Evidence is emerging that obesity-associated cardiovascular disorders (CVD) show variations across regions and ethnicities. However, it is unclear if there are distinctive patterns of abdominal obesity contributing to an increased CVD risk in South Asians. Also, potential underlying mechanistic pathways of such unique patterns are not comprehensively reported in South Asians. This review sets o...

The present investigation is an attempt to assess the ethno-medicinal worth of some selected wild edible fruits and vegetables used by the inhabitants Lesser Himalayas, Pakistan. Informed consent semi-structured interviews from 95 inhabitants of fifteen mountainous vicinities were conducted to collect data. A total of 20 wild edible fruits and vegetables belonging to 18 families and 18 genera w...

According to a programmatic article by Philip Tagg on theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of popular music studies (Tagg (1982)), folk or traditional music is one of the three possible kinds of music, together with classical (or art music) and popular music. This typology constitutes what Tagg calls an axiomatic triangle of musical genres, each of which being characterized by crit...

Motivation: SNPs have shown a lot of promises in disease association, personalized medicine, and population classification studies. The completion of International Hapmap Project has facilitated the SNP-based ethnoclassification. Due to the large amount of SNPs in the human genome, it is desirable to find a small set of informative SNPs for the classification task. Previous studies tried to fin...

Disclaimer: This paper was written by two authors1 who grew up in the developed part of the Western world with experience in different countries and cultures within the developed Western world and to a limited extent in the southern hemisphere world. One of the authors brings with him an academic background in engineering. The other author brings a background in education and Religious Studies,...

This review considers the study by A. Di Michele, professor at Free University of Bolzano (South Tyrol), dedicated to pre-war and military experience, as well experience captivity Italian-speaking soldiers Austro-Hungarian army during World War I. The main emphasis is placed on its role in process their ethno-cultural ethno-political self-identification, directly related population identity pol...

The Journal of Biodiversity, Bioprospecting and Development is a good context to evaluate from a scientific point of view the importance of biodiversity and its use and effects on social development, including economic development. Humans have always used natural resources because they are part of the environment and inevitably interact with it. Foods, medicines, home all have their origin in n...

AIM The aim of the study was to document the indigenous ethno-botanical knowledge of the transhumant nomads of Mustang, Nepal, a representative settlement in the Himalayan highland. METHODOLOGY A study was carried out during a direct field visit to collect plants, consisting of a semi-structured questionnaire and personal interviews. Both fresh and dried herbs, plants parts, and fungus were c...

Jatropha curcas is a herbal preparation used in the tropics for the treatment of threatened abortion and related problems associated with pregnancy. The Stem bark of Jatropha curcas is used ethno medicinally in Nigeria especially in the eastern part of the country for the treatment of infertility and spontaneous abortion (miscarriage). The present study was undertaken in order to validate the f...

What are the origins of border effects on trade and why do borders continue to matter in periods of increasing economic integration? We explore the hypothesis that border effects emerged as a result of asymmetric economic integration in the unique historical setting of the multi-national Habsburg Empire prior to the First World War. While markets tended to integrate mainly due to improved infra...