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Representation of obligate groundwater‐dwelling copepod diversity in European protected areas
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Groundwaters sustain diverse surface ecosystems and are populated by metazoan species, mostly invertebrates, that provide fundamental ecological functions and are often of prominent conservation value due to narrow endemism and high phylogenetic rarity.
Francesco Cerasoli +7 more
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The Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan: the identity and social position of a once-dominant minority [PDF]
, 2016 Based on recent empirical findings and field observations, this article examines the Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan. Nowadays numbering about one and a half percent of the population, the main threat to its continuity is not persecution nor ...
De Cordier, Bruno
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SYNTHESIS AND STUDY OF MORPHOLOGY OF POLYMORPHIC AGLOMERATES OF NANOSCALE ZINC OXIDE
Вестник Северо-Кавказского федерального университета, 2022 The paper presents results of the synthesis of zinc oxide nanoparticles. The study of nanoparticles with the help of XRD showed that the samples have a wurtzite structure with an average crystallite size of 17 nm.
Andrew Blinov +5 more
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Acta Biologica Sibirica, 2023 A list of 143 species of Microlepidoptera from 27 families is provided, compiled based on the results of processing materials collected in 2021−2022; all species are recorded for the first time for the territory of South Ossetia.
Sergey Yu. Sinev +5 more
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Bribery and Its Effect on Innovation: When Bank Finance Matters
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine the effect of bribery on innovation performance and whether bank finance serves as an effective channel of the impact. In doing so, we compute an innovation performance index for Vietnamese small and medium enterprises. We then conduct mediation analysis on the triad of bribery, bank finance and innovation performance
Thanh Le +3 more
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Mapping of Potential Show Caves in the Racha Limestone Massif (Country of Georgia) [PDF]
, 2018 : The Racha limestone massif is located in the eastern part of the karst zone of western Georgia. The massif is a typical example of Georgian mountain karst regions, where diverse surface and subsurface karst landforms are found.
Asanidze, Lasha +4 more
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Geopolitics and Aspirations for Sustainability: Turkey's Emergence as an Energy Hub
Middle East Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Turkey is pursuing three main objectives in the energy sector: enhancing its geopolitical position, expanding its domestic production and renewable energy capacity, and becoming a natural gas hub linking producers from the Middle East, the Caspian region, and Russia to European markets.
Umud Shokri
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The collapse of the USSR forced newly independent states to forge national identities while grappling with imperial legacies. This study investigates nation‐building strategies in post‐Soviet states during 1990–1999, using the Nation‐Building Policies (NBP) dataset from the ETHNICGOODS project, which includes all socially and politically ...
Emre Amasyalı, Andrei Tarasov
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Expanding security eastward: NATO and US military engagement in Georgia [PDF]
, 2000 This repository item contains a single issue of Behind the Breaking News, a briefing published from 1999 to 2009 by the Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and ...
DeTemple, Lt. Col. James
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Evolution of crop phenotypic spaces through domestication
New Phytologist, EarlyView.Summary We used domestication as an in vivo replicated experiment to investigate how divergent selection has shaped the evolution of multivariate phenotypic spaces. We measured 11–57 qualitative and quantitative traits in 13 species, either unique or shared between species, and established a framework for cross‐species comparisons. Our results revealed
Arthur Wojcik +18 more
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