BACKGROUND To correctly interpret spirometric results, reference values should come from the same population. Current spirometric reference equations have been under scrutiny due to deficiencies to fit adequately for Chilean population, specially, for those aged over 65 years old. AIM To develop new spirometric reference values for Chilean adults, based on national studies in which spirometri...

BACKGROUND Vitamin K antagonists are drugs that are widely prescribed around the world and their use has helped improve the prognosis of patients with thromboembolic disease. However, a high interindividual variability has been observed in dosage requirements to reach the desired anticoagulation range that could be due to environmental and genetic factors. Studies suggest that ethnicity influen...

The article is devoted to the analysis of synergistic points potential cluster integration Ukrainian and European enterprises. advantages interaction in process production dual purpose products are presented. dependence socio-economic legal processes on contradiction society established. Factors competitiveness, regional global effects innovative technologies determined. Support platforms for p...

The architecture and prototype implementation of the Model Environment system G. Donchyts, D. Treebushny, A. Primachenko, N. Shlyahtun, and M. Zheleznyak Ukrainian Center of Environmental and Water Projects, Kiev, Ukraine now at: WL/Delft Hydraulics, Delft, The Netherlands Received: 16 October 2006 – Accepted: 16 November 2006 – Published: 18 January 2007 Correspondence to: G. Donchyts (gennadi...

A. Yu. Nikitin,1,2,* F. López-Tejeira,1 and L. Martín-Moreno1,† 1Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada-ICMA, Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain 2Theoretical Physics Department, A. Ya. Usikov Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 12 Acad. Proskura Str., 61085 Kharkov, Ukraine Received 9 September 2006; revised manuscript received 9 Nov...

We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe of initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four economies. Controlling for firm and industry-year fixed effects and employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we estimate that majority privatization raises MFP about 28% in Romania, 22% in Hungary, and 3% in Ukrain...

competition is against monopoly and intellectual property creates monopoly for intellectual property owner. this article had been paid cooperation between apparently contradictory policies. exhaustion, parallel imports, compulsory license, intellectual property exploitation contract that coincide with competition are methods of cooperation between intellectual property and competition law. comp...