scholarly journals The Third Asia Pacific Symposium on Typhoid Fever and Other Salmonellosis and The Seventh National Congress of The Indonesian Society for Microbiology

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (Supp1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Sujudi Sujudi
Keyword(s):  
Typhoid Fever ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
The Third ◽  
National Congress

An Army of Influence

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Capacity To Change

The importance of regional cooperation is becoming more apparent as the world moves into the third decade of the 21st century. An Army of Influence is a thought-provoking analysis of the Australian Army's capacity to change, with a particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Written by highly regarded historians, strategists and practitioners, this book examines the Australian Army's influence abroad and the lessons it has learnt from its engagement across the Asia-Pacific region. It also explores the challenges facing the Australian Army in the future and provides principles to guide operational, administrative and modernisation planning. Containing full-colour maps and images, An Army of Influence will be of interest to both the wider defence community and general readers. It underscores the importance of maintaining an ongoing presence in the region and engages with history to address the issues facing the Army both now and into the future.

Coping with commoditization: The third-party logistics industry in the Asia-Pacific

2021 ◽  
pp. 102452942098524
Author(s):  
Neil M Coe
Keyword(s):  
Third Party ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Mature Stage ◽  
Third Party Logistics ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Logistics Industry ◽  
The Third Party Logistics ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third Party

Despite growing interest in logistics across the social sciences, there is still a persistent gap in relation to work that explores the organizational and competitive dynamics of the independent logistics industry, a sector worth almost US$1tn a year. This paper explores the nature, causes and consequences of commoditization in the third-party logistics (3PL) industry, using evidence derived from over 30 corporate interviews with the leading 3PL providers in the Asia-Pacific region. Commoditization captures a mature stage of industry and market development in which goods and services are widely available and interchangeable with those provided by other companies, and hence price-based competition predominates. The paper profiles the strategic responses of 3PL firms to the challenges of commoditization, which are associated with accruing scale, offsetting risk and seeking to deepen relationships with clients, arguing that they are variegated due to the different geographical and sectoral origins of the firms. Overall, it offers a profile of 3PL as a maturing industry heavily conditioned by its intersections with client global production networks.

The US Rebalance towards the Asia-Pacific: Really Realist?

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thi Thuy Hang
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Obama Administration ◽  
Regional Institutions ◽  
The Third ◽  
Multilateral Institutions ◽  
The Us ◽  
Alliance Building ◽  
Realist Model

The Obama administration perceives the Asia-Pacific as a vital and dynamic region and thus prioritized it in its foreign policy agenda. Some scholars have suggested that the Obama administration’s rebalance towards Asia has taken a realist approach to engagement with the Asia-Pacific while others suggested that it deviated significantly from realism. This article seeks to examine more closely the question of the realist nature of the US rebalance policy towards the Asia-Pacific. It begins with a discussion of views of the Obama administration’s rebalance towards the Asia-Pacific before giving an overview of realism. Then, it seeks to establish a realist model of foreign policy and examine the Obama administration’s rebalance towards the Asia-Pacific against that model. It finds that the Obama administration has high scores on two of the indicators of realism—the emphasis on military capabilities and the emphasis on alliance-building—but has lower scores on the third and the fourth—a low regard for multilateral institutions, and a low regard for values. The Obama administration has actively engaged with regional institutions and has strongly supported the spread of democracy and human dignity all over the Asia-Pacific. Hence, the Obama administration’s rebalance towards the Asia-Pacific is a realist foreign policy with certain modifications.

scholarly journals Whole genome sequence analysis of Salmonella Typhi in Papua New Guinea reveals an established population of genotype 2.1.7 sensitive to antimicrobials.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoe Anne Dyson ◽  
Elisheba Malau ◽  
Paul F Horwood ◽  
Rebecca Ford ◽  
Valentine Siba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Population Structure ◽  
Typhoid Fever ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Genome Sequence ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Whole Genome Sequence ◽  
Whole Genome

Background: Typhoid fever, a systemic infection caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi, remains a considerable public health threat in impoverished regions within many low- and middle-income settings. However, we still lack a detailed understanding of the emergence, population structure, molecular mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and transmission dynamics of S. Typhi across many settings, particularly throughout the Asia-Pacific islands. Here we present a comprehensive whole genome sequence (WGS) based overview of S. Typhi populations circulating in Papua New Guinea (PNG) over 30 years. Principle findings: Bioinformatic analysis of 86 S. Typhi isolates collected between 1980-2010 demonstrated that the population structure of PNG is dominated by a single genotype (2.1.7) that appears to have emerged in the Indonesian archipelago in the mid-twentieth century with very limited evidence of inter-country transmission. Genotypic and phenotypic data demonstrated that the PNG S. Typhi population appears to be susceptible to former first line drugs for treating typhoid fever (chloramphenicol, ampicillin and co-trimoxazole), as well as fluoroquinolones, third generation cephalosporins, and macrolides. PNG genotype 2.1.7 was genetically conserved, with very few deletions, and no evidence of plasmid or prophage acquisition. Genetic variation among this population was attributed to either single point mutations, or homologous recombination adjacent to repetitive ribosomal RNA operons. Significance: Antimicrobials remain an effective option for the treatment of typhoid fever in PNG, along with other intervention strategies including improvements to water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) related infrastructure and potentially the introduction of Vi-conjugate vaccines. However, continued genomic surveillance is warranted to monitor for the emergence of AMR within local populations, or the introduction of AMR associated genotypes of S. Typhi in this setting.

scholarly journals Foreword

1993 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Peter Hannaford
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Space Physics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Physics Teachers ◽  
The Third ◽  
Australian Institute ◽  
National Congress ◽  
The University

This special issue contains selected papers of Plenary and Keynote Lectures presented at the Tenth National Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics, held at the University of Melbourne from 10 to 14 February, 1992. The Congress was attended by nearly 1000 delegates, including numerous distinguished physici~ts from Australia and abroad, who were treated to a smorgasbord of physics ranging from astrophysics to particle physics. The Congress was organised around a series of fifteen separate sections, representing various branches of physics in which there is active Australian interest, and incorporated the First Conference of the Vacuum Society of Australia; the Fifth Gaseous Electronics Meeting; the Fourteenth AINSE Nuclear and Particle Physics Conference; the 1992 Physics Teachers Conference; the Third Australasian Conference on Remote Sensing of Atmospheres and Oceans; and the South Pacific Solar-Terrestrial and Space Physics Workshop.

scholarly journals Key Problems of Political socialization of International students studying in the Russian Federation

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-18
Author(s):  
P. B. Salin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Students ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
The Political ◽  
Main Task ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Russian Federation

The relevance of this topic is due to the need to realize the maximum potential of Russian higher education as an instrument of “soft power”. The purpose of this article is to analyze the problems that accompany the solution of the main task — the political socialization of international students studying in the Russian Federation. The article covers three main aspects. The first is the absence of a minimum level of knowledge of the host country for high-quality political socialization of international students; the second is the lack of full-fledged motivation for real, not formal socialization, the third is the lack of the same motivation for the effective and meaningful implementation of a set of profile measures among the employees of the receiving side. The lack of resolution of the above three problems makes it impossible and meaningless to work to achieve the main goal — the political socialization of international students studying in the Russian Federation. The main reason for the urgency of the first problem is the orientation of higher education of foreign students in the Russian Federation to maximize profits to the detriment of its other goals, the second is the cultural code of the majority of international students, and the third is systemic management ‘failures’ in Russia itself. At the same time, the unresolvedness of these problems significantly complicates the work with one of the most promising categories of international students — immigrants from the countries of the Greater Middle East, Africa, South Asia and the Asia-Pacific region.

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