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European Regional Integration in the Drafting of the Eastern Pact in 1934–1935: Interests of the Baltic Entente and the Little Entente [PDF]

Revista Română pentru Studii Baltice şi Nordice, 2013
This article follows the interests and actions of the countries of Baltic and Little ententes with regard to the projected Eastern Pact, which raised marked interest in East-Central Europe in 1934-1935.
Dalia Bukeleviciute
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Innovation in Rural Nonprofits: Which Organizational Capacities Matter Most?

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research note draws on theory and empirical research from the broader fields of management, organizational capacity, and innovation to examine how specific organizational capacities relate to innovation in a sample of 107 rural nonprofit organizations in a Southeastern U.S. state.
Kristina Jaskyte, Ashley Hunter, Lina Danusevičienė   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beauplan’s Ukraine: open access georeferenced databases for studies of early modern history of Central and Eastern Europe

Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2019
In 1630, Guillaume Le Vasseur, sieur de Beauplan, travelled to the lands of Poland-Lithuania to begin a seventeen-year military career in the Crown army. The purpose of the Beauplan’s Ukraine (BU) project is to provide a set of open access, georeferenced
Polczynski Michael, Polczynski Mark
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Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotope Analysis Explores Diverse Domestic Goose Management Practices in Medieval and Postmedieval Russia

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Studying goose domestication through archaeological finds has been challenging due to the similar skeletal morphology of the European domestic goose and its wild progenitor, the greylag goose (Anser anser). We analyzed stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes from bone collagen of subfossil domestic and potentially domestic geese to ...
Johanna Honka, Clément Massé, Arthur O. Askeyev, Igor V. Askeyev, Oleg V. Askeyev, Jouni Aspi, Dilyara N. Shaymuratova, Laura Kvist   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fostering Women's Political Leadership Through Government Accountability: Evidence From OECD Countries

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Women remain significantly underrepresented in political leadership worldwide. This study examines how different combinations of government accountability mechanisms enhance women's political representation (WPR) as a pathway to leadership in 30 OECD countries.
Samira Nazar, Seyed Ashkan Zarghami
wiley   +1 more source

Saplings of significance: Nurturing cultural value of new tree plantings through participatory opportunities

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Tree‐planting initiatives are a crucial part of international sustainability and climate action efforts. Yet, many of these initiatives fail to achieve their long‐term sustainability and climate goals. The role of community value is an often‐overlooked factor in promoting the success of new tree plantings.
Claire L. Narraway, Eline van Remortel, Sophie B. Cowling, Divya Kumar, Hanna Mroczka, Emilija Rudzinskaite, Georgina Sturgeon, Sasha Woods, Daniel B. Hayhow   +8 more
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Status and future of seed conservation of threatened plants in the post‐2020 era

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Ambitious targets have been set to backup seeds of threatened plants by the global strategy for plant conservation (GSPC), but it is unclear in how far these targets have been met and how seed collection should be organized to meet future challenges. Here, we provide an overview of the status of 44 countries in achieving seed conservation targets.
Andreas Ensslin, Adelaide Clemente, Udayangani Liu, Elke Zippel, Carla Pinto‐Cruz, Carolina Sanchez Romero, Simone Schneider, Agustí Agut Escrig, Charlotte Allender, Külli Annamaa, Marina Antic, Bertille Asset, Gianluigi Bacchetta, Oz Baranzani, Anamaria Barata, Philippe Bardin, Joze Bavcon, Anabela D. F. Belo, Marina Belovarska, Karim Benkhelifa, Christian Berg, Karl‐Georg Bernhardt, Marcin Beza, Kristina Bjureke, Sina Bohm, Peter Borgmann, Josep Borrell, Stéphane Buord, Jocelyne Cambecedes, Francesca Carruggio, Angelino Carta, Pedro Casimiro, Ted Chapman, Iveta Cicova, Regis Crisnaire, Antonia Cristaudo, Lucia De la Rosa, Maîte Delmas, Gergana Desheva, Valter Di Cecco, Luciano Di Martino, Katia Diadema, Lara Dixon, Denise Dostatny, Marie Duval, Roland K. Eberwein, Mikel Etxeberria‐Okariz, Caroline Favier, Nick Fenby, Mariana P. Fernandes, Inmaculada Ferrando‐Pardo, Pablo Ferrer, Noémie Fort, Luigi Forte, Catia F. Freitas, Agnese Gailite, Katarzyna Galej‐Ciwis, Rosa Maria Garcia, Ana Irene García‐del Bao, Catherine Gautier, Bronislovas Gelvonauskis, Gian Petro Giusso del Galdo, Miguel Angel González Pérez, Johan Gourvil, Luisa Gouveia, Thierry Helminger, Brais Hermosilla Lorenzo, Laetitia Hugot, Marko Hyvärinen, Ignac Janžekovič, Andreas König, Nikos Krigas, Emilio Laguna, Ludivine Lapébie, Denis Larpin, Maja Lazarević, Dikla Lifshitz, Vincent Lipa, Carlos Lobo, Ulrike Lohwasser, Sandrine Loriot, Sara Magrini, Francesca Mantino, Mauro Mariotti, Evi Matiatou, Lubomir Mendel, Marine Millet, Mari Miranto, Andrea Mondoni, Santiago Moreno Vázquez, Valeria Negri, Peter Nick, Maciej Niemczyk, Humberto Nobrega, Pawel Olejniczak, Małgorzata Pałucka, Katerina Papanastasi, Ioanna Papanikolaou, Miguel A. A. Pinheiro de Carvalho, Marco Porceddu, Sotirios Porevis, Peter Poschlod, Lorenzo Raggi, Sarmite Rancane, Leonid Rasran, Blanka Ravnjak, Stéphane Rivière, Axelle Roumier, Anna Rucińska, Felix Schlatti, Marco Schmidt, Guy‐Xavier Seznec, Manuela Sim‐Sim, Ana Luisa Soares, Nora Stoeckl, Silvia Strajeru, Gitana Stukeniene, Andrej Šušek, Andreas Titze, Sarah Trinder, Zlatina Tsvetanova, Theo Van Hintum, Nils Van Rooijen, Magdalena Vicens Fornés, Mariacristina Villani, Silvia Villegas, Fiona J. White, Sabine Zachago, Elena Zappa, Vince Zsigmond, Sandrine Godefroid   +130 more
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Lecanicillium aphanocladii: a biocontrol agent against insect pests and phytopathogens

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
Recent research findings on the biocontrol potential of Lecanicillium aphanocladii fungus against insect‐pests and plant diseases were highlighted. This review indicates that several L. aphanocladii strains show great potential to be developed as multipurpose biocontrol agents active against several insect‐pests, plant diseases and plant parasitic ...
Qianhe Liu, Richard Johnson, Kwasi Adusei‐Fosu   +2 more
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Relationship between food quality and body size of common vole in different habitats

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
The body size of the common vole in crop fields (alfalfa, rape, cereals) is larger than in less‐cultivated habitats (forests, clearings, set‐aside) and is not related to food quality. Abstract BACKGROUND There is a close relationship between habitat, food and demographic parameters of common vole populations.
Eva Jánová, Ladislav Čepelka, Josef Suchomel, Marta Heroldová   +3 more
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The European honey buzzard (Pernis apivorus) as an ally for the control of the invasive yellow‐legged hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax)

Pest Management Science, Volume 81, Issue 4, Page 2237-2247, April 2025.
The predatory effect of the honey‐buzzard affects the reproductive performance of Asian‐hornet colonies, decreasing the density of workers over distance and time. The foraging distances of the honey‐buzzard concentrates within the first 2000 m from nest, which supports the results observed.
Jorge Ángel Martín‐Ávila, Luisa María Díaz‐Aranda, José Manuel Fernández‐Pereira, Salvador Rebollo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source