Panday, Sarita Bissell, Paul van Teijlingen, Edwin Simkhada, Padam
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundIn resource-poor settings, the provision of basic maternity care within health centres is often a challenge. Despite the difficulties, Nepal reduced its maternal mortality ratio by 80% from 850 to an estimated 170 per 100,000 live births between 1991 and 2011 to achieve Millennium Development Goal Five. One group that has been credited fo...
Guillot, Stéphane Garçon, Marion Weinman, Beth Gajurel, Ananta Tisserand, Delphine France-Lanord, Christian Geen, Alex van Chakraborty, Sudipta Huyghe, Pascale Upreti, Bishal Nath
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Environmental Earth Sciences
A sedimentological and geochemical study was carried out to explore the origin of arsenic contamination in sediments in Nawalparasi district, in the western Terai of Nepal. The investigation tools include major, trace and rare earth element analyses of core sediments, as well as 14C datings, and O, C isotopic analyses on mollusk shells. The results...
Khatiwada, Saroj Gelal, Basanta Shakya, Prem Raj Lamsal, Madhab Baral, Nirmal
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The Indian Journal of Pediatrics
ObjectivesTo assess the current iodine status among school children in Terai region of Nepal.MethodsA cross sectional study was conducted in 2012 among the school children aged 6–12y in three Terai districts (Siraha, Saptari and Jhapa) of eastern Nepal. A total of 1105 casual urine samples were collected from children of different schools of above ...
Izquierdo Alberca, María José
After a civil war, devastating earthquakes and a marked international image of vulnerability, the adoption of a new constitution in Nepal has been greeted with rejection by the people of the southern Terai region. Serious incidents and blocking the entry of fuel from India have highlighted the serious problems this small country lodged between two ...
Yadav, Ishwar Chandra Devi, Ningombam Linthoingambi Mohan, Devendra Shihua, Qi Singh, Surendra
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Environmental Earth Sciences
Groundwater is a precious resource for humankind not only in Nepal but also across the globe due to its diverse functions. A total of 48 groundwater samples were collected from three villages of Nawalparasi district, Nepal, during pre-monsoon and monsoon to estimate the overall groundwater quality and to identify the sources of contamination with e...
Parajuli, Rajendra Prasad Fujiwara, Takeo Umezaki, Masahiro Furusawa, Hana Ser, Ping Han Watanabe, Chiho
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Biological Trace Element Research
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the cord blood level of toxic and trace elements and to identify their determinants in Terai, Nepal. One hundred pregnant women were recruited from one hospital in Chitwan, Nepal in 2008. The cord blood levels of toxic [lead (Pb), arsenic (As), and cadmium (Cd)], essential trace elements [zinc (Zn), selenium...
Chitale, V. S. Tripathi, P. Behera, M. D. Soumit K. Behera, Tuli, R.
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Biodiversity and Conservation
The relationships among diversity, productivity and climate are complex, especially in tropical ecosystems; and are less studied. We studied here the bi- and tri-partite relationships between and among the plant diversity, productivity and climate variables (i.e., temperature, precipitation and moisture) in a tropical ecosystem in India by analyzin...
Takahata, Chihiro Amin, Rajan Sarma, Pranjit Banerjee, Gitanjali Oliver, William Fa, John E.
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Environmental Management
The Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands, which once extended along most of the Himalayan foothills, now only remain in a number of protected areas. Within these localities, grassland burning is a major issue, but data on frequency and distribution of fires are limited. Here, we analysed the incidence of active fires, which only occur during the dry s...
Sah, Nepali
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Journal of Population Research
In recent decades significant changes in Nepalese society have greatly contributed to the increase in age at marriage of girls in Nepal. Factors responsible for these changes include educational development, urbanization and development of mass communications. However, many parents still marry their daughters at very young ages and this practice is...
Sunwar, Sharmila Thornström, Carl-Gustaf Subedi, Anil Bystrom, Marie
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Biodiversity & Conservation
Home gardens are defined as a system of production of diverse crop plant species, which can be adjacent to household or slightly further away and is easily accessible. Species composition and management systems of Nepalese home gardens are poorly known. The study was conducted to develop an inventory on composition of crop species and varietal dive...
