Pacific 2010: Challenging the Future.

Evolution of the Asia-Pacific Trade Architecture: Stocktake and Future Outlook

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...

The Pacific Megagash: A future plate boundary?

Seismic anisotropy is an efficient way to investigate the deformation field within the upper mantle. In the framework of rigid tectonic plates, we make use of recent tomographic models of azimuthal anisotropy for deriving the best rotation pole of the Pacific plate in the uppermost 200km of the mantle. It is found to be in good agreement with current plate motion (NUVEL1, HS3 and NNR). However,...

International Pacific Research Center June 2010

Challenging the Internet of the Future with Urban Computing

In this paper we present the challenging problem of realizing the Urban Computing vision and in particular we describe the requirements for future mobility management systems. We show that novel multi-disciplinary ideas are required to address the Urban Computing challenge and that only partial solutions can be found today. The Urban Computing challenge is open and many efforts are needed to

Challenging future, challenging past: the relationship of social integration and psychological impairment in traumatized refugees.

BACKGROUND Refugees have been shown to present high prevalence rates of trauma-related mental disorders. Despite their psychological impairment, they are expected to meet high functional requirements in terms of social integration into, and financial independence from, the host society. METHODS This cross-sectional study examined the relationship of mental health problems, post-migration livi...