U the morning of February 26, 2010, the name Eddie Roach meant nothing to me. Then a desperate e-mail brought the 32-year-old self-described “global health missionary” into my life. Weeks earlier, Roach had been distributing handheld water purifiers in rural Uganda; now, according to his friend’s SOS, he was in a Nevada intensive care unit awaiting dialysis and exchange transfusion. Diagnosis? ...

Remote measurements of different environmental parameters received during last 30 years are used for the synthesis of a Complex Simulation Model (CSM) describing the combined water regimes of the Aral-Caspian System (ACS) including the consideration of aquatic and climatic natural processes. The problem of stabilizing the sea levels of these two water bodies is modelled and a solution obtained ...

This memo addresses the general prospects for Russia's policy in the Caspian Sea, particularly in light of the ongoing financial crisis and domestic political turmoil. After touching on uncertainties regarding the Caspian's significance as a source of hydrocarbon reserves, I will consider Russia's evolving policy preferences and diplomatic relations, environmental issues, and the broader politi...

The paper discusses and evaluates the extent of i-umlaut levelling in classical (ca. 1300–1400) post-classical (ca.1400–1550) Old Frisian nouns. In terms methodology, main goal analysis is to identify quantitative relation between incidence i-umlauted umlautless root vowels nominal declension paradigms. order understand assess process Frisian, three aspects that may have had an impact on presen...

Frisian dress in the Early Middle Ages. A short examination of three case studies, focusing on Bernuthsfeld Man, headdresses from Frisia and beads brooches terp mounds, was performed order to answer question whether there a particular distinctive “Frisian” style early Ages (500-1000). The research shows that complicated weave patterns such as tartans were available most social classes, both lig...

Recruitment success of roach varied dramatically between 1979 and 1982 in Alderfen Broad, a small lake in eastern England. When fry were abundant (in 1979 and 198 1, but not in 1980 or 1982) the summer zooplankton became sparse and was dominated by copepods and rotifers. In years of good recruitment, as each of the preferred cladoceran prey species entered the diet of underyearling roach, its d...

The Caspian Sea is the world’s largest inland sea. Physiographically it is unique. It is the most productive body of water in the world1 and the only one that preserves the geno-fund of the sturgeon, the source of almost all the black caviar produced. About 10 million people live around the Caspian Sea and the occupations of many of them are connected with the sea, and first of all with fishing...

Traditionally, Capoeta populations from the southern Caspian Sea basin have been considered as Capoeta capoeta gracilis. Study on the phylogenetic relationship of Capoeta species using mitochondrial cytochrome b gene sequences show that Capoeta population from the southern Caspian Sea basin is distinct species and receive well support (posterior probability of 100%). Based on the tree topologie...

Disruption in gonadal development of wild roach living in U.K. rivers receiving large volumes of treated sewage effluent is manifest in a variety of ways, ranging from malformation of the germ cells and/or reproductive ducts to altered gamete production. Intersex fish were also found to have an altered endocrine status and an elevated concentration of plasma vitellogenin. Gonadal growth was inh...