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The diel niche of brown bears: constraints on adaptive capacity in human‐modified landscapes

open access: yesEcography, Volume 2025, Issue 10, October 2025.
Diel activity rhythms, representing the behavioral pattern of the sleep–wake cycle, may be adjusted by wildlife in response to changes in environmental conditions. An increase in nocturnality is typically recognized as an adaptive strategy to segregate from humans and mitigate heat stress. Numerous studies have investigated spatial patterns and habitat
Aurora Donatelli   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Andropov and Karelia

open access: yesУправленческое консультирование, 2018
The main events of the eminent statesman Juriy Andropov’s ruling in Karelian-Finnish SSR (1940-1951) are discussed in this article. The decisions of J.Andropov and other Karelian-Finnish leaders (mainly G.Kuprijanov - the first secretary of CK CP KF SSR ...
Alexander Vasilyevich Labudin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cumulative Precarity in Times of Polycrisis: Transnational Insecurities and Geo‐Spatialized Resiliences Among South Asian Students in Finland

open access: yesGlobal Networks, Volume 25, Issue 4, October 2025.
ABSTRACT On the basis of ethnographic research among South Asian students in Runolahti (anonymized), this article explores their experiences during a time of compounded crises. It examines how COVID‐19 policies, the Russian war on Ukraine, the cost‐of‐living crisis and the termination of fee waivers and stipends at the local university created a ...
Zain Ul Abdin, Sanam Roohi
wiley   +1 more source

Ortodoksisen siirtoväen kontrolloitu sopeutuminen

open access: yes, 2012
Until the 1990s, the integration of the displaced Karelians in postwar Finland was studied mainly from the point of view of their material adaptation. In these studies, the integration of the refugees was regarded as a success in view of the difficult ...
Kananen, Heli Kaarina
core   +1 more source

THE FUNERAL AND MEMORIAL RITES OF THE LUDICS (BASED ON THE R. F. TAROEVA’S FIRST ETHNOLOGY EXPEDITION )

open access: yesTransactions of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2015
The paper deals with the analysis of the funeral and memorial rites of Ludic Karelians of the Kondopozhsky District. The information of the rites is founded on the materials of the first ethnological expedition undertaken in 1956 under the leadership of ...
Sergey Minvaleev
doaj   +1 more source

Becoming ‘more like a Finn’: In‐visibility and the struggle for belonging in Finland

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 214-228, September 2025.
Abstract Nationalist practices and visionaries have a profound influence on those who are categorized as ‘foreign’ or ‘non‐belonging’ to the nation. Based on ethnographic explorations among Russian‐speakers and people with diverse Middle Eastern backgrounds in Finland, this article revisits the concept of in‐visibility as one possible avenue to expose ...
Bruno Lefort, Vadim Romashov
wiley   +1 more source

From Remittance Receivers to Senders: Unpacking Transnational Care Circulation Among South Asian Student Migrants in Finland and Sweden

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 31, Issue 6, August 2025.
ABSTRACT Research on transnational care through remittances has gained traction but remains largely focused on one‐directional flows. Studies on remittances have examined external factors, such as structural facilities, and internal factors, including family dynamics, that shape remittance practices.
Zain Ul Abdin
wiley   +1 more source

Opposite gene by environment interactions in Karelia for CD14 and CC16 single nucleotide polymorphisms and allergy

open access: yes, 2009
Background: Finnish Karelians have a higher prevalence of allergic disease than Russian Karelians. As both populations are generally from the same ethnic group, the Karelian population offers a unique opportunity to analyse genetic and allergic disease ...
Laatikainen, T.   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Comparison of Low‐Gluten Diets Rich in Oats or Rice—A 6‐Week Randomized Clinical Trial With Metabolically Challenged Volunteers

open access: yesMolecular Nutrition &Food Research, Volume 69, Issue 12, June 2025.
The aim of this study is to compare oats and rice as the main cereal source of a low‐gluten diet followed by metabolically challenged volunteers. The participants consumed four portions of either oat or rice products daily for 6 weeks and avoided glutinous cereals.
Enni Mannila   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pala Viipuria uuteen kotiin

open access: yes, 2021
A piece of Vyborg in the new home The article analyses how ceded Vyborg has been made visible in the material culture of the homes of people who left and settled elsewhere in Finland.
Sireni, Maarit
core   +1 more source

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