BACKGROUND In 2009, 48% of males aged 15 or over in Mongolia consumed tobacco, placing Mongolia among the countries with the highest prevalence of male smokers in the world. Importantly, tobacco use is one of the four major risk factors contributing to the global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) - the leading cause of mortality in Mongolia. However, the knowledge, attitudes and practi...

Understanding the regional relationships between climate change and crop production will benefit strategic decisions for future agricultural adaptation in China. In this study, the combined effects of climatic factors on spring wheat phenophase and grain yield over the past three decades in Inner Mongolia, China, were explored based on the daily climate variables from 1981-2014 and detailed obs...

Introduction / objectives Official reports of Mongolia indicate that hospitalacquired infections (HAI) occur in 0.01–0.05% of all hospital admissions. This is considerably lower than internationally reported rates. There have been no published HAI prevalence studies from Mongolia. We aimed to determine the first accurate estimate of HAI prevalence in two tertiary hospitals of Ulaanbaatar and to...

Dental and postcranial specimens of Gomphos elkema, including lower and upper dentition and pedal elements, from the Huheboerhe locality, Erlian Basin, Nei-Mongol (Inner Mongolia), are described. Postcranial elements of Gomphos are similar to those of Mimolagus, suggesting affinity with lagomorphs. Gomphos elkema is a typical Bumbanian taxon, previously known only from Mongolia. Gomphos elkema ...

Two new species, Paramesosciophilodesbellus sp. n. and Paramesosciophilodesrarissima sp. n., from the Jiulongshan Formation at Daohugou Village, Inner Mongolia, China, are described in the extinct family Mesosciophilidae. Altogether seven genera with 21 species of mesosciophilids have been described from the Jurassic of Siberia and Kazakhstan, the Lower Cretaceous of Transbaikalia, and the Midd...

1 Museum of Southwestern Biology and Biology Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America, 2 John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, 3 Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas, Panama City, Panama, 4 National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 5 National Center for Emerging and Zoon...

College of Life Science, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia 010021, China; Agricultural Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Plant Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-4163; Computational Bioscience Research Centre, The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 23955-6900; Crop Physiology Laboratory, Graduate School of ...

Center for Environmental Remote Sensing (CEReS), Chiba University, Chiba, Japan; College of Geographical Science, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Huhhot, China; Geography Department, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan; National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Cairo, Egypt; School of Computer and Information Technology, Mongolian State University of Education, Ulaanba...