Many people in the European Union fear that Eastern Enlargement leads to major job losses. More recently, these fears about job losses have extended to high skill labor and IT jobs. The paper examines with unique firm level data whether these fears are justified for the two neighboring countries of Eastern Enlargement Austria and Germany. We find that Eastern Enlargement leads to surprising sma...

OBJECTIVES The high mortality among HIV/tuberculosis (TB) coinfected patients in Eastern Europe is partly explained by the high prevalence of drug-resistant TB. It remains unclear whether outcomes of HIV/TB patients with rifampicin/isoniazid-susceptible TB in Eastern Europe differ from those in Western Europe or Latin America. METHODS One-year mortality of HIV-positive patients with rifampici...

abstract: the physician-patient relationship has been undergoing significant changes in recent decades in western countries. taking a client-centered approach, society has given more autonomy and freedom to patients. the patient is regarded as a consumer who is looking for the best and most scientific approach and is free to choose among different methods of treatment. the role of the physician...

on the one hand, the vacant position of study about impact of achaemenid empire on eastern states is due to silence by classic authors in dealing with these lands; and on the other hand, it is reffered to shortage of archeological artifacts relating to achaemenids at the given region. in the present essay, by the aid of reminiscent works and economic and administrative evidences obtained from e...

Irma Nykänen1,2,3* Tiina H Rissanen4 and Sirpa Hartikainen1,3 1Kuopio Research Centre of Geriatric Care, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland 2Research Centre for Comparative Effectiveness and Patient Safety (RECEPS), University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland 3School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland 4Institute of Public Healt...

It is widely recognized that protected areas can strongly influence ecological systems and that hybridization is an important conservation issue. However, previous studies have not explicitly considered the influence of protected areas on hybridization dynamics. Eastern wolves are a species of special concern and their distribution is largely restricted to a protected population in Algonquin Pr...

Water use and carbon exchange of a red oak-dominated (Quercus rubra L.) forest and an eastern hemlock-dominated (Tsuga canadensis L.) forest, each located within the Harvard Forest in north-central Massachusetts, were measured for 2 years by the eddy flux method. Water use by the red oak forest reached 4 mm day(-1), compared to a maximum of 2 mm day(-1) by the eastern hemlock forest. Maximal ca...

results we included 20 articles in our meta-analysis. the pooled hbsag prevalence in children of e and m countries was 2.73% (95% ci: %1.73% - 3.72%). the prevalence rates in the emro and middle eastern countries were 1.85% (95% ci: 1.27% - 2.43%) and 2.66% (95% ci: 1.31% - 4.01%), respectively. the prevalence rates amongst children in nations considered in more than one study were 0.81% (95% c...

background : acute myeloid leukemia (aml) is a disease in elderly patients, with a mean age of diagnosis of 70 years. we have analyzed the clinicopathology features and experimental variables in aml patients in eastern iran and the correlation between survival and fab subgroups of aml. materials and methods : during 2009 to 2014 in a retrospective study, 98 patients with aml referred to the cli...

A1 Draft: The fishery for tunas and tuna-like fishes in the eastern Pacific Ocean in 2001, and outlook for 2002 A2 Draft: Status of yellowfin tuna in the eastern Pacific Ocean in 2001 and outlook for 2002 A3 Draft: Status of skipjack tuna in the eastern Pacific Ocean in 2001 and outlook for 2002 A4 Draft: Status of bigeye tuna in the eastern Pacific Ocean in 2001 and outlook for 2002 A5 Draft: ...