The Black Sea region is one of the most complex regions in terms energy development. It hosts several major powers and some developing countries that need to cut costs. In general, controversial. influenced by external actors, therefore regional stability very difficult achieve. addition, institutional players such as EU, Belt Road Initiative, Trade Development Bank, etc., have their own vision...

Mechanisms implied in tissues response to the oxygen partial pressure remain poorly understood as well as the role of hypoxia in developmental processes. However, the activation of transcription factors such as FoxO and HIF and the recruitment of signalling pathways including Calcineurin, PI3K, p38-MAPK and mTOR are known to be involved in hypoxia responses. Currently, little information is kno...

This study investigates the relationship between globalization and income inequality by developing a new globalization index based on economic growth. In addition two other indices of globalization, non-parametric Kearney and parametric principal component analysis are used as benchmarks to compare the results. The proposed new index is decomposed into four sub components. The index is also est...

Low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) viruses are a source of sporadic human infections and could also contribute to future pandemic outbreaks but little is known about inter-species differences in the host responses to these viruses. Here, we studied host gene expression signatures of cell lines from three species (human, chicken, and canine) in response to six different viruses (H1N1/WSN, H5N...

Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form “nationhood,” igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has been firm and ethnic and national identities have been deviating more and more. In this paper, we seek to investigate the nature, role and relationshi...

BACKGROUND The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is proposing that hospitals measure culture beginning in 2007. However, a reliable and widely used measurement tool for the operating room (OR) setting does not currently exist. METHODS OR personnel in 60 US hospitals were surveyed using the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire. The teamwork climate domain of the survey us...

Mechanisms implied in tissues response to the oxygen partial pressure remain poorly understood as well as the role of hypoxia in developmental processes. However, the activation of transcription factors such as FoxO and HIF and the recruitment of signalling pathways including Calcineurin, PI3K, p38-MAPK and mTOR are known to be involved in hypoxia responses. Currently, little information is kno...

UNLABELLED AIM : The aim of the research is the analysis of psychiatric consultations conducted in the multi-disciplinary hospital, establishing the cause of the consultations according to ICD-10 and the analysis of psychiatric consultations regarding their number on particular wards. METHODS Retrospective analysis of medical documentation concerning given consultations in the multidisciplina...

D-serine is a well-known activator of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors; however, little is known about the teratogenic effects of D-serine overdose during early embryonic development. Here, we used zebrafish as a model to test toxicity and teratogenicity, since they have transparent eggs, making the organogenesis of zebrafish embryos easier to be observed. After D-serine injection (100-1000 ppm),...