Anthropometric History: Revisiting What’s in it for Ireland

This research note updates Cormac Ó Gráda’s (1996) critical review of the literature on the connection between the stature of the Irish, on the one hand, and their health and living standards, on the other. We find most of the anthropometric data sets used in this literature pertain to Irish emigrants rather than those who stayed behind. We therefore argue prison registers are a more appropriate source of anthropometric information. But results derived from these registers need to be handled with caution as prisoners are a selected population. We uncover the various observable selection biases inherent in prison data and track how they change across the second half of the nineteenth century. We find changes in selection into crime across time are more likely to have been due to institutional rather than economic factors.

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Varia: Attribution, predication, apposition – Part second

Proglas ◽

10.54664/lcrc6037 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Anton Getsov ◽

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Keyword(s):

Critical Review ◽

Complex Interaction ◽

The Other ◽

Main Argument ◽

Other Hand ◽

Grammatical Relation ◽

The Status ◽

Syntactic Status ◽

The One ◽

Syntactic Relations

The paper is part of a series of publications that set out to examine various aspects in the analysis of appositive constructions. The purpose of this particular study is to reveal the multidimensional, diverse, and complex interaction between three types of syntactic relations – attributive, predicative, and appositive. The study offers a critical review of various theories on the status of the grammatical relation between the components of non-detached (close) appositive constructions. The main argument of this paper is that determining this status, on the one hand, is a function of the morphological and semantic characteristics of the components of the construction, while, on the other hand, it determines their syntactic status.

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Translation and interpretation in Abhidharmakośa

Diogenes ◽

10.54664/jisf6551 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Mitko Momov

Keyword(s):

Critical Review ◽

Point Of View ◽

Literal Meaning ◽

The Other ◽

Young Scholar ◽

Other Hand ◽

The One

Rosemberg (1991) has made a critical review of a long-standing discussion between Eastern philologists and Buddhist philosophers. The discussion is centered around the translation of the doctrine on the one hand, and its philosophical systematization on the other hand. When scientific-philological translation prevails, the literal meaning of Buddhist terminology is declared to be its basis. The young scholar, who had specialized in Japan, studied Buddhism from Japanese and Chinese sources and collected lexicographic material from non-Hindu sources. After comparing them, he encountered inaccuracies in the translation. In an attempt to overcome them, he preferred the point of view of the philosophy of Buddhism. The conclusion that he has drawn in the preface of this edition is that the study should begin with a systematization of antiquity.

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Data Documents

KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION ◽

10.5771/0943-7444-2021-4-307 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 48 (4) ◽

pp. 307-328

Author(s):

Dominic Farace ◽

Hélène Prost ◽

Antonella Zane ◽

Birger Hjørland ◽

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...

Keyword(s):

Citation Index ◽

The Other ◽

Data Sets ◽

Bibliometric Data ◽

Model Data ◽

Other Hand ◽

Data Citation ◽

Philosophical Assumption ◽

The One

This article presents and discusses different kinds of data documents, including data sets, data studies, data papers and data journals. It provides descriptive and bibliometric data on different kinds of data documents and discusses the theoretical and philosophical problems by classifying documents according to the DIKW model (data documents, information documents, knowledge documents and wisdom documents). Data documents are, on the one hand, an established category today, even with its own data citation index (DCI). On the other hand, data documents have blurred boundaries in relation to other kinds of documents and seem sometimes to be understood from the problematic philosophical assumption that a datum can be understood as “a single, fixed truth, valid for everyone, everywhere, at all times”

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Age of the Post-rift Sequence I from the Araripe Basin, Lower Cretaceous, NE Brazil: implications for spatio-temporal correlation

Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia ◽

10.4072/rbp.2021.1.03 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 37-46

Author(s):

João Carlos Coimbra ◽

Tiago Menezes Freire

Keyword(s):

Critical Review ◽

Lower Cretaceous ◽

Temporal Correlation ◽

Isotopic Analysis ◽

The Other ◽

Stratigraphic Framework ◽

Spatio Temporal ◽

Radiometric Ages ◽

The One ◽

Do So

A robust biostratigraphic zonation based on microfossils supports the stratigraphic framework and correlation of the interior basins of the Lower Cretaceous of NE Brazil. This zonation has also allowed correlations with coeval sections in the Brazilian marginal basins and in the Gabon and Congo basins (central-west Africa). These records, consisting mainly of non-marine sediments, were a great challenge with regard to the correlation with the International Chronostratigraphic Chart. Therefore, local stages were used, the most recent being the Alagoas local Brazilian Stage, with which the Post-rift Sequence I of the Araripe Basin is related. Regarding lithostratigraphy, this sequence includes the Rio da Batateira (Barbalha for some authors) and Santana formations, the last one with the famous Crato, Ipubi, and Romualdo members, from the base to the top. Although currently there is a consensus on the age of the Alagoas local Brazilian Stage in the Araripe Basin, recently a new age for at least part of the Post-rift Sequence I was proposed. This new proposal, based on isotopic analysis of Re-Os, arose as a panacea to correlate the Rio da Batateira Formation and the Crato and Ipubi members with the international stages. Surprisingly, their authors, although on the one hand, they seem to underestimate biostratigraphic results, on the other they seek to support their proposal from microfossils studied by previous authors, but they do so in an inappropriate way, leading readers to misinterpret their results. Therefore, this paper presents a critical review on the age of the Alagoas local Brazilian Stage in the Araripe Basin and nearby basins, refuting a Barremian age for part of the Post-rift Sequence I. Keywords: Alagoas local Brazilian Stage, biostratigraphy, ostracods, palynomorphs, radiometric ages.

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Macintyre on identity of ethics and politics

Filozofija i drustvo ◽

10.2298/fid0631029s ◽

2006 ◽

pp. 29-56

Author(s):

Michal Sládecek

Keyword(s):

Political Theory ◽

Critical Review ◽

The State ◽

The Other ◽

Individual Rights ◽

Ethical Life ◽

Other Hand ◽

The One ◽

Ethics And Politics

In first chapters of this article MacIntyre?s view of ethics is analyzed, together with his critics of liberalism as philosophical and political theory, as well as dominant ideological conception. In last chapters MacIntyre?s view of the relation between politics and ethics is considered, along with the critical review of his theoretical positions. Macintyre?s conception is regarded on the one hand as very broad, because the entire morality is identified with ethical life, while on the other hand it is regarded as too narrow since it excludes certain essential aspects of deliberation which refers to the sphere of individual rights, the relations between communities, as well as distribution of goods within the state.

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Tropopause and jetlet characteristics in relation to thunderstorm development over Cyprus

Advances in Geosciences ◽

10.5194/adgeo-23-113-2010 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 23 ◽

pp. 113-117

Author(s):

A. Orphanou ◽

K. Nicolaides ◽

D. Charalambous ◽

P. Lingis ◽

S. C. Michaelides

Keyword(s):

Wind Direction ◽

The Other ◽

Statistical Characteristics ◽

Radiosonde Data ◽

Data Sets ◽

Other Hand ◽

The One

Abstract. In the present study, the monthly statistical characteristics of jetlet and tropopause in relation to the development of thunderstorms over Cyprus are examined. For the needs of the study the 12:00 UTC radiosonde data obtained from the Athalassa station (33.4° E, 35.1° N) for an 11-year period, from 1997 till 2007, were employed. On the basis of this dataset, the height and the temperature of the tropopause, as well as the height, wind direction and speed of the jetlet were estimated. Additionally, the days in the above period with observed thunderstorms were selected and the aforementioned characteristics of the jetlet and tropopause were noted. The two data sets were subsequently contrasted in an attempt to identify possible relations between thunderstorm development, on the one hand, and tropopause and jetlet characteristics, on the other hand.

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AN IMPERIAL APOSTLE? ST PAUL, PROTESTANT CONVERSION, AND SOUTH ASIAN CHRISTIANITY

The Historical Journal ◽

10.1017/s0018246x17000024 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 61 (1) ◽

pp. 103-130

Author(s):

SHINJINI DAS

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

South Asian ◽

Reference Point ◽

First Century ◽

The Other ◽

British Imperialism ◽

Intellectual Engagement ◽

Imperial Ideology ◽

The One ◽

The Ideal

AbstractThis article explores the locally specific (re)construction of a biblical figure, the Apostle St Paul, in India, to unravel the entanglement of religion with British imperial ideology on the one hand, and to understand the dynamics of colonial conversion on the other. Over the nineteenth century, evangelical pamphlets and periodicals heralded St Paul as the ideal missionary, who championed conversion to Christianity but within an imperial context: that of the first-century Roman Mediterranean. Through an examination of missionary discourses, along with a study of Indian (Hindu and Islamic) intellectual engagement with Christianity including Bengali convert narratives, this article studies St Paul as a reference point for understanding the contours of ‘vernacular Christianity’ in nineteenth-century India. Drawing upon colonial Christian publications mainly from Bengal, the article focuses on the multiple reconfigurations of Paul: as a crucial mascot of Anglican Protestantism, as a justification of British imperialism, as an ideological resource for anti-imperial sentiments, and as a theological inspiration for Hindu reform and revivalist organization.

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Dynamics of Continuity and Change: Shifts in Labour Relations in the Potosí Mines (1680–1812)

International Review of Social History ◽

10.1017/s0020859016000511 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 61 (S24) ◽

pp. 93-114 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rossana Barragán Romano

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

Seventeenth Century ◽

Sixteenth Century ◽

The Other ◽

Economic Sectors ◽

Labour Relations ◽

Continuity And Change ◽

The One

AbstractLabour relations in the silver mines of Potosí are almost synonymous with the mita, a system of unfree work that lasted from the end of the sixteenth century until the beginning of the nineteenth century. However, behind this continuity there were important changes, but also other forms of work, both free and self-employed. The analysis here is focused on how the “polity” contributed to shape labour relations, especially from the end of the seventeenth century and throughout the eighteenth century. This article scrutinizes the labour policies of the Spanish monarchy on the one hand, which favoured certain economic sectors and regions to ensure revenue, and on the other the initiatives both of mine entrepreneurs and workers – unfree, free, and self-employed – who all contributed to changing the system of labour.

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Is It Privacy or Is It Access Control?

Information Security in Diverse Computing Environments - Advances in Information Security, Privacy, and Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-6158-5.ch004 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 51-58 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sylvia L. Osborn

Keyword(s):

Access Control ◽

Privacy Protection ◽

The Other ◽

Data Sets ◽

Online Systems ◽

Other Hand ◽

The One

With the widespread use of online systems, there is an increasing focus on maintaining the privacy of individuals and information about them. This is often referred to as a need for privacy protection. The author briefly examines definitions of privacy in this context, roughly delineating between keeping facts private and statistical privacy that deals with what can be inferred from data sets. Many of the mechanisms used to implement what is commonly thought of as access control are the same ones used to protect privacy. This chapter explores when this is not the case and, in general, the interplay between privacy and access control on the one hand and, on the other hand, the separation of these models from mechanisms for their implementation.

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‘Jewish Musicians are the Crowning Achievements of Foreign Nations’

Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 32 ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781906764739.003.0017 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 309-320

Author(s):

Julia Riegel

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Jewish Identity ◽

The Other ◽

Singing Voice ◽

Interwar Poland ◽

The One ◽

Jewish Composers

This chapter discusses the treatment of the Jewish identity of various composers by the Yiddish folklorist and music critic, Menachem Kipnis. It describes Kipnis as a small, energetic man with a soft but beautiful singing voice and considered one of the most popular Jewish folklorists of interwar Poland. It also looks into Kipnis' book World-Famous Jewish Musicians, a collection of biographies of nineteenth-century composers with a Jewish background. The chapter examines the contradictions and idiosyncrasies of World-Famous Jewish Musicians compared with Kipnis's other works. It seeks to understand the balance Kipnis struck between praise for Jewish composers and quasi-nationalist emphasis on their Jewishness on the one hand, and his work as a folklorist in Poland, collecting songs from traditional, Yiddish-speaking Jews on the other.

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