This paper reinvestigates the bilateral and unilateral effects of five ASEAN free trade agreements (FTAs) by applying a theory-consistent structural gravity model that remains untouched in existing literature. The findings suggest ASEAN-China ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTAs led to decrease international among member countries between non-member relation their internal trade. ASEAN-Korea, ASEAN...

Haptics, or the sense of active touch, is an underused modality in educational contexts. In this paper, we review current literature regarding the development of haptic processes and the underlying neurocognitive mechanisms. On the basis of previous research, we argue that exposure and guidance can increase the ability of individuals to employ haptic processes by recruiting areas of the visual ...

Older adults want to live independently in their home for as long as possible, and technologies can support them with this goal. However, solutions to help with living alone are often designed from a technical perspective, ignoring the needs and preferences of older adults. This results in strong attitudes and feelings against, and limited adoption of, these technologies. In this chapter, the a...

This study investigated one of the main ethical challenges regarding legitimate role media in maintaining professional standards and ethics during COVID-19 outbreak, with a focus on case Moroccan media. It principally deals conundrum fake news spread midst pandemic. In fact, it is apparent that there seems to be hardly an area left untouched by pandemic propagation. One should know more attenti...

When looking at society, we see transformative change happening as governments, businesses and citizens all try to find their own ways address the challenges of sustainability. We postulate that these require new radical design approaches interventions can unleash capacity achieve desired futures, rather than going round in circles muddling through our current systems leaving underlying untouch...

On the evening of October 8th, 1877, I vras called to see a coolie who had been crushed between two buffers while shunting carriages at the Amritsar Railway station. I arrived on the epot a few minutes after the accident had occurred, and found the man dead, and was informed by the bystanders that death had been instantaneous. Apparently there was nothing to account for such a calamity ; the fa...

The unexpected ability of arylzinc reagents bearing electron-donating substituents to react in a Friedel-Crafts fashion (cine) with electrophiles like perpivaloylated glucoside bromide and benzhydryl bromides in competition with organometallic coupling (ipso) is shown. The stereoelectronic factors required to promote the cine reactivity versus the classical ipso, and the mechanism of this alter...