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'Rebellious Highlanders': the reception of Corsica in the Edinburgh periodical press, 1730-1800 [PDF]
Examines the way Scottish periodicals, especially the Weekly Magazine and the Caledonian Mercury, reported and discussed the nationalist resistance in Corsica against first Genoese and then French rule; recalibrates the role of James Boswell in shaping ...
Brown, Rhona
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This article explores transformation as a way of being in the rural Andes. It traces how transformation connects, and produces value within, multiple different spheres of life, specifically agricultural labour, personhood, identity, and space and movement.
Miranda Sheild Johansson
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THE NORTH CAUCASUS IN POLITICAL COLLISIONS OF THE XVIII CENTURY
The article examines the events connected with the struggle of Russia for domination in the North Caucasus. To achieve it Russia had to endure a tense struggle with such rivals as Persia and the Ottoman Empire.
Y. Grankin
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Background Despite the successful adaptation to high altitude, some differences do occur due to long term exposure to the hypoxic environment. The effect of long term high altitude exposure on cardiac autonomic adjustment during basal and post-exercise ...
Prem Bhattarai +5 more
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Abstract Highland populations suffer from significant infant mortality due to chronic ambient hypoxia, which increases the risk of congenital heart disease (CHD) and neonatal pulmonary hypertension. Neither the prevalence of these conditions nor the effectiveness of neonatal cardiac screening to identify CHD or pulmonary hypertension among neonates ...
Alexandra Heath +12 more
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Vištytis habitat belongs to the western part of Western Highlanders of Kaunas. The border of East Prussia has been in this area, so these environs until are often called as paprūsė region. There is described location of Vištytis habitat in the Lithuanian
Rima Bakšienė
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The article reveals the features of North Caucasian everyday life in the first half of the 19th century and the fate of people who suffered from the raids of the highlanders.
Yuri Yu. Klychnikov, Sergey S. Lazarian
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Senp1 drives hypoxia-induced polycythemia via GATA1 and Bcl-xL in subjects with Monge's disease. [PDF]
In this study, because excessive polycythemia is a predominant trait in some high-altitude dwellers (chronic mountain sickness [CMS] or Monge's disease) but not others living at the same altitude in the Andes, we took advantage of this human experiment ...
Appenzeller, Otto +9 more
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The 48th Highlanders in Sicily [PDF]
Account by Lieutenant-Colonel I.S.
Johnston, I.S.
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Background: Majority of high altitude residents have certain clinical, physiological, anatomical and biochemical changes. Pain threshold is one of the numerable changes that may occur due to chronic hypoxia. The aim of this research was to study the long
Nashwa S. Hamed
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