X iv :c on dm at /0 00 55 45 v1 [ co nd -m at .s tr -e l] 3 1 M ay 2 00 0 Plasma dispersion of multisubband electron systems over liquid helium Sviatoslav S. Sokolov Departamento de F́isica, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 13565-905 São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil and B. I. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 61164 Kharkov, Ukr...

This article explores the burgeoning advocacy movement for methadone and buprenorphine treatment by patients, parents, and doctors in Ukraine, and their efforts to remake a system that infantilizes and controls patients into one where patients have a voice in their treatment. Through a review of gray literature and in-depth interviews with 28 patient-advocates and doctors in five Ukrainian citi...

Social networks, which emerged due to the rapid development of modern telecommunications and information technologies that led to the emergence of the Internet, can be viewed as a phenomenon of the information society. In a short time, there has been both quantitative and qualitative growth of social networks, which have become a common phenomenon in our life and the dominant way of communicati...

For more than a year Ukraine has been torn asunder by a bitter conflict that has triggered a growing humanitarian crisis. But amidst the chaos, the country has one important asset: human capital. “The situation is very difficult and it’s thanks to our health workers that this country’s health-care system is still running,” says Dr Tatiana Dubinina, chief medical officer at the Ukrainian health ...

Letters epidemics occur (e.g., diphtheria in eastern Europe in the early and mid-1990s) (9). If needed, the World Health Organization can provide information on confirmed and uncon-firmed epidemics on a weekly basis. Travel and peacekeeping mission statistics share similarities. In Namibia, the South African Armed Forces had most often observed hepatitis (unspecified), with rare cases of tuberc...

CONTEXT The last decade witnessed growing differences in abortion dynamics in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine despite demographic, social, and historical similarities of these nations. This paper investigates changes in birth control practices in the three countries and searches for an explanation of the diverging trends in abortion. METHODS Official abortion and contraceptive use statistics, pr...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate trends in the national and regional reporting of syphilis, gonorrhoea, chlamydia, genital herpes, trichomoniasis, and HIV in Ukraine. METHODS Annual notification rates of infection per 10(5) population in three regions of Ukraine--Donetsk, Mikolaiv, Chernivtsi--and also among children, adolescents, and pregnant women were used as indicators for the spread of sexually tr...

This article presents the main points of my PhD research on institutional change in PostSoviet states. Looking at the case of the hospital design in Ukraine and Moldova, I examine the main actors and institutions that induced the process of change following the Soviet Union's collapse. The article consists of two parts. First, I introduce the theoretical framework to study the postsoviet transf...

The explosions at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (CNPP) in Ukraine early in the morning of 26 April 1986 led to a considerable release of radioactive materials during 10 d. The cloud from the reactor spread many different radionuclides, particularly those of iodine (131I) and cesium (134Cs and 137Cs), over the majority of European countries, but the greatest contamination occurred over vast ...