We evaluated Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) surveillance data from southern Kazakhstan during 2009-2010 and found both spatial and temporal association between reported tick bites and CCHF cases. Public health measures should center on preventing tick bites, increasing awareness of CCHF signs and symptoms, and adopting hospital infection control practices.

The aim of the ERAMIS project is to create a network of Masters degrees“Informatics as a Second Competence” in nine beneficiary universities of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. This contribution presents how faculty development is organized and quality assurance implemented inside this project.

with holonomic constraints B. Kallemov, G.H. Miller*, S. Mitran and D. Trebotich Center for Energy Research, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan; Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA; Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley Nat...

We report the 6,548-Mb genome sequence of Rhodococcus erythropolis strain DN1, isolated from the oil-contaminated soil in the Karagandy region of Kazakhstan. The draft genome sequence of strain DN1 might provide new insights into the genetic mechanisms of crude oil biodegradation.

Two species previously known from East Kazakhstan, Acantholycosa katunensis Marusik, Azarkina & Koponen, 2004, known from the holotype male, and Acantholycosa kurchumensis Marusik, Azarkina & Koponen, 2004, syn. n. known from females, are synonymized, and priority is given to Acantholycosa katunensis. Acantholycosa katunensis is reported for the first time in the Russian Altai. Both sexes of th...

The genus Acanthomegabunus Tsurusaki, Tchemeris & Logunov 2000 is diagnosed and redescribed. A key to species is presented. A new species, Acanthomegabunus altaicus sp. n. from the Аltai Mountains of Russia and NE Kazakhstan is diagnosed, described and figured; its distribution is mapped, along with new records of A.sibiricus Tsurusaki, Tchemeris & Logunov 2000.

1Dept. of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy 2Dept. of Robotics and Mechatronics, Nazarbayev University, 010000 Astana, Kazakhstan 3Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 4Civil Engineering and Architecture Department, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy 5Automatic Control ...

We report here two draft cyanobacterial genome sequences, those of Cyanobacterium aponinum IPPAS B-1201, isolated from a hot spring in the Turgen Gorge (Kazakhstan), and the uncharacterized cyanobacterium IPPAS B-1203, isolated from a hot spring in Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic). These two strains were deposited at the Collection of Microalgae (IPPAS) of the Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiol...

BACKGROUND About a third of the global HIV infections outside sub-Saharan Africa are related to injecting drug use (IDU), and this accounts for a growing proportion of persons living with HIV. This paper is a response to the need to monitor the state of the HIV epidemic as it relates to IDU and the availability of HIV treatment and harm reduction services in 21 high epidemic countries. METHOD...

Matteo Rubagotti∗1, Davide Barcelli and Alberto Bemporad 1 Department of Robotics, Nazarbayev University, Kabanbay Batyr Ave 56, 010000 Astana, Kazakhstan 2 Department of Information Engineering, University of Siena, Via Roma 56, 53100 Siena, Italy 3 IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Piazza S. Ponziano 6, 55100 Lucca, Italy e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], alberto.be...