Are unemployment rates stationary in Asia-Pacific countries? New findings from Fourier ADF test Fumitaka Furuoka To cite this article: Fumitaka Furuoka (2014) Are unemployment rates stationary in Asia-Pacific countries? New findings from Fourier ADF test, Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 27:1, 34-45, DOI: 10.1080/1331677X.2014.947105 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1...

BACKGROUND As the epidemic of Zika virus expands in the Americas, countries across Africa and the Asia-Pacific region are becoming increasingly susceptible to the importation and possible local spread of the virus. To support public health readiness, we aim to identify regions and times where the potential health, economic, and social effects from Zika virus are greatest, focusing on resource-l...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Once thought to be uncommon in Asia, coeliac disease (CD) is now being increasingly recognized in Asia–Pacific region. In many Asian nations, CD is still considered to be either nonexistent or very rare. In recognition of such heterogeneity of knowledge and awareness, the World Gastroenterology Organization and the Asian Pacific Association of Gastroenterology commissioned a ...

The complex interaction between genetic and environmental factors in the causation of diabetes mellitus is well illustrated by the epidemiology of diabetes in the Asia-Pacific region. Among the Chinese, the prevalence of diabetes is uniformly higher among Chinese living outside China than in the Chinese in The People's Republic of China. Similarly among the Indians, the prevalence of diabetes i...

This paper analyzes the relative significance of regional Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) in Asia-Pacific. The economy-wide impacts of tariff removals and reductions in non-tariff measures (NTMs) are estimated by using a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model of global trade. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) are shown to c...

 The estimated number of people living with HIV in Asia and the Pacific is just under 5 million (4.883 million in 2011)  160,000 of these people are children younger than 15 years.  Approximately 300,000 people died from AIDS-related causes in 2009. This figure has remained stable in recent years.  HIV epidemics in Asia and the Pacific remain largely concentrated among people who inject dru...

Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. His research interests cover broadly theories and the geography of transnational corporations, Asian firms and their overseas operations and Chinese business networks in the Asia-Pacific region. He has conducted extensively research on Hong Kong firms in Southeast Asia and the ...

To assess risk for importation of dengue virus (DENV) into Queensland, Australia, and sources of imported viruses, we sequenced the envelope region of DENV isolates from symptomatic patients with a history of travel during 2002-2010. The number of imported dengue cases greatly increased over the surveillance period, some of which were associated with domestic outbreaks. Patients reported travel...

This paper focuses on the causality relation between US and the several Asia-pacific markets (Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, and Indonesia). We check the causality of the co-movement among the markets across Pacific by using Granger-Causality test, VAR, and event studying on unexpected high volatile period. Our tests show that U.S. and Japan have strong influence to other As...

In the editorial by Dr. Reza Afshari “Empowerment of Medical Toxicology in Asia Pacific Region” published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology (APJMT) (1), the role of Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology (APAMT) in promoting medical toxicology has been discussed and some suggestions have been made regarding how to promote this field of medical sciences in the region. The...