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Stoicism or shyness?: Japanese professional matchmakers and new masculine conversational ideals

Alpert, Erika (Journal of Language and Sexuality, 2014-01-01)

I examine data from my fieldwork with Japanese professional matchmakers and their attitude towards new, “less masculine” masculinities. Matchmakers’ ideologies of conversation show that they understand “good partners” as ...
Eurasian textiles: Case studies in exchange during the incipient and later Silk Road periods

Doumani Dupuy, Paula N.; Spengler, Robert N.; Frachetti, Michael D. (Quaternary International, 2017-03-01)
Bronze Age Hill Forts: New evidence for defensive sites in the western Tian Shan, China

Jia, Peter Weiming; Betts, Alison; Doumani Dupuy, Paula N.; Cong, Dexin; Jia, Xiaobing (Archaeological Research in Asia, 2017-11-08)

Abstract This paper reports on the recent discovery in western Xinjiang of three Late Bronze Age walled sites located on high hilltops, with a fourth on a terrace above a river bed. The hilltop sites contain very small ...
Indigenous Christianity of Central Asia: adoption of Nestorianism in the Medieval period (7-14 AD)

Tashmanbetova, Zhuldyz (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018-10-26)
Early integration of pastoralism and millet cultivation in Bronze Age Eurasia

Hermes, Taylor R.; Frachetti, Michael D.; Dupuy, Paula Doumani; Mar'yashev, Alexei; Nebel, Almut; Makarewicz, Cheryl A. (Royal Society, 2019-09)

Mobile pastoralists are thought to have facilitated the first trans-Eurasian dispersals of domesticated plants during the Early Bronze Age (ca 2500–2300 BC). Problematically, the earliest seeds of wheat, barley and millet ...
Sacred Geographies in the Eurasian Steppe: The Aqkol Shrine as a Symbol of Kazakh Ethnicity and Religiosity

Bigozhin, Ulan (Sciendo, 2019-12-05)
Internship Satisfaction

Ikhatova, Sabina (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-05-19)

The study is intended to explore features of good internship experience, what are the expectations of students regarding internships, and does internship satisfaction affect student’s willingness to work in the company in ...
HIGH MITOCHONDRIAL DIVERSITY OF DOMESTICATED GOATS PERSISTED AMONG BRONZE AND IRON AGE PASTORALISTS IN THE INNER ASIAN MOUNTAIN CORRIDOR

Hermes, Taylor R.; Frachetti, Michael D.; Voyakin, Dmitriy; Yerlomaeva, Antonina S.; Beisenov, Arman Z.; Doumani Dupuy, Paula N.; Papin, Dmitry V.; Matuzeviciute, Giedre Motuzaite; Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav; Houle, Jean-Luc; Tishkin, Alexey A.; Nebel, Almut; Krause-Kyora, Ben; Makarewicz, Cheryl A. (Public Library of Science, 2020-05-21)

Goats were initially managed in the Near East approximately 10,000 years ago and spread across Eurasia as economically productive and environmentally resilient herd animals. While the geographic origins of domesticated ...
SHIFTING SEAS, SHIFTING BOUNDARIES: DYNAMIC MARINE PROTECTED AREA DESIGNS FOR A CHANGING CLIMATE

Cashion, Tim; Nguyen, Tu; Brink, Talya ten; ten Brink, Talya; Mook, Anne; Palacios-Abrantes, Juliano; Roberts, Sarah M. (Public Library of Science, 2020-11-10)

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are valuable tools for marine conservation that aim to limit human impacts on marine systems and protect valuable species or habitats. However, as species distributions shift due to ocean ...
APPRAISING DISCREPANCIES AND SIMILARITIES IN SEMANTIC NETWORKS USING CONCEPT-CENTERED SUBNETWORKS

Medeuov, Darkhan; Roth, Camille; Puzyreva, Kseniia; Basov, Nikita (Applied Network Science, 2021-09-03)

This article proposes an approach to compare semantic networks using conceptcentered sub-networks. A concept-centered sub-network is defned as an induced network whose vertex set consists of the given concept (ego) and ...
WOMEN IN MALE-DOMINATED INDUSTRIES IN NUR-SULTAN: POLICEWOMEN AND FEMALE MANUAL WORKERS AUTONOMY, DIFFICULTIES, AND WORK CULTURE

Kalikhbayev, Nurislam; Bissenova, Alima; Medeuov, Darkhan (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2022-05-07)

People spend a considerable part of their life devoted to work. It is the gender, one of the dimensions, that shapes the access to a specific profession and determines how others may perceive you. For centuries society’s ...
BARRIERS IN WOMEN'S CAREER PROGRESSION IN KAZAKHSTAN: THE EXPERIENCE OF WOMEN IN UPPER MANAGEMENT.

Omirkhanova, Akbota (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

This study investigates the barriers that prevent women from progressing to upper management echelons in the workplaces in Kazakhstan. Using the qualitative method, namely semi-structured interviews, with six female top ...
HOW FEMALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN KAZAKHSTAN EXPRESS THEIR FEMINIST IDENTITY IN DIFFERENT SOCIAL CONTEXTS: A QUALITATIVE STUDY BASED ON STUDENTS AT NAZARBAYEV UNIVERSITY

Armsan, Rebekka (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

This research project examines the experiences which young women who study at Nazarbayev University (NU) and identify themselves as feminists encountered in different social contexts in Kazakhstan (unfamiliar/familial/university ...