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Towards a semantic typology of specific determiners [PDF]
, 2017 This paper investigates properties of a class of determiners which can be loosely la- belled specific in that their distribution falls in between maximally-quantifying definite determiners and indefinites which only contribute existential quantification.
Simonenko, Alexandra
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Overcoming Subaltern Silences: The Forgotten Buryat Soldiers of the Korean War
The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 422-442, July 2025.Abstract This article reassesses Soviet warfare practices by examining the use of non‐Slavic soldiers from Siberian ethnic minorities during the Korean War (1950–53). These soldiers, including Koreans, Buryats, Sakha Yakuts, and Tuvans, were deployed by the Soviet military in an elaborate deception scheme aimed at reinforcing Chinese units fighting on ...
Sayana Namsaraeva, Vitaly Tsytsykov
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When Everything Old Was New Again: Reclaiming Ethnonational Tradition in Post‐Soviet Buryatia
The Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 443-461, July 2025.Abstract Why greet your family in Buryat rather than Russian? What does it matter how many times you fold the dough of a meat dumpling? How should one celebrate a holiday? In early twenty‐first‐century Buryatia, the Buryat Buddhist New Year, Sagaalgan, emerged as an important domain within which such small practices were reified as expressive of Buryat
Kathryn E. Graber
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Buryat Crossroads: Poetry and Mythological Thinking
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2021 The authors give a literary assessment of the monograph by I.V. Bulgutova Buryat philosophical lyrics: mythopoetic foundations and traditions with the involvement of some of her other works.
Zukhra A. Kuchukova, Liana B. Berberova
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Сахарный диабет, 2013 Aim. To evaluate the association of rs2476601 and rs2488457 polymorphisms with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) in several ethnic populations of Russian Federation and to estimate the cross-populational differences of these polymorphisms.Materials and ...
O N Ivanova +10 more
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Text, time, and travel: temporal pathways of postsocialism and Islam
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 217-239, March 2025.Abstract As the concept of postsocialism faces increased scrutiny, there is a call to expand its spatiotemporal scope beyond socialist contexts in order to reclaim its analytical capacity. In Azerbaijan, the quiet resurgence of tezkirahs – biographical anthologies rooted in both the Islamic and Soviet traditions – presents an opportunity to explore how
Serkan Yolaçan
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Risk and its others: Toward an anthropology of “protection” in rural Mongolia
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 69-79, March 2025.Abstract Anthropological studies of risk have long focused on how people respond to and aim to manage potential harm. But despite its long and important genealogy, this article suggests that risk can pose an analytic blind spot that potentially occludes other ways of understanding how people aim to live well in potentially harmful situations.
Joseph Bristley
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American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 186, Issue 1, January 2025.Abstract Objectives Facial width‐to‐height ratio (fWHR) has been widely investigated in the context of its role in visual communication, though there is a lack of consensus about how fWHR serves as a social signal. To better understand fWHR variation in a comparative context, we investigate the associations between fWHR and canine crown height (CCH ...
Katharine L. Balolia +2 more
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Features of spatial structure and cenogenesis relict larch forests of the mountain forest-steppe of Southern Siberia [PDF]
Сибирский лесной журналThe article provides original information about relict phenomena in the structure of the forest component of the mountain forest-steppe of Southern Siberia (SS).
B.-Ts. B. Namzalov +3 more
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Severe Diarrhea Outbreaks in Newborn Piglets in China Associated With Porcine Rotavirus B
Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.Rotavirus B (RVB) is among the enteric pathogens that can cause gastroenteritis in humans and various animals. However, severe diarrhea in newborn piglets has rarely been reported to be linked to porcine RVB (PoRVB). From 2023 to 2024, outbreaks of newborn piglet diarrhea with 20%–50% morbidity and 4%–10% mortality occurred in three herds situated in ...
Mingkai Sun +10 more
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