China is among the world’s leading consumer markets for wildlife extracted both legally and illegally from across globe. Due to its mega-richness in biodiversity strong economic ties with China, Southeast Asia (SEA) has long been implicated as a source transit hub transnational legal illegal trade China. Although several cross-border domestic enforcement mechanisms have established tackle this ...

The precarious nature of the evolving global security order and emergence associated new buzzwords both in academia policy circles clearly suggest that international environment has changed substantially. Regional hazards have further diluted situation around world. States taken a number measures to cope with challenges strategic uncertainties, largely unsatisfactory outcomes. In our view, bett...

Proportional-derivative (PD) control is often used to coordinate the two copies of the virtual environment in distributed two-users networked haptic cooperation. However, a distributed PD controller designed for force interactions between two users may destabilize the haptic cooperation among multiple users because the effective coordination gain for each local copy of the virtual environment i...

it is estimated globally 3.2 million children were living with hiv in 2014, that mostly in sub-saharan africa. however, the majority of them infected to hiv from their mothers during pregnancy, during delivery or breastfeeding (1). antiretroviral therapy (art) use during and after pregnancy is essential for prevention of mother-to-child transmission (pmtct) of hiv (2).  in the absence of any in...

BACKGROUND Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common chronic immune-mediated diseases of the human central nervous system and an important cause of non-traumatic neurologic disability among young population in several countries. Recent reports from East Asia, South East Asia and South Asia have proposed a low to moderate prevalence of MS in these countries. METHODS A literature review...

Current e-service technology paradigms require the analysis and conceptual modeling of cooperative inter-organizational workflows. Cooperation among different organizations is based on contractual agreements that coordinate production activities among cooperating companies and establish mechanisms to control the fulfillment of production goals. Existing conceptual models of workflows do not pro...

• China and the United States should not see each other as competitors but rather as partners in the international energy market. The two countries have many opportunities for cooperation in joint exploration, production and shipping safety, development of new and renewable energies, and environmental protection. Energy security and cooperation should be put on the agenda of the US-China Strate...