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Examining New Donors in the OECD's Development Assistance Committee

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do emerging donors integrate into the existing international aid architecture? While the existing literature focuses largely on emerging donors from the Global South, such as Brazil, China, India and Russia, there are many emerging donors from the Global North that have joined the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC)—the premier ...
Nicolas Bau, Simone Dietrich, Katharina Fleiner, Alice Iannantuoni   +3 more
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The Role of Knowledge‐Based Resources in Leveraging Business Analytics

Knowledge and Process Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Business analytics enhances managerial decision‐making. To this end, previous research guides firms to combine their tangible business analytics resources, such as data and technology, with intangible knowledge‐based business analytics resources to enable that business analytics supports decision‐making.
Johanna Orjatsalo, Henri Hussinki, Aino Kianto   +2 more
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China and the Baltic States: strategic challenges and security dilemmas for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia

Journal on Baltic Security, 2018
The article considers traditional and non-traditional security concerns faced by the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the face of China’s increasing presence.
Scott David
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The emergence and decline of ethnic minorities in baltic borderlands / Etninių mažumų iškilimas ir išnykimas baltiškuosiuose paribiuose

Creativity Studies, 2012
The purpose of the paper is to discuss the emergence and decline of national and / or ethnic minorities in the borderlands around the Baltic Sea. The socio-political development of ethnic groups is seen as a result of different influencing factors: The ...
Thomas U. Lundén
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Devonian stratigraphy in Estonia: current state and problems [PDF]

Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2012
An updated version of the Devonian stratigraphical chart of Estonia with comments is presented. Estonian regional stratigraphical units are correlated with the standard conodont zonation and miospore zonation, used in the western part of the East ...
Elga Mark-Kurik, Anne Põldvere
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Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis Explores Diverse Domestic Goose Management Practices in Medieval and Postmedieval Russia

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying goose domestication through archaeological finds has been challenging due to the similar skeletal morphology of the European domestic goose and its wild progenitor, the greylag goose (Anser anser). We analyzed stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes from bone collagen of subfossil domestic and potentially domestic geese to ...
Johanna Honka, Clément Massé, Arthur O. Askeyev, Igor V. Askeyev, Oleg V. Askeyev, Jouni Aspi, Dilyara N. Shaymuratova, Laura Kvist   +7 more
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From the brink of extinction to regulation: northern Europe's white‐tailed eagles now face density dependence and climate constraints after rapid population growth

Oikos, EarlyView.
Population growth reflects the combined influence of regulation and density‐independent factors operating through demographic processes. Under exceptional circumstances (e.g. populations recovering from near‐extinction), growth may initially be weakly regulated but typically slows as negative density dependence (NDD) sets in.
Bård‐Jørgen Bårdsen, Elisabeth Hansen, Jan Ove Bustnes   +2 more
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Border agglomerations in the Baltic area : obstacles and possibilities for local interaction [PDF]

Geographica Helvetica
In order to evaluate the factors that influence the spatial behaviour of border agglomeration inhabitants and to relate them to the geopolitical Situation, attention is given here to three divided towns in the Baltic Sea region: Haparanda-Tornio, Narva ...
T. Lundén
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Investigating conservation performance payments alongside human–wildlife conflicts: The Swedish lynx and wolverine protection policies

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Conservation performance payments are becoming an increasingly popular instrument to tackle human–wildlife conflicts. In Sweden, Sámi communities practicing reindeer husbandry receive performance payments as compensation for reindeer losses caused by lynxes and wolverines.
Josef Kaiser, Thomas Hahn, Tobias Krueger, Dagmar Haase   +3 more
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Status and future of seed conservation of threatened plants in the post‐2020 era

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Ambitious targets have been set to backup seeds of threatened plants by the global strategy for plant conservation (GSPC), but it is unclear in how far these targets have been met and how seed collection should be organized to meet future challenges. Here, we provide an overview of the status of 44 countries in achieving seed conservation targets.
Andreas Ensslin, Adelaide Clemente, Udayangani Liu, Elke Zippel, Carla Pinto‐Cruz, Carolina Sanchez Romero, Simone Schneider, Agustí Agut Escrig, Charlotte Allender, Külli Annamaa, Marina Antic, Bertille Asset, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Oz Baranzani, Anamaria Barata, Philippe Bardin, Joze Bavcon, Anabela D. F. Belo, Marina Belovarska, Karim Benkhelifa, Christian Berg, Karl‐Georg Bernhardt, Marcin Beza, Kristina Bjureke, Sina Bohm, Peter Borgmann, Josep Borrell, Stéphane Buord, Jocelyne Cambecedes, Francesca Carruggio, Angelino Carta, Pedro Casimiro, Ted Chapman, Iveta Cicova, Regis Crisnaire, Antonia Cristaudo, Lucia De la Rosa, Maîte Delmas, Gergana Desheva, Valter Di Cecco, Luciano Di Martino, Katia Diadema, Lara Dixon, Denise Dostatny, Marie Duval, Roland K. Eberwein, Mikel Etxeberria‐Okariz, Caroline Favier, Nick Fenby, Mariana P. Fernandes, Inmaculada Ferrando‐Pardo, Pablo Ferrer, Noémie Fort, Luigi Forte, Catia F. Freitas, Agnese Gailite, Katarzyna Galej‐Ciwis, Rosa Maria Garcia, Ana Irene García‐del Bao, Catherine Gautier, Bronislovas Gelvonauskis, Gian Petro Giusso del Galdo, Miguel Angel González Pérez, Johan Gourvil, Luisa Gouveia, Thierry Helminger, Brais Hermosilla Lorenzo, Laetitia Hugot, Marko Hyvärinen, Ignac Janžekovič, Andreas König, Nikos Krigas, Emilio Laguna, Ludivine Lapébie, Denis Larpin, Maja Lazarević, Dikla Lifshitz, Vincent Lipa, Carlos Lobo, Ulrike Lohwasser, Sandrine Loriot, Sara Magrini, Francesca Mantino, Mauro Mariotti, Evi Matiatou, Lubomir Mendel, Marine Millet, Mari Miranto, Andrea Mondoni, Santiago Moreno Vázquez, Valeria Negri, Peter Nick, Maciej Niemczyk, Humberto Nobrega, Pawel Olejniczak, Małgorzata Pałucka, Katerina Papanastasi, Ioanna Papanikolaou, Miguel A. A. Pinheiro de Carvalho, Marco Porceddu, Sotirios Porevis, Peter Poschlod, Lorenzo Raggi, Sarmite Rancane, Leonid Rasran, Blanka Ravnjak, Stéphane Rivière, Axelle Roumier, Anna Rucińska, Felix Schlatti, Marco Schmidt, Guy‐Xavier Seznec, Manuela Sim‐Sim, Ana Luisa Soares, Nora Stoeckl, Silvia Strajeru, Gitana Stukeniene, Andrej Šušek, Andreas Titze, Sarah Trinder, Zlatina Tsvetanova, Theo Van Hintum, Nils Van Rooijen, Magdalena Vicens Fornés, Mariacristina Villani, Silvia Villegas, Fiona J. White, Sabine Zachago, Elena Zappa, Vince Zsigmond, Sandrine Godefroid   +130 more
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