OBJECTIVE To investigate the comparative effect of social, economic, health and environmental characteristics on the nutritional status of children aged <3 years in Central Asia. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis using data from Demographic and Health Surveys. SETTING Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. SUBJECTS Information on demographic health was gathered by Macro International Inc., ...

BACKGROUND There has been no previous study into the state of emergency medicine in Azerbaijan. As a legacy of the Soviet Semashko system, the "specialty" model of emergency medicine and integrated emergency departments do not exist here. Instead, pre-hospital emergency care is delivered by ambulance physicians and in-hospital care by individual departments, often in specialty hospitals. Emerge...

The Azerbaijan Republic considered being primary or secondary center of origin, domestication and diversity of many indigenous varieties of folk selection of fruit crops and their crop wild relatives (CWRs). The wild relatives of major fruits and nuts like grapevine, apple, pear, quince, medlar, pomegranate, fig, cherry, apricot, almond, hazelnut, walnut, chestnut, pistachio and others are pres...

Abstract In the transition to democracy some autocracies transformed republics while others evolved constitutional monarchies. The paper inquires how monarchy is established. It models a hereditary king and liberal challenger who coexist over succession of periods fight for power which brings office rents right decide one’s preferred policy. outcome confrontation uncertain may vary from period ...

The research is aimed at identifying the institutionalization of ethnic component in regional brands Russian national republics. Ethnic or ethno-regional are considered as an element ethnicity, a way marking borders accordance with "us vs. them” dynamic. To identify patterns branding policy republics, media monitoring used through Medialogy system. latter helps to determine directions implement...

OBJECTIVES As beliefs and knowledge about the possible effects of foods on health can influence food behaviours, this study examined selected dietary beliefs in the Baltic countries and the association of beliefs related to salt intake and to types of fat with food behaviours. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SETTING Data from three surveys conducted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the s...

The borderline of Iran with Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey had been considered a malaria free region. However, in 1991, after the independence of the southern countries of the former Soviet Union, a new threat of malaria importation emerged from those countries into Iran, which was affected by serious epidemics of Plasmodium vivax malaria. Various factors can affect malaria resurgence in this r...

This paper investigates the parallels between foreign policy aspirations of Arab states and their national anthems by making content analysis lyrics. The lyrics anthems, as poetic declarations feelings raison d’état independent states, present important clues about interest conceptualization orientation. After Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Morocco Jordan, this finds out that republics inclu...