Purpose To present the results of a community-based screening programme for diabetes, diabetic retinopathy (DR) and childhood blindness (CB) in District Hyderabad, Pakistan. Methods Prospective cross-sectional data collection from January 2014 to December 2015 of screening for diabetes, DR and CB in Hyderabad District. Female health workers were trained to identify high-risk (potential) patie...

A consensus has been emerging among public health experts in developing countries that air pollution, even at current ambient levels, aggravates respiratory and cardiovascular diseases and leads to premature mortality. Recent studies have also presented well-founded theories concerning the biological mechanisms involved and the groups of people that are probably more susceptible to health effec...

several empirical methods for flood flow rate estimation have been presented. in this study,eight new empirical runoff estimation method including dredge & burge, bourges, inglis, faning, hyderabad, burkli ziegler, cramar and possenti were calculated in bakhtegan watershed which is located in fars province. after studying empirical methods for annual flood flow rate estimation and comparing...

Hyderabad is the third largest city of Pakistan, the second largest city of Sindh Province and one of the oldest cities of the sub-continent. This administrative headquarter is located just east of the River Indus and is an important commercial and industrial center. Once a provincial capital, it is at a distance of approximately 200-km from Karachi. This present study was conducted with the ob...

Three investigations had already been made on the action of chloroform?by the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, by the Glasgow Commission, and by the first Hyderabad Commission?when, further to test the finding of the last-mentioned, the members of the second Hyderabad Commission were called together in 1889. After a long course of research, involving experiments on 430 animals, the Commis...

S. Chaturvedi School of Physics. University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500 046, India. E. Ercolessi Physics Dept., University of Bologna, CNISM and INFN, 46 v.Irnerio, I-40126, Bologna, Italy. G. Marmo Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, University of Napoli and INFN, v.Cinzia, I-80126, Napoli, Italy. G. Morandi Physics Dept., University of Bologna, CNISM and INFN, 6/2 v.le Berti Pichat, I-40127, Bol...

1 Agriculture and Environment Program Area, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2 Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, 3 International Affairs and Biodiversity Program, Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (SPDA), Lima, Peru, 4 Department of Economics, University of Puerto Rico-Rı́o Piedras, Puerto Rico, United States of Ame...

This paper presents an approach to automated identification of slum area change patterns in Hyderabad, India, using multi-year and multi-sensor very high resolution satellite imagery. It relies upon a lacunarity-based slum detection algorithm, combined with Cannyand LSD-based imagery pre-processing routines. This method outputs plausible and spatially explicit slum locations for the whole urban...

Manuscript received October 28, 2013; accepted October 28, 2013. Date of current version January 9, 2013. P. Satgunam is with Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation, L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad 500034, India (e-mail: [email protected]). R. L. Woods, P. M. Bronstad, and E. Peli are with the Harvard Medical School, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA 0...