Biodiversity is being lost under alarming rates due to an unsustainable socio-economic trajectory causing global change. Such loss is unequally spread over the Earth, and Southern Asia has been and is projected to continue to be one of the most affected regions. Mammalian species play a pivotal role in ecosystem regulation and their disturbance can...
Published in 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 ...
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...
Published in 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...
Published in 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...
Published in 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.
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...
Published in 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%...
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 ...
Published in 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...
