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Nazareno Strampelli and the first Green Revolution
Abstract This article describes the wheat‐breeding work of the Italian agronomist Nazareno Strampelli, who was the first agronomist to cross Japanese and western wheat varieties to develop high‐yielding semidwarf wheat. The article describes the environmental and agricultural conditions that motivated Strampelli's breeding, the evolution of his ...
Mark B. Tauger
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Decentralized response as a pandemic second‐best: The case of Russia
Abstract Centralized state response is almost universally considered as the first best option for managing pandemics. This paper argues that in reality, states fall short of this ideal. Knowledge problems hinder the government's disease acknowledgement, resource allocation and feedback, while compulsion, political predation, and corruption exacerbate ...
Vladimir V. Maltsev
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The identity of Lithospermum rochelii, so far known only from its type locality (Bulgaria, hills in Plovdiv town), remained hitherto uncertain. Our examination of its original material and re‐collection of the species from its locus classicus in Plovdiv town revealed its identity with Lithospermum glandulosum (syn.
Stoyan S. Stoyanov +2 more
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Abstract Current influenza vaccines need to be updated annually owing to constant antigenic drift in the globular head of the viral surface hemagglutinin (HA) glycoprotein. The immunogenic subdominant stem domain of HA is highly conserved and can be recognized by antibodies capable of binding multiple HA subtypes.
Yulei Li +5 more
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The Many Nationalities of Tamara Khanum: Friendship of the Peoples at Home, Abroad, and Within
Abstract Inspired by scholarship on empire and historical biography, this article examines the life of Soviet entertainer Tamara Khanum (1906–91) and her formation as a socialist intermediary. First, it considers how an ethnic Armenian born in the Uzbek SSR came to represent an image of liberated Eastern femininity to domestic audiences.
Charles D. Shaw
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Cholera revolts: a class struggle we may not like [PDF]
Few have studied cholera revolts comparatively, and certainly not over the vast terrain from Asiatic Russia to Quebec or across time from the first European cholera wave of the 1830s to the twentieth century.
Cohn Jr, Samuel Kline
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This study was performed to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAPs) of farmers and veterinary professionals towards FMD in the area studied. The study was based on a comprehensive questionnaire administered through face‐to‐face interviews.
Svetlana Bayantassova +20 more
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Reconstructions of deltaic environments from Holocene palynological records in the Volga delta, northern Caspian Sea [PDF]
This article was made available through open access by the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.New palynological and ostracod data are presented from the Holocene Volga delta, obtained from short cores and surface samples collected in the Damchik region ...
Abdullayev NR +27 more
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Abstract Background Highly pathogenic avian H5 influenza viruses have spread and diversified genetically and antigenically into multiple clades and subclades. Most isolates of currently circulating H5 viruses are in clade 2.3.2.1 or 2.3.4.4. Methods Panels of murine monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) were generated to the influenza hemagglutinin (HA) of H5 ...
Carlotta Schuele +10 more
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