Surveys were carried out in 2003-2006 to better understand the epidemiology of hantaviruses in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China (Inner Mongolia). Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) was first reported in this region in 1955 and has been an important public health problem here since then. During 1955-2006, 8,309 persons with HFRS were reported in Inner Mongolia (average inc...

This paper primarily discussed Online Handwriting Recognition methods for Mongolia words which being often used among the Mongolia people in the North China. Because of the characteristic of the whole body of the Mongolia words, namely connectivity between the characters, thereby the segmentation of Mongolia words is very difficult. We introduced a recurrent neural network to online handwriting...

RESEARCH ARTICLE Seed Identification of Gramineous Grass Using Local Similarity Pattern and Linear Discriminant Analysis Tong Chen, Xin Pan, Yubao Ma, Weihong Yan, Guifang Wu and Zhihong Yu College of Computer and Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Huhhot, Inner Mongolia 010018, P.R. China Grassland Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hu...

Mongolia which is located in Northern Asia between Russia and China is endowed with one of lowest population density in the world. Acute hepatitis due all types of hepatitis virus has been reported in Mongolia. Also, dual and triple hepatitis viruses, HBV, HDV and HCV are highly prevalent among patients with chronic liver disease living in Mongolia. Due to these facts, liver cancer is the leadi...

1 Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA 2 Mongolia Program, Wildlife Conservation Society, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 3 Mongolia Program Office, World Wide Fund for Nature, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 4 USDA-WS-National Wildlife Research Center and the Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA 5 Organismal Biology and Ecology,...

Mongolia started using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in secondary education relatively late. The computer training and informatics has been included as a subject in the secondary school curriculum in Mongolia since 1988 and in the university curriculum since 1982. This paper presents current situation of informatics education in Mongolia. SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, ...

Asbestos is still used in Mongolia in the energy and construction sectors, among others. However, limited data is available on asbestos consumption and asbestos-related disease in Mongolia. The purpose of this paper is to present the available information on the importation of asbestos into Mongolia. We used data on annual asbestos imports between 1996 and 2014 from Mongolian Customs Statistics...

Tracking maternal mortality declines in Mongolia between 1992 and 2007: the importance of collaboration Buyanjargal Yadamsuren, Mario Merialdi, Ishnyam Davaadorj, Jennifer Harris Requejo, Ana Pilar Betrán, Asima Ahmad, Pagvajav Nymadawa, Tudevdorj Erkhembaatar, Delia Barcelona, Katherine Ba-thike, Robert J Hagan, Richard Prado, Wolf Wagner, Seded Khishgee, Tserendorj Sodnompil, Baatar Tsedmaa, ...

BACKGROUND To assess the coverage of individual-based primary prevention strategies for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Cambodia and Mongolia: specifically the early identification of hypertension and diabetes mellitus, major proximate physiological CVD risk factors, and management with pharmaceutical and lifestyle advice interventions. METHODS Analysis of data collected in national cross-sec...

Anthrax is endemic throughout Mongolia, except in the semi-desert and desert areas of the south. The prevalence of anthrax in Mongolia had drastically decreased since the 1950s due to the use of anthrax antiserum and vaccines, but the privatisation of the animal husbandry sector and changes in the structures of the veterinary and medical delivery systems in Mongolia over the last decade have re...