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Time heals? A multi-sited, longitudinal case study on the lived experiences of returnees in Armenia [PDF]

, 2017
Broekaert, Eric, Derluyn, Ilse, Lietaert, Ine   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Economic Impact of Periodontitis: Global, Regional and National Estimates of Periodontal Expenditure, With Forecasts to 2050

Journal of Periodontal Research, EarlyView.
This study provides the first global, regional and national estimates of periodontal expenditure, with projections to 2050. Costs related to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, maintenance and rehabilitation are quantified across all countries worldwide.
Dian Yi Chow, Robin D. Blythe, John Rong Hao Tay, Gustavo G. Nascimento, Mario Romandini   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Costing-out the Big Bang: Impact of external shocks on the Armenian economy at the outset of transition [PDF]

This paper explores factors of economic decline in the small republican economies of the former USSR. It develops quantitative estimates of the costs of major transitional shocks for Armenia during the early transition, including the direct impact of ...
Avanesyan, Vahram, Freinkman, Lev
core   +1 more source

The Contemporary Debate on Secularization and Its Cross‐National Variation: A Systematization Through Topic Modeling

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Secularization is a key concept in the social scientific study of religion, yet its meaning remains ambiguous due to varied definitions produced in the literature. This article aims to provide a data‐driven systematization of the debate on religious change by analyzing 1638 academic articles published between 2001 and 2022 using structural ...
Valeria Rainero, Ruud Luijkx
wiley   +1 more source

Population structure of wild and cultivated grapevines in Armenia. [PDF]

BMC Plant Biol
Nikoghosyan M, Hovhannisyan E, Zadirako N, Duan S, Asatryan A, Arakelyan A, Margaryan K, Baloyan A, Konecny T, Binder H.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
wiley   +1 more source

From Cookbooks to Networks: A Framework for Comparing Multiethnic Ingredient Systems in Transylvania. [PDF]

Foods
Magyari-Sáska Z, Magyari-Sáska A, Bálint-Bálint L.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Counter-Terrorism in a Police State: The KGB and Codename Blaster, 1977 [PDF]

The paper provides a rare case study of terrorism and counter-terrorism within a closed society, carried out under a blanket of official secrecy. This case is unexpectedly revealing in what it tells us about terrorism, counterterrorism, and the relative ...
Mark Harrison
core  

Dread in the Homeland: Symbolic Politics and Ethnonationalist Struggles for Self‐Determination in Nigeria

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The revival of Biafran separatism in contemporary Nigeria is often explained with three leading theoretical frameworks: relative deprivation, political economy and state repression. Whereas relative deprivation and political economy perspectives posit that the resurgent separatism derives from the perception and empirical reality of ...
Promise Frank Ejiofor
wiley   +1 more source

First Report on Occurrence and Characterization of Microplastics in Feces of <i>Larus armenicus</i> (Buturlin, 1934) in the Lake Van Basin (Eastern Anatolia, Türkiye). [PDF]

Toxics
Azizoğlu E.
europepmc   +1 more source