Shrestha, Poojan Dahal, Prabin Ogbonnaa-Njoku, Chinwe Das, Debashish Stepniewska, Kasia Thomas, Nigel V. Hopkins, Heidi Crump, John A. Bell, David Newton, Paul N.
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BMC Medicine
BackgroundIn the absence of definitive diagnosis, healthcare providers are likely to prescribe empirical antibacterials to those who test negative for malaria. This problem is of critical importance in Southern Asia (SA) and South-eastern Asia (SEA) where high levels of antimicrobial consumption and high prevalence of antimicrobial resistance have ...
Gauche, E. Dery, S. Derioz, P. Ducourtieux, O. Germaine, M. A. Landy, F. Loireau, Maud Verdelli, L.
Five case studies are presented, all located in highland regions of South Asia and inhabited by ethnic minorities (India, Nepal, China, Laos, Vietnam), in order to analyze the consequences of narratives, actions and transformations of governance via the landscape. How does the landscape become, through tourism, a "way of seeing" territories, how do...
Nguyen, Diane Mandalakas, Anna M.
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Current Tropical Medicine Reports
Although significant strides have been made to improve child survival, child mortality continues to be a poignant marker of global health disparity, with most under-five deaths concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia. A staggering number of children continue to die each day from mostly preventable conditions, many of which are infectio...
Prieto, Jérôme Antoine, Pierre-Olivier van der Made, Jan Métais, Grégoire Phuc, Laq The Quan, Quý Trương Schneider, Simon Tran, Dang Ngoc Vasilyan, Davit Viet, Luong The
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Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments
Current scientific knowledge of Tertiary fossils from south of the Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone is extremely poor, in sharp contrast with the situation nowadays, as the area of Laos and Vietnam is regarded as a global hotspot of biodiversity. In this context, the few localities that yielded fossil assemblages are of first importance for the unde...
Herczek, Aleksander Popov, Yuri A Gorczyca, Jacek
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ZooKeys
The paper presents description and illustrations of a new peculiar species from the genus Psallops, P. coloratussp. n. from Southeast Asia (Singapore). Photographs, line drawings of the general habitus and a short comparison with a species from Thailand are provided.
Blanco, Jesús Alonso
Abu Sayyaf is one of the radical Islamic groups fighting for the creation of an Islamic state in the southern Philippines. The difference with others who have worked there for decades is the proximity to the thesis of global Jihad. Its founder, Abubakar Janjalani, spread the Wahhabism among the population and combatants frustrated by the other rebe...
Wium, Cecilie Eggesbø, Heidi B Ueland, Thor Michelsen, Annika E Torjesen, Peter A Aukrust, Pål Birkeland, Kåre
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Scandinavian journal of clinical and laboratory investigation
Immigrants from South Asia to Western countries have a high prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) associated with obesity. We investigated the relationship between diabetes and adipose tissue distribution in a group of younger T2DM subjects from Norway and Pakistan. Eighteen immigrant Pakistani and 21 Norwegian T2DM subjects (age 29-45, 49%...
Behname, Mehdi
The aim of this paper is to investigate the influence of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth in Southern Asia for the period 1977-2009. The Im, Pesaran and Shin (2003) unit root test shows the variables are stationary in level and Hausman (1978) test proves that we should apply the random effects model. Having estimated the model we ...
Hepburn, H. Randall Radloff, Sarah E.
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Apidologie
The geographical distributions of the dwarf honeybees, Apis andreniformis and Apis florea, are defined and mapped. The analysis is based primarily on data in the literature for both species and that on the relevant Quaternary palaeoclimatic data. The dwarf honeybee, A. andreniformis, extends from the eastern foothills of the Himalayas eastward to I...
Ismail, Hanif Wright, John Rhodes, Penny Small, Neil
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The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
In this study's South Asian sample, patients commonly turned to traditional healers in search of better health. Health professionals should be aware of the belief systems of these patients and understand the types of treatments in common use. Although these treatments might potentially compete with Western health care, they are used as an adjunct r...
