Australia is leading the way in promoting the use of the Internet as a means of strengthening local communities. The Australian Domain Name Authority (auDA) has announced the release of Community Geographic Domain Names (CGDN), to be solely used by not-for-profit, self-funded local community groups. As Australian communities attempt to establish a management group and develop a website under th...

Vikramaditya Prakash is an Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Washington. He has a Bachelor of Architecture from Chandigarh, India , and an MA. and Ph.D. in History ofArchitecture and Urbanism from Cornell University. His research interest is in interdisclipinary architectural culture studies, focusing on the postcolonial architecture ofSouth Asia. I speak today as a...

Metacercariae of the micropha\lid trematode Microphallus paragrapsi Smith 1983 were found in r.he nervous system of the smooth pebble crab Philyra laevis (Bell 1855). Sporocysts of M. paragrapsi were found in the hepatopancreas of the intertidal gastropod Assiminea brazieri (Tenison Woods 1876). Under laboratory conditions, cercariae were found to emerge from the snail host and invade the inter...

Information on oceanic migrations and spawning areas of tropical Pacific freshwater eels (genus Anguilla) is very limited. Lake Letas and its single outflowing river, Mbe Solomul on Gaua Island, Vanuatu, were surveyed for large migrating individuals. Twenty-four Anguilla marmorata (87 to 142 cm), 39 A. megastoma (50 to 131 cm), and 3 A. obscura (119 to 126 cm) were caught. Seven individuals wer...

It is a great honor and responsibility for me to take over the duty of the Editor-in-Chief of Asia Pacific Allergy after the founding Editor-in-Chief, professor Sang-Il Lee, and the second Editor-in-Chief, professor Connie H. Katelaris. Asia Pacific Allergy, the official journal of Asia Pacific Association of Asthma, Allergy, and Clinical Immunology (APAAACI), has been very successful since its...

the objective of this research is to explore the effect of international outsourcing on economic growth in asia-pacific countries. accordingly, a panel regression model based on soderbom and teal (2003) is estimated using data of the considered countries over the period 1995-2006. in addition to international outsourcing, the model includes human capital, labor force and physical capital as the...

The paper begins by noting that proposals involving significant developments in the regional tradearchitecture are being developed within regional processes that in some cases are simultaneouslypursuing other dimensions of regional economic integration: monetary and financial cooperation inthe case of ASEAN + 3, and the establishment of a common market in the case of ASEAN. At leastthree of the...

Politicians fashionably argue in favour of financial development to promote economic growth following the seminal study of King and Levine (1993a and 1993b). Financial development, however, could come through alternative channels that are sometimes not compatible in small, open economics. A relatively popular channel promotes privatization of domestic financial intermediaries but with restricti...

Wish you have a very Happy New Year! With your support, Asia Pacific allergy (AP Allergy) has been very successful for more than three years since the launching ceremony on November 6, 2010 and its inaugural issue release on April 30, 2011. AP Allergy has published forty nine review articles from Australia (7), Finland (1), India (3), Indonesia (2), Italia (1), Japan (5), Korea (13), Malaysia (...