Posts Tagged ‘India’
As global incomes rise, diabetes follows
STANFORD (US) — Health experts expect the number of diabetics in developing countries to increase as incomes rise around the world. Continue…
Monday, January 16, 2012 13:49 - 0 Comments
Society & Culture - Dec 21, 2011 11:57 - 0 Comments
In India, reported crimes against women surge
U. WARWICK (UK) — An increase in female representation in local politics has caused a significant rise in documented crimes against women in India, a new report shows. (more…)
Science & Technology - Oct 3, 2011 16:52 - 0 Comments
Solar tablets coming to schools in India
RICE (US) — The I-slate, a low-cost electronic version of the hand-held blackboard slates used by millions of Indian children, has proven to be an effective learning tool, according to a yearlong study. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 4, 2011 12:31 - 2 Comments
Soy snacks combat hunger in India
U. ILLINOIS (US) — Adding curry to protein-rich soy is giving hungry children in India a healthy snack that tastes good and is good for them. (more…)
Science & Technology - May 5, 2011 11:21 - 0 Comments
Rice: 10,000 varieties from 1 source
NYU/WASHINGTON U.-ST. LOUIS (US) — A study of the genome of domesticated rice shows the crop had its beginnings from a single origin about 9,000 years ago in the Yangtze Valley of China. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Apr 13, 2011 9:36 - 0 Comments
Delhi policy clears pollution haze
BROWN (US) — Radical changes in air quality regulations in Delhi, India, have had a significantly positive effect on the health of city residents, especially low-income men, according to a new study. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jul 28, 2010 12:43 - 0 Comments
GM crop grows jobs for women in India
U. WARWICK (UK)—The use of a particular genetically modified (GM) crop in India produced massive benefits in the earnings and employment opportunities for rural Indian women, a new study shows. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Apr 22, 2010 16:44 - 1 Comment
China, India need to partner for the planet
MICHIGAN STATE (US)—In a recently published report in the journal Science, researchers advocate using scientific collaboration to help break down political barriers between China and India, two nations with growing economies and populations—and growing influence on the global environment. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Mar 17, 2010 10:44 - 1 Comment
Mini river delta could help predict flooding
U. PENN (US)—An interdisciplinary team of physicists and geologists has made a major step toward predicting where and how large floods occur on river deltas and alluvial fans. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 3, 2010 11:13 - 1 Comment
Snake caught in the sauropod-eating act
U. MICHIGAN (US)—The remains of an extraordinary fossil unearthed in 67-million-year-old sediments from Gujarat in western India provide a rare glimpse at an unusual feeding behavior in ancient snakes. (more…)
Society & Culture - Oct 8, 2009 11:17 - 0 Comments
Shame motivates better than subsidy
DUKE (US)—Government subsidies persuade some people to change habits, but social shame works even better, suggests a recent study of efforts to reduce elevated childhood death and disease rates in rural India blamed on the microbial pathogens that cause diarrhea. (more…)
Society & Culture - May 22, 2009 13:50 - 1 Comment
Researchers map ‘viral’ bank run in India
A Google Earth image shows the location of the bank (star) in India’s Gujarat state and the location of customers who withdrew funds. (Credit: Manju Puri, via Google Earth)
Society & Culture - May 6, 2009 13:59 - 1 Comment
World’s poor lack access, not savvy
NYU (US)—The first in-depth examination of how the world’s poorest households patch together their financial existences—many on less than $2 a day—finds they do so with sophistication and complexity. (more…)
