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University of Central Asia news (news - 25 February 2014) / UCA's Institute of Public Policy and Administration Hosts Policy-Making Process in Government Symposium [PDF]

, 2014
The symposium was organised within the framework of University of Central Asia (UCA) Research and Public Policy Initiative, and is the first in a series to take place in the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
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ASSIST: Refinement of a Benefits Navigator Intervention Among Low‐Income Pediatric Oncology Families

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Children with cancer living in poverty experience worse survival and quality of life. Interventions connecting low‐income families to benefits (e.g., Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [SNAP] improve health outcomes; yet nearly 50% of SNAP‐eligible pediatric oncology families are unenrolled.
Puja J. Umaretiya, Selena Murcia Mendez, Jennifer Kellett, Sarah Wright, Marisel Ponton, Robin T. Higashi, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Ayesha Zia, Joanne Wolfe, Sandi L. Pruitt, Kira Bona   +11 more
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University of Central Asia news (news - 9 April 2014) / Institute of Public Policy and Administration hosts Policy Process Symposium at Afghan Ministry of Finance [PDF]

, 2014
This brief newsletter reports on symposium presentations regarding Policy Process in the Government of Afghanistan and hosted by University of Central Asia (UCA) Institute of Public Policy and Administration (IPPA). The event was organised in partnership
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Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia

, 2021
Central Peripheries explores post-Soviet Central Asia through the prism of nation-building. Although relative latecomers on the international scene, the Central Asian states see themselves as globalized, and yet in spite of – or perhaps precisely because of – this, they hold a very classical vision of the nation-state, rejecting the abolition of ...
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Admixture Mapping Reveals Candidate Regions for Methotrexate Neurotoxicity Susceptibility: A Reducing Disparities in Acute Leukemia Consortium Report

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Neurotoxicity is a rare, often dose‐limiting adverse effect of methotrexate (MTX) therapy that disproportionally affects Latino children. Factors contributing to the observed disparity are not well understood. This study leveraged admixture mapping to identify genetic regions associated with MTX‐related neurotoxicity susceptibility ...
Rachel D. Harris, Priya B. Shetty, Olga A. Taylor, Elizabeth G. Atkinson, Melissa A. Richard, M. Monica Gramatges, Mark Zobeck, Sandi Pruitt, Amy Hughes, M. Brooke Bernhardt, Ashley Chavana, Van Huynh, Kathleen Ludwig, Laura Klesse, Kenneth Heym, Timothy Griffin, Rodrigo Erana, Juan Carlos Bernini, Han Chen, Bing Yu, Philip J. Lupo, Karen R. Rabin, Michael E. Scheurer, Austin L. Brown, The REDIAL Consortium   +24 more
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Disentangling the relative impacts of climate change and human activities on arid and semiarid grasslands in Central Asia during 1982-2015.

Science of the Total Environment, 2019
In recent decades, climate change and human activities have severely affected grasslands in Central Asia. Grassland regulation and sustainability in this region require an accurate assessment of the effects of these two factors on grasslands.
Tao Chen, A. Bao, Guli Jiapaer, Hao Guo, Guoxiong Zheng, Liangliang Jiang, Cun Chang, Latipa Tuerhanjiang   +7 more
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The state and future of the cryosphere in Central Asia

Water Security, 2020
Snow, glaciers and permafrost translate fluctuations of atmospheric conditions and highlight current environmental changes. Monitoring of these changes is one of the major objectives of the international climate observation strategy developed by the ...
M. Barandun, J. Fiddes, M. Scherler, T. Mathys, T. Saks, D. Petrakov, M. Hoelzle   +6 more
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Mapping Childhood Cancer Care Services in Oceania: Methodological Lessons From the SIOP Global Mapping Programme

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The International Paediatric Oncology Society Global Mapping Programme aims to collect data on global paediatric oncology services by continent, with Africa and Latin America completed. This study reports on the methodology and lessons learned for Oceania, a unique continent with resource disparity across countries, multiple small island ...
Trisha Soosay Raj, Christy Noble, Amy Gray, Daniel C. Moreira, Jennifer Lowe, Maite Gorostegui, Gwenda Anga, Andrew Soma, Milena Lay Dos Santos, Siobhan Cross, Erin Luttrell, Michael Sullivan, Julie Cayrol, Julia Challinor, Neil Ranasinghe, Jordana McLoone, Claire E. Wakefield   +16 more
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University of Central Asia news (training & courses - 29 March 2014) / Certificate Programme in Policy Analysis - Institute of Public Policy and Administration [PDF]

, 2014
The Institute of Public Policy and Administration (IPPA), Graduate School of Development at the University of Central Asia (UCA) announces its Certificate in Policy Analysis programme.
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A Population‐Based Study on Childhood Aplastic Anemia—Incidence, Outcomes, and Health‐Related Quality of Life

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Childhood aplastic anemia (AA) is a rare disease, and both the disease itself and its treatment cause significant morbidity. We aimed to determine the contemporary incidence of childhood AA in Finland, to compare the clinical characteristics of AA against inherited bone marrow failure syndromes (IBMFS) and refractory cytopenia of ...
Lauri‐Matti Kulmala, Riitta Niinimäki, Tytti Pokka, Anu Huurre, Liisa Järvelä, Sauli Palmu, Tuuli Pöyhönen, Pauliina Utriainen, Henri Aarnivala   +8 more
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