BACKGROUND In Uzbekistan, despite stable and relatively high tuberculosis treatment success rates, relatively high rates of recurrent tuberculosis have recently been reported. Recurrent tuberculosis is when a patient who was treated for pulmonary tuberculosis and cured, later develops the disease again. This requires closer analysis to identify possible causes and recommend interventions to imp...

In our recent paper on Palaearctic Docosia Winnertz, 1863, a new species was described under the name Docosia turkmenica Kurina & Ševčík, 2012. The material originated from the Kopet Dag Mountains (Big Bakhcha River) in southwest Turkmenistan and was named for its occurrence in the country (Kurina & Ševčík 2012). Unfortunately, the authors were not aware of a previous paper by Zaitzev (2011) de...

Populations of wild barley, H. spontaneum Koch., were collected in two countries, Israel and Turkmenistan, in environments representing two similar sharp clines of aridity. This allowed us to use the same criteria to define species core and periphery in two regions. Plants from 10 Israeli and 19 Turkmenian populations were grown in a field trial with three water treatments and compared for amou...

1160 JAMC • 9 NOV. 2004; 171 (10) Cancer patients in developing countries must overcome the obstacles of inadequate infrastructure for treatment and lack of follow-up even as they contend with the disease itself, said experts at a radiation therapy conference tackling these issues. Leading radiation oncologists and researchers met in Hamilton in late September to discuss the burden of cancer in...

A Skyrme type Lagrangian for a skyrmion imbedded in a baryon rich environment is proposed. The dependence of static nucleon properties and nucleon nucleon tensor interaction on nuclear density is investigated. PACS numbers : 12.39.Dc, 12.39.Fe, 21.30.Fe Typeset using REVTEX Permanent address: Theoretical Physics Department , Tashkent State University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

The article is about the analysis of the development of architecture and urban planning of Uzbekistan from ancient times till the 21st century. Scientific-based recommendations of the city structure improvement in contemporary conditions. IndexTerms: urban planning, transformation, urbanization, genesis, general plans, housing construction, functional urban planning, old city areas, reconstruct...