DELIVERY OF MUSEUM COLLECTIONS TO THE USSR IN THE PERIOD OF SANCTIONS: EXPERIENCE OF THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY IN THE 1920S

Delivery of Museum Collections to the USSR in the Period of Sanctions: Experience of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in the 1920s

The article examines the circumstances and history of delivery to Russia of ethnographic collections by the First Russian Expedition to Ceylon and India (1914-18).These items were stored at Russian Tea Firm Gubkin Co warehouses in Colombo, Government Museum (Madras) and Indian Museum (Calcutta), at the State Far Eastern University (Vladivostok) unt

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Effect of Eased Restrictions for ACA-Exempt Short-Term Health Plans on Marketplace Premiums and Uninsured Rate: A Difference in Differences Analysis

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established Mirror Products broad standards for private health insurance in the United States including requiring minimum essential benefits and prohibiting medical underwriting, but the law also permitted some exceptions.This paper examines one type of exempt plan option, Short-Term, Limited Duration Insurance (STLDI)

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Crosstalk and ultrasensitivity in protein degradation pathways.

Protein turnover is vital to cellular homeostasis.Many proteins are degraded efficiently only after they have been post-translationally "tagged" with a polyubiquitin chain.Ubiquitylation is a form of Post-Translational Modification (PTM): addition of a ubiquitin to the chain is catalyzed by E3 ligases, and removal of ubiquitin is catalyzed by a De-

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