Plague is enzootic in wildlife populations of small mammals in central and eastern Asia, Africa, South and North America, and has been recognized recently as a reemerging threat to humans. Its causative agent Yersinia pestis relies on wild rodent hosts and flea vectors for its maintenance in nature. Climate influences all three components (i.e., bacteria, vectors, and hosts) of the plague syste...

This paper aims to assess the economic development and development policies in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries in 199

Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy; Department of Internal Medicine, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russian Federation, Russia; Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College NHS Trust, London, UK; Cardiologie–CHU Rennes et LTSI INSERM 1099–Université Rennes-1, France; Departments of Cardiology, University of Liège Hospital, GIGA Cardiovas...

National science and technology (S&T) systems are often mentioned as a condition for competitiveness of high technology sectors. Therefore, public S&T policies should actively support the development of national S&T systems. In particular in Eastern Europe an active S&T policy is often demanded to support the development of the supposed domestic "high technology potential". This paper shows tha...

1) Division of Applied Geology, Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden 2) North Ostrobothnia Regional Environment Centre, P.O. Box 124, FI-90101 Oulu, Finland (corresponding author’s e-mail: [email protected]) 3) International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, IIASA, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria 4) Finnish environment institute, P.O. Box 413, FI-90014 University ...

Motorcycles are a luxury in the developed world, where they are used mostly for recreation. Whereas in developing countries, motorcycles are required for utilitarian purposes due to lower prices and greater fuel economy. It is estimated that in 2016 there will be more than 134 million motorcycles worldwide [1], 60-80% of which are in the Asia Pacific and Southern and Eastern Asia regions. In 20...

Let ‖| · ‖| be any give unitarily invariant norm. We obtain some exponential relations in the context of semisimple Lie group. On one hand they extend the inequalities (1) ‖|e‖| ≤ ‖|eReA‖| for all A ∈ Cn×n, where ReA denotes the Hermitian part of A, and (2) ‖|e‖| ≤ ‖|ee‖|, where A and B are n×n Hermitian matrices. On the other hand, the inequalities of Weyl, Ky Fan, Golden-Thompson, Lenard-Thom...

How did post-socialist transition and a parallel shift in international labor division restructure regional innovation systems in Central and Eastern Europe? This question is increasingly important, because current EU innovation policy is combined with regional development in Smart Specialization Strategies; however, spatial trends of innovation in Central and Eastern Europe are not fully under...

BACKGROUND Studies examining trends in elderly suicide rates over time reported a decline, an increase and no change. A cross-national study was undertaken to examine the current status of trends over time in elderly suicide rates because previous cross-national studies were well over a decade old. METHODS Trends in suicide rates for males and females in the age-bands 65-74 years and 75+ year...

W hen the last tree on Easter Island was felled, the inhabitants belatedly realised that there was no escape from an eon of ‘‘groundhog days’’. Paediatrics, a discipline championed in the UK, faces a comparably monotonous future bereft of innovation and improvement. Levene and Olver present alarming data on staffing changes in UK academic paediatrics between 1999 and 2004. Most worrying is a 26...