The Pontic Greeks, from Pontus to the Caucasus, Greece and the diaspora by Michel Bruneau

“…From the Byzantine period until the beginning of the 20th century, the Pontic Greeks, from the shores of the Black Sea, lived in the mountain areas of the Pontic Alps, where they were able to preserve their language and/or their orthodox religion on the eastern borders of first the Byzantine and then the Ottoman Empire. …”
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Désigner l’épouse gallo-romaine. Essai d’analyse des pratiques épigraphiques autour d’uxor et de coniux. by Marianne Beraud

“…This work consists in a comparative study of the two conjugal terms ‘uxor’ and ‘coniux’ from epigraphic material in Gaul and in the Alps. This survey aims at understanding some aspects of the expression of domestic bonds and their terminology. …”
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La metro-montagna di fronte alle sfide globali. Riflessioni a partire dal caso di Torino by Giuseppe Dematteis

“…The interchange between the mountain areas and the urbanized piedmont within the metropolitan region of Turin is taken as a paradigmatic example of similar situations widely present in the Alps. The analysis helps to identify some general characters of the Alpine spaces included in metropolitan territorial systems. …”
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Parcs à sculptures en Valais : vers une critique de l’économie de projet by Benoît Antille

“…Over the past decade, the canton of Valais in the Swiss Alps has witnessed a true craze for site-specific sculptures or installations linked to the landscape. …”
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Geography of the Conflict Potential of the Projected La Clusaz—Le Grand Bornand Ski Link Via the Tête du Danay by Amandine Troiano, Lionel Laslaz

“…This sector, which is currently not equipped, would make it possible to create a vast linked domain, capable of competing in part with others in the Northern Alps. But this project, in addition to the questions about the intermittence of the discussions concerning it and its feasibility, raises environmental challenges in a massif considered as little equipped until now. …”
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Dai contadini operai agli amenity migrants. L'eredità del socialismo e il futuro del ruralismo montano in Romania by Andrea Membretti, Bogdan Iancu

“…This article investigates the legacy of state socialism and the post-socialist transformation inside the Romanian Carpathians by reviewing sociological literature on new inhabitants of the Alps and anthropological literature on ruralism in Romania. …”
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Le diverse facce della montagna in declino: un’esperienza lombarda by Luisa Pedrazzini

“…The lack of snow and dramatic ice melting put in crisis local economy, with decline and recession and is the origin of great natural disasters too, causing a radical change in the way of life of the Alps’ inhabitants. This leads to the need to assess through specific scenarios the potential effects on territorial organization of the “fallow lands” that may occur due to climate change, as well as the availability of natural resources, including the effects on the economy and the consolidated life of inhabitants. …”
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Exceptional thinning through the entire altitudinal range of Mont-Blanc glaciers during the 2021/22 mass balance year by Etienne Berthier, Christian Vincent, Delphine Six

“…Here, we use Pléiades satellite stereo-images of the Mont-Blanc massif (Alps) to reveal that thinning took place through the entire elevation range during the exceptional 2021/22 mass-balance year. …”
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From Peasant Workers to Amenity Migrants. Socialist Heritage and the Future of Mountain Rurality in Romania by Andrea Membretti, Bogdan Iancu

“…This article investigates the legacy of state socialism and the post-socialist transformation inside the Romanian Carpathians by reviewing sociological literature on new inhabitants of the Alps and anthropological literature on ruralism in Romania. …”
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Under the bridge: marking sites prove the presence of Eurasian otter Lutra lutra in the Poljanska Sora River valley, Slovenia by Rudi Kraševec, Aleksander Trajbarič, Urša Fležar

“…To confirm the presence of the species in the Slovenian Pre-Alps, we searched for otter scat – spraint, on six tributaries to the Poljanska Sora River of Polhograjsko hribovje, the Pre-Alpine mountains around Polhov Gradec. …”
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Response of conifers to UV-B and climate in mountain areas by S.L. Bondarenko, D.A. Savchuk

“…Then, tree-ring series for the Swiss Alps in each group were generalized and decomposed into separate components: long period trends, ultraviolet-B and climatic signals. …”
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Guard Dogs to Protect Sheep Grazing in Fenced Pastures Against Wolf: a New and Still Challenging Practice by Baptiste Potet, Charles-Henri Moulin, Michel Meuret

“…We used several sources of knowledge, from the scientific literature to experiences of breeders interviewed in the Southern Alps, to analyse three issues to improve the effectiveness of the practice: the number of guard dogs required per batch of animals, the complementarity of dogs within their working group, and the land area to be protected by dogs. …”
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Controverses autour d’une liaison. Géographie du potentiel conflictuel à travers le projet d’équipement du Danay (La Clusaz — Le Grand Bornand) by Amandine Troiano, Lionel Laslaz

“…This sector, which is currently not equipped, would make it possible to create a vast linked domain, capable of competing in part with others in the Northern Alps. But this project, in addition to the questions about the intermittence of the discussions concerning it and its feasibility, raises environmental challenges in a massif considered as little equipped until now. …”
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A Concise and Comprehensive Description of Shoulder Pathology and Procedures: The 4D Code System by Laurent Lafosse, Tom Van Isacker, Joseph B. Wilson, Lewis L. Shi

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Climbing Mont Blanc (4808 m a.s.l.): What Are the Risks in the Grand Couloir Du Goûter and On the North Face of Mont Blanc Du Tacul? by Ludovic Ravanel, Jacques Mourey, Lorig Tamian, Sébastien Ibanez, Didier Hantz, Pascal Lacroix, Pierre-Allain Duvillard

“…As a result, mountaineers have to deal with major glacial and periglacial hazards, such as those affecting the two main routes used to climb Mont Blanc (4808 m a.s.l.; Western European Alps): rockfalls in the Grand Couloir du Goûter on the Voie Royale and serac falls on the NNW slope of Mont Blanc du Tacul on the Trois Monts route. …”
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Patterns of object play behaviour and its functional implications in free-flying common ravens by Awani Bapat, Anna E. Kempf, Salomé Friry, Palmyre H. Boucherie, Thomas Bugnyar

“…To validate these findings and to gauge the functional scope of object play under field conditions, we investigated the patterns and characteristics of object play in individually marked free-flying ravens in the Austrian Alps. Using two large data sets, we show a decrease in object play with age and a preference for playing longer with novel objects, supporting findings from captivity. …”
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Statistical Downscaling of ERA-Interim Forecast Precipitation Data in Complex Terrain Using LASSO Algorithm by Lu Gao, Karsten Schulz, Matthias Bernhardt

“…LASSO was tested and validated against other three downscaling methods, local intensity scaling (LOCI), quantile-mapping (QM), and stepwise regression (Stepwise) at 50 meteorological stations, located in the high mountainous region of the central Alps. The downscaling procedure is implemented in two steps. …”
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The role of the cryosphere for runoff in a highly glacierised alpine catchment, an approach with a coupled model and in situ data by Astrid Lambrecht, Christoph Mayer

“…We investigate the contribution of snow, firn and ice to runoff in the Vernagtferner basin (Ötztal Alps) from 2020 to 2022, using a physical modelling chain driven by a local observation network. …”
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Reuse of CFRP Pultrusions in Novel Post-Tensioning Cables for Bridge Strengthening by Giovanni Pietro Terrasi, Christian Affolter, Gregor Schwegler, Andre Guerotto, Andreas Winistörfer

“…Both CFRP parallel-wire cables were finally successfully prestressed to 1 MN (55% of their UTS) in order to strengthen an existing bridge in the Swiss Alps over the river Ilfis in the summer of 2023. …”
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Social norms for population displacements caused by large dams France, 20th century by Armelle Faure

“…Retrospective case studies are based on research conducted in the Alps by Virginie Bodon on Tignes and Serre-Ponçon for her doctoral thesis in history (1999) and on the book by D. …”
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