The purpose of this study was to identify the main trends in transformation consumer preferences Russians, which have recently been largely associated with pandemic situation inside country, unprecedented influence exogenous and endogenous factors, sanctions pressure, departure more "brands" from Russian market. All together has radically affected preferences. object is dominants Russians' choi...

The purpose of this paper was to study psychological adaptation ethnic Russians in various contexts post-Soviet countries. To achieve goal, a survey conducted the following seven republics: Estonia (N=314), Kazakhstan (N=179), Kyrgyzstan (N=300), Armenia (N=109), Tajikistan (N=284), Latvia (N=334), Georgia (N=312). total sample size equaled 1832 people. showed that different republics, differs....

To the Editor: Recently, Li et al. reported on the frequency of the derived allele ADH1B*47His in Eastern and Western Asia. The data were based on meta-analysis of the published results for 131 populations and the results of genotyping of samples from 37 additional populations, performed by the authors. The authors made the suggestion that there had been separate and independent increases in th...

The epidemiology of Helicobacter pylori infection and risk factors associated with its transmission are not well understood. Kazakhstan is country with two ethnic groups, Asian (Kazakhs) and Western (Russians), living under similar socioeconomic conditions. The aim of this study was to examine the seroepidemiologic pattern of H. pylori and hepatitis A among the same individuals from both ethnic...

Anyone seeking information on types of mental problems and their care in pre-Petrine Russia will encounter two obstacles: first, the paucity of sources (particularly from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries), and second, the undeveloped state of psychiatric medicine throughout the medieval world. Disagreements over the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness persist even today, of course. No...

The article models the protocultural fields of archetypal-mythological memory Ukrainians and Russians as consisting divergent elements. core are archaic cultural archetypes archetypal motifs “mother”, “field”, “plowman”, “labor”, “individualism”, “equality” for Ukrainians, “father”, “distance”, “vastness”, “inertia”, “collectivism”, “submission” Russians. сore determine differences in ethnic me...

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The use of functional foods (probiotics and prebiotics) has been demonstrated to be effective for the treatment or control of several diseases. Further well designed trials to examine the effects of different probiotic components are required. It is important to establish separate functions and to gain further insight into the underlying mechanisms that include competitive exclusion and modific...

Focus groups were conducted with caregivers from eight racial-specific or ethnic-specific populations (African Americans, Chinese, Filipinos, Hispanics, Koreans, Native Americans, Russians, and Vietnamese), to examine cultural variations in caregiving experiences, care-related values and beliefs, care practices, and factors contributing to decisions about the use of caregiver support services. ...

The aim of this work is to compare shifts in the consumer behaviour of Russian households since the mid-nineties till nowadays. The research considers the consumer behaviour of the Russians over almost the maximum possible available data RLMS period, focusing on the crisis years. Special attention is paid to analysis of the effects of crises in 1998 and 2008. To reveal effects as shifts in cons...