Sentences with phrase «south asian»

«First microwhip scorpion from Mesozoic period found in Burmese amber: New minute fossilized microwhip scorpion named after South Asian nature spirits.»

The fossil record of South Asian «river dolphins» is poor, with no taxa reported from undisputable remains (e.g., Prolipotes yujiangensis Zhou, Zhou & Zhao, 1984 is known only from an isolated mandible that can not be clearly diagnosed).

In addition to Pattanayak, the team included researchers from Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, the Inter-American Development Bank in Brazil, the South Asian Network of Development and Environmental Economics in Nepal, North Carolina State University and the Amazon Institute of People and the Environment in Brazil.

«Coronary artery disease tends to cluster in families and has a strong genetic basis; however, we do not fully understand that genetic foundation,» said senior author Danish Saleheen, PhD, an assistant professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Penn. «We conducted the largest genetic analyses on coronary artery disease to date, including information from people of European, African, South Asian, and East Asian heritages.»

• Overall, the likelihood of being overweight was higher in populations of South Asian children (36.9 per cent), compared to non-South Asian populations (23.0 per cent)

The study authors also highlight the need for future public health initiatives directed at South Asian populations, particularly children.

South Asian boys are three times as likely to be overweight compared to their peers, according to a new Women's College Hospital study.

«Black and South Asian women are known to be slightly less likely to develop breast cancer than White women.

Dr Gathani said: «Much of the apparent excess of aggressive breast tumours in South Asian and Black women is simply because they are younger than White women.

She reported that the average age at diagnosis was five years lower in both South Asian women and Black women (55 years) than in White women (60 years).

Although breast cancer is somewhat more aggressive in South Asian and Black women than in White women, this is largely due to age differences between ethnic groups in the UK, according to new research.

Although South Asian and Black women were more likely to have biologically aggressive tumours, such as higher - grade tumours and more lymph node involvement, little difference remained between the ethnic groups after adjustment for factors that could affect the findings, particularly age.

These people would have launched their migration from Ethiopia, crossing the Red Sea at its narrowest point to the Arabian Peninsula, then rapidly pushing east along the south Asian coastline all the way to Australia.

Nodes are grouped by continental super-population (AFR, African; AMR, Admixed American; EAS, East Asian; EUR, European; SAS, South Asian) and colored by haplogroup.

He found himself part of a large South Asian community — New Jersey has the highest proportion of South Asians in the United States, according to the 2010 census — and discovered that although many people he met had relatives who are diabetic, most don't understand their own risks and the measures they could take to prevent disease.

Researchers from The University of Manchester in collaboration with Keele and Southampton Universities have published new findings which shed light on the poor outcomes of South Asian people with diabetes in the UK.

During the last quarter century the rate of diabetes alone has nearly quadrupled in most east and south Asian countries, including China and India, according to South Korean researchers who reviewed past studies in the November 10 Lancet.

Two other South Asian species, the Indian vulture (G. indicus) and the less common slender - billed vulture (G. tenuirostris), have also suffered catastrophic declines.

The South Asian population in the UK has a higher incidence of diabetes and poorer health outcomes from treatment than the general population, but studies in the past have not focused on the role of social networks or assessed beliefs about diabetes to explore self - management behaviours in this population.

As a South Asian immigrant, Sairaman Nagarajan, who immigrated to New Jersey in 2012 with a medical degree from his native India, knows he is in a unique position to effect change.

«Because I am a South Asian, they know I understand the significance of tradition.

Even if the world population falls but South Asian population grows by 50 percent, things will get in bad shape.

He developed an outreach program to educate the South Asian community about diabetes risk and preventive measures during a recent Bridging the Gaps Community Health Internship Program sponsored by the School of Public Health at the Shri Krishna Nidhi Foundation, an organization based in Hillsborough that promotes wellness among New Jersey's South Asian population.

South Asian nations have established 11 safe zones as part of a wider effort to protect three highly endangered vulture species.

«Cultural health beliefs and social networks crucial in South Asian people's management of diabetes.»

The study traced the increase of ozone in the west to the influx of pollution from Asian countries, including China, North and South Korea, Japan, India, and other South Asian countries.

The researchers asked participants of Black African, South Asian, White European and White British ethnicity to complete a Catch - the - Liar task in which they provided genuine and false statements.

That means many babies of an East Asian or South Asian mother may be classified as underweight, when in fact they are «normal» for their ethnic groups.

However, they did not find this difference when examining the lies of Black African and South Asian participants.

In contrast, the Black African and South Asian participants increased the perceptual information they gave when lying, to compensate for providing less social details.

A strange dolphin skull that sat in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History collections for more than 50 years actually belongs to a previously unknown marine ancestor of the long - beaked South Asian river dolphin, Gizmodo reports.

«Many pregnant women, especially those from minority groups with darker skin (e.g. African, African - Caribbean or South Asian), will still need to take a 10 micrograms vitamin D supplement daily, particularly in the autumn and winter when vitamin D can not be made from the sun in the UK.»

Specifically, the researchers report that the Japanese subgroup had substantially better survival rates than non-Hispanic whites (especially with regard to prostate, breast and colorectal cancers), as did those of Filipino and South Asian descent (for prostate and lung cancers, and lung and colorectal cancers, respectively), while the Hawaiian and Korean subgroups did not.

The naturalized aliens include Cuban tree frogs, various South American anoles, and South Asian pythons and boa constrictors.

Pyenson notes that some conservation biologists argue that the South Asian river dolphin should be prioritized for protection to preserve its evolutionary heritage.

The South Asian river dolphin — a species that includes both the Ganges river dolphin and the Indus river dolphin — is of great interest to scientists.

A fossil that has been in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History since it was discovered in 1951 is today helping scientists piece together the evolutionary history of whales and dolphins, including the origins of the endangered South Asian river dolphin.

After adjusting for certain factors including age of patient at time of treatment, cause of female or male infertility, and type of treatment (ICSI vs IVF), the study found that White Irish, South Asian Indian, South Asian Bangladeshi, South Asian Pakistani, Black African, and Other Asian women had a significantly lower odds of a live birth than White British women.

Furthermore, the increased prevalence of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in south Asian women may have an impact on egg quality and lower implantation rates.

In some Asian or South Asian countries it is actually perceived as rude and inappropriate for an applicant to make eye contact with his or her superior.

The study also found that some groups of women including South Asian Bangladeshi, Black African, Middle Eastern, have a significantly lower number of eggs collected than White British women.

It was soon detected throughout South Asia, and most patients infected by bacteria with NDM - 1 have had an epidemiological link to South Asian countries.

Genetically, the Haiti strain is very similar to South Asian strains of V. cholerae.

When my parents came to the U.S. in 1973 as refugees from Uganda's brutal dictator Idi Amin, we were one of the only South Asian families on my block in the suburbs of Chicago.

Although acknowledging that threatened species shouldn't be used for dissection, Kambadur Muralidhar, a professor of endocrinology at South Asian University in New Delhi, says that substituting species in dissections — for example, using the common walking catfish instead of endangered Scoliodon fish — would have addressed the issue.

These tests — the first by the south Asian nation — come barely 2 weeks after India conducted its own series on 11 and 13 May.

One gene, KPC, was detected in New York in 2001 and quickly spread around most of the world, with the exception of India, Pakistan and other South Asian countries.

Under this scenario, the new study finds that 4 percent of the South Asian population would experience deadly wet - bulb temperatures exceeding 35 ° C. Approximately 75 percent of the population would experience humid temperatures higher than 31 ° C, which are dangerous for most humans, but rarely reached right now, Pal and colleagues report.

«I'm from the South Asian diaspora, and I can tell you that if you have a conversation with someone from this diaspora about a mental health issue, it's probably not going to go very well.»

He found the answer in a fellowship in which he helped negotiate science and technology agreements with South Asian countries.