USAID/Armenia one year ago responded positively to a UNDP request that we participate financially in a COAF (Children of Armenia Fund) initiative to develop the town of Karakert, in Armavir marz. The approach that COAF proposed and implemented was a form of “integrated rural development” (IRD). This COAF-led, multi-donor program celebrated its first anniversary in the fall of 2005, and COAF is ...

The Ising spin S model on recursive p polygonal structures in the external magnetic field is considered and the general form of the free energy and magnetization for arbitrary spin is derived. The exact relation between the free energies on infinite entire tree and on its infinite ”interior” is obtained. e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Permanent address: Ye...

Recent history of the health care system The health care system was highly centralized in line with the Semashko model of the Soviet Union. The entire population had access to a comprehensive range of medical services free at the point of access. Following independence, devastating economic and sociopolitical problems forced a radical reform programme which introduced out-of-pocket payments for...

Armenia as a developing country has a very severe need to integrate and collaborate with the international Geospatial community in order to build a reliable and efficient geospatial infrastructure. Moreover, the availability of such an infrastructure could foster the availability of geospatial data, could facilitate the development of a data sharing policy at national level, and could help to e...

А new species and a new subspecies of Satyrium Scudder, 1876 (subfamily Theclinae, tribe Eumaeini) from the subgenera Superflua Strand, 1910 and Armenia Dubatolov & Korshunov, 1984 respectively are described from Bamyan Province, Central Afghanistan-S. (S.) skrylniki sp. n. and S. (A.) hyrcanica bamiana ssp. n. The new species of Superflua belongs to the Iranian complex of species. It inhabits ...

The boundaries, reach and regional importance of Armenia have ebbed and flowed over the centuries, but the current borders were drawn by Soviet cartographers and have never been fully accepted. The most significant example of the difficulties caused by the given borders is the conflict with neighbouring Azerbaijan over the territory of Nagorny Karabakh. As a consequence of the Nagorny Karabakh ...

In Armenia, Nymphaea alba only occurs in a small area NW of Stepanavan. It is restricted to small lakes with a minimum depth of c. 2–3 m because in shallower lakes it may be out-competed by Typha or Schoenoplectus species.

BACKGROUND Out-of-hospital emergency care is at an early stage of development in Armenia, with the current emergency medical services (EMS) system having emergency physicians (EPs) work on ambulances along with nurses. While efforts are underway by the Ministry of Health and other organizations to reform the EMS system, little data exists on the status of pediatric emergency care (PEC) in the c...

The economy has maintained a strong momentum, driven by robust consumption and surge in inflows of income, capital, business, labor. Inflation increased markedly due to the sharp rise food energy prices booming economy, but proactive monetary policy tightening GDP growth deceleration are projected bring inflation down 2023. While should continue over medium-term, uncertainty is elevated downsid...