About the hearth Anderson, David G; Wishart, Robert P; Vaté, Virginie
2013., 20130815, 2013, 2013-09-25
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Due to changing climates and demographics, questions of policy in the circumpolar north have focused attention on the very structures that people call home. Dwellings lie at the heart of many forms ...of negotiation. Based on years of in-depth research, this book presents and analyzes how the people of the circumpolar regions conceive, build, memorialize, and live in their dwellings. This book seeks to set a new standard for interdisciplinary work within the humanities and social sciences and includes anthropological work on vernacular architecture, environmental anthropology, household archaeology and demographics.
Spanning nine time zones, the Russian Arctic was mostly unexplored before the twentieth century. Paul Josephson describes the massive effort under Stalin to assimilate the Arctic into the Soviet ...empire--effects still being felt today, as Putin redoubles efforts to secure the Arctic, which he sees as key to Russia's economic and military status.
Negotiating the Arctic Keskitalo, E.C.H.
2004, 20040601, 2003, 2003-12-11, 2004-06-01, 20030101
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This work draws upon the history of Arctic development and the view of the Arctic in different states to explain how such a discourse has manifested itself in current broader cooperation across eight ...statistics analysis based on organization developments from the late 1970s to the present, shows that international region discourse has largely been forwarded through the extensive role of North American, particularly Canadian, networks and deriving form their frontier-based conceptualization of the north.
In its analysis of the archaeologies and histories of the northern fringe of Europe, this book provides a focus on animistic–shamanistic cosmologies and the associated human–environment relations ...from the Neolithic to modern times. The North has fascinated Europeans throughout history, as an enchanted world of natural and supernatural marvels: a land of light and dark, of northern lights and the midnight sun, of witches and magic and of riches ranging from amber to oil. Northern lands conflate fantasies and realities. Rich archaeological, historical, ethnographic and folkloric materials combine in this book with cutting-edge theoretical perspectives drawn from relational ontologies and epistemologies, producing a fresh approach to the prehistory and history of a region that is pivotal to understanding Europe-wide processes, such as Neolithization and modernization. This book examines the mythical and actual northern worlds, with northern relational modes of perceiving and engaging with the world on the one hand and the ‘place’ of the North in European culture on the other. This book is an indispensable read for scholars of archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies and folklore in northern Europe, as well as researchers interested in how the North is intertwined with developments in the broader European and Eurasian world. It provides a deep-time understanding of globally topical issues and conflicting interests, as expressed by debates and controversies around Arctic resources, nature preservation and indigenous rights.
Decentralizacija, kaip postdemokratinės plėtros pastangos, yra laikoma būdu įgyvendinti tiek ekonominį, tiek socialinį teisingumą. Decentralizacija nurodyta konstitucijoje ir yra reformos tikslas. Po ...reformavimo daugybėje Naujųjų autonominių regionų paaiškėjo,kad buvo daug problemų dėl centralizavimo stiprinimo vietos valdžios lygmeniu. Šiame tyrime daugiausia dėmesio skiriama tam, kaip regionų autonomijoje vykstantys procesaipadeda stiprinti vietos valdžios galią įtraukiant atskiras įtakingas šeimas ir interesų grupes. Šiame tyrime buvo naudojamas trijų naujų autonominių regionų, t. y. Riau salų, Pietų Sumatros ir Banteno atvejo analizės metodas. Palyginus galių stiprinimą kiekviename regione, galima būtų teigti, kad vietinės regioninės valdžios stiprėjimas realizuojamas per įvairias valdžios formas. Šis tyrimas bent iš dalies paaiškino ir atskleidė, kad regioninė plėtra yra problemiškas procesas, nes yra sukuriami nauji galių centrai lokalios valdžios lygmeniu.
The polar regions have experienced some remarkable environmental changes in recent decades, such as the Antarctic ozone hole, the loss of large amounts of sea ice from the Arctic Ocean and major ...warming on the Antarctic Peninsula. The polar regions are also predicted to warm more than any other region on Earth over the next century if greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise. Yet trying to separate natural climate variability from anthropogenic factors still presents many problems. This book presents a thorough review of how the polar climates have changed over the last million years and sets recent changes within a long term perspective. The approach taken is highly cross-disciplinary and the close links between the atmosphere, ocean and ice at high latitudes are stressed. The volume will be invaluable for researchers and advanced students in polar science, climatology, global change, meteorology, oceanography and glaciology.
The European Union and the Arcticexamines the roles the EU can and should play in shaping Arctic governance to ensure sustainable development in the Arctic region.
Abstract
Introduction:
Research has shown that nightmare-related distress (NMD) may better explain the association between nightmares (NM) and psychopathology than NM frequency, but its ...neurophysiological correlates remain unknown. As part of a brain imaging project exploring the neural correlates of NM in frequent NM sufferers, we investigated if NMD is related to activity in regions hypothesized to be involved in NM production (Nielsen & Levin, 2007). We predicted NMD would correlate with reduced activity (i.e. regional cerebral blood flow) in bilateral prefrontal areas known to down-regulate fear processes governed by the amygdala, i.e., anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortices. We also expected NMD to be correlated with reduced activity in the hippocampus and increased activity in the amygdala.
Methods:
We used high resolution 99m-Tc-ECD SPECT imaging to assess regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in 21 frequent NM sufferers (NM: 24.9 ± 4.5 yrs (18 W)) during the viewing of negative pictures from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS). We correlated Nightmare Distress Questionnaire (NMDQ) scores with rCBF using a significance threshold of p < .005 (uncorrected) and a cluster threshold of k > 100.
Results:
Significant negative correlations were observed between NMDQ scores and rCBF in bilateral insula (t = 4.1 and 4.37), bilateral anterior cingulate cortex (t = 4.49 and 5.42), left precentral gyrus (t = 3.54), left medial prefrontal cortex (t = 4.63), and bilateral putamen (t = 4.55 and 4.37). No correlations were observed with the amygdala or hippocampus and no positive correlations were found.
Conclusion:
Findings partially support our hypothesis. Reduced rCBF in these prefrontal regions involved in affect regulation could reflect a cross-state emotion regulation deficit, which also leads to more distress during dreaming. Our results also reveal reduced activity in regions for which a regulatory role in affective response during dreaming is unclear (insula, putamen), but for which research has demonstrated anatomical and/or functional alterations in PTSD.
Support (If Any):
Supported by research grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Fonds de recherche Québec-Santé (FRQS).
Este artículo presenta datos originales sobre encadenamientos productivos de la industria automotriz latinoamericana (América del Sur y México, más específicamente) basados en técnicas de ...insumo-producto para el año 2017 y, en algún caso, para 2007. Esos datos son utilizados para reflexionar sobre el problema sobre el problema de la integración productiva regional. El artículo finaliza con algunas reflexiones sobre los datos presentados y con comentarios sobre posibles nuevas líneas de investigación
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