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'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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The value of transformation: agricultural labour and shifting bodies in the Bolivian highlands La valeur de la transformation : main‐d’œuvre agricole et corps changeants dans les hautes terres de Bolivie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 899-916, September 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

THE NORTH CAUCASUS IN POLITICAL COLLISIONS OF THE XVIII CENTURY

open access: yesГуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
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
doaj  

Effect of long term high altitude exposure on cardiovascular autonomic adjustment during rest and post-exercise recovery

open access: yesAnnals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2018
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
doaj   +1 more source

Prolonged postnatal adaptation and enhanced prevalence of congenital heart diseases due to altitude may contribute to newborn mortality in Bolivia

open access: yesExperimental Physiology, Volume 110, Issue 8, Page 1060-1070, 1 August 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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

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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The 48th Highlanders in Sicily [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Account by Lieutenant-Colonel I.S.
Johnston, I.S.
core   +1 more source

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

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