AIM To investigate the HCV genotype distribution in Romania in the first national study, to establish the correlations with epidemiological, biochemical, virological and histological features and to compare our results with those from neighboring countries. PATIENTS AND METHODS Two distinct groups of patients and two methods were used: 153 patients in the frame of ACHIEVE study with genotypin...

Introduction A dam at the Aurul smelter of the Baia Mare goldmine at Sasar, Romania, broke on 30 January 2000 at around 20:00 GMT. This caused cyanide compounds to enter the Lapus river, a tributary of the Somes (Szamos) river, and from there enter the Tisza, one of Hungary’s largest rivers, and the Danube upstream of Belgrade, and finally the Black Sea. The resulting acute transboundary pollut...

BACKGROUND Out-of-pocket payments for health services constitute a major financial burden for patients in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. Individuals who are unable to pay use different coping strategies (e.g. borrowing money or foregoing service utilization), which can have negative consequences on their health and social welfare. This article explores patients' inability to pay ...

We collect data on 15 reasons why people in the 27 EU countries engage in physical activity, from the European Commission's Special Eurobarometer. A graphical output was obtained using classical Principal Component Analysis techniques in order to analyse types of motivation in the EU. Cluster Analysis method were used to define the interrelationship between the data in the 27 countries. People ...

The countries of central Europe, including Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria, suffer from environmental and occupational health problems created during the political system in place until the late 1980s. This situation is reflected by data on workplace exposure to hazardous agents. Such data have been systematically collected in Skovakia and the Czech Republic...

Purpose: This paper studies the development of research in computer science in 15 Eastern European countries following the breaching of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Design/methodology/approach: We conducted a bibliometric analysis of 82,121 computer science publications indexed in the Web of Science database and investigated publication, citation, and collaboration patterns of the individual countr...

Faculty 2005: C. ALLEGRA (Rome, Italy); G. M. ANDREOZZI (Padua, Italy); P. L. ANTIGNANI (Rome, Italy); E. AROSIO (Verona, Italy); G. BREVETTI (Naples, Italy); M. COSPITE (Palermo, Italy); R. DEL GUERCIO (Naples, Italy); G. P. DERIU (Padua, Italy); C. DZSINICH (Budapest, Hungary); E. HUSSEIN (Cairo, Egypt); J. FERNANDES E FERNANDES (Lisboa, Portugal); S. FORCONI (Siena, Italy); R. MARTINI (Padua...

Mortality rates from kidney cancer increased throughout Europe up until the late 1980s or early 1990s. Trends in western European countries, the European Union (EU) and selected central and eastern European countries have been updated using official death certification data for kidney cancer abstracted from the World Health Organisation (WHO) database over the period 1980-1999. In EU men, death...

The fi nal product of a post-volcanic activity is the exhalation of a low-temperature (<100°C) deep origin mofette gas, which contains mostly carbon dioxide. Examples of mofettes are the Torjai-Büdös cave in Transylvania, Romania [1] or the CO2 seepage in Mátraderecske, Hungary [2]. The term ‘mofette’ derives from the Latin word ‘mephitis,’ which means smelly exhalation [3]. Along its path to t...

The paper surveys the price competitiveness of agricultural production in Central and East European Countries (CEECs). It draws together empirical work conducted by the authors and other studies that have estimated domestic resource cost (DRC) ratios for agriculture in various CEECs. The paper identifies that in general CEEC crop production is more internationally competitive than livestock far...