408 research outputs found
Study subjects, including feeding condition, age, maturation status, social rank, and canine length
No full textStudy subjects (N=5 food-enhanced and 75 wild-feeding male baboons), including feeding condition, age, maturation status, social rank, and canine length. *Birthdate status indicates whether the birthdate is known or estimated, and what the error interval around the estimate is. 0 indicates an age known to within a few days; 1 indicates an estimate to within ± 1 year, 2 indicates within ± 2 years, and so on. ** ‘Researcher’ indicates who measured the canines: JA: Jeanne Altmann, and JG: Jordi Galbany
Socio-ecological and endocrine predictors of cycling irregularity in the wild baboon (Papio cynocephalus): A life history characterization
No full textThis study explores the environmental and social factors that combine to exert similar effects in the
menstrual patterning of a population of wild yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalus) in Amboseli,
Kenya. Irregular cycles are associated with significantly reduced fertility as well as fetal loss in
both humans (Rowland et al 2002)(Bently 1985)(Gluckman and Hanson 2006) and baboons
(Altmann and Alberts 2003)(Gesquiere et al 2006), but the exact forces responsible for such
compensatory or senescence-related menstrual irregularity remain uncertain. The indirect effects
exerted by psychological and physiological stress on sex hormones via the hypothalamic-pituitarygonadal
axis are well documented. However, greater specificity of life history patterns in
postpartum amenorrhea and cycling irregularity needs to be established in order to assign
comparative weight to underlying socio-ecological forces, and to assess separate long-term
consequences of these occurrences (Livingston 2012). The main findings of this study are as
follows: When drought was concurrent with a female’s adolescent sub-fertility, she required two
more cycles on average to achieve first conception. Drought preceding her maturation yielded no
significant difference in the number of cycles required for her first conception. Concurrent drought
conditions interacted with multiparous females’ rank and her fGC hormone concentrations to
predict longer PPA duration, however drought alone was not a significant predictor of longer PPA.
Instead, lower rank was a stronger predictor of lengthier PPA duration; rank demonstrated an even
stronger correlation with PPA during drought conditions compared with non-drought and for
primiparous females compared with multiparous females. Primiparous females exhibited longer
PPA than multiparous females (controlling for the effects of rank, age, fGC, drought, and
accounting for female identity). Older age was not a significant predictor of longer PPA duration
after fGC was controlled for. Higher fGC hormone concentrations predicted longer PPA, when all
of the aforementioned socio-ecological predictors were controlled for. Infantile death rates (defined
by survival < 1 year) were significantly higher when drought preceded parturition, while
primiparous females also exhibited significantly higher infantile death rates than multiparous
females. Longer non-conceptive cycles did not occur more frequently during drought conditions
Memoiren. [Fragment] /
No full textAltmann tells the story of the Jewish community in Nikolsburg starting in 1370. He focuses specifically on the history of the Altmann family, especially Siegfried Altmann's grandparents. The second part of the manuscript deals with stories of Rabbi Mordechai Benet (1753-1829) as told to the author by his grand-aunt.See also archival collection.Altmann was born in Nikolsburg (Maehren) in 1887 and died in 1963 in New York. He was the director of the Institute for the Blind "Hohe Warte" in Vienna.see archival collection AR 1788Benet, MordechaiWalter, BrunoNikolsburg (Moravia)digitize
Fashion Culture: Fashion Metropolis Berlin
No full textBerlin was a fashion capital in the 1920s, with hundreds of thriving clothing manufacturers, most of them Jewish, before it was decimated by the Nazis. Author Uwe Westphal shares this history in a discussion with FIT historian Keren Ben-Horin and journalist Jennifer Altmann, whose grandfather ran one of Berlin’s fashion houses.Organized in partnership with the Museum at Eldridge Street
Economics in Persian-period biblical texts : their interactions with economic developments in the Persian period and earlier biblical traditions
No full textLarge-scale economic change such as the rise of coinage occurred during the Persian-dominated centuries (6th –4th centuries BCE) in the Eastern Mediterranean and ancient Near East. How do the biblical texts of the time respond to such developments?
In this study, Peter Altmann lays out foundational economic conceptions from the ancient Near East and earlier biblical traditions in order to show how Persian-period biblical texts build on these traditions to address the challenges of their day. Economic issues are central to the way that Ezra and Nehemiah approach the topics of temple building and of Judean self-understanding. Economic terminology and considerations also appear in Second Isaiah and the “Holiness Code.” Following significant interaction with the material culture and extra-biblical texts, the author devotes special attention to the ascendancy of economics and its theological and identity implications as structuring metaphors for divine action and human community in the Persian period.
Clos
Sex Hormones and Paternal Behaviors: Differences Between Fathers and Other Male Caretakers in Yellow Baboons (Papio cynocephalus)
No full text- …
