Small & Medium Enterprise Assessment in Czech Republic & Russia Using Marketing Analytics Methodology

Depressive symptoms in urban population samples in Russia, Poland and the Czech Republic.

BACKGROUND Relatively little is known about depression in countries that were formerly part of the Soviet Union, especially Russia. AIMS To investigate the rates and distribution of depressive symptoms in urban population samples in Russia, Poland and the Czech Republic. METHOD A cross-sectional study was conducted in randomly selected men and women aged 45-64 years (n=2151 in total, respon...

Investment Privatization Funds, Banks and Corporate Governance in the Czech Republic and Russia

Enterprise Architecture for Small and Medium Enterprise Growth

A key constraint for growing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is the business skills required to grow the enterprises through the stages of transformation. Criticism against growth stage models for SMEs is of concern, since these models contain the typical knowledge that appeals to managers of small enterprises as guidance in how to manage growth. In this article we propose the SMEAG model t...

Hantaviruses in the Czech Republic

Chlamydiae, and plant plastids, and uses a specific DNA probe. We considerably decreased the risk of horizontal and vertical contamination of the PCR reaction by using uracil and uracil-N-glycosylase and by keeping reaction cups closed since the first amplification cycle. More importantly, our study showed that Parachlamydia DNA is rarely found in bronchoalveolar lavage samples (0.083%). This s...

Genomics in the Czech Republic

The Functional Genomics and Disease 2003 conference was held at the Hilton Hotel in Prague, the beautiful capital of the Czech Republic, on 14–17 May 2003. This conference provided an ideal forum for European specialists to converge in the geographical centre of Europe to discuss the progress made in, and future prospects for, the important field of genomics in disease, and presented an opportu...