The paper considers board practices in the Ukraine and developed countries such as the USA, the UK, Germany and Japan. Investigation on the board practices in the Ukraine is the first ever has been conducted. As a result of investigation undertaken, major conclusions have been made. The most important of them is that the German model is getting spread in the Ukraine from year to year. Major evi...

A. V. Parafilo,1,* I. V. Krive,1,2,3 E. N. Bogachek,4 U. Landman,4 R. I. Shekhter,2 and M. Jonson2,5,6 1B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 47 Lenin Avenue, Kharkov 61103, Ukraine 2Department of Physics, University of Gothenburg, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden 3Physics Department, V. N. Karazin National University, Kharkov ...

Ukraine became independent in 1991 and formally abandoned central planning. But the development of market methods of input supply and product distribution was impeded by continuing price distortions and the survival of various methods of administrative commodity allocation from the central planning period. This paper outlines the background environment of central planning in Ukraine, reviews th...

1 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Žilina, Univerzitná 8215/1, 01026 Žilina, Slovakia 2 Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Tereshchenkovskaya Str. 3, 01601 Kyiv, Ukraine 3 Department of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Veveřı́ 331/95, 60200 Brno, Czech Republic 4 Departme...

Volodymyr P. Kravchuk, 2, ∗ Denis D. Sheka, Attila Kákay, Oleksii M. Volkov, Ulrich K. Rößler, Jeroen van den Brink, 5 Denys Makarov, and Yuri Gaididei Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 03680 Kyiv, Ukraine Leibniz-Institut für Festkörperund Werkstoffforschung, IFW Dresden, D-01171 Dresden, Germany Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyi...

Organic (ecological, biological) agriculture in Ukraine, though having a great potential, is at present only at the initial stage. This early development of organic farming in Ukraine is distorted by the current dominant focus on export production of organic grain on large-scale farms, while the conversion of small and middle-sized farms and production of other crops remains a subordinate activ...

This article focuses on the analysis of public opinions of the Ukrainian people on the nature, character, and characteristics of the citizens’ political activism during the Orange Revolution. The author analyzes data from the annual nationwide representative survey, conducted by the Institute of Sociology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in February–March 2005. The time lag allows for t...

for wall motion Samrat Choudhury, Yulan Li, Nozomi Odagawa, Aravind Vasudevarao, L. Tian, Pavel Capek, Volkmar Dierolf, Anna N. Morozovska, Eugene A. Eliseev, Sergei Kalinin, Yasuo Cho, Long-qing Chen, and Venkatraman Gopalan Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku Universit...

Ukraine has substantial reserves of methane resident in underground coal seams and surrounding rock strata that, if captured, would constitute a valuable energy resource. During 2002, Ukraine consumed 78 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas and produced domestically only 18 bcm. Ukraine receives approximately 30 bcm per year as a transit fee for the use of their pipeline system to transpor...

Background: The Slavic countries of the former Soviet Union (fSU) Russia, Belarus and Ukraine retain one of the highest suicide rates in the world, despite a gradual decline over the past decade. Aims: The present study aims to analyze whether population drinking is able to explain the dramatic fluctuations in suicide mortality in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine from the late Soviet to post-Soviet ...