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Assessing Food Safety and Quality Compliance: An Evidence from Vegetable Industry

Proceedings, 2020
The aim of present research was to assess and document the practices for prevailed food safety and quality standards as employed by small scale growers and market managers in the vegetable supply chains of Pakistan.
Rehan Riaz, Arfa Jawaid, Babar Ehsan Bajwa, Muhammad Asif   +3 more
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Improving HIV service delivery for people who inject drugs in Kazakhstan: study protocol for the Bridge stepped-wedge trial

Implementation Science, 2019
Background People who inject drugs (PWID) in Kazakhstan face many barriers to HIV testing as well as to accessing HIV care, to retention in HIV care, and to initiating and adhering to anti-retroviral treatment (ART).
Tara McCrimmon, Louisa Gilbert, Timothy Hunt, Assel Terlikbayeva, Elwin Wu, Meruyert Darisheva, Sholpan Primbetova, Azamat Kuskulov, Alissa Davis, Anindita Dasgupta, Bruce R. Schackman, Lisa R. Metsch, Daniel J. Feaster, Baurzhan Baiserkin, Nabila El-Bassel   +14 more
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Pedagogical and Intercultural Facets in an International Students’ Research Training Program in Times of Pandemic

International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 2022
This paper discusses the conception of a joint intercultural students’ research program of one German and two Kyrgyzstani teachers and students from the Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg (Germany) and the American University of Central Asia ...
Heiko Schrader, Galina Gorborukova, Makhinur Mamatova   +2 more
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New evidence for regional pastoral practice and social complexity in the Eastern Tianshan Mountains in the first millennium BCE

Scientific Reports, 2023
Mobile pastoralism was a key lifeway in the Late Bronze and Iron Age of Northwest China and played a crucial role in the regional socio-cultural development, as well as the formation of transregional networks. In this paper we analyse the complete faunal
Yuxuan Wang, Francesca Monteith, Tongyuan Xi, Meng Ren, Daren Li, Songmei Hu, Jianxin Wang, Marcella Festa, Jian Ma   +8 more
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US POLICY TOWARDS CENTRAL ASIA UNDER TRUMP

Revista UNISCI, 2017
U.S. policy faces numerous challenges in Central Asia, such as the decreasing U.S. military and economic resources in the region; Russian and Chinese hostility to a long-term U.S. military presence in Eurasia; restrictions on religious and other freedoms
Lance Alred, Sean Michael Kelly, Madina Rubly, Yuliya Shokh, Mariam Tsitsishvili, Richard Weitz   +5 more
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AT1R gene rs389566 polymorphism contributes to MACCEs in hypertension patients

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2023
Objective To investigate the possible association between AT1R gene polymorphisms and major adverse cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events (MACCEs) in hypertension patients combined with or without coronary artery disease (CAD) in Xinjiang.
Jun-Yi Luo, Guo-Li Du, Yang-Min Hao, Fen Liu, Tong Zhang, Bin-Bin Fang, Xiao-Mei Li, Xiao-Ming Gao, Yi-Ning Yang   +8 more
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Health and economic growth in Central Asia [PDF]

Russian Journal of Economics
This paper explores how the health-related component of human capital affects economic performance in all five Central Asian countries. In particular, it analyzes the impact of life expectancy on overall GDP and output per worker, which characterizes ...
Mirzobobo Yormirzoev, Amina Ayombekova
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Echinococcus granulosus cyst fluid inhibits KDM6B-mediated demethylation of trimethylated histone H3 lysine 27 and interleukin-1β production in macrophages

Parasites & Vectors, 2023
Background Echinococcus granulosus can manipulate its host's immune response to ensure its own survival. However, the effect of histone modifications on the regulation of the NOD-like receptor protein 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome and downstream interleukin-1β (
Ruolin Lin, Xiaopeng Wang, Caiya Ni, Chunxue Fu, Chun Yang, Dan Dong, Xiangwei Wu, Xueling Chen, Lianghai Wang, Jun Hou   +9 more
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Multibook review. From core to periphery: global power and the case of Central Asia

Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2019
Review of the books: Massansalvador, Francesc y Izquierdo Brichs, Ferran (eds.). Poder y regímenes en Asia Central. Edicions Bellaterra, 2018. 341 págs. Izquierdo Brichs, Ferran y Etherington, John. Poder global.
Javier Mojal García
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Globalizing local understanding of fragility in Eurasia

Journal of Eurasian Studies, 2021
The article aims to introduce the underlying motivation and conceptual underpinning to the special issue entitled “Globalizing Local Understanding of Fragility in Eurasia.” The main purpose of this article is to problematize the popular opinion and ...
Prajakti Kalra, Siddharth Shanker Saxena
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