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The Mental Health of the Young in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We report on the wellbeing of the young in twenty‐eight countries located in Eastern Europe and Central Asia including fifteen post‐Soviet countries. We find no evidence of the decline in the mental health of the young relative to older people, which characterizes Western Europe and English‐speaking advanced economies. The mental health of the
David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson
wiley   +1 more source

State-Directed Diffusion of Technology: The Mechanization of Cotton-Farming in Soviet Central Asia [PDF]

open access: yes
When Soviet central planners began to mechanize the cotton harvest in earnest in 1958, they expected more rapid diffusion than the market-driven process that had begun in the United States a decade earlier.
Richard Pomfret
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Neither Here Nor There: Turkmenistan's Digital Doldrums [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Turkmenistan is slowly emerging from decades of darkness. President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov has vowed to modernize the country by encouraging the uptake of new technology for economic development and more efficient governance. Hundreds of thousands of

core  

A tribute to Elizaveta Ubryatova: professional life and personal destiny [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The article was submitted on 10.06.2015. Translated by Dr. Lilia Gorelova.In Russia, the name of prominent turkologist Elizaveta Ivanovna Ubryatova, at present is known mostly to specialists who study the languages spoken by the Northern peoples of the ...
Shirobokova, N.   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Environmental Politics in North and East Syria/Rojava: A Scoping and Conceptual Literature Review

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents a scoping and conceptual literature review on environmental politics in North and East Syria/Rojava. The review aims to synthesize existing academic research in English on the interplay between armed conflict and environmental change in the region, focusing on the Kurdish‐led socio‐political model known as the Autonomous ...
Pinar Dinc   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determination of the Relationship between Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors, Physical Fitness, and Risk Factors of Coronary Heart Diseases in University Students

open access: yes, 2018
The purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship between healthy lifestyle behaviors, physical fitness, and coronary risk factors in university students.
A. Özkan   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Aid to Fight AIDS: An Empirical Analysis of HIV‐Specific Development Aid Effectiveness

open access: yesScottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using an excludable instrument for HIV‐specific aid, we investigate its effectiveness on HIV outcomes viz., prevalence and death rates. We theorize that HIV‐specific aid fills the funding gap that prevents governments from committing adequate resources to effectively address the epidemic.
Derek Nolan   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

ADAPTATION OF FOREIGN STUDENTS: THE CASE OF TURKMENS IN THE SOCHI BRANCH OF PATRICE LUMUMBA PEOPLES’ FRIENDSHIP UNIVERSITY OF RUSSIA

open access: yesВестник антропологии (Herald of Anthropology)
his study presents the results of a questionnaire survey conducted in 2023–2024 at the Sochi Institute (branch) of the Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University, which examines intercultural communication and adaptation processes among Turkmen students in a new sociocultural environment.
Marina V.  Belozerova   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

The effect of free time motivations on happiness level of students in recreation department Rekreasyon bölümünde öğrenim gören öğrencilerin serbest zaman motivasyonlarının mutluluk düzeyi üzerine etkisi

open access: yes, 2018
The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between free time motivation and happiness level of students in recreation department according to some demographic variables.
Hayri Akyüz   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Epidemiology of tuberculosis in northeast of Iran: A population-based study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is currently one of the greatest problems in public health. Mycobacterium tuberculosis infects about one third of the world's population, of whom more than 80% are living in developing countries. The incidence and prevalence
Besharat, S.   +4 more
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