BACKGROUND Several European and North American studies have reported associations between cold temperatures and mortality from diseases of the circulatory system. However, the effects of cold vary between the settings warranting further research in other parts of the world. OBJECTIVES To study associations between temperature and mortality from selected diseases of circulatory system in Astan...

Background: In the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries the epidemiology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is poorly characterized. The objective of this analysis is to present the prevalence, burden and risk factors associated with COPD in three CIS countries as part of the CORE study (Chronic Obstructive Respiratory Diseases), the rationale and design of which have...

background: we examined epidemiological aspects of dynamic changes in incidence of ovarian cancer in women of kazakh and russian nationalities in kazakhstan. methods: the material of investigation was primary data on registered patients with malignant ovarian tumors in the whole country. the study was conducted during the period of 1999-2009. evaluation of changes in ovarian cancer incidence in...

This virtual technical assistance (TA) mission supported the Agency in strengthening certain elements of its risk-based supervisory framework. The provided recommendations and training to on assessment banks’ recovery plans interest rate risk banking book (IRRBB). benefited from simultaneous translation. priorities for forthcoming TA missions were discussed with (strengthening cybersecurity fin...

Five species of Ammophila are treated. The lectotype of Ammophila separanda F. Morawitz, 1891 is designated and illustrated. The holotype of Ammophila cellularis Gussakovskij, 1930 is redescribed and illustrated. Two new species, Ammophila barkalovi sp. nov. (Kazakhstan) and A. pevtsovi sp. nov. (China), are described and illustrated. The hitherto unknown female of A. vetuberosa Li & Yang, 1994...

Marios Mattheakis, 2, ∗ Constantinos A. Valagiannopoulos, † and Efthimios Kaxiras 4 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology, Department of Physics, University of Crete, Heraklion 71003, Greece Department of Physics, Nazarbayev University, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan Department of Phy...

Here, we report the draft genome of Cyanobacterium sp. IPPAS strain B-1200, isolated from Lake Balkhash, Kazakhstan, and characterized by the unique fatty acid composition of its membrane lipids, which are enriched with myristic and myristoleic acids. The approximate genome size is 3.4 Mb, and the predicted number of coding sequences is 3,119.

The draft genome sequence of Geobacillus subterraneus strain K, a thermophilic aerobic oil-oxidizing bacterium isolated from production water of the Uzen high-temperature oil field in Kazakhstan, is presented here. The genome is annotated for elucidation of the genomic and phenotypic diversity of thermophilic alkane-oxidizing bacteria.