Irina Burko
Modern Approaches to Obesity Treatment
The author focuses on epidemic incidence of obesity in the world, dwells on the causes of excess weight and discusses the methods of diagnosis and treatment of obesity in detail.

Elena Aksyonova
Genetic Risk Factors for Obesity
A host of genes is involved in the regulation of energy balance, appetite, lipid metabolism and adipogenesis. The article provides a brief review of genetic predisposing factors for obesity.

Anzhalika Solntsava
Modern Diagnostic Technologies for Children’s Obesity
Based on the literature survey and the results of author’s own study, the author presents modern diagnostic technologies for obesity in children, which make it possible to identify obesity at an early stage and thus prevent the development of complications.

Olga Kiyeuliakis
Proper Nutrition Practices
Dietitian Marina Popova answers questions about anti-obesity by dieting, healthy eating habits, weight reducing and weight control methods, and fasting days.

Henadzy Zaharodny, Galina Popova
Regulation of Fitness Load for Overweight
Unreasonable fitness load can lead to negative effects. The authors suggest the physiological rationale and options for dynamic control during training sessions, analyze the most common mistakes of patients, and recommend prevention measures.

Vladimir Kulchitsky, Aleksandr Sukalo
Psychological Aspects of Obesity
The authors discuss the key role of the brain in the development of pathological reactions in obesity, accompanied by metabolic and endocrine disorders, disruption of feedback in virtually all of the functional systems of the body.

Irina Mikhailova-Stanyuta
Labor Productivity in the Context of International Dimension
The author has calculated GDP pattern for the manufacturing industry of Belarus on the value-added basis classifying the sectors by production effectiveness.

Mikhail Latushko, Mikhail Rad’ko
Challenges and Trends of Innovation in AIC enterprises
The article analyzes the problems that hinder the use of innovations in the field of agriculture and industrial complex and proposes the ways of addressing them.

Maxim Osipov
Investment: Current State and Outlook
In an interview concerns with the influx of foreign capital and the most successful investment projects currently implemented in Belarus.

Zhanna Komarova
Conversion of Fundamental Knowledge into Real Products
The process of introducing a new product into the market from the laboratory development to pilot production is demonstrated by example of the Biotechnology Center of the Institute of Microbiology of the National Academy of Sciences.

Vladimir Borodavko, Alexander Pyn’kin, Mikhail Heifetz
Layered Synthesis for Nesting of Parts on a Sheet and Their Assembly
The authors propose a plasma cutting technology suitable for industrial application in the aerospace and automotive, electrical and radio equipment, medical equipment and tools industries.

Sergey Losev
Commercialization of Intellectual Property: Comment to Presidential Decree No.59
The author analyzes the provisions of the new legislation dwelling on its advantages and disadvantages in detail.

Sergey Dedkov
A Strategy of Creating a Common Scientific and Innovation Space of Belarus and Russia within the Union State
This is a discussion of close scientific and technical ties established between scientists of the two countries, which serves as a powerful incentive for forming a common innovation space and could become a model for upgrading the economies of the Eurasian Union.

Inessa Brezgunova, Sergei Maksimov
LMS MOODLE in Web-Based Education
The article discusses an on-line educational software platform that is suitable for posting tutorials and creating a full-scale training course as well as offering educational tools and services.

Irina Emelyanovich
Stepwise Growth
A selection of printed matter on the 45th anniversary of the Gomel State Technical University which reflecting scientific and innovative component in University activities.

Nataly Nikonovich, Olga Davydik
Ontological, Religious and Phenomenological Aspects in Establishing Cultural Identity
The article demonstrates that identification of the basic religious foundations of culture is a methodological strategy to preserve the cultural identity, which is particularly important for preservation of the identity of Belarusian nation and culture. As a result of examination performed, we have developed innovative non-dichotomic conceptual foundations of culture.

Natalia Vlasova, Leonid Chunikhin, Yulia Visenberg, Dеnis Drozdov
Assessment of an Average Effective Internal
Dose per Annum for Belarusian Population
A method of calculating an internal dose accumulated by rural population in areas of the Republic of Belarus contaminated with radionuclides as a result of the Chernobyl catastrophe.

Natalia Minchenko, Alexander Kilchevsky,
Sergey Dromashko, Elena Makeev
On 10th Anniversary of the Cartagena Protocol in the Republic of Belarus
The material is dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the agreement governing inter-state relations in the field of safety in genetic engineering.