Asia-Pacific trade and investment flows have burgeoned over recent decades, albeit impacted by China-US trade tensions and especially the COVID-19 pandemic (§1.02). International investment agreements have proliferated to liberalise and protect investments (§1.03), mostly adding the option of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). Asia-related I...
Published in Climatic Change
Proxy-based reconstructions are essential for investigating precipitation change in Asia on multidecadal to centennial timescales. Thus far, a total of four gridded precipitation/drought datasets for the past half millennium have been developed, including reconstructed Asian summer precipitation (RAP), May–September precipitation in China (IGGPRE),...
Published in Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & frontotemporal degeneration
Objective: To compare two ALS staging systems, King's clinical staging and Milano-Torino (MiToS) functional staging, using prospective data from a multi-ethnic cohort of ALS patients. Methods: The stages of disease were determined prospectively based on existing definitions. The two systems were compared for timing of stages using box plots, corres...
Au Japon, le patrimoine architectural militaire occupe une place particulière dans le paysage urbain. D’un point de vue quantitatif tout d’abord, parce que l’on dénombre plusieurs milliers de sites archéologiques et historiques de châteaux répartis sur l’ensemble de l’archipel, de la simple ruine aux sites grandioses des donjons ceints de douves et...
Published in BMC Cancer
Background Apoptosis-related genes(Args)play an essential role in the occurrence and progression of hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC). However, few studies have focused on the prognostic significance of Args in HCC. In the study, we aim to explore an efficient prognostic model of Asian HCC patients based on the Args. Methods We downloaded mRNA expressi...
The main purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between forestry and climate degradation in the modern era. Specifically, the study aimed to examine how forest areas are influencing environmental degradation. Given the inevitable link between forests and carbon dioxide (CO2), the current study focused on examining the impact of chang...
Despite numerous journalistic accounts, systematic quantitative evidence on economic conditions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic remains scarce for most low- and middle-income countries, partly due to limitations of official economic statistics in environments with large informal sectors and subsistence agriculture. We assemble evidence from ov...
Published in Frontiers in Public Health
Sustainably intensifying agriculture to secure food for people, while minimizing the human, animal, and environmental health impacts is an unprecedented global food security challenge. Action research is needed to understand and mitigate impacts, with Ecosystem approaches to health (Ecohealth) emerging as a promising framework to support such effor...
Published in Development (Cambridge, England)
Summary: This Review highlights the rich history of embryological thinking in Asia and Latin America, challenging the European-centric view of the history of scientific investigation and discovery in developmental biology.
Calculations of Coulomb stress changes have shown that moderate to large earthquakes mayincrease stress at the location of future earthquakes. Coulomb stress transfers have thus beenwidely accepted to explain earthquake sequences, especially for sequences occurring withinparallel or collinear fault systems. Relating, under this framework, successiv...
