BACKGROUND Moderate physical activity is protective against coronary heart disease (CHD) and diabetes, both important public health problems among UK South Asian (Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi) ethnic groups. We assessed the evidence that physical activity is lower in South Asian groups than in the general population. METHODS We carried out a systematic literature review of studies descri...

The meaning of the term “slang” in English is different from other languages. main reason for this migration English-speaking population to continents (North America, Australia, Asia) beginning 17th century, fact that their languages became dominant language by suppressing local languages, and due use representatives nations who migrated these places. Therefore, spoken Australian, Indian, South...

The geological association of the Greater Antilles with North and South America in the late Cretaceous led to the hypothesis that the present Antillean biota reflects those ancient land connections. Molecular data from diverse West Indian amphibians and reptiles and their mainland relatives support a more recent derivation of the Antillean vertebrate fauna by overwater dispersal. The catastroph...

Interaction of silver nanoparticles with serum proteins affects their antimicrobial activity 1 in vivo 2 Divya Prakash Gnanadhas, Midhun Ben Thomas, Rony Thomas, Ashok M Raichur, 3 Dipshikha Chakravortty 4 Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. 5 Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. 6 Department ...

This article begins from a perceived lack of empirical evidence in cultural studies, namely the ethnography of cultural globalization in ‘global cities’ other than those of the West. Youth culture among the upper strata of the South-Indian metropolis Bangalore is taken as an instance of how modernity is experienced and produced in the post-colonial Third World. The focus lies on the reception o...

CONTEXT Although type 2 diabetes has been described among American Indian children, no case of type 1 diabetes has been reported in the literature. CASE REPORT We report the first case of diabetes in a South American Indian child from the tropical rainforest, who was positive for IA2 autoantibodies and genetic markers of susceptibility to type 1 diabetes, but also demonstrated residual beta c...

Southern Indian isolate IND1994/01 of bluetongue virus serotype 2 (BTV-2), from the Orbivirus Reference Collection at the Pirbright Institute (http://www.reoviridae.org/dsRNA_virus_proteins/ReoID/btv-2.htm#IND1994/01), was sequenced. Its genome segment 6 (Seg-6) [encoding VP5(OCP2)] is identical to that of the Indian BTV-1 isolate (IND2003/05), while Seg-5 and Seg-9 are closely related to isola...

This overview paper describes the first shared task on Indian Native Language Identification (INLI) that was organized at FIRE 2017. Given a corpus with comments in English from various Facebook newspapers pages, the objective of the task is to identify the native language among the following six Indian languages: Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu. Altogether, 26 approaches ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to systematically review the evidence that coronary heart disease risk is higher in South Asians than in comparative 'white' populations, particularly seeking studies of incidence. METHODS A systematic literature review was carried out using a personal research literature collection, MEDLINE 1966-1998 and citations from references. RESULTS Of 19 studies, ...