S. BERTAINA, S. GAMBARELLI, A. TKACHUK, I. N. KURKIN, B. MALKIN, A. STEPANOV AND B. BARBARA* Institut Néel, Département Nanosciences, CNRS, 25 Ave. des Martyrs, BP166, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique, INP de Grenoble, Minatec 3 parvis Louis Néel, BP 257, 38016 Grenoble Cedex 9, France Laboratoire de Chimie Inorganique et Biologie (UMR-E 3 CEA-UJF), DRFMC, C...

I. Yu. Sklyadneva,1,2,3,4 R. Heid,1 K.-P. Bohnen,1 P. M. Echenique,2,5,6 and E. V. Chulkov2,5,6 1Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Institut für Festkörperphysik, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany 2Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), 20018 San Sebastián/Donostia, Basque Country, Spain 3Tomsk State University, 6340501, Tomsk, Russian Federation 4Institute of Strength Physics and Materials S...

Analysis of selection criteria on projects of Russian medical research centers for funding in Russian scientific fund and Federal program "Research and innovations" was done. It was noted that a high degree of uncertainty of such concepts as "priority direction", "applied" and "search" research and "industrial partner" in regards to research of biomedical theme. Analysis of classified "Medicine...

erators (RTGs) are deployed along the Russian Federation’s Arctic coast to power remote lighthouses and navigation beacons. Similar RTGs were also used as power sources in other remote locations in the Russian Federation and elsewhere in the former Soviet Union. All Russian RTG’s have out-lived their lifespan and are in need of decommissioning. Radioactive incidents involving such sources, such...

Libman, Alexander—Constitutions, regulations, and taxes: Contradictions of different aspects of decentralization The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, post-constitutional regulatory decentralization, and constitutional decentralization – using a single dataset from the Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a politically asymmetric country and ...

Ilya V. Kupchenko,† Alexander A. Moskovsky,†,‡ Alexander V. Nemukhin,†,‡ and Anatoly B. Kolomeisky*,§ Department of Chemistry, M. V. LomonosoV Moscow State UniVersity, Leninskie Gory 1/3, Moscow, 119991, Russia, N. M. Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Kosygina, 4, Moscow, 119994, Russian Federation, and Department of Chemistry, Rice UniVersity, Houston, ...

Robert S. Hoover, Viktor Tomilin, Lauren Hanson, Oleh Pochynyuk, and Benjamin Ko Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; Atlanta Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, Decatur, Georgia; Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas; Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences...

Since the first case of AIDS was identified in 1985, Russia has maintained a low HIVseroprevalence rate, currently at 0.05. However, there are signs of an emerging HIV/AIDS epidemic fueled by several factors. As of September 1999, a total of 19,105 HIV infections were registered, although the estimated number exceeds 50,000. The most recent trend in HIV/AIDS transmission is through injecting dr...

Failure to achieve high levels of immunity among children contributed to the epidemic of diphtheria that occurred in the Russian Federation during the 1990s. A major factor in this failure was the extensive list of contraindications to vaccination that was in use throughout the countries of the former Soviet Union. In 1980, the Ministry of Health (MOH) of the Soviet Union adopted an extensive l...

An abundance of the strangeness that can be induced in a thermalized quark–gluon plasma (QGP) is considered as a signal of the QGP phase appearing in the intermediate state of ultra–relativistic heavy–ion collisions. As a quantitative characteristic of this signal we take the ratio RK+K− = NK+/NK− of the multiplicities of the production of K ± mesons. This ratio is evaluated for a thermalized Q...