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Back to the Roots: Contemporary Kazakh And Mexican Graphic Novels

Malika, Kanasheva (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-05-01)

The pre-colonial setting has been a great source of inspiration for young comic book artists in Kazakhstan and Mexico. If artists such as Eduardo Ancer and Gonzalo Alvarez use pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica, its ancient culture, ...
Backward algorithm and abstract graphs in zero-sum games

Iklassov, Zangir (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-05-01)

With the beginning of the computer age, solving many problems in game theory has become easier. However, there is a whole class of well-known problems such as chess, checkers, go and so on, the methods of solving which ...
BARIUM DOPED CARBON DOTS AS BIMODAL CT CONTRAST AGENTS

Kairova, Meruyert (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-04-16)

In the past several decades computed tomography (CT) has been accepted as a useful tool for bioimaging in medicine. The choice of a suitable contrast agent for CT that is low-cost, effective, and has no side effects ...
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 ...
Base Metal Catalysts for Deoxygenative Reduction of Amides to Amines

Khalimon, Andrey; Gudun, Kristina; Hayrapetyan, Davit (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2019-06-01)

The development of efficient methodologies for production of amines attracts significant attention from synthetic chemists, because amines serve as essential building blocks in the synthesis of many pharmaceuticals, natural ...
Belief in god and altruism. Is there any effect?

Kuzenbayev, Nygmetzhan (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018)

The influence of individual’s belief in God and other factors, such as religiousity, education, perception of happiness, et cetera, on altruistic behavior was empirically examined during this study. It was discovered that ...
BENIGN OVERFITTING WITH RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED MODELS

Assylbekov, Zhenisbek; Tezekbayev, Maxat; Nikoulina, Vassilina; Gallé, Matthias (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2022)

Despite the fact that modern deep neural networks have the ability to memorize (almost) the entire training set they generalize well to unseen data, contradicting traditional learning theory. This phenomenon --- dubbed ...
BIOCHEMICAL AND ELECTROCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF BIOFILMS FORMED ON EVEROLIMUS-ELUTING CORONARY STENTS

Akhmetzhan, Gauhar; Olaifa, Kayode; Kitching, Michael; Cahill, Paul A.; Pham, Tri T.; Ajunwa, Obinna M.; Marsili, Enrico (Enzyme and Microbial Technology, 2022)

Drug-eluting stents (DES) are mostly used in percutaneous coronary intervention, which is the main treatment for coronary artery occlusion. This procedure aims to restore the natural lumen, while minimizing the risk ...
A bioinformatics potpourri

Schönbach, Christian; Li, Jinyan; Ma, Lan; Horton, Paul; Sjaugi, Muhammad Farhan (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2018-01-19)

The 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) was held at Tsinghua University, Shenzhen from September 20 to 22, 2017. The annual conference of the Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network featured six keynotes, ...
BOUTIQUE OWNERS IN NUR-SULTAN: THE THORNY PATH TO SUCCESS FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

Kimel, Zhansaule (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-07-16)

Many people believe that shuttle trade does not exist anymore and it is a thing of the past. Shuttle trade as an activity in which individual peddlers buy goods abroad and import them for resale in local markets and street ...
BRANDING KAZAKHSTAN: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN STATE AND NON-STATE ACTORS

Sadvakassova, Darina (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2017)

This thesis is devoted to the analysis of Kazakhstani nation branding processes. The Republic of Kazakhstan faced the need to present itself on international arena right after the country’s independence. The questions of ...
Brick-By-Brick: A Construction of ’t Hooft’s Brick Wall

Gilman, Narynbek (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020)

A pedagogical construction and review, aimed at the undergraduate level, are given of the brick wall model. The brick wall is a finite region just outside the event horizon of a black hole. It is introduced in order to ...
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 ...
BUILDING A CORPUS OF JOURNALISTIC KAZAKH LANGUAGE USING NEURAL NETWORKS FOR AUTOMATED PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING

Mikhailov, Nikolay (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2021-06)

The thesis explores the status quo of the Kazakh language in terms of corpus linguistics. The project aims to survey the currently existing corpora of the Kazakh language and contribute to the existing body through a ...
Burabay national park. Experiments in tourism, nationbuilding, and informal economy

Nurmukhanov, Nursultan (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2016)

This work analyzes how environment and society interact with each other focusing on the case of Burabay National Park. Based on the field research and numerous interviews, this work demonstrates how seemingly disparate ...
Calculation of manifold’s tangent space at a given point from noisy data

Toleubek, Moldir (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-05-04)

Recently, several studies have been conducted in a field of machine learning to construct manifolds from data in a complex multidimensional space. Therefore manifold learning becomes remarkably attractable among researchers. ...
Camels and Colonial Armies. The Logistics of warfare in Central Asia in the early 19th century

Morrison, Alexander Stephen (2014)

This article explores the use of camels for baggage transport by European colonial armies in the nineteenth century. It focuses in particular on two episodes: the Russian winter expedition to Khiva, and the march of the ...
CAMOSTAT DOES NOT INHIBIT THE PROTEOLYTIC ACTIVITY OF NEUTROPHIL SERINE PROTEASES

Assylbekova, Akmaral; Zhanapiya, Anuar; Grzywa, Renata; Sienczyk, Marcin; Schönbach, Christian (Pharmaceuticals, 2022)

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can lead to multi-organ failure influenced by co morbidities and age. Binding of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 spike protein (SARS-CoV-2 S protein) to angiotensi ...
CAMPAIGNING BY HUMAN BRANDING: ASSOCIATING WITH AMERICAN PRESIDENTS

Collins, Neil (Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020-09-08)

Human branding has become an essential issue in political marketing. It is exemplified in the election of American Presidents. This paper examines the American experience to suggest a typology of human branding that may ...
Captivity and empire: Russian captivity narratives in fact and fiction

Gao, Yuan (Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2016)

This thesis studies Russian captivity narratives about Central Asia produced during the nineteenth century. Focusing on the captivity theme, this thesis explores diverse individual captivity stories written within the ...