H.-H. Hinrichsen1, B. von Dewitz1, J. Dierking1, H. Haslob2, A. Makarchouk3, C. Petereit1 and R. Voss4 1GEOMAR – Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany 2Thünen-Institute of Sea Fisheries, Palmaille 9, 22767 Hamburg, Germany 3Fishery Resources Research Department, Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment ‘BIOR’, Daugavgrivas 8, Riga 1048, L...

1) Institute of Systematic Biology, University of Daugavpils, LV-5401 Daugavpils, Latvia (*corresponding author’s e-mail: [email protected]) 2) Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, EE-51014 Tartu, Estonia 3) Department of Biology, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Finland 4) Institute of Ecology, University of Vilnius, LT-08412 Vilnius, Lithuania 5) Department of Bio...

The theoretical and empirical analysis in this paper is based on an extension of the familiar two-country Mundell-Fleming model to more than two countries and to the inclusion of country-specific labour market characteristics and wage price spirals. A first econometric estimation for the three Baltic economies (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) with a linearised and dynamic three-country version o...

1Department of Infectology and Dermatology, Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia 2Department of Dermatology, Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA 3Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Tokuda Hospital Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria 4Section of Dermatology and Venereology, Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria 5Divisio...

The aim of the article is to present authors’ assessment effectiveness anti-corruption policy in Latvia, establish compliance national strategies with EU goals terms preventing and combating corruption. research methods at confirming a hypothesis that order deepen reforms strengthen resilience fight against corruption, it not enough for Latvia conduct only institutional reforms, but important p...

Integration of Latvia in the Common European Market and its joining the EU has highlighted new demands to passengers’ transportation – high mobility, inter-modality, comfort observing of passengers’ rights as well as new requirements to the interaction of transport and environment. It is impossible to exercise complete account of all these requirements without a systematic approach and applying...

The article describes the development of information technology in Latvia, in IMCS, to the middle of the 1990s. The history of IMCS represents the usage of computers in typical computing centers in the former Soviet Union and the transformation from computing center to research institution. It also represents Latvian collaboration with the Nordic countries that provided political, scientific, a...

Background In 2005, Latvia lifted the ban on blood donation for men who have sex with men (MSM). The prevalence of HIV infection in blood donations since then has been stable (around 0.02%), though it is higher than the European average (0.009% in 2006). We aim at describing the MSM who report that their last HIV test was done while donating blood (WDB) to approach the role of MSM in the donor ...

The authors wish to sincerely thank the following individuals who contributed valuable and timely information about alcohol consumption trends and related harms from ten European Union Member States: Hana Sovinova (Czech Republic), Emanuele Scafato and Silvia Ghirini (Italy), Matej Kosir (Slovenia), Salme Ahlström (Finland), Jean Nicol and Matthew Carden (UK), Marcis Trapencieris (Latvia), Gabr...

An increased number of legionellosis cases in 2011 has been reported in Latvia, compared to the ten previous years. A total of 30 legionellosis cases (1.35 per 100,000 inhabitants), including 19 females, have been confirmed until the end of September 2011. The majority of cases (n=23) were inhabitants of the capital city Riga. The reason for the increase in legionellosis is unclear. Twenty-six ...