Women comprise 73 percent of all dentists in Bulgaria. Almost all of them started their careers as salaried, and now they are self-employed. The purpose of this study was to show how female dentists in Bulgaria met the challenges of the social and health reforms during the period of transition from totalitarian to democratic rule. A field sociological survey was carried out between October 1996...

The present checklist includes data on the species composition, geographic distribution and feeding preferences of thrips species in Bulgaria. In total, 155 species in 48 genera are listed. Of these, 125 species belong to suborder Terebrantia and include 103 species of 33 genera in family Thripidae, 14 species of two genera in Aeolothripidae, seven species of two genera in Melanthripidae and on...

Two Pseudomonas aeruginosa urine isolates from Bulgaria and Germany produced two new VIM-2 variants. VIM-15 had one amino acid substitution (Tyr218Phe) which caused a significant increase in hydrolytic efficiency. The substitution Ser54Leu, characterizing VIM-16, showed no influence on enzyme activity. Both genes were part of class I integrons located in the chromosome.

BACKGROUND The University of Sofia, Bulgaria, disseminates local biomedical literature (1994 to present) through a free online database, ABS. OBJECTIVES Our objectives were to systematically search ABS, identify citations to controlled trials and discover what proportion of these studies are to be found on medline. METHODS We searched using Bulgarian and English phrases; manually selected c...

Dept. of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Medical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria e-mail: [email protected]

1 Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria 2 Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia 3 Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “Charles Darwin”, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy 4 Centro Nazionale per lo Studio e la Conservazione della Biodiversità Forestale – Corpo Forestale dello Stato, Via Carlo Ederle 16/A, 3...

M. V. Costache, I. Neumann, J. F. Sierra, V. Marinova, M.M. Gospodinov, S. Roche, and S. O. Valenzuela ICN2—Institut Catala de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain Institute of Optical Materials and Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia 1113, Bulgaria Institute of Solid Stat...

1 Städtisches Klinikum Dresden Department of Dermatology and Allergology, Dresden, Sachsen, Germany; 2 Städtisches Klinikum Dresden Center of Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine, Dresden, Germany; 3 Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL,...

We study the massless flow from the critical point (dilute loops) to the low-temperature phase (dense loops) of the O(n) loop gas model when the model is coupled to 2D gravity. The flow is generated by the gravitationally dressed thermal operator Φ1,3 coupled to the renormalized loop tension λ ∼ T − Tc. We find that the susceptibility as a function of the thermal coupling λ and the cosmological...