Uzbekistan is endemic of cystic echinococcosis (CE). In order to estimate endemicity of CE, we collected data from emergency surgery due to CE in 2002-2010 and also investigated the prevalence of hydatid cysts in the liver and lungs of sheep at an abattoir in Uzbekistan from July 2009 to June 2010. In 14 emergency hospitals, 8,014 patients received surgical removal or drainage of CE during 2002...

Medicinal plants are a reservoir of biologically active compounds with therapeutic properties that over time have been discovered and used by diverse groups of people for treatment of various ailments. In this regard, Uzbekistan has an excellent historic research base of herbal medicines with about 70% of Uzbek households using medicinal plants to meet their health needs for several centuries. ...

CONTEXT Because individuals' and couples' needs vary, the availability of a variety of contraceptive choices is a key component of successful family planning programs. Most women in Uzbekistan rely on a single contraceptive method (the IUD), but it is unclear whether this reflects constraints on choice or simply a widespread preference. METHODS Nationally representative data from the 1996 Uzb...

Let M be a type I von Neumann algebra with the center Z and a faithful normal semi-finite trace τ. Let L(M, τ) be the algebra of all τ -measurable operators affiliated with M. We prove that any Z-linear derivation on L(M, τ) is inner and hence automatically continuous in the measure topology. If the lattice of projections from Z is atomic then any derivation on L(M, τ) is Z-linear. This implies...

The few known palatographic studies on Estonian consonants date back to the 1970s, and no research in articulatory phonetics has been practised throughout the following four decades. Recently, the Estonian EPG corpus was recorded using a contemporary EPG system. In the paper we introduce first results on contemporary palatography patterns of Estonian sonorants and compare these to results from ...

The idea of healthcare quality improvement (QI) and disseminating evidence-based practice has been attractive for local health policy makers in Uzbekistan since the early 2000s. One aspect in need of discussion is the degree to which the country's healthcare system is open for the proposed QI activities. Funding of health care resulted in building and equipping rural primary care practices, tra...

After independence in 1991, Uzbekistan became the master of its own way of economic and social development and had the task to construct a democratic state and open civil society, a socially-oriented market economy. All this entailed a radical reform of the education system in Uzbekistan. Education had to be reoriented towards meeting the common national interest and ensuring competitiveness in...

Let M be a type I von Neumann algebra with the center Z, a faithful normal semi-finite trace τ. Let L(M, τ) be the algebra of all τ -measurable operators affiliated with M and let S0(M, τ) be the subalgebra in L(M, τ) consisting of all operators x such that given any ε > 0 there is a projection p ∈ P(M) with τ(p) < ∞, xp ∈ M and ‖xp‖ < ε. We prove that any Z-linear derivation of S0(M, τ) is spa...