Cephennium chirgisianum sp. n. of western Kyrgyzstan is described. This is the easternmost known locality where this predominantly western European genus occurs. This new species is not placed in any subgenus, and problems with subgeneric diagnoses and systematics of Cephennium are discussed. The distribution of Cephennium is summarized and possible dispersal routes or areas where this genus ca...

BACKGROUND Research suggests that the prevalence of loneliness varies between countries and that feeling lonely may be associated with poorer health behaviours and outcomes. The aim of the current study was to examine the factors associated with loneliness, and the relationship between feeling lonely and health behaviours and outcomes in the countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU)--a region ...

INTRODUCTION The expanding HIV epidemic in Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan is concentrated among people who inject drugs (PWID), who comprise a third of prisoners there. Detention of PWID is common but its impact on health has not been previously studied in the region. We aimed to understand the relationship between official and unofficial (police harassment) detention of PWID and HIV risk behaviours...

It has only recently been discovered that the likely origin of some of the world's most important fruit crops, such as apples, apricots and walnuts, lie in a small region of forests in central Asia. The region is home to more than 300 wild fruit and nut species but this unique genetic resource is under major threat, according to a new report which estimated that 90 per cent of this woodland has...

Since the beginning of 2000s, China has embarked on an unprecedented path economic development, as evidence which is largest project XXI century initiated by People's Republic China. The global Belt and Road Initiative announced first person country, Xi Jinping, a shortened name ‘Silk Economic Belt’ ‘XXI Century Maritime Silk Road’. It covers Asia-Pacific, Europe, Central Asia, Southeast West A...

1National Center of Cardiology and Internal Medicine, Togolok, Kyrgyzstan 2Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India 3Department of Statistics, University of Burdwan, Golapbag, Rajbati, West Bengal, India *Corresponding author: Rabindra Nath Das, Department of Statistics, University of Burdwan, Burdwan, West Bengal, India, Tel: +91-9232638970; Fax: +9...

The legacy of uranium production threatens the environment and public security in Kyrgyzstan and neighboring countries. The key ecological problems include: pollution of the environment with radionuclides; increasing risk of RAW tailing dumps destruction due to climate change, natural disasters and anthropogenic catastrophes which are typical for mountainous and seismic regions, and large land ...

World Health Organization has recommended all countries to introduction of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) in routine immunization schedule, especially those countries with higher rate of mortality in children. However, Islamic Republic of Iran and more than 50 other countries including Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Cabo V...