Personal naming practices exist in all human groups and are far from random. Rather, they continue to reflect social norms and ethno-cultural customs that have developed over generations. As a consequence, contemporary name frequency distributions retain distinct geographic, social and ethno-cultural patterning that can be exploited to understand population structure in human biology, public he...

Himachal Pradesh, which forms a part of the western Himalaya, is a repository of medicinal and aromatic plants and the traditional knowledge associated with these plants. Utilization of plant resources in their day-to-day life has been an ageold practice of the people inhabiting this hilly state. The people living in remote and tribal areas still depend on household remedies for healthcare. The...

The standard procedure in experimental economics maintains anonymity among laboratory participants, yet many field interactions are conducted with neither complete anonymity nor complete familiarity. When we are involved in interactive situations in the field, we usually have some clues concerning the characteristics of others; however, in some environments (such as e-commerce) these clues may ...

Commentary In an article recently published in this journal (Silberzahn & Uhlmann, 2013), two of the authors of the present commentary found that Germans whose last name has a noble meaning, henceforth referred to as a noble surname , such as Kaiser (" emperor ") or König (" king "), were more likely to hold managerial positions than Germans with other last names. However, further data collecti...

In the original publication of article, name last author should be Yang Xu, instead Xu Yang. “Xu” is family name, and “Yang” given name.

This work was dedicated to the investigation of the population structure of the middle Dalmatia settlements: Jesenice, Mimice, Zivogosće and Zaostrog by surname distribution study and applying the isonymous method. The surnames of males and females in marital pairs were analyzed as well as of their first and second-generation ancestors on the sample of a total of 3,024 examinees. The analyses o...

On conventional measures, modern Sweden has rapid social and economic mobility. Analyzing surname distributions among Swedish elites attorneys, physicians, university students, and academicians this paper shows that conventional measures greatly overstate underlying social mobility rates. The Swedish elite of 1700 is still an elite, and is becoming average only slowly. The b measuring status pe...

The validation of a computerised record linkage system for matching members of a defined cohort with routinely collected national data sources is reported for the first time. The two national sources relate to mortality and inpatient data and provide contrasting characteristics in their method of collection. The linkage system produces a group of possible matches based on identifying informatio...

Analysis of one of the most comprehensive datasets to date of the largest passerine bird clade, Passerida, identified 10 primary well-supported lineages corresponding to Sylvioidea, Muscicapoidea, Certhioidea, Passeroidea, the 'bombycillids' (here proposed to be recognized as Bombycilloidea), Paridae/Remizidae (proposed to be recognized as Paroidea), Stenostiridae, Hyliotidae, Regulidae (propos...

(1928–90) was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, son of John and Annie Bell, whose families had lived in Northern Ireland for several generations. His middle name, Stewart, was the Scottish family name of his mother, and until he went to university he was called at home by that name. The family's religion was Anglican (Church of Ireland), but no religious bias prevented friendships with the Cat...