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Re-adjusting to life after war: the demobilization of Red Army veterans in Leningrad and the Leningrad region 1944-1950

, 2011
PhDThis dissertation explores the demobilization of veterans of the Great Patriotic War in Leningrad and the surrounding countryside between 1944 and 1950.
Dale, Robert
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Beyond the Cut: Generative Refusal and the Reimagining of Jewish Affiliation in Contemporary Israel

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Jewish‐Israeli society, circumcision (brit milah) carries far‐reaching significance, symbolizing both the covenant between god and the Jewish people and serving as a key marker of communal affiliation and cultural continuity. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with Jewish‐Israeli parents who have chosen not to circumcise their sons and using ...
Nina Rageth
wiley   +1 more source

Smoking status and voting behaviour and intentions in countries of the former Soviet Union. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Stickley A, Inoue Y, Kondo N, Leinsalu M, McKee M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Information manipulation and historical revisionism: Russian disinformation and foreign interference through manipulated history-based narratives. [PDF]

Open Res Eur, 2023
Arribas CM, Arcos R, Gértrudix M, Mikulski K, Hernández-Escayola P, Teodor M, Novăcescu E, Surdu I, Stoian V, García-Jiménez A.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Betwixt playing the waiting game and waiting in vain: Temporal governance and the thin alignment of care under universal health coverage in Kenya

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates how Kenyan citizens access healthcare within the framework of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) reforms. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, it reconceptualizes waiting as a politically structured phenomenon rather than a simple delay. The analysis shows that UHC reforms do not eliminate waiting but instead redistribute it,
Edwin Ambani Ameso
wiley   +1 more source

Cold war of strains: the 'Bulgarian' BCG vaccine between Paris, Copenhagen, and Moscow (1940s-1950s). [PDF]

Med Hist
Angelova M.
europepmc   +1 more source

A Mixed‐Method Study on Gender and Intrahousehold Differences in Food Consumption From Khatlon Province, Tajikistan

Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tajikistan faces significant food insecurity and multiple forms of malnutrition in its population, with women particularly at risk. Social norms related to gender and intrahousehold hierarchy are pervasive. Yet, how gender impacts dietary intake in Tajikistan remains to be studied.
Sarah M. L. Pechtl, Mohru Mardonova, Tanzila Ergasheva, Isabel B. Lambrecht   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Building sustainable public health data science and informatics capacity: possibilities for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. [PDF]

Health Policy Plan
Gotsadze G, Gelashvili M, Zhuravliova E, Barbakadze T, Gilvydis J, Levine R, Becknell S.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Can a peace settlement be reached in Afghanistan?

, 1986
In 1979 the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, marking the beginning of a long and violent conflict that drew the involvement of the United States, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia.
Krogh, Peter F. (Peter Frederic)
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(Re)Defining language pedagogy activity: A sociomaterialist perspective

The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Language pedagogy activity (LPA) is central to the functioning of language classrooms worldwide, and this article (re)defines LPA. While prevailing applied linguistics conceptualizations of “activity” are often theoretical and anthropocentric, our definition of LPA is empirically supported and foregrounds material agency.
Anne Marie Guerrettaz, Darren K. LaScotte, Jihee Im, Nancy D. Bell   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source