Four plastid and two nuclear (internal transcribed spacer [ITS] ribosomal DNA) markers were used in this study of the Dactylorhiza maculata and D. incarnata complexes (Orchidaceae: Orchidinae) to determine diversity and taxonomic distribution of haplotypes, hybridization frequencies, and maternal parentage of hybrids in 125 samples from 78 populations from European Russia and the Caucasus. A mo...

All opinions expressed here are those of the authors and not those of the Economics Education and Research Consortium Research dissemination by the EERC may include views on policy, but the EERC itself takes no institutional policy positions Though Russia is very rich in natural resources, the share of natural resource rental payments in budget revenues is very low, less than 4% of the consolid...

In this paper I construct an occupational status scale for postSoviet Russia using data from the ISSP for 1992–2006 and Goodman’s RC type II model. The resulting scale is similar to the scales previously constructed for Western countries. The status scales for Russia and the United States were formally compared, with only minor differences found. In both countries non-manual occupations rank hi...

BACKGROUND Life expectancy at birth in Russia is over 12 years less than in western Europe. This study explores the possible role of medical care in explaining this gap by examining the evolving pattern of mortality amenable to timely and effective medical care in Russia compared with Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, and the UK. METHODS Analysis of standardized death rates from causes amenable...

In the second half of the 1990s, Islamist terrorism emerged as a serious security threat to both Europe and Russia. For Europe, in contrast to the United States, Islamist terrorism became an increasingly domestic threat, stemming from cells formed primarily by Muslim firstand second-generation migrants. In Russia, the radicalization of an internal armed conflict in the North Caucasus was the ma...

YURI M. MARUSIK, MIKHAIL M. OMELKO & SURESH P. BENJAMIN 1 Institute for Biological Problems of the North, RAS, Portovaya Str. 18, Magadan 685000, Russia. E-mail: [email protected] 2 Zoological Museum, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland 3 Gornotaezhnaya Station FEB RAS, Gornotaezhnoe Vil., Ussuriyski Dist., Primorski krai 692533, Russia. E-mail: [email protected] 4 Far Eastern Federal Uni...

An analytical proof of the existence of negative modes in the odd–parity perturbation sector is given for all known non-Abelian Einstein–Yang–Mills black holes. The significance of the normalizability condition in the functional stability analysis is emphasized. The role of the odd–parity negative modes in the sphaleron interpretation of the Bartnik–McKinnon solutions is discussed. On leave fro...

V. Yu. Bychenkov1, *, Y. Sentoku2, S. V. Bulanov3, K. Mima2, G. Mourou4, and S. V. Tolokonnikov5 1 Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiœ pr. 53, Moscow, 119991 Russia *e-mail: [email protected] 2 Institute of Laser Engineering, University of Osaka, 565-0871 Osaka, Japan 3 Institute of General Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Vavilova 38, Moscow, 119991...

M. P. Barkley, P. S. Monks, A. J. Hewitt, T. Machida, A. Desai, N. Vinnichenko5,†, T. Nakazawa, M. Yu Arshinov, N. Fedoseev, and T. Watai EOS, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, UK Department of Chemistry, University of Leicester, UK National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA Central Ae...

S. V. Eremeev,1,2,3 T. V. Menshchikova,2 I. V. Silkin,2 M. G. Vergniory,4 P. M. Echenique,4,5 and E. V. Chulkov2,3,4,5 1Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science, 634021, Tomsk, Russia 2Tomsk State University, 634050 Tomsk, Russia 3Saint Petersburg State University, 198504 Saint Petersburg, Russia 4Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), 20018 San Sebastián/Donostia, Basque Coun...