scholarly journals An old collection reveals an additional distribution record of the Greater Long-tongued Fruit Bat Macroglossus sobrinus K. Anderson, 1911 (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) from southern West Bengal, India

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
pp. 12837-12839
Author(s):  
Tauseef Hamid Dar ◽  
M. Kamalakannan ◽  
C. Venkatraman ◽  
Kailash Chandra
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
External Morphology ◽  
First Report ◽  
Fruit Bat ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
Small Fruit ◽  
Distribution Record

Greater Long-tongued Fruit Bat Macroglossus sobrinus K Anderson, 1911 is one of the small fruit bat found in South and Southeast Asia. In India, this species has only been reported from northern West Bengal, Sikkim and Northeast India. Upon detailed examination of the external morphology, skull and dentition of a single bat specimen, which was collected from Narendrapur, South 24- Parganas district in West Bengal (southern West Bengal) during the year 1995 and deposited in the National Zoological Collections of Zoological Survey of India, was identified as Macroglossus sobrinus. It is the first report on the occurrence of the species from southern West Bengal, extended distribution by more than 600 km southward from the known localities in Darjeeling in northern West Bengal.

scholarly journals Austro-Asiatic Tribes of Northeast India Provide Hitherto Missing Genetic Link between South and Southeast Asia

PLoS ONE ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (11) ◽  
pp. e1141 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Mohan Reddy ◽  
B. T. Langstieh ◽  
Vikrant Kumar ◽  
T. Nagaraja ◽  
A. N. S. Reddy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Genetic Link ◽  
South And Southeast Asia

scholarly journals GNSS characterization of hydrological loading in South and Southeast Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 224 (3) ◽  
pp. 1742-1752
Author(s):  
Kathryn Materna ◽  
Lujia Feng ◽  
Eric O Lindsey ◽  
Emma M Hill ◽  
Aktarul Ahsan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Water Distribution ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Global Navigation Satellite Systems ◽  
Elastic Response ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Surface Mass ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
Elastic Loading ◽  
Gnss Data

SUMMARY The elastic response of the lithosphere to surface mass redistributions produces geodetically measurable deformation of the Earth. This deformation is especially pronounced in South and Southeast Asia, where the annual monsoon produces large-amplitude hydrological loads. The Myanmar–India–Bangladesh–Bhutan (MIBB) network of about 20 continuously operating Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) stations, established in 2011, provides an opportunity to study the Earth's response to these loads. In this study, we use GRACE temporal gravity products as an estimate of long-wavelength surface water distribution and use this estimate in an elastic loading calculation. We compare the predicted vertical deformation from GRACE with that observed with GNSS. We find that elastic loading inferred from the GRACE gravity model is able to explain the phase and much of the peak-to-peak amplitude (typically 2–3 cm) of the vertical GNSS oscillations, especially in northeast India and central Myanmar. GRACE-based corrections reduce the RMS scatter of the GNSS data by 30–45% in these regions. However, this approach does not capture all of the seasonal deformation in central Bangladesh and southern Myanmar. We show by a synthetic test that local hydrological effects may explain discrepancies between the GNSS and GRACE signals in these places. Two independent hydrological loading models of water stored in soil, vegetation, snow, lakes and streams display phase lags compared to the GRACE and GNSS observations, perhaps indicating that groundwater contributes to the observed loading in addition to near-surface hydrology. The results of our calculations have implications for survey-mode GNSS measurements, which make up the majority of geodetic measurements in this region. By using the GNSS data together with estimates of hydrological loading from independent observations and models, we may be able to more accurately determine crustal motions caused by tectonic processes in South and Southeast Asia, while also improving our ability to monitor the annual monsoon and resulting water storage changes in the region.

“Anti-Communism” in Japanese-Philippine Relations during the 1930s

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant K. Goodman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
The United States ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
Pacific War ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
The Pacific

This paper derives from a larger study of the nature of Japan's relations with colonial South and Southeast Asia in the period between the Russo-Japanese War and the Pacific War. By means of a detailed examination of a single facet of Japanese-Philippine relations, it is hoped that a greater insight may be gained into the often convolute processes of the interactions between, on the one hand, the dominant Asian power of the inter-war period, and on the other hand, colonial entities and personalities still beholden to Western European or North American rulers. However, two caveats need to be put forward about this essay: (1) the case of the Philippines was unique in colonial Asia since the United States had fully committed itself to a policy of withdrawal, thus facilitating contacts between the local ruling elite and Japanese diplomats; (2) despite pre-war and wartime propaganda to the contrary, the principal concern of Japan in all its dealings with colonial South and Southeast Asia before the Pacific War was economic. In the prior instance, therefore, the paragraphs that follow will demonstrate an apparently remarkable degree of freedom of action on the part of the Filipinos in authority under the Commonwealth Administration (1935–46) in spite of the continuing legal responsibility of the United States for Philippine foreign affairs under the provisions of the Tydings-McDuffie (Independence) Act of 1934. The second caveat will be evidenced by the unstinting and continuous attention of Japanese diplomats to the development of ever closer economic ties between the Philippines and Japan.

The identity of Indosylvirana nicobariensis (Stoliczka 1870) (Amphibia, Ranidae) from northeast India

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4952 (3) ◽  
pp. 596-600
Author(s):  
SAMUEL LALRONUNGA ◽  
VANRAMLIANA VANRAMLIANA ◽  
LALKHAWNGAIHA SAILO ◽  
ISAAC ZOSANGLIANA ◽  
LALMUANPUIA LALMUANPUIA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
16S Rrna ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Mitochondrial Gene ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
Arunachal Pradesh ◽  
Nicobar Islands

Stoliczka (1870) described Hylorana nicobariensis from the Nicobar Islands of India. The generic allocation of this enigmatic species is yet to be fully resolved (Chan et al. 2020b) and it has been placed in different genera (Boulenger 1885; Frost et al. 2006; Che et al. 2007; Oliver et al. 2015; Chan et al. 2020a; Chandramouli et al. 2020). As of now, the species is assigned to the genus Indosylvirana (Oliver et al. 2015; Chan et al. 2020b; Frost 2020). Apart from Nicobar archipelago, this species is distributed in the insular regions of southeast Asia (Oliver et al. 2015; Chandramouli et al. 2020; Frost 2020) and the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Mizoram, Tripura and West Bengal in northeast India (Sarkar et al. 1992, 2002; Sarkar & Ray 2006; Ahmed et al. 2009; Mathew & Sen 2010; Lalremsanga 2011; Lalremsanga et al. 2015, 2016). However, Frost (2020) doubted the records of this species in northeast India. Systematic studies on the herpetofauna of northeast India based on molecular evidence are scanty (Lalronunga et al. 2020a), and species recorded from the area need confirmation (Frost 2020). Recent studies revealed that many species previously recorded from northeast India were based on misidentifications (Das et al. 2019; Giri et al. 2019; Lalronunga et al. 2020b), therefore, a review and revalidation on the herpetofaunal list of the area is warranted. Herein, we examined the identity of the species recorded as I. nicobariensis from northeast India using morphological data and a fragment of 16S rRNA mitochondrial gene. 

scholarly journals Durga Das’s Leaf-nosed Bat Hipposideros durgadasi Khajuria, 1970 (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Hipposideridae): a new distribution record in northern India hidden in the National Zoological Collections

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 11806
Author(s):  
M. Kamalakannan ◽  
Tauseef Hamid Dar ◽  
C. Venkatraman
Keyword(s):  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Madhya Pradesh ◽  
Zoological Survey ◽  
External Morphology ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
First Report ◽  
Northern India ◽  
Distribution Record ◽  
New Distribution

Durga Das’s leaf-nosed bat Hipposideros durgadasi Khajuria, 1970 is one of the endemic bats in India and was known only from Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh and Kolar district of Karnataka. Upon careful examination of the external morphology, craniodental and baculum structure of the bat collections, which were collected from 14 km west of Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh, northern India during the year 1998 and deposited in the National Zoological Collections of Zoological Survey of India were identified as Hipposideros durgadasi. It is the first report on the occurrence of Durga Das’s leaf-nosed bat in Uttar Pradesh and an additional distribution record in northern India. 

scholarly journals Interventional nephrology and vascular access practice: A perspective from South and Southeast Asia

2021 ◽  
pp. 112972982110113
Author(s):  
Raja Ramachandran ◽  
Vinant Bhargava ◽  
Sanjiv Jasuja ◽  
Maurizio Gallieni ◽  
Vivekanand Jha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Vascular Access ◽  
Central Catheter ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Venous Fistula ◽  
Economic Constraints ◽  
Group 1

South and Southeast Asia is the most populated, heterogeneous part of the world. The Association of Vascular Access and InTerventionAl Renal physicians (AVATAR Foundation), India, gathered trends on epidemiology and Interventional Nephrology (IN) for this region. The countries were divided as upper-middle- and higher-income countries as Group-1 and lower and lower-middle-income countries as Group-2. Forty-three percent and 70% patients in the Group 1 and 2 countries had unplanned hemodialysis (HD) initiation. Among the incident HD patients, the dominant Vascular Access (VA) was non-tunneled central catheter (non-TCC) in 70% of Group 2 and tunneled central catheter (TCC) in 32.5% in Group 1 countries. Arterio-Venous Fistula (AVF) in the incident HD patients was observed in 24.5% and 35% of patients in Group-2 and Group-1, respectively. Eight percent and 68.7% of the prevalent HD patients in Group-2 and Group-1 received HD through an AVF respectively. Nephrologists performing any IN procedure were 90% and 60% in Group-2 and Group 1, respectively. The common procedures performed by nephrologists include renal biopsy (93.3%), peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheter insertion (80%), TCC (66.7%) and non-TCC (100%). Constraints for IN include lack of time (73.3%), lack of back-up (40%), lack of training (73.3%), economic issues (33.3%), medico-legal problems (46.6%), no incentive (20%), other interests (46.6%) and institution not supportive (26%). Routine VA surveillance is performed in 12.5% and 83.3% of Group-2 and Group-1, respectively. To conclude, non-TCC and TCC are the most common vascular access in incident HD patients in Group-2 and Group-1, respectively. Lack of training, back-up support and economic constraints were main constraints for IN growth in Group-2 countries.

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