Agrilus planipennis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) is the most serious invasive pest of ash trees (Fraxinus spp., Oleaceae) in world. It has not yet reached range olive tree plantations, however it been shown to complete its life cycle this host tree. This native East Asia was first found Europe Moscow 2003 and spreading ever since. The aims study were determine if southern border already Caucasus a...

While in other parts of the world it is on decline, incidence of HIV infection continues to rise in the former Soviet Union (FSU) countries. The present study was conducted to investigate the patterns and modes of HIV transmission in FSU countries. We performed phylogenetic analysis of publicly available 2705 HIV-1 subtype A pol sequences from thirteen FSU countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belaru...

We propose a Wigner quasiprobability distribution function for Hamiltonian systems in spaces of constant curvature —in this paper on hyperboloids—, which returns the correct marginals and has the covariance of the Shapiro functions under SO(D, 1) transformations. To the free systems obeying the Laplace-Beltrami equation on the hyperboloid, we add a conic-oscillator potential in the hyperbolic c...

Color Transparency and Color Opacity in Coherent Production of Vector Mesons off Light Nuclei at small x L. Frankfurt, V. Guzey, W. Koepf, M. Sargsian, M. Strikman (a) Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (b) Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA (c) Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA (d) S.Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russia (e) Yerevan Physics Institute, Yere...

Transcaucasia is a politically complicated region. Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia have different foreign policy vectors, strategies, relations with the United States. This paper provides detailed analysis of main political processes in during presidency Donald Trump. The research focused primarily on development bilateral States countries three directions: military cooperation, economic relat...

OBJECTIVES We sought to provide comparative data on smoking habits in countries of the former Soviet Union. METHODS We conducted cross-sectional surveys in 8 former Soviet countries with representative national samples of the population 18 years or older. RESULTS Smoking rates varied among men, from 43.3% to 65.3% among the countries examined. Results showed that smoking among women remains...

The development of microgeneration plays an important part in the strategy decarbonization world economy. However, its diffusion faces different barriers, including information and technical barriers on side end-user. This paper contributes to literature by providing a comparative cross-country analysis role corporate sector installation servicing PV solar panels small wind turbines Republic Ar...

As of 1996, 48 nuclear power reactors were operating in five newly independent states (NIS) of the former Soviet Union: 29 units at nine sites in Russia, 15 units at five sites in Ukraine, a double unit plant in Lithuania, and one unit each in Armenia and Kazakstan. These nuclear power facilities need to be reliably protected against possible radiological sabotage or terrorism. The post-Soviet ...

The article analyzes the effect of creating a single EAEU labor market on financial well-being households in countries that mainly send migrants, exemplified by Republic Armenia. Based data Integrated Living Conditions Survey (ILCS) 2012-2017 and using difference-in-differences method, study has identified significant causal relationship between country’s accession to reduced income gap with mi...