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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"Far east"”.
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De-Westernizing The Far East
<p>Isolated by the Tibetan highlands which frame Yunnan’s northwest fringes, the ethnic minorities who call the region home live in rural settings ranging from rice-terraced fields to tropical forests; lifestyle unchanged for hundreds of years. However, with globalization causing an exposure to …
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Lost to the state: family discontinuity, social orphanhood, and residential care in the Russian Far East
… of Magadan and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russian Far East. 'Social orphans' are children without parental care. By 2003 the number of these children has reached 776,000 and is increasing by about 100,000 a year, raising serious concerns over the viability of the post-Soviet family. One-third of …
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The Roots of Remembrance : Tracing the Memory Practices of the Children of Far East Prisoners of War
This thesis is about the children of former Far East prisoners of war (FEPOWs): their memories of childhood, how they fashioned those memories in adulthood, and the relationship between the two. The FEPOW experience reverberated through postwar family life, and continued to shape the lives of …
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The Department of State and The Far East, 1937-1941: A Study of the Ideasbehind Its Diplomacy
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:20:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7114974.pdf: 12296057 bytes, checksum: bbdc114f24612a2b1076ceaaeaffe9ed (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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AMUR TIGER PREDATION AND ENERGETIC REQUIREMENTS IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST: NEW INSIGHTS FROM GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM COLLARS
… for Amur tigers (P. t. altaica) in the Russian Far East, living at the northern limits and with the lowest prey densities of any tiger population. Few studies have been able to rigorously investigate annual prey requirements for any tiger population. We deployed Global Positioning System (GPS) …
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AMUR TIGER PREDATION AND ENERGETIC REQUIREMENTS IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST: NEW INSIGHTS FROM GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM COLLARS
… for Amur tigers (P. t. altaica) in the Russian Far East, living at the northern limits and with the lowest prey densities of any tiger population. Few studies have been able to rigorously investigate annual prey requirements for any tiger population. We deployed Global Positioning System (GPS) …
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Arirang People: A Study of Koreans in Transnational Diasporas of the Russian Far East and Manchuria, 1895-1920
… settle as transnational diasporas in the Russian Far East and Manchuria at the end of the Yi Dynasty of Korea at the turn of the twentieth century, resulting in their involvement in the Japanese and the Russian military forces. From a geopolitical and multicultural perspective, this is a study of …
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The emergence of literary ethnography in the Russian Empire: from the far east to the pale of settlement, 1845-1917
… people, the indigenous peoples of the Russian Far East, and the Jews of Tsarist Russia documents and conceptualizes the diversity and multi-voicedness of the Russian Empire during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In addition, my dissertation contributes to the field of Russian …
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Russia’s 2012 Concept of Migration Policy:Are Chinese immigrants a solution to the Russian Far East’s demographic problems?
… and aging population. In particular, the Far East faces a demographic crisis due to the low birth rate, high death rate, and westward internal migration. In response to these demographic problems President Vladimir Putin signed the 2012 Concept of Migration Policy, which hopes to utilize …
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From borders to topographies: identities and expansion in British literature, 1620-1750
… in London or in the Americas, the Levant, and Far East. In the beginning of the seventeenth century, the English forged a social imaginary underwritten by their relationship to the land. I demonstrate the ways in which this imaginary transformed to incorporate the economic imperatives of …
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Persians, Ports, and Pepper: The Red Sea Trade in Late Antiquity
… interest in Romeʼs connections with the Far East over the course of the last 20 years. This has resulted in the publication of many articles and monographs about the Roman involvement in the Red Sea which was the key maritime region linking the Far East with the West. This thesis …
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An investigation of diet management strategies for the culture of the South African abalone, Haliotis midae
The Far East provides an almost insatiable market for a wide variety of seafood products. Abalone are one of the more sought after delicacies of the East due to the subtly flavoured meat. Abalone are imported from around the world and command high prices. Throughout their global distribution, many …
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A history of the proposed Nicaragua Canal
… with the people and countries of the far east during the fifteenth century engaged the earnest and thoughtful attention of many men in the European states bordering on the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. There remained a firm belief and honest expectation that somewhere there …
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Anglo-American Far Eastern Policy in a Time of Decision, October-December, 1938
… that it was undeclared, was in progress in the Far East in 1938. The uneasy peace of the Orient had been shattered in July of 1937 with the renewal of armed hostilities between Japan and China. By the middle of 1938 it had become clear that an early end to the conflict was unlikely.
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The sale and shipment of coal
… Africa to penetrate markets in Europe and the Far East, the South African Coal Industry cannot afford to damage its' competitive position through accusations of "hot coal" problems. In this thesis, the phenomenon of spontaneous healing, combustion and methane emission from coal cargoes, will be …
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Assessing intra-seasonal land surface change and long term trends in the succulent Karoo biome using coarse resolution satellite and interpolated rainfall surfaces
… coast vegetation type its borders stretch as far east as Steytlerville in the Little Karoo. The area contains the largest number of endemic succulent species in the world and harbors nearly 10 percent of the of the total number of succulent species worldwide. Furthermore, spring mass-flowering …
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Sasebo, a case study in optimizing official vehicles
… project for research conducted at additional Far East locations. The current study confirms the findings of previous analysis done in house at Sasebo while at the same time offering different options on vehicle pool make-up. The study additionally provides a working optimization model for PWO …
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