Various studies on ancient DNA have attempted to reconstruct population movement in Asia, with much interest focused on determining the arrival of European lineages in ancient East Asia. Here, we discuss our analysis of the mitochondrial DNA of human remains excavated from the Yu Hong tomb in Taiyuan, China, dated 1400 years ago. The burial style of this tomb is characteristic of Central Asia a...

The common wood pigeon is a winter migrant to South Asia. focus of most research on this species has been the European/Western Asian subspecies, whereas subspecies Columba palumbus casiotis found in Central and Asia, that uses Flyway for migration received little attention. Knowledge distribution through occasional data from structured bird surveys, but information are anecdotal reports birdwat...

Obesity is a global health concern and has a great impact on countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Physical inactivity is a major risk factor for obesity, but physical activity levels are declining in much of this region. Increasing physical activity is a priority in many countries. Considerable research has been conducted on physical activity related to obesity in Western countries, but popula...

This article deals with the development of local metal scenes in Africa and Asia relation to mainstream. The addresses problem Western centrism current perception music introduces researchers interests non-Western scenes. also proposes a psychosocial perspective on and, at same time, imaginary global community.

BACKGROUND Carrot is a vegetable cultivated worldwide for the consumption of its root. Historical data indicate that root colour has been differentially selected over time and according to geographical areas. Root pigmentation depends on the relative proportion of different carotenoids for the white, yellow, orange and red types but only internally for the purple one. The genetic control for ro...

Three new species of the front-eyed trapdoor genus Idiops, viz., Idiops joida sp. nov. from the Western Ghats of Karnataka, I. mettupalayam sp. nov. from the foothills of the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu and I. oriya sp. nov. from Odhisa, are described. Natural history information for all these species is provided as is an identification key to Idiops species from South and Southeast Asia.

The current crisis in Afghanistan has resulted in an influx of Western military personnel, peacekeepers, humanitarian workers, and journalists. At the same time, unprecedented numbers of internally displaced persons and refugees have overwhelmed much of the already fragile infrastructure, setting the stage for outbreaks of infectious diseases among both foreigners and local populations. This re...

This report is an expansion of SAAC Report No. 4. The SAAC long period processing methods, based on frequency-wavenumber analysis, are capable of analyzing all the events reported in the LASA and NORSAR Daily Event Sununaries within real-time. The capability of LASA to detect Rayleigh waves is azimuth dependent. A comparison of NORSAR and LASA on a data set of Kurile islands events resulted in ...

Ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology is the most widely used screening and diagnostic method for thyroid nodules. Although Western guidelines for managing thyroid nodules and the Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology are widely available throughout Asia, the clinical practices in Asia vary from those of Western countries. Accordingly, the Working Group of Asian ...