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Detecting Coal Self-heating by Condensation Aerosol Content in the Air [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 The issues under consideration are spontaneous combustion of coal and the danger of endogenous fires for mining enterprises. The ways of detecting the hotbeds of spontaneous combustion which allow to increase the safety of mining works and to reduce ...
Portola Vyacheslav +2 more
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) was founded in 2012 on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the society's members have not only published propaganda to support the ‘special military operation’ but have discussed the need for a proper ‘state ideology’.
Kati Parppei
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Известия Томского политехнического университета: Инжиниринг георесурсов, 2021 Relevance. The stress-strain state of the rock massif during open-pit mining of mineral deposits, as well as during construction in excavations of significant size, depends on both the mechanical properties of rocks and the structural and textural ...
Sergey O. Markov +2 more
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Shocks and Poverty in Uganda: Understanding the Coping Mechanisms of the Poor
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Coping mechanisms adopted by households, when responding to shocks, have a direct impact on their short‐ and long‐term levels of destitution. Yet our understanding of these coping strategies relative to the type of shock and the impact on the poorest is dominated by literature that relies on limited observations, over rather short time periods—
Peter Agamile, David Lawson
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Late Soviet Intellectual Cult(ure): Merab Mamardashvili’s Strategy of Self‐Presentation
The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyzes Merab Konstantinovich Mamardashvili’s philosophical strategy in the context of late and post‐Soviet intellectual culture. It focuses on How I Understand Philosophy (1990), a collection of Mamardashvili’s works and interviews that had a significant impact on the reception of his thought and the shaping of his intellectual ...
Egor Sokolov
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Gorbachev\u27s Reforms and the United States Economy [PDF]
, 1989 On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev, a new generation leader, became General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Since his elevation to power, his ideas for social reform and foreign policy initiatives have received widespread ...
Rolighed, Ronald A.
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Research in the Impact of Dynamic Loads for the Development of Pentice Designs when Sinking Skip Shafts [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 In order to protect workers engaged in shaft sinking works artificial protective equipment (buntons) with the support element from powerful I-beams or truss structures are used.
Pershin Vladimir +2 more
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IMPLICATION IN YOUNG ADULT NOVELS ABOUT THE GDR: HISTORICAL FICTION FOR A DEMOCRATIC FUTURE
German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 472-494, October 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the pedagogical potential of young adult literature about East Germany to help readers reflect on the legacies of authoritarian rule and questions of responsibility, accountability and agency. Drawing on Michael Rothberg's concept of the implicated subject, I argue that young adult literature exploring implication offers ...
Kristin Rebien
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Building the Future: Metaphors of Construction in the Political Discourse of M. S. Gorbachev
, 2021 В статье рассматривается моделирование строительных метафор в политическом дискурсе М. С. Горбачева.In modern linguistics, studies of metaphors in political discourse are quite common, but among them there are relatively few in which the construction ...
Чжан Тинтин +2 more
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Satire and Silence under Authoritarian Rule: Cotton and Pesticide Perceptions in Tajikistan
Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 2026.ABSTRACT Over the past 70 years, agricultural chemicals have become a mainstay of cotton farming in Central Asia. This growing reliance on agrochemicals has not remained uncontested. This article analyses the politics of pesticides in Soviet and post‐Soviet Tajikistan by examining how, and to what extent, pesticides have featured in graphic satire, an ...
Irna Hofman, Flora Roberts
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