BACKGROUND There are few reports on the nutritional status of Bhutanese children. The objective of this paper is to summarize results from the 2008 National Nutrition Survey and to describe progress achieved during the last two decades. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of 2376 children aged 6 to 59 months was conducted during November-December 2008 to provide national and regional estimates. ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training for Bhutanese refugee community leaders in the U.S. We hypothesized that training refugee leaders would improve knowledge of mental health problems and treatment process and decrease negative attitudes towards people with mental illness. METHODS One hundred and twenty community leaders pa...

Indira is an independent woman who does not live a traditional Nepali life. She rescues abandoned and abused young women from sexual exploitation and provides them with love, support, and education. Her story highlights the key role of the social determinants of health in caring for marginalized populations. Challenges and benefits of attempting to learn from another's personal narrative are al...

h ] in Nepali. Below are some minimal pairs. Assume there are minimal or near-minimal pairs for all combinations. Explain why the pair illustrating the [p/p h ] distinction is more informative in a way than the pair illustrating the [p/b h ] distinction. What phonetic dimensions must be associated with the contrast? What about the English and Spanish sounds discussed earlier?

We describe the CMU submission for the 2014 shared task on language identification in code-switched data. We participated in all four language pairs: Spanish–English, Mandarin–English, Nepali–English, and Modern Standard Arabic–Arabic dialects. After describing our CRF-based baseline system, we discuss three extensions for learning from unlabeled data: semi-supervised learning, word embeddings,...

A Nepali-born migrant was diagnosed with intestinal tuberculosis (TB) after being initially considered for Crohn's disease. Differentiating the two diseases is challenging but important owing to variation in treatment, the potential for dissemination of TB under immunosuppression for Crohn's disease, and emergent Australian migration from TB endemic countries.