History of the Savirs / Suvars: Evidence from Archaeology
Introduction. The paper examines some archaeological evidence for a line of continuity between the Savirs (an ethnic group that had inhabited the Caucasus up to the mid-1st millennium CE), the Suvars (who were part of the northward migration of the ...
Anton K. Salmin
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Expanding security eastward: NATO and US military engagement in Georgia [PDF]
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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Understanding Fathers Engagement: Contextual Insights From Tajikistan and Azerbaijan
ABSTRACT Research on parental engagement often portrays fathers as less involved in their children's lives compared to mothers. This paper challenges such a perspective by examining fathers' engagement within the socio‐cultural contexts of Tajikistan and Azerbaijan.
Zarina Muminova +2 more
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Turkey's global strategy: Turkey and the Caucasus [PDF]
Turkey has had long-standing links with the region called the ‘South(ern) Caucasus’, comprised of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, including the de-facto independent entities of South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh. The area was, for a long time,
Oskanian, Kevork
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Representation of obligate groundwater‐dwelling copepod diversity in European protected areas
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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Examining the use of informal networks by NGOs in Azerbaijan and Georgia [PDF]
To date little is known about the non-governmental organizations' (NGOs) use of informal networks, contacts and connections, as well as about the ‘informalization’ of post-communist civil society in the former Soviet Union.
Aliyev, Huseyn
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Bribery and Its Effect on Innovation: When Bank Finance Matters
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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Geopolitics and Aspirations for Sustainability: Turkey's Emergence as an Energy Hub
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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Investigation of the process of polymer stabilization of mixed iron oxide with amylopectin
In this work, samples of mixed nanoscale iron oxide stabilized with amylopectin were obtained by chemical precipitation in an aqueous medium. This compound has a wide range of applications in biomedical technologies, energy storage and conversion ...
A.A. Nagdalian +5 more
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Prefractal as the source of new rational approximations of functions with a fractal representation
The Article is devoted to the problem of accelerating the convergence of polynomial and rational approximations of functions. In the theory of approximation of functions often used the idea of reducing the interval change in the argument as a method to ...
Petr Kirillovich Korneev +4 more
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