Using a classic model of stress to teach survey construction and analysis.

The classic model of Chinese kinship organization, with its complementary emphases on patrilineality, patrilocality, and patriarchy, continues as a framework for research on Chinese social organization despite accumulating evidence of alternative models or of disjunctures within the elite model. This model has come under critical scrutiny from a variety of perspectives, most notably anthropologically informed historical research (Watson 1982; Watson 1985) that has led to a questioning of the lineage model (Freedman 1965) and field-based research that has drawn attention to the prevalence of uxorilocal and “small daughter-in-law” (tongyangxi) marriage and to the nurturing of uterine families (Wolf and Huang 1980; Wolf 1972). My purpose is to contribute to this reassessment with a discussion of customary practices of postmarital dual residence for women and continuing ties between married women and their natal families. These practices and ties cannot be accounted for within the framework of the structural-functionalist model and require an adaptation of practiceoriented theory. This may illuminate the specific structuring patterns and disjunctures described below as well as suggest possibly fruitful lines of analysis for other societies in which lineages are salient. The contribution of this article is to identify and explore a significant dimension of structuring practices in informal kinship relations in rural China.

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Service Tatars in the Diplomatic Service of the Muscovite State: The Baymakov-Rezanov Family

Quaestio Rossica ◽

10.15826/qr.2021.3.616 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Andrey Belyakov

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Family Business ◽

Historical Perspective ◽

Classic Model ◽

Muslim Countries ◽

Time Of Troubles ◽

The Moment ◽

Over Time

Very little is known about diplomatic professionals specialising in eastern affairs in the Muscovite state until the seventeenth century. The issue has only occasionally been touched upon in some research works. This is explained by the limited number of surviving sources. For this reason, the Baymakov-Rezanov family is unique, as the extant data make it possible to trace the uninterrupted service of this clan’s representatives over the course of a century. This is thanks to cadastres and embassy records from both sides, a few extant documents from the Ambassadorial Prikaz, and the family’s persistent nickname. Ambassadorial service was a family business where traditions were passed from generation to generation, from elder sons to younger ones. Several generations of Baymakov-Rezanovs took part in organising the diplomatic contacts of the Muscovite state with Muslim countries as reconnaissance riders (Rus. stanichniki) and interpreters (Rus. tolmachi). They repeatedly headed diplomatic missions and were very well paid for their work. The examination of their family’s story makes it possible to observe the organisation of diplomatic service from a longer historical perspective. Initially, the technical side of contacts with the countries of the east was organised by princely Tartars, who served the grand prince proper. They were provided with land close to Moscow. Gradually, they started forming smaller groups of specialists, such as translators (Rus. bakshei), tolmachi, stanichniki, and the newly baptised (Rus. novokrescheny). This structure was largely destroyed by the Time of Troubles. This affected the circle of people recruited to the service; it grew considerably and was quite often created in accordance with the demands of the moment. Over time, it was predominated by service Tartars from Meshchera. The classic model of the peripheral staff of the Ambassadorial Prikaz, consisting of translators and tolmachi, only formed in the mid-seventeenth century as inherited positions dwindled significantly.

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Compounding and variational morphology: the analysis of inflection in Spanish compounds

Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics ◽

10.7557/1.3.1.2828 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Cristina Buenafuentes

Keyword(s):

Morphological Variation ◽

Font Size ◽

Classic Model ◽

Plural Noun ◽

Morphological Component

This paper analyzes the morphological variation related to gender and number in Spanish compounding such as plural noun in [V+N]ncompounds (ellavaplatos, not el lavaplato; el cazamariposas, not *el cazamariposa), the gender and number asymmetries between the actual compound and its parts (cabezafem. + cuadradafem. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">à el cabeza cuadradamasc., relacionesfem. pl. + públicasfem. pl. <span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">à el relaciones públicasmasc. sing.), the presence of inflectional markers inside compounds (sord-o-mudafem, not *sord-a-mudafem.), and the variation that takes place in many plural compounds (casas cuartel or casas cuarteles ‘house quarter’, coches cama or coches camas ‘car and bed’). Basing ourselves on the classic model of level ordering with an admixture of Booij's distinction between inherent and contextual inflection, this piece of research proves that these cases of morphological variation can be approached as a morphological component, accessible to syntax. This model also relativizes the importance of the head in compounding and highlights the value of morphology, lexis and syntax interfaces.

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A Sobre-Reação do Mercado à Informação Intangível

Brazilian Review of Finance ◽

10.12660/rbfin.v7n2.2009.1257 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 215

Author(s):

Carlos Marcelo Lauretti ◽

Eduardo Kazuo Kayo ◽

Emerson Fernandes Marçal

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Investment Strategies ◽

Past Performance ◽

Accounting Performance ◽

Classic Model ◽

Market Index ◽

Intangible Information ◽

The U.S

Academic studies have shown that returns show reversion effects, which has often been explained as market overreaction to ﬁrms past performance. Other studies have shown that future returns are positively related to book-to-market index (B/M), which has been suggested as a proxy for risk factors omitted by CAPM classic model. Both evidences have been widely used in investment strategies. More recent studies in the U.S. market showed that these observations stem from the same phenomenon: the overreaction to the intangible information, that is, information that is not present in accounting performance statements,

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Peroxisomal membrane proteins are properly targeted to peroxisomes in the absence of COPI- and COPII-mediated vesicular transport

Journal of Cell Science ◽

10.1242/jcs.114.11.2199 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 114 (11) ◽

pp. 2199-2204 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tineke Voorn-Brouwer ◽

Astrid Kragt ◽

Henk F. Tabak ◽

Ben Distel

Keyword(s):

Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽

Membrane Proteins ◽

Secretory Pathway ◽

Human Fibroblasts ◽

Vesicle Transport ◽

Peroxisome Biogenesis ◽

Peroxisomal Membrane ◽

Classic Model ◽

Early Secretory Pathway

The classic model for peroxisome biogenesis states that new peroxisomes arise by the fission of pre-existing ones and that peroxisomal matrix and membrane proteins are recruited directly from the cytosol. Recent studies challenge this model and suggest that some peroxisomal membrane proteins might traffic via the endoplasmic reticulum to peroxisomes. We have studied the trafficking in human fibroblasts of three peroxisomal membrane proteins, Pex2p, Pex3p and Pex16p, all of which have been suggested to transit the endoplasmic reticulum before arriving in peroxisomes. Here, we show that targeting of these peroxisomal membrane proteins is not affected by inhibitors of COPI and COPII that block vesicle transport in the early secretory pathway. Moreover, we have obtained no evidence for the presence of these peroxisomal membrane proteins in compartments other than peroxisomes and demonstrate that COPI and COPII inhibitors do not affect peroxisome morphology or integrity. Together, these data fail to provide any evidence for a role of the endoplasmic reticulum in peroxisome biogenesis.

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