Abstract How do major Asian states regard the current international security order? Do they agree or disagree among themselves? This is an introduction to a special section on ‘Asian conceptions of order: what Asia wants’. It draws articles analysing stances China, India, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam towards existing order usually describ...

To elucidate the global distribution and toxicological impacts of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) on cetaceans, the present study determined the concentrations of individual PCB congeners, including toxic non-ortho (IUPAC Nos. 77, 126, 169) and mono-ortho (IUPAC Nos. 105, 118, 156) coplanar congeners, in the blubber of 10 species of adult male odontocetes collected from several locations in th...

in this study, we aimed to conduct a meta-analysis on the results of eligible studies to estimate the prevalence of asthma, copd, and chronic bronchitis in iran. international and iranian databases including pubmed, scopus, web of science, iranmedex, and scientific information database (sid) were searched for population–based studies that had reported the prevalence of asthma and copd from 1990...

behçet’s disease (bd) which is classified among vasculitides is a systemic disease with various manifestations. its clinical course is characterized by attacks and remissions. till now, two nationwide surveys of bd from iran and japan and 4 major case series from turkey, korea, morocco and england have been reported. clinical picture of bd is dominated by mucous membrane manifestations, includi...

In the context globalization today, peaceful cooperation, mutual substainable development, avoiding conflict and confrontation is becoming main trend in foreign policy of several countries regions. Therefore, use cultural strength as a source soft power to enhance national image, position particularly focused international relations 21 st century. Buddhism major religion, which has deep influen...

This paper reports for the first time occurrence of Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) transvaalensis (Nesbitt) in India. Morphometric measurements Indian specimens collected on an unidentified plant Ramanagara district Karnataka are provided along with a redescription species, and comparison from Japan, Africa, Argentina La Réunion Island to show similarities variations morphological traits taxonomic i...

two physicians, both grown up in west europe, educated also in this area (supplemented by many visits of the united states), travelled 20 years ago to japan for scientific reasons and they changed thereafter in their mental sight of the world. in a first part, the neurophysiologic basis of sensation from the sensory receptor up to the cerebral cortex (“bottom up”), the mechanisms of building me...

Earthquake Early Warning Systems (EEWS), based on real-time prediction of ground motion or structural response measures, may play a role in reducing vulnerability and/or exposition of buildings and lifelines. In fact, recently seismologists developed efficient methods for rapid estimation of event features by means of limited information of the P-waves. Then, when an event is occurring, probabi...

background: root canal cleaning is an important step in endodontic therapy. in order to develop better techniques, a new generation of endodontic instruments has been designed. the aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of manual k-files (mani co, tokyo, japan) and two rotary systems–mtwo (dentsply-maillefer, ballaigues, switzerland) and protaper (vdw, munich, germany)–for root cana...

The sector of renewable electricity generation in Asia region countries was comprehensively analyzed. A comparative study has been conducted with bar chart. hierarchical clustering analysis performed for the various types using SPSS software. were clustered into 7 clusters based on total generation. In hydroelectricity Region six groups which India and Turkey are taking lead. Wind four found Co...