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Browsing by Subject "India"
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Aging in South Asia: Attitudes/Beliefs of Elders in Southern India and Long-Term Care of the Elderly in Southern Sri Lanka
(2013)Developing nations in Asia are posed to experience a significant increase in the population of older adults living in their respective societies. Over the coming decades, India, the second most populous country in the entire ... -
Analyzing Electricity Use and Its Relationship with Electricity Quality in Rural India
(2020-04-20)Rural electrification in India is progressing rapidly, and most households nationwide are now connected to the electricity grid. However, the country's electricity consumption remains low, and poor electricity quality continues ... -
Assessment of Current Cervical Cancer Screening Practice and Responses to a Novel Screening Device, Transvaginal Digital Colposcopy, Among Gynecologists in Hyderabad, India
(2015)Background: India has the highest burden of cervical cancer mortality, globally, with 67,477 deaths in 2012. A novel device, the transvaginal digital colposcope (TVDC), or a small handheld colposcope, could potentially improve ... -
Brain research to ameliorate impaired neurodevelopment--home-based intervention trial (BRAIN-HIT).
(BMC pediatrics, 2010-04-30)This randomized controlled trial aims to evaluate the effects of an early developmental intervention program on the development of young children in low- and low-middle-income countries who are at risk for neurodevelopmental ... -
Calculating Comparable Statistics from Incomparable Surveys, with an Application to Poverty in India
(2006)Applied economists are often interested in studying trends in important economic indicators, such as inequality or poverty, but comparisons over time can be made impossible by changes in data collection methodology. We describe ... -
Child Nutrition in India in the Nineties
(2007)India experienced several years of fast economic growth during the 1990s, and according to many observers this period also saw a considerable decline in poverty, especially in urban areas. We use data from two rounds of ... -
Connecting the Nodes. How Social Capital Enhances Local Public Goods' Provision in Shantytowns.
(2017)The literature on clientelism has extensively covered the direct exchange of private goods for political support between voters and politicians. Yet, patronage does not end with the distribution of food, medicine or public ... -
Contracting Freedom: Governance and East Indian Indenture in the British Atlantic, 1838-1917
(2014)This is a dissertation about identity and governance, and how they are mutually constituted. Between 1838 and 1917, the British brought approximately half a million East Indian laborers to the Atlantic to work on ... -
Deconstructing the Cycle: Vulnerability and Prospects for Social Mobility in Indian Urban Slums
(2015-04-22)Urban slums across the globe have become areas where those moving from rural towns are forced to settle on their intended path towards success. Oftentimes, generations of poverty and insecurity follow this hope-filled migration. ... -
Domestic Content Requirements and India’s Solar Mission
(2013-04-26)Domestic content requirements are widely-used policies that require a specified proportion of a good to be produced within a certain jurisdiction. Applied to solar cells and modules procured through India's national solar ... -
Dose of early intervention treatment during children's first 36 months of life is associated with developmental outcomes: an observational cohort study in three low/low-middle income countries.
(BMC pediatrics, 2014-10-25)The positive effects of early developmental intervention (EDI) on early child development have been reported in numerous controlled trials in a variety of countries. An important aspect to determining the efficacy of EDI ... -
Essays on Fertility and Fertility Preferences in India
(2014)In this dissertation, I examine at the aggregate and individual levels, why contemporary fertility preferences diverge from actual fertility. I use three waves of cross-sectional survey data from the National Family Health ... -
Ethics Standards (HRPP) and Public Partnership (PARTAKE) to Address Clinical Research Concerns in India: Moving Toward Ethical, Responsible, Culturally Sensitive, and Community-Engaging Clinical Research.
(J Clin Res Bioeth, 2014-09-07)Like other emerging economies, India's quest for independent, evidence-based, and affordable healthcare has led to robust and promising growth in the clinical research sector, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of ... -
Evaluation of Tiger Conservation in India: the use of comparative effectiveness research
(2010-04-25)Tigers, the largest of the felids, are now a globally threatened species with only approximately 3000 wild tigers surviving. India contains about 60% or 2000 of the animals, yet despite aggressive conservation efforts the ... -
Factors associated with the decline in under-five diarrhea mortality in India: a LiST analysis.
(Journal of global health, 2019-12)<h4>Background</h4>India has achieved 86% reduction in the number of under-five diarrheal deaths from 1980 to 2015. Nonetheless diarrhea is still among the leading causes of under-five deaths. The aim of this analysis was ... -
First record of the Miocene hominoid Sivapithecus from Kutch, Gujarat state, western India.
(PloS one, 2018-01)Hominoid remains from Miocene deposits in India and Pakistan have played a pivotal role in understanding the evolution of great apes and humans since they were first described in the 19th Century. We describe here a hominoid ... -
Guns and Roses: A Study of Violent and Nonviolent Resistance Movements
(2017)My research is driven by two questions: Why do some dissident groups choose nonviolence over violence while others prefer violence over nonviolence? Why do political movements, even those using the same tactics, unfold and ... -
High prevalence of Wuchereria bancrofti infection as detected by immunochromatographic card testing in five districts of Orissa, India, previously considered to be non-endemic
(2011-02)India accounts for over one-third of the world's burden of lymphatic filariasis (LF). Although most coastal districts of Orissa state (eastern India) are LF-endemic, the western districts of Orissa are considered non-endemic. ... -
Improved tuberculosis outcomes with daily vs. intermittent rifabutin in HIV-TB coinfected patients in India.
(The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2016-09)<h4>Setting</h4>Y R Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education, Chennai, India.<h4>Objective</h4>To compare anti-tuberculosis treatment outcomes in individuals with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis ...
