The diabetes burden is disproportionately experienced by minorities in the U.S., particularly diverse Asian American subgroups. National age-adjusted diabetes rates range from4.0%amongKoreans to 14.2% among Asian Indians (1). In New York City (NYC), foreign-born South Asians have an age-adjusted diabetes prevalence nearly twice as high as foreign-born “other Asians” (13.6 vs. 7.4%) (2). Existin...

Despite the masculine meanings generally ascribed to computing, and the general underrepresentation of women in the information technology (IT) education, women from many Asian cultures are well represented. This study poses comparative experiences of Asian and non-Asian women in the apparently hostile ‘international’ computer culture. It explores how they have negotiated the dominant meanings ...

Department, Asian Development Bank. The author acknowledges the insightful comments and suggestions from Michael Alba and Niny Khor in the Asian Development Outlook 2010 workshop, which helped improve an earlier draft of this paper. The findings, views, and conclusions expressed in this paper do not necessarily represent the views or policies of the Asian Development Bank or those of the Execut...

Dr. Wade L. Huntley is a visiting fellow at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. His publications on a variety of Asian and global security issues include articles in The Nonproliferation Review, Asian Survey, International Studies Quarterly, and Millennium: Journal of International Affairs. Dr. Huntley, formerly Director of the Peace and Security Program at ...

We developed an interferon-γ release assay (IGRA) specific for Asian elephants (Elephas maximus). Whole blood collected from forty captive Asian elephants was stimulated with three different mitogens i.e., phytohemagglutinin (PHA), pokweed mitogen (PWM) and phorbol myristate aceteate/ionomycin (PMA/I). A sandwich ELISA that was able to recognize the recombinant elephant interferon-γ (rEIFN-γ) a...

The purpose of this study was to compare physical activity levels between white and South Asian children in the UK. The data were obtained from 606, 11-14 year old schoolchildren (397 white; 209 Asian). Physical activity was assessed using the 'four by one day' recall questionnaire from which the time spent in moderate and vigorous physical activity was calculated. Boys were significantly more ...

Vitamin D status of Asian mothers in Cardiff was investigated during early pregnancy and at the time of the birth of their babies, using serum parathyroid hormone (PTH). Median values in Asian (n 32) and Caucasian (n 63) mothers in early pregnancy were 1.56 and 0.81 pmol/l respectively. PTH levels from a separate sample of nineteen Asian and twenty-five Caucasian mothers at the time of birth we...

Prevailing opinion assigns the Tibetan Plateau a crucial role in shaping Asian climate, primarily by heating of the atmosphere over Tibet during spring and summer. Accordingly, the growth of the plateau in geologic time should have written a signature on Asian paleoclimate. Recent work on Asian climate, however, challenges some (not all) of these views. The high Tibetan Plateau may affect the S...

The independent domestication of local wild boar populations in Asia and Europe about 10,000 years ago led to distinct European and Asian pig breeds, each with very different phenotypic characteristics. During the Industrial Revolution, Chinese breeds were imported to Europe to improve commercial traits in European breeds. Here we demonstrate the presence of introgressed Asian haplotypes in Eur...