A significant proportion of the surviving South Vietnamese veterans left Vietnam for Western countries, either as boat people or through the Humanitarian Operation ( HO ).

Robert Hartwell and Robert P. Hymes criticized this model, stating that it places too much emphasis on the role of the nuclear family and demonstrates only three paternal ascendants of exam candidates while ignoring the demographic reality of Song China, the significant proportion of males in each generation that had no surviving sons, and the role of the extended family.

These included the papers of his father William Clarke ( which are of crucial importance for the history of England during the period of the Commonwealth and Protectorate ) and a large proportion of the surviving drawings of Inigo Jones.

Absolute fitness for a genotype can also be calculated as the product of the proportion surviving multiplied by the average fecundity.

Placental mammals, the only surviving eutherians, have only up to three incisors on each top and bottom and four premolars to three molars, but the premolar / molar proportion is similar to placentals.

* survivorship curve-a graph showing the number or proportion of individuals surviving at each age for a given species

The proportion of juveniles surviving their first year is 34 %, with 69 % of adults surviving from one year to the next.

Data analysis by the British Trust for Ornithology shows that the proportion of juveniles surviving their first year of life is 34 %; adult survival from one year to the next is 69 %.

* The surviving spouse is paid a proportion of their deceased spouse's pension.

Some scholars believe that the importance of Gāndhārī in Central Asia is out of proportion with the relatively small number of surviving documents which have been discovered so far.

The concept of proportion does not appear in any surviving frescoes and we frequently find portrayals of animals or men with some body-parts out of proportion.

Furthermore, the loss of the heart of the Jankowski h. Jastrzebiec lands in the Polish Eastern borderlands ( Kresy ), to the Soviet Union, led to a large proportion of the surviving Jankowski descendants relocating west into new Poland.

Thus, Australia has a high proportion of the world's surviving, operable Birney cars.

An elective share is a term used in American law relating to inheritance, which describes a proportion of an estate which the surviving spouse of the deceased may claim in place of what they were left in the decedent's will.

More than half of the surviving fragments are devoted to the heroic story of the Argonauts: it is likely that this occupied a large proportion of the poem, and probably influenced later poetic accounts of the story such as Pindar's fourth Pythian ode, and the best-known version, Apollonius ' Argonautica.

( Gaspar Sanz ' Instrucción de Música sobre la Guitarra Española of 1674 constitutes the majority of the surviving solo corpus for the era.

Kennings are virtually absent from the surviving corpus of continental West Germanic verse ; the Old Saxon Heliand contains only one example: lîk-hamo “ body-raiment ” = “ body ” ( Heliand 3453 b ), a compound which, in any case, is normal in West Germanic and North Germanic prose ( Old English līchama, Old High German lîchamo, lîchinamo, Dutch lichaam, Old Icelandic líkamr, líkami, Old Swedish līkhamber, Swedish lekamen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål legeme, Norwegian Nynorsk lekam ).

In all there are about 400 surviving manuscripts from the period, a significant corpus of both popular interest and specialist research.

The earliest surviving corpus of Persian carpets come from the Safavid dynasty ( 1501 – 1736 ) in the 16th century.

A review of the exhibition by curator Everl Adair noted the influence of Vincent Van Gogh and Georgia O ' Keeffe on her paintings and concluded that her surviving corpus of art " represents the work of a talented, visionary woman who rose above tremendous odds to create a fascinating body of work — one that inspires us to celebrate the life that might have been.

In all there are about 400 surviving manuscripts from the period, a significant corpus of both popular interest and specialist research.

Only religious works are included in his small surviving corpus, the most famous being the Isenheim Altarpiece, completed 1515, now in the Musée d ' Unterlinden, Colmar.

As the earliest surviving example of a Greek poetry book as well as the largest addition to the corpus of classical Greek poetry in many years, the tale of the discovery made The New York Times and National Geographic.

Caesarius has over 250 surviving sermons in his corpus.

As mentioned previously, his corpus consists of over 250 surviving sermons.

It is difficult to distinguish the Dáirine from the Érainn in the surviving corpus.

His known works are largely in the concertato style, and Szweykowski suggests that the way " in which the words are given full expression " means he is likely to have composed secular vocal works in addition to the surviving sacred corpus.

His surviving works are still read widely, and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art.

Hadrian wrote poetry in both Latin and Greek ; one of the few surviving examples is a Latin poem he reportedly composed on his deathbed ( see below ).

The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired throughout antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.

Unlike the works of her fellow poet, Alcaeus, Sappho's surviving poetry has very few allusions to political conditions.

The traditional identification of the battle site with Oswestry, probably in the territory of Powys at the time, suggests that Penda may have had British allies in this battle, and this is also suggested by surviving Welsh poetry which has been thought to indicate the participation of the men of Powys in the battle.

No surviving records show that she entered poetry competitions ; she appears to have exchanged few poems or letters with other women during her service.

However, nowhere in the surviving Vedic poetry is there a story similar to the Ramayana of Valmiki.

She points to a surviving chess queen representing the Virgin, as well as medieval poetry depicting the Virgin as the chess-queen of God or Fierce Dieu ,.

However, poetry is not an ideal genre for communicating facts and very little detailed information can be derived from the surviving fragments.

Solon's presumed pederastic desire was thought in antiquity to have found expression also in his poetry, which is today represented only in a few surviving fragments.

' The Battle of Maldon ' is the name conventionally given to a surviving 325-line fragment of Old English poetry.

His religion belonged to women: the dying of Adonis was fully developed in the circle of young girls around the poet Sappho from the island of Lesbos, about 600 BCE, as revealed in a fragment of Sappho's surviving poetry.

Some modern scholars have found in the surviving poetry evidence that Ibycus might have spent time at Sicyon before journeying to Samos — mythological references indicate local knowledge of Sicyon and could even point to the town's alliance with Sparta against Argos and Athens.

In either case it is often suggested that Snorri invented the battle between Garmr and Týr, since it is not mentioned in the surviving poetry.

The earliest surviving poetry was likely transmitted orally and then written down in versions that do not now survive ; thus, dating the earliest poetry remains difficult and often controversial.

The earliest surviving poetry written in Anglo-Saxon, the most direct predecessor of modern English, may have been composed as early as the 7th century.

There are few surviving records of Blackstone's undergraduate term at Oxford, but the curriculum of Pembroke College had been set out in 1624, and Prest notes that it was probably still followed in 1738, so Blackstone would have studied Greek, science, logic, rhetoric, philosophy, mathematics, geography and poetry.

Knowledge of his views comes from fragments of his poetry, surviving as quotations by later Greek writers.

The first surviving major text in Early Scots literature is John Barbour's Brus ( 1375 ), composed under the patronage of Robert II and telling the story in epic poetry of Robert I's actions before the English invasion till the end of the war of independence.

Our knowledge about that common tradition, however, is based almost entirely on inference from surviving poetry.

Skaldic poetry can be traced to the earlier 9th century with Bragi Boddason and his Ragnarsdrápa, the oldest surviving Norse poem besides the poem preserved epigraphically on the Eggjum stone.

Examples of surviving poetry from this period include the works of the " Three Caos ": Cao Cao, Cao Pi, and Cao Zhi.

Major examples of poetry surviving from this dynamic era include the works of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, the poems of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering, the Midnight Songs poetry of the four seasons, the great " fields and garden " poet " Tao Yuanming ", the Yongming epoch poets, and the poems collected in the anthology New Songs from the Jade Terrace, compiled by Xu Ling ( 507-83 ).