ETHNIC AFFILIATION, COMMON MEMORY AND TRADITIONAL CULTURE OF MACEDONIAN MUSLIMS IN ALBANIA: ADAPTATING AND PRESERVING THE IDENTITY (FIELDWORKS OF 2008-2010)

Ethnic affiliation, common memory and traditional culture of Macedonian Muslims in Albania: adaptating and preserving the identity (fieldworks of 2008-2010)

The paper is devoted to the question of ethnic affiliation of Macedonian Muslims in conditions of combined ethnical neighborhood.There are around ten settlements with Macedonian population in the Eastern part of the Republic of Albania (Mac.Golo Brdo, Alb.Golloborda).Five scientific researchers from St.Petersburg: Andrej Sobolev, Alexander Novik, D

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High genomic diversity in the endangered East Greenland Svalbard Barents Sea stock of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus)

Abstract The East Greenland-Svalbard-Barents Sea (EGSB) bowhead whale stock (Balaena mysticetus) was hunted to near extinction and remains Endangered on the International Union of Conservation of Nature Red List.The intense, temporally extensive hunting pressure may have left the population vulnerable to other perturbations, such as environmental c

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Sulfasalazine reduces placental secretion of antiangiogenic factors, up-regulates the secretion of placental growth factor and rescues endothelial dysfunctionResearch in context

Background: Preeclampsia is a major complication of pregnancy with no medical treatment.It is associated with placental oxidative stress, hypoxia and inflammation leading to soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1 (sFlt-1) and soluble endoglin (sENG) secretion and reduced placental growth factor (PlGF).This results in widespread endothelial dysfunction

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