Transition of the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) to functioning market economies creates new investment opportunities. A decade ago capital markets were almost absent in all CEE countries but they are developing rapidly. At the end of the 1990s institutional investors from Western countries are present in the equity and bond markets of the largest CEE economies. ...

INTRODUCTION Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) constitutes a major health challenge in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. However, clinical phenotypes, symptom load, and treatment habits of patients with COPD in CEE countries remain largely unknown. This paper provides a rationale for phenotyping COPD and describes the methodology of a large study in CEE. METHODS/DESIGN ...

OBJECTIVE To compare micronutrient intakes and status in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) with those in other European countries and with reference values. DESIGN Review of the micronutrient intake/status data from open access and grey literature sources from CEE. SETTING Micronutrients studied were folate, iodine, Fe, vitamin B12 and Zn (for intake and status) and Ca, Cu, Se, vitamin C and...

OBJECTIVES Clinical trials have demonstrated that oral conjugated equine estrogen (CEE) therapy with or without medroxyprogesterone (MPA) increases venous thrombotic risk but this safety issue has not been investigated for other oral estrogens. Based on observational study findings that esterified estrogen (EE) was not associated with venous thrombotic risk whereas CEE was, we hypothesized that...

The contributions of this research are making the theoretical analysis impact mechanism urbanisation on carbon emissions efficiency (CEE), and then empirically analysing effects CEE in Western China from 2010 to 2019 by applying super-efficiency epsilon-based measure model with undesirable outputs Tobit model. Major findings are: (1) mean 11 western provinces show a trend declining increasing o...

This paper describes the Collective Experience Engine (CEE), a system for indexing ExperientialKnowledge about Web knowledge-sources (websites), and performing relative-experience calculations between participants of the CEE. The CEE provides an in-browser interface to query the collective experience of others participating in the CEE. This interface accepts a list of URLs, to which the CEE add...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To evaluate an equation that estimates resting energy expenditure from two easily obtained measurements--expired carbon dioxide and minute ventilation, and compare the results of this equation with standard methods of estimating and measuring caloric expenditure in mechanically ventilated patients. DESIGN Prospective evaluation in a consecutive, unselected cohort. SETTING Me...

Since the mid-1990s, investigational sites in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have been increasingly utilized by pharmaceutical companies because of their high productivity in terms of patient enrolment into clinical trials. Based on the FDA's publicly accessible Clinical Investigator Inspection List, we present an analysis of findings and outcome classifications from FDA insp...

The crosslink enhanced emission (CEE) in a new type of non-conjugated polymer dots (PDs) is proved. The enhanced PL originates from the decreased vibration and rotation of amino-based chromophores. Furthermore, the cellular uptake mechanism and internalization of PDs were investigated in detail.