JAPANESE DIPLOMACY WITHIN ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM (ARF): SOME ASPECTS OF THE REGIONAL SECURITY by O. V. Lebedeva

“…The article is devoted to the issue of Japan policy in South-East Asia specifically to Japanese diplomacy within ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF). …”
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Medicinal Potential of Pine Trees: A Brief Review Focusing on Three Species by Qinsong Li, Qiyu Li, Anping Wang, Wenxuan Quan

“…This paper reviews the medicinal potential of extracts from different organs of three trees of the genus Pinus in East Asia. Studies have shown that pine trees are rich in bioactive compounds, and these compounds have a variety of pharmacological activities, including antioxidation, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antitumor, and hypolipidemic effects. …”
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The Relationship between the Atmospheric Heat Source over Tibetan Plateau and the Westerly-Monsoon Evolution in August and Its Physical Mechanism by Chunxue Wang, Yueqing Li

“…The synthetic analysis indicated that when the AHS was strong, a positive anomaly of a horizontal temperature gradient appeared over TP, which was conducive to the southward shift of the high-altitude temperature gradient center, resulting in the southward position of the axis of the 200 hPa westerly jet, and an upward and downward inclined westerly anomaly zone appeared from the south slope of TP to the main body and its north slope. Meanwhile, the East Asia–Pacific (EAP) teleconnection pattern with a negative phase appeared at 500 hPa, and TP to western Japan was located in the negative value area of the wave train. …”
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Maternal Health Coping Strategies of Migrant Women in Norway by Berit Viken, Anne Lyberg, Elisabeth Severinsson

“…Data were obtained by means of 17 semistructured interviews with women from South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Qualitative content analysis was employed. …”
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Rate and Associated Factors of Suicidal Behavior among Adolescents in Bangladesh and Indonesia: Global School‐Based Student Health Survey Data Analysis by M. Marthoenis, S. M. Yasir Arafat

“…The study revealed rates and risk factors of suicidal behaviors among the school-going adolescents of two Muslim-majority countries in South East Asia. Prevention strategies should be considered guided by the risk factors for school-going adolescents.…”
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Economy-wide energy efficiency using a comprehensive decomposition method by D. Setyawan

“…This study compares the energy intensity performance in Indonesia to other south-east Asia countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, The Philippines and Malaysia for the period from 1971 to 2016. …”
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Utilization of Palm Oil Fuel Ash as Binder in Lightweight Oil Palm Shell Geopolymer Concrete by Michael Yong Jing Liu, Choon Peng Chua, U. Johnson Alengaram, Mohd Zamin Jumaat

“…The utilization of palm oil industrial waste materials known as palm oil fuel ash (POFA) and oil palm shell (OPS) that are abundantly available in South East Asia as binder and coarse aggregate in geopolymer concrete would give an added advantage in both the environmental and economic aspects. …”
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Nontarget Metabolites of Rhizomes of Edible Sacred Lotus Provide New Insights into Rhizome Browning by Chenyang Hao, Yuetong Yu, Xueting Zhang, Gangqiang Dong, Yan Liu, Sha Chen

“…The “edible rhizome” variant of Nelumbo nucifera with various cultivars has a long history of use as a food in East Asia. In this study, 48 target metabolites were untargeted and identified in 212 rhizome cultivars (tropical and temperate types) using ultraperformance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight high-resolution mass spectrometry; among these, 32 compounds were newly reported in the rhizome. …”
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La crisis estructural del capitalismo y sus repercusiones by Francisco Luiz Corsi

“…The current crisis is the outcome of a series of processes unleashed as a result of the crisis of overaccumulation of capital in the 1970s, which generated, on the one hand, the conditions for financial capital’s dominance and, on the other, a new frontier for the accumulation of capital in East Asia, especially in China. The crisis calls into question the centrality of the North American economy, but that does not necessarily mean the shift of capitalism’s hegemonic center to Asia. …”
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Association of Taiwan’s Rainfall Patterns with Large-Scale Oceanic and Atmospheric Phenomena by Yi-Chun Kuo, Ming-An Lee, Mong-Ming Lu

“…Because of Taiwan’s geographic location and the effect of local terrestrial structures, climate variability related to ENSO differed markedly from other regions in East Asia.…”
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N-Terminal Plasmodium vivax Merozoite Surface Protein-1, a Potential Subunit for Malaria Vivax Vaccine by Fernanda G. Versiani, Maria E. Almeida, Luis A. Mariuba, Patricia P. Orlandi, Paulo A. Nogueira

“…The human malaria is widely distributed in the Middle East, Asia, the western Pacific, and Central and South America. …”
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Using social robots for language learning: are we there yet? by Huang Guanyu, Moore Roger K.

“…It then presents a historical overview of the real-life implementation of social robots in language classrooms in East Asia and Europe. It then provides a summary of the evaluation of RALL from the perspectives of L2 learners, teachers and technology developers. …”
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First report of the invasive snail Pomacea canaliculata in Kenya by Alan G. Buddie, Ivan Rwomushana, Lisa C. Offord, Simeon Kibet, Fernadis Makale, Djamila Djeddour, Giovanni Cafa, Koskei K. Vincent, Alexander M. Muvea, Duncan Chacha, Roger K. Day

“…DNA barcoding analyses using the cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene gave preliminary identification of the snails as Pomacea canaliculata, widely considered to have the potential to be one of the most invasive invertebrates of waterways and irrigation systems worldwide and which is already causing issues throughout much of south-east Asia. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first documented record of P. canaliculata in Kenya, and the first confirmed record of an established population in continental Africa. …”
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Study of cucumber accessions from the VIR collection for their agronomic traits in the Lower Volga Region by E. H. Sukhanberdina, A. A. Grushin, T. M. Piskunova

“…A conclusion is made about the prospects of breeding for valuable agronomic traits using long-fruited forms of cucumber from the countries of South-East Asia and the Russian Far East.…”
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Complete chloroplast genome of Sagina maxima A. Gray (Caryophyllaceae) from Ulleung-do Island, Korea by Asif S. Tamboli, Suhas K. Kadam, Jin-Suk Youn, JiYoung Yang, Young Seok Sim, Jae Hong Pak, Yeon-Sik Choo

“…Sagina maxima is an annual herb distributed in East Asia and North America. In this study, we sequenced and characterized the chloroplast genome (cp.) of S. maxima. …”
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Hydraulic Transients Induced by Pigging Operation in Pipeline with a Long Slope by Tao Deng, Jing Gong, Haihao Wu, Yu Zhang, Siqi Zhang, Qi Lin, Huishu Liu

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HISTORY OF HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA ERADICATION IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN 2016–2017 by M. S. Volkov, V. N. Irza, A. V. Varkentin

“…Major threat of the agent introduction comes from the neighbouring East Asia and Far East countries (China, Japan, Korea). …”
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Geopolitical and Economic Aspects of Nuclear Energy by S. Z. Zhiznin, V. M. Timokhov

“…However, despite abovementioned downsides, as the experience of state corporation "Rosatom"has shown, many developing countries of the South-east Asia, The middle East, African regions express high interest in the development of nuclear energy in their countries. …”
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POLITICAL CRISIS AND SOCIAL PROTEST IN THAILAND by E. V. Koldunova

“…Thailand has the longest democratic tradition among ther countries of South-east Asia. Yetbackin 1932 the country has changed the absoulute monarchy to a constitutional one. …”
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Guarding the Borders of Japan: Occupation, Korean War and Frontier Controls by Tessa Morris-Suzuki

“…Men who had been recruited to fight in China or Southeast Asia, and families who had migrated to Manchuria to help build Japan’s Greater East Asia Prosperity Sphere, were still trickling home, transformed by experiences which could seldom be put into words. …”
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