Publications by authors named "Amir Bazaz"
Studies on clean energy transition amongst low-income urban households in the Global South use an array of qualitative and quantitative methods. However, attempts to combine qualitative and quantitative methods are rare and there are a lack of systematic approaches to this. This paper demonstrates a two stage approach using clustering methods to analyse a mixed dataset containing quantitative household survey data and qualitative interview data.
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- Fear extinction is crucial for treating psychiatric disorders, and oxytocin (OT) has been identified as a potential facilitator in this process.
- The study found that endogenous OT levels significantly increase during fear extinction in the dorsal hippocampus (dHPC), suggesting it enhances the fear extinction process, especially when combined with BDNF.
- OT's effects involve increased neural activity in critical brain regions, like the CA1-vHPC and the infralimbic cortex, underscoring the importance of the dHPC-mPFC pathway in fear extinction mechanisms.
Using information contained in the eighteenth to twentieth century British administrative documents, preserved in the National Archives of India (NAI), we present a 218-year (1729-1947 AD) record of socioeconomic disruptions and human impacts (famines) associated with 'rain failures' that affected the semi-arid regions (SARs) of southern India. By mapping the southern Indian famine record onto long-term spatiotemporal measures of regional rainfall variability, we demonstrate that the SARs of southern India repeatedly experienced famines when annual rainfall reduced by ~ one standard deviation (1 SD), or more, from long-term averages. In other words, 'rain failures' listed in the colonial documents as causes of extreme socioeconomic disruptions, food shortages and human distress (famines) in the southern Indian SARs were fluctuations in precipitation well within the normal range of regional rainfall variability and not extreme rainfall deficits (≥ 3 SD).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Endothelial dysfunction is one of the many complications caused by diabetes mellitus. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of gallic acid (GA) on the mesenteric vascular bed (MVB) response to histamine in diabetic rats.
Methods: Forty male Wistar rats were randomly assigned to a control group, an untreated alloxan-induced diabetic group and three diabetic groups treated with different doses of GA.