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Alvin Chandra

- Verified email at utsouthwestern.edu - Cited by 1587

Alvin Chandra

- Verified email at mespom.eu - Cited by 930

Convention on Biological Diversity: a review of national challenges and opportunities for implementation

A Chandra, A Idrisova - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2011 - Springer
Abstract The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) lies at the heart of biodiversity
conservation initiatives. It offers opportunities to address global issues at the national level …

Exploring climate-driven non-economic loss and damage in the Pacific Islands

KE McNamara, R Westoby, A Chandra - Current Opinion in Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Non-economic loss and damage induced by climate change in the Pacific Islands region
has been reported as fears of cultural loss, deterioration of vital ecosystem services, and …

The relationship of body mass and fat distribution with incident hypertension: observations from the Dallas Heart Study

A Chandra, IJ Neeland, JD Berry, CR Ayers… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - jacc.org
Background: Obesity has been linked to the development of hypertension, but whether total
adiposity or site-specific fat accumulation underpins this relationship is unclear. Objectives …

The relevance of political ecology perspectives for smallholder Climate-Smart Agriculture: a review

A Chandra, KE McNamara… - Journal of political …, 2017 - journals.uair.arizona.edu
Climate-smart agriculture has emerged as a way of increasing food productivity, building
resiliency to climate change and reducing carbon emissions. Despite rapid technical …

Climate-smart agriculture: perspectives and framings

A Chandra, KE McNamara, P Dargusch - Climate Policy, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This paper offers a systematic analysis of the concepts and contexts that frame the climate-
smart agriculture (CSA) discourse in the academic and policy literature. Documents (n= 113) …

Regionally selective atrophy after traumatic axonal injury

MA Warner, TS Youn, T Davis, A Chandra… - Archives of …, 2010 - jamanetwork.com
Objectives: To determine the spatial distribution of cortical and subcortical volume loss in
patients with diffuse traumatic axonal injury and to assess the relationship between regional …

Gendered vulnerabilities of smallholder farmers to climate change in conflict-prone areas: A case study from Mindanao, Philippines

A Chandra, KE McNamara, P Dargusch, AM Caspe… - Journal of rural …, 2017 - Elsevier
Smallholder farmers in the Philippines are typically considered to be particularly vulnerable
to climate change, yet, relatively little is known about how that vulnerability differs between …

Effects of sacubitril/valsartan on physical and social activity limitations in patients with heart failure: a secondary analysis of the PARADIGM-HF trial

A Chandra, EF Lewis, BL Claggett, AS Desai… - JAMA …, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Health-related quality of life (HRQL) of patients with heart failure is markedly
reduced compared with that in patients with other chronic diseases, demonstrating …

Development and validation of machine learning–based race-specific models to predict 10-year risk of heart failure: a multicohort analysis

MW Segar, BC Jaeger, KV Patel, V Nambi… - Circulation, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Heart failure (HF) risk and the underlying risk factors vary by race. Traditional
models for HF risk prediction treat race as a covariate in risk prediction and do not account …

Efficacy of neurohormonal therapies in preventing cardiotoxicity in patients with cancer undergoing chemotherapy

M Vaduganathan, SA Hirji, A Qamar, N Bajaj, A Gupta… - Cardio Oncology, 2019 - jacc.org
Objectives This study sought to assess the effects of neurohormonal therapies in preventing
cardiotoxicity in patients receiving chemotherapy. Background Various cardioprotective …