• FOOD CULTURE OF CONTEMPORARY KOREANS IN KAZAKHSTAN 

  Absadikova, Indira (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  Food is one of the most significant aspects of Korean diaspora culture in Kazakhstan and is an important element of traditions, yet little is known about the food culture of the Koreans of Kazakhstan. Previous studies ...
• DEVELOPMENT OF A CROWDFUNDING WEB-PLATFORM TO IMPROVE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MEDICAL FUNDRAISING FOR A CHARITY FUND 

  Aidarkhan, Assanali; Salamat, Azamat; Issin, Nurkhan (School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, 2023)

  Online medical crowdfunding has expanded the reach of charitable giving, bypassing the traditional barriers of geographic distance, institutional affiliation, or lack of personal connections. At the same time, lack of trust ...
• BORN TO BE SOVIET: AMANGELDY IMANOV’S LIFE AFTER DEATH THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE SOVIET NATIONALITIES POLICY 

  Zhaneken, Adel (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  My interest in Amangeldy Imanov stems from reading the edited volume on The Central Asian Revolt of 1916 and attending history classes during my Master of Arts in Eurasian Studies program.1 I was particularly drawn to the ...
• POINTWISE ESTIMATES FOR POLYHARMONIC GREEN’S FUNCTION 

  Myrzabayeva, Galiya (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  This thesis focuses on the polyharmonic Green’s function, one of fundamental concepts in mathematical analysis and partial differential equations. The Green’s function plays a crucial role in solving problems related to ...
• THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS: KAZAKH ORAL LITERATURE IN JÜSÏPBEK AIMAUYTOV’S NOVEL AQBÏLEK 

  Kossybak, Nuraiym (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  Aqbïlek is one of the first and most innovative novels in Kazakh literature. In this novel, Aimauytov merges Kazakh oral literary genres with novel form. This research looks at the style of Aqbïlek and its continuity with ...
• BINARY ANTIBIOTIC NANOPARTICLES FOR SUSTAINED DRUG RELEASE AND ANTIBACTERIAL ACTION 

  Kalmagambet, Yersin (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  One of the important issues nowadays is the rising antibiotic resistance of bacteria, which is due to their ability to undergo horizontal gene transfer, allowing them to exchange genes, as well as acquire mutations that ...
• A SPINNING TOP? KAZAKHSTAN'S MULTIVECTORISM WITH OTHER MIDDLE POWER STATES 

  Thomas Brosius, Logan Robert (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  Research surrounding the Republic of Kazakhstan foreign policy often assumes the state’s capture by or capitulation to foreign forces, which lead to further conclusions regarding the extent of Kazakhstan’s sovereignty. ...
• CHANGES IN KAZAKH ORTHOGRAPHY IN 1929-1940 AND THEIR REFLECTION OF POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL SHIFTS IN KAZAKHSTAN 

  Seitak, Bibarys (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  The 1920s 30s, as it will be later described in more detail, were the times of important political and ideological changes in Kazakhstan. These changes were reflected in the dynamics of official party rhetoric on different ...
• TRUE LOVE OR FETISH: ABSTRACT AND MATERIALISTIV OBSESSIONS IN NABOKOV’S LOLITA AND PAMUK’S THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE 

  Khamitova, Kamilya (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  My thesis project is a combination of a comparative analysis of the two novels, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence, and a social-anthropological survey of the visitors of the Museum of ...
• COLLECTIVE VICTIMHOOD AND MEMORY IN AZERBAIJAN: THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY THROUGH THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT AND ITS POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS 

  Pérez, Emma (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  The present thesis examines the transmission of memory and political implications of victimized identity in Azerbaijan. It focuses on the strategies of victimization that shape society’s discourse of Nagorno-Karabakh, which ...
• IS COOKING PERCEIVED AS A GENDERED ACTIVITY BY NU STUDENTS? 

  Shakhtamirova, Amina (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  This study examines the perception of cooking activity among Nazarbayev University students and their families, with a focus on gender as a social construct. Through online surveys and in-depth interviews, the research ...
• CHAMPIONS OF MARGINALITY: KAZAKHSTANI LGBTQ+ RIGHTS ACTIVISTS’ IDENTITY AND EXPERIENCE AS CONTENTIOUS CONTRIBUTORS TO THE WELFARE OF SOCIETY 

  Mukhamejanova, Liliya (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  This study explores the experience of Kazakh LGBTQ+ activists with a focus on their activist and intersectional identities, as well as their navigation of their work within a hegemonic state confronting non-cis-heteronormative ...
• ULTRA-SHARP ANGULAR FILTERING OF FAR-FIELD SIGNALS WITH GRADED-INDEX MULTILAYERS 

  Shukurov, Sanat (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  Dielectric multilayers with graded index treat the propagating waves impinging at different angles very differently, due to total internal reflection. Such an ultra-sharp change in the response can be exploited for ...
• EXPERIENCE OF NAZARBAYEV UNIVERSITY STUDENTS GOING THROUGH A TRANSITION FROM ONLINE TO OFFLINE LEARNING 

  Tanbayeva, Madina (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  During the pandemic, almost all educational institutions adopted the online education format due to COVID-19. After two years of pandemic students returned to the traditional offline format of education. This paper ...
• ANALYSIS OF BACTERIOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES IN TENGIZ-KORGALZHYN LAKES SYSTEM USING FULL-LENGTH 16S NANOPORE SEQUENCING DATA 

  Len, Polina (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  Tengiz-Korgalzhyn Lakes system, designated under the Ramsar Convention and UNESCO World Heritage Sites, is a unique ecosystem of wetlands inhabited by more than a hundred protected and endemic species. In the context of ...
• FOR WOMEN, OF WOMEN AND BY WOMEN: STUDYING BUSINESS FROM A MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD TO DRIVER OF SOCIAL CHANGE FROM A POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVE 

  Amirbekova, Jasmin (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  Entrepreneurship has traditionally been viewed as an economic activity driven by market forces and individual interests. However, recent research has highlighted entrepreneurship's dynamic, contextual, and multilevel nature, ...
• VIEWING THE 19TH - CENTURY KAZAKH NOMADS THROUGH THE LENS OF RUSSIAN ETHNOGRAPHERS 

  Tungatarov, Yerik (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  Ethnographic findings of Russian colonial representatives are the main sources for studying the Steppe inhabitants from the time of their first contact with the Russian Empire until the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917. ...
• INVERSE TIME-DEPENDENT SOURCE PROBLEMS IN EVOLUTION EQUATIONS 

  Kuangaliyeva, Dilyara (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  We solve inverse problems of determining continuous time-dependent source terms in evolution equations. As a particular case, one inverse initialboundary value problem with observation data at a spatial point is sufficient ...
• COLLABORATIONISM OF CENTRAL ASIAN MUSLIMS WITH NAZI GERMANY DURING WWII 

  Kapasheva, Nargiz (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  The Central Asian population was one of the most mobilized groups in the Red Army. Around 3,4 million Turkestanis (Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Turkmens, Kirghiz, and Tajiks) were drafted into the Red Army during the war, thousands ...
• FINITE-TIME SYNCHRONIZATION FOR FUZZY SHUNTING INHIBITORY CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS 

  Nuriyev, Zhangir (School of Sciences and Humanities, 2023)

  Obtaining synchronization in the activity of neural networks has been a major goal for scientists of various fields. Thus, several problems based on finite-time synchronization are to be explored in this paper. The primary ...

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