This paper is focused on melodic and tonal analyses of a language without a writing system, the Mo Piu one, from an endangered ethnic minority of the south-east Asia in North Vietnam. The Mo Piu language is a branch still unknown of the Hmong-Mien family. Based on a previous experience, we try to get a deeper insight into the tonal system of this language, getting support with a dedicated tool,...

Since its emergence in South East Asia in 2003, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) A/H5N1 has reportedly caused outbreaks in poultry and/or wild birds in 62 countries, of which 24 were in Europe. Interestingly, out of the many genetic clades circulating in Asia, the westward spread of HPAI A/H5N1 to Central Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa was dominated by one single clade, namely...

Ward and Kennedy (1999) have introduced a modified version of the Sociocultural Adaptation Scale (SCAS) by Searle and Ward (1990). This scale has been designed towards measuring behavioral and cognitive components of cross-cultural adjustment among various groups of sojourners and international travellers. Ward and Kennedy (1999) based their psychometric analysis on a total of 16 crosssectional...

The aim of this article is to analyze US strategy towards economic integration in the East Asia, which excludes the United States. In last few years, East Asia is witnessing the emergence of several trade blocs and many ambitious initiatives implying closer integration in East Asia. This new regionalism reflects a process of convergence based on unilateral reform efforts. Currently, China bears...

South Asia is a unique geopolitical region which covers 3.4% of the world’s surface area and supports 25% of the world’s population (1.749 billion). It hosts the second (India), sixth (Pakistan) and the eighth (Bangladesh) most populous countries in the world. The South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was established in 1985 and currently has eight Member States. SAARC account...

In this paper we document the growing importance of intra-East Asian trade of parts and components. Our empirical analysis shows that FDI does play an important and independent or exogenous role in facilitating the trade of parts and components in East Asia. This is true for aggregate FDI as well as FDI from individual countries, including investment from the United States, Japan and South Kore...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to compare the quantity and quality of scientific publications in transplantation fields that were written by researchers from Mainland China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan in the East Asia region. SETTINGS East Asia. PARTICIPANTS AND OUTCOME MEASURES Articles except editorials, conference abstracts, letters, news and corrections published in 25 transplan...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbroke in 2003, and the avian influenza A (H5N1) also outbroke in 2003 and continued to 2004. These pandemic viral diseases originated in South East Asia. Many human and animal lives were lost. Economic damages due to the pandemics were also very large. The question arises of why did the pandemics originate from South East Asian areas. Human influenza ...

BACKGROUND In Southern Europe, smoking among older women was more prevalent among the high educated than the lower educated, we call this a positive gradient. This is dominant in the early stages of the smoking epidemic model, later replaced by a negative gradient. The aim of this study is to assess if a positive gradient in smoking can also be observed in low and middle income countries in oth...