BACKGROUND: The efficacy and safety of inhaled long-acting β 2 -adrenergic agonists in
asthmatic patients with the B16-Arg/Arg genotype has been questioned, and the use of …

Background The inflammatory response in patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR) is
partly mediated by the prostaglandin D 2 receptor chemoattractant receptor homologous …

• The aim of this study was to determine the optimum once-daily dose of olodaterol (5.0 and
10.0 μg) and tiotropium (1.25, 2.5 and 5.0 μg) in combination when delivered via the …

The authors introduce the ongoing child welfare reforms in Russia and consider the
international and national context, as well as the main drivers of these reforms and their current …

This book provides new and empirically grounded research-based knowledge and insights
into the current transformation of the Russian child welfare system. It focuses on the major …

Employing a neo-institutionalist framework, this book has analysed the implementation of the
deinstitutionalisation reform in the Russian context, embracing a wide variety of empirical …

The practice of giving birth at home was known in the USSR from the 1960s, and in the middle
of the 1980s it began to take on the character of a social movement. At that time parents’ …

The essay discusses the ongoing child-welfare reforms in Russia, conceptualised as
deinstitutionalisation, which link Russia closely to international trends in child rights-based child-…

We explore the log-periodic behavior which is known to precede the critical events of some
complex systems. Particularly, we consider the hierarchical model of financial crashes …

We consider the hierarchical model of financial crashes introduced by A. Johansen and D.
Sornette which reproduces the log-periodic power law behavior of the price before the critical …