Mechi zone is located in the eastern region of Nepal and has a population of 1.2 million. According to the Nepal Blindness Survey in 1981 the prevalence of blindness in this zone was 0.64%. The most important cause of blindness in Nepal was cataract, accounting for two thirds of NepalÕs blindness. The people of the eastern region of Nepal had to go either to the neighbouring zone or across the ...

OBJECTIVE To determine, in one low income country (Nepal), which characteristics of medical students are associated with graduate doctors staying to practise in the country or in its rural areas. DESIGN Observational cohort study. SETTING Medical college registry, with internet, phone, and personal follow-up of graduates. PARTICIPANTS 710 graduate doctors from the first 22 classes (1983-2...

secular ethics – which is known as the de-religionized, human, or conventional ethics – contrasts the religious and divine ethics. its roots are in humanistic thought that adapts itself to the needs and the direction of the society. therefore, the contraction and dilation of secular ethics will be unstable, gradual, and accidental. moreover, it is not possible to expect this thought system to p...

Child mortality rate in Nepal has seen a significant decline in the past fifteen years and is expected to achieve ‘Millennium Development Goal (MDG) four’ before the stipulated time. A substantial improvement has been seen in controlling micro-nutrient deficiencies and childhood illnesses in the country, yet Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM) among under five year children remains a stagnant pro...

Sustainable environmental management is of great concern due to rapidly growing number of health care institutions in Nepal. It is mandatory to regulate and develop a practice for impact assessment due to establishment and operation of health care facilities of Nepal through user's friendly procedure. This study was carried out to review Initial Environmental Examination (IEE) process and to re...

BACKGROUND Pharmacovigilance is the "science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any other drug related problems". Nepal joined the international pharmacovigilance programme as a full member in 2007. KIST Medical College, Lalitpur, Nepal joined the national programme as a regional centre from mid-July 2008. Currently, the patt...

E nveloped in poverty and burdened by its onerous topography, Nepal is hardly an obvious birthplace for a public health success story. And yet, the marriage of scientific and operational innovations provided the foundation for a national program that saves hundreds of thousands of children’s lives. In the early 1980s, a series of studies demonstrated that vitamin A supplementation could reduce ...

We perform numerical simulations to study the secular orbital evolution and dynamical structure in the HD 69830 planetary system with the best-fit orbital solutions by Lovis and coworkers (2006). In the simulations, we show that the triplet Neptunian system can be stable at least for 2 Gyr and the stability would not be greatly influenced even if we vary the planetary masses from Neptune-mass t...

A numerical N–body integration of the asteroid (4660) Nereus over 3.5 Myr shows the presence of the Kozai resonance and two secular resonances inside a horseshoe orbit with Venus. This 1/1 mean motion resonance with Venus remains stable during the whole time span though a secular increase of the orbital inclination of the small body occurs due to the overlapping of two secular resonances, namel...

We derive a secular theory for Trojan-type motion in the framework of the restricted three-body problem, which is valid inside the entire regular coorbital region. We show that under certain conditions it is possible to extend the theory to include the secular perturbations from additional bodies and an oblate central mass. We are then able to predict the location of linear secular resonances w...