PUP1: PHARMACOECONOMICS IN RUSSIA: FIRST STEPS

Implementing general practice in Russia: getting beyond the first steps.

Over the past 15 years the countries of central and eastern Europe have been discarding the Soviet system of health care. A key element of many of the reforms is the replacement of the old model, based on narrow specialties located in policlinics, with one of integrated primary care, centred on general practitioners (GPs). Despite a formal commitment to primary care, in reality this sector had ...

The First Steps in Seeing

First Steps in Relational Lattice

Relational lattice reduces the set of six classic relational algebra operators to two binary lattice operations: natural join and inner union. We give an introduction to this theory with emphasis on formal algebraic laws. New results include Spight distributivity criteria and its applications to query transformations.

First Steps in Exploratory Data

First Steps in Mechanical Translation

Although the first ideas for mechanical translation were made in the seventeenth century, it was not until this century that means became available for realisation with the appearance of the electronic computer in the mid 1940s. Fifty years ago, in March 1947 Warren Weaver wrote to Norbert Wiener and met Andrew Booth, mentioning to both the use of computers for translation. The possibilities we...