A5057120189- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Cambodian History and Society
- Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
- Asian Studies and History
- Forest Management and Policy
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Cardiovascular Issues in Pregnancy
- Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Vascular Anomalies and Treatments
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes
- Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Congenital Heart Disease Studies
- Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
East–West Center
2017-2025
University of Hawaii System
2016-2025
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2015-2025
Hasanuddin University
2018-2024
Emory University
2011-2023
Center for International Forestry Research
2017
Emory University Hospital
2008-2017
Emory Healthcare
2016
Emory Clinic
2016
Mercer University Health Sciences Center
2012
Right ventricular (RV) function is an important determinant of prognosis in pulmonary hypertension. However, noninvasive assessment the RV often limited by complex geometry and poor endocardial definition.To test whether degree tricuspid annular displacement (tricuspid plane systolic excursion [TAPSE]) a useful echo-derived measure with prognostic significance hypertension.We prospectively studied 63 consecutive patients hypertension who were referred for clinically indicated right heart...
Transthoracic Doppler echocardiography is recommended for screening the presence of pulmonary hypertension (PH). However, some recent studies have suggested that echocardiographic artery pressure estimates may frequently be inaccurate.
Abstract Objective Pulmonary arterial hypertension related to scleroderma (PAH‐Scl) is associated with high morbidity and mortality as well poorer response therapy worse outcomes compared the idiopathic form of PAH (IPAH). Scleroderma an autoimmune disease that can affect left right heart function directly through inflammation fibrosis indirectly systemic pulmonary hypertension. This study tested hypothesis increased prevalence might explain higher in patients PAH‐Scl IPAH. Methods The was...
In patients with emphysema being evaluated for lung volume reduction surgery, Doppler echocardiography has been used to screen pulmonary hypertension as an indicator of increased peri-operative risk. To determine the accuracy this test, present authors compared results right heart catheterisations and echocardiograms in 163 participating cardiovascular substudy National Emphysema Treatment Trial. Substudy had both catheterisation performed before after randomisation. 74 paired carried out on...
Combination therapy has been recommended for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). However, there is scant information on combination after failure monotherapy, particularly in patients with scleroderma-associated PAH (PAH-SSD). From a group 82 consecutive who received initial bosentan total 13 idiopathic (IPAH) and 12 PAH-SSD requiring additional sildenafil were studied. Sildenafil was added clinical deterioration based upon symptoms, New York Heart Association (NYHA)...
Hyponatremia is associated with decompensated heart failure and poor prognosis in patients left ventricular systolic dysfunction.We sought to determine if hyponatremia right worse pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).We prospectively followed 40 PAH examined the relationship between serum sodium function as well survival.Subjects (Na < or = 136 mEq/L) were more symptomatic (11/13 World Health Organization [WHO] class III/IV vs. 12/27 WHO III/IV; P 0.02), had peripheral edema (69 26%;...
Indonesia is undergoing major policy changes, seeking to expand social forestry designations from less than 1% (1.1 million hectares) over 10% (12.7 of the Forest Estate. Expanding at once a landmark reform and call for caution, raising questions about intentions, practical concerns legal, technical, implementation mechanisms. Social literature highlights three key tenets, namely efforts that: confer rights local communities, support livelihoods, achieve conservation outcomes. This paper...
Objective. The tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE) strongly reflects right ventricular (RV) function and predicts survival in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). But its role systemic sclerosis (SSc)-associated PAH has not been established. Our objective was to validate the TAPSE assessment of RV prediction SSc-PAH. Methods. Fifty consecutive patients with SSc-PAH who underwent echocardiography measurement within 1 h clinically indicated heart catheterization...
Ongoing climate change can alter conditions for plant growth, in turn affecting ecological and social systems. While there have been considerable advances understanding the physical aspects of change, comprehensive analyses integrating climate, biological, sciences are less common. Here we use projections under alternative mitigation scenarios to show how changes environmental variables that limit growth could impact ecosystems people. We although global mean number days above freezing will...
Although Indonesia is experiencing one of the most complex transformations social forestry policy in world, there a need to step back and more closely examine politics, ecologies, economies that provide context for its implementation. This introduction offers synthesis collection special section submissions Forest Society. We begin by navigating current moment presenting heuristic identifying discourses underpinning rapid expansion support schemes. These perspectives are fragmented across...
This paper contributes to new understandings of agrarian transition for smallholder rice farming in Southeast Asia through quantitative data analysis from Thailand's two main growing regions. Despite economic modernization models predicting a farm-size agriculture large-scale commercial farms with the onset industrialization and urban employment opportunities, we find farmers continue persist defy anticipated trends, but not uniformly. We conducted comprehensive survey 2019 households twelve...
Agroforestry is a sustainable farming system that provides social, economic, and environmental benefits. It crucial to develop this in Java, which produces of 50% Indonesia's food has shrinking land area. Small-scale entrepreneurs farmers Central Java have developed agroforestry less than five years, but its long-term benefits are yet be measured. However, it possible measure short-term as indicators for monitoring evaluation purposes. This study surveyed 101 identify their characteristics...
Diffuse pollution from agriculture constitutes a key pressure on the water quality of freshwaters and is frequently cause ecological degradation. The problem diffuse can be conceptualised with source-mobilisation-pathway (or delivery)-impact model, whereby combination high source risk strong connected pathways leads to 'critical areas' (CSAs). These areas are where most will originate, hence optimal places implement mitigation measures. However, identifying locations these across different...
Abstract Studies found that rapid decline of biodiversity and ecosystems globally have adversely affected an estimated 1.6 billion rural people whose livelihoods both directly indirectly depend on forests. To halt the loss forests other natural simultaneously support livelihoods, various external programmes been developed applied, including market‐based rights‐based approaches. However, ecosystem continues, better incentives or more secure rights not always led to local community...
Floods in Jakarta are increasing severity. Most research explaining this phenomenon centers on biophysical and normative dimensions, with occasional historicized explanations. This article shifts focus to the dynamic contemporary narratives of assigning blame legitimating solutions. We do by first categorizing flood causes represented media 2019, which spotlight a combination distal explanations like climate change, specific sectoral issues waste subsidence, systemic challenges such as poor...
Sorghum bicolor (L.) is a plant species that has staple and medicinal potential common in tropical regions, including Southeast Asia regions. Despite sorghum being used widely, the information about distributions of various ecoregions Indonesia still limited. vast country with distinct ecoregions, wet western parts arid environments eastern parts. The on distribution important, this situation, study aimed to model using MaxEnt based machine learning. total area suitable for estimated be...
Through the discourse of indigeneity, rural communities around world are joining a global network justice seekers. By articulating grievances collectively, they demand state recognition while seeking support from NGOs and international development organisations. In Indonesia, manifestation indigenous ‘adat’ politics is no longer confined to national struggle for land rights, but instead, has proliferated into many localised short term ‘adat projects’. This introduction TAPJA special issue on...