Swedish sociologist and Nobel laureate Gunnar Myrdal focused on Asian poverty in his major work An Drama (Myrdal, 1969). Now after fifty years of rapid economic development it is time to inquire into institutional performance we-ordered societies. The measuring rod -rule law- has nò basis mainstream Asisn philosophies: neither Hinduism or Buddhism nor Confucianism Shintoism.

ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS Barnes–Evans relations for late–type giants and dwarfs Abstract. The visual surface brightness of K/M giants and dwarfs with near-solar metallicity differ slightly in agreement with the gravity effects predicted by recent theoretical models. We show that M-dwarfs display also a metallicity dependence of the surface brightness in the infrared K-band in agreement with t...

The first catalog of chromospherically active and ellipsoidal variable stars in the OGLE database is presented. The periods, the observed magnitudes and colors, their values free of interstellar extinction, and Fourier coefficients of light modulation are given for 549 stars. New color–magnitude diagrams based on new color determinations are presented. The chro-mospherically active stars are al...

Abstract While the population of confirmed exoplanets continues to grow, sample transiting planets around evolved stars is still limited. We present discovery and confirmation a hot Jupiter orbiting TOI-2184 (TIC 176956893), massive subgiant ( M ⋆ = 1.53 ± 0.12 ⊙ , R 2.90 0.14 ) in Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Southern Continuous Viewing Zone. The planet was flagged as false pos...

We consider the origin of the so–called S stars orbiting the supermassive black hole at the very center of the Galaxy. These are usually assumed to be massive main–sequence stars. We argue instead that they are the remnants of low–to– intermediate mass red giants which have been scattered on to near–radial orbits and tidally stripped as they approach the central black hole. Such stars retain on...

We investigate the consequences of an increase in the envelope helium abundance of pre-helium flash red giants in globular clusters, an occurrence suggested by chemical peculiarities in many red giant atmospheres. Comparing predictions with the CM diagrams of a few crucial globular clusters, one finds no evidence for a substantial increase in the surface helium content of horizontal branch memb...

Feeding behavior suppresses lateral giant neuron-mediated escape behavior in crayfish. The suppression appears to result from reduced transmission to the lateral giants from primary afferents and/or sensory interneurons, while the operation of sensory and motor networks themselves is unaffected. It is suggested that control occurs at the level of the lateral giants because these neurons are piv...

Although this metaphor has been used (and sometimes abused) over the years, it certainly seems entirely appropriate at this particular time and place as I take over the role of Editor-in-Chief (EIC) from Amira Klip, PhD, who for the past three years has provided outstanding editorial guidance to the American Journal of Physiology Endocrinology and Metabolism (AJPEndo). This issue marks the offi...

I In recent years the media, particularly the financial press, have been all agog over the rise of China and India in the international economy (and how they have done relatively well even in the current global downturn).