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Age structure and growth of the black-ocellated racerunner (Eremias nigrocellata, Reptilia, Lacertidae) in the loess desert of Tajikistan

Acta Biologica Sibirica
The paper presents the results of age and growth studying of the black-ocellated racerunner (Eremias nigrocellata) by skeletochronology. 23 adult individuals (14 females and 9 males) collected on the border of Shaartuz and Nosiri-Khusrav districts in ...
Artem A. Kidov, Vladimir O. Erashkin, Roman A. Ivolga, Tatyana E. Kondratova, Andrey A. Ivanov   +4 more
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Health diplomacy of the European Union and its member states in Central Asia. EL-CSID Policy Brief Issue 2018/5 • April 2018 [PDF]

, 2018
In the soft power context, health is increasingly seen as an area that generates particular diplomatic benefits because it is ostensibly non-political and can bring both immediate and long-term advantages equally to the donor and the recipient country ...
Bekenova, Kristina, Collins, Neil, Kagarmanova, Ainur   +2 more
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Geopolitics on a Shoestring? Unpacking the EU'S Geopolitical External Assistance to Central Asia

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines how the European Union's (EU) increasingly emphasised geopolitical ambitions are reflected in the practice of its external assistance policy. An analysis of EU documents around various policy initiatives and funding instruments reveals that in the Commission's understanding, geopolitical external assistance increases EU ...
Balázs Szent‐Iványi, Dóra Piroska
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Improving child mental health and learning outcomes and reducing stigma and discrimination in conflict setting: findings from a cluster randomized controlled trial of a classroom‐based psychosocial intervention in rural primary schools in Afghanistan

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Background Conflict and crises have long‐lasting and dramatic consequences on the mental health of children. We aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a psychosocial intervention on child mental health in Afghanistan. Methods A two‐arm cluster‐randomized controlled trial was conducted in 83 rural primary schools within three provinces of Afghanistan.
Jean‐Francois Trani, Yiqi Zhu, Saria Bechara, Shuya Yin, Parul Bakhshi, Ian Kaplan, Ramkrishna K. Singh, Mohammed A. Modaber, Hashim Rawab, Madelyn Yoo, Kim Thuy Seelinger, Ganesh M. Babulal, Ramesh Raghavan   +12 more
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Central Asian integration as a way of guaranteeing regional security, economic growth, feasibility and prospects [PDF]

, 2010
Nowadays, CA countries are facing serious challenges. Their industries are slowly recovering from the disruption of “supplier-producer” ties among former Soviet republics and East European states.
Najmitdinov, Ahadhon
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Vectors and Vector‐Borne Diseases: Biology, Epidemiology and Integrated Control Strategies

Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vector‐Borne Diseases (VBDs), transmitted by arthropods such as mosquitoes, ticks, fleas and sandflies, represent a significant threat to global health. These diseases can be caused by a variety of pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and helminths.
Roberta Rinaldi, Carmen Scieuzo, Federica De Stefano, Luca Masucci, Patrizia Falabella   +4 more
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Asset-Based Poverty in Rural Tajikistan: Who Climbs out and Who Falls in? [PDF]

Tajikistan?s rural sector has witnessed substantial development since the country began to emerge from civil conflict in 1999. Gross agricultural output increased 64 per cent from 1999 to 2003, and there were significant developments in the agricultural ...
Ivaschenko, Oleksiy, Mete, Cem
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A Mixed‐Method Study on Gender and Intrahousehold Differences in Food Consumption From Khatlon Province, Tajikistan

Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tajikistan faces significant food insecurity and multiple forms of malnutrition in its population, with women particularly at risk. Social norms related to gender and intrahousehold hierarchy are pervasive. Yet, how gender impacts dietary intake in Tajikistan remains to be studied.
Sarah M. L. Pechtl, Mohru Mardonova, Tanzila Ergasheva, Isabel B. Lambrecht   +3 more
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Whose Nation Is It Anyway? Towards Methodological Cosmopolitanism in Studies of Nationalism and Nation‐Building in Kazakhstan

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholarship on nationalism and nation‐building in Kazakhstan has been dominated by a social constructivist approach that privileges the civic–ethnic dichotomy. Even when critiques of this binary have emerged, they have often substituted proxy categories that reproduce the same dualism.
Rico Isaacs
wiley   +1 more source

To the 80^th anniversary of Zakriya Yakhyavich Rakhimov

Евразийский Кардиологический Журнал
This year Zakria Yakhyavich Rakhimov celebrates his 80th birthday. Zakria Yakhyavich Rakhimov is a professor of the cardiology department with a course in clinical pharmacology at the State Educational Institution «Institute of Postgraduate Education in ...
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