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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Russian Far East"”.
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Lost to the state: family discontinuity, social orphanhood, and residential care in the Russian Far East
… cities 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. …
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AMUR TIGER PREDATION AND ENERGETIC REQUIREMENTS IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST: NEW INSIGHTS FROM GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM COLLARS
… important 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 …
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AMUR TIGER PREDATION AND ENERGETIC REQUIREMENTS IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST: NEW INSIGHTS FROM GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM COLLARS
… important 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 …
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Arirang People: A Study of Koreans in Transnational Diasporas of the Russian Far East and Manchuria, 1895-1920
… Koreans not only on the Japanese but also on the Russian side of the war, and 3) investigate why and how these Koreans came to 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 …
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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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The emergence of literary ethnography in the Russian Empire: from the far east to the pale of settlement, 1845-1917
… ethnography and literature in the works of two Russian and two Russian Jewish writers and ethnographers. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vladimir Korolenko, Vladimir Bogoraz, and Semyon An-sky wrote fiction in the genre of literary ethnography. This genre encompasses discursive practices and narrative …
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Conceptualizing FDI in the Russian regions : Primore, Khabarovsk, and Sakhalin
… industries of three regions in the Russian Far East--Primorskii krai, Khabarovskii krai, and Sakhalin oblast--all of which have been the object of intense interest from foreign investors. The three developed widely variegated FDI policies: During the 1990s, Primorskii krai grew …
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Zhidkoye zoloto? Environmental Aspects of Natural Gas Transportation from the Sakha Republic
… gas pipeline. The environmental implications are far reaching. The West Siberian oil and gas region has suffered severe environmental damage caused by the undesirable interactions between pipelines and the surrounding environment. Pipeline construction activities have also contributed to the …
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Topics in the Grammar of Koryak
… Chukotko-Kamchatkan language of the Russian Far East. In the first chapter, I argue that the distribution of the segments v and w in morpheme-final position needs to be handled by a phonological process that applies to bare morphemes. In the second chapter, I argue for a similar …
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IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON WILDLAND FIRE THREAT TO THE AMUR TIGER AND ITS HABITAT
… agents in boreal and temperate forests of the Russian Far East (RFE). In the RFE, large fire events lead to abrupt, extensive, and long-term conversion of forests to open landscapes, thus considerably impacting the habitat of the critically endangered Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica). A …
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Towards Polycentric Regionalism: Sino-Russian Geo-Economic Relations and the Formation of the Pacific Arctic Region
… world order is being challenged in both North East Asia and the broader Eurasian Arctic not by the emergence of multilateral political institutions, but rather by what I conceptualise as a geo-economic process of Polycentric Regionalism. The rising great power ambitions of Russia and China - …
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Influences of Climate, Competition, and Novel Hosts on Parasitoids of Emerald Ash Borer, and their Establishment in Virginia, and North Carolina
… Emerald ash borer's native range is north east China, the Russian Far East, and the Korean peninsula. In the mid-1990s emerald ash borer was accidentally introduced to Michigan from the Hebei and Tianjin city province regions of China. Since then, due to human-aided transport and natural …
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Individual reproductive strategies in the dusky warbler (Phylloscopus fuscatus)
… fuscatus, breeding near Magadan in the Russian Far East. In particular, the study focuses on individual variation in the reproductive behaviours of both females and males. The mating system of this population is characterised by facultative polygyny (17 per cent of the males mated with …
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New insights into the differential rotation of the inner core
… in northern hemisphere (North Atlantic, Northeast Pacific, Russian Far East/Sea of Okhotsk, and Europe/North Africa), besides the well-known Central America anomaly in previous studies. Most large temporal changes were associated with time lapses of over 6 years and smaller distances, possibly …
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"The ""end of the earth"": Sakhalin Island in the Russian imperial imagination, 1849-1906"
This dissertation examines Russian discourses concerning colonization of Sakhalin Island from the 1850s, when explorers claimed the island as innately Russian land, to 1906, when Russia withdrew colonists after surrendering southern Sakhalin to Japan. By examining not only the ever-changing state …