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Berger, Kelly A. "Mothers’ Perceptions Of Family Health History And An Online Parent-Generated Family Health History Tool." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1307125548.
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Lepp, Annalee E. "Dis/membering the family, marital breakdown, domestic conflict, and family violence in Ontario, 1830-1920." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ56087.pdf.
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Tabor, Sarah Owen. "Creative Book Arts Preserving Family History." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2002. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/TaborSO2002.pdf.
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Witztum, Jonathan. "Family resemblance : history, context and coherence." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404876.
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Pulvirenti, Anton. "Wartime Internment: Family, memory and history." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10057.
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This thesis investigates the wartime internment of my paternal grandfather Angelo Pulvirenti, interned in Australia during the Second World War. It investigates his internment in three ways. Firstly, Angelo’s internment is explored in the context of the ‘state of exception’ invoked at the time by the authorities. The state of exception, a legal term describing a sovereign’s ability to override public law in the interests of national security and/or public safety, is the means by which his internment is represented in the studio works. Secondly, the thesis incorporates nineteenth century pictorial Symbolism to manifest the exception in the studio works. And lastly, the thesis applies the exception to the amnesia of the Australian War Memorial regarding the wartime internments, which has become the official version of wartime internment. The studio works construct a new narrative of internment from the official version in terms of familial content and the silence regarding Angelo’s internment. The studio works occupy the space between the official version ofinternment and Angelo’s life narrative during the war. Thus, both the thesis and studio work challenge the official version of internment. The work of Rea Tajiri, Katsushige Nakahashi, Max Klinger, Kandinsky and Gerhard Richter are important on the levels of formal manipulation, myth, symbology and memory. On the theoretical level, Giorgio Agamben, Carl Schmitt, Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière are the main points of contact.
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Durie, Bruce. "Bringing history to the public via genealogy and family history." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2011. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23881.
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Genealogy is at the cusp of acceptance as an academic discipline. However, there are no peer-reviewed scholarly journals in which to publish the outcome of research into, and upon, genealogy per se. While genealogy shares many techniques and attributes with history as a subject of study, it is wider in both investigation and impact. Popular and scholarly history have much to gain by including the skills and methods of the genealogical researcher. One option is to present genealogy, history and biography as popular, mass-market books. The two-fold aspiration is (1) that the public will be drawn to an understanding of history and the place of genealogy in historical researches, and (2) that history professionals will understand and apply the methodologies of genealogy to both popular and scholarly history publishing. Using the currently-popular genealogy and local/personal history as the "draw", it is possible to interest and educate the public in historical and social matters. The same is achieved by linking biography and genealogy to popular literature. The overall impact on public understanding, it is suggested, is far greater than would be achieved by any trickle-down effect from more conventional scholarly publishing. (This would be a valid contention to test by research, but no claim is made here that it has been investigated other than by anecdotal reports). It is proposed that the publications submitted for consideration form a coherent body of work in that they demonstrate the value of genealogical methodology and research skills in aeras as apparently diverse and literary biography and local history; that their intellectual merit resides in bringing new information to light and applying that to the better understand of people, places, events; and that there is a contribution to knowledge thereby. That this knowledge now resides in a "popular" public domain is not to its detriment: rather, it renders it more valuable, and in any case it is not hidden from specialist examination by being out in the wild. The publications submitted make explicit the key skills of learning and research at doctoral level, including analysis, creativity, criticality, discrimination, evaluation, research management and synthesis, and that the candidate is a competent researcher who knows the subjects and can plan, implement and evaluate research activities.
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Turati, F. "FAMILY HISTORY OF CANCER AND FAMILY HISTORY SCORES FOR ASSESSING THE LEVEL OF DISEASE RISK IN FAMILIES." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/215073.
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In the last decades genetic factors are playing an increasingly important role in medical research, given the evidence for the existence of a heritable susceptibility for various diseases, including common cancers, based on reports of families with multiple affected relatives. Epidemiologists have utilized family history, usually of first-degree relatives, as a surrogate for genetic risk, aware that family history reflects the consequences of genetic susceptibilities, shared environment, and common behaviors.
During my PhD I have dealt with two different aspects of family history, i.e., the role of family history of cancer in epidemiological cancer research (Chapter 1) and the use of complex family history score for assessing the level of disease risk in families (Chapter 2).
In particular, I have systematically examined the extent to which a family history of cancer might be a risk factor for cancer within the same cancer site and across multiple cancer sites, analyzing a large and comprehensive dataset based on a network of integrated case-control studies, conducted in Italy and Switzerland since the early 90's. The database included 1468 cases of cancer of the oral cavity and pharynx, 198 of the rhinopharynx, 505 of the esophagus, 230 of the stomach, 2390 of the colorectum, 185 of the liver, 326 of the pancreas, 852 of the larynx, 3034 of the breast, 367 of the endometrium, 1031 of the ovary, 1294 of the prostate, 767 of the renal cell, and a total of 16022 corresponding controls. Unconditional multiple logistic regression models, adjusted for the major possible confounding factors, and a procedure for controlling for multiplicity using a false discovery rate were used. The risk of developing cancer at a particular site was increased, although not always significantly, in subjects with a first-degree relative affected by cancer at the same site, with odds ratios ranging from 1.4 for pancreatic cancer, to 7.4 for ovarian cancer. Several across sites associations emerged, some of which possibly due to shared environmental exposures or lifestyle practices among family members (e.g., alcohol, smoking, unhealthy diet, infections) or to the inheritance of one or more predisposing gene mutations (high penetrance gene mutations, such as BRCA1/2 in breast and ovarian cancer, and/or low penetrance polymorphisms, as those involved in carcinogens metabolism, such as GST genes in oral cancer) or to a combination of both. The analysis I performed confirmed that several associations were stronger for a younger age at diagnosis in relatives. A detailed discussion of the findings is reported in paragraph 4 of Chapter 1.
In addition to the investigation of the role of family history of cancer in cancer etiology, I have performed a statistical evaluation of the performance of different family history scores to recommend the measure that performs best. Family history scores summarize familial information and are used for estimating the familiar risk, i.e. the level of risk for a particular disease among members of that family. The simplest and most common family history scores are the dichotomous measure indicator, positive in families that have at least one relative with the disease, the number of affected family members, and the proportion of affected relatives, which takes into account the size of the family. The other family history scores proposed in the literature are statistics that describe the deviation of the observed situation from the expected risk for each family. More detailed information on family members (affected and unaffected) as well as incidence rates of the diseases of interest in strata of selected covariates are needed to compute these more complex family history scores. To evaluate family history scores’ performance I used two different complementary approaches: a data-derived approach, using data from the Italian HI-WATE study, with the aim of examining the power of various family history scores in predicting a particular diseases (i.e., colorectal cancer), and a simulation approach to evaluate their accuracy of predicting the true familial risk. From 200 simulations for 48 different settings, Reed’s score and FHS2 seem to perform slightly better than the other scores. However, the simple proportion of affected relatives is not so far in terms of predictivity of the true familial risk. The use of this simple score seems therefore justified, at least until stronger evidence is brought for the advantages of using a more complex score.
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Harney-Delehanty, Brianna. "Family History of Alcoholism and Stress-Reactivity." Thesis, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2021. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=28027029.
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Family history of alcoholism (FHA) is posited to convey its risk on problematic drinking, in part, though how individuals react to stressful situations. Research thus far, however, has found equivocal results, with some studies concluding that FHA is associated with heightened stress-reactivity whereas others have found FHA associated with blunted stress-reactivity. In addition, the preponderance of this research has been conducted using laboratory-based paradigms, thus raising questions about the ecological validity of their findings. The purpose of the current study was to further clarify the association between FHA and affective reactions to two types of stress (social and academic stress) using an ecologically valid, micro-longitudinal research design. Participants were 1,606 undergraduate students (54% women) who completed a baseline survey, including questions related to both maternal and paternal alcohol use, and who subsequently completed a 30-day daily diary in which they reporting on their daily social and academic stress and affective states. Results showed a weaker positive association between social stress and anxiety among individuals with more paternal FHA symptoms, consistent with a blunted stress-reactivity perspective. The current study is the first to use an ecologically valid approach to investigate stress-reactivity in individuals with and without FHA. The results add to the current literature, providing a direction for future research to continue to clarify the nature FHA and stress-reactivity in order to understand the risk incurred by FHA.
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Dunlop, Victoria. "Communication, culture and identity in family history." Thesis, Dunlop, Victoria (1996) Communication, culture and identity in family history. Masters by Coursework thesis, Murdoch University, 1996. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/52965/.
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Family history is more than personalized and democratized history: it is a self-conscious search, across space and through time, for a more meaningful sense of self in the present. While mass migration and global communications have made traditional determinants of belonging less relevant, contemporary communication structures, increased leisure time and affluence have made it possible for large numbers of ordinary people to both search for their roots without travelling far from home and to travel to distant homelands to seek their past in the present.
The collection, organization and dissemination of information about people who, for genetic reasons, are regarded as our forbears, is more than a biological jigsaw puzzle. Family history is biographical, highly contextualized and has an inherent narrative drive. The importance of historical constructions in contemporary relations mean that it is a political, as well as a cultural, activity. Although its genealogical roots are conservative, the majority of its practitioners are ordinary people with ordinary pasts who are accumulating a large body of information about hitherto irrelevant past lives. This knowledge, recognized as a valuable commodity by bureaucratic and commercial institutions as well as social historians, has the potential to transform the way people view their relationship to their history and their place in the world.
The construction of family memories, a private and public struggle in which a complex web of texts and materials, both historic and contemporary, interact, is a potentially productive site from which to examine a range of cultural problems - communication structures, political and social formations, intertextuality and narrative processes, constructions of identity and the role of the past in the present. I propose an interdisciplinary framework drawn primarily from cultural studies to examine the family history phenomenon from a number of perspectives. The first section will attempt to explain the growth of family history as a popular pastime in terms of contemporary communication structures, commercial enterprise and political and social formations. It will also examine some of the boundaries of ancestral knowledge, many of which are the result of past biases, the consequences of which persist in the present. Section two is concerned with family history reading practices and the ways in which they sometimes conform to but often resist and criticize cultural and familial myths. Section three explores the significance of the construction of family histories for personal identity and for collective identities based upon common denominators such as race, ethnicity, social class and historical experience, as well as kinship and nation. Finally, in section four, I will examine family history’s potential to resist and transform dominant constructions of the past.
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Brinton, Derrick James. "Recommender Systems for Family History Source Discovery." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6606.
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As interest in family history research increases, greater numbers of amateurs are participating in genealogy. However, finding sources that provide useful information on individuals in genealogical research is often an overwhelming task, even for experts. Many tools assist genealogists in their work, including many computer-based systems. Prior to this work, recommender systems had not yet been applied to genealogy, though their ability to navigate patterns in large amounts of data holds great promise for the genealogical domain. We create the Family History Source Recommender System to mimic human behavior in locating sources of genealogical information. The recommender system is seeded with existing source data from the FamilySearch database. The typical recommender systems algorithms are not designed for family history work, so we adjust them to fit the problem. In particular, recommendations are created for deceased individuals, with multiple users being able to consume the same recommendations. Additionally, our similarity computation takes into account as much information about individuals as possible in order to create connections that would otherwise not exist. We use offline n-fold cross-validation to validate the results. The system provides results with high accuracy.
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Rodríguez, Vivian M. "The Role of Family Organization in Family Health History Communication about Cancer." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3201.
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Family health history (FHH) has been recognized as an important tool in cancer prevention and health promotion. To date, literature on FHH discussions about cancer have largely focused on patient-physician communication or the dissemination of cancer-specific genetic tests results within the family. Fewer studies have sought to identify family factors that may promote FHH discussions, yet this type of information could be used to identify families needing support in having these conversations. Thus, the present study examined relations between family organization (cohesion and flexibility), communication openness, and FHH communication about cancer within a diverse group of women recruited from an urban, safety-net women's health clinic. Participants were enrolled in a randomized control trial examining the effects of an educational intervention on family communication about hereditary breast and colon cancers (Kin Fact Study). For the present study, baseline survey data for 472 women were analyzed. Participants completed measures on demographics, family organization, communication openness, and FHH communication. Average age was 34 years and 59% reported being Black. Thirty-one percent had graduated high school and 28% reported having commercial health insurance. Seventy-five percent of women reported a family history of cancer in a first or second degree relative. Descriptive statistics, correlations, and multiple linear regression and hierarchical logistic regressions, adjusting for key factors, were performed. Nineteen percent of women actively collected FHH information about cancer and 11% reported actively sharing cancer risk information with relatives. Being older, having a greater educational attainment, and having a family history of cancer was associated with having collected FHH; while being older and reporting higher levels of cohesion/flexibility was associated with sharing cancer risk information. Adjusting for demographic variables, cohesion, flexibility, and openness were not significant predictors of collecting or sharing FHH. Family history of cancer did not moderate the relationship between family organization and FHH. Cohesion and flexibility levels did significantly predict communication openness. This study contributes to a small but emergent literature in the field of FHH communication about cancer as it explores family context factors that may aid in the development of prevention interventions. Clinical implications and directions for future research are discussed.
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Puerta, Juan Manuel. "Essays on the Economic History of the family." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/32042.
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This thesis studies the economic effects of child labor and compulsory schooling laws (CLLs and CSLs). In the first two chapters I study the consequences of the enactment of CSLs on education and fertility. I use a combination of a difference-in-difference (DID) methodology with an identification strategy based on legislative borders to find that the laws increased enrollment by 7% and educational attainment by about 0.3 years of education over the long run. As for fertility, I find that CSLs imply a contemporaneous reduction in fertility of about 15%. In the long run, women that received compulsory education were expected to have approximately 0.15 to 0.3 fewer children. In the third chapter of this dissertation I look at the effect of CLLs on industrial performance. I find that industries that initially relied extensively on child labor suffered a significant reduction in growth as a consequence of the social legislation. I conjecture that the potentially sizable but narrowly concentrated effects of CLLs could explain why child labor is still common in the developing world today.Esta tesis estudia los efectos económicos de las leyes de trabajo infantil (CLL) y educación obligatoria (CSL). En los primeros dos capítulos, se exploran las consecuencias de la implementación de una CSL en los niveles de educación y fecundidad. Utilizando una metodología que combina diferencia-en-diferencias (DID) con una estrategia de identificación basada en las fronteras legislativas, se encuentra que estas leyes incrementaron la escolarización en un 7% y, en el largo plazo, el número de años de educación en 0.3. En cuanto a fecundidad, se halla que una CSL implica una reducción contemporánea de la misma en el orden del 15%. En el largo plazo, las mujeres que recibieron educación tienen aproximadamente 0.15 a 0.3 hijos menos. En el tercer capítulo de esta tesis se estudian los efectos de una CLL en el desempeño de la industria. Se encuentra que las industrias que al principio dependían ampliamente del trabajo infantil sufren una reducción significativa en sus tasas de crecimiento como consecuencia de la legislación social. Se conjetura que el hecho que estos efectos sean potencialmente grandes, aunque concentrados en unos pocos agentes, podría ser la razón por la cual el trabajo infantil es aún hoy tan común en el mundo en desarrollo.
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Balka, Hannah. "Characterizing pediatric narcolepsy: family history and familial autoimmunity." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1459438689.
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Bitter, James Robert, and J. Carlson. "The History of Marriage, Family, and Couples Therapy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5215.
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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Marriage, Family and Couples Counseling is a new, all-encompassing, landmark work for researchers seeking to broaden their knowledge of this vast and diffuse field.
Marriage and family counseling programs are established at institutions worldwide, yet there is no current work focused specifically on family therapy. While other works have discussed various methodologies, cases, niche aspects of the field and some broader views of counseling in general, this authoritative Encyclopedia provides readers with a fully comprehensive and accessible reference to aid in understanding the full scope and diversity of theories, approaches, and techniques and how they address various life events within the unique dynamics of families, couples, and related interpersonal relationships.
Key topics include: Assessment Communication Coping Diversity Interventions and Techniques Life Events/Transitions Sexuality Work/Life Issues, and more
Key features include: More than 500 signed articles written by key figures in the field span four comprehensive volumes Front matter includes a Reader’s Guide that groups related entries thematically Back matter includes a history of the development of the field, a Resource Guide to key associations, websites, and journals, a selected Bibliography of classic publications, and a detailed Index All entries conclude with Further Readings and Cross References to related entries to aid the reader in their research journey
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OLIVEIRA, MARIA FERNANDA BORGES VAZ DE. "FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND THE PSYCHOTIC ADOLESCENT: DELUSION AS A SYMPTOM OF THE FAMILY HISTORY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=5281@1.
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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOO foco deste estudo é apontar como o delírio do paciente psicótico é estruturado a partir das relações familiares transgeracionais. Utiliza- se o conceito de transmissão psíquica geracional para mostrar que o desenvolvimento psíquico de todo indivíduo é constituído pelas relações intersubjetivas que este estabelece, tendo como base as relações familiares. O sujeito é visto como formador e formado através destas relações. Tenta-se mostrar pelo enfoque psicanalítico como se dá esse processo no caso do paciente psiquiátrico adolescente É abordada a questão das expectativas familiares com a chegada de um novo membro e a dinâmica da família em relação aos filhos na fase da adolescência. A visão da terapia familiar psicanalítica embasa a análise de um caso clínico mostrando a questão da transmissão psíquica transgeracional na construção do delírio de um paciente psicótico adolescente atendido com sua família em um hospital psiquiátrico, universitário e público.
This dissertation intends to demonstrate how the delusion of a psychotic patient is structured by transgenerative family relationships. The concept of generative psychical transmission is used to prove that the psychical development of every person is constituted by the intersubjectives relations, having their foundations in the families relationships. The person is the maker as well as it is made through these relationships. It is tried to demonstrate this process under psychoanalytic focus when working with psychotic adolescents. The author proves the expectations of the families when a new member becomes part of it and too the family dynamic when they have adolescents members. The theory of psychoanalytical family therapy is used to analyze a clinical situation demonstrating the transgenerative psychical transmission in the construction of delusion of a psychotic adolescent and their family history in a public mental hospital.
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Liu, Haiming. "The transnational history of a Chinese family : immigrants letters, family business and reverse immigration /." New Brunswick : Rutgers university press, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40135007w.
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Laflamme, Valérie. "Familles et modes de résidence en milieu urbain québécois en période d'industrialisation, le cas de la ville de Québec, 1901." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ55771.pdf.
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Orser, Joseph Andrew. "American Family, Oriental Curiosity: The Siamese Twins, the Bunker Family, and Nineteenth-Century U.S. Society." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1280347273.
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Graham, Christopher Alan. "Faith and family in the antebellum Piedmont South." Thesis, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3609568.
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This dissertation examines the cultural and religious dynamics of the North Carolina Piedmont's non-planter social order. I look in depth at the modernizing elements of antebellum religion, particularly the sensibility of liberality that accompanied institutional development, how church disciplinary procedures adapted to changing social reality, and the formation of middle class style nuclear families under the aegis of evangelical prescription. In addition to using denominational records, I utilize four diaries of ordinary Piedmont residents in extended explorations of how individuals enacted in their private lives the public lessons of evangelicalism. I conclude that an evangelical ethic developed that existed alongside the dominant planter ideology, and that ethic formed the basis for both unity, and dissent, in the late antebellum period.
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Haydon, Clive Gordon. "The Relationship Between Identity Development and Family History Knowledge." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2549.
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The primary purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between identity development in late adolescent university students and family history knowledge. The relationship was examined within both the individual developmental and family systems theoretical frameworks. It was proposed that identity development involves achieving personal autonomy from the family of origin and at the same time maintaining positive relatedness to the family of origin. Identity development was examined using exploration, commitment, autonomy, and relatedness as dependent variables. It was proposed that late adolescent's personal exploration of and commitment to roles and values may be influenced by knowledge of parent and grandparent histories. It was also proposed that late adolescent's achievement of personal autonomy and positive family relatedness may be influenced by knowledge of parent and grandparent histories. The sample consisted of 239 university students. The Parental Relationship Inventory (PRI) and the Ego Identity Process Questionnaire (EIPQ) measured identity development constructs. The Do You Know? (DYK) scale measured family history knowledge. Multiple regression analyses indicated a significant positive relationship between commitment and family history knowledge and relatedness and family history knowledge, a negative relationship between autonomy and family history knowledge, and a weak correlation between exploration and family history knowledge. Findings indicate family history knowledge may influence components of identity development. This has practical implications for parents and others such as teachers, youth workers, social workers, and youth program designers whose work is directed at enhancing adolescent development.
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Moreton, Charles Edmund. "The Townshend family, c.1450-1551." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.279425.
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Whiting, Gloria McCahon. ""Endearing Ties": Black Family Life in Early New England." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493445.
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This dissertation explores the attempts of Africans, both enslaved and free, to create and maintain families in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England. It makes sense of a remarkable array of historical actors: men like Thomas Bedunah, who plotted a surprising course for his descendants when he chose a spouse of English descent; women like Cuba Vassall, who let her husband secure her firmly in bondage at the very moment the region’s blacks were being freed en masse; and a pair like Mark and Phoebe, who fed their master porridge laced with “Potter’s Lead” in hopes that his death would enable them to find owners closer to their distant families. Pulling together thousands of fragments of evidence, this dissertation contextualizes the everyday lives and beleaguered intimacies of these Africans and many others, revealing patterns in their living situations, gendered relationships, and kin communities that historians have never before recognized. At the same time, the project advances historical arguments related to a range of issues, from the relationship between family and freedom in early New England to the influence of patriarchy on enslaved kin groups in Anglo-America. The project sets forth methodological arguments as well. Contending that historical method has an important bearing on the ability of scholars to understand and portray slaves as fully human, with complete life spans and complicated contexts, “Endearing Ties” makes a case for the importance of reconstructing the lives and trajectories of enslaved individuals in great depth, despite the archival challenges that such an undertaking inevitably entails.History
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Worsencroft, John C. "A Family Affair: Military Service in the Postwar Era." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/469565.
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Prior to World War II, the typical American Soldier was young and unmarried. As the old saying in the service went: if they wanted you to have a wife, they would have issued one to you. Today’s servicemember is most likely married and we customarily thank our military families in the same breath as those who wear the uniform. This dissertation is the story of how “support our troops” came to encompass the broader community of military families and how this fundamentally changed the military. Rooted in cultural and gender history, my dissertation argues that changing gender roles in the domestic sphere (i.e., fatherhood, motherhood, breadwinner, and homemaker) had a profound impact on martial roles in the military world, and vice versa. In the postwar era, as domestic roles were beginning to change, more and more married men enlisted in the Army and the Marine Corps, forcing the services to craft policies to accommodate families. Large numbers of married men in uniform was a new development in the United States, and my dissertation shows how marriage transformed civil-military relations. My dissertations addresses questions that are crucial to both the history of the military as well as American cultural life in the second half of the twentieth century. Just as military life became more family friendly, and as the services expanded opportunities for women, far fewer Americans overall chose to share in the burden of national service. Although military policymakers crafted policies to make military life more attractive, they contributed to its further isolation from the broader population by providing generous social services for military families increasingly inaccessible to other American families. Embedded within these contradictions is the story of what it meant to be an American after the Vietnam War.
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Speckart, Amy. "The Colonial History of Wye Plantation, the Lloyd Family, and their Slaves on Maryland's Eastern Shore: Family, Property, and Power." W&M ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623580.
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The history of the Lloyd family at Wye Plantation in Talbot County, Maryland, from the 1650s to the early 1770s refines and complicates the dominant historical narrative of the rise of a native-born Protestant planter elite in colonial Chesapeake scholarship. First, the Lloyds were a wealthy and politically prominent Protestant family that benefited from close ties to Catholics up to the end of the colonial period. Second, in contrast to traditional histories of the colonial Chesapeake that emphasize the raising and marketing of tobacco, Wye Plantation's history attests to the importance of grain and livestock farming on a commercial scale, in addition to tobacco production, on the upper Eastern Shore since the seventeenth century.;This study examines the strategies of the Lloyd family to build their wealth and influence in Maryland in the context of the colony's political, economic, and social development. In the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the Lloyds forged kinship ties to Maryland's Catholic gentry, to Quakers, and to the Bennetts of Virginia and Maryland. With these connections, the plantation's trade with London and the West Indies expanded. In the mid- eighteenth century, Edward Lloyd III used his status as a trusted client within Lord Baltimore's patronage network to develop Wye Plantation as a locus of power. Upon his death in 1770, his son moved aggressively to preserve assets that would be the basis of his own independence.;This dissertation uses an interdisciplinary approach to document Wye Plantation's history. Sources include probate records, government proceedings, the Lloyd Papers and the Calvert Papers at the Maryland Historical Society, the Cadwalader Collection at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and portraits by Charles Willson Peale.;While plantation ownership remained the basis of social and political authority in the colony, each generation of the Lloyd family made use of the home plantation in context- specific ways. This thesis examines change in the uses of a Chesapeake plantation, and the meanings attached to plantation ownership, from the point of view of each generation of the Lloyd family during the colonial period.
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Kagan, Danielle. "Family Anthology." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2150.
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This is a film about my father, who died in 2017. It deals with his ancestry, rooted in South African history, as well as the events before and after his family’s immigration to America in 1965. The purpose of the project was to investigate the past, as I have been disconnected from my family history due to exile, assimilation, tragedy and trauma. This lead to the discovery of undeniable patterns of love and loss, which I present in this film, yet do not completely understand. Content warning: discussion of suicide and car accidents.
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Reinbold, Martin Brian. "The Mark Family Site." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625956.
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Sridharan, Preetham. ""Agglutinating" a Family| Friedrich Max Muller and the Development of the Turanian Language Family Theory in Nineteenth-Century European Linguistics and Other Human Sciences." Thesis, Portland State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10742847.
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Some linguists in the nineteenth century argued for the existence of a “Turanian” family of languages in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia, claiming the common descent of a vast range of languages like Hungarian, Finnish, Turkish, Mongol, Manchu, and their relatives and dialects. Of such linguists, Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900) was an important developer and popularizer of a version of the Turanian theory across Europe, given his influence as a German-born Oxford professor in Victorian England from the 1850s onwards. Although this theory lost ground in academic linguistics from the mid twentieth century, a pan-nationalist movement pushing for the political unity of all Turanians emerged in Hungary and the Ottoman Empire from the Fin-de-siècle era. This thesis focuses on the history of this linguistic theory in the nineteenth century, examining Müller’s methodology and assumptions behind his Turanian concept. It argues that, in the comparative-historical trend in linguistics in an age of European imperialism, Müller followed evolutionary narratives of languages based on word morphologies in which his contemporaries rationalized the superiority of “inflectional” Indo-European languages over “agglutinating” Turanian languages. Building on the “Altaic” theory of the earlier Finnish linguist and explorer Matthias Castrén, Müller factored in the more primitive nomadic lifestyle of many peoples speaking agglutinating languages to genealogically group them into the Turanian family. Müller’s universalist Christian values gave him a touch of sympathy for all human languages and religions, but he reinforced the hierarchical view of cultures in his other comparative sciences of mythology and religion as well. This picture was challenged in the cultural pessimism of the Fin de siècle with the Pan-Turanists turning East to their nomadic heritage for inspiration.
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Margolin, Sara. "Family history and breast cancer susceptibility : clinical and molecular studies /." Stockholm, 2006. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2006/91-7140-868-1/.
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McKinley, Shelby L., Thalia P. Sullivan, Hannah G. Mitchell, and Meredith K. Ginley. "The Relation Between Family History of Addiction and ENDS use." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8894.
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Fagan, Donna M. "Rosacea a review of family history and community of origin /." St. John's, NF : [s.n.], 2001.
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Garcia, Mary Carmen. "Data Summary: Significance of Family History in Breast Cancer Diagnosis." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/146566.
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Background: Family history and its significance in Hispanic breast cancer cases with a known BRCA mutation has not been widely studied. Methods: Family history, BRCA mutation and age data were obtained for a subset of 91 individuals derived from the ELLA Binational Breast Cancer Study population, in order to determine the importance of family history in the context of BRCA mutation status. Results: A total of 8 different BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations were found within the study population. Only 11 of the 91 participants (12.1%) were found to possess a BRCA mutation. Of these 11 women, 6 (54.5%) had a positive family history of cancer. This is greater than the expected percentage (23.5%) reported in the literature. Conclusion: Over half of those individuals that were found to have a BRCA mutation also had a positive family history of cancer. Therefore, family history is an important component when assessing breast cancer risk in populations of Hispanic women but can often be obscured due to limited family structure. Family history could be evaluated more effectively in the ELLA Study through the use of a modified questionnaire that probes for family structure.
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Romero, Liana Carrasco. "Third-Degree Family Health History and Perception of Disease Risk." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/601.
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Chronic diseases are a significant cause of illness and mortality in the United States. Hereditary predisposition to chronic diseases is a useful indicator for identifying people at risk for disease development. An ideal tool for determining this predisposition is the CDC, NIH, and AAFP recommended third-degree family health history (FHH). The aim of this quantitative, cross-sectional study, based on the theoretical frameworks of social constructivism and the health belief model, was to assess the possible influence between the completed third-degree FHH and the participant's perception of disease risk. Two-hundred seventy-three participants were recruited from health care facilities and from the general population using convenience sampling. Bivariate and multivariate tests were applied to analyze the obtained data. Binary regression indicated a statistically significant association between the presence of heart disease, stroke, breast cancer, ovarian/cervical cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, and diabetes, and the perception of risk for the particular disease as noted in the FHH. A familial history of stroke appeared to be the strongest predictor of perception of disease risk. Moreover, increasing age, particularly within the age range of 40 to 57, was associated with increasing levels of perception of disease risk for heart disease, stroke, and prostate cancer. Individuals from the general population significantly indicated higher-than-average risk for colon cancer compared to those from health care facilities. Social change implication of this study may be the widespread implementation of a familial health history questionnaire that leads to an impactful, higher degree of disease risk awareness, prompting preventive action on the part of the individual, and leading to improved individual and population health.
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Gualini, Giacomo <1993>. "Marketing Balsamic Vinegar to China: a family business case history." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/13122.
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First of all, it is my aim to illustrate the main topic of this dissertation.
Considered the Italian strength in the “Food Area Products” and the continuously growing trend toward exporting, this work starts from analyzing how Italian SMEs look for internationalization among different countries abroad.
In order to depict the ways in which such enterprises try to internationalize their activities and products, it is fundamental to understand what does the word “Internationalization” mean. To give this definition, we must assume that foreign markets always include a set of opportunities and difficulties for both SMEs operating or willing to operate in such markets. According to Uppsala Model, the “Internationalization process” can be described as an incremental acquisition, integration and application of foreign markets’ known how.
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Mathien, Julie. "Children, families, and institutions in late 19th and early 20th century Ontario." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ58891.pdf.
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Wagg, Phyllis Christena. "Families in transition, Richmond County, Nova Scotia, 1871-1901." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq24764.pdf.
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Leviner, Betty Crowe. "The Page Family of Rosewell and Mannsfield: A Study in Economic Decline." W&M ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625407.
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Barrera, Jennifer. "The Millers : historical analysis of an early Australian colonial family." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2020. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/175252.
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In July 1823, a family originally from Derry-Londonderry, Ireland, embarked on the long journey from Chatham Dockyards, along with the first despatch of troops from the 40th Regiment, to the colony of New South Wales. Lieutenant Henry Miller would become the first commandant of the Moreton Bay penal settlement. But by August 1825, Lieutenant Miller had been replaced—in effect, dismissed—and the family relocated to Van Diemen’s Land. This thesis explores the growing importance of family history in the twenty-first century as a popular pursuit for engaging with and writing history. It highlights family history’s potential for historical inquiry and its capacity to unpack settler colonial history and the role of the individual in Empire. It offers fresh historical perspectives on Australia’s colonial experiment. The research uses the combined methodologies of microhistory, biography and family history to recover the lives of Henry Miller, his wife Jane, sons Henry and Mars, his father the Reverend Miller, as well as, the diverse and interconnected lives of Captain John Townson, his brother Robert, convict Sarah Griggs, and her children. As a number of scholarly histories in the last decade have shown, family history as an approach for engaging with the past continues to gain attention globally and offers powerful benefits to those who engage with it, for the family historian and academic historian alike. The six core chapters that comprise this thesis demonstrate the importance of family history research to deepening our understanding of the past and its capacity to change the way we think and write about the past. This thesis aims to make a substantial and original contribution to Australian colonial history by recovering powerful lost voices and identities, and connecting the past with the present in a more intimate and accessible way through the exploration of a colonial family.Doctor of Philosophy
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Hindson, James. "Family, household, kinship and inheritance in Shrewsbury, 1650-1750." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.482035.
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Roche, Juanita Louise. "The elite in Imperial Germany : family, class and gender." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309233.
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Tadmor, Naomi. "Concepts of the family in five eighteenth-century texts." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272735.
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McDowell, Michelle Elizabeth. "The Weight of History: Does Family History Influence Men's Perceptions of Risk and Prostate Cancer Screening Decisions." Thesis, Griffith University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366074.
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The benefits of early detection screening for prostate cancer are still unclear and current screening guidelines recommend that men make an informed, personal decision based on an understanding of the risks, benefits, and uncertainties associated with screening. Men with a first-degree family history of prostate cancer are at more than double the risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer than are men without a family history. However, contrary to predictions put forward in previous research, although men with a family history of prostate cancer report greater risk perceptions and prostate cancer screening behaviour, increased risk perceptions do not predict screening. Previous research on how men with a family history of prostate cancer integrate heightened familial risk information into what is already a complex health decision has neglected to examine how men understand, combine, and weigh information about prostate cancer risk and the uncertainties of early detection screening to reach their decisions. The aim of the current thesis was to address these issues by applying three major theoretical models of judgement and decision-making to examine prostate cancer screening decisions for men with a family history and comparing their decisional process with that of men without a family history.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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Freitag-Sweeley, Sandra. "The F/C family of saxophones its history, future and literature /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1121711234.
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Käkelä, J. (Juha). "Family history of mental disorders and long-term outcome in schizophrenia." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2018. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526219059.
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Abstract The aim of this dissertation was to investigate the association between family history of mental disorders, especially psychosis, and long-term social, occupational and clinical outcome in schizophrenia. In addition, the association of pregnancy, birth and early development related factors with occupational and clinical outcome in schizophrenia were analysed. Two meta-analyses and the Northern Finland Birth Cohorts 1966 and 1986 (NFBC1966 and NFBC1986) were used to gather the data. In the meta-analyses family history of psychosis was associated with poorer long-term clinical, occupational and global (i.e. combined occupational, social and clinical) outcome in schizophrenia. NFBC1966 is an unselected, population-based sample of 12,058 live-born children and includes 161 individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorder. NFBC1986 is also an unselected, population-based cohort and consists of 9,432 live-born children and includes 189 individuals with psychosis. In the NFBC1966 study family history of any mental disorder was associated with more severe positive and emotional symptoms, but was not associated with other clinical symptoms or social, occupational or global outcome in schizophrenia. The family history of psychosis was not associated with outcomes. Regarding pregnancy, birth and early development related factors, it was found that young maternal age was associated with higher probability of being hospitalised with schizophrenia. In the NFBC1986 study a family history of any mental disorder was associated with higher number of days spent at hospital and higher number of hospitalisations, but it was not associated with occupational outcome or disability pension in psychotic disorders. A family history of psychosis was not associated with outcomes. This study suggests that family history of psychosis has a small association with clinical, occupational and global outcome in schizophrenia. There is less research regarding the association between family history of any mental disorder and outcome in schizophrenia, but based on the cohort studies family history of any mental disorder could be even stronger outcome predictor than family history of psychosis. Family history of mental disorders and especially psychosis is a strong risk factor for schizophrenia, and based on this study it seems to also associate with poorer outcomeTiivistelmä Tämän väitöstutkimuksen tavoitteena oli tutkia, miten mielenterveyshäiriöiden, erityisesti psykoosin, esiintyminen suvussa on yhteydessä pitkän ajan sosiaaliseen, kliiniseen ja työkykyyn liittyvään ennusteeseen skitsofreniassa. Lisäksi tutkittiin sitä, kuinka raskauteen, syntymään ja varhaiseen kehitykseen liittyvä tekijät ovat yhteydessä työntekoon ja kliiniseen ennusteeseen skitsofreniassa. Asiaa tutkittiin kahdessa meta-analyysissä ja Pohjois-Suomen vuoden 1966 ja 1986 syntymäkohorteissa. Meta-analyysien mukaan psykoosin sukurasitus oli yhteydessä huonompaan pitkän ajan kliiniseen, työkykyyn liittyvään ja kokonaisennusteeseen (yhdistetty sosiaalinen, kliininen ja työnteon ennuste) skitsofreniassa. Pohjois-Suomen vuoden 1966 syntymäkohortti on valikoitumaton, yleisväestöpohjainen kohortti, johon kuuluu 12 058 elävänä syntynyttä lasta. Kohortti sisältää 161 skitsofreniaa sairastavaa henkilöä. Pohjois-Suomen vuoden 1986 syntymäkohortti on myös valikoitumaton, yleisväestöpohjainen kohortti. Siihen kuuluu 9 432 elävänä syntynyttä lasta, joista 189:llä on psykoosi. Pohjois-Suomen vuoden 1966 syntymäkohortin mukaan mielenterveyshäiriön esiintyminen suvussa liittyi vakavampiin positiivisiin ja emotionaalisiin oireisiin, mutta ei liittynyt muihin kliinisiin oireisiin, työkykyyn, sosiaaliseen tai kokonaisennusteeseen. Psykoosin sukurasitus ei liittynyt ennusteeseen. Raskauteen, syntymään ja varhaiseen kehitykseen liittyvien tekijöiden osalta tutkimuksessa todettiin, että äidin nuori ikä oli yhteydessä suurempaan sairaalahoidon todennäköisyyteen skitsofreniassa. Pohjois-Suomen vuoden 1986 syntymäkohortin mukaan mielenterveyshäiriön esiintyminen suvussa liittyi suurempaan sairaalahoitopäivien ja sairaalahoitokertojen lukumäärään, mutta ei liittynyt työssäkäyntiin tai työkyvyttömyyseläkkeeseen psykoottisissa häiriöissä. Psykoosin sukurasitus ei liittynyt ennusteeseen. Näiden tulosten mukaan psykoosin sukurasituksella on pieni yhteys kliiniseen, työkykyyn liittyvään ja kokonaisennusteeseen skitsofreniassa. Minkä tahansa suvussa esiintyvän mielenterveyshäiriön yhteydestä ennusteeseen on vähemmän tutkimuksia, mutta kohorttitutkimusten perusteella millä tahansa suvussa esiintyvällä mielenterveyshäiriöllä voi olla jopa suurempi yhteys ennusteeseen kuin psykoosin sukurasituksella. Mielenterveyshäiriöiden ja etenkin psykoosin esiintyminen suvussa on voimakas skitsofrenian riskitekijä, ja tämän tutkimuksen mukaan se on myös yhteydessä huonompaan ennusteeseen
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Page, Timothy J., and n/a. "An Evolutionary History of the Freshwater Shrimp Family Atyidae in Australia." Griffith University. Australian School of Environmental Studies, 2007. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20070725.120145.
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The aim of this thesis is to use phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial DNA to investigate the biogeography and evolutionary relationships within the freshwater shrimp family Atyidae in Australia at a nested series of scales, both geographic and systematic. At the largest scale, the relationships between Australian and Indo-West Pacific species were inferred using the two most common atyid genera in Australia, Caridina and Paratya. Most atyids are hypothesised to have colonised Australia from Southeast Asia, but Paratya may be a Gondwanan relict given its distribution. Australian Paratya all form a strong clade, with a sister relationship to species from Tasman Sea islands. Molecular clock estimates place all of the splits within Paratya after the break-up of Gondwana, with Australia being colonised once 3½-8½ million years ago. This transoceanic dispersal is conjectured to have taken place through oceanic currents because of the amphidromous life cycle of some taxa of Paratya. Caridina has a very different biogeographic history in Australia, as numerous Australian species have close evolutionary relationships with non-Australian taxa from locations throughout the region. This implies many colonisations to or from Australia over a long period, and thus highlights the surprising adeptness of freshwater shrimp in dispersal across ocean barriers and the unity of much of the region's freshwater biota. A number of potential species radiations within Australia were also identified. This agrees with patterns detected for a large number of Australian freshwater taxa, and implies a vicariant explanation due to the development of colder, dryer climates. The systematic relationships of the remaining two Australian surface genera (Caridinides, Australatya) and two subterranean genera (Parisia, Pycnisia) were also investigated. Australatya forms a strong clade with Pacific 'Atya-like' genera, and Caridinides falls within a clade containing Australian Caridina. The hypogean genera, Parisia and Pycnisia, form a strong clade in all analyses, implying an Australian subterranean speciation. The possibility of a relationship between Parisia/Pycnisia and some Australian Caridina species may have implications for the monophyly of the highly disjunct genus Parisia, as it may descend from local Caridina species and represent convergent morphologies. The common and speciose genus Caridina was used as a model taxon for analyses within Australia. At the medium scale, molecular taxonomic techniques were used to uncover cryptic species within a problematic east Australian species complex. At least five species were detected. Phylogeographic and population genetic analyses were carried out on each of these five cryptic species, which diverged from each other in the late Miocene/Pliocene. There were very large differences between the species in the scales of overall geographic distribution, intraspecific divergence and population structure. These were characterised as either: 1) species with large ranges, low intraspecific divergence, limited phylogeographic structuring (Caridina sp. D); 2) species with large ranges, high intraspecific divergence, a high level of phylogeographic structuring (sp. B); 3) species with a limited range, low intraspecific divergence, no phylogeographic structuring (sp. E); or 4) species with limited ranges, high intraspecific divergences, a high level of phylogeographic structuring (sp. A & C). These patterns reflect a combination of large-scale factors, such as landscape structure and climate change, and small-scale factors, such as species-specific tolerances to local conditions and differing dispersal capabilities. Life history variation (egg size) between species may be correlated with different dispersal abilities. Species with the smallest eggs have the least intraspecific divergence and largest distribution, while those with the biggest eggs have the most divergence and smallest distribution, with medium-sized egg species in between. At the smallest phylogeographic scale, C. sp. C from the sand dune islands of Moreton Bay in southeastern Queensland was further analysed. Two different lineages (C1, C2) were found which diverged from each other during the late Miocene/Pliocene and so are older than the current landscape in which they are found. Small-scale phylogeographic analyses within C1, C2 and a sympatric fish identified divergences dating to the Pleistocene (about 100-300 thousand years ago). This implies that ice age sea-level changes may have structured these populations, although there is little observable influence of the last glacial maximum (about 18 thousand years ago). This study has highlighted a number of taxonomic anomalies within the Atyidae. The detection of many cryptic species implies that biodiversity within freshwater invertebrates is higher than currently appreciated. The evolutionary and biogeographic relationships of Australian atyids have proved complex, with many taxa having their own individual histories. At the large Indo-Pacific scale, dispersal is most evident, but within Australia, both vicariance and dispersal have been responsible for structuring all taxa at every scale.
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Vinnersten, Annika. "Tracing History : Phylogenetic, Taxonomic, and Biogeographic Research in the Colchicum Family." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Univ.-bibl. [distributör], 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-3793.
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White, Nicholas James. "Narrative closure and family history in the fin-de-siecle novel." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.319593.
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Chaves, EmÃlia Soares. "Accompaniment of children and adolescents with family history of arterial hypertension." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2007. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=1041.
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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel SuperiorThe presence of alterations of blood pression in children and adolescents has shown that arterial hypertension may have its initial history in this life stage. It is believed that the harmful effects of hypertension, when they exist, could be minimized if their presence was detected precociously, if the evaluation of blood pressure was done periodically and if it were a mandatory part of the consultations to children and adolescents. Epidemiologic studies about blood pressure in childhood also reveal that the persistence of high values in this stage of life reinforces the idea that hypertension in adulthood is a direct result of hypertension in childhood. One aimed to follow children and adolescents with family history of arterial hypertension for a long time, analyzing the evolution of percentage/classification of blood pressure in children and adolescents. The longitudinal/prospective study was developed in a poor community of Fortaleza-CearÃ. The blood pressure was evaluated in five meetings: first semester of 2004; first semester of 2005; second semester of 2005; first semester of 2006 and second semester of 2006. The data collection was conducted at home in pre-determined periods. By the data obtained, it was possible to confirm that children and adolescents can have high blood pressure, even without an specific cause and no sinthomatology. The group presented was composed by 141 participants, in the majority females (71). The ages varied from 6 to 21 years old in the period of accompaniment. The highest values of blood pressure were found in the male patients. A bigger percentage of the children and adolescents were relatives of second degree of arterial hypertension bearers (48.9%), and these showed the biggest average values of SBP and DBP. Out of 92 children, 30 remained with no alterations of the percentages of blood pressure in all evaluations; 42 presented alterations starting from the 3rd evaluation; eight showed alterations of the percentage only on the last evaluation conducted; 11 showed alterations of the percentages of blood pressure in all the evaluations and 20 presented alterations of the percentages in some evaluation, but in the last one showed normal percentage of blood pressure. Out of 49 adolescents, 32 remained with no alterations of the percentages of blood pressure in all evaluations; eight presented alterations starting from the 3rd evaluation; two individuals showed alterations of the percentages only on the last evaluation; six presented alterations of the percentages of blood pressure in all the evaluations and three presented alterations of percentages in some evaluation, but in the last one presented normal blood pressure percentage. It was not possible to identify statistic significance concerning the risk factors presented during the accompaniment, apparently being the family factor the biggest contribution to the high values of blood pressure. It is confirmed the necessity of a regular monitoring of children and adolescentsâ blood pressure and, even without significant statistic correlation, the precocious identification of risk factors such as overweight, obesity, sedentarism, positive history to hypertension, smoking and drinking in the prevention of future cardiovascular events.
A presenÃa das alteraÃÃes da pressÃo arterial em crianÃas e adolescentes tem evidenciado que a hipertensÃo arterial pode ter sua histÃria inicial nesta etapa de vida. Acredita-se que os efeitos deletÃrios da hipertensÃo, no caso de sua existÃncia, poderiam ser minimizados se a sua presenÃa fosse detectada precocemente, bastando para isso que a avaliaÃÃo da pressÃo arterial fosse feita periodicamente e constasse como parte obrigatÃria das consultas a crianÃas e adolescentes. Estudos epidemiolÃgicos sobre pressÃo arterial na infÃncia tambÃm revelam que a persistÃncia de valores elevados nesta fase da vida reforÃa a hipÃtese de que a hipertensÃo em adultos à resultado direto de hipertensÃo na infÃncia. Teve-se como propÃsito acompanhar por tempo prolongado crianÃas e adolescentes com histÃria familiar de hipertensÃo arterial, Analisando a evoluÃÃo dos percentis/classificaÃÃo de pressÃo arterial de crianÃas e adolescentes. O estudo longitudinal/prospectivo foi desenvolvido em uma comunidade da periferia de Fortaleza- CearÃ. A pressÃo arterial foi avaliada em cinco encontros: primeiro semestre de 2004; primeiro semestre de 2005; segundo semestre de 2005; primeiro semestre de 2006 e no segundo semestre de 2006. A coleta de dados foi realizada no domicÃlio em perÃodos prÃ-determinados. Pelos dados obtidos, foi possÃvel confirmar que crianÃas e adolescentes podem ter pressÃes arteriais elevadas, mesmo sem uma aparente causa especÃfica e sem sintomatologia. O grupo apresentado foi composto por 141 participantes, na sua maior parte do sexo feminino (71). As idades variaram de 6 a 21 anos no decorrer do perÃodo de acompanhamento. Os valores mais elevados de pressÃo arterial mostraram-se naqueles do sexo masculino. Um percentual maior das crianÃas e adolescentes tinha parentesco de 2 grau com o portador de hipertensÃo arterial (48,9%), sendo estes os que mostraram maiores valores mÃdios de PAS e de PAD. Das 92 crianÃas, 30 crianÃas permaneceram sem alteraÃÃes dos percentis de pressÃo arterial em todas as avaliaÃÃes; 42 apresentaram alteraÃÃes a partir da 3 avaliaÃÃo; oito mostraram alteraÃÃo dos percentis somente na Ãltima avaliaÃÃo realizada; 11 apresentaram alteraÃÃes dos percentis de pressÃo arterial em todas as avaliaÃÃes e 20 apresentaram alteraÃÃo dos percentis em alguma avaliaÃÃo, mas na Ãltima mostraram percentis normais de pressÃo arterial. Dos 49 adolescentes, 32 permaneceram sem alteraÃÃes dos percentis de pressÃo arterial em todas as avaliaÃÃes; oito apresentaram alteraÃÃes a partir da 3 avaliaÃÃo; dois indivÃduos mostraram alteraÃÃo dos percentis somente na Ãltima avaliaÃÃo; seis apresentaram alteraÃÃes dos percentis de pressÃo arterial em todas as avaliaÃÃes e trÃs apresentaram alteraÃÃo dos percentis em alguma avaliaÃÃo, mas na Ãltima mostraram percentis normais de pressÃo arterial. NÃo foi possÃvel identificar significÃncia estatÃstica em relaÃÃo aos fatores de risco apresentados ao longo do acompanhamento, parecendo ser o fator familiar o maior contribuinte para os valores elevados das pressÃes arteriais. Confirma-se a necessidade de monitoraÃÃo da pressÃo arterial rotineira de crianÃas e adolescentes e, mesmo sem correlaÃÃo estatÃstica significativa, a identificaÃÃo precoce de indicadores de risco como sobrepeso, obesidade, sedentarismo, histÃria positiva para hipertensÃo, uso de fumo e bebida alcoÃlica na prevenÃÃo de eventos cardiovasculares futuros.
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Cetnarskyj, Roseanne. "A study of family history, deprivation and comorbidity in colorectal cancer." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30437.
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A prospective study of 1540 colorectal cancer cases aged 16-79, diagnosed in Scotland between 3rd January 2002 and 31st December 2003, was conducted. The main aims are: report the number and proportion of cases that perceive they have a family history risk of colorectal cancer; compare waiting time with symptoms and behaviour after development of symptoms, between cases that perceive a family history risk and do not perceive a family history risk; report the number and proportion of cases in this cohort with a family history of colorectal cancer that meet Scottish clinical criteria for high or moderate family history risk. A secondary aim is: describe the average delay time in symptom presentation and the factors contributing to delay in presentation of lower gastrointestinal symptoms among cases with colorectal cancer and in particular assess the importance of deprivation and comorbidity. Results: The distribution of sex and age at diagnosis were similar to other published population-based colorectal cancer studies. Of the 1540 cases, 222 (14.9%) cases perceived they had a family history of colorectal cancer. 280 (18.2%) cases out of 1540 were at a high or moderate family history risk according to Scottish Executive Guidelines. Of these 280 cases, 133 (47.5%) perceived they had a family history of colorectal cancer. Of these 133 cases, only 51 (18.2%) discussed this concern with their GP and, only 12 (4.3%) were referred to cancer genetic services. Cases that perceived a family history risk of colorectal cancer were more likely to state they have knowledge of colorectal cancer symptoms and more likely to think that the lower gastrointestinal symptoms they develop are symptoms of colorectal cancer. However, this knowledge does not prompt them to visit the GP with less delay after symptoms onset than those cases with no perception of a family history risk of colorectal cancer. There was no association found between deprivation, comorbidity and timing of presentation following development of symptoms. The more deprived group of patients were significantly more likely to report no knowledge of colorectal cancer symptoms. They were also less likely not to inspect the toilet or the toilet paper before flushing. Implications for Health service: Providing all health professionals with the knowledge and skills to take a family history and to follow published guidelines when assessing family history risk would share the responsibility for identification of individuals with a high or moderate family, improve the appropriateness of referrals and reduce the inequality in access to cancer genetic services. The most deprived group of patients have the least knowledge of colorectal cancer symptoms and the design of educational material should acknowledge this fact and ensure that it is appropriate for this audience.
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Yurasek, Allison M. "Family History, Sensation Seeking and Impulsivity as Predictors of Alcohol Abuse." Marietta College / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marietta1212534522.
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Page, Timothy J. "An Evolutionary History of the Freshwater Shrimp Family Atyidae in Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367826.
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The aim of this thesis is to use phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial DNA to investigate the biogeography and evolutionary relationships within the freshwater shrimp family Atyidae in Australia at a nested series of scales, both geographic and systematic. At the largest scale, the relationships between Australian and Indo-West Pacific species were inferred using the two most common atyid genera in Australia, Caridina and Paratya. Most atyids are hypothesised to have colonised Australia from Southeast Asia, but Paratya may be a Gondwanan relict given its distribution. Australian Paratya all form a strong clade, with a sister relationship to species from Tasman Sea islands. Molecular clock estimates place all of the splits within Paratya after the break-up of Gondwana, with Australia being colonised once 3½-8½ million years ago. This transoceanic dispersal is conjectured to have taken place through oceanic currents because of the amphidromous life cycle of some taxa of Paratya. Caridina has a very different biogeographic history in Australia, as numerous Australian species have close evolutionary relationships with non-Australian taxa from locations throughout the region. This implies many colonisations to or from Australia over a long period, and thus highlights the surprising adeptness of freshwater shrimp in dispersal across ocean barriers and the unity of much of the region's freshwater biota. A number of potential species radiations within Australia were also identified. This agrees with patterns detected for a large number of Australian freshwater taxa, and implies a vicariant explanation due to the development of colder, dryer climates. The systematic relationships of the remaining two Australian surface genera (Caridinides, Australatya) and two subterranean genera (Parisia, Pycnisia) were also investigated. Australatya forms a strong clade with Pacific 'Atya-like' genera, and Caridinides falls within a clade containing Australian Caridina. The hypogean genera, Parisia and Pycnisia, form a strong clade in all analyses, implying an Australian subterranean speciation. The possibility of a relationship between Parisia/Pycnisia and some Australian Caridina species may have implications for the monophyly of the highly disjunct genus Parisia, as it may descend from local Caridina species and represent convergent morphologies. The common and speciose genus Caridina was used as a model taxon for analyses within Australia. At the medium scale, molecular taxonomic techniques were used to uncover cryptic species within a problematic east Australian species complex. At least five species were detected. Phylogeographic and population genetic analyses were carried out on each of these five cryptic species, which diverged from each other in the late Miocene/Pliocene. There were very large differences between the species in the scales of overall geographic distribution, intraspecific divergence and population structure. These were characterised as either: 1) species with large ranges, low intraspecific divergence, limited phylogeographic structuring (Caridina sp. D); 2) species with large ranges, high intraspecific divergence, a high level of phylogeographic structuring (sp. B); 3) species with a limited range, low intraspecific divergence, no phylogeographic structuring (sp. E); or 4) species with limited ranges, high intraspecific divergences, a high level of phylogeographic structuring (sp. A & C). These patterns reflect a combination of large-scale factors, such as landscape structure and climate change, and small-scale factors, such as species-specific tolerances to local conditions and differing dispersal capabilities. Life history variation (egg size) between species may be correlated with different dispersal abilities. Species with the smallest eggs have the least intraspecific divergence and largest distribution, while those with the biggest eggs have the most divergence and smallest distribution, with medium-sized egg species in between. At the smallest phylogeographic scale, C. sp. C from the sand dune islands of Moreton Bay in southeastern Queensland was further analysed. Two different lineages (C1, C2) were found which diverged from each other during the late Miocene/Pliocene and so are older than the current landscape in which they are found. Small-scale phylogeographic analyses within C1, C2 and a sympatric fish identified divergences dating to the Pleistocene (about 100-300 thousand years ago). This implies that ice age sea-level changes may have structured these populations, although there is little observable influence of the last glacial maximum (about 18 thousand years ago). This study has highlighted a number of taxonomic anomalies within the Atyidae. The detection of many cryptic species implies that biodiversity within freshwater invertebrates is higher than currently appreciated. The evolutionary and biogeographic relationships of Australian atyids have proved complex, with many taxa having their own individual histories. At the large Indo-Pacific scale, dispersal is most evident, but within Australia, both vicariance and dispersal have been responsible for structuring all taxa at every scale.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Australian School of Environmental Studies
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