biogeography and ecology because the evolutionary fate of parasites is linked to that of their hosts. In particular, present-day associations between cetaceans and their parasites have been shaped by unique historical events. The parasites of the terrestrial ancestors of cetaceans likely faced an ecological barrier when their hosts colonized the marine environment; it is postulated that during the process terrestrial parasite…

Critical Inquiry and/or Art of Critique: Koopman’s Genealogy as Critique

2014

Descent among the Wayú. Concepts and social meanings

2008

Descent among the Wayú. Concepts and social meanings. Taking the contemporary rethinking of the descent notion in Lowland South American ethnography as a starting point, the article provides an analysis of matrilineal descent among the Wayú. Using new ethnographical data, special attention is paid to indigenous concepts and to the way matrilineal descent articulates with other principles of social classification. By virtue of the role that matrilineal descent plays in defining territoriality and in feuds, the Wayú offer a very interesting case for rethinking the theoretical and comparative debate about the indigenous societies of Lowland South America and for reflecting on the complexity of…

Varhaiskasvatuksen arvioinnin rakentuminen Suomessa

2022

La pré-structure diégétique et le théâtre de la plénitude amoureuse ou deux visions de l'arbre dans la série romanesque d'Émile Zola, "Les Rougon-Mac…

2020

Artykuł analizuje dwie formy, jakie przybiera motyw drzewa w cyklu powieściowym Émile’a Zoli Rougon-Macquartowie. Pierwszą z nich, którą można nazwać „społeczną”, jest drzewo genealogiczne postaci tworzących powieściową rodzinę; sporządzenie tego drzewa i przygotowanie szczegółowych informacji na temat każdego bohatera i jego losów poprzedziło rozpoczęcie pracy nad cyklem, co czyni z niego rodzaj pra-struktury całej serii. Drugą formą, w jakiej drzewo pojawia się w analizowanych tekstach, jest forma „naturalna”, związana z przyrodą (drzewo jako roślina) i nasycona symboliką dotykającą miłości i płodności. Obie formy łączy odniesienie do życia jako nadrzędnej wartości i podstawowego tematu l…

Palaeogenetics and cultural heritage. Species determination and STR-genotyping from ancient DNA in art and artefacts

2000

Abstract In recent years, a few papers have addressed the palaeogenetic analysis of cultural, historical and archaeological artefacts. We provide an overview of the individual published articles and then describe the results we had in the framework of a palaeogenetic research project involving various historical and prehistoric finds from museums, archaeological excavations, and libraries. We show that ancient DNA can be isolated from most of the various biomaterials (leather, parchment, glue, binding media, crusted organic plant remains in containers). Short pieces of degraded DNA are used, on the one hand, to determine the organic remnant’s genus/species of origin, and on the other hand, …

Character Strengths: Measurement and Studies in Argentina with Military and General Population Samples

2014

The publication of the book so-called “Manual of the Sanities” (Peterson and Seligman, Character strengths and virtues: a handbook and classification, vol. xiv. Oxford University Press, New York, 2004) has inspired the scientific study of individuals’ positive traits with different populations from different countries. Studies conducted in Argentina (general and military population) in relation to the pillar of positive traits are shown. An inventory of complex bipolar items was developed to measure character strengths. This self-report inventory – that covers a broad range of strengths of character with few items – has demonstrated acceptable levels of reliability and validity. Relationshi…

The role of Dutch in the development of East Anglian English

2013

Dutch speakers may or may not have contributed a certain amount of lexical material to modern East Anglian dialects. There is a much stronger case to be made, however, for arguing that Dutch speakers did have a rather profound infl uence on the morphology of East Anglian English, dating from the time when almost forty percent of the population of the capital of East Anglia, Norwich, were refugees from the Low Countries. That infl uence was indirect, and mediated through mechanisms of linguistic change associated with language contact.

Seasonal population dynamics of Zeuxapta seriolae (Monogenea: Heteraxinidae) parasitising Seriola dumerili (Carangidae) in the Western Mediterranean.

2013

We examined the seasonal and yearly population dynamics of the monogenean pathogen Zeuxapta seriolae on juvenile fish from wild populations of Seriola dumerili. The study is based on bimonthly monitoring between April, 2005 and April, 2007 off Majorca, and newly obtained monogenean population data for juvenile fish from three additional localities in the Western Mediterranean (off Alicante, Corsica and Sardinia). We documented the highest intensities and abundances of Z. seriolae, with mean abundance values similar to or higher than those reported in the single case of wild fish mortalities reported to date. There was a recurrent pattern of seasonal change in infection with Z. seriolae in t…

The Polish Nation: From a Multiethnic to an Ethnically Homogenous Nation-State

2009

In Chapter 4 I focused on the stateless noble natio of partitioned Poland-Lithuania that sought to transform itself into a Polish nation. The Polish-Lithuanian noble leaders paid lip service to the French model of the nation-state but, apart from a few lonely dissenting voices, had no intention to broaden the confines of the planned Polish nation to embrace the ‘third estate,’ that is, the peasantry and burghers. The social barrier of serfdom alone kept the nobles from associating with peasants. In the cities, a large and sometimes predominant, segment of the population was made up of German-speakers and Yiddish-speaking Jews. Their idioms disqualified them from participation in the emergin…