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The national character of Tuvans: history and modernity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Review of: Lamazhaa Ch. K. National character of Tuvans. Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nestor-Istoriia. 240 p. ISBN 978-5-4469-1406-7 The review examines the main research positions of the author and the methodological foundations of her study.
Anna V. Kostina
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Relative Chaoticity of Natural Languages

open access: yesComplexity, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
This paper presents a novel approach to analyzing and grouping natural languages based on the degree of their chaoticity. It clusters 52 languages from 18 language families, according to the value of the entropy–complexity pair, to reveal the chaotic properties of semantic trajectories.
Assel S. Yerbolova   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Tuvan time” and economic culture of Tuvans

open access: yes, 2018
This is a first ever study of the notion of ‘Tuvan time’ (Tyva үе) – the way Tuvans reckon time in their everyday lives. This idea is examined as an integral part of Tuvan culture, being most directly linked to practices of economic culture.
Chimiza K. Lamazhaa
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Expedition to the Tuvans in China, Russia, and Mongolia in 2012 : A Preliminary Report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article is a preliminary report on the international expedition to the Tuvans in China, Russia, and Mongolia that was conducted in the summer of 2012 as a Cultural Resource Project of the National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku).
Mongush, Marina V.   +1 more
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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
doaj   +1 more source

Total Energy Expenditure and Physical Activity Profiles Among Reindeer Herders and Office Workers of Northern Finland

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Human Biology, Volume 37, Issue 12, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Objectives In the Arctic, climate change increases extreme weather events and unpredictability, affects food chains, increases transportational needs, and decreases physical activity (PA) and estimated total energy expenditure (eTEE). Thus, understanding how climate change affects inhabitants of different environments is increasingly important.
Ville Stenbäck   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Overcoming Subaltern Silences: The Forgotten Buryat Soldiers of the Korean War

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 422-442, July 2025.
Abstract This article reassesses Soviet warfare practices by examining the use of non‐Slavic soldiers from Siberian ethnic minorities during the Korean War (1950–53). These soldiers, including Koreans, Buryats, Sakha Yakuts, and Tuvans, were deployed by the Soviet military in an elaborate deception scheme aimed at reinforcing Chinese units fighting on ...
Sayana Namsaraeva, Vitaly Tsytsykov
wiley   +1 more source

Whole exome sequencing: the search for mutations associated with hereditary breast cancer in ethnic groups of Siberia

open access: yesСибирский онкологический журнал
Hereditary breast cancer (HBC) is a heterogeneous disease caused by mutations in genes characterized by ethnic specifcity. The clinical heterogeneity of this disease signifcantly complicates its diagnosis.
P. A. Gervas   +7 more
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Reconsidering ‘Classical’ versus ‘Recombinant’ Teleologies: a Case Study of Philip Glass's Piano Etude No. 6

open access: yesMusic Analysis, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 73-99, March 2025.
ABSTRACT In contrast to the teleological nature of Western art music, minimalism has long been purported to be ‘anti‐teleological’ (Meyer 1963) – that is, the latter lacks the goal‐directedness that Wim Mertens (1983) views as a defining feature of the former.
Hunter Hoyle
wiley   +1 more source

Associations of Facial Shape With Physical Strength and 2D:4D in a Turkish Male and Female Sample

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Human Biology, Volume 36, Issue 11, November 2024.
ABSTRACT Objective Human sexual dimorphism in physical strength manifests itself in men having a greater muscle mass than women, reflecting ancestral roles in competition, protection, and provisioning. Prenatal testosterone exposure, approximated via the second‐to‐fourth digit ratio (2D:4D), is linked to increased muscular strength in both sexes ...
Fatih Aydık   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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