Precipitation plays vital roles in the global water cycle, knowledge of spatial and temporal variation precipitation is essential to understanding extreme environmental phenomena such as floods, landslides, drought. In this paper, integrated characteristics during 1980–2016 over Nepal along with seasonal elevation dependency were examined for three different regions country using Multi-Source W...

There are two challenges in classifying lidar points into ground and non-ground points on Texas coastal areas, which usually has a low-lying landform consisting of morphological features including dunes, tidal and river channels with levees, barren flats, buildings, and trees with varying cover density. The first is to remove buildings and trees meanwhile keeping seawall, dunes, levees and chan...

The benefits of ever-growing numbers of sequenced eukaryotic genomes will not be fully realized until we learn to decipher vast stretches of noncoding DNA, largely composed of transposable elements. Transposable elements persist through self-replication, but some genes once encoded by transposable elements have, through a process called molecular domestication, evolved new functions that increa...

This study aimed to describe lipid profiles and the distribution of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in a sample of a high altitude population of Nepal and to explore associations between these metabolic risk variables and altitude. A cross-sectional survey of cardiovascular disease and associated risk factors was conducted among 521 people living at four different altitude levels, all above 2800 m,...

BACKGROUND Individuals residing at higher altitude may have oxygen saturation of hemoglobin different to those living at lower altitude. OBJECTIVES To find out the baseline value of SpO2 in healthy Nepali children (2-14 years) living permanently at high altitude using pulse oximeter and also to study the relation of SpO2 with age, sex and ethnicity. METHODS A descriptive observational study...

Fossil records, archaeological proofs, and historical documents report that horses persisted continuously in the Iberian Peninsula since the Pleistocene and were taken to the American continent (New World) in the 15th century. To investigate the variation within the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region of Iberian and New World horse breeds, to analyze their relationships, and to test the hi...

BACKGROUND The oxygen saturation of haemoglobin is reduced in high altitude-living organisms. Increase in the hematocrit is responsible for rise in the hemoglobin concentration so that the oxygen carrying capacity in the hypobaric hypoxic subject is elevated. OBJECTIVES To compare two different high altitude populations, in order to study the relationship between arterial oxygen saturation an...

Protein structure comparison has long been under investigation by computational biologists in hopes for finding a better but not necessarily faster alternative to the more familiar multiple sequence alignment problem. The multiple alignment problem is more challenging than pairwise alignment even for sequences, and we resort to heuristics to find as best an approximation as possible, in polynom...