The town of Dharamsala in the Himalayas of India harbors not only the Tibetan government in-exile, but also a very unique Internet community operated by AirJaldi. The combination of high-profile clientele and naive users makes for a very interesting setting from a network security standpoint. Using packet capture and network intrusion detection systems (NIDS), we analyze the security of the net...

Fault slip rate estimates along the Altyn Tagh and Kunlun strike-slip faults in northern Tibet vary considerably between short-term geodetic and long-term geologic studies. Here we reanalyze and model all global positioning system (GPS) data from northern Tibet to determine if these differences might be explained by previously unmodeled transient processes associated with the earthquake cycle, ...

[1] Horizontal velocities of 26 Global Positioning System (GPS) stations in the northwest Himalayan region provide new constraints on the partitioning of India-Eurasia convergence and elastic strain accumulation about the locked Main Frontal Thrust (MFT). The northwest-striking Karakorum fault slips at 11 ± 4 mm/yr and contributes to east-west extension of southern Tibet and westward motion of ...

The velocity field of present-day deformation in Central Asia is modelled using a set of four rotating blocks (Siberia, Tarim, Tibet, India) on a spherical earth. A best-fit is inverted on the basis of estimated shorteningrates across the main thrust zones (Himalayas, Tien Shan) and measured slip-rates along the principal strike-slip faults (Altyn Tagh and Karakorum) separating those blocks. Th...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of immunization with prokaryotically expressed recombinant fusion protein of extracellular near-transmembrane domain of Tibet minipig leptin receptor (OBR) on fat deposition in SD rats. METHODS A pair of specific primers containing BamHI and HindIII restriction enzyme sites was designed to amplify the extracellular near-transmembrane domain (1705-2364 bp) o...

The plant Rhodiola crenulata is a perennial herbaceous species distributed in the plateau region of southwestern China, especially the Hengduan Mountains region. It has been one of the most important traditional herbal remedies in Tibet for more than one thousand years, but the accelerated and uncontrolled collection of this plant since the 1980s has lead to deforestation. We used inter-simple ...

Since the 1980s, alpine grasslands have been seriously degraded on the Tibetan Plateau. Grazing exclusion by fencing has been widely adopted to restore degraded grasslands. To clarify the effect of grazing exclusion on soil quality, we investigated soil properties and nutrients by comparing free-grazing (FG) and grazing exclusion (GE) grasslands in Tibet. Soil properties – including soil bulk d...

The Anthocoris nemorum group belongs to the Anthocoridae (Hemiptera), and is an important group of predators of agricultural pests. A phylogeny was constructed in conjunction with dispersal-vicariance analysis of the Anthocoris nemorum group species in order to discern the relationships between the phylogeographical structuring of A. nemorum group species, and the effects of the Qinghai-Tibet p...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious health problem in Tibet where Tibetans are the major ethnic group. Although genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) isolates is a valuable tool for TB control, our knowledge of population structure of M. tuberculosis circulating in Tibet is limited. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS In our study, a total of 576 M. tuberculosis isolates...