We study how cultural distance affects the rejection of imposed institutions. To this purpose, we exploit the transplantation of Piedmontese institutions on Southern Italy which occurred during the Italian unification. We assemble a novel and unique dataset containing information on episodes of brigandage, a form of violent uprising against the unitary government, at the municipal level. We use...

The geographical origin of kimchi is of interest to consumers and producers because the prices of commercial kimchi products can vary significantly according to the geographical origin. Hence, social issues related to the geographical origin of kimchi in Korea have emerged as a major problem. In this study, the geographical origin of kimchi was determined by comparing the mass fingerprints obta...

Статья посвящена изучению монгольских географических названий в топонимической системе Республики Башкортостан. Цель исследования – выявление башкирской топонимии монгольского происхождения, анализ их словообразовательной структуры, семантики, происхождения и ареалов распространения районах республики. Исследование актуально плане интерпретации иноязычных топонимов, выявления особенностей функц...

Composite pine forests with nemoral deciduous tree species (Carpinus betulus, Quercus robur, Tilia cordata) are widespread in the broad-leaved forest region of Eastern Europe. They occupy vast ancient alluvial plains sandy and loamy soils, river terraces, along latter they can «come» broad-leaved-coniferous zone. Based on analysis 187 relevés made Bryansk, Kaluga, Moscow Smolensk Regions, class...

background: the seroprevalence of toxoplasma gondii infection in buffaloes, sheep and goats in yunnan province, southwestern china was conducted between may 2012 and december 2013. methods: a total of 973 (427 buffaloes, 154 sheep and 392 goats) serum samples were collected from seven administrative regions of yunnan province, and exam­ined for t. gondii antibodies by indirect hemagglutination ...

one hundred and twenty iranian accessions of aegilops crassa with origin from different geographical areas of iran, were evaluated for variation in high molecular weight glutenin subunit (hmw-gs) composition. the results showed different banding patterns between hexa (6x) and tetra-ploid (4x) as well as within different ploidy accessions. eleven allelic variants were observed in glu- dcr1 locus...