RESEARCH NEWSLETTER
OFFICE OF THE PROVOST - RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION QUARTERLY EDITION
December 27, 2019 | Issue 25
IN THIS ISSUE
• Scopus Award 2019 ... 2
• Science Leader - 2019 Award ... 4
• Young researchers united ... 5
• UN, other experts, present prescription to avoid dangerous water shortfall for 70 million Central Asians ... 7
• NUGSE Researchers Conduct Research on Rural Schools of Kazakhstan ... 9
• SSH professor publishes at highly selective journal ... 11
• Dr. Kozhakhmetova and her team designed a mobile application ... 12
• Dr. Hélène Thibault participated at women Academics’ Forum ... 13
• Prof. Zhao published a book ... 14
• Prof. Luis R. Rojas-Solórzano supervises projects at IMT Atlantique ... 14
• SEDS students fabricate biomimetic scaffolds for Anterior Cruciate Ligament regeneration... 15
• 27 Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering students became Certified SolidWorks Associate ... 16
• SMG professor appointed as Associate Editor of a prestigious journal ... 17
• Knowledge Sharing of NU Librarians in Ukraine ... 18
• Research Performance Overview ... 19
• Collaborative Research Program ... 20
• Funding Institutional ... 21
• Funding Opportunities ... 22
• New publications ... 24
One of the biggest science forums was held in Nur-Sultan on December 12 under the theme
“II Science Forum: Research Impact”. Hosted by Astana International Financial Center, Elsevier, and the Ministry of Education and Science, the forum brought together C-level industry leaders, government officials, Ministers and representatives of international scientific and educational organizations. The programme focused on important issues of assessing research performance in terms of the impact it has on the economy, society, and environment.
Askhat Aimagambetov, Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, pointed out that the government pays a special attention to the development of science in Kazakhstan. As instructed by the Head of the State, a new Education and Science Development State Program for 2020-2025 was designed based on new measures that would allow taking national science to the next level (INFORM.KZ).
The Office of the Provost was represented by Loretta O’Donnell - Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Chester Jablonski - Associate Provost for Graduate Studies. This year NU was honored with an Outstanding Research Impact Award.
As in previous year, NU professors received Scopus Award for their contribution to the development of national science measured by the number of published scientific articles and their citation in international journals:
SEDS Vice-Dean of Research Prof. Zhumabay Bakenov, Director of Center for Energy and Advanced Materials Science at NLA won in the nomination «Researcher of the year».
SCOPUS AWARD 2019
Prof. Saltanat Janenova and Prof. Colin Knox from GSPP have been awarded for the best paper on administrative reforms.
The title of the article is ‘Civil Service Reform in Kazakhstan:
trajectory to the 30 most developed countries in the world?’
published in International Review of Administrative Sciences (CiteScore 2.53, Q1 journal by Scopus)
Zakir Jumakulov, an Acting Director of Research Institute at GSE, and his colleagues Laura Perna and Kata Orosz from partner institution UPENN received an award for their research papers on higher education.
Prof. Anton Desyatnikov received a «High Contribution Award».
Dr. Aiymgul Kerimray was awarded in the nomination «Woman in Science». Aiymgul is NU first Ph.D. graduate in Science, Engineering and Technology (graduated in 2018).
Ainur Kadyrbayeva - NU Alumna 2015 received «AIFC Best Paper of the Year» award.
We would like to congratulate our research community members for their achievements and wish
them success in future endeavors!
NLA researchers received “Science Leader-2019” award
On November 13, the «Science Leader – Web of Science Awards 2019» ceremony was held at Al Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty. The event was organized by Clarivate Analytics, the owner and the developer of Web of Science – a publisher-independent global citation database.
This year Prof. Zhaxybay Zhumadilov, General Director at NLA, and Samat Kozhakhmetov, Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of human microbiome and longevity, received the «Science Leader-2019»
award for their research activity over this year. In particular, their research publication on Cardiac and Cardioascular systems was highly cited according to Web of Science.
Maxsat Zhabagin, a Junior Researcher at the Laboratory of genomic and personalized medicine, won in nomination «Leader of Science-2019» for an outstanding research performance among young Kazakhstani researchers.
It should be reminded that in 2015, 2016 and 2017 the well-known scientists from National Laboratory Astana - Dr. Zhumabay Bakenov, Dr. Almagul Mentbayeva, Dr. Timur Saliev, Ainur Kakpenova, Yeldar Baiken and others also won «Leader of Science» award by Thomson Reuters for their remarkable works.
PREPARED BY ZHAZIRA BUKINA
Young Researchers Alliance
Young researchers united
On December 7th, a networking event called #YRAKEZDESU organized by the Young Researchers Alliance (YRA) took place at UNO Astana, the first restaurant of modern farm gastronomy. All guests and participants of the event, including young researchers and professionals, entrepreneurs, representatives of state and non-governmental organizations and journalists were united by common interests in the development of Kazakhstani science.
Well-known people in scientific and professional circles were invited to the event, among which are the Head of educational projects at BTS Digital Sayasat Nurbek, Vice- minister of labor and social protection of population Nariman Mukushev, Executive director of Corporate Fund
«Social Development Fund» Anar Uteshova, President of the Center for International Programs Ainur Karbozova, Director of Astana Protocol Anuar Beibytov and others, in order to get acquainted with activities of YRA and scientific youth of Kazakhstan.
The winners of Fostering Research and Innovation Program (FRIP) sponsored by Corporate Fund «Social Development Fund», and experts who evaluated applications in the form of a “blind” review also attended the event. Students presented their research projects and results. Chair of YRA Assiya Yermukhambetova handed letters of appreciation to all program experts for their participation on a voluntary basis in the applications review process.
Young Researchers Awards were first presented to young researchers in the following nominations:
“Outstanding YRA Service Award” to Ashirgul Kozhagulova;
“Best Science Communicator” to Maksat Zhabagin;
“Best Science Communicator in regions” to Assiya Ansabayeva;
“YRA Academic Integrity Award” to Bulat Kenessov;
“Distinguished YRA member Award” to our most active members Laura Karabassova, Zhaksylyk Sabitov, Almas Zhunisbayev, Kaissar Tabynov;
“Best Author of YRA Brainstorm” to Miras Zhiyenbayev;
“Top YRA Expert Award” to Balnur Zhaisanbayeva and Damir
Aidarkhanov;
For reference:
Young Researchers Alliance is a non-profit association founded by representatives in all fields of science - young and novice researchers, including students of master’s and doctoral programs. The Alliance is known for changing stereotypes about scientists and making science trendy among youth. YRA’s vision is to create an enabling environment for a new generation of researchers, scientists, and academics, as well as to support young researchers in their quest to conduct cutting-edge research in a variety of disciplines.
Follow YRA on Social Media:
For more information and registration please visit YRA website SHARED BY MAIRA ZHAKSYBAY
The award ceremony was followed by an entertainment program with games, quizzes, and prizes. One of the most remarkable team-building activities was a game oriented to interdisciplinarity development among teams. According to the game rules, each team should consist of representatives from different fields. Every team presented their idea of an innovative product, creation of which required participation of each member of the team. A brilliant young singer Tomiris Bekmurzina, the finalist of the Central Asia’s Got Talent show sang for the guests. The evening ended with a pleasant and dance music played by DJ DBS who was specially invited.
The main goal of the Alliance in organizing the given networking event was to create a platform where young professionals from different spheres can get to know each other and expand their network for future collaboration and exchange of ideas. Science is not created in a vacuum.
Its development requires cooperation of researchers, entrepreneurs, government agencies,
foundations, and other organizations.
UN, other experts, present prescription to avoid dangerous water shortfall for 70 million Central Asians
Urgent need to replace competition with cooperation in the Aral Sea Basin BY DR. STEFANOS XENARIOS, ISKANDAR ABDULLAEV, AND VLADIMIR SMAKHTIN
Nur-Sultan City, Kazakhstan -- The water resources in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin support the lives and livelihoods of about 70 million people — a population greater than Thailand, France, or South Africa. And unless well-funded and coordinated joint efforts are stepped up, with competition replaced by cooperation, ongoing over-withdrawals compounded by climate change will cause dangerous water shortages in this huge, highly complex watershed spanning six nations: Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
That’s the key message of a new book co-authored by 57 regional and international experts from 14 countries and the United Nations, who spent years examining a suite of challenges in the Aral Sea Basin. The new book assembles the views of nearly all major regional and international experts on the great challenges faced in the Aral Sea Basin. They include three co-authors from
the UN University’s Institute for Water, Environment and Health, in Hamilton, Canada. And almost half of the authors are based in Central Asia, creating a unique blend of regional and international voices and expertise on these critical issues.
The Basin’s two major rivers, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, discharge now only about 10% of what flowed into the Aral Sea until the 1960s, shrinking the sea by more than 80 percent -- «one of the world’s most severe and emblematic environmental disasters.”
Freshwater is key to food, energy, environmental security, and social stability among the six Aral Basin countries. And given the countries’ prospective economic and population growth, reliance on water resources will increase, compelling cooperation in sharing benefits and reducing costs.
Intensive, wasteful irrigated farming when the nations were part of the Soviet Union was the main cause of the Aral Sea drying up and irrigation continues to consume about 90 percent of the total water withdrawal in the Basin, with agriculture contributing from 10 to 45 percent of GDP, and 20 to 50 percent of rural employment.
Most irrigation, hydropower and other water-related infrastructural systems and facilities are in transition, a blend today of past and present. Unfortunately, the existing observational meteorological and hydrological networks in the Basin, which declined in the 1990s when the Soviet period ended, are insufficient to support informed water management, and regional water data sharing is suboptimal. Degradation of land and water are among the major hindrances to sustainable development in the region, with land degradation alone estimated to cost about US$3 billion of losses in ecosystem services annually.
Graduate School of
Public Policy News
There has been uneven progress across the countries on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and particularly Goal 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation), with contrasting progress also between urban and rural populations within each nation, most particularly Afghanistan.
The new book suggests a number of interventions and initiatives to end and reverse deterioration of the Aral Basin. For example, if existing large hydropower projects were managed in a collaborative manner, they can bring all countries multiple benefits, including improved reliability of supply and availability of water for agriculture, domestic use and electricity generation. Monitoring of snow and glaciers in high altitude mountain areas, as well as permafrost, is essential for sound estimates of water availability and water-related hazards. Such systems need to be re-installed.
Also needed: institutions for decentralized management of natural resources, such as water user associations to promote cooperative, sustainable, intra-regional management between upstream and downstream countries and integrated rural development approaches. Existing regional frameworks must either be reformed or replaced by new mechanisms of cooperation in order to successfully translate political will into highly effective, integrated regional water management.
Reforming the water sector, however, goes well beyond new policies and initiatives, updating the legislative framework, and building new institutions. A key challenge is to achieve continuous, strong, high-level political engagement throughout the Basin countries, the active participation of stakeholders, and technical and financial support. The Aral Basin’s many water-related issues must be addressed jointly by all involved states within the concept that water, energy, and food issues represent a critical, interlinked nexus of needs.
Major geopolitical and economic development interests are placing increasing pressure on countries of the Basin to end resource competition and find a way to closer cooperation and effective pursuit of their shared interests.
Stefanos Xenarios is Associate Professor at Nazarbaev University, Kazakhstan and Editor in the Central
Asian Journal of Water Research
Iskandar Abdullaev is Deputy Director, CAREC Institute, China
Vladimir Smakhtin is Director, UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Canada and
series editor of the Routledge publishers’ Earthscan Series on Major River Basins of the World, in which the Aral Sea Basin Book is the latest addition
An earlier version of this article has been published in the InterPress News Agency at 7 November 2019
FYI, this book is already available in our Library
Graduate School of Education News
NUGSE Researchers Conduct Mixed Methods Research on Rural Schools of Kazakhstan
Students from rural schools in many countries worldwide have far fewer resources than their urban counterparts and receive far less national attention. Also, students of rural schools are less likely than their urban counterparts to enroll in higher education institutions immediately after graduation.
This disadvantages communities that often are struggling to attract and retain talent. Funded by the Nazarbayev University’s Faculty Development Competitive Grant, a three-year-long research study is being conducted in 2018-2020. This mixed-methods study is conducted in purposefully selected mainstream rural schools in Kazakhstan to explore the following research questions by modifying the UNICEF’s Quality of Education Framework: the quality of learners, curriculum/content, processes, environments and outcomes (UNICEF, 2000):
• What do the Kazakhstani rural school leaders, teachers, students, and parents understand by quality of education?
• What opportunities, resources, and support are available to these rural schools for achieving their perceived quality of education?
• What issues and challenges do these rural schools face in achieving the perceived quality of education?
• What possible solutions can be found to the issues hindering the quality of education in these schools?
The purpose of the study is to examine the quality of education provided in rural schools across Kazakhstan and to contribute to developing a contextually relevant, culturally sensitive, and sustainable approach to improving quality of education in rural schools by taking into account the voices and experiences of key stakeholders such as principals, vice-principals, teachers, students, parents, and school education officials from the Ministry of Education and Science and regions in Kazakhstan. Data related to school facilities, students’ backgrounds and educational expectations, teacher characteristics, parental involvement and expectations, new curriculum implementation and availability of technology were collected using semi-structured interviews and questionnaires.
Specifically, the study intends to explore key stakeholders’ understanding and aspirations of quality
of education; identify issues and challenges rural schools face in achieving their aspired quality of
education; and suggest possible solutions to the problems being faced and ways to improve the
quality of education in rural schools in Kazakhstan.
A mixed-methods approach, having both a quantitative survey and qualitative individual interviews and focus group discussions, is being employed. The quantitative survey is used to obtain data from large number of teachers from rural schools and qualitative interviews are used to obtain in-depth, rich and descriptive data from a relatively smaller sample. This research project is led by Dr. Mir Afzal Tajik and Dr. Duishon Shamatov as the Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator respectively. The research assistants who have so far contributed to this project include, Darina Sadvakassova, Moldir Ablayeva, Bakhyt Zhumatay, Gulden Suyundikova, Lyudmila Fillipova, Alyona Kaus and Symbat Mazhikov.
The results of the study may be beneficial to educational policymakers, school leaders and practitioners to address some of the critical issues hindering, as well as opportunities available for, provision and quality of education in rural schools in Kazakhstan. The study will provide a set of
recommendations, based on the empirical data collected from the key stakeholders for enhancing provision and quality of education in rural schools.
THE ARTICLE IS SHARED BY LYUDMILA FILLIPOVA
Dr. Mir Afzal Tajik
QUANTUM ENGINEERING PUBLICATION AT HIGHLY SELECTIVE JOURNAL
A research work of the Associate professor of Physics Department Constantinos Valagiannopoulos, Head of Metamaterials Modeling and Design Group, has been recently published in one of the top science journals – Physical Review Applied of the American Physical Society. The title of the publication is
“Quantum Fabry-Perot Resonator: Extreme Angular Selectivity in Matter-Wave Tunneling”. This work provides simple quantum setups that have the ability to block all the incoming particle beams except from those traveling along a specific direction. This operation can be extremely useful in quantum signal processing and quantum computing devices where the matter waves are required to get properly filtered, channeled and steered in space. Therefore, the reported findings open alternative paths when designing architectures for a broad range of quantum engineering applications from sensing and steering to filtering and quantum memory.
Physical Review Applied, along with Physical Review Letters and Physical Review X, is a prestigious journal that falls into Q1 category with IF 4.53 by Web of Science. As known, this journal selects only high-quality publications. Remarkably, in Physical Review Applied there only two publications from Kazakhstan - both are affiliated with NU and authored by Prof. Valagiannopoulos in 2019.
The article can be found via the following link.
PREPARED BY DR.CONSTANTINOS VALAGIANNOPOULOS
School of Sciences and
Humanities News
SSH faculty member and her team designed a medical mobile application
Dr. Aizhan Kozhakhmetova (Biology Department) and two Master students from Computer Science Department (SEDS) Korlan Zhumabekova and Nurdaulet Kenges developed a medical mobile application called CeliacTest©. It was presented for the first time by Dr. Aizhan Kozhakhmetova on the XIV International Scientific and Practical Conference “Astana-Gastro 2019” that was held on November 1-2 in Nur-Sultan city. The application was highly appreciated by medical professionals. This project was implemented fully on a volunteering basis and had no funding.
CeliacTest© is the first free mobile self-assessment tool that determines whether a user is at risk of having coelic disease.
For reference, coeliac disease is a complex immune-mediated gluten intolerance, which leads to problems with gut, bones, thyroid and other organs. Although it is quite common (1-2% of population), diversity of clinical presentations and low awareness make it difficult to diagnose people at early stages to avoid adverse consequences.
Almost 90% of cases still remain undiagnosed.
The application evaluates the risk level of having a coeliac disease through a short questionnaire, which was elaborated by Dr. Aizhan Kozhakhmetova and other colleagues from Kazakhstan and the United Kingdom during her clinical and research career. Those users who are found to be at higher risk get recommendations to take necessary screening and blood tests.
CeliacTest© provides thorough information about coeliac disease, associated conditions, diagnosis, and treatment. The application serves as a platform for users to participate in an online forum, get medical consultations, search for doctors, medical centers in different cities of Kazakhstan.
Moreover, through this app users can browse gluten-free restaurants and supermarkets. One of the app features is a tab with the latest news in science to keep users updated on ongoing national and international research. Users can even get an opportunity to be enrolled in research.
CeliacTest© is available on Google Play Market for Android. It’s also planned to make a version for iOS in the near future. Currently, the user interface supports only Russian language, but soon it will support Kazakh and English as well. Despite the big disease burden, there are no coeliac communities or associations in Kazakhstan. Thus, CeliacTest© app aims to increase the awareness among people including doctors to improve the early diagnosis of individuals at-risk and to support them.
PREPARED BY DR. AIZHAN KOZHAKHMETOVA
Dr. Hélène Thibault (PSIR) invited to participate in a women Academics’
Forum workshop at Swansea University
What happens when you bring early-career and established academics, researching the former communist world together?
Report on the Eurasian, East and Central European Studies Women Academics’
Forum workshop 2.0 at Swansea University.
BY ALLYSON EDWARDS - Vice-Chair of EECESWAF at Swansea University
After what has been a truly exciting first year for the Eurasian, East and Central European Studies Women Academics Forum, the network held its second workshop at Swansea University, Wales on the 12th September 2019. This second workshop was a follow up of the first networking event that took place a year prior at Oxford Brookes University in September 2018. The one- day workshop in Swansea attracted a number of early-career and established female academics, with participants traveling to Swansea not only from other UK universities but also from as far as Switzerland, Hungary and even Kazakhstan! The main goal of the workshop was to provide a platform for early-career researchers to share their work, with established female academics being in attendance to support and share their own experiences of academia to those early-career scholars in attendance.
The forum kicked off with a short introduction by the main organisers Allyson Edwards (Swansea University) and Jasmin Dall’Agnola (Oxford Brookes University). Keynote speaker, Professor Josette Baer (Professor in political theory, University of Zurich) opened the workshop by sharing her personal experiences of academia as a female scholar and providing a list of do’s and don’ts for the early-career researchers. Later, the early-career academics, Dr. Ana Kirvalidze (Oxford University), Dr. Brigid Haines, (Swansea University) and Dr. Hélène Thibault (Nazarbayev University) took centre stage as they participated in a number of panels, organised thematically, on topics relating to the Post-Communist space. The provision of this platform allowed these scholars to share their work, exchange ideas and receive feedback in an informal and comfortable atmosphere. To finish, we held a roundtable where established female academics shared their experiences of “Navigating through academia as a female scholar” with the audience.
The main task of EECES WAF is to provide a forum for female academics to share their work. We promote the opportunity to network and dedicated a large portion of the day to moments where the scholars could discuss their research and even arrange potential collaborations. Some of the scholars were in touch prior to the event and saw the workshop as an opportunity to meet face- to-face. One attendee, when asked what they enjoyed most about the day, claimed, “The chance to meet other academics working on similar/ related themes and a chance to present my work.”
Another stated, “I was interested in the topics of the PhD students and I think the discussions that followed were helpful to them. Also, I thought it was indeed a good opportunity for professional networking.” The forum does not limit itself to topics of gender disparity but uses their network to organise female-only conference panels and workshops, like the one at Oxford Brookes and Swansea, to create a comfortable and welcoming space for female academics to promote and share their work.
For membership enquiries, please email [email protected]
The Eurasian, East and Central European Studies Women Academics Forum would like to thank the Economic and Social Research Council Welsh Doctoral Training Partnership and Swansea University College of Arts and Humanities for helping fund this wonderful event.
SOURCE: https://twitter.com/EECESWAF
SEDS Professor’s latest book published by Academic Press
Professor Yong Zhao from Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department together with his colleague Dr. Xiaohui Su from Dalian University of Technology published a book titled «Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction: Methods, Models, and Applications».
The book provides detailed explanations of a range of FSI models, their mathematical formulations, validations, and applications, with an emphasis on conservative unstructured-grid FVM. The first part of the book presents the nascent numerical methods, algorithms and solvers for both compressible and incompressible flows, computational structural dynamics (CSD), parallel multigrid, IOM, IMM and ALE methods. The second half covers the validations of these numerical methods and solvers, as well as their applications in a broad range of areas in basic research and engineering. (source)
Prof. Yong Zhao has more than 28 years of experience in CFD research and published several books/chapters and more than 100 papers, many of which are in top journals in CFD and CSD.
FYI: This book is already available in our Library!
SHARED BY DARYA ZVONAREVA
School of Engineering
& Digial Sciences News
Prof. Luis R. Rojas-Solórzano supervises projects at IMT Atlantique
Prof. Luis R. Rojas-Solórzano was invited to teach
and work on research with the Energy Systems
and Environment Department at IMT Atlantique in
France. Every year (since 2010) he delivers a 1-week
invited lecture and supervises the research of 2 or
Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering and Biological Sciences students fabricate biomimetic scaffolds for Anterior Cruciate Ligament regeneration
WRITTEN BY PROF. CEVAT ERISKEN More than 200,000 people are suffering from Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) related injuries each year in the US, only. There is an unmet clinical demand for improving biological attachment between grafts and the host tissue in addition to providing mechanical support.
For biological graft integration, it is important to provide physiologically feasible environment for the host cells to enable them to perform their duties. However, behavior of cells during ACL healing and the mechanism of ACL healing is not fully understood partly due to the absence of appropriate environment to test cell behavior both in vitro and in vivo.
The study aimed at: i) investigating the change in fibril diameter of bovine ACL tissue upon injury, and ii) fabricating nanofiber-based scaffolds to represent the morphology and structure of healthy and injured bovine ACL tissues. Findings revealed that the collagen fibril diameter distribution of bovine ACL changed from bimodal to unimodal upon injury with subsequent decrease in mean diameter (Figure 1).
Fiber diameter distribution of scaffold made of Polycaprolactone (PCL) exhibited similar bimodal and
unimodal distribution behavior to qualitatively represent the cases of healthy and injured ACL, respectively (Figure 2).
Furthermore, the native ACL tissue demonstrated comparable modulus values only with the aligned bimodal PCL scaffolds.
There was significant difference between mechanical properties of aligned bimodal and unaligned unimodal PCL scaffolds. We believe that the results obtained from measurements of diameter of collagen fibrils of native bovine ACL tissue can serve as benchmark for biomimetic scaffold design.
RESEARCH TEAM MEMBERS:
Prof. Cevat Erisken Figure 1: Healthy and injured collagen fibril diameter distributions in the form of (A)
histogram and (B) line graph, together with (C) descriptive statistics. * indicates statistically significant difference at p<0.05 (n=3) and error bars represent SD.
Figure 2: Aligned and unaligned PCL fiber diameter distributions in the form of (A) histogram and (B) line graph, together with (C) descriptive statistics. * indicates statistically significant difference at p<0.05 (n=3) and error bars represent SD.
Z. Beisbayeva A. Zhanbassynova G. Kulzhanova F. Mukasheva
27 Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering students became Certified SolidWorks Associate
On November 28, 2019, after taking the MAE-201 Computer-Aided Design course, 27 2-nd year students in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering passed a 3-hour online exam and became Certified SolidWorks Associate (CSWA). SOLIDWORKS - is one of the most widely used computer-aided design packages on the planet. The SOLIDWORKS Associate exam (CSWA) is the starting point for many CAD high school or college students who are looking to prove to employers that they can walk into a job and be productive. The CSWA is a practical test (like all SOLIDWORKS professional certification exams) that covers 3D modeling, design concepts, and sustainable design over the course of three hours.
All 27 students received electronic certificates and personal listing on the CSWA directory.
Among them, there are five students who demonstrated an outstanding result: 240 out of 240 points.
Congratulations to all our CSWA titleholders who gained new skills demanded at the job market!
PREPARED BY PROF. YERKIN G. ABDILDIN
School of Mining and Geosciences
Congratulations for being appointed as Associate Editor of Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology Journal
We are pleased to inform you that Prof. Saffet Yagiz is invited as Associate Editor of the Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology incorporating Trenchless Technology Research.
“Over the years Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology has established a leading reputation, and as a member of the Editorial Board, you will have a key role maintaining its quality and impact.
We also recognize the role that the Board will play in bringing high- quality content to Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology and we welcome your own submissions to the journal and encourage your colleagues to submit their work too. If possible, we hope that as a Board member you will consider the possibility of being a Guest Editor for a Special Issue or soliciting a review article” written in the invitation. We congratulate you on these undertakings!
For reference: Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology incorporating Trenchless Technology Research is an international journal which publishes authoritative articles encompassing original research and case studies on the development of tunneling technology, the use of underground space and trenchless technology.
The journal is one of the top leading journal with Impact Factor:
3.942; CiteScore: 5.00; SCImago Journal Rank (SJR):2.24; Q1 Level and within Top %1 in the subject category.
SHARED BY PROF. SAFFET YAGIZ
Knowledge Sharing of NU Librarians in Ukraine
The 4th International Scientific Conference on University Library at a New Stage of Social Communications and Development with the theme “University Library in the Development of Digital Infrastructure of Science and Education” brings together higher educational institution librarians and information specialists to discuss the new trends in library and information services to meet the needs of researchers, faculty members, and students. It was held at the Scientific and Technical Library of the Dnipro National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V. Lazaryan (Ukraine) from 3-4 October 2019.
Topics discussed during the conference were about bibliometrics, citation analysis, management of libraries, strategic partnerships, marketing and promotion, open repositories, and practical experiences of librarians. This international conference was organized by the Scientific and Technical Library of the Dnipro National University of Railway Transport named after Academician V. Lazaryan (Ukraine), Fundamental Library of the Belarusian State University (Republic of Belarus), Scientific Library of the Belarusian National Technical University (Republic of Belarus), Nazarbayev University Library, and Ukrainian Library Association. Joseph Yap and Darya Zvonareva are among the members of the scientific committee.
Library Acting Director Assemgul Temirkhanova gave her welcome remarks to the audience. During the conference, librarians from Nazarbayev University presented their papers. Joseph Yap and Altynay Kozhayeva presented two papers namely, “Is Our Collection Enough or Underutilized?: a Citation Analysis of Master’s Theses”
and “Use of Choice Reviews to Build the Geosciences Collection.”
The objectives of the first paper is to share how citation analysis
can help measure the utilization of the library collection as well
as improve whatever is lacking in our current collection. They
NU Research Performance Overview
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Article Conference Paper Review Book Chapter Letter Editorial Note Book Data paper Erratum Short Survey
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*Incomplete years 256
Research publications for 2011-2019
Since its inception in 2011, Nazarbayev University faculty members and researchers have released 3,302 peer-reviewed publications indexed by Scopus, and have been cited 16,139 times for 2011- 2019 period (Source: Scopus, December 26). NU citation impact is about 4.9 (that is an average number of citations per peer-reviewed publication). The chart above illustrates the number of reviewed papers per year between 2011 to 2020. Note that 2019 and 2020 are incomplete years and their numbers are subject to change. As can be seen, number of NU publications increases steadily over the given period and constitutes mainly from articles and conference papers (59.3%
and 28.3% respectively).
So far, the field-weighted citation impact (FWCI) is 1.22, meaning that NU publications have been cited 22% more than would be expected based on the world average for similar publications. The graph on the left compares different institutions based on the level of international collaboration against FWCI.
NU has a high level of international collaboration (over 70%) and the quality of its publications is higher than the global average.
If you have any questions regarding the provided information, please contact Saule Sadykova
One of the main highlights of 2019 is the launch of Collaborative Research Program (CRP). This initiative aims to build sustainable partnerships and collaborations between NU and Kazakhstani scientific community aligning with a strategic priority of the University. Within the framework of CRP NU has established partnerships with institutions like Eurasian National University, Kazakh- British Technical University, Suleyman Demirel University, Satpayev University, Karaganda State University, Astana Medical University, Al Farabi Kazakh National University and more.
This year out of 71 accepted applications, 21 were awarded, and 20 research projects will start their implementation in 2020. The success rate of the first batch of submitted applications for CRP is 28%. The chart on the left demonstrates the number of research proposals submitted and awarded by School/Center in 2019.
All research proposals were collected and sent for scientific peer-review conducted by Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU). Each proposal was evaluated by three independent experts in corresponding subject area using 1-9 scale (1- bad and 9-Exceptionally). Since CRP is focused on supporting sustainable partnerships and deliver high-quality research the threshold level was set to 6.67. The table on the left shows the number of applications submitted with scores given by ORAU. Overall, 9 proposals
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NUMBER OF PROJECTS BY SCORE
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OVERVIEW OF CRP 2020-2022
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FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
# Opportunity Funder Amount Deadline Source
link 1 Technology Development
Grants Wellcome Trust Up to 1,500,000
GBP 2020-03-26 URL
2 Research Opportunity in Zoo-
notic and Emerging Diseases Oak Ridge Associated Uni-
versities Not specified 2020-03-31 URL
3 IUGG Grants Program 2020-
2023 International Union of Geo-
physics and Geodesy Up to 80,000 USD 2020-04-01 URL 4 Gonda fund: Funding request
project or publication
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschap-
pen Up to 2,000 EUR 2020-04-01 URL
5 Staley Small Grants Wellesley College Up to 5,000 USD 2020-04-13 URL 6 BRACHMAN HOFFMAN
SMALL GRANTS Wellesley College Up to 5,000 USD 2020-04-13 URL
7 SSHRC Explore Grant Trent University Up to 7,000 CAD 2020-05-01 URL 8 SSHRC Exchange Grant
- Knowledge Mobilization
Activities Trent University Up to 3,000 CAD 2020-05-01 URL
9 DIBS Research Incubator
Awards Duke Institute for Brain Sci-
ences, Duke University Up to 100,000 USD 2020-05-01 URL 10 Sigma/Chamberlain College
of Nursing Education Re- search Grants
Sigma Theta Tau Interna-
tional Up to 10,000 USD 2020-05-01 URL
11 Small grants Alberta Gambling Research Institute, University of
Alberta Up to 10,000 CAD 2020-05-01 URL
12 Concerted Research Actions Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds Up to 150,000 EUR 2020-05-06 URL 13
German Research Chair
“Mathematics and its appli- cation“ at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Rwanda
Alexander von Hum-
boldt-Stiftung Up to 560,000 EUR 2020-05-15 URL 14 Workshop proposals Erwin Schrödinger Interna-
tional Institute for Mathemat-
ics and Physics Up to 20,000 EUR 2020-05-15 URL 15
Health Systems Research Initiative Call 7: Providing evidence to strengthen health systems in low and middle income countries: Foundation grants
Medical Research Council Up to 200,000 GBP with total funding of
4,700,000 GBP 2020-05-28 URL Erwin Schrödinger Interna-
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
# Opportunity Funder Amount Deadline Source
link 21 Culham St Gabriel’s Grants King’s College London Not specified 2020-12-31 URL 22
Research and Development Management (RADMA) - Postgraduate Student Re- search Support
King’s College London Up to 1,000 GBP 2020-12-31 URL
23 EACVI research grants 2020 European Society of Cardi-ology Up to 25,000 EUR 2020-12-31 URL 24 Research Development
Awards in Humanities, Social
Science and Bioethics Wellcome Trust Up to 1,000,000
GBP 2021-01-31 URL
25
Computational Science and Technology Advanced Research Studies (C-STARS) - Software Engineer
Oak Ridge Associated Uni-
versities Not specified Not specified URL
26
Computational Science and Technology Advanced Re- search Studies (C-STARS) - Modeling and Simulation
Oak Ridge Associated Uni-
versities Not specified Not specified URL
27 Evert Willem Beth foundation Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschap-
pen Not specified Not specified URL
28 Wallenberg Academy Fellows Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Not specified Not specified URL 29 FBI Critical Incident Re-
sponse Group Resarch Opportuniity
Oak Ridge Associated Uni-
versities Not specified Not specified URL
30 FBI Critical Incident Re- sponse Group Resarch Opportuniity
Oak Ridge Associated Uni-
versities Not specified Not specified URL
31 Early Career Researcher
(ECR) Mentoring Scheme Charles Sturt University Up to 6,000 AUD Not specified URL 32 Early phase clinical trials:
Canada
Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research
Up to 1,500,000
CAD Not specified URL
33 Leverage funding for large
grants/Research contracts Charles Sturt University Up to 50,000 AUD Not specified URL 34 Technology Development
Grants Wellcome Trust Up to 1,500,000
GBP 2020-03-26 URL
35 Research Opportunity in Zoo-
notic and Emerging Diseases Oak Ridge Associated Uni-
versities Not specified 2020-03-31 URL
36 IUGG Grants Program 2020-
2023 International Union of Geo-
physics and Geodesy Up to 80,000 USD 2020-04-01 URL 37 Gonda fund: Funding request
project or publication
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschap-
pen Up to 2,000 EUR 2020-04-01 URL
New publications (count: 234)
• Abbas, G., Irawan, S., Memon, K. R., & Khan, J. (2019). Application of cellulose-based polymers in oil well cementing. Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, doi:10.1007/s13202-019-00800-8
• Abbaszadeh, I., Darabi, M., Ardebilipour, M., & Maham, B. (2019). Reducing computational complexity of factor graph-based belief propagation algorithm for detection in large-scale MIMO systems. Paper presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC, , 2019-September doi:10.1109/PIMRC.2019.8904160 Retrieved from www.scopus.com
• Abdulla, K. (2019). Productivity gains from reallocation of talent in brazil and india. Journal of Macroeconomics, 62 doi:10.1016/j.jmacro.2019.103160
• Abildin, Y., Madani, N., & Topal, E. (2019). A hybrid approach for joint simulation of geometallurgical variables with inequality constraint. Minerals, 9(1) doi:10.3390/min9010024
• Abylkhani, B., Aiymbetov, B., Yagofarova, A., Tokmurzin, D., Venetis, C., Poulopoulos, S., . . . Inglezakis, V. J. (2019).
Seasonal characterisation of municipal solid waste from astana city, kazakhstan: Composition and thermal properties of combustible fraction. Waste Management and Research, 37(12), 1271-1281. doi:10.1177/0734242X19875503
• Adair, D., Ibrayev, A., Kim, J. R., & Jaeger, M. (2019). Application of the adomian modified decomposition method for a beam with a single section discontinuity resting on an elastic foundation. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 26th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, ICSV 2019, Retrieved from www.scopus.com
• Adoko, A. C., Alipov, A., & Yabukov, K. (2019). A comparative study of TBM penetration rate assessment rock mass properties. Paper presented at the 53rd U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, Retrieved from www.
scopus.com
• Adoko, A. C., Zhalel, M., & Phumaphi, P. T. (2019). Fall of ground characterization: A case study of BCL mine, botswana. Paper presented at the 53rd U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, Retrieved from www.
scopus.com
• Ajodhia, A., & CohenMiller, A. S. (2019). Can arts-informed pedagogy facilitate communities of learning and belonging for minoritised early years children? an integrative review of research. International Journal of Early Years Education, doi:10.1080/09669760.2019.1685467
• Akhmetov, B., Navarro, M. E., Seitov, A., Kaltayev, A., Bakenov, Z., & Ding, Y. (2019). Numerical study of integrated latent heat thermal energy storage devices using nanoparticle-enhanced phase change materials. Solar Energy, 194, 724-741. doi:10.1016/j.solener.2019.10.015
• Akhmetov, Z., Boribayeva, A., Berkinova, Z., Yermukhambetova, A., & Golman, B. (2019). Microstructural features of ternary powder compacts. Chemical Engineering Transactions, 74, 385-390. doi:10.3303/CET1974065
• Akhmetov, Z., Hammami, M., Grandi, G., & Ruderman, A. (2019). On PWM strategies and current THD for single- and three-phase cascade H-bridge inverters with non-equal DC sources. Energies, 12(3) doi:10.3390/en12030441
• Akhtar, M. T. (2019). A fully adaptive feedback ANC system employing online estimation of the cancellation path. Paper presented at the Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, , 2019-August 674-677. doi:10.1109/
MWSCAS.2019.8885063 Retrieved from www.scopus.com
• Akhtar, M. T. (2019). A time-varying normalized step-size based generalized fractional moment adaptive algorithm and its application to ANC of impulsive sources. Applied Acoustics, 155, 240-249. doi:10.1016/j.
apacoust.2019.05.030
• Albougami, A. S., Alotaibi, J. S., Alsharari, A. F., Albagawi, B. S., Almazan, J. U., Maniago, J. D., . . . EiRazkey, J. Y.
(2019). Cultural competence and perception of patient-centered care among non-muslim expatriate nurses in saudi arabia: A cross sectional study. Pakistan Journal of Medical and Health Sciences, 13(3), 933-938. Retrieved from www.scopus.com
• Alenezi, A., Pandaan, R. P. M., Almazan, J. U., Pandaan, I. N., Casison, F. S., & Cruz, J. P. (2019). Clinical practitioners’
perception of the dimensions of patient safety culture in a government hospital: A one-sample correlational survey. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 28(23-24), 4496-4503. doi:10.1111/jocn.15038
• Alina, D., Ristorcelli, I., Montier, L., Abdikamalov, E., Juvela, M., Ferrière, K., . . . Micelotta, E. R. (2019). Statistical analysis of the interplay between interstellar magnetic fields and filaments hosting planck galactic cold clumps. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485(2), 2825-2843. doi:10.1093/mnras/stz508
• Aljofan, M., & Gaipov, A. (2019). Metformin: A stroke of luck. Electronic Journal of General Medicine, 16(3)
• Andreeva, A., Bekkhozhin, Z., Omertassova, N., Baizhumanov, T., Yeltay, G., Akhmetali, M., . . . Utepbergenov, D. (2019). The apparent deglycase activity of DJ-1 results from the conversion of free methylglyoxal present in fast equilibrium with hemithioacetals and hemiaminals. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 294(49), 18863-18872.
doi:10.1074/jbc.RA119.011237
• Arapakopoulos, A., Polichshuk, R., Segizbayev, Z., Ospanov, S., Ginnis, A. I., & Kostas, K. V. (2019). Parametric models for marine propellers. Ocean Engineering, 192 doi:10.1016/j.oceaneng.2019.106595
• Arteche, D. L., Almazan, J. U., & Adolfo, C. S. (2019). Functional capability and job competence of part-time postretiree workers in higher academic institutions. Ageing International, doi:10.1007/s12126-019-09357-7
• Arvanitis, S., Hallam, M., Post, T., & Topaloglou, N. (2019). Stochastic spanning. Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 37(4), 573-585. doi:10.1080/07350015.2017.1391099
• Arya, R., Singh, P., Kumari, S., & Obaidat, M. S. (2019). An approach for solving fully fuzzy multi-objective linear fractional optimization problems. Soft Computing, doi:10.1007/s00500-019-04442-0
• Ashikbayeva, Z., Tosi, D., Balmassov, D., Schena, E., Saccomandi, P., & Inglezakis, V. (2019). Application of nanoparticles and nanomaterials in thermal ablation therapy of cancer. Nanomaterials, 9(9) doi:10.3390/
nano9091195
• Assaubay, A. -., Betancor, J. J., Castro, A. J., & Fariña, J. C. (2019). Riesz transforms, cauchy-riemann systems, and hardy-amalgam spaces. Banach Journal of Mathematical Analysis, 13(3), 697-725. doi:10.1215/17358787-2018-
• 0031Assylbekov, Z., & Takhanov, R. (2019). Context vectors are reflections of word vectors in half the dimensions. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 66, 225-242. doi:10.1613/jair.1.11368
• Astorga, S. E., Hu, L. X., Marsili, E., & Huang, Y. (2019). Electrochemical signature of escherichia coli on nickel micropillar array electrode for early biofilm characterization. ChemElectroChem, 6(17), 4674-4680. doi:10.1002/
celc.201901063
• Atabaev, T. S., & Molkenova, A. (2019). Upconversion optical nanomaterials applied for photocatalysis and photovoltaics: Recent advances and perspectives. Frontiers of Materials Science, 13(4), 335-341. doi:10.1007/
s11706-019-0482-z
• Aydin, A., Oikonomou, T., Bagci, G. B., & Sisman, A. (2019). Discrete and weyl density of states for photonic dispersion relation. Physica Scripta, 94(10) doi:10.1088/1402-4896/ab0bc5
• Azat, S., Korobeinyk, A. V., Moustakas, K., & Inglezakis, V. J. (2019). Sustainable production of pure silica from rice husk waste in kazakhstan. Journal of Cleaner Production, 217, 352-359. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.01.142
• Azat, S., Sartova, Z., Bekseitova, K., & Askaruly, K. (2019). Extraction of high-purity silica from rice husk via hydrochloric acid leaching treatment. Turkish Journal of Chemistry, 43(5), 1258-1269. doi:10.3906/kim-1903-53
• Baddour-Hadjean, R., Thanh Nguyen Huynh, L., Batyrbekuly, D., Bach, S., & Pereira-Ramos, J. -. (2019). Bilayered potassium vanadate K0.5V2O5 as superior cathode material for na-ion batteries. ChemSusChem, 12(23), 5192- 5198. doi:10.1002/cssc.201902093
• Bahia, W., Soltani, I., Haddad, A., Radhouani, A., Mahdhi, A., Ferchichi, S., & Almawi, W. Y. (2019). Links between SNPs in TLR-2 and TLR-4 and idiopathic recurrent pregnancy loss. British Journal of Biomedical Science, doi:10.1080/09674845.2019.1687151
• Bapayeva, G., Togyzbayeva, K., Bekenova, A., Terzic, S., & Terzic, M. (2019). The course and outcome of pregnancy in patient with concomitant gilbert syndrome and hereditary spherocytosis: A unique case report. Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics and Gynecology, 46(2), 320-322. doi:10.12891/ceog4599.2019
• Bapin, Y., Bagheri, M., & Zarikas, V. (2019). Optimal allocation of spinning reserves in interconnected energy systems with demand response using a bivariate wind prediction model. Energies, 12(20) doi:10.3390/en12203816
• Baptayev, B., Lee, S. H., Kim, D. H., & Balanay, M. P. (2019). Controlling aggregation using self-assembled axially coordinated pyridine-based ligands on porphyrin analogues for dye-sensitized solar cells. Chemical Physics Letters, 730, 407-410. doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2019.06.008
• Battalgazy, N., & Madani, N. (2019). Categorization of mineral resources based on different geostatistical simulation algorithms: A case study from an iron ore deposit. Natural Resources Research, 28(4), 1329-1351.
doi:10.1007/s11053-019-09474-9
• Battalgazy, N., & Madani, N. (2019). Stochastic modeling of chemical compounds in a limestone deposit by unlocking the complexity in bivariate relationships. Minerals, 9(11) doi:10.3390/min9110683
• Beben, D. (2019). Reimagining taqiyya: The “narrative of the four pillars” and strategies of secrecy among theIismĀ ʿ Ī l Ī sof central asia. History of Religions, 59(2), 83-107. Retrieved from www.scopus.com
• Beisenova, A., Issatayeva, A., Korganbayev, S., Molardi, C., Blanc, W., & Tosi, D. (2019). Simultaneous distributed sensing on multiple MgO-doped high scattering fibers by means of scattering-level multiplexing. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 37(13), 3413-3421. doi:10.1109/JLT.2019.2916991
• Beni, M. D. (2019). Conjuring cognitive structures: Towards a unified model of cognition doi:10.1007/978-3-030- 32722-4_10 Retrieved from www.scopus.com
• Benmerzouga, I., Al-Zammay, S. A., Al-Shammari, M. M., Alsaif, S. A., Alhaidan, T. M., & Aljofan, M. (2019). Practices of patients consuming antibiotics and knowledge about antibiotic resistance in hail region - saudi arabia. Future Science OA, 5(10) doi:10.2144/fsoa-2019-0054
• Berezin, V., Abdukhakimova, D., Trenozhnikova, L., Bogoyavlenskiy, A., Turmagambetova, A., Issanov, A., & Azizan, A. (2019). Antiviral activities of extremophilic actinomycetes extracts from kazakhstan’s unique ecosystems against influenza viruses and paramyxoviruses. Virology Journal, 16(1) doi:10.1186/s12985-019-1254-1
• Bieliuniene, E., Frøkjær, J. B., Pockevicius, A., Kemesiene, J., Lukosevičius, S., Basevicius, A., . . . Dambrauskas, Z. (2019). CT- and MRI-based assessment of body composition and pancreatic fibrosis reveals high incidence of clinically significant metabolic changes that affect the quality of life and treatment outcomes of patients with chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer. Medicina (Lithuania), 55(10) doi:10.3390/medicina55100649
• Bimaganbetova, M., Memon, S. A., & Sheriyev, A. (2019). Performance evaluation of phase change materials suitable for cities representing the whole tropical savanna climate region. Renewable Energy, doi:10.1016/j.
renene.2019.10.046
• Bissenova, A. (2019). Social change unsettles kazakhstan. Current History, 118(810), 271-275. Retrieved from www.
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• Bodkhe, U., Bhattacharya, P., Tanwar, S., Tyagi, S., Kumar, N., & Obaidat, M. S. (2019). BloHosT: Blockchain enabled smart tourism and hospitality management. Paper presented at the CITS 2019 - Proceeding of the 2019 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems, doi:10.1109/
CITS.2019.8862001 Retrieved from www.scopus.com
• Boranbayev, A. S., Boranbayev, S. N., Nurusheva, A. M., Seitkulov, Y. N., & Sissenov, N. M. (2019). A method to determine the level of the information system fault-tolerance. Eurasian Journal of Mathematical and Computer Applications, 7(3), 13-32. Retrieved from www.scopus.com
• Boshkayev, K., Quevedo, H., Nurbakyt, G., Malybayev, A., & Urazalina, A. (2019). The erez-rosen solution versus the hartle-thorne solution. Symmetry, 11(10) doi:10.3390/sym11101324
• Buchenrieder, G., Dufhues, T., Möllers, J., Runschke, D., & Sagyndykova, G. (2019). Return to the countryside: The return intentions of highly educated young people in the akmola province of northern kazakhstan. Population, Space and Place, doi:10.1002/psp.2273
• Cantini, L., Kairov, U., De Reyniès, A., Barillot, E., Radvanyi, F., Zinovyev, A., & Birol, I. (2019). Assessing reproducibility of matrix factorization methods in independent transcriptomes. Bioinformatics, 35(21), 4307-4313. doi:10.1093/
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• Chan, C. K., Aimagambetova, G., Ukybassova, T., Kongrtay, K., & Azizan, A. (2019). Human papillomavirus infection and cervical cancer: Epidemiology, screening, and vaccination - review of current perspectives. Journal of Oncology, 2019 doi:10.1155/2019/3257939
• Chen, G., Li, J., Liu, N., Zhao, Y., Tao, J., Kalimuldina, G., . . . Zhang, Y. (2019). Synthesis of nitrogen-doped oxygen-deficient TiO2-x/reduced graphene oxide/sulfur microspheres via spray drying process for lithium-sulfur batteries. Electrochimica Acta, 326 doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2019.134968
• CohenMiller, A. S., & Miller, M. V. (2019). Resources for online teaching in the social and natural sciences: A multistage search and classification of open video repositories. College Teaching, 67(4), 243-249. doi:10.1080/8 7567555.2019.1650704
• Daoud, W. B., Meddeb-Makhlouf, A., Obaidat, M. S., Zarai, F., & Hsiao, K. -. (2019). Service management algorithm- based on security monitoring mechanism for fog IoT users in fog networks. Paper presented at the ICETE 2019 - Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, , 1 13-19.
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• Daribay, A., Obaidat, M. S., & Krishna, P. V. (2019). Analysis of authentication system based on keystroke dynamics.
Paper presented at the CITS 2019 - Proceeding of the 2019 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems, doi:10.1109/CITS.2019.8862068 Retrieved from www.scopus.com
• Darkhan Muratovich, Z., & Duc Do, T. (2019). LQR based SMC for three-phase-inverter with LC filter in renewable energy conversion systems. Paper presented at the Proceedings of 2019 International Conference on System Science and Engineering, ICSSE 2019, 456-461. doi:10.1109/ICSSE.2019.8823112 Retrieved from www.scopus.
• comDavlidova, S., Abidi, S. H., & Ali, S. (2019). Healthcare malpractice and continuing HIV outbreaks in pakistan. BMJ Global Health, 4(6) doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001920
• De Giorgi, E. G., Post, T., & Yalçın, A. (2019). A concave security market line. Journal of Banking and Finance, 106, 65-81. doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2019.05.010
• Doula, M. K., Zorpas, A. A., Inglezakis, V. J., Navvaro, J. P., & Bilalis, D. J. (2019). Optimization of heavy polluted soil from olive mill waste through the implementation of zeolites. Environmental Engineering and Management
• Feki, S., Masmoudi, A., Belghith, A., Zarai, F., & Obaidat, M. S. (2019). Swarm intelligence-based radio resource management for V2V-based D2D communication. International Journal of Communication Systems, 32(17) doi:10.1002/dac.3817
• Felix, P. S., John Mathew, J., Maan, A., & James, A. P. (2019). Extended neighbourhood filter for LDR displays.
Paper presented at the Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, , 2019-August 610-613. doi:10.1109/
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• Filchenko, A., Lemskaya, V., Liliavina, E., & Tokmashev, D. (2019). Comprehensive documentation and archiving of teleut, eushta-chat, and melets chulym. three areally adjacent, critically endangered turkic languages of siberia. Turkic Languages, 23(2), 265-295. Retrieved from www.scopus.com
• Fu, Y., Hoang, T., Mechitov, K., Kim, J. R., & Spencer, B. F. (2019). An intelligent wireless system for real-time seismic monitoring of civil infrastructure. Paper presented at the Structural Health Monitoring 2019: Enabling Intelligent Life-Cycle Health Management for Industry Internet of Things (IIOT) - Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, , 2 2485-2492. Retrieved from www.scopus.com
• Fu, Y., Mechitov, K., Hoang, T., Kim, J. R., Lee, D. H., & Spencer, B. F. (2019). Development and full-scale validation of high-fidelity data acquisition on a next-generation wireless smart sensor platform. Advances in Structural Engineering, 22(16), 3512-3533. doi:10.1177/1369433219866093
• Ghisletti, M., La Torre, D., & Colapinto, C. (2019). Measuring the internationalization of italian universities using a network approach based on co-authorship: A preliminary analysis. Paper presented at the 2019 8th International Conference on Modeling Simulation and Applied Optimization, ICMSAO 2019, doi:10.1109/ICMSAO.2019.8880368 Retrieved from www.scopus.com
• Ghorat, M., Gharehpetian, G. B., Latifi, H., Hejazi, M. A., & Bagheri, M. (2019). High-resolution FBG-based fiber- optic sensor with temperature compensation for PD monitoring. Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 19(23) doi:10.3390/
s19235285
• Goodman, B. A. (2019). Text, talk, and stance: Nigerian and ukrainian student presentations in english-medium classes at a ukrainian university. Linguistics and Education, 53 doi:10.1016/j.linged.2019.100757
• Gopalan, S., Rajan, R. S., & Duong, L. N. T. (2019). Roads to prosperity? determinants of FDI in china and ASEAN. Chinese Economy, 52(4), 318-341. doi:10.1080/10971475.2018.1559092
• Grossan, B., Kumar, P., & Smoot, G. F. (2019). The emission mechanism of gamma-ray bursts: Identification via optical-IR slope measurements. Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, 23, 14-22. doi:10.1016/j.jheap.2019.08.001
• Guo, Y., Mi, Z., Yang, Y., Ma, H., & Obaidat, M. S. (2019). Efficient network resource preallocation on demand in multitenant cloud systems. IEEE Systems Journal, 13(4), 4027-4038. doi:10.1109/JSYST.2019.2910276
• Gupta, D. S., Islam, S. K. H., & Obaidat, M. S. (2019). A secure identity-based deniable authentication protocol for MANETs. Paper presented at the CITS 2019 - Proceeding of the 2019 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems, doi:10.1109/CITS.2019.8862037 Retrieved from www.scopus.com
• Gupta, R., Maktoomi, M. H., Singh, V. V., & Hashmi, M. S. (2019). High impedance transforming dual-band balun with isolation and output ports matching. Progress in Electromagnetics Research Letters, 81, 121-126.
doi:10.2528/PIERL18111604
• Gupta, R., Tanwar, S., Tyagi, S., Kumar, N., Obaidat, M. S., & Sadoun, B. (2019). HaBiTs: Blockchain-based telesurgery framework for healthcare 4.0. Paper presented at the CITS 2019 - Proceeding of the 2019 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems, doi:10.1109/CITS.2019.8862127 Retrieved from www.scopus.com
• Hajar, A. (2019). Arab sojourner expectations, academic socialisation and strategy use on a pre-sessional english programme in britain. Pedagogies, doi:10.1080/1554480X.2019.1696200
• Hajar, A. (2019). The association between private tutoring and access to grammar schools: Voices of year 6 pupils and teachers in south-east england. British Educational Research Journal, doi:10.1002/berj.3587
• Hammami, M., Ricco, M., Ruderman, A., & Grandi, G. (2019). Three-phase three-level flying capacitor PV generation system with an embedded ripple correlation control MPPT algorithm. Electronics (Switzerland), 8(2) doi:10.3390/electronics8020118
• Hao, Q., Cui, G., Zhao, Y., & Bakenov, Z. (2019). Flower-like MoSe2/MoO2 composite with high capacity and long- term stability for lithium-ion battery. Nanomaterials, 9(9) doi:10.3390/nano9091256
• Harris, J., Durdyev, S., Tokbolat, S., Ismail, S., Kandymov, N., & Mohandes, S. R. (2019). Understanding construction stakeholders’ experience and attitudes toward use of the structurally insulated panels (SIPs) in new zealand. Sustainability (Switzerland), 11(19) doi:10.3390/su11195458
• Hassanpour, S. B., Khonsari, A., Shariatpanahi, S. P., & Dadlani, A. (2019). Hybrid coded caching in cellular networks with D2D-enabled mobile users. Paper presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC, , 2019-September doi:10.1109/PIMRC.2019.8904142 Retrieved from www.scopus.com
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