BACKGROUND People from Asian populations are generally shorter than other ethnic groups. It is unknown if current universal height references are suitable for affluent South Asian children in the Netherlands. AIMS To develop height-for-age charts for contemporary South Asian children aged 0-20 years living in the Netherlands, to evaluate secular trends, and to compare the charts with current ...

Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation, University of South Australia, SA – 5095, Australia; Cooperative Research Centre for Contaminants Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE), University of South Australia, SA-5095; USDA-ARS, Coastal Plains Soil, Water and Plant Research Center, 2611 W. Lucas St., Florence, SC, 29501, USA; Indian Institute of Horticultural ...

The Lombok Strait separates the Indonesian islands Bali and Lombok and is the second most important strait through which water is exchanged between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. The south end of the Lombok Strait is split by a small island and on each side of the island are rugged sills with an average depth of about 200 m. On the sill, tidal current speeds up to ±3.5 m/s are encounte...

India has a diverse caecilian fauna, including representatives of three of the six currently recognized families, the Caeciliidae, Ichthyophiidae, the endemic Uraeotyphlidae, but previous molecular phylogenetic studies of caecilians have not included sequences for any Indian caecilians. Partial 12S and 16S mitochondrial gene sequences were obtained for a single representative of each of the cae...

Isoniazid, is the only antituberculous drug for which the relation between lack of virulence and acquisition of resistance was associated. INH-resistant mutants were shown to contain defective katG gene. Classical studies showed that INH-resistant south Indian isolates have lower virulence in guinea pigs and higher susceptibility to H2O2. It is of interest to assess the virulence in south India...

Ž . Ž . Samples for total organic carbon TOC analysis were collected on WOCE Line P15S 08 to 678S along 1708W and from Ž . 538 to 678S along 1708E in the western South Pacific, and on Line I8 58N to 438S along 808r908E in the central Indian Ocean. TOC concentrations in the upper ocean varied greatly between the regions studied. Highest surface TOC Ž . Ž . concentrations 81–85 mM C and 68–73 mM ...

BACKGROUND The normal range of CD4 lymphocyte count varies among different ethnic groups. In populations with CD4 counts inherently lower than in the West, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classification system of HIV-infected individuals may not be appropriate. No such criterion is currently available for ethnic south Indian HIV-infected individuals. We undertook this study...

Prior to the 1976–77 climate shift (1950–76), sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the tropical Indian Ocean consisted of a basinwide warming during boreal fall of the developing phase of most El Niños, whereas after the shift (1977–99) they had an east–west asymmetry—a consequence of El Niño being associated with the Indian Ocean Dipole/Zonal mode. In this study, the possible impact of t...

The paper presents a paradigm for a multilingual information system for Indian languages. MARC21 is taken as the basis and UNICODE is adopted for multilingual representation of bibliographic data in Indian languages. The objective of the system is to present search results in any one chosen Indian language irrespective of the original language of the bibliographic record. In other words the ret...

BACKGROUND In a previous retrospective study of tuberculosis in south London among Asian immigrants from the Indian subcontinent Hindu Asians were found to have a significantly increased risk for tuberculosis compared with Muslims. This finding has been further investigated by examining the role of socioeconomic and lifestyle variables, including diet, as risk factors for tuberculosis in Asian ...