Rodent communities of the Western Kazakhstan oblast of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Message 1. Maps of rodent communities and zoogeographic regionalization

Karyotypic variability of plants was evaluated in 17 populations of six species of the genus Chondrilla (C. ambigua Fisch., C. brevirostris Fisch, et Mey., C. laticoronata Leonova, C. canescens Kar., Kir., C. juncea, C. pauciflora Ledeb.) in the Astrakhan, Voronezh and Saratov regions, the Republic of Kalmykia, and Western Kazakhstan. It is maintained that C. ambigua is a strict diploid (2n = 2x = 10) species, while its close relative - C. pauciflora - is a strict triploid (2n = 3x = 15) taxon. The research demonstrates that the plants of the apomictic taxa C. brevirostris, C. canescens, C. juncea and C. laticoronata are characterized by the genomic instability in the form of chromosome instability which results in these species’ mixed-ploidy populations.

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Regional Employment and Occupational Morbidity Indicators in Western Kazakhstan

Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences ◽

10.3889/oamjms.2020.3406 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (E) ◽

pp. 138-142

Author(s):

Zhangeldy Shaimbetov ◽

Umit Satybaldieva ◽

Arstan Mamyrbayev

Keyword(s):

Working Conditions ◽

Occupational Diseases ◽

Annual Reports ◽

Morbidity Rate ◽

Positive Trend ◽

The West ◽

Regional Employment ◽

Western Kazakhstan ◽

The Republic ◽

West Kazakhstan

BACKGROUND: The article deals with regional employment and occupational morbidity indicators in Western Kazakhstan. AIM: The purpose is to study the employment indicators in hazardous working conditions and the dynamics of occupational morbidity in the West Kazakhstan region for the period 2013–2017. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Materials obtained from the Public Health Departments of the Aktobe, Atyrau, West Kazakhstan, and Mangystau regions were studied based on the results of periodic medical examinations of workers employed in hazardous working conditions for the period 2013–2017. The indicators of the dynamics of occupational morbidity in the region are derived from the annual reports of the West Kazakhstan branch of the RSE at the National Hygiene Center for Occupation and Occupational Diseases of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the period 2013–2017. RESULTS: The Atyrau, West Kazakhstan, and Mangystau regions saw an annual increase in the number of workers employed in hazardous production. In the Aktobe region, the number of people employed in hazardous working conditions decreased due to the decline in industrial production. There is a positive trend in this region to identify occupational diseases. In the Atyrau, West Kazakhstan, and Mangystau regions, the occupational morbidity rate is close to zero. CONCLUSION: It is necessary to revise the existing orders of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan concerning the improvement of the occupational health service.

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Rodent communities in Western Kazakhstan oblasts of the Kazakhstan Republic. II. Zoogeography characteristics

Arid Ecosystems ◽

10.1134/s2079096114030068 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 187-193

Author(s):

N. M. Okulova ◽

L. A. Khlyap ◽

F. G. Bidashko ◽

A. A. Warshavskyi ◽

A. K. Grazhdanov ◽

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Keyword(s):

Western Kazakhstan ◽

Rodent Communities

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Time and Latitude in South Africa

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s0252921100026816 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 27-38

Author(s):

J. Hers

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Cape Town ◽

Astronomical Observations ◽

Royal Observatory ◽

The Republic ◽

Astronomical Determination ◽

Limited Accuracy ◽

Better Than

In South Africa the modern outlook towards time may be said to have started in 1948. Both the two major observatories, The Royal Observatory in Cape Town and the Union Observatory (now known as the Republic Observatory) in Johannesburg had, of course, been involved in the astronomical determination of time almost from their inception, and the Johannesburg Observatory has been responsible for the official time of South Africa since 1908. However the pendulum clocks then in use could not be relied on to provide an accuracy better than about 1/10 second, which was of the same order as that of the astronomical observations. It is doubtful if much use was made of even this limited accuracy outside the two observatories, and although there may – occasionally have been a demand for more accurate time, it was certainly not voiced.

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