Plabon Kumar Das, Joti Saha, Suja Pillai, Alfred K. Lam et al.
Estrogens have been implicated in the pathogenesis of various cancer types, including colorectal carcinoma (CRC). Estrogen receptors such as ERα and ERβ activate intracellular signaling cascades followed by binding to estrogen, resulting in important changes in cellular behaviors. The nuclear estrog...
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Vinod Kumar, Uma Kumar
Citizens of different countries are now experiencing a newly invented service delivery channel to receive service from government portals. This study addresses whether a service delivery channel, based on mobile phones and provided through a short messaging service can be included in public administ...
Md Al Amin Sikder, Ridwan Bin Rashid, Tufael Ahmed, Ismail Sebina et al.
Poor maternal diet during pregnancy is a risk factor for severe lower respiratory infections (sLRIs) in the offspring, but the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. Here, we demonstrate that in mice a maternal low-fiber diet (LFD) led to enhanced LRI severity in infants because of delayed plasmacyto...
Simone J.C.F.M. Moorlag, Vasiliki Matzaraki, Jelmer H. van Puffelen, Charlotte van der Heijden et al.
Innate immune cells are able to build memory characteristics via a process termed "trained immunity." Host factors that influence the magnitude of the individual trained immunity response remain largely unknown. Using an integrative genomics approach, our study aimed to prioritize and understand the...
Zerin Tasnim, Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Uma Kumar et al.
The aim of this study is to evaluate the perceptions of prospective tourists through parameters by which the tourism and hospitality service sector can withstand the widespread implications to the sector as a result of the current pandemic. In turn this will lead to weighing up the means for recover...
Ashok Choudhury, Anand V. Kulkarni, Vinod Arora, Arvinder Singh Soin et al.
Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a condition associated with high mortality in the absence of liver transplantation. There have been various definitions proposed worldwide. The first consensus report of the working party of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) set...
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Vinod Kumar, David L. Hughes et al.
Virendra Singh, Arka De, Rohit Mehtani, Paolo Angeli et al.
Shubha Vij, Kathiresan Purushothaman, G. Gopikrishna, Doreen Lau et al.
Asian seabass or barramundi (Lates calcarifer) is an important food fish with commercial value and a wide geographic distribution. Though some reports based on molecular and/or morphological data exist, a comprehensive effort to establish species identity across its range is lacking. In order to add...
A.J.D. Pask, Arun Kumar Joshi, Yann Manès, Indu Sharma et al.
South Asia, which is already home to more than one-fifth of the world's population and rapidly growing, will require wheat yields to rise annually by 2.0–2.5% to meet demand and maintain food security. To address these challenges, a wheat phenotyping network was established in the region in 2009 to ...
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Angela Wright, Vinod Kumar et al.
Covid-19, a corona virus, has maintained its momentum in spreading among communities. In this context of social crisis, this study seeks to identify the reasons for the partial failure to fulfill the intended goal of lockdown, and to formulate an inclusive behavioral model reflecting comprehensive h...
Jagadish Timsina, Vinod Kumar Singh, Kaushik Majumdar
Abstract Potassium (K) availability in soils is largely governed by their mineralogical composition. The extent of weathering of primary K‐bearing minerals, the chemical pathways through which weathering takes place, as well as the dynamic equilibrium between various K fractions in soils are factors...
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Vinod Kumar, Uma Kumar, Yogesh K. Dwivedi
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and model adoption criteria of citizens for electronic-government (eGov) service at the transaction maturity stage. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical study was conducted among the citizens of Ontario, Canada who have experience of using Ca...
Mohammad Sarraf, Edappayil Janeeshma, Namira Arif, Muhammad Qudrat Ullah Farooqi et al.
Abiotic stresses like heavy metals, pesticides, salinity, drought and extreme temperatures impacting the normal growth and development of the plants and it is imperative to develop the novel methods to overcome the negative impact of abiotic stresses on the plant. Elements like cobalt, sodium, selen...
Aida Shomali, Susmita Das, Mohammad Sarraf, Riya Johnson et al.
Metals constitute vital elements for plant metabolism and survival, acting as essential co-factors in cellular processes which are indispensable for plant growth and survival. Excess or deficient provision of metal/metalloids puts plant's life and survival at risk, thus considered a potent stress fo...