Wheat breeding approaches for designing wheat to thrive in a warmer world
Wheat is a vital food crop, accounting for approximately 20% of daily calories and protein consumed worldwide. However, modern‐day wheat is under pressure from global change. The improvement rate of wheat yields is not keeping up with the demand of our growing population. Furthermore, abiotic and biotic stressors are becoming more prevalent. This paper
Jake Hill, Surbhi Grewal, Stella Edwards
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Influence of Inherited Rifted Margin Architecture on Continental Collision Dynamics
Abstract Continental collision is a key process in lithospheric evolution, driving mountain building, crustal thickening, and supercontinent assembly. Within the Wilson cycle, collision marks the final stage following rifting, ocean spreading, and subduction.
J. B. Ruh, P. Granado
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Archives of impact: The politics of craters on Earth
This paper examines Earth’s 195 confirmed impact craters as archives, exploring their cataloguing and presentation as heritage sites. It argues Western scientific framings using military language and emphasising catastrophe overlook settler colonialism’s violent histories and marginalise indigenous earth‐sky cosmologies.
Gareth Hoskins
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EARLY XXI CENTURY SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHALLENGES AND THREATS IN THE CASPIAN GEOPOLITICAL SPACE
Basic regional economic integration directions contributing provision for national safety and national interests of Caspian geopolitical space states are discussed.
K. A. Markelov
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Regulation of the Turkish Straits: UNCLOS as an Alternative to the Treaty of Montreux and the 1994 Maritime Traffic Regulations for the Turkish Straits and Marmara Region [PDF]
This Note discusses the need for a modern international legal regime that would address navigational and environmental safety in the Turkish Straits in a manner consistent with customary international law of the transit passage through the straits used ...
Pavlyuk, Serge V.
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DETERMINATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STATUS OF THE CASPIAN SEA
This paper analyzes the issues related to determination of the international legal status of the Caspian Sea, the positions of the Caspian states. Special attention is focused on the geopolitical processes in the Caspian region and policy of the non ...
Ilham Abdullayev
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ABSTRACT The introduction of exotic species is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss in aquatic ecosystems. The Harris mud crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii, native to the Atlantic coast of North America, was recorded in the Patos Lagoon estuary (southern Brazil) in the 1980s, likely introduced via ballast water. However, the effects of this invader
Renan C. Machado +2 more
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Cancer registry in Iran: A brief overview [PDF]
Cancer registry is an important tool for any successful cancer control program. The first formal cancer related data from Iran were published in 1956. In 1969, observations documenting a high incidence of esophageal cancer in the Caspian Littoral, urged ...
Bahadori, M. +5 more
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The potential for interstate high-tech oil and gas cluster formation in the Caspian region
Purpose: is to substantiate strategic orientations and mechanisms for the formation of an interstate cluster in the Caspian region based on the comprehensive assessment of the potential of the territories.
A. A. Khachaturyan +3 more
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