ystematic study of local politics in the Russian Federation has just begun. As a result, relatively little attention has been devoted to the legislative/representative bodies elected in many Russian cities during the 1990s.1 The following study of these institutions in Novosibirsk, an old industrial city in the geographic center of the Russian Federation, is based on the author’s direct observa...

CNRS / Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. Partially supported by a Projet Incitatif de Recherche contract from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris. [email protected] Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London. London SW7 2AZ, UK. Partially supported by the European Research Council’s Advanced Grant 267382 FCCA. [email protected] Secti...

little information is available on the effects of applying compost tea to species in dry regions. compost from agricultural waste can promote drought resistance in plants and increase their growth by improving soil structure and providing nutrients and enhancing the capacity of the soil to store moisture. in order to examine these effects, compost tea was tested on two species growing in dry re...

This paper considers the key instrumental components of intergovernmental fiscal relations in the Russian Federation – expenditures, revenues, transfers, borrowing, and institutional arrangements – in comparison both to Canada’s lengthy experience with federalism and to a framework developed on the basis of previous work on fiscal federalism in a variety of transitional and developing countries. .

3 Chad E. Mire, Joan B. Geisbert, Krystle N. Agans, Yan-Ru Feng, Karla A. Fenton, 4 Katharine N. Bossart, Lianying Yan, Yee-Peng Chan, Christopher C. Broder and Thomas W. 5 Geisbert 6 7 Galveston National Laboratory and Departments of Microbiology and Immunology, University 8 of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA; Department of Microbiology and 9 Immunology, Uniformed Services Universi...

A.N. Ivanov,* E. L. Kryshen, M. Pitschmann, and P. Kienle Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten, Technische Universität Wien, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10, A-1040 Wien, Austria Stefan Meyer Institut für subatomare Physik Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Boltzmanngasse 3, A-1090, Wien, Austria Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, 188300 Gatchina, Orlova roscha 1, Russian Fede...

A derivation of the one-loop effective Lagrangian in the self-interacting O(N) scalar theory, in slowly varying gravitational fields, is presented (using ζ-regularization and heat-kernel techniques). The result is given in terms E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow. E-mail: [email protected]. On leave from...

We report here the draft genome sequence of the bacteriocin producer Enterococcus faecium strain L-3, isolated from a probiotic preparation, Laminolact, which is widely used in the Russian Federation. The draft genome sequence is composed of 74 contigs for a total of 2,643,001 bp, with 2,646 coding genes. Five clusters for bacteriocin production were found.