This paper analyzes data from the household registers for two villages in the Nôbi region of central Japan in the late Edo period (1717-1869) to assess how grandparents may have affected reproductive strategizing in stem families. The particulars of the family system fostered a culturally favored set of reproductive goals, in particular, a daughter as eldest child, followed by a son (and heir),...

With the death of Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) in 1893 came the impossible task of finding a suitable successor. The clinical chair for nervous system diseases was temporarily entrusted to Édouard Brissaud (1852-1909). There were a number of potential successors, but only three were officially declared: Brissaud, Jules Déjerine (1849-1917) and Fulgence Raymond (1844-1910). In the final vote,...

Customary inheritance is the process by which tangible and intangible property inherited passed on from generation to generation. The customary law of contains provisions transfer their descendants. An heir a person who dies, whether male or female, leaving behind portion acquired rights obligations that must be exercised during his lifetime, will not. legal basis for crown prince bequeath part...

The purpose of this research is to generate high-aspect-ratioc ellsf or structured grids in the vicinity of boundaries for wall dominated phenomenas ucha sv iscous layers in aerodynamic applications. When suchd omains are discretized for complex geometries, it is importantt hat the grid fits the boundaries well, andt his becomes even more difficultt oa chievew ith strongly curved boundaries. Do...


 The radical nature of philosophy. Reflections on Paweł Kłoczowski’s book Cartesian revolution and other sketches: This paper offers a polemical discussion recently published concerning the so‐called issues in social political author presents Kłoczowski as ideological heir Leszek Kołakowski (1927–2009), simultaneously virtuoso Polish philosophical essay writing. She demonstrates how topic...