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Traditional Fermented Dairy Products as Reservoirs of Bifidobacterium With Probiotic Potential: From Microbial Diversity to Functional Characterization

open access: yesComprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, Volume 25, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Traditional fermented dairy products (TFDPs) are complex microbial ecosystems that may serve as reservoirs of many microorganisms, including those with probiotic potential such as Bifidobacterium species and lactobacilli. Although bifidobacteria are widely used as probiotic microorganisms in defined formulations, their occurrence, persistence,
Mst. Umme Habiba   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of 3’-UTR polymorphisms of the LEP gene in adolescents

open access: yesActa Biomedica Scientifica
Background. Leptin, a hormone secreted by adipose tissue, is considered as an important regulator of metabolism and energy homeostasis. Some leptin gene polymorphisms may be risk factors for obesity and other metabolic disorders, and there are ethnic ...
N. V. Nemchinova   +6 more
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Image of the Deer-Sun and Ethnonym of the Khori Buryats

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2020
. Introduction. The article examines the ethnonym of the largest Buryat tribe — Khori. The absence of universally accepted etymology thereof in Buryat ethnography significantly complicates ethnogenetic studies dealing with earliest ethnic history ...
Nadezhda B. Dashieva
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Demographic Momentum and Fertility Responses to Pronatalist Policies: The Case of Ethnic Minorities in Russia

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Russia's Maternal Capital policy initially increased total fertility rates, stimulating much discussion on whether it would result in more births or only earlier births. Effects of that policy upon different ethnic groups within Russia, however, have not received systematic attention.
Konstantin Kazenin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contributions of Roy J. Shephard to the Study of Circumpolar Human Biology and Health

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Human Biology, Volume 37, Issue 8, August 2025.
ABSTRACT More than any other scholar in our field, Professor Roy J. Shephard's research has shaped and transformed our understanding of the biology and health of circumpolar populations. His long‐term research among the Inuit of Igloolik, Canada has provided the field of human biology with foundational insights into how human populations adapt to ...
William R. Leonard, Peter T. Katzmarzyk
wiley   +1 more source

THE PERSPECTIVE FOR PRESERVING MATERIAL AND CULTURAL VALUES OF THE WESTERN BURYATS

open access: yesSovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2014
In article the historical and cultural potential of the Western Buryats is analyzed. The author uses his researchers and considers distinguishing elements in culture of the Western Buryats and the ancient ethnic groups inIrkutsk region.
Владимир Викторович Тихонов
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Overcoming Subaltern Silences: The Forgotten Buryat Soldiers of the Korean War

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

When Everything Old Was New Again: Reclaiming Ethnonational Tradition in Post‐Soviet Buryatia

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Wild goose in the traditional worldview of the Buryats [PDF]

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии
The purpose of this study is to identify the image of the wild goose in the traditional worldview of the Buryats. The timeframe of this research covers the end of the 19th — middle of the 20th c., the period when the Buryats overall retained their set of
Badmaev A.A.
doaj   +1 more source

Buryats in the Area of Influence of the Orthodox Church during the 19th - Early 20th Centuries: Identities Transformed

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
Like all the peoples of Siberia, the Buryats were involved in the process of Christianization aiming to complete the spiritual unification of Russia’s multinational population in the 19th century.
Bair Z. Nanzatov
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