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This study examines the influence of climate on human evolution using a large dataset (>2500 individuals) and combines morphometric analysis, genomic data, and various statistical techniques. It reveals distinct morphological traits in cold‐region populations, like increased nasal height and reduced facial protrusion, but also differences such as those
Andrej Evteev +7 more
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Abstract The aim of this article is to bring the issue of peace more definitively into the increasingly complex vision we have of the postwar era and to give particular thought to the place of the military man within a society that was now supposedly orientated toward peace.
Claire E. McCallum
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Semiotics of the Chinese Hieroglyph: From Iconic and Indexical Sign to Symbolic
Chinese hieroglyphic writing has developed ways of recording meanings that differ from those in alphabetic systems, which generates interest in the hieroglyph as an object of research.
P. P. Dashinimaeva, S. V. Dambueva
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“Intuitive districts”: Agentive images in a post‐socialist city
Abstract Anyone who has lived in a city knows that, separately from the administrative or electoral districts, there are districts that exist in the imagination. Areas of the city seem to have a distinctive character and ethos. The article suggests that such notional place‐forming occurs spontaneously through everyday sensations, life activities, and ...
Caroline Humphrey
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The crop yield of spring wheat under conditions of the Aridized climate [PDF]
Due to the global warming, massive aridization is observed in the Transbaikal territory, including Buryatia, as a result, agriculture is forced to function under conditions of a strict limit of atmospheric and soil moisture.
Ilyin Y.M. +4 more
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Abstract Wildfires emit atmospheric aerosols, affecting climate and air quality. Siberia is a known source region of wildfires. However, comprehensive knowledge regarding the impact associated with particulate matter pollution due to Siberian wildfires on climate and air quality and their effects on mortality and the economy under present and near ...
Teppei J. Yasunari +4 more
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The Buryat Language in the Global Language System
Dutch sociologist Abram de Swaan began to elaborate a model of the global language system in 1993, and in 2001 his book “Words of the World: The Global Language System” was issued.
D. D. Tregubova
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Abstract The field of human biology has long explored how human populations have adapted to extreme environmental circumstances. Yet, it has become increasingly clear that conditions of social stress, poverty, and lifestyle change play equally important roles in shaping human biological variation and health.
William R. Leonard
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Exemplary differences: ethnicity, mythic histories, and essentialism in Khovd, Mongolia
Abstract This article provides an ethnographic account of understandings of ‘ethnic’ difference in Khovd province, Mongolia. It attempts to use said material to challenge the terms of debate within the current concern with ‘essentialism’ in social theory.
Joe Ellis
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Treatment of chronic viral hepatitis C with direct acting antiviral agent: review
HCV infection treatment regimens are viewed from positions of HCV life cycle and replication, effects of NS3/4A protease inhibitors and NS5A/NS5B inhibitors on HCV strain replication.
V A Malov +4 more
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