Soviet Views of SDI

Health world views of post-Soviet citizens.

The collapse of the Soviet Union has had an adverse impact on the lives of the peoples of Russia and Ukraine. This paper reports on qualitative case studies including interviews, focus groups and children's essays from Russia and Ukraine, on the topics of everyday understanding of health and the factors influencing it. The majority report poor health and difficult material circumstances. Their ...

Cost and Effectiveness: Preliminary Insights on Soviet Views

SDI: Solar Dome Instrument

The lack of reliable data for ground solar irradiance (direct normal and global irradiance) is a major obstacle for the development of adequate policies to promote and take advantage of existing solar technologies. Although the radiation that reaches the outer layers of the atmosphere is well defined and can be easily calculated, the solar irradiance that reaches the ground level where solar co...

Soviet Science

Ten years ago Dr. Belding brought out the first edition of this text and in the present volume follows the original plan of presenting "the protozoan, helminthic, and arthropod parasites of man, and the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of the diseases they produce." Although more material has been compressed into each page and thinner paper permits a convenient reduction in its thickness, t...

Sdi Qualification Using Tqm Concept

By analysis of performed spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) in developed countries, it is believed that one of the most important problems which obstacles the implementation of SDI’s objectives, is the lack of enough harmony in different parts. The solution given in management systems for more adaptability is using total quality management (TQM). In this paper, we compare SDI and TQM from adva...