Analysis of National ICT Strategies for USA, EU, India, South East Asia, and Australasia

2019 ◽  
pp. 20-63
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Digital Government ◽  
President Obama ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Government Data

This chapter examines available secondary research data from various national ICT government strategies of the USA, EU, India, South East Asia, Australia, and New Zealand to determine the centric inclination of these strategies and how these strategies support and facilitate public service delivery in the digital era. This research had the objective of determining the major ICT trends of the respective countries by five dimensions, namely citizen centric, civil society centric, business centric, government administration centric, and technology centric. The ICT strategies from the various geographical regions may be summed up by two aims, as expressed by the USA President Obama in his directive “Roadmap for a Digital Government” of 2012, namely to use technology to make a real difference in people's lives (i.e., government reinvention through the transformation of processes) and to innovate more and enable entrepreneurs to better leverage government data to improve the quality of services to the general public (i.e., utilisation of information for improved decision making).

scholarly journals The Concept of China’s Peaceful Rise and Offensive Realism

2021 ◽  
pp. 297-312
Author(s):  
Adam Araszkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Peaceful Rise ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Offensive Realism

This article aims at adressing several research issues. Firstly, to present offensive realism as a proper research tool to analyse US-China rivalry. Secondly, the author discusses the theory of “China’s peaceful rise” and I argues that it smoothly overlapped with the US strategy of liberal hegemony. Thirdly, He presents and defends the argument that China does not rise peacefully. Fourthly, the author claims that China wants to became a regional hegemon in South-East Asia and the USA according to offensive realism cannot let it happen. Last but not least the author considers the arguments that are frequently used to support the theory of “China’s peaceful rise” and explains why they fail to depict the current and predict the future nature of US-China relations. In this article the author employed the following research methods: historical, descriptive and decision making methods.

Food-related lifestyles across generations

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Arenas-Gaitán ◽  
Begoña Peral-Peral ◽  
Jesús Reina-Arroyo
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Central European ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Similarities And Differences

PurposeThere is a strong relationship between the changes that society faces and food. The aim of this work is to analyse the differences between generations related to their behaviour towards food.Design/methodology/approachTo characterise people's behaviour towards their food, the authors will use a tool, food-related lifestyles (FRL), which has been widely employed in the literature. To achieve this general objective, the authors are going to break this down into two operational goals. Firstly, the authors will analyse if there exist differences in generations regarding the characteristics which make up their FRL. Secondly, the authors will determine if there is an association between generations and specific FRL. The authors have developed a study of 1,200 consumers.FindingsThe results have enabled is to achieve the proposed aims and to describe the behaviour of each generation towards its FRL. There are significant differences in 15 of the 22 dimensions of the LRF analysed according to generations. The authors noted six consumer segments with regard to the FRL and the authors have found a relation between the characteristics which define the generations and their FRL. The findings enable offering implications for the food sector and for society.Originality/valueFirstly, this research spans the five generations present in the current society. Secondly, most works are centred on how FRL correspond with the consumption of specific products. This paper is dedicated to going thoroughly into the intergenerational similarities and differences regarding their FRL. Thirdly, the FRL tool has been especially applied in the context of Central European and Nordic countries, the USA and South-East Asia. In this work, the authors apply the FRL to a Mediterranean cultural context, Spain, characterised by a Mediterranean diet and by a significant family and social component in the diet.

scholarly journals Is it assessment of learning or assessment for learning?

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayeeda Rahman ◽  
Md Anwarul Azim Majumder
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Assessment For Learning ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Assessment Of Learning ◽  
Huge Impact

Assessment is a central feature of teaching and the curriculum. It powerfully frames how students learn and what students achieve. It is one of the most significant influences on students’ experience of higher education and all that they gain from it. The reason for an explicit focus on improving assessment practice is the huge impact it has on the quality of learning’.1‘Students should realize that assessment can be an opportunity for learning, rather than just something to be endured and suffered’.2'Institutions should ensure that appropriate feedback is provided to students on assessed work in a way that promotes learning and facilitates improvement'.3DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/seajph.v4i1.21847 South East Asia Journal of Public Health Vol.4(1) 2014: 72-74

scholarly journals A pocket of very high suicide rates in a non-violent, egalitarian and cooperative population of South-East Asia

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (11) ◽  
pp. 2323-2329 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Jollant ◽  
A. Malafosse ◽  
R. Docto ◽  
C. Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Childhood Maltreatment ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Psychological Autopsy ◽  
Vulnerability Factors ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Very High Frequencies ◽  
Very High

BackgroundExtremely high rates of suicide localized within subgroups of populations where suicide is rare have been reported. We investigated this intriguing observation in a population of South-East Asia, where local culture should theoretically be preventative of suicide.MethodA team including an anthropologist and a psychiatrist surveyed all cases of suicide that had occurred over 10 years in four isolated regions. A psychological autopsy was carried out comparing each suicide case with two matched control cases.ResultsIn a region of 1192 inhabitants, 16 suicides occurred, leading to an annual suicide rate of 134/1 000 00 which is 10 times the rate in the USA or Canada. By contrast, three ethnically similar distant communities showed low to null rates. The gender ratio was three males to one female and two-thirds of cases were aged below 35 years. Methods of suicide were poisoning and hanging and motives mainly included interpersonal discord. The pattern of developmental and clinical risk factors was somewhat different from Western countries, showing no childhood maltreatment, only one case of alcohol/substance abuse and impulsive–aggressive personality but elevated rates of social anxiety. Suicide cases had very high frequencies of second-degree biological relatives who committed suicide.ConclusionsOur study confirms a persistent phenomenon of high suicide rates restricted to a subgroup of a pre-industrialized population. We hypothesized this might be explained by isolation and endogamy, which may have promoted the selection/amplification of genetic vulnerability factors, or a contagion effect. These findings shed light on suicide from both a singular and a universal perspective, suggesting that particular local conditions may significantly modulate the rate of this complex behavior.

scholarly journals South-East Asian strains of Plasmodium falciparum display higher ratio of non-synonymous to synonymous polymorphisms compared to African strains

F1000Research ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 1964
Author(s):  
Gajinder Pal Singh ◽  
Amit Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Plasmodium Falciparum ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Mixed Infection ◽  
Negative Selection ◽  
East Asian ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Drug Resistant ◽  
Synonymous Polymorphism ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
Probability Of Fixation

Resistance to frontline anti-malarial drugs, including artemisinin, has repeatedly arisen in South-East Asia, but the reasons for this are not understood. Here we test whether evolutionary constraints on Plasmodium falciparum strains from South-East Asia differ from African strains. We find a significantly higher ratio of non-synonymous to synonymous polymorphisms in P. falciparum from South-East Asia compared to Africa, suggesting differences in the selective constraints on P. falciparum genome in these geographical regions. Furthermore, South-East Asian strains showed a higher proportion of non-synonymous polymorphism at conserved positions, suggesting reduced negative selection. There was a lower rate of mixed infection by multiple genotypes in samples from South-East Asia compared to Africa. We propose that a lower mixed infection rate in South-East Asia reduces intra-host competition between the parasite clones, reducing the efficiency of natural selection. This might increase the probability of fixation of fitness-reducing mutations including drug resistant ones.

The United States and Regional Security Orders in the Middle East, East Asia, and Europe

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Overhaus
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
East Asia ◽  
The United States ◽  
Regional Security ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
The World ◽  
American Hegemony ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Trump Administration

The USA is still the only power with the capability to have a major impact—for better or for worse—on the security orders in all major geographical regions of the world, most notably the Near/Middle East, East Asia, and Europe. A review of the major dynamics in regional orders shows that seven decades of American hegemony have always been short of the liberal ideal-type expectations—well before Donald Trump entered the scene. However, the Trump administration sees the international and regional security orders primarily as arenas for power competition in which economic and military might are the most relevant currencies. While the erosion of regional security orders is not primarily the result of the deeds and omissions in Washington, the missing liberal hegemon will make it much harder to reverse the trend and to rebuild these orders from within and from the outside.

scholarly journals Quality of media reporting of suicidal behaviors in South-East Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 21-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.M. Yasir Arafat ◽  
Sujita Kumar Kar ◽  
Marthoenis Marthoenis ◽  
Anish V. Cherian ◽  
Lekshmi Vimala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Suicidal Behaviors ◽  
Media Reporting

scholarly journals Monochoria hastata (hastate-leaved pondweed).

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanine Vélez-Gavilán
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
New World ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
Rice Fields ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Native Range ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Noxious Weed ◽  
Flooding Events

Abstract Monochoria hastata is a tropical aquatic herb, almost entirely restricted to its native distribution of South-East Asia and Oceania (Boonkerd et al., 1993). It is a weed of rice fields in South-East Asia, with a prolific seed production and a high capacity to reproduce vegetatively (Ali et al., 2018). It is only listed as invasive in rice fields in Singapore, without further details (PIER, 2019). M. hastata is not reported as invasive in natural habitats; nor is there information about its effects on biodiversity. Outside its native range, M. hastata is reported as expected to spread and invade rice fields in Pakistan, facilitated by flooding events associated to monsoon rains (Ali et al., 2018). Although is not found in the New World, M. hastata is declared as a Federal Noxious Weed in the USA, because of the detrimental effects it could cause to agriculture (Coile, 1996). In Oceania, M. hastata is reported only as cultivated in Fiji, without further details (PIER, 2019). In the Northern Territory of Australia, M. hastata is classified as vulnerable because of the deterioration of aquatic habitats and the invasion of exotic weeds (India Biodiversity Portal, 2019).

scholarly journals South-East Asian strains of Plasmodium falciparum display higher ratio of non-synonymous to synonymous polymorphisms compared to African strains

F1000Research ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 1964
Author(s):  
Gajinder Pal Singh ◽  
Amit Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Plasmodium Falciparum ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Mixed Infection ◽  
Negative Selection ◽  
East Asian ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Drug Resistant ◽  
Synonymous Polymorphism ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
Probability Of Fixation

Resistance to frontline anti-malarial drugs, including artemisinin, has repeatedly arisen in South-East Asia, but the reasons for this are not understood. Here we test whether evolutionary constraints on Plasmodium falciparum strains from South-East Asia differ from African strains. We find a significantly higher ratio of non-synonymous to synonymous polymorphisms in P. falciparum from South-East Asia compared to Africa, suggesting differences in the selective constraints on P. falciparum genome in these geographical regions. Furthermore, South-East Asian strains showed a higher proportion of non-synonymous polymorphism at conserved positions, suggesting reduced negative selection. There was a lower rate of mixed infection by multiple genotypes in samples from South-East Asia compared to Africa. We propose that a lower mixed infection rate in South-East Asia reduces intra-host competition between the parasite clones, reducing the efficiency of natural selection. This might increase the probability of fixation of fitness-reducing mutations including drug resistant ones.

scholarly journals Application of Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm for Determination of the Solar Electric Potential in Gorkha Bazzar, Nepal

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aamod Khatiwada ◽  
Rabin Dhakal ◽  
Sirapa Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Maximum Power ◽  
Solar Irradiation ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Maximum Power Point ◽  
Hilly Region ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
Power Point

It is inevitable fact that the use of excessive fossil fuel has establisheditself as a major concern for the existence of living kinds in the world. So thedevelopment of renewable energy source has been the must task to minimize theenergy crisis as well as the problems created by the use of fossil fuels. Nepal is acountry with geographical and climatic diversity in South East Asia with meansolar radiation of 4.7 kWh/m2 per day and a surface area of 1, 47,181 km2. It isthe region in South East Asia with a tremendous amount of solar energy potential.Among three major geographical regions namely Himalayan, Hilly and Terairegion, this study has been performed at Gorkha Municipality, located at centralNepal in Hilly region to determine the solar energy potential for grid-connectedphotovoltaic systems installed on rooftops. A methodology was developed, inwhich the characteristics of the buildings were categorized, followed by thecalculation of the roof surface area where photovoltaic panels could be installed.After that, the mean solar irradiation characteristics were defined as well as thetechnical parameters of the photovoltaic systems. With all these factors, theamount of electricity that could be potentially generated per year by solar panelsis estimated. Finally, the calculations were made to estimate the amount ofelectricity that could be generated with the implementation of incrementalconductance method for tracking the maximum Power Point and also, the systemwas developed using Arduino, PHP programming language, current and voltagesensors which aids for the maintenance of the installed photovoltaic cells.

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