The term “Eastern Europe” defined in a number of manners and depends on perspective and personal definition. There exists conflicting views over which countries are listed under Central Europe and which are in Eastern Europe. For example, the United Nations clearly defined Eastern Europe that includes following countries: Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Moldova, Romania, Rus...

The paper presents the published results regarding the radon concentrations in indoor air in Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Slovak Republic, Ukraine and Yugoslavia from Carpathian Basin. The study is based on the materials of the International Nuclear Information System (INIS) on a 10 year period (1986 1997). It is completed with the results of the papers published in the Conferences volu...

G. G. Kiss,1,* P. Mohr,2 Zs. Fülöp,1 D. Galaviz,3,† Gy. Gyürky,1 Z. Elekes,1 E. Somorjai,1 A. Kretschmer,4 K. Sonnabend,4 A. Zilges,5 and M. Avrigeanu6 1Institute of Nuclear Research (ATOMKI), H-4001 Debrecen, Hungary 2Diakonie-Klinikum, D-74523 Schwäbisch Hall, Germany 3Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, CSIC, E-28006 Madrid, Spain 4Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt...

Background Even though access to essential medicines is a human right, inequalities in access resulting in differences in medicine use between socioeconomic groups are known from several countries world-wide. However, the socioeconomic determinants of medicine use in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) have not yet been explored. For a sample of eight countries (Bulgaria, Czech Repub...

1 Computer and Automation Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences Kende utca 13–17, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary E-mail: {csuhaj, vaszil}@sztaki.hu 2 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Salerno 84081 Baronissi, Salerno, Italy E-mail: [email protected] 3 Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy PO Box 1-764, 014700 Bucureşti, Romania E-mail: [email protected] 4 Rese...

This paper presents bone evidence for various pathological lesions occurring in domestic hen (Gallus domesticus L.), the first domesticated bird. They include healed fractures of a small grade exacerbated by dislocations, inflammations manifested in joints, osteopetrosis, cervical hernia and rickets. All but one of the illustrated specimens originate from archaeological assemblages found on the...

BACKGROUND While Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic have seen impressive gains in life expectancy in the 1990s, Romania has not. In contrast with the other countries, there has been very little research on the causes of the pattern of mortality seen in Romania. OBJECTIVES To describe the trends in life expectancy at birth in Romania after the political transition in 1989 and to evaluate ...

IARC, Lyon, France; Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Uomo e dell’Ambiente, Universita’ di Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Institute of Hygiene, Public Health, Health Services and Management, Bucharest, Romania; Institute of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Research Center, Moscow, Russia; Department of Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland; National Institute of Env...

John L. Maron*, Lauren P. Waller, Min A. Hahn, Alecu Diaconu, Robert W. Pal, Heinz M€ uller-Sch€ arer, John N. Klironomos and Ragan M. Callaway Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA; Department of Biology, Unit of Ecology and Evolution, University of Fribourg, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland; Branch Institute of Biological Research, Ecology and Biological...

Lineage 2 West Nile virus (WNV), previously found only in sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar, was identified in Hungary in 2004 and has rapidly expanded in Europe in the past decade. Following a significant outbreak of West Nile fever with neurological cases caused by lineage 1 WNV in Romania in 1996, scattered cases have been recorded in the south-east of the country in each transmission season...