scholarly journals IYCr outcome in SE Asia

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (a1) ◽  
pp. C1292-C1292
Author(s):  
Jagadese Vittal
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Young People ◽  
East Asia ◽  
The Other ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Se Asia

Crystallography has been extensively practiced in a number of Asian countries such as India, China, Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, and to a lesser extent in Malaysia and Thailand for decades, but not in many parts of South East Asia. The International Year of Crystallography (IYCr 2014) provided an opportunity to reach out some of these countries to initiate or intensify the crystallographic activities in terms of workshops, conferences, crystal growing competition, etc. As a part of this initiative, the IUCr with the help of the Asian Crystallographic Association contacted various academicians and researchers in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Fiji to increase the awareness of the science of crystallography through various activities, to promote education and research in crystallography and to inspire young people through hand-on demonstration in school, among the activities planned in 2014. The speaker will collate the details of these activities and present in his talk. He will also discuss details of the Crystal Growing Challenge in Singapore among the other activities planned to celebrate IYCr 2014 in Singapore.

Systematics, phylogeny, and zoogeography of the lizard genus Diplodactylus Gray (Gekkonidae)

1967 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 1007 ◽  
Author(s):  
AG Kluge
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
New Caledonia ◽  
The Other ◽  
External Morphology ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Natural Group ◽  
Nasal Process

Each of the 14 genera now referred to the subfamily Diplodactylinae (Naultinus, Hoplodactylus, Heteropholis, Bavayia, Rhacodactylus, Eurydactylodes, Pseudothecadactylus, Carphodactylus, Phyllurus, Nephrurus, Oedura, Diplodactylus, Rhynchoedura, and Crenadactylus) is characterized on the basis of its internal and external morphology. The type species, referred species, and distribution are given for each genus. The Diplodactylinae are divided into two tribes primarily on the basis of differences in the arrangement and number of preanal pores and the size and shape of the nasal process of the premaxilla. The Carphodactylini includes Naultinus, Hoplodactylus, Heteropholis, Bavayia, Rhacodactylus, Eurydactylodes, Carphodactylus, Pseudothecadactylus, Phyllurus, and Nephrurus. The Diplodactylini includes Diplodactylus, Oedura, Rhynchoedura, and Crenadactylus. The Carphodactylini appear to be more primitive than the Diplodactylini. Carphodactylus may be close to the ancestral stock of the subfamily. Phyllurus and Nephrurus seem to be closely related to Carphodactylus. Pseudothecadactylus is considered to be closely related to the New Caledonia-Loyalty Islands radiation, which consists of Eurydactylodes and Rhacodactylus, and probably Bavayia. The New Zealand genera Hoplodactylus, Heteropholis, and Naultinus seem to form a natural group which is related to the New Caledonian genera. Crenadactylus is probably only distantly related to the other genera of the Diplodactylini. Rhynchoedura seems to be related to the stenodactylus group of Diplodactylus, while Oedura shows an affinity to the strophurus group of that genus. Geographically, the Diplodactylinae is restricted to the Australian Region (Australia, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, and New Zealand). The ancestral stock of the subfamily probably originated in south-east Asia and dispersed toward Australia by way of the Indo-Australian Archipelago during the upper Cretaceous. It is postulated that the subfamily reached Australia (and continental New Guinea) by Palaeocene- Eocene time.

Parts of South-east Asia may adopt nuclear post-2030

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Energy Development ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Electricity Grid ◽  
Renewable Energy Development

Significance It is the only country in South-east Asia with a large-scale nuclear plant, although this was never loaded with fuel. Other countries in the region have tentative plans to develop nuclear power programmes. Impacts The current absence of nuclear power programmes will help avert the diversion of capital from renewable energy development in the region. South-east Asian countries with small, non-power reactors, built for research, will try to maintain these facilities. Across the region, the need for electricity grid investment will increase as more decentralised generation sources are deployed.

scholarly journals 9-year spatial and temporal evolution of desert dust aerosols over South-East Asia as revealed by CALIOP

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanouil Proestakis ◽  
Vassilis Amiridis ◽  
Eleni Marinou ◽  
Aristeidis K. Georgoulias ◽  
Stavros Solomos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Aerosol Optical Depth ◽  
Optical Depth ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Dust Aerosol ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Desert Dust ◽  
Dust Aerosols ◽  
Se Asia

Abstract. We present a 3-D climatology of the desert dust distribution over South-East Asia derived using CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation) data. To distinguish desert dust from total aerosol load we apply a methodology developed in the framework of EARLINET (European Aerosol Research Lidar Network), the particle linear depolarization ratio and updated lidar ratio values suitable for Asian dust, on multiyear CALIPSO observations (01/2007–12/2015). The resulting dust product provides information on the horizontal and vertical distribution of dust aerosols over SE (South-East) Asia along with the seasonal transition of dust transport pathways. Persistent high D_AOD (Dust Aerosol Optical Depth) values, of the order of 0.6, are present over the arid and semi-arid desert regions. Dust aerosol transport (range, height and intensity) is subject to high seasonality, with highest values observed during spring for northern China (Taklimakan/Gobi deserts) and during summer over the Indian subcontinent (Thar Desert). Additionally we decompose the CALIPSO AOD (Aerosol Optical Depth) into dust and non-dust aerosol components to reveal the non-dust AOD over the highly industrialized and densely populated regions of SE Asia, where the non-dust aerosols yield AOD values of the order of 0.5. Furthermore, the CALIPSO-based short-term AOD and D_AOD time series and trends between 01/2007 and 12/2015 are calculated over SE Asia and over selected sub-regions. Positive trends are observed over northwest and east China and the Indian subcontinent, whereas over southeast China are mostly negative. The calculated AOD trends agree well with the trends derived from Aqua/MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer), although significant differences are observed over specific regions.

Malacca Portuguese Creole

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Stefanie Pillai ◽  
Alan N. Baxter ◽  
Wen-Yi Soh
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
South Asia ◽  
East Timor ◽  
The Other ◽  
South East Asia

Malacca Portuguese Creole (MPC) (ISO 639-3; code: mcm), popularly known as Malacca Portuguese or locally as (Papiá) Cristang, belongs to the group of Portuguese-lexified creoles of (South)east Asia, which includes the extinct varieties of Batavia/Tugu (Maurer 2013) and Bidau, East Timor (Baxter 1990), and the moribund variety of Macau (Baxter 2009). MPC has its origins in the Portuguese presence in Malacca, and like the other creoles in this subset, it is genetically related to the Portuguese Creoles of South Asia (Holm 1988, Cardoso, Baxter & Nunes 2012).

The scorpion-tailed orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Araneidae, Arachnura) in Australia and New Zealand

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4706 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-170
Author(s):  
PEDRO DE S. CASTANHEIRA ◽  
RAPHAEL K. DIDHAM ◽  
COR J. VINK ◽  
VOLKER W. FRAMENAU
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Single Female ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Nomen Dubium ◽  
The Pacific

The scorpion-tailed orb-weaving spiders in the genus Arachnura Vinson, 1863 (Araneidae Clerck, 1757) are revised for Australia and New Zealand. Arachnura higginsii (L. Koch, 1872) only occurs in Australia and A. feredayi (L. Koch, 1872) only in New Zealand. A single female collected in south-eastern Queensland (Australia) is here tentatively identified as A. melanura Simon, 1867, but it is doubtful that this species has established in Australia. Two juveniles from northern Queensland do not conform to the diagnoses of any of the above species and are illustrated pending a more thorough revision of the genus in South-East Asia and the Pacific region. An unidentified female from Westport (New Zealand) does not conform to the diagnoses of A. feredayi and A. higginsii, but is not described due to its poor preservation status. Arachnura caudatella Roewer, 1942 (replacement name for Epeira caudata Bradley, 1876), originally described from Hall Sound (Papua New Guinea) and repeatedly catalogued for Australia, is considered a nomen dubium. 

scholarly journals EDITORIAL

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
East Asia ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Music Technology ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
The South

The collection of papers in this issue of Organised Sound results from a call for material focused on the theme of music technology in Australasia (New Zealand, Australia and neighbouring Islands of the South Pacific) and South East Asia (Brunei, Burma, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam).

ASEAN-India naval ties are symbolic, for now

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Regional Role

Subject The outlook for Indian naval engagement with South-east Asian countries and ASEAN. Significance At the ASEAN summit in mid-November, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi underlined India's 'Look East' policy, pledging to cultivate diplomatic, economic and security relationships with South-east Asia. One manifestation of Delhi's willingness to undertake a more strategic regional role is the Indian navy's growing portfolio of partnerships with South-east Asian navies. Amid concerns over China's maritime assertiveness, India's navy has been welcomed in the region as a security partner. Impacts India will avoid South-east Asian undertakings that may provoke China. Delhi will need to define 'Look East' policies concretely to convince South-east Asia fully of Indian strategic utility. Modi will expand bilateral naval exercises, humanitarian aid and counter-piracy/smuggling efforts in South-east Asia.

Koro and Psychosis

1984 ◽  
Vol 145 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. C. Ang ◽  
M. P. I. Weller
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
East Asia ◽  
West Indian ◽  
The Other ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Southern Chinese ◽  
Greek Cypriot

‘Koro’ has been described as a culture-bound syndrome with localised depersonalisation confined to the penis, occurring in the context of a panic state with fear of impending disaster (Yap 1965,1969). Because ghosts are not thought to possess genitals, penile shrinkage is believed to be potentially fatal, with the risk that the victim will himself turn into a ghost. Until recently the syndrome was thought to be restricted to Southern Chinese emigres in Hong Kong and South East Asia. We wish to report two such cases, one in a West Indian and the other in a Greek Cypriot, admitted to Friern Hospital.

Democracy, Human Rights, and Civil Society in South East Asia

2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 1050-1051
Author(s):  
Abdul Rahman Embong
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
East Asia ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Old Order ◽  
Pacific Studies ◽  
The Cold War

Democracy, Human Rights, and Civil Society in South East Asia, Amitav Acharya, B.M. Frolic and Richard Stubbs, eds., Toronto: Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 2001, pp. 208This is an important volume on the hotly debated topic of democracy, human rights and civil society in South East Asia, a region that has witnessed a confrontation between the old order of authoritarian regimes and strong states on one hand, and the new democratic forces embedded in an emerging civil society, on the other. The focus of the book is on the evolution of debates about democracy and human rights during the decade following the end of the Cold War in 1989 to the 1997–98 Asian economic crisis, with the latter being regarded as the watershed that unleashed the democratic forces. The book consists of nine chapters, plus an introduction and a conclusion, contributed by nine political scientists. Except for Johan Saravanamuttu, who is from the region under study, the other contributors are Southeast Asianists teaching at various universities in Canada, the United States, and Australia.

scholarly journals Sectorial specialisation in East Asia and Latin America compared

2002 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCELA MIOZZO
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Latin America ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Latin American ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
The Other ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The Government ◽  
Latin American Countries

ABSTRACT East Asian countries have been successful at specialising in machinery and capital goods. Latin American countries, on the other hand, have retreated from these sectors, reinforcing their specialisation in resource-intensive goods. Institutional arrangements in place in both regions explain these divergences. In particular, the differences in the strategy and structure of leading firms, the nature of industrial promotion by the government, the development and support of small and medium-sized firms and the operation of foreign-owned firms may explain the respective success and failure in sectoral specialisation in machinery. Failure to develop these sectors may hinder the process of economic development.

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