Can you solve it? Are you smarter than an Uzbek in 3D?
This geometric woodblock puzzle will twist and draw your brain into another dimension – but in a good way!Hello guzzlers!I do my best to bring you the best puzzles I can source from around the world. So far I have brought you puzzles from Japan, Vietnam, Israel and the US. Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 28, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Alex Bellos Tags: Mathematics Education Science Source Type: news
Can you solve it? The woodblock puzzle – video
A modern take on a classic – the woodblock puzzle. This problem was shared by readers from Singapore and Uzbekistan. Alex presents a drawing of a top view and a front view of a wooden three-dimensional object. The challenge is to draw the side-view of the object, firstly where you are only allowed flat surfaces, and secondly when you’re allowed curved surfaces tooWant to see a written version of this puzzle? Click here Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 28, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Alex Bellos, Tash Reith-Banks and Paul Boyd Tags: Mathematics Science Education Source Type: news
Substantial glacier ice loss in Central Asia's largest mountain range
Along the Tien Shan, Central Asia's largest mountain range, glaciers have lost 27 percent of their mass and 18 percent of their area during the last 50 years. Glaciers play an important role in the water cycle of Central Asia. Snow and glacier melt from the Tien Shan is essential for the water supply of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and parts of China. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 17, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Uzbekistan: Fighting Tuberculosis in Karakalpakstan
Voice from the FieldUzbekistan: Fighting Tuberculosis in Karakalpakstan
August 06, 2015
In Uzbekistan’s Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs a tuberculosis (TB) program in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, helping patients manage the side effects of their drug regimens and providing psychosocial support to improve treatment adherence. Here, MSF medical team leader Tetyana Pylypenko discusses MSF’s (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - August 6, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Editorial Intern Source Type: news
Uzbekistan: health system review.
Authors: Ahmedov M, Azimov R, Mutalova Z, Huseynov S, Tsoyi E, Rechel B
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Uzbekistan is a central Asian country that became independent in 1991 with the break-up of the Soviet Union. Since then, it has embarked on several major health reforms covering health care provision, governance and financing, with the aim of improving efficiency while ensuring equitable access. Primary care in rural areas has been changed to a two-tiered system, while specialized polyclinics in urban areas are being transformed into general polyclinics covering all groups of the urban population. Secondary care is financed on...
Source: Health systems in transition - February 20, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Health Syst Transit Source Type: news
People Are Going Crazy For A Fermented Milk Drink No One Can Pronounce
NEW YORK -- Kefir might be the next Greek yogurt, even if no one can figure out how to pronounce its name.
The fermented, yogurt-like drink is popular in Eastern Europe, but in the U.S. has typically been sold at niche grocers and speciality shops targeting immigrant buyers. Now, thanks to a nationwide obsession with protein among the health-conscious, the somewhat sour beverage is finding its way into major supermarkets around the country.
But kefir's perennial problem persists: Most Americans get tongue-tied when they try to read its name.
Kuh-FEER? KEFF-eer? KEE-fur?
"People always ask, 'How do you pronounce it?...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 8, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
See How a Siberian Lake Has Almost Disappeared
NASA; Gif by Joseph C. Lin for TIME
New photos from NASA show that a lake in Siberia has almost disappeared since 2000, thanks to a Soviet water diversion program from the 1960s.
The Aral Sea, in Uzbekistan, was once the fourth largest lake in the world. Now it’s now a fraction of the size it was in 1960, according to the photographs. Even since 2000, the lake has shrunk dramatically, and seems poised to disappear altogether.
The lake was fed by the Syr Darya and Amu Darya rivers before the Soviet Union diverted them in the 1960s in order to irrigate the arid deserts in Kazhakstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Since...
Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - September 30, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Charlotte Alter Tags: Uncategorized Environment Source Type: news
MSF Epidemiologist Aliaa Tayea on DR-TB
MSF Epidemiologist Aliaa Tayea speaks about her experience dealing with Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Uzbekistan.
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Source: MSF Multimedia - May 14, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Tags: http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video Source Type: news
Parasitology expert addresses UK-Uzbek climate change Round Table
Cabot Institute member Dr Eric Morgan from the School of Veterinary Sciences attended a UK-Uzbek Round Table in Tashkent last week to present a report on the effects of climate change on parasite transmission in livestock. (Source: University of Bristol news)
Source: University of Bristol news - March 11, 2014 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: International; Faculty of Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Institutes, Cabot, Faculty of Medical and Veterinary Sciences, School of Veterinary Sciences Source Type: news
East Africa: Vaccination Against Cervical Cancer Planned for 1.5 Million Girls
[AlertNet]A vaccine against the virus that causes cervical cancer will be administered to 1.5 million young girls in Rwanda, Uganda and Uzbekistan under a new programme announced by the GAVI Alliance on Saturday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 10, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
1.5 million girls in three countries to get HPV shot
GENEVA, Switzerland, March 8 (UPI) -- An alliance that helps developing nations said it will support vaccination of 1.5 million girls in Rwanda, Uganda and Uzbekistan against cervical cancer. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - March 8, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
NASA data find some hope for water in Aral Sea basin
A new study using data from NASA satellite missions finds that, although the long-term water picture for the Aral Sea watershed in Central Asia remains bleak, short-term prospects are better than previously thought. Once the fourth largest inland sea in the world, the Aral Sea has lost 90 percent of its water volume over the last 50 years. Its watershed -- the enormous closed basin around the sea -- encompasses Uzbekistan and parts of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - February 14, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
'Five of our patients have attempted to take their own lives'
Dr Emily Wise is volunteering in Uzbekistan, treating TB patients with a drug that can cause depression and suicidal thoughts. She writes about the conflict of using a cure that also killsFor the past nine months, I have been experiencing first-hand the challenges of treating drug-resistant tuberculosis, a highly infectious disease that's fatal without treatment and extremely difficult to cure. I'm volunteering as a doctor for Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, an area where drug-resistant TB is endemic. Here, I have witnessed treatment side effects ranging from rashes t...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 2, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Global health Blogposts Guardian Professional Doctors Tuberculosis World news Pharmaceuticals industry Malaria and infectious diseases Drugs Volunteering Uzbekistan Drug resistance Global development professionals network Profess Source Type: news
Dr. Jamal Ahmadian Yazdi back from TB project in Uzbekistan
Newfoundland-based Dr. Jamal Ahmadian Yazdi just returned from Nukus in Uzbekistan where MSF runs a TB project. He was particularly saddened by the death of a 31-year old schoolteacher who had developed multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.
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Source: MSF Multimedia - February 8, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video Source Type: news
