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Impact of Geography on Institutions in Agricultural and Nomadic Societies

International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How geography affects the choice of institutions is studied in a theoretical model. In this model, nations are located around a circle. Rulers compete through choosing tax rates, the level of military spending, and the degree of formality of institutions. Geographic condition is captured by population density.
Haiwen Zhou
wiley   +1 more source

People Tending Horses (S2_B7_F2_99) [PDF]

, 2020
People tending horses on the Mongolian ...
University of Akron
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Warfare, Labor, and Urban Stress: Divergent Health Trajectories in Mongol‐Period Karakorum

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines major palaeopathological trends in Mongol‐period Karakorum and incorporates them into the existing body of research in order to deepen our understanding of health and survival, the impacts of conflict and violence on past populations, and the lived experiences of the city's diverse inhabitants within the broader socio ...
Júlia Olive‐Busom, Susanne Reichert, Dunburee Batsukh, Jan Bemmann, Alice Toso   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal mapping the usable space of free‐roaming equids across the western United States

Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
Identification of the inter‐decadal (2010‐2011) enhancement‐degradation gradients in the usable space for wild equid Herd Management Areas in the Great Basin, USA. Abstract Management of feral equids in the American West is hindered by the lack of a formal habitat map and monitoring system.
Alexander Hernandez, Eric Thacker, Kaden Patten, David Stoner   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating large mammalian herbivores into Dynamic Global Vegetation Models: Status and next steps

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Zoogeochemistry, the study of how animals influence elemental cycling within ecosystems, bridges the fields of zoology, ecology and biogeochemistry. Yet, most terrestrial ecosystem models, especially Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs), remain largely plant‐centric
Yue Cheng, Joanne Alice O'Keeffe, Andrew J. Abraham, Jesper Riis Christiansen, Frederik Nygaard Philipsen, Klaus Steenberg Larsen, Fabio Berzaghi, Carsten W. Mueller, Lars Vesterdal, Jeppe A. Kristensen, Elizabeth Le Roux   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural Landscape in Mongolian Tourism [PDF]

, 2008
: The Mongolian steppes and their nomads, horses, herds and gers form a cultural landscape which is the region's icon attraction, the central image in Mongolian marketing, the key feature of its flagship tourism products, and the most heavily ...
Buckley, Ralf, Zhong, Linsheng, Ollenburg, Claudia   +2 more
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Genetic structure and genome-wide association study of the traditional Kazakh horses

Animal, 2023
Horses are traditionally used in Kazakhstan as a source of food and as working and saddle animals as well. Here, for the first time, microarray-based medium-density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping of six traditionally defined types and ...
Alexandr Pozharskiy, Aisha Abdrakhmanova, Indira Beishova, Alzhan Shamshidin, Askar Nametov, Tatyana Ulyanova, Gulmira Bekova, Nabidulla Kikebayev, Alexandr Kovalchuk, Vadim Ulyanov, Amangeldy Turabayev, Marina Khusnitdinova, Kabyl Zhambakin, Zagipa Sapakhova, Malika Shamekova, Dilyara Gritsenko   +15 more
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Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of compound microecological preparation on growth performance and serum of Mongolian horse

Siliao yanjiu, 2021
The experiment studied the effect of adding compound probiotics in feed on the growth performance and serum of Mongolian horses. The experiment adopted a single factor design, 40 young Mongolian horses with an average weight of 140 kg and an average age ...
Xiao-xiao GUO, Jian-ying ZHANG, Xiao-hua LI   +2 more
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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
wiley   +1 more source