Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.Abstract Urban blue spaces are increasingly recognised as important determinants of mental health. This empirical study investigates the mental health benefits of blue space exposure in Shkodra, Albania. Data from 534 respondents were collected through the Albanian Urban Blue Spaces (AUBS) Survey.
Samel Kruja +3 more
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One new genus Najas (Hydrocharitaceae) and four new vascular plant records for Kosovo: Lycopodium, Najas and two Cyperus species. [PDF]
Biodivers Data JMillaku F +3 more
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Zoologica Scripta, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Subfamily Leuciscinae, the largest freshwater fish group of the western Palearctic region, has been widely studied, including the phylogenetic relationships between its species and genera. However, until now, one genus completely escaped attention in this regard. Even though several works hypothesised about its evolutionary relationships based
Jasna Vukić +3 more
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Who Holds the Power? Gendered Experiences of Involuntary Singlehood in the Age of Online Dating*
Sociological Inquiry, Volume 96, Issue 3, August 2026.Although singlehood is a desired lifestyle for an increasing number of heterosexual women and men, many are involuntarily single, struggling to find a partner. Meanwhile, popular debates about dating are sharply polarized along gendered lines. While “incels” see themselves as victims on a dating market ruled by women, relatively mainstreamed feminist ...
Lena Gunnarsson +2 more
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The Balkan Region and the "Nano Gap": An Underexplored Dimension of In Vitro Biotechnology for Woody Plants. [PDF]
Plants (Basel)Sota V +14 more
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How digitisation of herbaria reveals the botanical legacy of the First World War
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 1292-1303, July 2026.Digitisation of herbarium collections is bringing greater understanding to bear on the complexity of narratives relating to the First World War and its aftermath – scientific and societal. Plant collecting during the First World War was more widespread than previously understood, contributed to the psychological well‐being of those involved and ...
Christopher Kreuzer, James A. Wearn
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Correction: Emergence of monopoly-Copper exchange networks during the Late Bronze Age in the western and central Balkans. [PDF]
PLoS OneGavranović M +8 more
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‘AN AUSTRIAN FATE’: TRAUMA, REPRESSION AND WAR IN ADRIAN GOIGINGER'S DER FUCHS (2022)
German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 351-364, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines one of the highest‐grossing films in recent years in Austria, Der Fuchs (Adrian Goiginger, 2022), which focuses on the friendship of the protagonist, a Wehrmacht soldier, with an abandoned fox cub, but in the process elides more than four years of the soldier's wartime experience.
Katya Krylova
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Dispersal Beyond Mountains and Borders: Asymmetrical Gene Flow Helps Maintain Brown Bear Metapopulation Connectivity on the Balkan Peninsula. [PDF]
Ecol EvolPylidis C +12 more
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Global Networks, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article reconceptualizes migrant smuggling along the Balkan Route through the lens of the smuggling assemblage, which captures the fluid, relational and context‐dependent nature of clandestine mobility. Based on multi‐sited ethnographic fieldwork between 2020 and 2023 across six countries, including 85 semi‐structured interviews and ...
Muhammed Yasir Bodur +1 more
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