is religious commitment declining? is the form of religiosity changing in the society of mashhad? to find answers to these questions, we studied the various theories of secularization and determined its three levels. we defined individual secularization and its product; the secular attitude, and determined its dimensions and its indexes. next we measured the secular attitude. we then studied th...

1074 Information Security Framework for E-Government Implementation in Nepal 1 Pranita Upadhyaya, 2 Subarna Shakya, 3 Manish Pokharel 1, 3 Department of Computer Science & Engineering/Kathmandu University, Kavre, Nepal. 2 Department of E&C and Computer, Pulchowk Campus/Institute of Engineering /Tribhuvan University, Pulchowk, Lalitpur, Nepal. 1 [email protected], 2 [email protected], 3 manishpok...

Nepal has a complicated geophysical structure that is prone to various kinds of disasters. Nepal ranks the most disaster-prone country in the world and has experienced several natural calamities, causing high property and life losses. Disasters are caused by natural processes, but may be increased by human activities. The overall objective of this paper is to analyze the disaster risk profile a...

In this essay, I maintain that although atheism, minimally construed, consists simply of the belief there is no God or gods, atheists must embrace a secular worldview one kind another. Since they cannot be without worldview, develop an alternative to religious, especially theistic, worldviews which they, by implication, reject. Further, argue are, at very least, two options available and these ...

BACKGROUND Nepal was struck by devastating earthquakes in April-May 2015, followed by the India-Nepal border blockade later that year. METHODS We used the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics (UN Comtrade) database to analyse exports of various health commodities from India to Nepal from January 2011-September 2016. We used time-series regressions of trading volume vs. unit price to ask ...

Krishna R. Tiwari1,2,*, Ingrid L.P. Nyborg3, Bishal K. Sitaula3 and Giridhari S. Paudel4 Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, PO Box-5003, Ås, Norway; Institute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University, PO Box-43, Pokhara, Nepal; Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway; and Fami...

The geomorphic character of major river drainages in the Himalayan foothills of central Nepal suggests the existence of a discrete, west-northwest–trending break in rock uplift rates that does not correspond to previously mapped faults. The 40Ar/39Ar thermochronologic data from detrital muscovites with provenance from both sides of the discontinuity indicate that this geomorphic break also corr...

The 29 Nepalese species of the pantropical genus Begonia largely belong to 2 sections, Begonia sect. Diploclinium and Begonia sect. Platycentrum. The former comprises tuberous species which occur along the Himalayan range. They die back during the dry season and their flowering time is strongly constrained by the onset of the monsoon. The latter comprises evergreen rhizomatous species some of w...

*Department of Microbiology, Kantipur College of Medical Science, Sitapaila, Kathmandu, Nepal. **Center for Rural Health and Community Development University of South Australia, Australia. Received for publication: February 19, 2010. Reprint request: Yadav Prasad Joshi, M.Sc., M. A., Lecturer in Zoology: Parasitology, Department of Microbiology, Kantipur College of Medical Science, Sitapaila, K...

In the present paper we introduce three new species of the genus Corymbitodes Buysson, 1904 from Nepal and from Northern India and provide the description of the male of C. kambaitiana Fleutiaux, 1942. No species of Corymbitodes was recorded from Nepal or India previously. The new species are C. bengalensis sp. nov. (India), C. chassaini sp. nov. (India), C. nepalensis sp. nov. (Nepal). C. kamb...