Family Membership Research Articles

Reconsider the triangle: Effects of birth parents’ communicative practices on Chinese hidden children’s identification with family of origin

Employing the theoretical approach of discourse dependence, the present study investigates the effects of birth parents’ communicative practices upon Chinese hidden children’s identification with family of origin before and after family reunification. Semi-structured interviews with 10 hidden children presented a birth parent-centered triangle of communication among birth parents, hidden children, and foster caregivers. The birth parents’ open communication with hidden children and foster caregivers, display of affections, along with the representation of family membership, affected hidden children’s birth family identification. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a Discipline by Christopher Moore

Reviewed by: Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a Discipline by Christopher Moore Jonathan Lavery MOORE, Christopher. Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a Discipline. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. xi + 411 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper $32.95 No later than 347 BCE people began calling Diogenes of Sinope a dog (kyōn). Apparently, he wasn't offended. For around 337/6 BCE, after the new Macedonian ruler announced himself as "Alexander the Great," he replied with equal ceremony: "And I am Diogenes the Cynic (kyōn)." Thus did an insult get refashioned as a self-description. By so claiming a word pinned on him by others, Diogenes helped braid together the peculiar self-sufficiency for which he was already known and the brand name he still exemplifies today. Name and nominata were brought together for abuse, stabilized by appropriation, and preserved in legend. Calling Philosophers Names tells a comparable—albeit richer and far more complex—story in which philosophoi and its cognates evolved from being the wry label for a group of eccentrics around 500 BCE into a nom de profession in the fourth century. It's a terrific story, which Moore constructs ingeniously and tells very well. Moore's primary task is to disentangle and reconstruct the complex, intertwined careers of now familiar words philosophia, philosophoi, and philosophos in one strand of ancient thought, and practices and personalities from the history of philosophy in another. Moore's novel approach is to trace the development of philosophia and its cognates by tracking the word-group from inchoate origins to designators for a mature discipline. It took several generations for loose strands of names and nominata to coordinate as we might expect. This enterprise was both lexical and normative. Indeed, Moore argues convincingly that the first element of phil-stem compounds originally entailed something negative, and only later acquired neutral and positive associations. For most of this period, the extension of philosophos did not include Thales, Anaximander, and Heraclitus, and it was not until Aristotle that philosophia became a recognizable discipline. The result is a genealogy in which family membership was established partly by historical descent, partly by retrospective adoption. Calling Philosophers Names opens with an anecdote for which our earliest attestation is from Heraclides of Pontus, a fourth-century Academician and contemporary of Aristotle: On being asked by the tyrant Leon what he is, Pythagoras described himself as a philosophos, one who observes life and hunts after truth. What made this moment of self-identification believable to a fourth-century audience? For Moore, plausibility is one reason, but the fact that Leon required an explanation of the word philosophos is suggestive—evidently it was newly coined and not in wide circulation. Chapter 2, the first of three on "Origins," begins with a cluster of remarks from Heraclitus, among which is our earliest extant instance of a philosoph-construction. By Moore's account, Heraclitus's specification that philosophical men (philosophous andras) "ought to be researchers into much" (DK B35) is of a piece with other fragments criticizing polymathy, empirical inquiry, and Pythagoras (B40, B57, B129, B81). The label "philosophical men" in B35, Moore argues, picked out "sage-wannabees" [End Page 600] who mimic sophoi without being worthy of sage status. "Philosophical" did not signify admirable intellectual cultivation. Other scholars amend the fragment. Moore leaves everything as it is, reading it as a complaint about the polymathy of philosophical men (rather than an exhortation for readers to take up philosophia). Chapter 3 elucidates metalinguistic features of phil-stem words, using as a guide Aristotle's analysis of several examples (Nicomachean Ethics, books 1, 2, and 4). According to Moore, such words were not originally used by anyone to describe themselves; they were, rather, other-applied descriptions of someone whose behavior is excessive with respect to the object or activity designated by the second element. While a moderate pursuit of wealth is good, being philoploutos is avaricious. So, alongside veneration of the Seven Sophoi, there was derision for posers who aspired to that status, namely, philosophoi. In chapter 4, Moore conjectures that Pythagoreans were among those commonly and dismissively called philosophoi. Chapter 5 examines all six extant...

Abstract P204: Association Of Plasma Proteome With Inflammatory Markers Crp And Glyca And Their Responses To Exercise Training

Introduction: C-reactive protein (CRP) and GlycA are established biomarkers of inflammation. Regular exercise tends to decrease CRP and GlycA levels. However, the molecules underlying CRP and GlycA and their responses to exercise training are less known. Hypothesis: We hypothesized that distinct protein signatures exist for both baseline levels and exercise responsiveness of CRP and GlycA, however with some overlap of proteins across signatures. Methods: Measures were performed before and after 20 weeks of exercise training in 652 Black and White adults from the HERITAGE Family Study. 4,979 circulating proteins were measured using SomaScan. High-sensitivity CRP was measured using automated assays. GlycA was quantified by NMR spectroscopy (LabCorp). Linear mixed models were used to test: 1) Association of baseline proteins with baseline hsCRP and GlycA and 2) Association of change in protein with changes in hsCRP and GlycA. Models were adjusted for age, sex, race, BMI, with family membership as a random variable, with change models also adjusting for baseline trait value. Significance was determined as FDR<0.05. Results: Baseline levels (r=0.51, p<0.0001) and change (r=0.31, p<0.0001) of hsCRP and GlycA were moderately correlated. hsCRP did not change with training, while GlycA trended towards decreasing (Table 1). Across time points, 388 and 1746 unique proteins were associated with hsCRP and GlycA, respectively, with substantial overlap across traits and time points (Table 1). The CRP protein was the top association in 3 of 4 models (range: 1.4x10 -40 < p < 1.2x10 -08 ), with serum amyloid A-2 and A-1 (SAA2, SAA) among the top 6 hits for 3 of 4 models (Table 1). Conclusions: More unique proteins were associated with GlycA levels at both timepoints, with most hsCRP proteins overlapping with GlycA proteins. Overall, a substantial number of proteins are associated with CRP and GlycA levels regardless of when they are measured, which has potential implications for using proteins as signatures of these inflammatory biomarkers.

Abstract P206: Proteomic And Metabolomic Signatures Of Plasma Triglyceride-related Trait Responses To Regular Exercise

Introduction: Elevated plasma triglycerides (TG) are associated with risk of cardiovascular disease and are modifiable through lifestyle interventions such as regular exercise. However, TG responses to regular exercise are characterized by significant inter-individual differences. Hypothesis: We hypothesized that baseline levels of circulating proteins and metabolites are associated with TG response to exercise and can predict exercise-induced changes in plasma TG traits. Methods: We measured circulating proteins (n=4979 proteins) and metabolites (n=300) in 650 Black and White adults of the HERITAGE Family Study who completed 20 weeks of exercise training and had complete data on TG traits. We investigated two TG-related traits that significantly improved with training: fasting TG and large TG-rich lipoprotein particle concentration (LTRLP). The association between baseline analyte values and exercise-induced changes in TG traits were examined using linear mixed models adjusted for age, sex, race, BMI, baseline trait value, and the random effect of family membership. Significance was determined as FDR<0.05. Molecular signatures of TG trait responses were generated via elastic net regression tuned using leave-one-out cross validation. Results: Regular exercise significantly reduced plasma TG (-1.03±1.3 mmol/L, p=0.01) and LTRLP (-0.24±2.2 nmol/L, p= 0.007), with their training-induced changes moderately correlated (r=0.4, p<0.0001). We identified largely distinct panels of baseline analytes associated with changes in TG and LTRLP ( Table 1 ). Similarly, elastic net regression yielded distinct models of 99 analytes for TG and 315 analytes for LTRLP responses to exercise with accuracy of RMSE=1.28 mmol/L for TG and 2.16 nmol/L for the LTRLP model. Conclusions: We identified panels of proteins and metabolites associated with exercise-induced changes in TG traits and demonstrate, within our data, circulating analytes hold promise for predicting the exercise responsiveness of plasma TG-related traits.

The education policy of the First Democratic Republic of Georgia, published in the Georgian party press of 1918-1921

We present the education policy of the years of the first Republic of Georgia (1918-1921) by observing the main newspapers of the mentioned period ( "Ertoba", "Sakhalkho Sakme", "Sakartvelo", "Sakartvelos Republika"). As you know, the young democratic republic faced many problems. Addressing the issue of nationalization was largely based on a fundamental transformation of the education system. The return of the native language, first of all, required the Georgianization of the educational program, which, in turn, required both material and intellectual resources. Membership of a large European family was associated with the revival of science in Georgia. The issue of Georgia's territorial integrity was also directly related to public education. Accordingly, the education policy of the Sovereign Republic had to be considered in different contexts. Although not a single work has been devoted to the life of Georgia during the years of independence, they are mainly of a historiographical nature. Our research, in particular, focuses on the specifics of the education policy presented in the media, and in-depth research of the issue in this regard is the main task. Based on the theories of media effects, in particular agenda setting and framing, we have outlined the role of the media in leading to a highly contradictory path to education reform. It turned out that the formation of an education system in the Georgian multi-party press was one of the priority issues and different parties pursued a uniform policy on this issue. The media message was as follows: we would connect Europe with the development of science, and we would become a member of the European family only if we were a full-fledged nation. The framework of these messages is defined by the spatial orientation of Georgia - Georgia, not through Russia, but should be directly connected to Europe.

Typology of Polish Parliamentary Parties According to the Religious Criterion (2001–2021)

The present article provides an original typology of Polish parliamentary parties according to the religious criterion, i.e., the attitude towards the Catholic Church and its postulates (prohibition of abortion, legalising IVF and civil partnerships). The analysis covers the parties which have had at least 10 seats in the Sejm since 2001. First, the parties were classified according to the program criterion (membership in party families), then their views in the axiological sphere were analysed, and finally, the party typology was determined. The following types of parties were distinguished: quasi-religious, referring only to Christian values, axiologically moderate, secular.

Evaluating establishment success of non-native fishes introduced to inland aquatic habitats of tropical Pacific islands

An information-theoretic approach was used to evaluate non-native freshwater fish species introduced to insular habitats of Hawaii and Guam comparing successful establishments vs. failures. Since the late 1800s, as many as 81 non-native freshwater fish species have been recorded as introduced to Hawaii and Guam (combined) and 50 (62%) of these are documented as having one or more established populations. We examined eleven independent variables to investigate establishment success by creating 21 a priori logistic regression models ranked using Akaike's Information Criterion adjusted for small sample size. An additional eight post-hoc models were included that comprised the best a priori model and various combinations of individual variables. The best overall model of establishment probability included effects of taxonomic affinity (family membership), prior establishment success on other tropical islands, and hypoxia tolerance. Establishment success in Hawaii and Guam was highest for those species established on many other islands, and according to our best model air-breathing fishes were more likely to become established. Six fish families, each with from three to 18 species introduced to Pacific islands, were highly successful at establishment: Cichlidae (16 established of 18 species introduced), Poeciliidae (seven of eight), Cyprinidae (four of seven), Centrarchidae (four of four), Clariidae (three of three), and Loricariidae (three of four). Those that successfully established include both small and moderately large-bodied taxa, while representing a diverse array of other morphological and life-history traits. Pathways and motives associated with fish introductions in the Pacific have been linked to desires to develop aquaculture, enhance wild stocks of food, sport, and bait fishes, for use as biological control agents, or are linked to the ornamental fish trade. We found that many established species were introduced via multiple pathways (up to eight) and our analyses suggest that the combination of prior establishment success on other tropical islands and presence of non-native fishes in multiple pathways was indicative of high propagule pressure. Our study results and conclusions on Pacific tropical island introductions are in general agreement with previous studies on non-native freshwater fishes in other regions of the world and similar to observations in continental ecosystems and temperate zones.

Familial Terminology and the Progressive Nature of Church Membership in Cyril of Jerusalem

Abstract There is too little study of Cyril of Jerusalem’s notion of the ecclesiological identity of baptismal candidates. I found that his use of familial terminology was not simply limited to that of the Biblical and Patristic models, i.e., fully initiated members of the church. He applied it to unbaptized candidates as well. They shared in a primal yet real membership of the ecclesial family. They were progressively brought into church membership through the individual rites of initiation, each contributing to a growing transformation in the candidates. They could be identified as family even prior to their ultimate, baptismal adoption as members. This article fills a significant gap in research on the late fourth century theology of initiation. It provides present-day catechists with a deeper understanding of their baptismal candidates’ ecclesiological status. It opens a Patristic and ecumenical vista into the relationship of non-Orthodox Christians with the Orthodox church.

How adopters’ and foster carers’ perceptions of ‘family’ affect communicative openness in post-adoption contact interactions

This article explores the constructions of communicative openness following adoption. Data from three waves of interviews with six adoptive mothers and four foster carers were collected, transcribed verbatim and analysed in keeping with a social constructivist grounded theory methodology. The results show that the way ‘family’ is constructed can both facilitate and impede communicative openness. Those who hold a fluid, child-centred concept of family, are willing to construct it as different and can accept the ebb and flow of family membership intuitively and view such openness as a natural part of caring for children. Those with a more traditional, nuclear construction of family may associate adoption with fear, a sense of biological related competition and the need to control the controllable, all of which act as barriers to communicative openness. The study demonstrates that communicative openness is person and context sensitive and emphasises the need to think creatively and flexibly about the very nature of family.

Organizational Psychological Capital in Family Firms: the Role of Family Firm Heterogeneity

Organizational psychological capital—comprising hope, confidence, resilience, and optimism—is a vital resource for family firms in times of stress. Surprisingly, whether and how family firm idiosyncrasies impact organizational psychological capital remains unclear. Considering the theoretical paradigm of socio-emotional wealth, we investigate two important family firm characteristics as antecedents of organizational psychological capital: the family involvement in the top management team and the generation of the family firm. We further propose that these relationships are moderated by a board of directors’ tenure. Based on an empirical analysis of listed U.S. family firms, our results confirm a negative relationship between family membership in the top management team and organizational psychological capital. In addition, we find that descendant family firms exhibit higher levels of organizational psychological capital than founder family firms. The results also confirm the moderating role of board tenure. This study works toward a more holistic view of family firm heterogeneity and specifically how different types of family involvement shape a firm’s positive strategic resources.

Freedom with Local Bonds: Custom and Manumission in the Age of Emancipation

Abstract Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, across Latin America, expansive rural communities of African descent forged freedom from below in the shadows of highly exploitative extractive economies. Their efforts push us to reconsider established genealogies of the age of emancipation. Freedom through conditional manumission and enslaved people’s reliance on social networks to obtain it opened the door to custom inside first-instance district courts in such areas. Judges turned to vernacular understandings of rights and obligations as they clarified the ambiguous statuses of the conditionally freed for which written law offered few provisions. Through manumission and legal actions to defend freedom, peasants of African descent on the margins of the global economic system grounded their rights in state structures as local custom. Black freedom within such territories represents a mode of community governance that remains invisible if studied by focusing on mobility or nation building. Seen from a place such as Santiago de Cuba, the nineteenth century was not just a time when Africans and Afro-descendants pursued social inclusion through ideologies of national citizenship and diasporic connections. It was also a time of freedom through membership in local communities, which women and families were especially instrumental in forging.

Exploring family millennials’ involvement in family business internationalization: Who should be their leader?

Drawing on generational theory, we argue that family millennials’ involvement is a driver of export intensity in family firms, but it depends on two different CEO characteristics, namely: family membership and societal generational membership. An ordered probit regression analysis on 92 Italian family firms confirms that the involvement of family millennials positively influences export intensity and that a millennial CEO enhances that positive effect. In addition, we found that a non-family CEO amplifies such a positive effect, whereas a family CEO tends to turn the tide so that the effect of family millennials’ involvement becomes negative. The novel findings of our explorative study contribute not only to the research on family business and internationalization, but also to the literature on generational theory.

Conservation in the Iron Responsive Element Family.

Iron responsive elements (IREs) are mRNA stem-loop targets for translational control by the two iron regulatory proteins IRP1 and IRP2. They are found in the untranslated regions (UTRs) of genes that code for proteins involved in iron metabolism. There are ten “classic” IRE types that define the conserved secondary and tertiary structure elements necessary for proper IRP binding, and there are 83 published “IRE-like” sequences, most of which depart from the established IRE model. Here are structurally-guided discussions regarding the essential features of an IRE and what is important for IRE family membership.

Newly defined allergens in the WHO/IUIS Allergen Nomenclature Database during 01/2019-03/2021.

The WHO/IUIS Allergen Nomenclature Database (http://allergen.org) provides up‐to‐date expert‐reviewed data on newly discovered allergens and their unambiguous nomenclature to allergen researchers worldwide. This review discusses the 106 allergens that were accepted by the Allergen Nomenclature Sub‐Committee between 01/2019 and 03/2021. Information about protein family membership, patient cohorts, and assays used for allergen characterization is summarized. A first allergenic fungal triosephosphate isomerase, Asp t 36, was discovered in Aspergillus terreus. Plant allergens contained 1 contact, 38 respiratory, and 16 food allergens. Can s 4 from Indian hemp was identified as the first allergenic oxygen‐evolving enhancer protein 2 and Cic a 1 from chickpeas as the first allergenic group 4 late embryogenesis abundant protein. Among the animal allergens were 19 respiratory, 28 food, and 3 venom allergens. Important discoveries include Rap v 2, an allergenic paramyosin in molluscs, and Sal s 4 and Pan h 4, allergenic fish tropomyosins. Paramyosins and tropomyosins were previously known mainly as arthropod allergens. Collagens from barramundi, Lat c 6, and salmon, Sal s 6, were the first members from the collagen superfamily added to the database. In summary, the addition of 106 new allergens to the previously listed 930 allergens reflects the continuous linear growth of the allergen database. In addition, 17 newly described allergen sources were included.

‘Implicit’ remittances in family relationships: The case of Bangladeshis in Italy and beyond

AbstractIn this article – based on 100 in‐depth interviews with divided and reunited Bangladeshi families in Italy, Bangladesh, and London – we discuss how remittances are influenced by gender relations within the family, what social meanings they assume, what family memberships they reinforce, how the intertwining between migration and family cycle affects them. By adopting an intersectional approach, we show how economic transfers are normally sent to the family of the first‐migrant man, although they may assist the emigration of the wife's male relatives: a phenomenon that we call ‘implicit remittances’. A second set of results concerns changes over time in remittances and two events of the family cycle are decisive: the family reunification in Italy and the demise of parents in the country of origin. In both cases, remittances are reduced, cease, or are limited to gifts in particular circumstances.

Not Entirely Married: Resisting the Hegemonic Patrilineal Family in Japan's Household Registry

Abstract The koseki 戸籍 (family or household registry) has long served as a material representation of the conceptual structure of Japanese family relations. Membership in a family has been stipulated and proved through registration in a koseki document defined through a shared surname and address. Evidence of family membership for purposes of legal transactions and social interactions has rested in the koseki document. However, during the past several decades some women have questioned the social pressure and legal requirement to change their names in marriage, choosing instead to maintain their surname by refusing to register their marriages to their “husbands.” Claiming themselves “married” but not legally registering their marriages, this growing group of name-change resisters defines their nonregistered marriages as jijitsukon 事実婚 (common-law or real marriage). Drawing on ethnographic research with women in jijitsukon marriages in Tokyo who refuse to share a koseki with their “husbands,” this article explores the implications of marital registration resistance in a marriage-centric society and the concurrent critique of the koseki system (the Koseki Law, koseki document, and the broader system of registration) and the legal marriage structure at the core of women's claims to be married when they do not meet Japan's legal criteria for marriage.

Memorializing the Middle Classes in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Memorializing the Middle Classes in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Memorializing the Middle Classes in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Memorializing the Middle Classes in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Preliminary Exploration of the Relationship between Veteran Family Membership, School Climate, and Adverse Outcomes among School-Aged Youth

Little is known about the functioning of children in veteran-connected families, who may experience a unique constellation of stressors including exposure to parental mental health symptoms and unemployment. Further, research has not previously considered the role of school climate in counteracting these stressors for veteran-connected students. This preliminary study examines the relationship between veteran parent’s mental health and employment with adverse outcomes for their school-age children, as well as the potential moderating effect of safe school climate. Participants were 218 veteran parents of children in K-12 schools, who completed the Chicago Veterans Survey, including measures of PTSD and depression, unemployment, a school safety scale drawn from the California School Parent Survey, and an adverse child functioning screening tool. Regression models suggest that depression symptomatology and perceptions of less safe school climate were significantly associated with adverse outcomes among veteran-connected students. Safe school climate buffered against the negative effects of parents’ depression symptoms, particularly at lower levels of depression severity. Findings suggest the need for future research to explore the potentially crucial role for schools, including teachers, administrators, and particularly school-based mental health providers, in supporting the healthy functioning of veteran-connected students and their families.

Celebrity habitus, confessional style: Self-reflective bodily instruction in Khloé Kardashian’s Strong Looks Better Naked

The article examines Khloé Kardashian’s self-help book Strong Looks Better Naked from the perspective of representing a celebrity-based inspirational guide that extols the values of exercise and healthy living and in terms of key tenets of the autobiography. In this context, the article argues that the book represents an in-depth example of Sean Redmond’s concept of the ‘celebrity confessional’ in that it uses self-reflective disclosures to connect with readers. However, given the confessionals of bodily issues revealed in the book, the article explores how Khloé Kardashian’s narrative critically exhibits, drawing on the work of Bourdieu, a double sense of habitus. This is explored through her insider perspective that articulates the bodily norms and expectations associated with contemporary celebrity culture, and through her revealing of her own relationship with this culture, a factor significantly exacerbated through her membership of the Kardashian family and its extensively mediated celebrity brand.