We used 199 Corynebacterium diphtheriae isolated from 1995 to 1997 in Russia to evaluate the ability of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) to identify the unique clonal group that emerged there in 1990. Our data show that RAPD can reliably, reproducibly, and rapidly screen a large number of strains to identify the epidemic clonal group.

The First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety was hosted by President Medvedev and the Russian Government in November 2009. This is a major public health issue in Russia, but also in many other developing countries. While the current economic crisis has focused the policy attention on important macroeconomic and unemployment and poverty issues, it is important to recall other major soc...

1 Neurophysics Group, Department of Neurology, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité ± Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 12203, Germany 2 5HVHDUFK *URXS 30XOWLVHQVRU\ ,QWHJUDWLRQ ́ 'epartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, St. Hedwig Hospital, Charité ± Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin 10115, Germany 3 Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig...

The infinite mass effective theory, when a heavy quark mass tends to infinity, and Chiral perturbation theory at the quark level, based on the extended Nambu – Jona – Lasinio model with linear realization of chiral U(3)× U(3) symmetry, are applied to the calculation of current s – quark mass corrections to the form factors of the D → K̄ e νe and D → K̄ e νe decays. These corrections turn out to b...

We discuss the renormalizability of the massless Thirring model in terms of the causal fermion Green functions and correlation functions of left—right fermion densities. We obtain the most general solution of the massless Thirring model with dynamical dimensions of fermion fields, parameterized by two arbitrary parameters. We show that in the massless Thirring model there are no solutions which...

The article discusses the aspects of establishment of food sovereignty from the regional point of view. Herewith, it is mentioned that the established food sovereignty of a state should be based on food sovereignty of regions as separate administrative and territorial units. The most prioritized field of development of agro-industrial complex is rational distribution and efficient specializatio...

A. Aryshev, ∗ S. Araki, M. Fukuda, N. Terunuma, J. Urakawa, P. Karataev, G. Naumenko, A. Potylitsyn, L. Sukhikh, D. Verigin, and K. Sakaue KEK: High Energy Accelerator Research Organization,1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan John Adams Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, United Kingdom Tomsk Polytechnic University, Institute of Physics and Technolo...

Since the first case of AIDS was identified in 1985, Russia has maintained a low HIVseroprevalence rate, currently at 0.05. However, there are signs of an emerging HIV/AIDS epidemic fueled by several factors. As of September 1999, a total of 19,105 HIV infections were registered, although the estimated number exceeds 50,000. The most recent trend in HIV/AIDS transmission is through injecting dr...

We discuss Coleman’s theorem asserting the absence of a spontaneously broken continuous symmetry and Goldstone bosons in the quantum field theory of a free massless (pseudo)scalar field in 1+1–dimensional space–time (Comm. Math. Phys. 31, 259 (1973)). We show that Coleman’s theorem is erroneous. We prove that the main signature for the absence of Goldstone bosons, a vacuum state, invariant unde...