Traditional plant use in Nepal has been documented for millennia. The importance of plants as medicine has not diminished in any way in recent times, and traditional medicines are still the most important health care source for the vast majority of the population. This paper examines the ethnobotany and traditional use of plants extracted from the vulnerable alpine zone in the Dolpa, Humla, Jum...

We examine empirically the performance of multi-level logic minimization tools for a lookup table-based Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology. The experiments are conducted by using the university tools misII for combinational logic minimization and mustang for state assignment, and the industrial tools xnfmap for technology mapping and apr for automatic placement and routing. We meas...

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...

We evaluated the multiyear contraceptive efficacy of the gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) vaccine GonaCon, the porcine zona pellucida (PZP) vaccine SpayVac and the human intrauterine device (IUD) 380 Copper ‘T’ in mustang mares provided by the State of Nevada. Eight untreated control mares were compared with 12 mares treated with SpayVac, 16 mares treated with GonaCon and 15 mares treated...

Albulina orbitulus lobbichleri Forster, 1961 is a rare butterfly subspecies endemic of Nepal. This has been recorded for the first time living at highest elevation 4,815 m from Himalayan region Mustang in West note updates information on change altitudinal preference this butterfly.

the water remains at the centre of livelihood from the beginning of human civilization. civilization enriched mostly on the fertile plains and river valleys. with times, people began migrating to highland slopes where there was easy access to water to use. two villages in mustang region of nepal were considered for research to drill the causes of conflicts on water sources right and water share...