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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Caspian"”.
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The Caspian Sea Competition
The Caspian Sea's energy wealth offers the world a vital new source of oil and gas in the next century. Control over the energy resources and the transport routes out of the Caspian Sea basin is becoming a central issue of post-Cold War politics. Situated at the strategic crossroads of Europe and …
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Hegemonic conflict in the Caspian region: Accumulation by dispossession and the spatial fix
… the United States, China and Russia, in the Caspian region, comprising the nation states of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Azerbaijan, since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The activities of these three powers have been guided primarily by resource …
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Knowing fish: a cultural case study and portrait of resource understandings in Caspian Eurasia
… limitations of such resource interpretations in Caspian Eurasia. Using Caspian sturgeon as the object of analysis, this research’s inductive approach demonstrated how the sustainability concept was mobilized according to certain interpretations of the natural world, knowledge traditions, and a …
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Power and energy : geopolitical aspects of the transnational natural gas pipelines from the Caspian Sea basin to Europe
… the geopolitical rivalry over control of the Caspian Sea basin natural gas resources and the transportation routes among four world powers--Russia, the European Union, the United States, and China. The author assesses the risks posed by instability in the Caspian Sea states to the realization …
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Offshore construction contracts in the oil industry
… Maracaibo in Venezuela and on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Since then, there has been a continuous development of research and drilling techniques. The first offshore oil well was drilled in Louisiana in 1947 at a depth of 20 meters. Today the Total-Fina-Elf group is launching the construction …
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Offshore construction contracts in the oil industry
… Maracaibo in Venezuela and on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Since then, there has been a continuous development of research and drilling techniques. The first offshore oil well was drilled in Louisiana in 1947 at a depth of 20 meters. Today the Total-Fina-Elf group is launching the construction …
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Immunological and hematological biomarkers for contaminants in fish-eating birds of the Great Lakes
… Great Lakes herring gulls (Larus argentatus) and Caspian terns (Sterna caspia). It also evaluated the use of various immunological tests as biomarkers for contaminant-associated health effects in wild birds. Masses of immune organs and WBC counts were assessed in herring gull chicks at 11 colonies …
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Making Waves : the past futures of Azerbaijan's islands
… securitization. Focusing on Azerbaijan's Caspian Seawaters, this thesis studies Baku's offshore urbanization on its natural and artificial islands. Initially significant for their strategic role in protecting the mainland, Azerbaijan's islands have been heavily involved in natural resource …
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Oil, Geopolitics, and Economic Growth in Azerbaijan
… Experts estimate that the Azeri sector of the Caspian Sea contains approximately three billion barrels of proven oil reserves. Azerbaijan has been extremely successful in attracting foreign investment in its oil sector. There are currently five contracts signed between the government of …
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Sustainable development and comprehensive capital : The post-Soviet decline of Central Asia
… desiccation of the Aral Sea and the collapse of Caspian Sea fisheries.
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Landmarks of the Persian Renaissance : monumental funerary architecture in Iran and Central Asia in the tenth and eleventh centuries
… traditions were selectively continued in the Caspian region of northern Iran, whereas other elements of the Iranian past were consciously revived in Central Asia. Two of the mausolea that I analyze, the Samanid mausoleum and the Gunbad-i Qabus, are well-known monuments which appear in …
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Comparative analysis of the UK, Russian, and Turkish soft power in the education sector of the Kyrgyz Republic from 2000 to 2021
… republics offering access to the Black and Caspian Seas. Today, competition extends beyond military and political affairs, including economic interactions, cultural exchanges, and humanitarian cooperation. Major players like the USA, China, and Turkey are now involved in this rivalry. …
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Exploring flowering gene networks in soybean and arabidopsis through transcriptome analysis
… networks were sparse we augmented them using CASPIAN which helped identify some interesting motifs (significantly detected) in flowering genes dataset.
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The world is a window
… region that stretches from the Black Sea to the Caspian has played an important role in connecting peoples. Traversed by a great chain of mountains rising to a height of 18,000 feet, it was used by merchants as the only way to reach the Middle East from Europe by land [Kilyakov]. Today, we know …
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Towards an ever closer union: with the Turks next door? Is Turkey the ideal energy partner for the EU?
… and resource supplier regions such as the Caspian, the Caucasus, and the Middle East. Nabucco also serves as the linchpin of the EU-Turkish energy partnership at present; this thesis will argue that further institutional measures are necessary, both within the EU and in Turkey, in order to …
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STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISATION OF HIGHLY BRANCHED ISOPRENOID ALKENES FROM SEDIMENTS AND ALGAE
… from ‘bulk' cultures of Haslea ostrearia and Caspian Sea sediments. The occurrence of HBIs in Haslea ostrearia is thus confirmed. Furthermore, the structures were unambiguously assigned by detailed nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and mass spectral analysis, as well as by chemical …
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By hotter winds : the road to Samarkand
… sedition in Azerbaijan; starvation on the Caspian. And we weren’t even in Central Asia yet. We still had to negotiate desert roads and traverse the Pamir Highway, second-highest in the world. Before reaching Samarkand we’d have lost ten kilogrammes each, seen a hundred busts of Lenin and …
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The character of the core-mantle boundary : a systematic study using PcP
… Moreover, below SW Finland and NNW of the Caspian Sea a CMB topography can be assumed. The amplitude measurements indicate a wavelength of 200 km and a height of 1 km topography, previously also shown in the study by Kampfmann and Müller (1989). Better constraints might be provided by a …
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The Georgian Crisis and U.S.-Russian Relations
… bets of high stakes and the grand prize of the Caspian oil. Multifarious historic, ethnic, and geopolitical factors, perplexed by the new dynamics of international and regional interdependence, account for the complexity and unpredictability of the current state of affairs on this post-Soviet …
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Financing upstream oil and gas ventures in the transitional economies of the former Soviet Union: a study of foreign investment and associated risks
… geological risk. In Central Asia and the Caspian Sea region where $55 - $75 billion in potential upstream investments have been reported, transportation uncertainty is singled out as the most critical impediment to growth. There are no realistic alternatives to the construction of new …
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