The study seeks to address the importance of urban stream ecosystems from the perspective of urban ecology, human health and social well-being in the context of urban planning. The case study area is Paveh stream in the City of Paveh. The data from the case study area were gathered from questionnaire, existing scientific and library studies and by conducting interviews with residents and auth...

An integrated petrologic, thermochronologic, and numerical modeling study constrains the thermal evolution of the Lesser Himalayan Sequence in the Kumaun and Garwhal regions of India. South of the Tons thrust, peak metamorphic temperatures do not exceed 330 °C. On the northern side, a transition toward higher temperatures adjacent to the Main Central thrust hanging wall is documented. In the im...

Funding: Not available The need for Conservation Biology of specific species and ecosystems has been widely acknowledged worldwide. This is demonstrated by, among other things, scientific publications devoted to conservation biology of specific species and ecosystems (e.g. Glenn et al. 2001, Gower and Wilkinson 2005, Pratt 2009). The goal of conservation biology is to document the full range of...

introduction: medical thoracoscopy is a minimally invasive procedure for diagnosing and treating pleural diseases. despite its proven role in diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, it is infrequently used, which could be because of cost of equipment and lack of training. we analyzed our initial 3 years record of thoracoscopy at himalayan institute of medical sciences, a tertiary care center in hi...

Three new species of the ant-like stone beetle tribe Eutheiini are described from the People's Republic of China: Eutheia laolongiana sp. n. (Gansu), Veraphis gansuanus sp. n. (Gansu) and V. assingi sp. n. (Sichuan). Key morphological char-acters of the new taxa are illustrated and a distinctly sub-Himalayan distribution of all Eutheiini hitherto known to occur in China is summarized.

Himachal Pradesh state of India is situated in the outer Himalayan ranges. During the rainy season, several cases of acute febrile illness of unknown origin occurred. Orientia tsutsugamushi was identified as the causative agent by microimmunofluorescence and PCR. Two new genotypes of O. tsutsugamushi were identified in the region.

We find evidence that black soot aerosols deposited on Tibetan glaciers have been a significant contributing factor to observed rapid glacier retreat. Reduced black soot emissions, in addition to reduced greenhouse gases, may be required to avoid demise of Himalayan glaciers and retain the benefits of glaciers for seasonal fresh water supplies.

Based on examination of the type series, Scydmoraphes rothangensis Franz is transferred to Stenichnus Thomson, resulting in Stenichnus (s. str.) rothangensis (Franz) comb. n. Structural details of this intriguing Himalayan species are illustrated in detail and compared with those of allied genera, and a redescription is given.