The article presents the results of research on venia legendi (the right to deliver lectures at university) and status private docent University Latvia (UL) until 1944. term «private docent» was used worldwide in 18th century; it is still use Germany, Austria Switzerland. In Latvia, introduced 1860s first higher education institution established current territory – Riga Polytechnicum. terms «ve...

The article deals with the Belarusian school system in Latvia under German occupation. Belarusians were one of most numerous minorities that country, both inter-war period and during World War Two. In German-occupied Latvia, nationality was declared by more than 50,000 people. For political reasons, occupation authorities allowed schools to operate areas significant population. As a result, thi...

The Baltic States are three small countries on the coast - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which united by their geographical location, many centuries-old history, as well joint cooperation. Since 2018, a new tax reform has entered into force in Latvia, is planned to be implemented gradually from 2018 2021. In too, significant changes were made policy 2018. was introduced 2019, which, similarly ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Heart rate (HR) ≥70 beats per minute (bpm) increases cardiovascular risk in coronary artery disease (CAD) patients. The objective of the analysis is to characterize HR as well as other clinical parameters in outpatients with stable CAD in Latvia. MATERIALS AND METHODS CLARIFY is an ongoing international registry of outpatients with established CAD. Latvian data regard...

There is evidence that the prevalence of allergies and asthma differs between populations in western and eastern Europe. This study investigated the prevalence of wheezing, rhinitis and eczema among schoolchildren in urban and rural areas of Scandinavia and the formerly socialist countries of Eastern Europe. A total of 79,000 children from two age groups (13-14 yrs and 6-7 yrs) in 18 study cent...

BACKGROUND. The need for appraisal of oral health-related quality of life has been increasingly recognized over the last decades. The aim of this study was to develope a Latvian and a Russian version and test the validity of the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-49) for use among adults in Latvia. METHODS. The original English version of the OHIP-49 was translated using the forward-backward tech...

2 Introduction 3 1. Regularised Multivariate Direct Filter Approach 4 1.1 Univariate direct filter approach 5 1.2 Multivariate direct filter approach 6 1.3 Rewriting filtration problem in a least squares form 7 1.4 Regularisation 8 1.5 Level and time shift constraints 10 1.6 Effective degrees of freedom 11 2. Tracking Economic Activity in the Euro Area 11 2.1 Tracking trendcycle in yearly growt...

In 2010–2012, the hydrogeological model (HM) of Latvia LAMO was established by scientists of Riga Technical University (RTU). The commercial program Groundwater Vistas (GV) is used for running LAMO. Efficient methods have been used for creating geometry of HM, the arrangement of various boundary conditions (digital terrain map, hydrographical network, infiltration flow, conditions on the HM she...

An outbreak of aseptic meningitis has been ongoing in several areas of Latgale region, in the south-eastern part of Latvia since the end of June 2010. By 9 August 2010, 114 cases had been notified. Most of the cases were registered in the city and amalgamated municipality of Daugavpils and neighbouring territories. According to current evidence, two types of enteroviruses, coxsackie A-9 virus a...

The Latvian Labour Force Survey (LFS) has been organised since 1995 by the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia (CSB). It has been redesigned several times since then. The last redesign was done for LFS 2010.The first section of the paper presents a retrospective view on redesigning the LFS. The second section of the paper describes self-rotating sampling design used in LFS and some other aspec...