In Asian-American communities, religious education for justice and peace is often framed by the discussion of racial and ethnic identity. Since racism is a serious social problem in the United States, it is important for Asian-Americans to continue to participate in racial justice movements and discussions of identity politics. Upholding the important works that AsianAmericans have produced, th...

a r t i c l e i n f o To understand the unique aspects of Asian business practice, we propose a conceptual framework of institution-based, legitimacy-embedded efficiency. We underscore the institutional foundations of Asian business practice and propose that gaining legitimacy takes priority in order to attain the efficiency that follows from legitimacy in Asian business practice. We then highl...

BACKGROUND Coronary artery disease affects a significantly larger proportion of Canadians of South Asian origin than Canadians of other ethnic origins. We compared differences in presentation, risk factors and management of myocardial infarction (MI) between South Asian Canadians and matched control subjects. METHODS We reviewed the charts of 553 South Asian patients and 553 non-South Asian m...

The U.S. Asian population consists of many culturally and geographically diverse ethnic subgroups. In nationally representative population-based samples, these groups often are lumped together in race categories such as “Asian” or “Other,” which can mask differences in the ways that environmental exposures affect health in subpopulations. In a pair of new studies in EHP, researchers assess diet...

In this paper, arithmetic average Asian options are studied. It is observed that the Asian option is a special case of the option on a traded account. The price of the Asian option is characterized by a simple one-dimensional partial differential equation which could be applied to both continuous and discrete average Asian option. The article also provides numerical implementation of the pricin...

We study the numerical solution of the Greeks of Asian options. In particular, we derive a close form solution of Δ of Asian geometric option and use this analytical form as a control to numerically calculate Δ of Asian arithmetic option, which is known to have no explicit close form solution. We implement our proposed numerical method and compare the standard error with other classical varianc...

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...