Correlates of gastroenterology health-services utilization among patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease: a large database analysis by Wasef Na’amnih, Racheli Katz, Sophy Goren, Amir Ben-Tov, Tomer Ziv-Baran, Gabriel Chodick, Khitam Muhsen

“…The likelihood of high utilization of gastroscopy increased with age; in immigrants from the Former Soviet Union versus patients who were born in Israel; residents of Jerusalem, the south, the north and Haifa districts versus the center district; in patients with high PPI purchases, and in patients who belonged to clinics in which the physician-manger had no board certification. …”
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Spatiotemporal variability of snow depth across the Eurasian continent from 1966 to 2012 by X. Zhong, X. Zhong, T. Zhang, S. Kang, S. Kang, K. Wang, L. Zheng, Y. Hu, H. Wang

“…Compared with air temperature, snowfall had greater influence on snow depth during November through March across the former Soviet Union. This study provides a baseline for snow depth climatology and changes across the Eurasian continent, which would significantly help to better understanding climate system and climate changes on regional, hemispheric, or even global scales.…”
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The contribution of Academician I. H. Aleksandrov to the development of national hydraulic engineering (on the example of scientific and engineering approaches to irrigation proble... by Oleksandr Isaienko, Svitlana Isaienko

“…Aleksandrov is mostly recognized as the designer and one of the constructors of the Dnipro hydroelectric power station near Zaporizhzhia (1927-1932) (he prepared a project and directed the construction of the largest hydroelectric power station in Europe at that time) or as a creator and developer of the methodology for economic zoning of the Soviet Union. Other achievements and ideas of Academician I. …”
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Keys to Expanding the Rural Healthcare Workforce in Kyrgyzstan by Paul Fonken, Inna Bolotskikh, Gulzhakhan Fazylovna Pirnazarova, Gulnura Sulaimanova, Shirin Talapbek kyzy, Aelita Toktogulova

“…The priorities listed above from the next generation of potential rural family doctors could help guide future steps to promote rural health in Kyrgyzstan and the Former Soviet Union.…”
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Migration experiences, life conditions, and drug use practices of Russian-speaking drug users who live in Paris: a mixed-method analysis from the ANRS-Coquelicot study by Yaël Tibi-Lévy, Daria Serebryakova, Marie Jauffret-Roustide, ANRS-Coquelicot Study Group

“…Abstract Background After the collapse of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1990s, people who inject drugs spiked in Eastern Europe. …”
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The Impact of Cropland Abandonment of Post-Soviet Countries on the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Based on Optimizing the Cropland Distribution Map by Shengjie Zhou, Tiexi Chen, Ning Zeng, Qixiang Cai, Fang Zhao, Pengfei Han, Qingyun Yan

“…The abandonment of cropland as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union offers a typical case of the conversion from cropland to natural vegetation, which could have a significant effect on the terrestrial carbon cycle. …”
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A new strain group of common carp: The genetic differences and admixture events between Cyprinus carpio breeds by Artem V. Nedoluzhko, Natalia V. Slobodova, Fedor Sharko, Gulmira M. Shalgimbayeva, Svetlana V. Tsygankova, Eugenia S. Boulygina, Zsigmond Jeney, Van Q. Nguyen, Thế T. Pham, Đức T. Nguyen, Alexander A. Volkov, Jorge M.O. Fernandes, Sergey M. Rastorguev

“…One of them includes central European common carp strains as well as Ponto–Caspian wild common carp populations, whereas the other group contains several common carp strains that originated in the Soviet Union, mostly as cold‐resistant strains. We believe that breeding with wild Amur carp and subsequent selection of the hybrids for resistance to adverse environmental conditions was the attribute of the second group. …”
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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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About One Memorable Date in the History of Spain by G. I. Volkova

“…Disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union and the emergence on the world political map of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and most recently of the Republic of Crimea - confirm this. …”
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About One Memorable Date in the History of Spain by Galina I. Volkova

“…Disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union and the emergence on the world political map of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and most recently of the Republic of Crimea - confirm this. …”
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Reforms of the Modern Oirat-Kalmyk Language and Literature in the 20th century by Johannes Reckel

“…The 20th century witnessed the introduction of new writing standards for individual groups of Oirats/Kalmyks in the Soviet Union (Russia), China and Mongolia, which led to a weakening of the West Mongolian identity. …”
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Mare interpretatum : continuity and evolution in States' interpretations of the Law of the Sea by Odell, Rachel Esplin.

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Conceptualizing FDI in the Russian regions : Primore, Khabarovsk, and Sakhalin by Burns, Katherine G. (Katherine Georgiana), 1964-

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The cartel in retreat by Adelman, Morris Albert

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National security panics : overestimating threats to national security by Cramer, Jane Kellett, 1964-

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Dilemmas of decline, risks of rise : the systemic and military sources of rising state strategy towards declining great powers by Itzkowitz Shifrinson, Joshua R

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Cinema and politics : the creation of postcolonial self/other and the shaping of strategic cultures in Southeast Asia, 1945-1967 by Darlene Machell de Leon Espena

“…Using films as the primary analytical reference, I investigate what the dominant ideologies in popular cinematic products that circulated in the region illuminate concerning the broader cultural context, in general, and strategic cultures, in particular, of Southeast Asian states; how these films depict international realities following the Second World War, the Cold War and its major players (the United States, China, and, albeit to a lesser degree, the Soviet Union), and the role of the Malayan/Malaysian, Philippine, and Indonesian states in the battle between the communists and the anti-communists; how popular films and genres impinge on the corroboration or rejection of particular discourses dominant in Southeast Asian nation-building and foreign policy-making during the Cold War; and finally, how the strategic cultures of Southeast Asian states, which were captured in and influenced by the popular films produced by Southeast Asians themselves, shaped the outlook of key policy makers in dealing with and coming to terms with decolonization and Cold War realities in the region. …”
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The Caribbean Cold War: between exile and revolution, 1945-1960 by Prados, N

“…</p> <p>Viewing this conflict as a regional cold war changes the way we understand the broader, global Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. It highlights the need to acknowledge the existence of alternative ideological cleavages at the regional level, where some governments contested the supremacy of the socialist-capitalist binary with an alternative axis that better reflected their grievances. …”

Buying influence? The international diplomacy behind donor financing of the World Bank’s International Development Association by Xu, J

“…Overall the thesis reveals that the US maintained or cut its burden share as the Soviet threat waxed and waned; and that as the Soviet Union collapsed the US abandoned both its leadership for IDA expansion to counter the Soviet threat and its self-restraint in controlling the World Bank, provoking the fairness concern among secondary states – the most potent factor in explaining IDA burden-sharing dynamics in the post-Cold War era. …”

Brothers Grimm or brothers Karamazov: The myth and the reality of how Russians and Ukrainians view the other by Onuch, O

“…<p>Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukrainians and Russians have been living peacefully in two separate and independent states for nearly a quarter of a century. …”