Head and Neck Low Grade Chondrosarcoma—A Rare Entity by Camil Ciprian Mireștean, Cristiana Eugenia Simionescu, Roxana Irina Iancu, Mihai Cosmin Stan, Dragoș Petru Teodor Iancu, Florinel Bădulescu

“…The radiation treatment was delivered with a Rokus M40 former Soviet Union cobalt machine without any image guidance capabilities. …”
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The cartel in retreat by Adelman, Morris Albert

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Saratov life of brothers Boris and Gleb Gnedenko by Anikin, Valery Mikhailovich, Gnedenko, Dmitry B., Fedorova, Marina A.

“…Gnedenko stood at the origins of the creation of computer technology in the former Soviet Union. His total number of scientific, methodological, and popular publications is close to 1300. …”
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Phylogenetic Characterization of HIV-1 Sub-Subtype A1 in Karachi, Pakistan by Uroosa Tariq, Jamirah Nazziwa, Sviataslau Sasinovich, Sharaf Ali Shah, Sadaf Naeem, Syed Hani Abidi, Joakim Esbjörnsson

“…(1) Background: HIV-1 sub-subtype A1 is common in parts of Africa, Russia, former Soviet Union countries, and Eastern Europe. In Pakistan, sub-subtype A1 is the predominant HIV-1 subtype. …”
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Skin Cancers of the Head and Neck Region: the Real World Epidemiological and Therapeutic Data from the Cancer Registry of Dolj County by Camil Ciprian MIRESTEAN, Mihai Cosmin STAN, Roxana Irina IANCU, Dragos Petru Teodor IANCU, Florinel BADULESCU

“…Superficial radiotherapy, which has now become less accessible in our country, due to the implementation of radiological safety rules and the conversion of equipment from the former Soviet Union cobalt and superficial X-ray radiotherapy device to modern liniac accelerators focused on modern techniques radiotherapy is necessary to reduce the risk of recurrence in the case of resection with inadequate margins of non-melanoma skin tumors.…”
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Improving the inclusion and participation of children and adolescents with a migration background in KiGGS Wave 2 by Laura Frank, Rahsan Yesil-Jürgens, Sabine Born, Robert Hoffmann, Claudia Santos-Hövener, Thomas Lampert

“…In the sample, the most often represented countries of origin were the countries of Central and South Europe, of the former Soviet Union and Turkey. Regarding the length of time parents had lived in Germany, around 40.1% of migrant families have been living in the country for over 20 years, whereas nearly one in five families has been in Germany for less than five years. …”
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Effects of Agricultural Cropping Systems on Soil Water Capacity: The Case in Cross-Border Altai by Andrey Bondarovich, Patrick Illiger, Gerd Schmidt, Elena Ponkina, Aliya Nugumanova, Almasbek Maulit, Maxim Sutula

“…It was one of the sites of the Virgin Land Campaign realized in the former Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. Intensive agricultural practices have caused significant soil degradation, mainly through humus loss and soil erosion. …”
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First space-based derivation of the global atmospheric methanol emission fluxes by T. Stavrakou, A. Guenther, A. Razavi, L. Clarisse, C. Clerbaux, P.-F. Coheur, D. Hurtmans, F. Karagulian, M. De Mazière, C. Vigouroux, C. Amelynck, N. Schoon, Q. Laffineur, B. Heinesch, M. Aubinet, C. Rinsland, J.-F. Müller

“…The most significant error reductions achieved by the optimization concern the derived biogenic emissions over the Amazon and over the Former Soviet Union. The robustness of the derived fluxes to changes in convective updraft fluxes, in methanol removal processes, and in the choice of the biogenic a priori inventory is assessed through sensitivity inversions. …”
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Phylogenetic relationships of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Poland: The emergence of Beijing genotype among multidrug-resistant cases by Zofia Bakuła, Mateusz Marczak, Agata Bluszcz, Małgorzata Proboszcz, Justyna Kościuch, Rafał Krenke, Petras Stakėnas, Igor Mokrousov, Igor Mokrousov, Tomasz Jagielski

“…Furthermore, all patients from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries were infected with MDR-TB.DiscussionWhereas DS M. tuberculosis population in Poland is dominated by L4 isolates, MDR isolates are mostly of the Beijing genotype. …”
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Lyapunov feedback control in equinoctial elements applied to low thrust control of elliptical orbit constellations by Joseph, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Ethan)

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O potrzebie podjęcia badań nad radziecką wersją języków mniejszości narodowych byłego Związku Radzieckiego by Marek Cieszkowski, Jolanta Mędelska

“… About the need to take up research concerning the Russian version of former Soviet Union’s national minorities’ languages Research on the so-called Polish Russian language of the interwar period, i.e. specific type of contemporary Polish used within the territory of the Russian empire in post-war twenties, has been successfully developing for 10 years. …”
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The Law of Liquid–Solid Carrying in the Wellbore of Natural Gas Hydrate Gas Well under the Condition of Foam Drainage Gas Recovery by Haitao Li, Na Wei, Haiyu Hu, Zhaolong Ge, Lin Jiang, Fengjun Liu, Xiaoran Wang, Chao Zhang, Hanming Xu, Jun Pei, Bjørn Kvamme

“…During the trial production of marine gas hydrate in the former Soviet Union, Canada, North Slope of Alaska, South Sea Trough of Japan and Shenhu Sea of South China Sea, the problem of sand and water production cannot be avoided. …”
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I “Quaderni ucraini” di Igort. Analisi linguistica di un reportage a fumetti by Valerio Monti

“…The work looks like strip reportage, where the author describes his experience in the former Soviet Union. The first chapter presents the genre of graphic journalism, its diffusion in Italy and some of its formal features. …”
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The distribution and history of nuclear weapons related contamination in sediments from the Ob River, Siberia as determined by isotopic ratios of Plutonium, Neptunium, and Cesium by Kenna, Timothy C

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La dispensarización en el policlínico universitario docente de Playa un año después de la reorganización Dispensarization in the "Playa" teaching and university polyclinic after on... by Leonardo Antonio Cuesta Mejías

“…<br>Introduction: although originally conceived in the former Soviet Union, the dispensarization in our country was implemented together with the Health Situation Analysis, in main elements of family medicine, in other words, in the work organization of the Family Physician. …”
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Long-term agricultural land-cover change and potential for cropland expansion in the former Virgin Lands area of Kazakhstan by Roland Kraemer, Alexander V Prishchepov, Daniel Müller, Tobias Kuemmerle, Volker C Radeloff, Andrey Dara, Alexey Terekhov, Manfred Frühauf

“…As a result Kazakhstan became an important breadbasket of the former Soviet Union. However, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 triggered widespread agricultural abandonment, and much cropland reverted to grasslands. …”
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Japanese Model of Attracting Foreign Youth in the Higher Education System by S. V. Ryazantsev, T. K. Rostovskaya, N. S. Ryazantsev

“…The experience of Japan can be used in Russia to organise work to attract young people to study in higher education institutions from countries that are geopolitical partners, primarily in the former Soviet Union. Scientific novelty. The features of the functioning of the model of attracting foreign youth to the higher education system in Japan in the context of worsening problems of population aging and slowing economic growth are revealed. …”
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Influence of high-latitude warming and land-use changes in the early 20th century northern Eurasian CO2 sink by Ana Bastos, Anna Peregon, Érico A Gani, Sergey Khudyaev, Chao Yue, Wei Li, Célia M Gouveia, Philippe Ciais

“…By compiling a dataset of annual agricultural area in the Former Soviet Union that better reflects changes in cropland area linked with socio-economic fluctuations during the early 20th century, we show that land-abadonment during periods of crisis and war may result in reduced CO _2 emissions from land-use change (44%–78% lower) detectable at decadal time-scales. …”
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Educational system reforms, changes, and inequality in attainment in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) by Hossain, M

“…This aligns with the existing debate that de-standardisation reforms may have been diffused more authoritarian regimes; many of those were part of the former Soviet Union. However, the result is the reverse for de-standardisation at the school level. …”

Monitoreo de emisiones de gas radón vinculado a la actividad microsísmica en la zona de Sampacho, Córdoba, Argentina by Grosso Virginia, Daga Romina, Sagripanti Guillermo, Villalba Diego

“…Anomalies in this gas emission levels, as well as an increase in the microseismic activity were detected in the pre-seismic stage of the earthquakes that occurred in Japan, USA, Italy, Mexico and the former Soviet Union.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: ";Arial";,";sans-serif";; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"&gt;The objective of the present paper is to monitor the radon gas emissions in order to establish its relation to the microseismic activity in an area nearby a section of the active fault Las Lagunas, by means of the Track-Etch technique and to try to establish a seismic precursor geoindicator for it.…”
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