This paper assesses the impact of medical care on changes in mortality in east Germany and Poland before and after the political transition, with west Germany included for comparison. Building upon Rutstein's concept of unnecessary untimely deaths, we calculated the contribution of conditions considered responsive to medical care or health policy to changes in life expectancy between birth and ...

The distribution of denitrification was investigated in the hypolimnion of the east and west lobes of permanently ice-covered Lake Bonney, Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Anomalously high concentrations of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN; nitrate, nitrite, ammonium and nitrous oxide) in the oxygen-depleted hypolimnion of the east lobe of the Lake implied that denitrification is or was active in th...

There is a phenomenon that often arises when a philosophy argues that there are limits to thought/language, and tries to justify this view by giving reasons as to why there are things about which one cannot think/talk—in the process appearing to give the lie to the claim. I will be concerned with that phenomenon. We will look at some of philosophies that fall into this camp (those of Wittgenste...

Management scholarship has grown tremendously over the past 60 years. Most of our paradigms originated from North America in the 1950s to the 1980s, inspired by the empirical phenomena and cultural, philosophical, and research traditions of the time. Here following, we highlight the contextual differences between the East and the West in terms of institutions, philosophies, and cultural values ...

A B S T R ACT. This is a review of recent English-language scholarship on the development of Russian identity since the collapse of the USSR in 1991. The first part examines literature on the economic and political changes in the Russian Federation, revealing how scholars became more sceptical about the possibility of Russia building a Western-type liberal democracy. The second part investigate...

AIM To examine the current physician supply in western countries, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), and the Newly Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union. To assess the current management of physician resources in these regions and the potential for their future management. METHODS Description and analysis of current physician to population ratios, graduating physician to populati...

this study presents the nannostratigraphy and nannofossil events in the lower boundary of kalat formation in the east and west of the kopeh- dagh basin. the kalat formation comprises of coarse grained detritus limestone with subordinate sandstone intercalations. in the current study, six sections have been chosen in the east and west of the basin which are as follow: dobaradar section, kalat se...

1 Key findings Private sector rents across England 1996/97 – 2000/01 • In 2000/01, the average rent of furnished property was £91.94 and that of furnished property was £79.78. • Through the observation period, the national averages of both furnished and unfurnished property rents continuously increased. • By region, in 2000/01, the highest furnished property rent and unfurnished property rent w...