scholarly journals Social Unit Organization in Three Wild Pig Populations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Social Unit ◽  
Unit Organization ◽  
Wild Pig

Heteronormativity and Developing Masculinities at a Primary School in South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luckmore Chimanzi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Male Identity ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Diary Research

This article explores the development of heteronormativity and the construction of masculinities at a township primary school in South Africa. In this study, boys and girls chastise homosexuality yet maintain their male-to-male and female-to-female social bonds. Homosocial or male-to-male social bonds have a bearing on the construction of male identity. It is argued that homosocial relationships serve as a means through which certain boys negotiate and exhibit their masculinity in a process of identity formation in which heterosexuality is a key component. Qualitative data from focus groups and diary research with Grade 7 students (male and female) in a primary school are used. Boys engage in a number of games and acquire resources for themselves; hence, as a social unit, they portray themselves as heteronormative. Their solidarity plays a role in maintaining their power in relationships even though privately some of them expressed preference for more flexible constructions of masculinity.

Co-operation as a Conditional Strategy among Peers: Influence of Social Ecology and Kin Relations

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. LaFreniere
Keyword(s):  
Peer Relations ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Conditional Strategy ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
Kin Relations ◽  
Sources Of Variation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Developmental Significance ◽  
The Relationship

The goal of this study is to analyse sources of variation, residing within the individual or within the relationship, in the ability to balance co-operative and competitive behaviours in a dyadic context. The ability to balance these two tendencies can be considered fundamental to successful adaptation within a social unit because co-operation may be essential in raising offspring, competing with other groups or in generating resources, whereas egoistic behaviour may protect the individual from exploitation or otherwise enhance reproductive success. Research is reviewed on the influence of social structures and relationships on co-operation in peer groups, and the origin and developmental significance of individual differences in co-operative abilities. Finally, a research programme investigating the conjunction of kin and peer relations is described, emphasising the role of affective synchrony, behavioural contingency, and reciprocity in shaping and sustaining co-operative behaviour as a conditional strategy.

Microbial computational genomics of gene regulation

2002 ◽  
Vol 74 (6) ◽  
pp. 899-905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio Collado-Vides ◽  
Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb ◽  
Arturo Medrano-Soto
Keyword(s):  
Transcription Initiation ◽  
Transcription Unit ◽  
Microbial Genomes ◽  
E Coli ◽  
Regulatory Interactions ◽  
Living Bacterium ◽  
Complete Set ◽  
Operon Organization ◽  
Unit Organization ◽  
K 12

Escherichia coli is a free-living bacterium that condensates a large legacy of knowledge as a result of years of experimental work in molecular biology. It represents a point of departure for analyses and comparisons with the ever-increasing number of finished microbial genomes. For years, we have been gathering knowledge from the literature on transcriptional regulation and operon organization in E. coli K-12, and organizing it in a relational database, RegulonDB. RegulonDB contains information of 20­25 % of the expected total sets of regulatory interactions at the level of transcription initiation. We have used this knowledge to generate computational methods to predict the missing sets in the genome of E. coli, focusing on prediction of promoters, regulatory sites, regulatory proteins, operons, and transcription units. These predictions constitute separate pieces of a single puzzle. By putting them all together, we shall be able to predict the complete set of regulatory interactions and transcription unit organization of E. coli. Orthologous genes in other genomes of known co-regulated sets of genes in E. coli, along with their corresponding predicted operons, and their predicted transcriptional regulators, shall permit the extension of the previous goal to many more microbial genomes.

Self-Help and the State: Rural Cooperatives in Imperial Germany

1988 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Peal
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
Individual Property ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Political Autonomy ◽  
Freedom Of Contract ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Village Life ◽  
Territorial States

The consolidation of territorial states in Central Europe undermined the local customs and institutions that had shaped village life since the Middle Ages. By the end of the eighteenth century unitary law codes overrode rural customs. By distinguishing between public and private law, these codes stripped the organized village community of legal substance. Police and judicial functions once performed within the community were assumed by bureaucrats, and the state meddled with the use of local resources by liberalizing marriage and residence laws. Deprived of political autonomy, the village did remain the core economic and social unit in rural life, controlling access to communal forests and enforcing the rules of three-field agriculture. In the middle decades of the nineteenth century this limited autonomy was undermined as well. Freedom of contract, security of individual property, free transmission of property between generations, and commercialization of landed property struck at the ability of villages to control their material world in customary ways.

scholarly journals Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae Transcription Unit Organization: Genome Survey and Prediction

DNA Research ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 413-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. M. Siqueira ◽  
A. Schrank ◽  
I. S. Schrank
Keyword(s):  
Mycoplasma Hyopneumoniae ◽  
Transcription Unit ◽  
Genome Survey ◽  
Unit Organization

Wild Pig Spatial Ecology and Behavior

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-56
Author(s):  
Steven M. Gray ◽  
Gary J. Roloff ◽  
Robert A. Montgomery ◽  
James C. Beasley ◽  
Kim M. Pepin
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Ecology ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Wild Pig

scholarly journals Cultivation of Special Needs Students’ Citizenship as the Basis in the aspiration of Ukraine to European Integration

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yevhenia Fedorova
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Special Needs Students ◽  
Social Unit ◽  
Integrated Environment ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Higher Educational

Abstract The prospects for the cultivation of special needs students’ citizenship as a prerequisite for the entry of Ukraine into the European Community have been described. The priority of compliance of European democratic sociocultural standards and humanistic values, among which the most important are the changes of attitude towards the disabled people, providing the establishment of equal rights for all Ukrainian citizens, has been specified. It has been confirmed that equal rights for all citizens are a guarantee of the disabled person’s civil self-affirmation and preservation of his honor and dignity. An analysis of domestic and foreign scholars’ works on the issue of citizenship education of young people with special needs has been represented. The pecularities of the special needs students’ citizenship education in the integrated environment of higher educational institutions have been characterised. On the basis of the analyzed literature it has been determined that a special needs’ student has got an opportunity to gain greater understanding of himself and his role in the society, improve his adaptive skills, expand the range of interests and social circle, ensure his own potentialities as a social unit and assert himself in his own value to the society under the conditions of higher educational institution of integrated type. The factors underlying the formation of special needs students’ citizenship in the integrated environment of higher educational institution and characterizing the individual’s citizenship in the democratic society have been thoroughly described.

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