North-Western Boundary of Nepal

Physicochemical Properties of Black Walnut (Juglans nigra L.) in the Western Mid-hills of Nepal

The black walnut (Juglans nigra L.) is an underutilized fruit in the mid-hills of Nepal. However, the physico-chemical properties of Nepalese black walnut are almost unavailable in the literature. Four walnut growing districts namely Baitadi, Dadeldhura, Jumla and East Rukum selected and the black walnut collected at commercial maturity from the local markets. The physical properties w...

A Forest Community or Community Forestry? Beliefs, meanings and nature in north-western Nepal

Disappearance of trachoma from Western Nepal.

We assessed how much of the observed decline in the prevalence of trachoma in a district of Western Nepal was due to an antibiotic treatment program and how much to an underlying secular trend outside of the program. Although antibiotic treatments clearly have an effect at 6 months, we were unable to show that this effect persisted at 12 months; in fact, long-term gains may be due to a secular ...

Mwanza City, North western Tanzania

Background: Prevalence of hydatidiform mole is not clearly defined, partly because most studies have reported different prevalence rates from different regions. However, there is no previous study that has determined the prevalence and associated risk factors of HM among patients with incomplete abortion evacuated at Bugando Medical Centre (BMC) and Sekou Toure Regional Hospital (STRH). Methods...

Physiographic Regions Development Regions Eastern Central Western Mid-Western Far-Western Nepal

Land has been the central issue to human society since the dawn of civilization. Primitive society took it as free gift of nature. Land and livelihood has become the intertwined focal issues in the epochal social transformation processes famous in different era of human civilizations which gave birth to the problem of ownership entitlement, the milestone of turning land as source...