The Yadong cross structure (YCS), occurring at ~89°30' east longitude in the Himalaya, is the largest across-strike discontinuity in the geologic structure and topography of the High Himalaya between the Himalayan syntaxes. It is manifest by a plan view left offset of the topographic crest of the range and a coincident, apparent, left strike offset of the South Tibetan Detachment System (STDS) ...

Mean hemoglobin concentration of 3511 adult males derived from 19 studies of Andean male permanent residents and 10 studies of Himalayan male permanent residents were compared with reference to partial pressure of inspired oxygen. The regression equation (weighted for sample size) of PIO2 and hemoglobin concentration of the Andean miners is significantly (P less than 0.01) greater than that of ...

K E Y W O R D S online handwritten Tibetan character recognition, de-noising, pre-processing, three-stage classification This is a contribution from Himalayan Linguistics, Vol. 15(1): 31–40. ISSN 1544-7502 © 2016. All rights reserved. This Portable Document Format (PDF) file may not be altered in any way. Tables of contents, abstracts, and submission guidelines are available at escholarship.org...

The Himalayan mountain arc is one of the hotspots of biodiversity on earth, and species diversity is expected to be especially high among insects in this region. Little is known about the origin of the Himalayan insect fauna. With respect to the fauna of high altitude cloud forests, it has generally been accepted that Himalayan lineages are derived from ancestors that immigrated from Western As...

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are important classes of compounds of serious environmental concern. These compounds were measured in waters, sediments and soils from several high altitude sites in the Sagarmatha National Park (Nepal) and included in the Himalayan ridge. In water samples, low-level substituted PCBs and PBDEs, along with more vola...

Wild plant raw material is in great demand around the world for use by pharmaceutical companies, ethnomedicinal practitioners, and a variety of traditional medicines. India is one of the world’s major exporters of raw herbal drugs and the Himalayas are renowned for their vast storehouse of medicinal plants. The domestic and international demand is met mainly through unsustainable in-situ harves...

A study of taste sensitivity of P.T.C. and colour blindness among the Brahmins of Sundarnagar of Himachal Pradesh was done. The t gene frequency was found to be 0.4391 in the total population, and that of colourblindness 3.093 % among the males. The results have been compared with the populations of Himalayan region of India. The trait of colour blindness among the populations of Himalayan regi...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether previous Himalayan experience is associated with a decreased risk of climbing death, and whether mountaineers participating in commercial expeditions differ in their risk of death relative to those participating in traditional climbs. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Expeditions in the Nepalese Himalayan peaks, from 1 January 1970 to the spring clim...

Protected areas are major tourism assets for a nation, particularly for developing countries providing sustainable benefit to the local community while funding for the maintenance and rehabilitation of the protected areas themselves. Valley of flowers national park is naturally meant for the conservation and study of western Himalayan flora. It became National park in 1982 and after that livest...

decompression to achieve the same result appear to require extreme The Manaslu granite is the most studied of the dozen or so plutons conditions not permitted by available geological constraints. that make up the High Himalayan leucogranite belt. The inferred relationship of the Manaslu granite with important Himalayan tectonic structures has inspired repeated attempts to determine its crystall...