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“Pushing Their Necks Out”: Ultra, The Black Watch, and Command Relations, May-sur-Orne, Normandy, 5 August 1944 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In 1974 Group Captain Frederick Winterbotham shocked the world when he revealed in his semiautobiographical work, The Ultra Secret, that the Allies had been breaking high-grade German ciphers throughout the greater portion of the Second World War in an ...
O\u27Keefe, David R.
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A Meta‐Analysis of Multidimensional Cognitive Functions Changes in Different Intensities of High‐Altitude Hypoxia

open access: yesBrain and Behavior, Volume 15, Issue 9, September 2025.
High‐altitude hypoxia environment negatively affected overall cognitive function. It had a more pronounced impact on long‐term memory and perceptual functions, followed by executive control, attention, and psychomotor functions, with working memory being the least affected, and altitude (> 2500m) and exposure time (< 3 days and > 30 days) are ...
Yan Jiang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

'Rebellious Highlanders': the reception of Corsica in the Edinburgh periodical press, 1730-1800 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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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Evaluation of dialectal speech in PAPRŪSĖ region: investigation of Vištytis habitat in the beginning of the twenty-first century

open access: yesLietuvių Kalba, 2019
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
doaj   +1 more source

Mountain Captivity and Its Impact on the Marital, Family, and Religious Life of the North Caucasus Border Population in the First Half of the 19th Century

open access: yesЖурнал Фронтирных Исследований
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
doaj   +1 more source

Soldier, Pow, Partisan: My Experiences during the Battle of France, June–September 1944 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The invasion of Festung Europa has been called many things, among them, die greatest military feat in history, the liberation of Europe’s downtrodden millions, and many other such high and mighty sounding phrases. But to those of us who were to take part
Learment, Don
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Toronto’s Reponse to the Outbreak of War, 1939 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Canadian historians have paid little attention to the transition from peace to war in late August and early September 1939. Jonathan Vance’s award-winning Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning and the First World War (1997) does a marvelous job of surveying ...
Miller, Ian
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PAIN THRESHOLD MEASUREMENTS IN HIGH AND LOW ALTITUDE AMONG HEALTHY VOLUNTEER ADULTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

open access: yesInternational Journal of Physiotherapy, 2016
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
doaj   +1 more source

Senp1 drives hypoxia-induced polycythemia via GATA1 and Bcl-xL in subjects with Monge's disease. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
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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Polish highlander jokes and their targets

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2017
The aim of the paper is to show the characteristic features of jokes about Polish highlanders and analyse them to identify the comic script of a highlander.
Władysław Chłopicki   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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