A regional air quality simulation framework including the Weather Research and Forecasting modeling system (WRF), the Community Multi-scale Air Quality modeling system (CMAQ), and precursor emissions to simulate tropospheric ozone over South and East Asia is introduced. Concentrations of tropospheric ozone and related species simulated by the framework are validated by comparing with observatio...

" In some rural districts of India," said a speaker at the annual meeting of the Medical Mission Department of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, " there is one public health office to 45,000 people." And India does not stand alone in the need of medical men and women. China, South and West Africa, Borneo, Mauritius?these are only some of the countries for which the Society is needi...

Psoriasis is an issue of global and national public health concern. The traditional use of medicinal plants to treat this disease is widespread throughout India. The present review is an attempt for the beneficial effect of the South American originated fern Polypodium species which are used traditionally for various anomalies in health including Psoriasis condition. This review article has foc...

Representative population random sampling plans were used for the recruitment of participants for all study sites. As of June 2011, 20 sites (in 18 countries) had completed data collection and are included in this analysis: Guangzhou (China), Adana (Turkey), Salzburg (Austria), Cape Town (South Africa), Reykjavik (Iceland), Hannover (Germany), Krakow (Poland), Bergen (Norway), Vancouver (Canada...

Govardhan A. Balaji, Vitukudi N. Balaji and Shashidhar N. Rao* Department of Chemistry, St Joseph’s College, 36 Langford Road, Bangalore 560 027, India Structure Directed Molecular Design, Jubilant Biosys Ltd, #96, Industrial Suburb II Stage, Yeshwantpur, Bangalore 560 022, India Tripos – A CertaraTM Company, 1699 South Hanley Road, St Louis MO 63144, USA Present address: Department of Chemistr...

The study describes the range extension of the sea horse Hippocampus fuscus from the south to north east coastal waters of the India, Bay of Bengal. After 99 years since initial discovery, the Hippocampus fuscus was reported within the southern sector of the Chilika Lake. The extension range may be due to the East India Coastal Current of the Bay of Bengal and the predominance of extensive sea ...

1 Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, 2 School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 3Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 4Ghana Health Service/University of Ghana School of Public Health, Accra, Ghana, 5 School of Public Health, Makerere University...

GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Wavre, Belgium Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA The University of Adelaide, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia PATH, Seattle, WA, USA Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom Novartis Healthcare, Hyderabad, India Sanofi Pasteur, Lyon, France University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA Ha...

A new black fly species, Simulium (Gomphostilbia) cauveryense sp. n., is described based on adult female, adult male, pupal and larval specimens collected from Kushalanagar, Karnataka, South India. This new species is placed in the decuplum subgroup of the batoense species-group within the subgenus Gomphostilbia. Keys to the species of the subgenus Gomphostilbia reported from India are provided...

Methods A large cross sectional Integrated Behavioral and Biological Assessment (IBBA) survey for clients of female sex workers (FSWs) in the three districts (Chennai, Madurai and Salem) of Tamil Nadu, South India was carried out by India AIDS initiative, the Avahan project. The survey collected information from 1217 clients of female sex workers between June and September 2009. The data set wa...