Unlabelled: Recent attempts to generalize isolated successes of expatriate entrepreneurial networks offer limited insight into the more systemic questions on the role of diasporas in sustainable development of small economies. Drawing on experience of post-socialist transition and merging multidisciplinary perspectives, this paper advances a constructive critique to the conventional views. A historically multilayered socioeconomic construct, diaspora is in fact heterogeneous, often, lacking a unified stance and as such likely diminishing the relevance of the simplified first-mover business case study effect in development.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZh Nevrol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova
September 2020
Objective: To study an effect of robotic mechanotherapy on the functional condition of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) with impaired walking function using the ExoAtlet exoskeleton.
Materials And Methods: A prospective open-source, uncontrolled, single-center study included 44 patients (main group, MG) with remitting course in remission (RRS) and secondary-progressive course (VPRS) of MS with 3 to 8 points on the Extended Disability Status Scale (EDSS). Eighteen people (subgroup 1) of this group were re-examined after 3 months and 8 people completed the second rehabilitation course (subgroup 2).
Background: Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) are rare, inherited disorders associated with enzyme deficiencies that result in glycosaminoglycan (GAG) accumulation in multiple organ systems. Management of MPS is evolving as patients increasingly survive to adulthood and undergo multiple surgeries throughout their lives. As surgeries in these patients are considered to be high risk, this can result in a range of critical clinical situations in adult patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To investigate factors affecting the compliance of patients with the combination therapy for benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Materials And Methods: Four hundred BPH outpatients treated with combination therapy were surveyed.
Results: The absolute majority of patients (76.
The chronic viral hepatitis is characterized by progressing course. In connection with this fact, there is a risk of development of fibrosis of liver. The diagnostic of this disease biopsy is applied as main technique.
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