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Hunger in global war economies: understanding the decline and return of famines

open access: yesDisasters, Volume 49, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract The resurgence of famines is a topic of concern. This paper explains the recent trajectory using the framework of contending ‘global war economies’. It characterises the unipolar neoliberal world order era (1986–2015) as the ‘Pax Americana’ war economy, focusing on the United States dollar's roles.
Alex de Waal
wiley   +1 more source

Memories of Statehood in the “Defter-i Genghis-name” » [PDF]

open access: yesЗолотоордынское обозрение, 2016
The Turkic peoples of the Volga Region lost their statehood for centuries due to the Russian occupation of the Khanate of Kazan and Astrakhan in the mid–16th century.
Maria Ivanics
doaj  

High Frequency Haplotypes are Expected Events, not Historical Figures [version 2; referees: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2016
Cultural transmission of reproductive success states that successful men have more children and pass this raised fecundity to their offspring. Balaresque and colleagues found high frequency haplotypes in a Central Asian Y chromosome dataset, which they ...
Elsa G. Guillot, Murray P. Cox
doaj   +1 more source

Persia under Mongol domination. The effectiveness and and failings of a dual administrative system [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
International audienceThis paper points out the break of the traditionnal administrative patterns from dure Gret' Khans period to the fall of the Persian Ilkhanate in 1355. Previously, financial and secretarial offices had been handed down, to generation,
Aigle, Denise
core   +2 more sources

Consequentialism, Welfarism, and Meaning in Life

open access: yesPacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 105, Issue 4, Page 583-604, December 2024.
Abstract What, if anything, makes a life meaningful? Consequentialist theories about meaning in life maintain that the consequences of that life confer meaning upon it. This article advances one such theory: welfarism about meaning in life. According to this view, a life is conferred meaning if, and only if, and then only insofar as, it promotes or ...
Chad Mason Stevenson
wiley   +1 more source

High Frequency Haplotypes are Expected Events, not Historical Figures [version 1; referees: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2015
Cultural transmission of reproductive success states that successful men have more children and pass this raised fecundity to their offspring. Balaresque and colleagues found high frequency haplotypes in a Central Asian Y chromosome dataset, which they ...
Elsa G. Guillot, Murray P. Cox
doaj   +1 more source

Similarities between “The Secret History of the Mongols” and Turkish Epic (“Moğolların Gizli Tarihi” destanı ile türk destanı arasındaki benzerlikler)

open access: yesAltralang Journal, 2020
: Many similarities existing in the epics of the Mongols and the Turkish allow to research common literary-cultural features in these works. The Book of Dede Gorgud and “The Secret History of the Mongols” as remarkable examples of nation’s heroic works ...
Lamiya NASIROVA
doaj   +1 more source

Genomic conservation of Mongolian horses promoted by preservation of the intangible cultural heritage of Naadam in Mongolia

open access: yesConservation Letters, Volume 17, Issue 3, May/June 2024.
Abstract Uncontrolled crossbreeding is a major challenge to the conservation of landrace horses in East Asia. Understanding the factors driving this trend is crucial for effective conservation efforts. Here, we investigate the genomic makeup of 40 Mongolian Naadam racehorses and 21 Asian landrace horse breeds through analyzing whole‐genome resequencing
Togtokh Mongke   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

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