Rameshwar D. Gupta was the speaker of a seminar titled “Generalized Exponential Distributions”. Gupta received his PhD degree in statistics from Dalhousie University in 1973. He worked in the University of the West Indies, University of Saskatchewan. He joined the University of New Brunswick in 1980. He has received the Merit Award at the University of New Brunswick at Saint John four times. Pr...

BACKGROUND Surgical patients aged 65 and over face a higher risk of cardiac complications from noncardiac surgery. The Revised Cardiac Risk Index (RCRI) and the Gupta Myocardial Infarction or Cardiac Arrest (MICA) calculator are widely used to predict this risk, but they are not specifically designed to predict MICA in geriatric patients. Our hypothesis is that a new geriatric-sensitive index, ...

Singapore English, a recently nativised (Gupta 1994) variety of English, has often been analysed in terms of a continuum (Pakir 1991; Platt 1975; Poedjosoedarmo 1995). A more recent approach (Gupta 1994, 2001) regards this variation as one reflecting a diglossic situation: Standard (Singapore) English is H(igh), Colloquial Singapore English (‘Singlish’) is L(ow). This paper presents findings fr...

Nine species of Acropimpla Townes, 1960 are recorded from Thailand with three species described as new: A. leoni sp.n., A. natae sp.n., A. patellalutea sp.n. Six species, A. aspera Gupta & Tikar, 1976, A. hapaliae (Rao, 1953), A. leucostoma (Cameron, 1907), A. nakula Gupta & Tikar, 1976, A. taishunensis Liu, He & Chen, 2010, and A. uchidai (Cushman, 1933) are recorded from Thailand for the firs...

Porcelain gallbladder or calcified gallbladder is a rare entity and is considered as the end stage of chronic cholecystitis. This disease is rarely diagnosed preoperatively and usually mimics carcinoma gallbladder. Hereby, we present a rare and interesting case of porcelain gallbladder that was diagnosed preoperatively and managed by cholecystectomy. How to cite this article: Goel A, Agarwal A,...

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