Neutrality or Involvement? World War II and Evolution of Foreign Policy Concepts of the Nordic Countries by E. V. Korunova

“…The author shows that although this reaction was more than restrained, and the project was not implemented, Sweden’s initiatives contributed to the creation of a unique security architecture in Northern Europe, where each state of the region had its own role with the neutral Sweden serving as a balancing force.…”
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Sources and Radiative Impact of Carbonaceous Aerosols Using Four Years Ground-Based Measurements over the Central Himalayas by Priyanka Srivastava, Manish Naja, T. R. Seshadri

“…The estimated daily radiative forcing shows that eBCff contributes more (16.4%) atmospheric forcing than eBCbb. …”
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Spatiotemporal patterns and driving factors of NDVI changes in the central and Western Asia economic corridor over the past decade by Kaimin Wang, Kaimin Wang, Min Xu, Shaohua Wang, Lin Wang, Haijing Tian, Sornkitja Boonprong, Xiaotong Gao, Xiaotong Gao, Xinwei Yang, Heyi Guo, Heyi Guo, Jingbo Li, Jingbo Li, Yujie Yang, Yujie Yang, Ruichen Hu, Ruichen Hu, Yu Zhang, Yu Zhang, Chunxiang Cao

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War and Peace of Peter the Great by E. V. Anisimov

“…It focuses on the emergence of the idea to gain access to the Baltic Sea and the stages of its implementation. During the Northern War of 17001721, Russia's peace conditions changed. …”
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Providing QoS for Networked Peers in Distributed Haptic Virtual Environments by Alan Marshall, Kian Meng Yap, Wai Yu

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Media Image of the Arctic: Towards Qualified Human Resources by Inga M. Zashikhina

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Background Noise Contributes to Organic Solvent Induced Brain Dysfunction by O’neil W. Guthrie, Brian A. Wong, Shawn M. McInturf, James E. Reboulet, Pedro A. Ortiz, David R. Mattie

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“Nossa energia tem um Norte”: propostas e (des) encontros no planejamento energético na Amazônia Oriental by Andrey Minin Martin

“…From the extraction of latex to current mining projects, as in the Grande Carajás project, these ventures have been seen as imperative to establish new conditions of integration and even improvements for the northern part of the country. Together, a new force intensified from the second half of the twentieth century as an element and central pillar so that all these undertakings could be realized. …”
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The Outstaring Eye: Belfast in John Duncan’s photographs by Michaela Marková

“…We will focus on the way in which Duncan’s work reflects today’s social and political realities of Northern Ireland.…”
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Sodium‐glucose cotransporter‐2 inhibitors in heart failure: an updated meta‐analysis by Yang Cao, Pengxiao Li, Yi Li, Yaling Han

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Censo 2020 – novas Macrorregiões, 50 anos depois by José Donizete Cazzolato

“…Considerations about the geographic framework of the country’s northern strip are re-examined, highlighting elements indicative of formation and densification of the new regional hub situated at the Pará–Maranhão–Tocantins junction. …”
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Relationship between Degree of Exercise Participation and Active Aging among Older Adults by Yung-Tzung Chang, Chen-Wei Yu, Cheng-Min Chao, Rueg-Juen Chen

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The Ivory Saltcellars: A contribution to the history of Islamic expansion in Greater Senegambia during the 16th and 17th centuries by Thiago H. Mota

“…Its main hypothesis is that the 16th and 17th centuries comprised the moment of Islamic social expansion, before Islam turned into a major political force in Senegambia during the 18th and 19th centuries. …”
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Refugee, Shelter and Threat: Nature Represented in f. Sionil Jose’s Dusk by Kristiawan Indriyanto

“…He explores the journey of a Philippines’ clan who migrates from Northern Luzon into Central Plains to escape the Spanish oppression. …”
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Aestheticising the Post-Industrial Debris : Industrial Ruins in Contemporary British Landscape Photography by Karolina Kolenda

“…Contemporary landscape photography attempts to reinstate the image of Britain’s industrial past into commonly shared imagination, where the conflicted nature of the country’s cultural identity – the clash between the “Northern” and “Southern” metaphors – reveals itself with particular force.…”
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Syria in Turkey-US Relations: Security, Terror and Strategic Dilemmas by Veysel Babahanoğlu

“…On the other hand, the US supports this group by renaming it the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and describing it as the most effective ground force against DAESH. …”
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Integrating Pollutant registers for the climate change risk evaluation of industrial companies in Australia, Europe and North America by Szilárd Erhart, Sándor Szabó, Kornél Erhart

“…Abstract We present a methodology to develop the integrated climate change transition and physical risk assessment of industrial companies in Europe, Northern America and Australia. There is an increasingly important need for effective large-scale climate change risk assessment solutions with more governments aligning their company reporting regulations with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures recommendations. …”
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Sociétés chorales et Renaissance de la musique anglaise, 1840-1910 by Gilles Couderc

“…Those societies were fostered so as to tame, civilise and educate the potentially unruly new unskilled labour force who manned “the dark Satanic mills” of the expanding northern industrial cities and to lead them away from drink or the profanities of the nascent music-halls. …”
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Smoke or no Smoke? Questions of Perspective in North and South by Mary Debrabant

“…Such narratives tend to be set in an improbable locale, the grimy manufacturing town with its foul air and thick smog.North and South (1855), Elizabeth Gaskell’s second novel dealing with “Condition of England” issues, contrasts various milieus in the Victorian heyday of industrial supremacy. When the northern manufacturing centre is set against the rural south of the title, the polarity is not as sharp as might be expected. …”
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Retrospective cross-sectional study on bronchiectasis in adult Aboriginal Australians: disease characteristics and comparison with ethnically diverse global bronchiectasis registry... by Timothy Howarth, Subash Heraganahally, Claire Gibbs, Lata Jayaram, Asanga Abeyaratne, Shiidheshwar J Ravichandran, Davaadorj Erdenebayar, Winnie Chen, Hubertus Jersmann

“…Spirometry demonstrated forced expiratory volume in 1 s of 38% predicted in comparison with 61–77% in other cohorts. …”
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