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What drives animal responses to high severity fire? The role of functional traits
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fire regimes are changing worldwide, with increases in the frequency, extent, and severity of fires posing growing risks to biodiversity. Fire severity – the degree of habitat alteration following fire – strongly influences both immediate survival and long‐term recovery of fauna.
Grace A. Vielleux +3 more
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To Valery Valentinovich Nikitin’s 75th anniversary
Поволжская археология, 2015 Valery Valentinovich Nikitin, a renowned Russian archaeologist and prominent researcher of ancient history of the Volga-Kama region, Doctor of Historical Sciences, celebrated his 75th anniversary on the 17 of February. Basic trends and stages of his long-
Soloviev Boris S.
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Early verb development in one russian-speaking child
, 2013 This paper investigates the development of verbal inflection in the early stages of the acquisition of Russian.
Gagarina, Natalia Vladimirovna
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Animal empathy reconsidered: a multidimensional profile account
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Empathy is the glue that holds societies together and yet several fundamental questions about empathy persist. What is empathy (the definitional question)? Is it uniquely human and, if not, which nonhuman animals possess empathy (the distribution question)? Which type or quality of empathy is realized in different species (the quality question)
Albert Newen +5 more
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Orthographic Reform and Language Planning in Russian History
, 2020 An oft-neglected topic of book history and culture, both in histories of writing development and in cultural histories of Russia and Eastern Europe, is the rich history of orthographic reform and language planning in Russian and Slavic history. Even more
Conatser Segura, Sylvia
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“Cyclic” time in the history of Russian [PDF]
Studies in Language, 2016 This article offers a diachronic analysis of the concept of “cyclic” time in Russian, more specifically of temporal adverbials such asutrom‘in the morning’ andvesnoj‘in the spring’ that refer to the diurnal and annual temporal cycles in nature. It is argued that evidence from diachrony bears on important theoretical questions: Is the sensitivity to ...
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LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL VALUE OF ARCHAISMS AND HISTORISMS IN TEACHING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
, 2015 The paper for the first time analyzes regional literary material to be used in teaching Russian as a foreign language. The authors analyze fragments of the works by A.V. Koltsov, I.S. Nikitin, and I.A. Bunin.
L M Koltsova +2 more
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(Literary) Capital of the Russian Arctic: Murmansk in Russian Literature
, 2018 In this article, I examine depictions of the city of Murmansk in Soviet and contemporary Russian literature: how different works describe Murmansk’s liminal location and role as a frontier city in the Russian Arctic. I approach this question by analyzing
Lappela, Anni Irmeli +1 more
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Powering Transparency: Global Drivers of Sustainability Reporting in the Electricity Sector
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the drivers of sustainability reporting quality (QSR), conceptualised along two complementary dimensions, relevance and reliability, to assess how firm‐level attributes and institutional conditions jointly shape disclosure practices in the electricity sector.
Alva Marasigan +3 more
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IMAGE OF RUSSIA IN CHINESE TEXTBOOK IN RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: AXIOLOGICAL ASPECT
, 2019 The article analyzes linguo-cultural and culture-oriented study materials in Russian as a foreign language in the textbook for Chinese students (Shi Techan, U Suczzyuan, Reading in Russian. Beijing: Higher education, 2006).
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