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Syntax, 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
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Associations of Facial Shape With Physical Strength and 2D:4D in a Turkish Male and Female Sample
American Journal of Human Biology, Volume 36, Issue 11, November 2024.ABSTRACT Objective Human sexual dimorphism in physical strength manifests itself in men having a greater muscle mass than women, reflecting ancestral roles in competition, protection, and provisioning. Prenatal testosterone exposure, approximated via the second‐to‐fourth digit ratio (2D:4D), is linked to increased muscular strength in both sexes ...
Fatih Aydık +3 more
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On the Social Background of the Modern Revival of Shamanism (Evidence from the Buryats of China)
Oriental Studies, 2018 The revival of shamanism in Russia, including shamanism practiced by the Buryats who reside in the eastern part of the country, has recently been drawing increasing attention from both domestic and foreign scholars.
M. S. Mikhalev
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Acta Biomedica Scientifica, 2013 The article presents the results of examination of 156 women from infertile couples (88 Russians, 68 Buryats). The uterine factor of infertility was observed more often in Buryats due to higher rate of uterine fibroids in Buryat women with secondary ...
T. B. Tsyrenov +6 more
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The Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 4, Page 548-572, October 2024.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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“Intuitive districts”: Agentive images in a post‐socialist city
City &Society, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 78-90, August 2024.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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Earth's Future, Volume 12, Issue 4, April 2024.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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Российский кардиологический журнал, 2019 Aim. To study the influence of genetic factors on the risk of essential arterial hypertension (AH) and the course in patients of Russian and Buryat ethnicity.Material and methods.
A. Ya. Kovaleva +5 more
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American Journal of Human Biology, Volume 36, Issue 3, March 2024.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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Etnografia Polska, 2015 In the paper, the author addresses the issue of different ways of understanding the authenticity of the various elements of culture of Western Buryats living in Irkutsk Oblast. Social conditions in which the question of authenticity exist are determined
Małgorzata GŁOWACKA-GRAJPER
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