The iHealth-T2D study, prevention of type 2 diabetes amongst South Asians with central obesity and prediabetes: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial por Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Khawaja, Khadija I., Ahmad, Sajjad, Siddiqui, Samreen, Shahzad, Khurram, Athauda, Lathika K., Jayawardena, Ranil, Mahmood, Sara, Muilwijk, Mirthe, Batool, Tayyaba, Burney, Saira, Glover, Matthew, Palaniswamy, Saranya, Bamunuarachchi, Vodathi, Panda, Manju, Madawanarachchi, Suren, Rai, Baldeesh, Sattar, Iqra, Silva, Wnurinham, Waghdhare, Swati, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Rannan-Eliya, Ravindra P., Gage, Heather M., van Valkengoed, Irene G. M., Valabhji, Jonathan, Frost, Gary S., Loh, Marie, Wickremasinghe, Ananda R., Kooner, Jaspal S., Katulanda, Prasad, Jha, Sujeet, Chambers, John C.

“…Design: Cluster randomised clinical trial (1:1 allocation to intervention or usual care), carried out in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the UK, with 30 sites per country (120 sites total). …”
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Impact of learning and forgetting factors on organizational learning effectiveness with the moderation of information system and mobile technology por Ali, Jamshid

“…Due to the shift from paper based working environment to paper-less environment and under the directions of Commission of Higher Education of Pakistan (HEC), the learning organizations like universities faced several problems and loosed organizational knowledge. …”
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Enabling sustainable project management in pakistani construction industry : the influence of institutional pressures and moderating role of transformational leadership por Mehfooz, Ullah

“…An online survey was administrated to gather data from large constructor firms in Pakistan with project managers as key respondents. 146 large constructor firms recorded their responses which were then analyzed using structural equation modelling (SEM) technique in Smart PLS software. …”
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Modeling of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and development of predictive heart risk score por Mirza Rizwan, Sajid

“…A gendermatched case-control study was conducted in Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Pakistan, in which a sample of 460 individuals was selected through systematic sampling. …”
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The journey from New Delhi to Islamabad : dependence and subversion in the ambivalent expression of nationhood por Ahmed, Imran

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A novel histological index for evaluation of environmental enteric dysfunction identifies geographic-specific features of enteropathy among children with suboptimal growth por Liu, Ta-Chiang, VanBuskirk, Kelley, Ali, Syed A, Kelly, M Paul, Holtz, Lori R, Yilmaz, Omer H, Sadiq, Kamran, Iqbal, Najeeha, Amadi, Beatrice, Syed, Sana, Ahmed, Tahmeed, Moore, Sean, Ndao, I Malick, Isaacs, Michael H, Pfeifer, John D, Atlas, Hannah, Tarr, Phillip I, Denno, Donna M, Moskaluk, Christopher A

“…Methods Duodenal endoscopic biopsies from two cohorts where EED is prevalent (Pakistan, Zambia) and North American children with and without gluten sensitive enteropathy (GSE) were pro-cessed for routine hematoxylin & eosin (H&E) staining, and scanned to produce whole slide images (WSIs) which we shared among study pathologists via a secure web browser-based platform. …”
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Evolution of topography in glaciated mountain ranges por Brocklehurst, Simon H. (Simon Howard), 1975-

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Selective leviathans : explaining state strategies of counterinsurgency and consolidation por Lalwani, Sameer Prem

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Potential for international spread of wild poliovirus via travelers por Wilder-Smith, Annelies, Leong, Wei-Yee, Lopez, Luis Fernandez, Amaku, Marcos, Quam, Mikkel, Khan, Kamran, Massad, Eduardo

“…Results: Our model estimated 665 polio exportations (>99 % of which were asymptomatic) from nine polio-infected countries in 2014, of which 78.3 % originated from Pakistan. Our model also estimated 21 importations of poliovirus into Saudi Arabia via Hajj pilgrims and 20 poliovirus infections imported to India in the same year. …”
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Migration and potential risk of trace phthalates in bottled water : a global situation por Luo, Qiong, Liu, Ze-hua, Yin, Hua, Dang, Zhi, Wu, Ping-xiao, Zhu, Neng-wu, Lin, Zhang, Liu, Yu

“…The average levels of BBP, DBP, DMP and DEP in bottled water from Pakistan were high, in which DEP and DMP were ranked 1st among all countries with the average levels of 22.4 and 50.2 μg/L, while BBP and DBP were ranked 2nd and 3rd with the average levels of 7.5 and 17.8 μg/L, respectively. …”
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Discovering optimal strategies for mitigating COVID-19 spread using machine learning: experience from Asia por Pan, Yue, Zhang, Limao, Yan, Zhenzhen, Lwin, May Oo, Skibniewski, Miroslaw J.

“…It has been verified for four Asian countries, including Japan, South Korea, Pakistan, and Nepal. Accordingly, we can gain some valuable experience to better understand the disease evolution, forecast the prevalence of the disease, which can provide sustainable evidence to guide further intervention and management. …”
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A simple diagnostic scoring system for COVID-19 screening por Widyastuti, Yunita, Sari, Djayanti, Kurniawaty, Juni, Jufan, Akhmad Yun, Sutaendy, Ketut, Jaya, Purnama, Wisudarti, Calcarina FR, Widodo, Untung, Ulfa, Dinda

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Changes of headspace volatile constituents of palm olein and selected oils after frying French fries por Omar, Muhammad Nor, Muhd Nor, Nor Nazuha, Idris, Nor Aini

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Mitigating the effect of load shedding in electrical grid using hybrid renewable energy system approach por Bakht, Muhamad Paend

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Geological evidence against large-scale pre-Holocene offsets along the Karakoram Fault: Implications for the limited extrusion of the Tibetan plateau por Searle, M

“…Satellite photographic interpretation and field mapping in the Karakoram mountains in Pakistan, the Nubra-Siachen area of north Ladakh, and the Pamirs in Xinjiang show that although the Karakoram Fault is extremely active today, geological offsets along the right-lateral fault are probably less than 120 km. …”

The household economic burden of non-communicable diseases in 18 countries por Murphy, A, Palafox, B, Walli-Attaei, M, Powell-Jackson, T, Rangarajan, S, Alhabib, KF, Avezum, AJ, Calik, KBT, Chifamba, J, Choudhury, T, Dagenais, G, Dans, AL, Gupta, R, Iqbal, R, Kaur, M, Kelishadi, R, Khatib, R, Kruger, IM, Kutty, VR, Lear, SA, Li, W, Lopez-Jaramillo, P, Mohan, V, Mony, PK, Orlandini, A, Rosengren, A, Rosnah, I, Seron, P, Teo, K, Tse, LA, Tsolekile, L, Wang, Y, Wielgosz, A, Yan, R, Yeates, KE, Yusoff, K, Zatonska, K, Hanson, K, Yusuf, S, McKee, M

“…</p> <p><strong>Methods</strong> Using data from the PURE Study, we estimated risk of catastrophic health spending and impoverishment among households with at least one person with NCDs (cardiovascular disease, diabetes, kidney disease, cancer and respiratory diseases; n=17 435), with hypertension only (a leading risk factor for NCDs; n=11 831) or with neither (n=22 654) by country income group: high-income countries (Canada and Sweden), upper middle income countries (UMICs: Brazil, Chile, Malaysia, Poland, South Africa and Turkey), lower middle income countries (LMICs: the Philippines, Colombia, India, Iran and the Occupied Palestinian Territory) and low-income countries (LICs: Bangladesh, Pakistan, Zimbabwe and Tanzania) and China.</p> <p><strong>Results</strong> The prevalence of catastrophic spending and impoverishment is highest among households with NCDs in LMICs and China. …”

Global diversity and antimicrobial resistance of typhoid fever pathogens: insights from a meta-analysis of 13,000 Salmonella Typhi genomes por Carey, ME, Dyson, ZA, Ingle, DJ, Amir, A, Aworh, MK, Chattaway, MA, Chew, KL, Crump, JA, Feasey, NA, Howden, BP, Keddy, KH, Maes, M, Parry, CM, Van Puyvelde, S, Webb, HE, Afolayan, AO, Alexander, AP, Anandan, S, Andrews, JR, Ashton, PM, Basnyat, B, Bavdekar, A, Bogoch, II, Clemens, JD, da Silva, KE, De, A, de Ligt, J, Diaz Guevara, PL, Dolecek, C, Dutta, S, Ehlers, MM, Francois Watkins, L, Garrett, DO, Godbole, G, Gordon, MA, Greenhill, AR, Griffin, C, Gupta, M, Hendriksen, RS, Heyderman, RS, Hooda, Y, Hormazabal, JC, Ikhimiukor, OO, Iqbal, J, Jacob, JJ, Jenkins, C, Jinka, DR, John, J, Kang, G, Kanteh, A, Pollard, AJ, Argimón, S, Aanensen, DM

“…Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid has become dominant in Pakistan (70% in 2020) but has not yet become established elsewhere. …”

The changing malaria landscape in Aseer region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: 2000–2015 por Snow, R, Alshahrani, A, Abdelgader, T, Saeed, I, Al-Akhshami, A, Al-Ghamdi, M, Al-Zahrani, M, El Hassan, I, Kyalo, D

“…There has been a constant flow of imported infections into Aseer since 2000, mostly among immigrant labour from Pakistan, India, Sudan, and Yemen. Imported infections have included both Plasmodium vivaxand P. falciparum. …”

Inherited IL-12p40 deficiency: Genetic, immunologic, and clinical features of 49 patients from 30 kindreds por Prando, C, Samarina, A, Bustamante, J, Boisson-Dupuis, S, Cobat, A, Picard, C, Alsum, Z, Al-Jumaah, S, Al-Hajjar, S, Frayha, H, Al-Mousa, H, Ben-Mustapha, I, Adimi, P, Feinberg, J, De Suremain, M, Jannière, L, Filipe-Santos, O, Mansouri, N, Stephan, J, Nallusamy, R, Kumararatne, D, Bloorsaz, MR, Ben-Ali, M, Elloumi-Zghal, H, Chemli, J

“…We report the genetic, immunologic, and clinical features of 49 patients from 30 kindreds originating from 5 countries (India, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia). There are only 9 different mutant alleles of the IL12B gene: 2 small insertions, 3 small deletions, 2 splice site mutations, and 1 large deletion, each causing a frameshift and leading to a premature stop codon, and 1 nonsense mutation. …”

Beyond famines: wartime state, society, and politicization of food in colonial India, 1939 – 1945 por Sarkar, A

“…Further, it demonstrates how the Muslim League government’s failure to prevent the Great Bengal Famine of 1943-44 was politically used by the Mahasabha to oppose the League’s emerging demand for the creation of Pakistan.</p>…”