Anneli Uusküla, Mait Raag, Sigrid Vorobjov, Kristi Rüütel, Alexandra Lyubimova, Olga Levina, Robert Heimer,
... drugs (PWID) in St. Petersburg (Russia) and in Kohtla-Järve (Estonia). Five hundred eighty-eight study participants in Kohtla-Järve (in 2012) and 811 in St. Petersburg ( ... 0001). Main drugs injected were opioids (fentanyl in Kohtla-Järve, heroin in St Petersburg). HIV prevalence was 63 % (95 % CI 59–67 %) in Kohtla-Järve and 56 % (95 % CI 52–59 %) in St. Petersburg. Two thirds of the PWID in Kohtla-Järve and St. Petersburg reported ever having experienced ... involving loss of consciousness or stopping breathing. In Kohtla-Järve, 28 % (95 % CI 24–31 %) of participants ...
Tópico(s): Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis
2015 - BioMed Central | BMC Public Health
Isabel Tavitian‐Exley, Mathieu Maheu‐Giroux, Lucy Platt, Robert Heimer, Anneli Uusküla, Olga Levina, Peter Vickerman, Marie‐Claude Boily,
... European locales with significant HIV epidemics. PWID in Kohtla-Järve and St. Petersburg were recruited using respondent- ... risk behaviours and HIV-status (and HCV in Kohtla-Järve) were compared between primary opioid and ATS ... logistic regression models. Of 591 injectors recruited in Kohtla-Järve and 811 in St. Petersburg, 195 (33%) ... had high levels of multiple sex partners. In Kohtla-Järve, ATS-injectors had lower odds of back- ... was negatively associated with being HIV positive in Kohtla-Järve (aOR = 0.6; 95%CI: 0.5– ...
Tópico(s): Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
2018 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Drug Policy
Robert Heimer, Nina Usacheva, Russell Barbour, Linda M. Niccolai, Anneli Uusküla, Olga Levina,
... PWID) in St Petersburg, Russian Federation (RF) and Kohtla-Järve, Estonia and identify factors associated significantly with ... based surveys conducted in St Petersburg, RF and Kohtla-Järve, Estonia.We recruited 452 HIV-positive PWID ... June 2013) and 370 HIV-positive PWID in Kohtla-Järve (June-August 2012) using respondent-driven sampling. ... medications.Progress along the cascade was greater in Kohtla Järve (32.7% were receiving antiretroviral medications) than ... HIV-positive PWID in St Petersburg, RF and Kohtla-Järve, Estonia requiring greatest improvement are retention in ...
Tópico(s): Sex work and related issues
2017 - Wiley | Addiction
Sara E. Burke, Sarah K. Calabrese, John F. Dovidio, Olga Levina, Anneli Uusküla, Linda M. Niccolai, Katri Abel‐Ollo, Robert Heimer,
... among people with HIV who inject drugs in Kohtla-Järve, Estonia and St. Petersburg, Russia. These two ... n = 381 in St. Petersburg; n = 288 in Kohtla-Järve). Participants reported their health information and completed ... stigma and health. Lower barriers to care in Kohtla-Järve may help explain why social stigma was ...
Tópico(s): Sex work and related issues
2015 - Elsevier BV | Social Science & Medicine
K. Sree Kumar, R. Karpaga Priya, Kenneth S. Sajwan, Raimo Kõlli, Ott Roots,
... collection included agricultural-rural (Ahja, Eerika), industrial-urban (Kohtla-Järve, Muuga, Kunda), and reference sites (Lahemaa and ... PCB concentrations were greater in Ahja-1982 and Kohtla-Järve station 1, while Eerika, other Kohtla-Järve, Muuga Port, Kunda, Lahemaa, and Vilsandi Island ... were low.Organochlorine pesticides were slightly higher at Kohtla-Järve stations and PBDEs at Kunda stations.Overall, ...
Tópico(s): Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
2009 - Estonian Academy Publishers | Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences Geology
Leo Vallner, Olga Gavrilova, Raivo Vilu,
... coke and ashes – are deposited in landfills. The Kohtla-Järve oil shale semi-coke and ash landfill, ...
Tópico(s): Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
2015 - Elsevier BV | The Science of The Total Environment
... city of Tallinn, the towns of Pärnu and Kohtla-Järve and some rural areas. PAH were identified ... dry weight. PAH concentrations in Tallinn, Pärnu and Kohtla-Järve soil were quite high (the mean Σ ...
Tópico(s): Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
1999 - Elsevier BV | Environmental Pollution
... S.S.R. have been presented. In the Kohtla-Järve district (oil shale area) there was an ... of stomach cancer incidence in rural areas of Kohtla-Järva district remained unexplainable. In a retrospective cohort ...
Tópico(s): Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
1979 - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | Environmental Health Perspectives
Jiacheng Wu, Forrest W. Crawford, Mait Raag, Robert Heimer, Anneli Uusküla,
... of people who inject drugs (PWID) in the Kohtla-Järve region of Estonia using data from a ...
Tópico(s): Census and Population Estimation
2017 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Riina Vaht, Margus Pensa, Mait Sepp, A Luud, Helen Karu, Tiina Elvisto,
... vegetation was assessed at semicoke dumping sites of Kohtla-Järve oil shale industry in summers 2004 and ...
Tópico(s): Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
2010 - Estonian Academy Publishers | Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences Biology Ecology
Athanasia Vlachou, Anna Tobler, Houssni Lamkaddam, Francesco Canonaco, Kaspar R. Daellenbach, Jean‐Luc Jaffrezo, María Cruz Minguillón, Marek Maasikmets, Erik Teinemaa, Urs Baltensperger, Imad El Haddad, Andrê S. H. Prévôt,
... sites in Estonia: Tallinn (urban), Tartu (suburban) and Kohtla-Järve (KJ; industrial). We identified six OA sources ...
Tópico(s): Air Quality and Health Impacts
2019 - Copernicus Publications | Atmospheric chemistry and physics
Isabel Tavitian‐Exley, Marie‐Claude Boily, Robert Heimer, Anneli Uusküla, Olga Levina, Mathieu Maheu‐Giroux,
... who injected drugs (PWID) in 2012–2013 in Kohtla-Järve (Estonia, n = 591) and St Petersburg (Russia, ...
Tópico(s): Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
2017 - Springer Science+Business Media | AIDS and Behavior
Annika Johannson, Sigrid Vorobjov, Robert Heimer, John F. Dovidio, Anneli Uusküla,
Tópico(s): Sex work and related issues
2016 - Springer Science+Business Media | AIDS and Behavior
Jūlija Gušča, Andres Siirde, Meelis Eldermann,
... Viru Keemia Grupp Oil AS plant located in Kohtla Järve (Estonia) is used for the analysis. Results ...
Tópico(s): Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
2015 - Elsevier BV | Energy Procedia
... would also like to thank the staff of Kohtla Mining Museum for helping me with my research. ...
Tópico(s): Cultural Identity and Heritage
2013 - Routledge | Journal of Baltic Studies
... 1960, the main oil shale consumers were the Kohtla-Järve and Kiviõli shale oil plants, and the ...
Tópico(s): Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
2012 - Estonian Academy Publishers | Oil Shale
... component mixtures using activated sludge sampled from the Kohtla-Järve wastewater treatment plant.The degradation behaviour of ...
Tópico(s): Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
2011 - Estonian Academy Publishers | Oil Shale
... substrate concentrations. Activated sludge was taken from the Kohtla-Järve wastewater treatment plant, Estonia, which is also ...
Tópico(s): Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
2011 - Taylor & Francis | Environmental Technology
Anneli Uusküla, Katri Abel‐Ollo, Anna Markina, Louise‐Anne McNutt, Robert Heimer,
... and 12 main sexual partners of IDUs) in Kohtla-Järve, Estonia. Results The safe-sex ‘norm’ was ...
Tópico(s): Sex work and related issues
2011 - BMJ | Sexually Transmitted Infections
Katri Abel‐Ollo, Mati Rahu, Kristiina Rajaleid, Ave Talu, Kristi Rüütel, Lucy Platt, N. Bobrova, Tim Rhodes, Anneli Uusküla,
... the second-largest city of Ida-Virumaa County, Kohtla-Järve). The research tool was an interviewer-administered ...
Tópico(s): HIV Research and Treatment
2009 - Taylor & Francis | AIDS Care
Vojin Cokorilo, N LILIĆ, J Purga, Vladimir Milisavljević,
b) Viru Keemia Grupp, Kohtla-Järve,
Tópico(s): Natural Resources and Economic Development
2009 - Estonian Academy Publishers | Oil Shale
... Auvere, Putke, Vaivara, Viivikonna, Soska, Kuremäe, Jõhvi, Ereda, Kohtla, Saka, Kiviõli, Sonda, Aseri, Kunda, Jägala, Lagedi and ...
Tópico(s): Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
2008 - Routledge | Journal of Baltic Studies
Ott Roots, Andrew J. Sweetman,
... two Estonian stations -Lahemaa-background EMEP station and Kohtla-Järve industrial (oil shale chemistry) region station -among ...
Tópico(s): Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
2007 - Estonian Academy Publishers | Oil Shale
Richard J. Aldridge, Susan Curtis, V Viira,
Conodont faunas from the kukersites and kukersitic limestones of the Kiviõli Member are similar to coeval collections from other sedimentary facies and there are no taxa endemic to this unusual environment.The presence of Amorphognathus tvaerensis and the absence of Pygodus anserinus suggest that the lower part of the Kukruse Stage is referable to the A. tvaerensis conodont Biozone and that the base of the Upper Ordovician lies at or beneath the base of the Kukruse Stage.
Tópico(s): Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
2006 - Estonian Academy Publishers | Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences Geology
... speaking informants from Tallinn and 37 informants from Kohtla-Järve have been asked to assess the grammaticality ...
Tópico(s): Linguistic research and analysis
2006 - SAGE Publishing | International Journal of Bilingualism
Lucy Platt, Natalia Bobrova, Tim Rhodes, Anneli Uusküla, John Parry, Kristi Rüütel, Ave Talu, Katri Abel, Kristiina Rajaleid, Ali Judd,
... users (IDU) 54% in Tallinn and 90% in Kohtla Jarve, Estonia. Risk factors for HIV in Tallinn ...
Tópico(s): Sex work and related issues
2006 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | AIDS
Taavi Pae, Aarne Luud, Mait Sepp,
... artificial landforms in North-East Estonia is investigated.Kohtla-Järve semi-coke mountain is found to be ...
Tópico(s): Landslides and related hazards
2005 - Estonian Academy Publishers | Oil Shale
... Oil Shale Processing Units in Estonia °Y S Kohtla-Järve, Kiviter AS* S _E)g;erime'ntal ...
Tópico(s): Engineering and Environmental Studies
2000 - Estonian Academy Publishers | Oil Shale