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Born high, born fast: Does highland birth confer a pulmonary advantage for sea level endurance?
Experimental Physiology, Volume 110, Issue 11, Page 1625-1638, November 1, 2025.Abstract Less than 7% of the world's population live at an altitude above 1500 m. Yet, as many as 67% of medalists in the 2020 men's and women's Olympic marathon, and 100% of medalists in the 2020 men's and women's Olympic 5000 m track race may have been born or raised above this otherwise rare threshold.
Hunter L. Paris +7 more
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An Outpost of Russian Statehood in the North‑West Caucasus
Журнал Фронтирных ИсследованийThe article examines the history of one of the most important centers of the formation of the Russian frontier in the Northwestern Caucasus in the late 18th – mid 19th centuries, namely, the fortress Prochnyj Okop founded in 1784. The authors analyze the
Sergey N. Ktitorov +2 more
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Who Is Afraid of Love? Adam Smith and the Rational Analysis of Bonding
Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 5, October 2025.ABSTRACT For Smith, love inextricably involves negative feelings, what this paper calls “bonding cost”. The bonding cost can be moderate. However, it can easily become excessive, taking the form of turbulent emotions, obsessions, vulnerabilities, and ego‐centrism. Hence, it is no wonder that Smith is highly critical of love.
Elias L. Khalil
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Negotiating the Mountains. Foreign Immigration and Cultural Change in the Italian Alps
Martor, 2017 Severely affected during the twentieth century by depopulation and neglect, the Alps also suffered an erosion of their cultural heritage. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, however, population has begun to grow in many areas, mainly due to ...
Andrea Membretti, Pier Paolo Viazzo
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Experimental Physiology, 2018 New Findings What is the central question of this study? Do Sherpa highlanders, when exposed to graded hypobaric hypoxia, exhibit enhanced vasomotor and neurovascular control to maintain microcirculatory flux, and thus tissue oxygenation, when compared ...
Thomas Davies +10 more
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Malaria Journal, 2022 Background In Ethiopia, thousands of seasonal migrant workers travel from non-malaria or mild malaria transmission areas to malaria-endemic areas for seasonal farm activities.
Tesfaye Tilaye +2 more
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Hoffmeister in his Proving Ground: Sicily, July–August 1943 [PDF]
, 2012 Lieutenant-Colonel Bert Hoffmeister established his reputation as an able battlefield commander in Sicily. In the Campaign to wrest the Italian island from the Axis Powers, he fought with skill and courage.
Delaney, Douglas E.
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Lipids, Volume 60, Issue 5, Page 293-302, September 2025.Abstract The lipid profiles of highlanders and lowlanders differ. However, studies of the lipid profiles of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) living at high altitudes are limited. This study aimed to compare lipid profiles and lipoprotein particles in individuals with T2DM permanently residing in the Tibetan Plateau and those residing in ...
Chenghui Zhang +6 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 899-916, September 2025.This article explores transformation as a way of being in the rural Andes. It traces how transformation connects, and produces value within, multiple different spheres of life, specifically agricultural labour, personhood, identity, and space and movement.
Miranda Sheild Johansson
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Haunted Headwaters: Ecotourism, Animism, and the Blurry Line Between Science and Spirits
SHS Web of Conferences, 2014 The highlanders of Ratanakiri, Cambodia believe that certain mountains cannot be hunted or logged because they are the abode of powerful spirits. They are convinced that mountain spirits will exact revenge on them in the form of serious injury or illness
McCann Gregory, Hsu Yi-Chung
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