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Are There Only Two Ethnic Groups in Moscow: Slavs and Southerners? Research on Vernacular Categorization Using Elicitation Methods

Социология власти
This article presents the results of a study of ethnic categories used in everyday categorizations. The study was conducted at the intersection of classical and innovative cognitive science-inspired methods, including video elicitation and the walk-along
E. A. Varshaver, A. A. Orlova, Yu. V. Gupalova   +2 more
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How has the invention of printing press influenced the Russian icon painting? Printed icons in Russia at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries

Studia Humanitatis, 2021
The purpose of this article is to comprehensively present a “printed icon”, such characteristic phenomenon of Russia at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The article indicates origins and typical features of this phenomenon, analyses the main
Walczak Dorota
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Current Trends in Moscow Settlement Pattern Development: A Multiscale Approach

Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2019
The article studies current trends in Moscow population in context of socio- economic polarization strengthening between the capital city and other regions of the country.
Pavel L. Kirillov, Alla G. Makhrova, Tatiana G. Nefedova   +2 more
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

AEROSOL PROPERTIES IN MOSCOW ACCORDING TO 10 YEARS OF AERONET MEASUREMENTS AT THE METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY OF MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY

Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2011
Different microphysical, optical and radiative properties of aerosol were analyzed according to the 10 years of measurements (2001–2010) at the Meteorological Observatory of Moscow State University within the framework of international AERONET program ...
Natalia Chubarova, Alexander Smirnov, Brent Holben   +2 more
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Beyond Distinction: Private Art Museums and Their Versatile Role for Elites' (Self)Legitimization Discourses

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2000s have witnessed a significant, worldwide boom in new art museums founded by private, wealthy collectors. While the arts have long been a key arena for the remaking of elite distinction and the reproduction of inequalities, this surge in private museums has sparked much controversy.
Sara de Andrade Silva, Kristina Kolbe, Olav Velthuis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

SHAMKHALATE OF TARKI IN THE RUSSIAN CAUCASIAN POLITICS IN THE LATE 16TH – FIRST HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURIES

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2014
The paper studies the largest and mightiest estate of Dagestan – the Shamkhalate of Tarki. This feudal foundation could be characterized with highly developed economics and social structure of the society.
M.-P. B. Abdusalamov
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Intestinal parasites of pets and other house-kept animals in Moscow

Helminthologia, 2019
A study screening pet animals (dogs, cats, chinchillas, ferrets, guinea pigs, rabbits, primates, reptiles, and hedgehogs) within Moscow city limits for intestinal parasitic diseases has been conducted over a period of 6 years.
Kurnosova O. P., Arisov M. V., Odoyevskaya I. M.   +2 more
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Influence of News in Moscow and New York on Returns and Risks on Baltic State Stock Indices [PDF]

The impact of news of the Moscow and New York stock market exchanges on the returns and volatilities of the Baltic state stock market indices is studied using daily return data for the period of 2000-2005.
Brännäs, Kurt, Soultanaeva, Albina
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Ecophysiology of an Avian Invader: Body Condition and Metabolic Rate Adjustments to Ambient Temperature

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
This study examines the ecophysiological responses of common waxbills to temperature variation in Portugal. We measured body condition and basal metabolic rate (BMR) during summer and winter across two regions in Portugal. Body condition was negatively correlated with temperature, while the relationship between BMR and temperature varied seasonally. In
Marina Sentís, Cesare Pacioni, Emma Bossuyt, Andrey Bushuev, Anvar Kerimov, Luís Reino, Luc Lens, Diederik Strubbe   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source