trade relationships built through production chains appear to be lasting due to relation-specific nature of the transactions, compared with the usual transactions of goods sold on the open market. this paper aims to verify such stability of international production networks at the global level, with special emphasis on intra-east asian trade. a series of survival analyses provide an evidence su...

hepatitis a virus (hav) infection is a self-limiting disease caused by a 27-nm rna virus from the picorna virus family. its' transmission is primarily via the fecal-oral route. the disease is usually mild and anicteric in children, however the rate of the icteric form, severity, and mortality increase in adult life. the estimated case-fatality rate in age over 40 years is approximately 2%, whil...

Sulforaphane modulates microRNA expression in colon cancer cells to 1 implicate the regulation of oncogenes CDC25A, HMGA2 and MYC. 2 Christopher A. Dacosta, Claudia Paicu, Irina Mohorianu, Wei Wang, Ping Xu, Tamas 3 Dalmay, Yongping Bao 4 Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7UQ, UK 5 School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK 6 Scho...

A small group of high-performing East Asian economies dominate the top of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) rankings. This has caught the attention of Western policymakers, who want to know why East Asian children obtain such high PISA scores, and what can be done to replicate their success. In this paper I investigate whether children of East Asian descent, who were bor...

The East/Japan Sea (hereafter, the East Sea) is highly dynamic in its physical phenomena and biological characteristics, but it has changed substantially over the last several decades. In this study, a recent decadal trend of primary productivity in the East Sea was analyzed based on Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)-derived monthly values to detect any long-term change. The...

Despite recent advances in population genomics, much remains to be elucidated with regard to East Asian population history. The Ainu, a hunter-gatherer population of northern Japan and Sakhalin island of Russia, are thought to be key to elucidating the prehistory of Japan and the peopling of East Asia. Here, we study the genetic relationship of the Ainu with other East Asian and Siberian popula...

There are an estimated 20,000 East Timorese people living in Australia. The majority came to Australia as refugees mainly between 1975 and 1995 fleeing first a civil war, then the violent Indonesian regime which invaded upon Portugal’s withdrawal from the tiny territory after 400 years of colonisation. Over the years, many members of the East Timorese refugee diaspora in Australia were active i...

F. Montes∗1,4, A. Amthor1,2,4, T. Baumann1, D. Bazin1, A. Becerril1,2,4, J.S. Berryman1,3, H. Crawford1,3, A. Estrade1,2,4, A. Gade1,2, T. Ginter1, C.J. Guess1,2,4, M. Hausmann1, G.W. Hitt1,2,4, G. Lorusso1,2,4, P.F. Mantica1,3, M. Matos1,4, R. Meharchand1,2,4, K. Minamisono1, G. Perdikakis1, J. Pereira1,4, M. Portillo1, H. Schatz1,2,4, K. Smith1,2,4, J. Stoker1,3, A. Stolz1,2, R. Zegers1,2,4, ...

This paper investigates the extent to which domestic investment in East Asian countries is financed by domestic, (East Asian) regional and global savings in order to infer the relative importance of regional vs. global capital markets in East Asia. Panel regression results show that regional saving in East Asia plays a much more important role than global saving in financing investment in the r...

The software architecture of any automotive system has to be decided well in advance of production, so it is very desirable to assess its quality in order to obtain quick indications of errors at early design phases. In this paper, we present a constellation of analysis techniques for architectural models described in EAST-ADL. The methods are complementary in terms of covering EAST-ADL model a...