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When Buddhism Meets Bollywood

HIMALAYA, 2020
In September 2016, hundreds of thousands of devotees gathered in Ladakh to celebrate the millennial anniversary of Naropa (1016- 1100 CE), an Indian Buddhist scholar-saint who is widely revered in the Himalayas.
Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg
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Partly cystic common peroneal nerve schwannoma: an unusual cause of hallux drop

The Journal of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 2023
Traumatic peroneal nerve injury is the usual underlying cause for foot drop. Other causes are like neoplastic, metabolic, or infective are rarely seen.
Abhishek Mishra, MD, Naresh Kumar, Simarjeet Singh   +2 more
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Perspectives from the Field: Interviews with the \u3ci\u3eAlima\u3c/i\u3e of Ladakh [PDF]

, 2018
This article is based on a series of interviews with a group of female Islamic scholars—alima—in Leh, Ladakh, who were the first four women from the region to receive a religious education in a formal madrassa (religious school).
Fewkes, Jacqueline H
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A Forced Union: Exploring the Consequences of India's Removal of Jammu and Kashmir's Special Status

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article adds to academic literature interested in two core questions: What happens to residents as a result of an annexation? And how do aggressor states maintain control over an annexed territory where there is a history of insurgency and mobilization for independence?
Serena Hussain
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Glacier mass balance and its climatic and nonclimatic drivers in the Ladakh region during 2000–2021 from remote sensing data

Journal of Glaciology
This study investigates the geodetic mass balance of nearly all glaciers in the Ladakh region, which are crucial for local water security. Utilizing multiple digital elevation models from 2000 and 2021, we estimate glacier mass balances. Climatic drivers
Arindan Mandal, Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma, Thupstan Angchuk, Mohd Farooq Azam, Purushottam Kumar Garg, Mohd Soheb   +5 more
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Beyond Deterministic Fetal Programming: Intrauterine Exposures and the Multifactorial Origins of Adiposity

Obesity Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Excess adiposity is not a recently developed problem but has existed since at least the upper Paleolithic, allowing evolutionary selection pressures to adapt the physiology of the pregnant woman and the feto‐placental unit for maternal and fetal protection.
Gernot Desoye, Ursula Hiden, Evelyn Jantscher‐Krenn, Herbert Fluhr, Jonathan C. Wells, Sonja Entringer, Mireille N. M. van Poppel   +6 more
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First report of an invasive pest, Phyllonorycter populifoliella (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) from Ladakh

Acta Agriculturae Slovenica, 2021
Phyllonorycter populifoliella (Treitschke 1883), is an invasive pest and is first reported on poplar trees, from the eastern region of Ladakh, India. The details of the taxonomic identification based on genital morphology are presented.
Barkat HUSSAIN, Abdul Rasheed Rasheed WAR, Ejaz Ahmad KANDOO   +2 more
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Nils Martin, The Wanla Group of Monuments. Fourteenth-century Tibetan Buddhist Murals in Ladakh [PDF]

, 2022

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Building a Contextual READINESS Model for AI‐Triggered Crises: Global Lessons From Algorithmic Exploitation in China's Food‐Delivery Platforms

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 34, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT READINESS represents a proactive mindset reflecting an organization's willingness and capability to prepare for crises and respond ethically. To understand how organizations become “ready” for complex crises, particularly those arising from public moral outrage over publicly exposed AI use, this article proposes the Contextual READINESS Model ...
Junzhen Li, Yang Cheng, Qiaoge Xie, Yijia Xiao   +3 more
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Influence of vegetation and land use on soil organic carbon (SOC) and nutrient status in the cold, arid climate of Ladakh Trans-Himalayan region, India

Discover Soil
This study examines the impact of vegetation patterns and land-use conversion on soil organic carbon (SOC) and nutrient dynamics in the cold arid environment of Ladakh, Trans-Himalaya. This study aims to evaluate the influence of different land use types
Mohd Baqir, Mohd Salim, Nelofar Hassnain Mir, Farida Batool   +3 more
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