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Spartan Daily October 12, 2010 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Volume 135, Issue 23https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/1186/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Universities and the Right to Think in Africa

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 71, Issue 1, Page 52-72, March 2025.
Studies of academic freedom have mostly focussed on Europe and North America. Yet, any consideration of the societal crises in Africa cannot ignore the collapse of its universities and the very concept of academic freedom on the continent. Much had been expected of the universities.
Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe
wiley   +1 more source

Aspects and values of buddhism for the women of the west [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Living in India, which is not yet linked into the electronic autobahn at quite the screaming pace of the rest of the world, I received my information about this conference in two barely legible faxes, which arrived more than three weeks apart and ...
Napper, Elizabeth
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Risk and its others: Toward an anthropology of “protection” in rural Mongolia

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 69-79, March 2025.
Abstract Anthropological studies of risk have long focused on how people respond to and aim to manage potential harm. But despite its long and important genealogy, this article suggests that risk can pose an analytic blind spot that potentially occludes other ways of understanding how people aim to live well in potentially harmful situations.
Joseph Bristley
wiley   +1 more source

Transfer of Personality to Synthetic Human ("mind uploading") and the Social Construction of Identity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Humans have long wondered whether they can survive the death of their physical bodies. Some people now look to technology as a means by which this might occur, using terms such 'whole brain emulation', 'mind uploading', and 'substrate independent minds ...
Bamford, Sim, Danaher, John
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Diaspora Voices Explored: Introducing a Representative Claims Framework to Analyse the Tibetan Diaspora Network Online

open access: yesGlobal Networks, Volume 25, Issue 1, January 2025.
ABSTRACT This article introduces a representative claims approach as a novel analytical framework to the field of diaspora politics. Supplemented with a network perspective, this approach offers a more nuanced understanding of the practices underpinning diasporic claims‐making.
Palmo Brunner
wiley   +1 more source

Tibetan Buddhism in Russia and Mongolia in the Early 21st Century

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
This article attempts to provide a comparative analysis of the development of Buddhism in Mongolia and Russia over the last 20 years. The paper argues that the processes of restoration of the Buddhist sangha (Pali/Sanskrit ‘assembly, association’, i.e ...
R. T. Sabirov
doaj   +1 more source

Maternal Phylogeny and Genetic Structure of Wild Sheep/Argali (Bovidae, Ruminantia) Populations in China

open access: yesJournal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Argali, also known as wild sheep (Ovis ammon), is a prominent alpine mammal found in Central Asia. It is of conservation concern globally and domestically in China. Our study aims to unveil the genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationships among argali populations in China using the mitochondrial cytochrome b (Cytb) and control region (CR) sequences.
Wei-Xuan Zhang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geocultural images of the Tuvan Buddhist world: historical context and modernity

open access: yesНовые исследования Тувы, 2019
The article analyzes geocultural images of Buddhist world of the Tuvans. These images are viewed as concepts, which were formed in the Tuvan culture to describe the areas where Buddhism has spread.
Chimiza K. Lamazhaa
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