© 2006 The Authors Journal compilation © 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main St, Malden, MA, 02148, USA 1643 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford, UK TWEC World Economy 0378-5920 © 2006 Blackwell Publishers Ltd (a Blackwell Publishing Company) De ember 2006 29 12riginal Article MONETARY and ECONOMIC INTEGRATION PAUL DE GRAUWE an ZHAOYON ZHANG Introdu...

— In 2004, we established a Japan-Taiwan-China collaboration for GRB study in the East-Asian region. This serves as a valuable addition to the worldwide optical and infrared follow-up network, because the East-Asia region would otherwise be blank. We have been carrying out imaging and spectroscopic follow-up observations at Lulin (Taiwan), Kiso (Japan), WIDGET (Japan) and Xinglong (China). From...

Precipitation variation on the Loess Plateau (LP) of China is not only important for rain-fed agriculture in this environmentally sensitive region, but also critical for the water and life securities over the whole Yellow River basin. Here we reconstruct high resolution precipitation variation on the western LP during the past 370 years by using two replicated, annually-laminated stalagmites. S...

Globalisation is often presumed to be an economically, socially and culturally homogenising force. The deterioration of capitalism’ s major rival in the early 1990s has paved the way for a truly global economy in which all participants increasingly operate under the general logic of capitalismÐ that is, a market-orientated system of production and exchange, private ownership and a ̄ exible labo...

BACKGROUND The risk to develop gastric cancer in Thailand is relatively low among Asian countries. In addition, the age-standardized incidence rate (ASR) of gastric cancer in Thailand varies with geographical distribution; the ASR in the North region is 3.5 times higher than that in the South region. We hypothesized that the prevalence of H. pylori infection and diversity of CagA phenotype cont...

Tada! Highly functionalized chiral dibenzazepinones are obtained by a mild palladium(0)-catalyzed enantioselective C-H arylation with excellent selectivities by using simple taddol phosphoramidite ligands. The amide tether allows exclusive regioselectivity through a rare eight-membered palladacycle intermediate.

As part of its 100th-anniversary celebration, the Pan American Health Organization has named 12 persons as "Public Health Heroes of the Americas" in recognition of their noteworthy contributions to public health in the Region of the Americas. Over the course of this year, the Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública/Pan American Journal of Public Health will be carrying pieces written by or about ...

The global economy is undergoing a profound and momentous shift. The first half of the 21st century will undoubtedly be dominated by the consequences of a new Asian dynamism. China is likely to become the second biggest economy in the world by 2016, and India the third largest by 2035. A cluster of other countries in the Asian region, such as Thailand and Vietnam, are also growing rapidly. Thes...

BACKGROUND Status epilepticus (SE) is a serious neurological condition and has high a mortality rate. Data on importance of factors associated with poor outcomes in Asian or Thai populations are limited. METHODS Adult patients diagnosed as SE at Khon Kaen Hospital, Thailand from October 1, 2010 to September 30, 2012 were enrolled. Patients were categorized as good or poor outcomes at discharg...