many of the contemporary authors and researchers such as c. bartholomae (the author of the book “zum sassanidischem recht”) and arthur christensen (the author of the book “iran in the sassanian period”), believe that women had a very bad status in the sassanian period, being dealt with as slaves or objects. however, studying the religious and non-religious resources of this period, including av...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to assess intergenerational mother-daughter patterns of reproduction. METHODS In 1966, 12 055 pregnant women in Northern Finland, representing 96% of all births in the region, responded to a questionnaire in mid-gestation. In 1997-98, the 31-year-old daughters born from those pregnancies were sent a questionnaire and 4523 (80%) responded. Reproductio...

We studied fitness consequ ences of clonal integration in 27 genotypes of the stoloniferous herb Ranunculus replans in a spatially heterogeneous light environment. We grew 216 pairs of connected ramets (eight per genotype) with mother ramets in light and daughter ramets in shade, In half of the pairs we severed the stolon connection between the two ramets at the beginning of the experiment, Dur...

Animal and human studies have shown that individuals choose mates partly on the basis of similarity, a tendency referred to as homogamy. Several authors have suggested that a specific innate recognition mechanism, phenotypic matching, allows the organism to detect similar others by their resemblance to itself. However, several objections have been raised to this theory on both empirical and the...

The Peters family is a Yale family, and Jack Peters' branch of the family extended to five generations at Yale when my third daughter, Barbara, received her M.D. degree, with honors, in 1979. We trace our origins back to when Andrew Peters came to America from England in 1702 and settled in Andover, Massachusetts. Our family's Yale connection goes back to Jack's grandfather, Thomas McClure Pete...

A UBASIC computer program was developed to implement a method of te Riele for finding amicable pairs of type (2, 2). Hundreds of new pairs were found, including a new largest (2, 2) pair and several “daughter”, “granddaughter”, and “great granddaughter” pairs.

This study aims to discuss the legal position of children incest, opinions madhhab scholars, and provisions on inheritance rights incest according Islamic law. normative used law methodological approach (ushul fiqh) legislation/ statute approach. The data were obtained through a literature review laws or rules. results revealed that in is terms civil matters (i.e., lineage/blood relations) betw...