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Territorialising Chinese Inner Asia: The Neo-Developmentalist State and Minority Unrest

open access: yesInternational Quarterly for Asian Studies, 2019
Despite the Chinese Communist Party’s claim to inter-ethnic harmony, the human rights situation of some of the PRC’s 55 official minorities is problematic.
Sören Köpke
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Recent decrease in inner‐core rain rate of tropical cyclones over the western North Pacific

open access: yesAtmospheric Science Letters, 2022
The tendency in tropical cyclone (TC) rainfall is of great concern due to its remarkable contribution to global precipitation and extreme rainfall events. This study finds a decreasing trend in TC inner‐core rain rate over the western North Pacific (WNP)
Na Wei   +4 more
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Immigrant Integration in Low-Income Urban Neighborhoods: Improving Economic Prospects and Strengthening Connections for Vulnerable Families [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Explores the financial welfare of immigrant groups in ten low-income urban communities, comparing key indicators of economic well-being, advancement, and integration across six immigrant and four U.S.-born race/ethnic ...
Karina Fortuny   +3 more
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Using new literatures as a resource in fostering cross cultural awareness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper is based on the premise that the wealth of new literatures in English that are available in several countries of Asia and South East Asia today can serve not only to provide students access to the rich and varied cultural life of the people in
Rubdy, Rani Sumant
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Acting on an Environmental Health Disaster: The Case of the Aral Sea. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The Aral Sea area in Central Asia has been encountering one of the world's greatest environmental disasters for more than 15 years. During that time, despite many assessments and millions of dollars spent by large, multinational organizations, little has
Small, I, van der Meer, J, Upshur, R
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Classical Era Mongolian History Writing and a Review of Mongolian Sources

open access: yesЗолотоордынское обозрение
. Following their unification under Genghis Khan in 1206, the Mongols began an era in which they would play a very influential role in the course of history.
Kalan E.
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Contributions of natural and human factors to increases in vegetation productivity in China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Increasing trends in vegetation productivity have been identified for the last three decades for many regions in the northern hemisphere including China.
Xiao, Jingfeng, Zhang, Li, Zhou, Yu
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Market for 33 percent interest loans. Financial inclusion and microfinance in India. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Financial inclusion is the process of building viable institutions that provide financial services to those hitherto excluded. These may include savings, insurances, remittances, and credit.
Pauli, Markus
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The Early Byzantine Domed Basilicas of West Asia Minor, An essay in Graphic Reconstruction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper investigates the methodology employed in the recent survey and reconstruction of the major Early Byzantine domed churches of west Asia Minor.
Altunel   +35 more
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Turko-Mongols of Central and Inner Asia: The Pleiades as Part of Folk Knowledge

open access: yesOriental Studies
Introduction. The The Pleiades star cluster was the most important asterism in the life of Inner and Central Asian nomads — of all the astral objects visible in the night sky — as a guide in time and space during the hours of darkness.
Marina M. Sodnompilova
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