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Handbook on natural history collections management – A collaborative Swiss perspective
(2021)Swiss Academies CommunicationsSwiss natural history museums, botanical gardens, universities and other institutions for higher education collectively maintain collections with over 60 million specimens of animals, fungi, plants, rocks and fossils. To speed up, harmonise and better coordinate their digitisation, the SwissCollNet initiative was established by the Swiss Academy of Sciences and the Swiss collection-holding institutions. This handbook is one of SwissCollNet’s ...Journal Issue -
A Journey in Noble Gas Cosmochemistry and Geochemistry
(2023)Geochemical PerspectivesI started my journey in science by studying noble gases implanted by the solar wind in dust grains on the surface of the Moon, and with many colleagues I have studied solar wind implanted noble gases in natural and artificial samples throughout my career, the latter exposed primarily by the Genesis space mission. Major questions are what noble gases in the solar wind can tell us about the present and the past Sun, and how they can contribute ...Journal Issue -
Inaugural Issue: Philosophies of the City
(2023)Philosophy of the City JournalThis issue opens with five contributions that deal, in different ways, with foundational questions about how we should approach the cities and their relationship with philosophy. In the first paper, “Knowing the City”, Anna Bloom-Christen argues that walking is the best way to get to know the city; it is an activity that produces both participatory and procedural knowledge of urban places. In his article, “Philosophy of the City and ...Journal Issue -
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Language Usage and Language Policy
(2023)Ukrainian Analytical DigestThe topic of this issue is Language Usage and Language Policy. Firstly, Juliane Besters-Dilger gives an overview of language policy in Ukraine since independence (1991); secondly, Volodymyr Kulyk analyses polls indicating a possible increased use of Ukrainian since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia; thirdly, Natalia Kudriavtseva discusses the motivations of the language shift to Ukrainian; lastly, Anastasija Kostiučenko ...Journal Issue -
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The West and Russia’s War of Aggression against Ukraine
(2024)Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)This issue covers the Western reaction to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. It starts with a critical comment by James Sherr questioning the West’s response and resolve. Robert Orttung then goes on to look at the internal struggle about support for Ukraine in US politics, focusing on the foreign policy stance of the Republican Party. In another case study Stefan Meister presents a critical assessment of Germany’s policies in ...Journal Issue -
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Indoctrination
(2024)Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)This issue looks at the impact of indoctrination in schools and universities. Eugenia Nazrullaeva et al. discuss Russian indoctrination in comparative perspective. Allyson Edwards examines youth indoctrination through the case study of Yunarmiya. In a republished interview, Andrei Yakovlev tells the post-Soviet story of the Higher School of Economics from an insider’s perspective. Nikolai Petrov presents the results of a recent study ...Journal Issue -
Western Sanctions and Russia’s Role for Global Energy
(2024)Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)This issue deals with Western Sanctions and Russia’s Role for Global Energy. Nina Poussenkova explores the impact of Western sanctions on the Russian oil sector since February 24, 2022; Irina Mironova provides an overview of the current situation in the Russian natural gas sector; finally, Martin Jirušek assesses the stability and security of the EU’s gas supply portfolio after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the EU’s subsequent focus ...Journal Issue