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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Eurasia"”.
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Religious and Ritualized Landscapes of Iron Age North Central Eurasia
… widespread phenomenon in north central Eurasia during the Iron Age (ca. 1,000 BCE – 100 CE). Frequently depicted elements of this style include composite animals composed of animal elements fused together to create a new mythical animal; a stylized geometric design within the animal; and …
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Application of system safety framework in hybrid socio-technical environment of Eurasia
The political transformation and transition of post-Soviet societies have led to hybrid structures in political, economic and technological domains. In such hybrid structures the roles of government, state enterprise, private business and civil society are not clearly defined. These roles shift …
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Painting the Past: Uncovering Ancestral Contributions to Complex Human Phenotypes in Western Eurasia
… Glacial Maximum until the Bronze Age in western Eurasia. Specifically, it aims to assess the contributions of differentiated genetic ancestries which existed in this period, and link this to modern-day differences in disease susceptibility. To achieve this, methods were developed to infer local …
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Globalizing “Humanism”: A Comparative Framework for Understanding Ethical and Literary Revivals Across Eurasia
… of meaning, legitimacy, and identity. Across Eurasia, literary and intellectual revivals have served as means for societies to reimagine moral authority, reassert cultural identity, and envision more just forms of life. Reconsidering humanism in this way not only recovers overlooked traditions …
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The impacts of climate change and agricultural activities on water cycling of Northern Eurasia
<p>The ecosystems in Northern Eurasia (NE) are important due to their vast land coverage, high rate of observed and projected warming, and the potential feedbacks they can cause on the global climate system. To understand the impacts of climate change and agricultural activities on water cycling in …
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Knowing fish: a cultural case study and portrait of resource understandings in Caspian Eurasia
… 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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“Russia and Turkey in the Geopolitics of Eurasia & the Theory of Median Space: Thesis-Synthesis-Antithesis”
… of the broader geopolitical architecture of Eurasia using as a case study the Russian-Turkish diachronic relations which are being examined through an original and fresh geopolitical/geocultural theoretical framework introduced also in the pages of this research. The introduction presents a …
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Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements in Turkey (1988-1992) : kinematics of the African-Arabia-Eurasia plate collision zone
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1994.
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We are not the periphery: barbarian economies and Northern Europe in the exchange patterns of Western Eurasia, 1800 BC - AD 900
… Europe and neighboring regions of western Eurasia reveals that the world of the North has, typically, played an important role both as producer and consumer. Especially in the Carolingian period (AD 700 - 900), the system as a whole can be characterized best as a vast circuit of exchange …
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A Follow-up Study to Determine the Effectiveness of a Faculty Development Program Designed to Transition to a Student-Centered Approach at Xi'an Eurasia University in China
This study investigated the effectiveness of a two-year faculty development program designed to assist faculty in making transition from a teacher-centered to a student-centered approach to instruction at a private university in China. One hundred full-time faculty participated in the program and …
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The Dynamics of Eurasian Comprehensive Security, Political and Economic Cooperation
… of the philosophical and historical concept of Eurasia (Chapter No 2.). This contains an overview on contemporary political and security concerns of the great powers in Eurasia and a deep analytical study of philosophy and history of the terms Eurasianism(s), followed by subchapters such as: the …
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Tectonostratigraphy of the Shyok Suture Zone in Ladakh, NW India.
… nature of the tectonic collision between India, Eurasia, and an intra-oceanic arc in the western Himalaya. Chapter One presents the results of a geological mapping campaign in the Shyok-Nubra confluence region of Ladakh, in northwest India. It provides lithological descriptions of the major …
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Structure and geochronological constraints on the ductile deformation observed along the Gaoligong Shan and Chong Shan Shear Zones, Yunnan (China)
… northward motion of India relative to Eurasia and South China was accommodated along its eastern boundary is still a poorly understood aspect of the tectonic evolution of SE Asia. This thesis focuses on a critically important area within the India-Eurasia collision zone, a region known …
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Anomalous Eurasian snow extent and the wintertime AO
… demonstrated a link between autumn snow over Eurasia and the AO mode and have proposed a dynamical pathway describing the mechanism that links them. The goal of this thesis is to present new evidence of a significant relationship between anomalous snow cover and the winter AO phase. …
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Using Molecular Diagnostics Based On Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 Sequence To Study Geographical Distribution of Holarctic Malaria Mosquitoes
… which presently affects countries in Africa, Eurasia, and South America. Anopheline mosquitoes transmit this disease. Studies look at the identification first of the species to accurately determine their distribution. For identification, sequencing of the Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 region …
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Radiative Forcing and Climatic Impact of the Mount Pinatubo Volcanic Eruption
… America in JJA 1992. The averaged DeltaTS over Eurasia, North America, South America and Africa reached -0.5°C in JJA and SON 1992 and SON 1993 with the ENSO signals removed. Ensemble simulations were performed by using the ST-GCM to explore the responses of the atmosphere to the Pinatubo …
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Signatures of selection in the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in Europe using genotype-by-sequencing
… data from over 500 red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in Eurasia was utilized. First, I formed a population criterion based on the sample’s location and the fox’s ecological habits. This resulted in 436 samples in which I identified 30,708 SNPs after bioinformatic filtering. I then ascertained population …
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