the asia-pacific region generates over half of global economic activity (54.2%) and about 43.7% of global trade, and is the most dynamic region in the global economy. at the core of this is an increasingly dynamic, vibrant and entrepreneurial small-medium sized enterprise sector. advances in information and communications technology, market liberalisation and moves towards closer regional econo...

It has been suggested that technological variations associated with Still Bay assemblages of southern Africa have not been addressed adequately. Here we present a study developed to explore regional and temporal variations in Still Bay point-production strategies. We applied our approach in a regional context to compare the Still Bay point assemblages from Hollow Rock Shelter (Western Cape) and...

increasing concern over the regional dimensions of national economic planning since 1970s, has constituted appropriate baselines for scientific analysis of regional differences the iranian planning views in the pre and post revolution era have been examined in this article, based on both theoretical and applied study of regional differences. then the types and degrees of convergency and/or dive...

Background The first outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was successfully restrained in many countries around the world by means of a severe lockdown. Now, we are entering the second phase of the pandemics in which the spread of the virus needs to be contained within the limits that national health systems can cope with. This second phase of the epidemics is expected to last until a...

Background and Purpose: Three mainstream strategies exist to detect the responses of regional cerebral blood flow to functional activation. We tested the significance of changes in raw regional cerebral blood flow data, regional cerebral blood flow data normalized by division by global cerebral blood flow (dependent model of the regional-to-global cerebral blood flow relation), and regional cer...