Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Scholarly Publications: Recent submissions
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The Genetics of Self-Compatibility and Associated Floral Characters in Tolpis (Asteraceae) in the Canary Islands
(The University of Chicago Press, 2013-02)Members of the genus Tolpis (Asteraceae) endemic to the Canary Islands comprise a monophyletic group with the dispersal of one species to the Cape Verde Islands. Most species are self-incompatible or pseudo-self-compatible ... -
Timing and Tempo of Early and Successive Adaptive Radiations in Macaronesia
(Public Library of Science, 2008-05-14)Abstract The flora of Macaronesia, which encompasses five Atlantic archipelagos (Azores, Canaries, Madeira, Cape Verde, and Salvage), is exceptionally rich and diverse. Spectacular radiation of numerous endemic plant ... -
The Late Ming Rebellions: Peasants and Problems of Interpretation
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Investigating the Prehistory of Tungusic Peoples of Siberia and the Amur-Ussuri Region with Complete mtDNA Genome Sequences and Y-chromosomal Markers
(Public Library of Science, 2013-12-12)Evenks and Evens, Tungusic-speaking reindeer herders and hunter-gatherers, are spread over a wide area of northern Asia, whereas their linguistic relatives the Udegey, sedentary fishermen and hunter-gatherers, are settled ... -
The Transformations of Messianic Revolt and the Founding of the Ming Dynasty
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A Circum-Pannonian Word-Prosodic Parallel: Paroxytonic Accent in the South-West Bohemian Dialect
(Ljubljana: Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, 2013)Slavists generally think of the Czecho-Slovak dialect area as having a wordprosody configuration of fixed word-initial stress with contrastive length possible in any syllable. A notable exception is the Silesian dialect ... -
Construction of a two-parameter empirical model of left ventricle wall motion using cardiac tagged magnetic resonance imaging data
(BioMed Central, 2012-10-24)Background A one-parameter model was previously proposed to characterize the short axis motion of the LV wall at the mid-ventricle level. The single parameter of this model was associated with the radial contraction of ... -
Thinking through Teacher Talk: Increasing Target Language Use in the Beginning Russian Classroom
(Russian Language Journal, 2013)In July 2012 the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) adopted a position statement calling for instructors and learners to use the target language (TL) for 90% plus of instructional time. Implementing ... -
Prozodične možnosti v slovenskem knjižnem jeziku in slovenskih narečjih
(Slavistično društvo Slovenije, 1987)Following a mathematical model devised by Pavle Ivić, the author provides an overview of functional load of suprasegmental contrasts in the strikingly variegated dialect systems of Slovene. -
Prekmurščina med slovanskimi jeziki
(Zora, 2013)The article highlights elements of the Prekmurje dialect of Slovene that both differ from neighboring dialects in Slovenia and Croatia and also connect it to West Slavic dialects (Czech, Slovak). -
Estranged and Degraded Worlds: The Grotesque Aesthetics of Tolstoy’s Resurrection.
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Authoring Jesus: Novelistic Echoes in Tolstoy’s Harmonization and Translation of the Four Gospels.
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The 'Curse' of Eastern Blood in Ismail Kadare’s Elegy for Kosovo.
(Columbia University Slavic Department, 2010) -
On the Vocalization of Jers in Slovak
(Verlag Otto Sagner, 1988)The article explains the heterogeneous reflexes of the Proto-Slavic jers in Slovak. In the West and East Slovak dialects, the merger with the front mid-vowel follows the general West Slavic pattern. The Central Slovak ... -
John Dardess--Center for East Asian Studies Interview: Me and Ming China
(University of Kansas, Center for East Asian Studies, 2011)In this video, Professor Emeritus John Dardess relates how he came to focus on the study of Ming China, describes the strategies and resources employed in his research and outlines the primary themes of his work. -
Social Thought and Research, Volume 32 (2013): Front Matter
(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 2013-01-01) -
Sioranove vježbe nepokornosti
(2013-09-17)Osnovni cilj prispevka je iskanje sistema v Sioranovem filozofskem nesistemu. Opus tega filozofa ponuja obilo prodornih in nevsakdanjih razmišljanj o fenomenu Boga, umetnosti (v prvi vrsti glasbe in poezije) ter o smislu ... -
Značilnosti krajše proze slovenskih književnic
(2013-09-17)Članek se ukvarja z značilnostmi krajše proze slovenskih pisateljic vse od njenih začetkov, to je s preloma iz 19. v 20. stol., pa do sodobnosti. Izbor avtoric in literarnih besedil opozarja na tematske in jezikovno-slogovne ... -
From Anarchy to Connectivity to Cognitive Mapping: Contemporary Ukrainian Writers of the Younger Generation Engage with Globalization
(Brill, 2010)Th is article discusses several Ukrainian writers who gained prominence during the post-Soviet period, in particular Vasyl Makhno, Serhii Zhadan, Andrii Bondar, Natalka Sniadanko, Oksana Lutsyshyna, and Dmytro Lazutkin. ...