Degradation of higher education in Kazakhstan as an example of post-transitional crisis

It is shown, that objectives of degradation of Higher Education in most part of post-soviet countries are connected with the specific factors appeared at the economical situation appeared at the end of transitional period (transition from planned economy to market one). Decreasing of quality of higher education in such countries as Kazakhstan may be interpreted in frameworks of Baudrillard’s concept of evolution of connection between "The Sign" and "The Reality"; such interpretation directly shows that overcoming of negative trends in post-soviet countries education cannot be realized by traditional administrative instruments. The problem may be solved by taking into account concepts of institutional economy

Transformation of a Documentary into YouTube: a Comparative Analysis with TV Documentaries

В данной статье авторы сравнивают документальные фильмы производства официальных телевизионных каналов и созданные специально для платформы YouTube с целью обосновать новый тип фильма в документалистике. Видеохостинг YouTube в XXI веке стал площадкой для независимых авторов, стремящихся высказаться на социально значимые темы. В русскоязычном YouTube пиком развития свободной мысли в Интернете стал проект журналиста Юрия Дудя, в Казахстане постепенно начинает формироваться сообщество независимых видеомейкеров. Таким образом, чтобы обосновать свое предположение о формировании документального фильма типа YouTube, авторы провели сравнительный анализ русскоязычных фильмов казахстанских телеканалов КТК, «Хабар» и документальных проектов YouTube-каналов. Примером авторских документальных проектов можно назвать каналы «kana beisekeev», «Ринат Балгабаев».In this article, the authors compare documentaries produced by official television channels and created specifically for the YouTube platform in order to justify a new type of film in documentaries. YouTube video hosting in the XXI century has become a platform for independent authors seeking to speak out on socially significant topics. In the Russian-language YouTube, the peak of the development of free thought on the Internet was the project of journalist Yuri Dud, a community of independent video makers is gradually beginning to form in Kazakhstan. Thus, in order to substantiate their assumption about the formation of a YouTube-type documentary, the authors conducted a comparative analysis of the films of the Kazakh television channels KTK, “Khabar” and documentary projects of YouTube channels. An example of the author's documentary projects can be called the channels “kana beisekeev”, “Rinat Balgabayev”.In this article, the authors compare documentaries produced by official television channels and created specifically for the YouTube platform in order to justify a new type of film in documentaries. YouTube video hosting in the XXI century has become a platform for independent authors seeking to speak out on socially significant topics. In the Russian-language YouTube, the peak of the development of free thought on the Internet was the project of journalist Yuri Dud, a community of independent video makers is gradually beginning to form in Kazakhstan. Thus, in order to substantiate their assumption about the formation of a YouTube-type documentary, the authors conducted a comparative analysis of the films of the Kazakh television channels KTK, “Khabar” and documentary projects of YouTube channels. An example of the author's documentary projects can be called the channels “kana beisekeev”, “Rinat Balgabayev”

Sorption of petroleum products with natural sorbents

This article presents the results of a study of cleaning the water surface from contamination with petroleum products. Kulantaussky vermiculite, the birthplace of the Turkestan region, was studied as a sorbent. Studies have shown that the modified vermiculite is able to retain the sorbed oil up to 2 days after the expiration of the main sorption time (4 hours). It is established that the oil capacity depends on the thickness of the oil film, the sorption time and the amount of the sorbent taken

FabSim3: An automation toolkit for verified simulations using high performance computing

A common feature of computational modelling and simulation research is the need to perform many tasks in complex sequences to achieve a usable result. This will typically involve tasks such as preparing input data, pre-processing, running simulations on a local or remote machine, post-processing, and performing coupling communications, validations and/or optimisations. Tasks like these can involve manual steps which are time and effort intensive, especially when it involves the management of large ensemble runs. Additionally, human errors become more likely and numerous as the research work becomes more complex, increasing the risk of damaging the credibility of simulation results. Automation tools can help ensure the credibility of simulation results by reducing the manual time and effort required to perform these research tasks, by making more rigorous procedures tractable, and by reducing the probability of human error due to a reduced number of manual actions. In addition, efficiency gained through automation can help researchers to perform more research within the budget and effort constraints imposed by their projects. This paper presents the main software release of FabSim3, and explains how our automation toolkit can improve and simplify a range of tasks for researchers and application developers. FabSim3 helps to prepare, submit, execute, retrieve, and analyze simulation workflows. By providing a suitable level of abstraction, FabSim3 reduces the complexity of setting up and managing a large-scale simulation scenario, while still providing transparent access to the underlying layers for effective debugging. The tool also facilitates job submission and management (including staging and curation of files and environments) for a range of different supercomputing environments. Although FabSim3 itself is application-agnostic, it supports a provably extensible plugin system where users automate simulation and analysis workflows for their own application domains. To highlight this, we briefly describe a selection of these plugins and we demonstrate the efficiency of the toolkit in handling large ensemble workflows.EPSRC under grant agreement EP/W007711/1, as well as by the VECMA and HiDALGO projects, which have received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement nos 800925 and 824115. In addition, FabFlee was supported by the ITFLOWS project and FabCovid19 by the STAMINA project, both of which have received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 882986 and No 883441 respectivel

Mastering the scales: A survey on the benefits of multiscale computing software

Electronic supplementary material is available online at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9. figshare.c.4352660.© 2019 The Authors. In the last few decades, multiscale modeling has emerged as one of the dominant modeling paradigms in many areas of science and engineering. Its rise to dominance is primarily driven by advancements in computing power and the need to model systems of increasing complexity. The multiscale modeling paradigm is now accompanied by a vibrant ecosystem of multiscale computing software (MCS) which promise to address many challenges in the development of multiscale applications. In this paper, we define the common steps in the multiscale application development process and investigate to what degree a set of 22 representative MCS tools enhance each development step. We observe several gaps in the features provided by MCS tools, specially for application deployment and the preparation and management of production runs. In addition, we find that many MCS tools are tailored to a particular multiscale computing pattern, even though they are otherwise application agnostic. We conclude that the gaps we identify are characteristic of a field that is still maturing and features that enhance the deployment and production steps of multiscale application development are desirable for the long term success of MCS in its application fields.The European Union’s Horizon 2020 research, innovation programme under grant agreement and the project “Task-based load balancing and auto-tuning in particle simulations”European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement nos. 800925 and 671564; ‘Task-based load balancing and auto-tuning in particle simulations’ project (TaLPas), grant no. 01IH16008B

Innovation of Tourism Supply Chain Management: A New Agenda for Optimization. The Case of Kazakhstan

Despite the recognition of tourism as a priority sector, the development pace and indicators remain low. Innovation management methods are required that will positively affect the entire industry. The main article goal is to identify the problems of tourism sector development for the positive effects achievement and the system transition to a new, qualitative one, as well as identifying barriers and constraints. The problems raised by the authors in the article require comprehensive study and analysis. The authors conducted a comparative analysis of travel and tourism competitiveness index of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2017 and 2019 years. The authors also analyzed the main indicators of the development of the tourism sector, financial and economic activities of tourism companies in the Republic of Kazakhstan, studied the tourism potential of Nur-Sultan city and Akmola region. As a result of the conducted research, conclusions are drawn, and recommendations are given

The impact of uncertainty on predictions of the CovidSim epidemiological code

Data availability Figure 1a,b displays publicly available cumulative death count data for the UK, which were obtained from ref. 22. Source Data are available with this paper. Furthermore, the parameter list—with all input parameters, a description, their default values and reasons for inclusion or exclusion from the Imperial College London CovidSim team—is available as Supplementary Data. Supplementary information: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs43588-021-00028-9/MediaObjects/43588_2021_28_MOESM1_ESM.pdf Supplementary discussion, Figs. 1–7 and Table 1. Supplementary Data 1: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs43588-021-00028-9/MediaObjects/43588_2021_28_MOESM2_ESM.xlsx All input parameters, a description, their default values and reasons for inclusion or exclusion from the Imperial College London CovidSim team. Source data Source Data Fig. 1: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs43588-021-00028-9/MediaObjects/43588_2021_28_MOESM3_ESM.xlsx The computed cumulative death results for Fig. 1 and the observed death count data. Source Data Fig. 2: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs43588-021-00028-9/MediaObjects/43588_2021_28_MOESM4_ESM.xlsx The Sobol indices of Fig. 2.Copyright © 2022 The Autor(s). Epidemiological modelling has assisted in identifying interventions that reduce the impact of COVID-19. The UK government relied, in part, on the CovidSim model to guide its policy to contain the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic during March and April 2020; however, CovidSim contains several sources of uncertainty that affect the quality of its predictions: parametric uncertainty, model structure uncertainty and scenario uncertainty. Here we report on parametric sensitivity analysis and uncertainty quantification of the code. From the 940 parameters used as input into CovidSim, we find a subset of 19 to which the code output is most sensitive—imperfect knowledge of these inputs is magnified in the outputs by up to 300%. The model displays substantial bias with respect to observed data, failing to describe validation data well. Quantifying parametric input uncertainty is therefore not sufficient: the effect of model structure and scenario uncertainty must also be properly understood.Royal Society’s RAMP initiative: European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement nos. 800925 (VECMA project; www.vecma.eu) and 823712 (CompBioMed2 Centre of Excellence, www.compbiomed.eu); UK EPSRC for the UK High-End Computing Consortium (grant no. EP/R029598/1)

Astana experience: department of oncohematology and bone marrow transplantation, National Research Center of Oncology and Transplantation

The Unit of Oncohematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) was arranged on basis of the Republican Research Center of Hospital Emergencies SC (Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan) in August 2010. Since July 2014, a Clinical Department with 69 beds was arranged, and National Research Center for Oncology and Transplantation SC was arranged. From 2010 to 2016, the modalities of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation have been advanced, from autologous BMT to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCT) from matched donors (33%), and haploidentical HSCTs (43% in 2016), a total of 186 transpants. Bone marrow was used as a source of stem cells in 71 cases (71 donors for allo-HSCT in 69 recipients), whereas peripheral stem cells were harvested in 73 cases (15 donors for 15 recipients of allo-BMT, and 58 marrow harvests for autologous BMT)