Interview with Military Chaplain Yuriy Kazmirenko, Conducted in Kyiv, Ukraine, 9 August 2018 (UKR)

Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University Regional Innovations in Transition Economies (the Case of Ukraine)

Market transformation of post-socialist countries was accompanied by innovative activity slowdown against the background of considerable economic recession and further crisis. The former economic system was characterized by selective approach to the innovations. Particularly, in the former Soviet Union, including Ukraine, demand on the innovations within military-industrial complex prevailed. I...

Risk factors for poor multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

BACKGROUND Ukraine is among ten countries with the highest burden of multidrug- resistant TB (MDR-TB) worldwide. Treatment success rates for MDR-TB in Ukraine remain below global success rates as reported by the World Health Organization. Few studies have evaluated predictors of poor MDR-TB outcomes in Ukraine. METHODS We conducted a retrospective analysis of patients initiated on MDR-TB trea...

Cover vol. 15, no. 4, August 2018

Interview with Walter C . Willett Conducted by Benjamin C . Williams

Walter C. Willett MD, DrPH, is Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition and Chairman of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health as well as a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He studied food science as an undergraduate at Michigan State University, obtained a medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School and a Doctorate in...

Unified description for hopping transport in organic semiconductors including both energetic disorder and polaronic contributions

I. I. Fishchuk,1 A. Kadashchuk,2,3 S. T. Hoffmann,4 S. Athanasopoulos,5 J. Genoe,2 H. Bässler,4 and A. Köhler4 1Institute for Nuclear Research, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Prospect Nauky 47, 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine 2IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium 3Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Prospect Nauky 46, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine 4Experimental Physics II ...