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Risk and its others: Toward an anthropology of “protection” in rural Mongolia

open access: yesAmerican 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
wiley   +1 more source

Modernization, Innovations and Strategic Planning for Russia’s Spatial Economic Development [PDF]

open access: yesПространственная экономика, 2010
The capabilities of modernization and innovations to draw Russia out of the system crisis are shown. The necessity is shown for forming a national integrated system of strategic planning, which can become an effective mechanism for modernization and ...
Leonid Vasilyevich Potapov   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

BURYAT TRADITIONAL BUDDHISM IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY

open access: yes, 2020
At the beginning of the 21st century, the traditional Buryat sangha faces a new challenge, which is connected to processes of increasing globalization that concern all the greater territories of Russia. This paper examines Buryat Buddhism in the light of
Pavel Varnavskiy
core   +1 more source

Relative facial width, and its association with canine size and body mass among chimpanzees and bonobos: Implications for understanding facial width‐to‐height ratio expression among human populations

open access: yesAmerican 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
wiley   +1 more source

PTPN22 polymorphisms associated with type 1 diabetes mellitus in ethnic populations of Russian Federation

open access: yesСахарный 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
doaj   +1 more source

Severe Diarrhea Outbreaks in Newborn Piglets in China Associated With Porcine Rotavirus B

open access: yesTransboundary 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
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic Analysis of Reproduction in the Buryat Populations

open access: yesJournal of PHYSIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY and Applied Human Science, 2005
A complex anthropological survey based on population-genetic methods and a study of a wide spectrum of genetic systems (43 alleles from 17 independent loci) was undertaken among 450 Buryat women of post-reproductive age. The results obtained showed the influence of particular genetic markers and their complex on the formation of peculiarities in the ...
Spitsyna, Nailija Khajievna   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

The abortive symbiosis: Tibetan medicine and the making of socialist healthcare in the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR (the 1920s – early 1930s)

open access: yesVestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta Istoriya
This paper analyzes the uneasy relationship between Tibetan and Soviet medicine in the period when socialist healthcare in the newly proclaimed Buryat-Mongolian ASSR was in the making. The study aims to reconstruct, trace, and provide new insights in the
V. Y. Bashkuev
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cross‐clausal scrambling and subject case in Balkar: On multiple specifiers and the locality of overt and covert movement

open access: yesSyntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 613-652, December 2024.
Abstract We use fieldwork data about cross‐clausal scrambling in Balkar (Turkic) to clarify the nature of movement and its constraints. Balkar has a variety of embedded nominalized clauses, with different subject cases and possibilities for movement.
Tatiana Bondarenko, Colin Davis
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnocultural Features in the Representations of Family as a Resource of Resilience among Russian and Buryat Youth

open access: yesSocial psychology and society
Objective. Comparative analysis of representations about family as a resilience resource among Russian and Buryat youth (15 to 24 years old).Background. The influence of family on human resilience is mediated by cultural and ethnic contexts.
A. Makhnach   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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