The Noodle Bowl Effect: Stumbling or Building Block?

Multitrack Integration in East Asian Trade: Noodle Bowl or Matrix?

be doing—may be the fastest route toward a new global framework. The East-West Center is an education and research organization established by the U.S. Congress in 1960 to strengthen relations and understanding among the peoples and nations of Asia, the Pacific, and the United States. The Center contributes to a peaceful, prosperous, and just Asia Pacific community by serving as a vigorous hub ...

A stumbling block or a stepping stone?

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Preferential trade agreements as building or stumbling blocs? The importance of commitment

Will continual expansion of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) lead to global free trade? In the presence of multilateral negotiations, are PTAs necessary for, or will they necessarily lead away from, global free trade? This paper shows both answers depend crucially on a commitment problem faced by PTA members. Because the commitment problem revolves around a desire to commit to not form futu...

Autophagy: a stumbling block of androgen inhibition to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia or prostate cancer

inhibitor 3-methyladenine (3-MA) for 24 h, the apoptosis rate in AD condition dramatically increased to 7.18% ± 2.44% (P < 0.001), which could contribute to the volume shrinkage of the prostate effectively. Altogether, the results suggested the autophagy blockade might be a promising approach to reducing more prostate volume via apoptotic activity enhancement in prostatic epithelial cells. This...