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Introduction. The original article presents the results of an experimental study conducted using the method of high-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC) on plant samples – rhizomes with roots of Dioscorea caucasica Lipsky and Dioscorea nipponika
A. E. Sukhanov +4 more
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Abstract Drawing on 576 interviews with incarcerated men and 131 correctional staff across five Western Canadian prisons, we reconceptualize the prison code as subcultural law, documenting the “informal prisoner justice system” as its enforcement arm. Although scholars have treated the code primarily as cultural values prescribing loyalty, silence, and
Luca Berardi +3 more
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Geofinance and Fragmentation: Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currencies
ABSTRACT Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), especially wholesale ones, were initially hailed as tools for frictionless global financial flows. Paradoxically, however, they are contributing to the fragmentation of the international financial system through the emergence of minilateral blocs of ‘friendly’ jurisdictions that have established, or ...
Lucia Quaglia, Amy Verdun
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Historicizing Bureaucratic Encounters
Über Bürokratie spricht heute kaum noch jemand.” – so leitete David Graeber sein Buch über dieses Phänomen ein. Dabei sind bürokratische Begegnungen in den Sozialwissenschaften seit den 1960er Jahren ein immer wieder aktuelles Thema, wie die Studien von ...
Therese Garstenauer
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Estimation of Fagus orientalis Lipsky height using nonlinear models in Hyrcanian forests, Iran
Tree height is one of the most important variables in describing forest stand structure. However, due to difficulty in height measurement, especially in dense and mountainous forests, the common approach is to invoke the height-diameter (H-D) models. The
Aman Mohammad Kalteh +2 more
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Burying Futures: Artisanal Mining Deaths and the Politics of Negligence in Zimbabwe
ABSTRACT In the gold‐mining town of Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, injury and death are a constant presence. Collapsing shafts, sudden explosions, gang fights, and neglected health infrastructure characterize the everyday lives of the town's impoverished residents.
Melusi Nkomo
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Climate and environmental impacts on beech and oak wood production in the Hyrcanian forests [PDF]
Environmental and climatic conditions influence growth of the trees as well as beech (Fagus orientalis Lipsky), a species which is widely spread in the Hyrcanian forests in northern region of Iran.
Mostafa Jafari
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ABSTRACT This article offers a critical conceptual review of age assessments in England and examines their implications for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC). Drawing on Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality, age assessments are conceptualied as technologies of control that set the parameters for who is deemed ‘deserving’ of ...
Ama‐Rose Greaves
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ABSTRACT This study explores how child welfare workers make sense of involuntary child welfare relationships. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 11 frontline professionals in Norwegian child welfare services, the study uses reflexive thematic analysis to examine how child welfare workers interpret parental resistance in light of relational ...
Heidi Aarum Hansen +1 more
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Two subspecies of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) can be found in southeast Europe: Fagus sylvatica ssp. sylvatica L. and Fagus sylvatica ssp. orientalis (Lipsky) Greut. & Burd. (Fagus orientalis Lipsky).
Markus Müller +4 more
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