Migration routes and timing in a bird wintering in South Asia, the Common Rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus

Breeding and Demographic Parameters and Range Expansion of the Common Rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus) Breeding biology, age structure and other population parameters of the Common Rosefinch, collected on the Courish Spit of the Baltic Sea, are presented. The results are compared with similar population characteristic in different parts of the range. All materials, especially the proportion of breeding yearling males, are discussed in connection with the process of range expansion of the species. The expectation of greater proportion of yearling males in new areas did not proved.

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Recent allopatric divergence and niche evolution in a widespread Palearctic bird, the common rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ◽

10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.012 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 66 (1) ◽

pp. 103-111 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Chih-Ming Hung ◽

Sergei V. Drovetski ◽

Robert M. Zink

Keyword(s):

Niche Evolution ◽

Allopatric Divergence ◽

Carpodacus Erythrinus ◽

The Common ◽

Common Rosefinch

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On Common Speech

Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East ◽

10.1215/1089201x-9408028 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 41 (3) ◽

pp. 485-498

Author(s):

Sravanthi Kollu

Keyword(s):

South Asia ◽

South Asian ◽

Linguistically Diverse ◽

Colonial India ◽

South Indian ◽

Indian Identity ◽

Recent Emergence ◽

Contemporary Work ◽

The Common

Abstract The multilingual turn in literary studies emphasizes the fairly recent emergence of a monolingual attachment to language. While this rightly calls into question the academic focus on monolingual competencies and offers a substantial area of inquiry for scholars working with the linguistically diverse regions of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, this essay posits that the persistence of multilinguality among historical actors from these regions does not merit a shift away from monolingualism in contemporary scholarship. This argument derives from the claims analyzed in this essay, made by South Asian writers in colonial India, about the singularity of one's own language (swabhasha) and the writers' anxieties to protect this language from vulgar speech (gramyam). Building on contemporary work on the vernacular, the essay seeks to draw renewed attention to the role of speech in language debates in Telugu, a language whose particularity has not become a metonym either for the nation (like Hindi) or for a pan–South Indian identity (like Tamil). In tracing the movement from vulgar speech to proper language in this archive, this essay reframes vernacularity as an ethical compulsion premised on the common.

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Comparative Analysis of Pediatric COVID-19 Infection in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Japan, and China

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ◽

10.4269/ajtmh.21-0299 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Judith Ju Ming Wong ◽

Qalab Abbas ◽

Soo Lin Chuah ◽

Ririe Fachrina Malisie ◽

Kah Min Pon ◽

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Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

South Asia ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

Severe Disease ◽

Clinical Manifestations ◽

World Health ◽

Logistic Regression Models ◽

Clinical Presentations ◽

The Common ◽

Health Organization

There is a scarcity of data regarding coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection in children from southeast and south Asia. This study aims to identify risk factors for severe COVID-19 disease among children in the region. This is an observational study of children with COVID-19 infection in hospitals contributing data to the Pediatric Acute and Critical Care COVID-19 Registry of Asia. Laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases were included in this registry. The primary outcome was severity of COVID-19 infection as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) (mild, moderate, severe, or critical). Epidemiology, clinical and laboratory features, and outcomes of children with COVID-19 are described. Univariate and multivariable logistic regression models were used to identify risk factors for severe/critical disease. A total of 260 COVID-19 cases from eight hospitals across seven countries (China, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, and Pakistan) were included. The common clinical manifestations were similar across countries: fever (64%), cough (39%), and coryza (23%). Approximately 40% of children were asymptomatic, and overall mortality was 2.3%, with all deaths reported from India and Pakistan. Using the multivariable model, the infant age group, presence of comorbidities, and cough on presentation were associated with severe/critical COVID-19. This epidemiological study of pediatric COVID-19 infection demonstrated similar clinical presentations of COVID-19 in children across Asia. Risk factors for severe disease in children were age younger than 12 months, presence of comorbidities, and cough at presentation. Further studies are needed to determine whether differences in mortality are the result of genetic factors, cultural practices, or environmental exposures.

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The Feminization of Love and the Indwelling of God: Theological Investigations Across Indic Contexts

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel11080414 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (8) ◽

pp. 414

Author(s):

Ankur Barua ◽

Hina Khalid

Keyword(s):

South Asia ◽

Bhāgavata Purāṇa ◽

The Feminine ◽

The Common ◽

Bhagavata Purana

Our essay is a thematic exploration of the malleability of idioms, imageries, and affectivities of Hindu bhakti across the borderlines of certain Indic worldviews. We highlight the theological motif of the feminine-feminised quest of the seeker (virahiṇī) for her divine beloved in some Hindu expressions shaped by the paradigmatic scriptural text Bhāgavata-purāṇa and in some Punjabi Sufi articulations of the transcendent God’s innermost presence to the pilgrim self. The leitmotif that the divine reality is the “intimate stranger” who cannot be humanly grasped and who is yet already present in the recesses of the virahiṇī’s self is expressed with distinctive inflections both in bhakti-based Vedānta and in some Indo-Muslim spiritual universes. This study is also an exploration of some of the common conceptual currencies of devotional subjectivities that cannot be straightforwardly cast into the monolithic moulds of “Hindu” or “Muslim” in pre-modern South Asia. Thus, we highlight the essentially contested nature of the categories of “Hinduism” and “Indian Islam” by indicating that they should be regarded as dynamic clusters of constellated concepts whose contours have been often reshaped through concrete socio-historical contestations, borrowings, and adaptations on the fissured lands of al-Hind.

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Factors Associated with Stunting among Children under 5 Years in Five South Asian Countries (2014–2018): Analysis of Demographic Health Surveys

Nutrients ◽

10.3390/nu12123875 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (12) ◽

pp. 3875

Author(s):

Nidhi Wali ◽

Kingsley E. Agho ◽

Andre M.N. Renzaho

Keyword(s):

South Asia ◽

Health Surveys ◽

Age Groups ◽

Demographic And Health Surveys ◽

Sampling Weights ◽

Factors Associated ◽

Child Undernutrition ◽

The Common ◽

Nutrition Sensitive ◽

Children Under 5

South Asia continues to be the global hub for child undernutrition with 35% of children still stunted in 2017. This paper aimed to identify factors associated with stunting among children aged 0–23 months, 24–59 months, and 0–59 months in South Asia. A weighted sample of 564,518 children aged 0–59 months from the most recent Demographic and Health Surveys (2014–2018) was combined of five countries in South Asia. Multiple logistic regression analyses that adjusted for clustering and sampling weights were used to examine associated factors. The common factors associated with stunting in three age groups were mothers with no schooling ([adjusted odds ratio (AOR) for 0–23 months = 1.65; 95% CI: (1.29, 2.13)]; [AOR for 24–59 months = AOR = 1.46; 95% CI: (1.27, 1. 69)] and [AOR for 0–59 months = AOR = 1.59; 95% CI: (1.34, 1. 88)]) and maternal short stature (height < 150 cm) ([AOR for 0–23 months = 2.00; 95% CI: (1.51, 2.65)]; [AOR for 24–59 months = 3.63; 95% CI: (2.87, 4.60)] and [AOR for 0–59 months = 2.87; 95% CI: (2.37, 3.48)]). Study findings suggest the need for a balanced and integrated nutrition strategy that incorporates nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions with an increased focus on interventions for children aged 24–59 months.

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