Arbindra Rimal is Assistant Professor at the Department of Agriculture – Agribusiness, Southwest Missouri State University. Tommy Perkins is Professor at the Department of Agriculture – Animal Science, Southwest Missouri State University. Joe C. Paschal is Professor at the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, Texas A&M University System. Correspondence Address: 206 Karls Hall, Southwest Missou...

This monumental book is the result of nearly forty years of acquaintance with and research on the Lahu, a swidden agriculturalist Montagnard people inhabiting the northern part of Southeast Asia (Southwest China, northeast Burma, northwest Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam). Its aim is twofold: first, to present and explain the religious ideas and practices of one particular Red Lahu community in Nor...

In late January 2020, China’s rapid and strict control measures to curb the COVID-19 spread led a sharp halt in socio-economic activity significant reduction emissions. Using ground-based observational data, authors synergistically quantify nation-wide variations of major air pollutant as well meteorology during after lockdown. Their concentrations (except O3) exhibited February March by more t...

A novel purple-red pigment from the plant genus of Allium (onions, leeks), subgenus Melanocrommyum (drumstick onions), is described. Because this pigment, which reminds blood, some species are used in Southwest and Central Asia as herbal medications, spices or vegetables. proposal for formation structure provided, first example a tetrathiaporphyrin nature. The described substance shows low stab...

In recent years, scholars in the fields of cultural studies, American history, ethnic and Middle East area studies have approached questions race racism this geographic region with renewed critical vigor. Recent work deconstructing anti-Arab Islamophobia Americas Europe has put these patterns discrimination into intersectional conversation anti-Black anti-Indigenous racism. New historical effor...

The origin of maize (Zea mays mays) in the US Southwest remains contentious, with conflicting archaeological data supporting either coastal(1-4) or highland(5,6) routes of diffusion of maize into the United States. Furthermore, the genetics of adaptation to the new environmental and cultural context of the Southwest is largely uncharacterized(7). To address these issues, we compared nuclear DNA...

Atmospheric deposition of iron (Fe) to certain regions of the oceans is an important nutrient source of Fe to the biota, and the ability of the biota to uptake Fe is dependent on the speciation of the Fe. Therefore understanding the speciation of Fe in the atmosphere is critical to understanding the role of Fe as a nutrient source in surface ocean waters. Labile ferrous iron (Fe(II)) concentrat...

APEC Study Centre, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand     Abstract:   One of the key sets of questions underlying Asia Pacific economic cooperation over the last decade has been over the nature and form of the regional trade architecture that would gradually emerge from the turmoil of the Asia-Pacific “noodle bowl” of bilateral and plurilateral FTAs, and how that architecture...