Host–parasite oxidative arms race: who will win?
Avian haemosporidian parasites are globally widespread with a broad repertoire of hosts. When infected, the host can either reduce (resistance) and/or limit the severity of parasitaemia (tolerance). Oxidative stress plays a pivotal role in the host's resistance and tolerance, as well as its detrimental endpoints.
Caroline Isaksson +3 more
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Rossijskij jeksklav na Baltike: jevoljucija jeksklavnosti i poisk putej ee preodolenija [Russian Exclave on the Baltic Sea: Evolution of Exclavity and Ways to Overcome It] [PDF]
The author considers peculiarities of the emergence and evolution of exclavity of the Kaliningrad region. The article analyses the influence of exclavity on the connections of the region with the Russian mainland, its economic development, exclave ...
Klemeshev Andrey
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ABSTRACT Many species are currently experiencing range shifts in response to changing environmental conditions with potentially serious genetic consequences. Repeated founder events and strong genetic drift are expected to erode genetic variation at the range front, reducing adaptive potential and slowing or even halting the expansion.
Nora M. Bergman +12 more
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Just Good Friends? The EU-Russian "Strategic Partnership" and the Northern Dimension. CEPS Working Document No. 166, March 2001 [PDF]
Contrary to official claims, Russia and the European Union are not strategic partners. The economic and political asymmetries between them and the still divergent normative foundations on which their policies are based constitute considerable obstacles ...
Vahl, Marius.
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Abstract A glacial forebulge is a bending‐related upheaval of the lithosphere outside a glaciated area that co‐occurs to the depression of the lithosphere below an ice sheet. The forebulge of the last glaciation attracted attention over more than one century, but quantitative descriptions on the geometry of the forebulge are rare.
Christian Brandes +4 more
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Ruxit Revisited: Unravelling Russia's Dissociation From the Pan‐European Security Order
ABSTRACT Russia's first invasion of Ukraine in 2014 marked the culmination of Russia's dissociation from the project of institutionalised pan‐European security and from the global liberal order more generally. While not denying the relevance of studying the causes of Russia's attacks on Ukraine, this study focuses on Russia's progressing dissociation ...
Mikhail Polianskii
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Vneshnjaja politika Pol'shi i Kaliningradskaja oblast' v 1989—2012 godah [The foreign policy of Poland and the Kaliningrad region in 1989—2012] [PDF]
This article sets out to analyse the role of the Kaliningrad region in the Polish foreign policy after 1989. The analysis focuses on the political and regional determinants, which had the greatest impact on the Poland-Kaliningrad region relations.
Chełminiak Marcin, Kotowicz Wojciech
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Dismantling the Shed. A Chronicle
Abstract It is the festive beginning of spring in a small village and sailing tourism resort in the Masurian Lake District, Northeast Poland: Catholic Easter is followed by Majówka, the first tourism weekend in May. Caught up between the rituals of Easter and those of tourism in the village, you, Zenon, a middle‐aged man born there, lose grip on the ...
Hannah Wadle
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The identity of the inhabitants of the Kaliningrad oblast [PDF]
The Kaliningrad Oblast – geopolitically speaking – is one of the most exciting regions of Russia. Indigenous people of the territory were Baltic tribes of Lithuanians and Prussians. Their language, traditions and religion differed from that of the Slavic
Aranyossyné Szegedi, Andrea
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The effect of railway network evolution on the Kaliningrad region’s landscape environment [PDF]
This article addresses methodology of modern landscape studies from the perspective of natural and man-made components of a territory. Railway infrastructure is not only an important system-building element of economic and settlement patterns; it also ...
Romanova Elena +3 more
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