Data concerning the determinants of sputum eosinophilia and bronchial hyper-responsiveness (BHR) in large cohorts of individuals with normal lung function are limited. Here, we assessed the occurrence of sputum eosinophilia and BHR and identified the risk factors for these variables in two populations living in North Karelia, Finland, and in Pitkäranta, the Republic of Karelia, Russia. These ar...

Framing the ‘conservative turn’ in Russia as a ‘culture war’ casts ordinary Russians an amorphous reactionary mass, willingly following political entrepreneurs’ cues of intolerance. This essay rejects that interpretation and seeks to restore agency Russians. Based on ethnographic encounters discussing homophobia heteronormative gender family attitudes, argues vernacular social conservatism re-a...

this paper analyzes the history of russian settlements in the northern provinces of iran in the early 20th century. these settlements developed in what was defined as the russian sphere of influence by the anglo-russian convention of 1907 and, unlike in the caucasus of central asia, preceded a military conquest. russian colonization in iran started as a spontaneous peasant migration in 1907 and...

Solving a dense linear system of boolean equations is the final step of several cryptanalytic attacks. Examples include stream cipher cryptanalysis via XL and related algorithms, integer factorization, and attacks on the HFE public-key cryptosystem. While both Gaussian Elimination and Strassen’s Algorithm have been proposed as methods, this paper specifies an algorithm that is much faster than ...

of the report This report on the Russian democratic prospect in the contexte of civilization strugglespresents the cultural factors of the regime transformation in that country. It is generallyestimated that the democracy in Russia will fail, because there are too many obstacles to it. Tothem belong, first of all, the perplexity of many the Russians, being in an awkward position...