タグ「Belarus」
Title: Founder mutations in the BRCA1 gene in west Belarusian breast-ovarian cancer families
Author: O Oszurek, B Gorski, J Gronwald, Z Prosolow, K Uglanica, A Murinow, I Bobko, O Downar, M Zlobicz, D Norik, T Byrski, A Jakubowska, J Lubinski
Reference: Clinical Genetics, Volume 60, Issue 6, pages 470–471, December 2001
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0004.2001.600611.x
Keywords:BRCA1, Belarus, breast cancer, ovarian cancer
Abstract: Germline mutation at eight human minisatellite loci has been studied among families from rural areas of the Kiev and Zhitomir regions of Ukraine, which were heavily contaminated by radionuclides after the Chernobyl accident. The control and exposed groups were composed of families containing children conceived before and after the Chernobyl accident, respectively. The groups were matched by ethnicity, maternal age, parental occupation, and smoking habits, and they differed only slightly by paternal age. A statistically significant 1.6-fold increase in mutation rate was found in the germline of exposed fathers, whereas the maternal germline mutation rate in the exposed families was not elevated. These data, together with the results of our previous analysis of the exposed families from Belarus, suggest that the elevated minisatellite mutation rate can be attributed to post-Chernobyl radioactive exposure. The mechanisms of mutation induction at human minisatellite loci are discussed.
URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1034/j.1399-0004.2001.600611.x/abstract
Title: High frequency and allele-specific differences of BRCA1 founder mutations in breast cancer and ovarian cancer patients from Belarus.
Author: Bogdanova NV, Antonenkova NN, Rogov YI, Karstens JH, Hillemanns P, Dörk T.
Reference: Clinical Genetics Volume 78, Issue 4, pages 364–372, October 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2010.01473.x
Keywords: BRCA1, breast cancer, founder mutations, genetic susceptibility, ovarian cancer, radiation, Belarus
Abstract: Breast cancer and ovarian cancer are common malignancies in Belarus accounting for about 3500 and 800 new cases per year, respectively. For breast cancer, the rates and age of onset appear to vary significantly in regions differentially affected by the Chernobyl accident.
URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1399-0004.2010.01473.x/abstract
Title: Chernobyl’s Legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts and Recommendations to the Governments of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine
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Reference: The Chernobyl Forum: 2003–2005, Second revised version
Keywords: health effects, socio-economic impacts, environment, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine
Abstract: The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 was the most severe in the history of the nuclear power industry, causing a huge release of radionuclides over large areas of Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation. Now, 20 years later, UN Agencies and representatives of the three countries have reviewed the health, environmental and socio-economic consequences.
URL:http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Booklets/Chernobyl/chernobyl.pdf
Title: Ordinary Tragedy: “Perestroika” of Collective Memory about Chernobyl Disaster in Belarusian History Textbooks
Author: Andrei Dudchik, Marharyta Fabrykant
Reference: The Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol 30, No 1 (2012)
Keywords: Chernobyl disaster, perestroika, Belarus, discourse, narrative, biopolitics, collective memory.
Abstract: The paper focuses on discursive strategies that are used by authors of history textbooks to construct Belarusian collective memory of Chernobyl disaster within the more general narrative framework of the historical legacy of “perestroika”. Discourse and narrative analysis of the relevant chapters of five secondary school and nine university textbooks of the time period between 1995 and 2011 has revealed two distinct discursive strategies within a common narrative framework. First, the “organicist” discourse positions Chernobyl disaster as a threat to the Belarusian gene pool and thus invokes the sociobiological version of ethnic nationalism within biopower and biopolitics discourse. This strategy emphasizes the preserver of collective memory as a passive sufferer. The second, opposing strategy presents the Chernobyl disaster as one of the initial conditions, rather than the consequence of the preceding historical period, and offers a role of active struggler. Both strategies construct collective memories of tragedy as a form of historical continuity.
URL: https://www.scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/aeer/article/view/1998
Title: Chernobyl’s Aftermath in Political Symbols, Monuments and Rituals: Remembering the Disaster in Belarus
Author: Tatiana Kasperski
Reference: The Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol 30, No 1 (2012)
Keywords: Belarus, Chernobyl accident, nuclear disaster, memory, politics
Abstract: In spite of the still on-going health and environmental impact of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, this tragic event occupies only a minor place in the present-day political life of Belarus, the former Soviet republic most affected by the radioactive fallout. To understand the apparent weakness in public memory of the disaster, this paper provides an analysis of several kinds of commemorative events that have been organized by opposition political forces and by state officials since the end of the 1990s, and of the monuments dedicated to the Chernobyl accident in Belarus. It shows how these different forms of memory contributed to the erasure of the specific meaning of the accident by framing the disaster’s past in terms of a tragedy among other national tragedies, and by reducing it merely to a tool to attack political opponents and legitimize one’s own aspirations to power or by suggesting this past should be overcome as soon as possible.
URL: http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/aeer/article/view/2000
Title: Memories, commemorations, and representations of Chernobyl: Introduction
Author: Melanie Arndt
Reference: Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam; Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Anthropology of East Europe Review 30 (1) Spring 2012
Keywords: Chernobyl disaster, nuclear energy, memories, commemoration, Belarus
Abstract: This special issue of AEER is dedicated to memories, commemoration practices, and representations of Chernobyl. The idea for the issue was born during the final conference of the international research project “Politics and Society after Chernobyl” in Potsdam, Germany, in April 2011.The conference took place barely a month after the tsunami and the following nuclear accidents in Japan and just a few weeks before the 25th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
URL:http://scholarworks.dlib.indiana.edu/journals/index.php/aeer/article/viewFile/2009/1959
Reference: Ministry of Emergency, Republic of Belorussia (department of liquidation of consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe)
Keywords: Gomel, Bretsk, contamination of land, medical consequences
Abstract: Topic: Contamination and zoning of the territories of Belorussia, medical consequences. According to the insufficient protecting measures, thyroid cancer incidents began to be detected from 1990, especially among children, in Belorussia, under the influence of radionuclide iodine. In comparison to the pre-accidental period, the incidence of thyroid cancer grew 33.6 times, in children, and 2.4-7 times in adults. The highest number of patients with thyroid cancer appeared in the inhabitants of the Gomel and Bretsk regions.
URL: http://www.chernobyl.gov.by/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=105&Itemid=54
Title: Methodological principles of ecological risk assessment in the Republic of Belarus after the Chernobyl accident
Author: Saltanova, Irina Vladimirovna
Reference: Minsk, 2005
Keywords: Belarus, methodological principles, ecological risk, population
Abstract: Research aim: Justification of methodological principles of integrated environmental risk assessment, resulting from man-made activities for measures planning to minimize human impact on the population in multivariate exposure of environmental pollutants through the analysis of radiation-chemical environment using risk assessment techniques.
URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/metodologicheskie-printsipy-otsenki-ekologicheskogo-riska-na-territorii-respubliki-belarus-p
Title: Psychology of children mythology and folklore: Based on the material of children and adolescents research in the Resp. of Belarus in post-catastrophe situation
Author: Hazey, Svetlana Anatolyevna
Reference: Moscow, 1998
Keywords: Educational psychology, children, mythology, folklore, teens, Belarus
Abstract: The aim of this research;To identify the psychological characteristics of existence of mythology, folklore, through the analysis of true stories, horror stories, magic, games, as well as compositions, paintings in the subculture of children and adolescents aged 7-15 years in the territory of the Republic of Belarus.
URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/psikhologiya-detskoi-mifologii-i-folklora-na-materiale-issled-detei-i-podrostkov-na-territor
Title: Informational and psychological protection of the population at the radioactively contaminated territories of Russia and Belarus following the Chernobyl accident in the late (distant) period
Author: Simonov, Alexander Vasilyevich
Reference: Moscow, 2010
Keywords: Russia, Belarus, informational-psychological protection, contaminated areas
Abstract: Study aim: justification of the concept (principles of structural – functional model) and organizational-methodological provision of the population with informational-psychological protection living at the radioactively contaminated areas in Belarus and Russia in the late period following the Chernobyl accident.
URL:http://www.dissercat.com/content/informatsionno-psikhologicheskaya-zashchita-naseleniya-radioaktivno-zagryaznennykh-territori
