BACKGROUND Knowledge mobilization (KM) has been described as putting research in the hands of research users. Network analysis is an empirical approach that has potential for examining the complex process of knowledge mobilization within community-based organizations (CBOs). Yet, conducting a network analysis in a CBO presents challenges. PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate th...

The Russian Blue cat breed is thought to trace its origin to the Russian port of Arkhangelsk on the White Sea from cats brought to England and other parts of Europe by sailors. Russian Blue cats are characterized by their short, dense silver-tipped blue fur, blue nose and paw pads, and vivid emerald-green eyes. Establishment of breed status dates to early 1900’s which makes the Russian Blue an ...

OBJECTIVES Obesity and a reduced physical activity are global developments. Physical activity affects the external skeletal robustness which decreased in German children. It was assumed that the negative trend of decreased external skeletal robustness can be found in other countries. Therefore anthropometric data of Russian and German children from the years 2000 and 2010 were compared. METHO...

BACKGROUND Cultivated ginseng is often introduced as a substitute and adulterant of Russian wild ginseng due to its lower cost or misidentification caused by similarity in appearance with wild ginseng. The aim of this study is to develop a simple and reliable method to differentiate Russian wild ginseng from cultivated ginseng. METHODS The mitochondrial NADH dehydrogenase subunit 7 (nad7) int...

introduction:the prevalence of atopic diseases has increased in recent decades dramatically. the most common aeroallergens in northeastern iran have not been fully defined. define the most common aeroallergens in allergic patients based on the skin prick test (spt) was aimed in this investigation.materials and methods:this cross-sectional study enrolled 1,006 allergic patients (aged 1–86 years)...

We describe the LIA machine translation systems for the Russian-English and English-Russian translation tasks. Various factored translation systems were built using MOSES to take into account the morphological complexity of Russian and we experimented with the romanization of untranslated Russian words.

This paper studies the dynamic relationship between returns in the Russian stock market and global equity markets in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian crisis. We apply dynamic the Russian and global equity returns after the crisis outbreak. The Russian stock market clearly decoupled from both de veloped and emerging markets, as shown by a 30–50% decline in returns correlation. In view of dram...

The aim of the paper is to report on the perception of Estonian vowel categories by L2 learners of Estonian whose L1 is Russian. The Estonian vowel system includes nine vowels whereas Russian has six. Five of the Estonian vowels have counterparts in Russian: /i/, /e/, /u/, /o/ and /a/, the new vowel categories for L2 speakers are /ü/, /ö/, /ä/, and partly /õ/. For the perceptual experiments fou...

Social networks have a huge potential for the reflection of public opinion, values, and attitudes. In this study, presented approach can allow to continuously measure how cold “the demographic temperature” is based on data taken from Russian social network VKontakte. This first attempt analyze sentiment Russian-language comments determine temperature (ratio positive negative comments) in certai...