Stephanie Kramer‐Schadt, Jürgen Niedballa, John D. Pilgrim, Boris Schröder et al.
Abstract Aim Advancement in ecological methods predicting species distributions is a crucial precondition for deriving sound management actions. Maximum entropy (MaxEnt) models are a popular tool to predict species distributions, as they are considered able to cope well with sparse, irregularly samp...
Simon Yadgir, Catherine O. Johnson, Victor Aboyans, Oladimeji Adebayo et al.
BACKGROUND: Nonrheumatic valvular diseases are common; however, no studies have estimated their global or national burden. As part of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017, mortality, prevalence, and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD), degenerative mitr...
John Hutnyk, Raminder Kaur
African-American musicians head East for Kung-Fu kicks while paedophiles go for cheap sex pilgrimage; Western bible-bashers adopt missionary positions in India while heroic Saint George signs on as an Arab soldier in Britain; the scars of Partition mock the protocols of transit, while nomadic insurg...
Kamran Khan, Jennifer Sears, Vivian Wei Hu, John S. Brownstein et al.
BACKGROUND: A novel coronavirus (MERS-CoV) causing severe, life-threatening respiratory disease has emerged in the Middle East at a time when two international mass gatherings in Saudi Arabia are imminent. While MERS-CoV has already spread to and within other countries, these mass gatherings could f...
Kamran Khan, Ziad A. Memish, Aneesh Chabbra, Jessica Liauw et al.
BACKGROUND: Every year millions of pilgrims from around the world gather under extremely crowded conditions in Mecca, Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj. In 2009, the Hajj coincided with influenza season during the midst of an influenza A (H1N1) pandemic. After the Hajj, resource-limited countries wit...
Deborah Sitrin, Tanya Guenther, John Murray, Nanlesta Pilgrim et al.
BACKGROUND: Nearly half of births in low-income countries occur without a skilled attendant, and even fewer mothers and babies have postnatal contact with providers who can deliver preventive or curative services that save lives. Community-based maternal and newborn care programs with postnatal home...
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
Abstract In this essay the author gives an historical overview of Islam in America from its earliest beginnings in pre‐Columbia America until the present. Details on the origins, growth and spread of the three largest American Muslim groups – African American, Arab and South Asian – are explored as ...
Prelims (Acknowledgements) 1. Introduction: Gender, roads, and mobility in Asia Kyoko Kusakabe PART ONE: Connecting Asia: Explosive growth in infrastructure 2. International road transport in GMS Madan B. Regmi and Shinya Hanaoka 3. Influence of transportation infrastructure development on freight t...
Book reviewed in this article: THE HUTCHINSON HISTORY OF THE WORLD. By J. M. Roberts. GENERAL: History of mankind: cultural and scientihc development, volume v: the nineteenth century, 1775–1905. Edited by Charles Morazé. GENERAL: jules michelet: nature, history and language. By Linda Orr. GENERAL: ...
Kittichok Nithisathian, Lavanchawee Sujarittanonta, John Walsh
The White Ocean strategy proposed by Thai scholar Danai Chanchaochai addresses management based on Buddhist philosophy, and emphasizes the society first before looking to oneself. At the same time, there is also the concept of Black Ocean, or HòuhÄ“ixué (厚黑å¸) which translates to Thick Black ...
Using Global Studies: and the Muslim World Selected World Wide Web Sites U.S. Statistics and Map Canada Statistics and Map World Map Chapter 1: Momentous Events and Influential Muslims That Have Shaped Islamic Civilization Chapter 2: Understanding Islam, Muslims, Islamism, and Anti-Americanism Count...
Abdelhamid Elewa
Abstract This paper examines the re-presentation of Arab women in modern Arabic translations of two 19th-century British travelogues: John Lewis Burckhardt’s Travels in Arabia (1830) and Richard Burton’s Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Mecca (1855). The study analyses how gender...
Elora Shehabuddin
A library keyword search of “Muslim women” or “women [in/and] Islam” invariably pulls up a long list of books and articles with titles that include the word veil. The long-standing use of this word—and variations on it—is testament not only to an astounding lack of syntactic originality and to the c...
Abelardo (Delgado), 299 Abercrombie, Lascelles, 227 abortion, 426, 657 Abrams, Meyer, 629 Abstract Expressionism, 24, 171, 214, 346,Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers, 32Akins, Zoe, 458, 459, 461; In the Shadow of Parnassus (essays), 459Akhtar, 35 Allen, Dick, 491 Allen, Donald. See N...
Chandra R. de Silva, Bhavani Sitaraman, Asif Dowla, Amit Gupta et al.
‘Who is He, What is He Doing?’: Religious Rhetoric and Performances in Sri Lanka during R. Premadasa's Presidency (1989–1993). Josine van der Horst. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1995, ISBN 90–5383–417–6 The Elderly in India. Kumudini Dandekar. New Delhi: Sage, 1996, ISBN 81–7036–536–8 (India, hb)...