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New motherhood and eugenics in German women's political and popular fiction around 1900

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 2, Page 101-111, April 2025.
Abstract Fictional texts have long functioned as a testing ground for new impulses in society. At the turn of the twentieth century many German feminists were demanding greater influence for women in public life not despite but because of their role as mothers.
Caroline Bland
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Conservation Biogeography of Mountain Vipers: A Phylogenetic Niche Modelling Approach

Diversity and Distributions, Volume 31, Issue 1, January 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim Mountain vipers belonging to the Montivipera genus represent a fascinating example of neo‐endemism found in the high plateaus of Iran, Anatolia and the Caucasus. Given the conservation challenges faced by these species, it is crucial to understand their phylogenetic relationships and suitable habitats in order to implement effective ...
Mohsen Ahmadi, Mahmoud‐Reza Hemami, Mohammad Kaboli, Somayeh Ghane‐Ameleh, Mansoureh Malekian   +4 more
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The Tradition of Epigraphy as a foundation of State Strategy in the Armenian Highlands

Revista Arheologică
The tradition of creating inscriptions for various events and occasions was widespread across different civilizations of the ancient world - Egyptian, Assyrian, Urartian, Iranian, and Greco-Roman - during the second and first millennia BCE. The Armenian Highlands were no exception.
Arsen Harutyunyan, Vahe Sargsyan, Hayk Gyulamiryan   +2 more
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Obsidian use during the Palaeolithic in the Armenian Highlands

In this manuscript, we briefly discuss those obsidian sources most frequently utilized during the Palaeolithic in the Armenian Highlands and some of the surrounding issues (Section 2), we summarize some of the most important Palaeolithic surveys and excavations conducted during the Soviet era (Section 3), we consider the issue of lithic transport ...
Ellery Frahm, Daniel Adler, Boris Gasparyan   +2 more
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Dynamically Triggered Tectonic Tremors and Earthquakes in the Caucasian Region Following the 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, Earthquake Sequence

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 51, Issue 22, 28 November 2024.
Abstract Deep tectonic tremor has been observed along major subduction zones and several continental strike‐slip faults around the Pacific Rim and the Caribbean. However, it has not be widely identified in other tectonically active regions such as the Alpine‐Himalayan orogenic belt yet. Here we present dynamically triggered tremors and microearthquakes
Dongdong Yao, Zhigang Peng, Chang Ding, Eric Sandvol, Tea Godoladze, Gurban Yetirmishli   +5 more
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The Conversion of Christian Armenians to Islam in Iran in the Early Modern Period

Religions
A considerable portion of the Armenian population living in the Armenian highland and the South Caucasian region was subject to the Iranian dynasties of the Safavids, Afsharids and Qajars in the period from the 16th till the beginning of the 19th ...
Kristine Kostikyan
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Extensive mismatch between protected areas and biodiversity hotspots of Iranian Lepidoptera

Insect Conservation and Diversity, Volume 17, Issue 6, Page 938-952, November 2024.
Species‐rich regions and areas with higher priority for conservation of Iranian Lepidoptera are mainly restricted to the major mountain ranges in the north and west. We investigated an extensive mismatch between the current network of the protected areas and no‐hunting areas, and the regions prioritized for Lepidoptera conservation within Iran ...
Sajad Noori, Dennis Rödder, Mahmood Soofi, Oliver Hawlitschek, Martin Husemann, Hossein Rajaei   +5 more
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Interdisciplinary Analysis of Fortresses in the Context Of Folklore And Architecture

Journal of Architectural and Engineering Research
The ‘fortress’ or ‘castle’ of the Armenian Highlands (the terms are used interchangeably here) has not been comprehensively studied from the interdisciplinary perspectives of folklore and architecture.
Davit Nahatakyan, Ashot Grigoryan, Hasmik Matikyan   +2 more
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The Lake Paravani archive – a contribution to the late Quaternary landscape evolution of the Lesser Caucasus (Georgia)

Boreas, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 655-672, October 2024.
Based on sediment cores taken from the southwestern part of Lake Paravani it was possible to retrieve a palaeoenvironmental record that expands the palynological and sedimentological data for the Lesser Caucasus region beyond the LGM until c. 28 cal. ka BP.
Daniel Gademann, Nino Ustiashvili, Luka Adikashvili, Levan Navrozashvili, Nathaniel Erb‐Satullo, W. Marijn van der Meij, Giorgi Kirkitadze, Tiiu Koff, Mikheil Elashvili, Helmut Brückner, Hannes Laermanns   +10 more
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Surface Rupture of the 2008 Mw 6.6 Nura Earthquake: Triggered Flexural‐Slip Faulting in the Pamir‐Tien Shan Collision Zone

Tectonics, Volume 43, Issue 9, September 2024.
Abstract This study investigates the intricate relationship between earthquake sources and seismogenic surface ruptures in a complex tectonic setting with active faults in the continental collision zone between the southern Tien Shan and the northern Pamir Mountains in Central Asia.
M. Patyniak, A. Landgraf, A. Dzhumabaeva, S. Baikulov, A. M. Williams, F. Preusser, K. E. Abdrakhmatov, J R. Arrowsmith, M. R. Strecker   +8 more
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