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BACKGROUND The associations of body mass index (BMI) and chronic disease may differ between Indo-Asian and Western populations. We used Indo-Asian-specific definitions of overweight and obesity to determine the prevalence of these problems in Pakistan and studied the sensitivity and specificity of BMI cutoff values for an association with hypertension and diabetes mellitus. METHODS We analyze...

The coral reef sea star Linckia laevigata is common on shallow water coral reefs of the Indo-West Pacific. Its large geographic distribution and comprehensive data from previous studies makes it suitable to examine genetic differentiation and connectivity over large geographical scales. Based on partial sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene this study investigates the g...

The risk of functional teratogenicity of two drugs used in neonatal pharmacotherapy was studied: indomethacin (INDO) and dexamethasone (DEX). Model experiments were carried out in Wistar strain rats, breed Konárovice, which received single subcutaneous drug injection (INDO 2 mg/kg, DEX 1 mg/kg) on postnatal day 4 (PD:4; model of human fetus/preterm newborn of 6-7-month-gestational age) or on po...

The IH hyperfine coupling constants of free radicals and ions have been successfully studied by our newly modified s-p· separation type INDO-MO method->, and the most of our calculated coupling constants are significantly better than the corresponding results of the conventional INDO-MO method."" The nuclear hyperfine coupling constant is assumed to be directly proportional to the 2s spin densi...

[1] A set of Markov models is developed based on a statistical linearization of 5 coupled ocean‐atmosphere general circulation models used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC AR4), and is applied to ensemble prediction of the tropical Indo‐ Pacific sea surface temperature variations. By taking advantage of the long data records of IPCC simulations, t...

There are two competing hypotheses for the origin of the Indo-European language family. The conventional view places the homeland in the Pontic steppes about 6000 years ago. An alternative hypothesis claims that the languages spread from Anatolia with the expansion of farming 8000 to 9500 years ago. We used Bayesian phylogeographic approaches, together with basic vocabulary data from 103 ancien...

The widespread occurrence of ideophones, large classes of words specialized in evoking sensory imagery, is little known outside linguistics and anthropology. Ideophones are a common feature in many of the world’s languages but are underdeveloped in English and other Indo-European languages. Here we study the meanings of ideophones in Siwu (a Kwa language from Ghana) using a pile-sorting task. T...

An overview is presented of the metazoan alien biota recorded from the Mediterranean coast of Israel. Of the 296 alien species, 284 have been introduced from the Red Sea/Indo West-Pacific through the Suez Canal. A brief history of the research on introduced species along the Israeli coast is presented along with the list of species, and their ecological and economic impacts are discussed.