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The article gives a complete description of the uz’ygumy, the Udmurt traditional flute. Published articles by Russian researchers and new field material recorded during expeditions between 2004 and 2009 are used as the main sources. For the first time the process of manufacture of the instrument is observed, the territory of its existence is outlined ...
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Forest cover dynamics (defined as tree canopy cover change without regard to forest land use) within the Russian European North have been analyzed from 1990 to 2005 using a combination of results from two Landsat‐based forest cover monitoring projects: 1990–2000 and 2000–2005.
Peter Potapov +6 more
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Morphological features of the translation of the «God’s Law» (1912) into the Udmurt language
Introduction. The relevance of the study lies in the fact that the Udmurt written monuments are studied only partially at the moment. Today more than 400 names of pre-revolutionary Udmurt monuments are known, but most of them are still not described.
Maria P. Bezenova
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C282Y and H63D Mutation Frequencies in a Population from Central Spain
Objectives: To determine the frequency of hereditary hemochromatosis gene mutations, C282Y and H63D, from 125 autochthonous blood donors originating from a Central region of Spain, to provide epidemiological data about HFE gene in the Iberian Peninsula. Methods: DNA extracted from blood samples was analyzed by PCR‐RFLP.
S. Alvarez +3 more
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ABSTRACT Russia's Maternal Capital policy initially increased total fertility rates, stimulating much discussion on whether it would result in more births or only earlier births. Effects of that policy upon different ethnic groups within Russia, however, have not received systematic attention.
Konstantin Kazenin +2 more
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Relative Chaoticity of Natural Languages
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
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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Az inferencialitás kategóriájának leírási problémái az uráli nyelvekben
Tanulmányunk olyan, az inferencialitás kategóriájával összefüggő definíciós és leíró jellegű problémákat tárgyal, melyek nem csupán az uráli nyelvek kapcsán, hanem tipológiai munkákban is felmerülnek.
Kubitsch, Rebeka, Szeverényi, Sándor
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Playing the sycophant card: The logic and consequences of professing loyalty to the autocrat
Abstract Despite the centrality of the loyalty–competence framework in research on authoritarian politics, scholars have only focused on material aspects of what elites do in their service to the dictator. Yet nonmaterial aspects such as sycophantically praising the autocrat in speech—a common, everyday practice under authoritarianism, have been ...
Alexander Baturo +2 more
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Влияние иных культур в удмуртских названиях божьей коровки [The Influence of Other Cultures Traced in the Names for ’ladybug’ used in the Udmurt Language]; pp. 134-140 [PDF]
The article is devoted to the names of âladybugâ in the Udmurt language, which reflect the influence of neighboring cultures. For example, at first glance the Âcomposite Äužanai̯/papa (literally âmaternal grandmother + insectâ) is in no doubt
S. Maksimov
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