Provincial Landscapes: Local Dimensions of Soviet Power, 1917-1953 by Donald J. s> Raleigh (review)
In: The Slavonic and East European review: SEER, Band 80, Heft 4
ISSN: 2222-4327
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In: The Slavonic and East European review: SEER, Band 80, Heft 4
ISSN: 2222-4327
In: The Slavonic and East European review: SEER, Band 79, Heft 3
ISSN: 2222-4327
In: Nationalism and ethnic politics, Band 1, Heft 4, S. 90-107
ISSN: 1353-7113
TWO CASES OF RECENT ETHNIC CLEANSING IN THE TERRITORIES OF NORTH AND SOUTH OSSETIA IN THE CAUCASUS ARE EXAMINED HERE, NOT IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE ORIGINS BUT RATHER TO LOOK AT THEIR IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITIES INVOLVED AND THE DEGREE TO WHICH SUCH ACTIONS HAVE PRODUCE SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS OF LONG STANDING INSTEAD OF MERE MANAGEMENT OF THEM AT A TOLERABLE LEVEL OF VIOLENCE. WITH SIMILAR CLASHES LIKELY TO OCCUR ELSEWHERE IN THE TERRITORIES OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION CAN ANY LESSONS BE LEARNED?
In: Central Asian survey, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 43-74
ISSN: 0263-4937
In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 43-70
ISSN: 0090-5992
DISPUTED BORDERS EXIST WITHIN THE SOVIET UNION'S FEDERAL SYSTEM, BUT THE GOVERNMENT PAYS LITTLE ATTENTION TO THEM. SOME OF THE BORDERS DEMARCATE CULTURAL IDENTITIES. THIS PAPER EXAMINES THE BACKGROUND TO THESE CONTESTED BORDERS IN SEVEN CASE STUDIES. THE MOST CONTESTED BORDERS BETWEEN ETHNIC GROUPS ARE IN THE WEST AND NEW FRONTIER ZONES, THE MOUNTAINOUS CAUCASUS, AND NOMADIC CENTRAL ASIA. SOME BORDER LINES WERE ORIGINALLY SET UP IN AN ARBITRARY FASHION, IGNORING LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES. THE PROBLEMS WERE HEIGHTENED BY SETTLEMENTS OF LARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE FROM DISTANT AREAS OF RUSSIA.
In: Publications of the University of Britol
This collection of essays was conceived as part of the centenary celebrations of the first publication in 1896 of one of the most popular collections of poetry ever written - A Shropshire Lad - a collection never out of print in a hundred years. Yet Housman was a recluse, an austere classicist of great renown who devoted his academic life to the correction of ancient texts. He filled his poems with the lives, loves, and deaths of simple country people whose emotions are intense and often violent, but lived his own life in stoic acceptance of his loveless, arid existence. Why his life should have been so intentionally empty of emotion raises questions about Housman's own sexuality and the relationship he had with his friend Moses Jackson and Jackson's brother Afalbert. Housman's poetry, like his life, is deceptively simple: this volume shows some of the complex currents below the surface
In: The economic history review, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 601
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: Wallingford , S C , Alston , R D , Birch , J M & Green , A C 2013 , ' Regional melanoma incidence in England, 1996-2006: Reversal of north-south latitude trends among the young female population ' British Journal of Dermatology , vol 169 , no. 4 , pp. 880-888 . DOI:10.1111/bjd.12460
Background Melanoma incidence often shows an increasing latitudinal gradient from north to south among white European populations. Objectives To assess emerging regional melanoma incidence patterns in England. Methods All primary invasive cutaneous melanomas diagnosed in England in people aged 10-89 years, in 1996-2006, were ascertained. Age-standardized incidence rates by sex, age and Government Office Region were calculated for the entire population and for the white population only. Rates according to socioeconomic deprivation were further calculated among those aged under 30 years. Regional heterogeneity and latitude and deprivation trends were assessed by Poisson regression and tests for trend. Results Overall, melanoma incidence in England was highest in the South West (overall, 18·75; white, 19·03 per 100 000) and lowest in London (overall, 8·85; white, 11·22 per 100 000). Incidence significantly increased with more southerly latitudes in all white adults aged over 30 years (P <0·0001), except women aged 30-49 years (1·8%, P = 0·10). However, these north-south latitude trends were reversed in white 10-29 year olds, with sex-specific analyses showing an absence of trend in male subjects (2·7%, P = 0·41) and a strong decreasing trend (-9·8%, P <0·0001) in female subjects. The highest rates in the young female population occurred in the North West (5·46 per 100 000), and specifically in the second most deprived (5·69 per 100 000) and the second most affluent (6·48 per 100 000) groups. Conclusions Melanoma incidence is high in young people in northern England, including among the moderately deprived, reversing the expected north-south incidence gradients. Prevalent sunbed use in northern England and holiday sun exposure abroad may explain these emerging trends. What's already known about this topic? Increasing trends in melanoma incidence from north to south have been noted in England and other northern countries. Melanoma predominantly affects white, affluent populations; however, neither ethnic groups nor socioeconomic status are uniformly distributed across England. What does this study add? This study describes a striking reversal in the well-established north-south latitude trend in melanoma incidence among young women in England. Incidence was high among young people in northern regions, and particularly among moderately deprived female subjects. © 2013 British Association of Dermatologists.
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In: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 487-495
ISSN: 1472-3409
In: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 119-130
ISSN: 1472-3409
In: Soviet studies, Band 24, Heft 4, S. 593-626
Restoration of degraded land is recognized by the international community as an important way of enhancing both biodiversity and ecosystem services, but more information is needed about its costs and benefits. In Cambridgeshire, U.K., a long-term initiative to convert drained, intensively farmed arable land to a wetland habitat mosaic is driven by a desire both to prevent biodiversity loss from the nationally important Wicken Fen National Nature Reserve (Wicken Fen NNR) and to increase the provision of ecosystem services. We evaluated the changes in ecosystem service delivery resulting from this land conversion, using a new Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Site-based Assessment (TESSA) to estimate biophysical and monetary values of ecosystem services provided by the restored wetland mosaic compared with the former arable land. Overall results suggest that restoration is associated with a net gain to society as a whole of $199 ha ^-1 y ^-1, for a one-off investment in restoration of $2320 ha ^-1. Restoration has led to an estimated loss of arable production of $2040 ha ^-1 y ^-1 , but estimated gains of $671 ha ^-1 y ^-1 in nature-based recreation, $120 ha ^-1 y ^-1 from grazing, $48 ha ^-1 y ^-1 from flood protection, and a reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worth an estimated $72 ha ^-1 y ^-1. Management costs have also declined by an estimated $1325 ha ^-1 y ^-1. Despite uncertainties associated with all measured values and the conservative assumptions used, we conclude that there was a substantial gain to society as a whole from this land-use conversion. The beneficiaries also changed from local arable farmers under arable production to graziers, countryside users from towns and villages, and the global community, under restoration. We emphasize that the values reported here are not necessarily transferable to other sites. ; This research was funded by the Cambridge Conservation Initiative Collaborative Fund and Arcadia (Research grant no. PFPA.GAAB), a U.K. Government Darwin Initiative grant (18-005) to BirdLife International, UNEP-WCMC, Anglia Ruskin University, RSPB, and an AXA Postdoctoral Fellowship (to KSHP at University of Cambridge). ; Peer-reviewed ; Publisher Version
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In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Band 26, S. S204-S216
ISSN: 0264-8377
United States National Science Foundation (NSF) ; Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United Kingdom ; Max-Planck-Society (MPS) ; State of Niedersachsen/Germany ; Australian Research Council ; International Science Linkages program of the Commonwealth of Australia ; Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India ; Department of Science and Technology, India ; Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), India ; Ministry of Human Resource Development, India ; Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad ; Conselleria d'Economia i Competitivitat and Conselleria d'Educaci, Cultura i Universitats of the Govern de les Illes Balears ; Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter - Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research ; Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education ; FOCUS Programme of Foundation for Polish Science ; European Union ; Royal Society ; Scottish Funding Council ; Scottish Universities Physics Alliance ; National Aeronautics and Space Administration ; Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) ; Lyon Institute of Origins (LIO) ; National Research Foundation of Korea ; Industry Canada ; Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation ; National Science and Engineering Research Council Canada ; Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation ; Carnegie Trust ; Leverhulme Trust ; David and Lucile Packard Foundation ; Research Corporation ; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ; NSF ; STFC ; MPS ; INFN ; CNRS ; Science and Technology Facilities Council ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/L000938/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/I006285/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/I006269/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/L000946/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/L000962/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/L003465/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/K000845/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/J00166X/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/L000911/1 Gravitational Waves ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: Gravitational Waves ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: PPA/G/S/2002/00652 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/I006269/1 Gravitational Waves ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/L000911/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: 1362895 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/I006277/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/H002359/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/K005014/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/K00137X/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/M006735/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/M000931/1 ; Science and Technology Facilities Council: ST/L000938/1 Gravitational Waves ; We describe directed searches for continuous gravitational waves (GWs) in data from the sixth Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) science data run. The targets were nine young supernova remnants not associated with pulsars; eight of the remnants are associated with non-pulsing suspected neutron stars. One target ' s parameters are uncertain enough to warrant two searches, for a total of 10. Each search covered a broad band of frequencies and first and second frequency derivatives for a fixed sky direction. The searches coherently integrated data from the two LIGO interferometers over time spans from 5.3-25.3 days using the matched-filtering. -statistic. We found no evidence of GW signals. We set 95% confidence upper limits as strong (low) as 4 x 10(-25) on intrinsic strain, 2 x 10(-7) on fiducial ellipticity, and 4 x 10(-5) on r-mode amplitude. These beat the indirect limits from energy conservation and are within the range of theoretical predictions for neutron-star ellipticities and r-mode amplitudes.
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