The hydroclimatic association between the monthly Indian summer monsoon rainfall and a proposed monthly composite index (MCI) of large-scale atmospheric circulations from the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean regions is established. The spatial variability of this association is also checked. The predictability of the monthly Indian summer monsoon rainfall using the MCI is also investigated and is...

This paper focuses on thirty Oglala Sioux children from the 2nd and 4th grades and attempts to identify a variety of emotional, cognitive, and cultural factors that differentiate high academic achievement from low academic achievement. The small sample was taken from within a large, ongoing prospective study, The Flower of Two Soils, of approximately one thousand children at four reservation si...

Content-based Tracking in Videos using Kernel Methods and Active Appearance Models Nimit Kumar Department of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, UP, INDIA. [email protected] Vibhanshu Abhishek Department of Computer Science & Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, UP, INDIA. [email protected] Gagan Gautam Department of Computer Science & Engineering In...

Sir, This is in response to the article' Do Indian researchers read Indian research? a reappraisal, four years later', published in April 2000 (No.2, f Vol.42) issue of your journal. The authors of this article have documented their observations on my article 'Transsexualism in Schizophrenia : a case report' (April, 1998, Vol.40, No.2) that I did not refer to their article, 'Behaviour Therapy f...

BACKGROUND Indian Asians are at increased risk of cardiovascular death which does not appear to be explained by conventional risk factors. As microvascular disease is also more prevalent in Indian Asians, and as it is thought to play a role in the development of macrovascular disease, we decided to determine whether impaired microcirculation could contribute to this increased cardiovascular ris...

BACKGROUND Indian Asians in the United Kingdom have increased coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality compared with European whites, but the causes are not well understood. Increased circulating concentrations of C-reactive protein (CRP) are an independent risk factor for CHD. Therefore, we investigated this marker of inflammation in healthy UK Indian Asian and European white men. Methods and Re...

“The Rhetorics of Sovereignty: Representing Indian Territory in NineteenthCentury Newspapers and Journals” explores issues of Native American sovereignty in newspapers and journals published in and about places imagined as “Indian territory.” Each chapter of this project explores how Indian territories were identified by different reading publics as both “space” and “place,” as “empty” places o...