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MIRACLE URBANIZATION: Spatial Production and Political Legitimation in the Sochi 2014 and Beijing 2022 Olympics

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
wiley   +1 more source

Perspectives on the Future of the Caucasus after the Second Chechnya Conflict. Papers from a Brainstorming Conference held at CEPS 27-28 January 2000. CEPS Working Document No. 148, July 2000 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
The problems surrounding the Chechen conflict are indeed many and difficult to tackle. This paper aims at unveiling some of the mysteries covering the issue of so-called “Islamic fundamentalism” in Chechnya.
Chirikba, Viacheslav   +9 more
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Global HRM and Transnational Networks: Unpacking the Micro‐Behavioral Process Supporting Global HRM Integration Using a Quantitative Multi‐Source, Multi‐Level Design

open access: yesHuman Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whether and why social processes support global HRM integration is an overlooked, yet increasingly relevant performance question in decentralized transnational work environments. Using social capital theory, we conceptualize the social dynamic and behaviors influencing global HRM integration.
Olga Tregaskis   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

MONITORING OF DOG DIROFILARIASIS THE NORTH-WESTERN CAUCASUS

open access: yesTHEORY AND PRACTICE OF PARASITIC DISEASE CONTROL, 2020
In the course of a study conducted in 2015–2019, it was found that there is a permanent center of dirofilariasis in the North-Western Caucasus, which is actively supported by domestic dogs and cats, as well as wild predatory mammals. Dogs in the region have two types of dirofilaria cardionematoda Dirofilaria immitis and subcutaneous Dirofilaria repens.
Victor Kravchenko, Galina Kravchenko
openaire   +1 more source

Risk Scenarios for European Rearmament

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European Union has launched a flurry of initiatives to ramp up European defence spending. Efforts to bolster European defence have further intensified in response to the United States' increasingly hostile stance towards its erstwhile European allies.
Mette Eilstrup‐Sangiovanni
wiley   +1 more source

The Six-Decade Barrier for Understanding Cellular-Pulsating Burning of Energetic Materials: A Systematic Classification That Reveals New Research Horizons

open access: yesAerospace
Cellular-pulsating (hotspot) burning of energetic materials has resisted a unified theoretical explanation for over 6 decades, despite extensive experimental characterization across multiple materials and laboratories.
Alexander Lukin
doaj   +1 more source

Karyotype and inversion polymorphism of non-biting midge Chironomus aprilinus Meigen, 1818 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from the Central Caucasus [PDF]

open access: yesКавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2012
The set of inversion sequences and its frequency of Chironomus aprilinus Meigen, 1818 (Diptera: Chironomidae) on the Central Caucasus is low polymorphic.
M.K. Karmokov   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Testing the morphology‐ and intuition‐based taxonomic hypotheses using integrative approach: unexpected discovery of triplet of sibling species within a widespread Eurasian butterfly, Hyponephele lycaon

open access: yesCladistics, EarlyView.
Abstract In well‐studied groups of organisms, the taxonomic landscape can be very complex, with several alternative classifications describing diversity within the same set of populations. For example, three hypotheses have previously been proposed to describe the taxonomy of the common and widespread Eurasian Dusky Meadow Brown butterfly, Hyponephele ...
Elena A. Pazhenkova   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polyommatus shchurovi sp.n. (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from the altitude areas of Western Caucasus [PDF]

open access: yesКавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2006
Polyommatus shchurovi sp. n. from the 3,000 m above sea level in the mountains of the Western Caucasus is described and compared to related taxa from which it differs in habitus, structure of male and female genitalia, and the number of antenna ...
B.V. Stradomsky
doaj   +1 more source

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