Two new species of the genus Zorochros are described from Korea: Zorochros (Zorochros) coreanus sp. nov. and Z. (Z.) mansusanensis sp. nov., belonging to the Z. (Z.) alysidotus species group and Z. (Z.) meridionalis species group, respectively. A key to the Eurasian species for the Z. alysidotus group (nine species) and the Z. meridionalis group (five species) is provided with illustrations of ...

Macropsis milkoi Tishetshkin sp. n. from West Tien Shan, Alay and Hissar-Darvaz Mts. (Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) and Macropsis anufrievi Tishetshkin sp. n. from Hissar-Darvaz Mts. (Tajikistan) are described. M. elaeagni Emelyanov, 1964 = M. cyanescens Dubovskiy, 1966 syn. n. is redescribed and illustrated based on the material from Central Asia. Annotated check list and key to 30 Macropsis spec...

Three new species of Pardosa, P. svatoni sp. n. (dy, SE Kazakhstan), P. fengisp. n. (male female, Central Xinjiang) and P lii sp. n. (male female, Central Xinjiang) are described and illustrated. The two former species cannot be placed in any species group. Pardosa lii sp. n. belongs to the P. wagleri species group. It is compared with P. italica Tongiorgi, 1966, whose embolic division has not ...

Macropsis abdullaevi Dubovskiy, 1966 = M. arslanbobica Dlabola, 1967 syn. nov., M. ibragimovi Dubovskiy, 1966 and M. asiatica Dubovskiy, 1966 from West Tien Shan Mts. (Kyrgyzstan) are redescribed and illustrated based on material from type localities or/and adjacent territories. M. tarbagataica Mityaev, 1971 from Kazakhstan is recorded from West Tien Shan for the first time. Data on host plants...

a Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1005, USA b School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic 3010, Australia c Institute of Nuclear Physics, National Nuclear Centre, 010008 Astana, Kazakhstan d Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2104, USA e Depar...

Zodion hispanicum spec. nov. is described from Spain (Murcia, Sierra Espuña) and Zodion hauseri spec. nov. is described from Kazakhstan (Almaty Province, Charyn Valley). A diagnosis is given for Zodion andersoni Kröber, 1936 and Zodion vsevolodi Zimina, 1974. Zodion asiaticum Becker, 1922 is placed as a junior synonym of Zodion cinereum (Fabricius, 1794) (syn. nov.). New faunistic records are p...

Methods We randomly assigned household and day-care contacts, 2 to 40 years of age, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, to receive one standard age-appropriate dose of hepatitis A vaccine or immune globulin within 14 days after exposure to patients with hepatitis A. Instances of laboratory-confirmed, symptomatic hepatitis A infection occurring between 15 and 56 days after exposure were then assessed during ...

Methods/case 6 y/o girl from Kazakhstan presenting with discrete heliotrope of upper eyelids, erythema of the chest and extensor surfaces of extremities, Gottron’s papules as well as scarred piecemeal necrosis on 1 finger and 2 toes. Close examination revealed nailfold tortuositas. Muscle strength was 5/5, CMAS 48/51. Inflammatory parameters were not elevated, transaminases, CK and aldolase in ...

Francesco Monticone, Constantinos A. Valagiannopoulos, and Andrea Alù Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA Department of Physics, School of Science and Technology, Nazarbayev University, KZ-010000 Astana, Kazakhstan Center for Nanophotonics, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Science Park 104, 1098 XG Amsterd...

Urinary tract morbidity has increased by 7% in Kazakhstan between 2007 to 2011. Pregnant women with extragenital pathologies or kidney diseases had the greatest prevalence of morbidity. Asymptomatic bacteriuria (AB) is one of the most important risk factors of pyelonephritis development in pregnant women, and it can affect the course and outcome of pregnancy, delivery, and postnatal period. AB ...