Spatial variability in winter NAO–wind speed relationships in western Europe linked to concomitant states of the East Atlantic and Scandinavian patterns
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DOI: 10.1002/qj.2943
Abstract: The 3-hourly gridded ERA-Interim climate reanalysis dataset, spanning 1979 to 2013, was used to investigate the spatial stationarity of the previously documented relationships between wind speeds and the NAO state in Europe. Over much of… read more here.
Keywords: nao wind; western europe; wind speeds; east atlantic ... See more keywords
Comparing Patterns of Segregation in North-Western Europe: A Multiscalar Approach
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DOI: 10.1007/s10680-018-9477-1
Abstract: Residential segregation is the state of spatial separation of groups of people, with the groups defined according to one or more dimensions, such as ethnicity, age, income or other social characteristics. A distinction is commonly… read more here.
Keywords: western europe; patterns segregation; north western; segregation ... See more keywords
Support for radical parties in Western Europe: Structural conflicts and political dynamics
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DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2020.102138
Abstract: Abstract Why is the populist radical left and right on the rise across western Europe? Integrating theories on changing socio-political conflict with arguments about crises of political representation, we contend that electoral support for radical… read more here.
Keywords: radical left; support radical; political dynamics; western europe ... See more keywords
Tracking behavioral persistence and innovations during the Middle Pleistocene in Western Europe. Shift in occupations between 700 and 450 ka at la Noira site (Centre, France).
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103009
Abstract: Some areas in Western Europe indicate hiatuses in human occupations, which cannot be systematically attributed to taphonomic factors and poor site preservation. The site of la Noira in the center of France records two occupation… read more here.
Keywords: behavioral persistence; tracking behavioral; western europe; site ... See more keywords
Load-following with nuclear power: Market effects and welfare implications
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DOI: 10.1016/j.pnucene.2018.08.011
Abstract: Abstract This paper analyses the economic factors that drive nuclear power load-following in future European electricity systems. A power plant dispatching model is built to simulate deregulated markets, in order to identify to what extent… read more here.
Keywords: nuclear power; load following; flexibility; western europe ... See more keywords
Ukrainian Women Writers and the National Imaginary: From the Collapse of the USSR to the Euromaidan. By Oleksandra Wallo. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. xv, 201 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $52.50, hard bound.
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DOI: 10.1017/slr.2021.44
Abstract: Europe, respectively, Stańczyk’s chapter on the appropriation of reggae in Poland and Mazierska’s chapter on the use of Balkan sounds and imagery to penetrate the Polish music market adapt the classic framework of orientalism to… read more here.
Keywords: chapter; europe; ukrainian women; western europe ... See more keywords
Higher groundwater levels in western Europe characterize warm periods in the Common Era
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-73383-8
Abstract: Hydroclimate, the interplay of moisture supply and evaporative demand, is essential for ecological and agricultural systems. The understanding of long-term hydroclimate changes is, however, limited because instrumental measurements are inadequate in length to capture the… read more here.
Keywords: groundwater; warm periods; levels western; western europe ... See more keywords
Direct dating reveals the early history of opium poppy in western Europe
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76924-3
Abstract: This paper aims to define the first chrono-cultural framework on the domestication and early diffusion of the opium poppy using small-sized botanical remains from archaeological sites, opening the way to directly date minute short-lived botanical… read more here.
Keywords: opium poppy; opium; poppy western; western europe ... See more keywords
Hyaenas and early humans in the latest Early Pleistocene of South-Western Europe
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-03547-7
Abstract: Throughout the Pleistocene, early humans and carnivores frequented caves and large rock-shelters, usually generating bone accumulations. The well-preserved late Early Pleistocene sedimentary sequence at Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar (CNERQ) has provided substantial… read more here.
Keywords: early pleistocene; hyaenas early; early humans; cueva negra ... See more keywords
An ecological niche shift for Neanderthal populations in Western Europe 70,000 years ago
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-84805-6
Abstract: Middle Paleolithic Neanderthal populations occupied Eurasia for at least 250,000 years prior to the arrival of anatomically modern humans. While a considerable body of archaeological research has focused on Neanderthal material culture and subsistence strategies,… read more here.
Keywords: ecological niche; years ago; 000 years; western europe ... See more keywords
The personalization of party politics in Western Europe (1985–2016): evidence from an expert survey
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DOI: 10.1057/s41269-021-00210-x
Abstract: The personalization of politics has been extensively studied from different angles and in different national contexts. Nonetheless, an easily comparable and longitudinal study of the personalization of politics at both the country and the party… read more here.
Keywords: personalization politics; personalization; party; expert survey ... See more keywords