Economic and Spatial Determinants of Interregional Migration in Kazakhstan In this paper we analyze economic and spatial determinants of interregional migration in Kazakhstan using quarterly panel data on region to region migration in 2008-2010. In line with traditional economic theory we find that migration is determined by economic factors, first of all income: People are more likely to leave...

Received Accepted Emergence, spread, persistence and fade-out of sylvatic plague in Kazakhstan Lise Heier1, Geir O. Storvik1,2, Stephen A. Davis3, Hildegunn Viljugrein1,4, Vladimir S. Ageyev5, Evgeniya Klassovskaya6 and Nils Chr. Stenseth1,* Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biology, University of Oslo, PO Box 1066 Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway Department of M...

On September 19, 2003, the presidents of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine signed an agreement in Yalta on “The Concept of a Single Economic Space” (SES). The idea behind this agreement was initially announced by these presidents in Moscow on February 23, 2003. Highlevel groups, led by vice prime ministers, were established to negotiate the draft documents, which were signed on August 17...

The genus Kassinella was established by Keller (1960: 90) for extinct Lower Carboniferous (Tournaisian) corals from Kazakhstan. The name, however, is preoccupied by the senior homonym Kassinella Borissiak (1956: 50) (Brachiopoda), equally honouring N. G. Kassin, famous geologist and explorer of Kazakhstan. To resolve the homonymy, in accordance with the International Code of Zoological Nomencla...

Understanding the future drought condition is critical to coping with challenge of climate change. This study evaluated simulation capability 30 Global Climate Models (GCMs) provided by Coupled Model InterComparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) in simulating precipitation (P), potential evapotranspiration (PET) and temperature (T) arid Central Asia (ACA), estimated dry-wet climatic characteristics t...

BACKGROUND Sawyer (1986) included three species in the nasal leech genus LimnatisMoquin-Tandon 1827: Limnatisnilotica (Savigny 1822), LimnatisbacescuiManoleli 1972 and Limnatispaluda (Tennent 1859). The first and last species have mainly been identified in Middle Eastern countries (e.g. Kinzelbach and Rückert 1985). The second species has been identified only in Romania Dobruja (Manoleli 1972)....

Today Kazakhstan is a country with a very high level of literacy. The living standards and economy in the country are growing very rapidly. But the emergence of eLearning was held stable and haphazard. This is due to many factors later involvement in the process of society’s “informatization”, lack of attention to the development of distance and corporate learning. Meanwhile, e-Learning is impo...

BACKGROUND Main treatable Chronic Respiratory Diseases (CRDs) like Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Bronchial Asthma (BA) and Allergic Rhinitis (AR) are underdiagnosed and undertreated worldwide. CORE study was aimed to assess the point prevalence of COPD, BA and AR in the adult population of major cities of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries - Azerbaijan, Kazakhsta...

1 Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, 2 Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 3 Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, 4 Department of Medical Biochemistry, College of Health Sciences, School of Biomedical and Al...