A point-prevalence survey of five European university hospitals was performed to benchmark antimicrobial drug use in order to identify potential problem areas in prescribing practice and to aid in establishing appropriate and attainable goals. All inpatients at the university hospitals of Rijeka (Croatia), Tartu (Estonia), Riga (Latvia), Vilnius (Lithuania) and Karolinska-Huddinge (Sweden) were...

A multinational outbreak of salmonellosis linked to the Riga Cup 2015 junior ice-hockey competition was detected by the Finnish health authorities in mid-April and immediately notified at the European Union level. This prompted an international outbreak investigation supported by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. As of 8 May 2015, seven countries have reported 214 confirme...

Post-transfusion hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection worldwide is considered a sporadic event. An outbreak of HAV infection occurred in Latvia between the end of 2007 and throughout 2008 with more than 2,800 confirmed cases reported over a 13-month period (incidence of 123 per 100,000 population). The majority of reported HAV infection cases were in people over 18 years of age and in people livin...

Twitter has become a rich source for linguistic data. Here, a possibility of building a trilingual Latvian-Russian-English corpus of tweets from Riga, Latvia is investigated. Such a corpus, once constructed, might be of great use for multiple purposes including training machine translation models, examining cross-lingual phenomena and studying the population of Riga. This pilot study shows that...

Gunta Kunakova, Roman Viter, Simon Abay, Subhajit Biswas, Justin D. Holmes, Thilo Bauch, Floriana Lombardi, and Donats Erts Institute of Chemical Physics, University of Latvia, Raina Blvd. 19, LV-1586 Riga, Latvia Institute of Atomic Physics and Spectroscopy, University of Latvia, Raina Blvd. 19, LV-1586 Riga, Latvia Quantum Device Physics Laboratory, Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscien...

The paper presents the first record of the Ponto-Caspian amphipod crustacean Pontogammarus robustoides G.O. Sars, 1894, in the Gulf of Riga, Baltic Sea. Eight individuals of this invasive amphipod were found in June 2009, in shallow waters of the gulf near Yurmala city. Most likely this species entered the Gulf of Riga from Latvian rivers emptying into the Baltic Sea, where it was previously fo...

Book 10th BALTIC SEA SCIENCE CONGRESS Science and innovation for future of the Baltic and the European regional seas 15-19 June, 2015 Riga, Latvia

Claudio Hugo Fede, Juez del Juzgado de Primera Instancia en lo Civil y Comercial N° 7 Departamento Judicial Gral. San Martín, Poder la Provincia Buenos Aires. Abogado Universidad Aires (UBA). Especialista Problemáticas las Organizaciones Familiares (UNSAM). Investigador Derecho Católica Plata (UCALP). Ex Director carrera abogacía Facultad Ciencias Políticas La Revista Argentina Común. Co-Direct...