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Mulan\u27s Sisters on the Steppes of Inner Asia
, 2021 An examination of powerful women from Inner Asia, covering the female regents Toregene, Sorqoqtani of the Mongol empire as well as Wenming of the Northern Wei.
Hoff, Zoe
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Towards Advanced Intelligent and Perceptive Soft Grippers
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Implementing soft yet strong and intelligent soft grippers request innovative and creative solutions in designing soft bodies and seamlessly integrating actuated systems with hierarchical sensing. This review systematically analyses soft grippers with a deep understanding of core components, from fundamental design principles to actuation and sensing ...
Haneul Kim +4 more
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Territorialising Chinese Inner Asia: The Neo-Developmentalist State and Minority Unrest
International 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
Atmospheric 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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Food insecurity and unemployment among immigrants in the United States
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Immigrants can be more vulnerable to economic downturns and, during periods of economic hardship, more likely to experience food insecurity compared to natives. This study examines the differential effect of the unemployment rate on the probability of being food insecure among diverse groups of immigrant households relative to natives in the ...
Siwen Zhou +3 more
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Two new species of Tropodiaptomus Kiefer, 1932 (Copepoda, Calanoida, Diaptomidae) from temporary waters in Thailand and Cambodia with a key to Southeast Asian species [PDF]
ZooKeysTwo new copepod species of the species-rich genus Tropodiaptomus, collected from temporary water habitats in Southeast Asia, are described. A critical morphological comparison has revealed that the two new species, T. lannaensis sp. nov.
Kamonwan Koompoot, Laorsri Sanoamuang
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Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.This study established a closed‐tube LAMP‐LFD assay for detecting Rodentibacter heylii and Rodentibacter pneumotropicus. The method exhibited high sensitivity (detection limits of 10−5 ng/μL for R. heylii and 10−4 ng/μL for R. pneumotropicus), high specificity, reliable performance with clinical samples, and effective validation in experimental ...
Huiqiong Yan +17 more
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Classical Era Mongolian History Writing and a Review of Mongolian Sources
Золотоордынское 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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Early Pliocene Varanus (Squamata, Varanidae) remains from Megalo Emvolon, Thessaloniki, Greece
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.The article describes new cranial and postcranial varanid material from Megalo Emvolon Lower Pliocene vertebrate fossil site near Thessaloniki. The fossils, likely representing a single individual, are referred to Varanus cf. marathonensis. Abstract This study describes new fossil varanid material from a recently discovered fossil spot (MVL site) at ...
Chara Drakopoulou +3 more
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