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How Institutions Shape the Effects of Agricultural Cooperatives on Their Members

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agricultural cooperatives represent a promising way of improving the quality of life of half a billion smallholders, who account for the vast majority of the world's food production. Yet, little is known about the institutional factors that explain the potential benefits of being a member of a cooperative.
Simon Cornée, Madeg Le Guernic, Damien Rousselière   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding culture, memory and trauma in asylum interviews: A mixed‐methods systematic review and meta‐analysis

Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Asylum seekers often struggle to recall and report their experiences during asylum interviews. This may occur for several reasons, ranging from communication challenges in high‐context cultures (relying more on indirect and context‐oriented communication) and low‐context cultures (relying more on direct and explicit communication) to ...
Md Yeasir Yunus, Lorraine Hope, Tanja S. van Veldhuizen, Jonathan Koppel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiating Identity Through Epitexts of Translated Fiction: The Armenian Press in Tiflis (1858–1905)

Changing Societies & Personalities
This study investigates the role of epitexts in Armenian newspapers published in Tiflis (1858–1905) as tools for shaping cultural identity through translated fiction.
Natalia E. Nikonova, Taron R. Danielyan, David V. Petrosyan, Lilit A. Mkrtchyan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
wiley   +1 more source

The Mental Health of the Young in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We report on the wellbeing of the young in twenty‐eight countries located in Eastern Europe and Central Asia including fifteen post‐Soviet countries. We find no evidence of the decline in the mental health of the young relative to older people, which characterizes Western Europe and English‐speaking advanced economies. The mental health of the
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson
wiley   +1 more source

Armenian Melik‘s and Khojas of Transcaucasia during Nādir Shāh’s Rule

BULLETIN OF THE INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL STUDIES
After the wars waged against Ottomans in 1734-1736 Nādir Shāh succeeded in the annexation of the greater part of Transcaucasia to his state. The elite of the local Armenian population consisted of hereditary landlords (melik‘s) and wealthy merchants ...
K. Kostikyan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Deletion in MEFV resulting in the loss of p.M694 residue as the cause of autosomal dominant familial Mediterranean fever in North Western European Caucasians - a case series and genetic exploration

Pediatric Rheumatology Online Journal, 2015
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is the commonest hereditary autoinflammatory disease and it has mostly been reported in populations of Mediterranean ancestry, especially Armenians, Arabs, Turks, non-Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews.
Dorota Rowczenio, D. Iancu, H. Trojer, J. Gilbertson, J. Gillmore, A. Wechalekar, Mehmet Tekman, H. Stanescu, Robert Kleta, T. Lane, P. Hawkins, H. Lachmann   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

(Re)inventing Genocide: Legal and Political Implications of the “Genocide of Soviet People” in (Post‐)Soviet Russia

The Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the emergence and instrumentalization of the concept of the “genocide of the Soviet people” in both Soviet and post‐Soviet contexts, tracing its historical evolution and contemporary use in chronological perspective.
Dmitry Dubrovskiy, Irina Rebrova
wiley   +1 more source

The City as a Multicultural Project: The Case of the City of Lviv (Ukraine)

ARCHive-SR
There are few monocultural cities, especially in areas that have always been in the crosshairs of global geopolitical change. New political realities have sometimes completely changed the ethnic composition of the city, but the memory of the former ...
SVITLANA LINDA
doaj   +1 more source

The Coverage of Situation of Western Armenians and Cilician Armenian’s Massacre in 1909 in the Pages of Egyptian Armenian Periodical “Arshalouys”

Banber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti
The administrative, economic, educational and military reforms carried out by the Wali of Egypt Muhammad Ali made Egypt a strong and stable state, laying a solid foundation for its development.
Myasnik Esoyan
doaj   +6 more sources