Valko-Venäjä vai Belarus?

Michal Valko: PhD. Thesis

The Libraries of Belarus

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 63, No. 4, 2015 (Libraries in a Postcommunist World: A Quarter of a Century of Development in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia: Part 2, edited by Hermina G.B. Anghelescu), pp. 781–793. © 2015 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This paper highlights the history of libraries in Belarus, including the library network development and its current structu...

Belarus: health system review.

This analysis of the Belarusian health system reviews the developments in organization and governance, health financing, healthcare provision, health reforms and health system performance since 2008. Despite considerable change since independence, Belarus retains a commitment to the principle of universal access to health care, provided free at the point of use through predominantly state-owned...

Understanding Belarus: Belarusian Identity

My attempt to respond to these questions stems from my field observations and familiarity with scholarly studies and other material. Anthony David Smith’s classic volume on ethnic origins of nations and Miroslav Hroch’s perceptive book on national movements in Europe’s ‘small nations’ are of special importance. A quintessential piece on Belarusian identity is Yanka Kupala’s play ‘Tuteishiya’; w...

Distribution of complexities in the Vai script

In the paper, we analyze the distribution of complexities in the Vai script, an indigenous syllabic writing system from Liberia. It is found that the uniformity hypothesis for complexities fails for this script. The models using Poisson distribution for the number of components and hyper-Poisson distribution for connections provide good fits in the case of the Vai script.