Hong, Je-Woo Hong, Jinkyu Chun, Junghwa Lee, Yong Hee Chang, Lim-Seok Lee, Jae-Bum Yi, Keewook Park, Young-San Byun, Young-Hwa Joo, Sangwon
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Carbon Balance and Management
BackgroundIt is important to quantify changes in CO2 sources and sinks with land use and land cover change. In the last several decades, carbon sources and sinks in East Asia have been altered by intensive land cover changes due to rapid economic growth and related urbanization. To understand impact of urbanization on carbon cycle in the monsoon As...
Hannum, Emily Ishida, Hiroshi Park, Hyunjoon Tam, Tony
This article reviews research on the coevolution of educational expansion and educational inequality within China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in the post–World War II period. These societies are often lauded for their spectacular economic growth, widespread commitment to investing in education, and intense competition for academic success. This...
Yarmolyuk, V. V. Nikiforov, A. V. Kozlovsky, A. M. Kudryashova, E. A.
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Geotectonics
Abstract—The Late Mesozoic volcanic province of East Asia is considered in relation to global geological events. The main structure-forming events and largest magmatic productivity of the province coincided with the peak of widely manifested plume activity in the Early Cretaceous. A geodynamic model of magmatic province formation of is proposed, re...
張, 子康
Early-modern Ryūkyū (1609-1879) was not only under the substantial control of Satsuma (i.e. Japan) but also subordinated to China. While Ryūkyū had accepted the so-called "Sakoku" policy of the Tokugawa Shogunate in which Christianity was strictly prohibited and foreign trade was strongly controlled, it also maintained an annual tributary relation ...
Ravid, Ronni
China and India's miraculous economic growth has undoubtedly improved the livelihoods of millions of people, but it has also increased demand for already scarce water resources in the region. The hydro-political relationship between the two countries is particularly interesting due to China’s hold of the Tibetan Plateau which houses the heads of mo...
Kim, Suyoung
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Nonprofit Policy Forum
Although the voluntary sector is internationally valued as an integral component of the welfare mix, studies on East Asian welfare regimes have primarily focused on state-market-family interactions, paying scant attention to the long-standing and pivotal role of voluntary agencies in their construction. This case study illuminates this less-known a...
Lu, Ju-Ming
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Advances in Therapy
The improvement of glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) is an urgent need in Asia. East Asian T2D patients have distinct characteristics, including relatively low body weight, early impairment of islet beta cell function with reduced insulin secretion and a marked increase in postprandial blood glucose levels. Control of postpran...
Kirillova, G. L.
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Russian Journal of Pacific Geology
AbstractNew evidence of Eocene ingression in the area of the present-day Russian–Chinese border is provided. It was previously believed that Cenozoic grabens of the Tangcheng–Lujiang (Tan-Lu) Fault Zone, located in China and also traced in Russia, were filled predominantly by continental, rarely, lagoonal sediments. In 2015, drilling in the Huadian...
Shinozaki, Nana Wang, Han-Chieh Yuan, Xiaoyi Li, Tianyu Asano, Kana Kobayashi, Satomi Sasaki, Satoshi
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BMC Nutrition
BackgroundAlthough the importance of capacity building for public health nutrition (PHN) has been increasing globally, reports on the current status of training programs for PHN in East-Asia including Japan are limited. The aim of this study was to compare the current status of education and research activities in the field of PHN in Japan with tho...
Hauge, Jostein Chang, Ha-Joon
Ethiopia’s rapid economic growth over the past decade, state intervention in the economy, and focus on industrialization are prompting characterizations of Ethiopia as a developmental state. This chapter discusses the concept of a developmental state in Ethiopia with reference to the East Asian developmental state model. It suggests that the Ethiop...
