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A Tale of Two Choices: Son Preference and Reproductive Outcomes in Uzbekistan

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this study, we use data from the recent round of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) conducted between 2021 and 2022 to estimate the effect of son preference on reproductive behavior in Uzbekistan. We find strong evidence for differential stopping and spacing behavior among Uzbek women.
Khilola Dushamova, Rashid Javed, Gayrat Suyunov, Munira Zakirova   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

(Dis)trust in doctors and public and private healthcare institutions in the Western Balkans. [PDF]

Health Expect, 2022
Maljichi D, Limani B, Spier TE, Angjelkoska V, Stojković Zlatanović S, Maljichi D, Alloqi Tahirbegolli I, Tahirbegolli B, Kulanić A, Agolli Nasufi I, Kovač-Orlandić M.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
wiley   +1 more source

Ohio State University Brass Quintet and Western Brass Quintet

, 2017
Recorded during a live performance at Oakland Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, February 15, 1974, program no. 144 of the Department of Music’s 1973-1974 season.Ohio State University Brass Quintet (Thomas Battenberg, Richard
Western Brass Quintet, Ohio State University. Brass Quintet   +1 more
core   +1 more source

New records for the Western Balkans cranefly fauna (Diptera, Tipuloidea) with the description of a new Baeoura Alexander (Diptera, Limoniidae). [PDF]

Zookeys, 2023
Kolcsár LP, d'Oliveira MC, Graf W, Quindroit C, Watanabe K, Ivković M.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Little Fish in Big Ponds: The Pathways to Inclusion for Micro‐Minorities in Power‐Sharing Societies

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Emergent critique of consociations has focused on how micro‐minority ‘others’ are frequently excluded from the opportunities presented by power‐sharing systems, with dominant elites shutting them out. Therefore, a key question is: how do the political elites of micro‐minorities gain more meaningful inclusion by adopting or navigating the ...
Aleksandra Zdeb, Drew Mikhael
wiley   +1 more source

Nested Claims, Cross‐Segmental Issues, and Elite Competition in Powersharing

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Powersharing systems rely on descriptive representation, where elected elites ‘stand in’ for their segment's voters, incentivising intransigence and penalising cross‐segmental cooperation. Yet powersharing politics regularly witness cross‐segmental appeals, voting patterns and party formation.
Timofey Agarin
wiley   +1 more source

Kidney Transplantation in Western Balkans: A Regional Blueprint for Access, Capacity, and Equity. [PDF]

Transpl Int
Rista E, Spasovski G, Rebic D, Lausevic M, Radunovic D, Godanci V, Strakosha A, Idrizi A, Saliaj K, Akin EB, Stojanovic J, Ortiz F, Lefaucheur C, Potena L, Chatzixiros E, Azzi J, Mey D.   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Innovative financing of the sustainable development goals in the countries of the Western Balkans. [PDF]

Energy Sustain Soc, 2022
Lukšić I, Lukšić I, Bošković B, Novikova A, Vrbensky R.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Thermal Ecology and Thermoregulatory Behavior of the Invasive Turtle, Trachemys scripta elegans, in the Mediterranean Basin

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, Volume 345, Issue 8, Page 850-858, October 2026.
ABSTRACT The success of invasive species, which pose a significant threat to global biodiversity, hinges on their physiological and ecological adaptive capacities to the environments into which they are introduced. Trachemys scripta elegans (T. scripta elegans), recognized as one of the world's 100 most invasive species, has spread across a wide ...
Afsar Murat, Çelik Çetin
wiley   +1 more source