Over the past five decades, dramatic demographic and socio-economic changes have taken place in East Southeast Asian countries, with important implications for family its future. Still, little is known about typical configurations of state support families these countries. We examine governments’ strategies supporting reducing cost children. Employing hierarchical cluster analysis, we uncover f...

The web is important for academic communication and publishing on an international scale, but it is difficult to assess the extent to which globalization actually has occurred. This article examines the connectivity structure of links between university websites in 25 Asian and European countries as a case study of an inter-regional and intra-regional web phenomenon. The five most linked-to uni...

The treatment of bilateral inguinal hernias using totally extraperitoneal laparoscopy is usually done with general anaesthesia. The objective of this article is to evaluate the regional anaesthesia technique in extraperitoneal laparoscopic surgery for treating bilateral inguinal hernias in an outpatient surgery unit. Prospective clinical study of 30 patients with uncomplicated bilateral inguina...

Outbreaks of diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.), are being documented more frequently in many regions of the world and the causes for the outbreaks are often associated with insecticide resistance and lack of natural enemies, the latter often due to use of broad-spectrum insecticides. Growers are likely to think of insect management on an individual field basis (i.e. their fields) witho...

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is currently the gold standard for assessing both global and regional myocardial function. New tools for quantifying regional function have been recently developed to characterize early myocardial dysfunction in order to improve the identification and management of individuals at risk for heart failure. Of particular interest is CMR myocardial tagging, a ...

This article evaluates the extent to which the establishment of the Andean Free Trade Zone (AFTZ) has led to an improvement of intra-regional trade, as promised by open regionalism, without reducing extra-regional trade. Open regionalism is a dynamic process in which economic agreements serve as intermediate steps towards integration with the world economy. The calculations of ex post income el...

he Cuban Ministry of Science and Technology (S&T) and UNESCO are organizing a regional conference on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development from 1 to 3 December in Havana. The organizers are deliberately departing from a business-as-usual approach. Rather than aiming for the adoption of a set of recommendations – the more usual outcome of conferences of this kind – they ...

Mobile IP is a network layer solution to the wide-area mobility problem in the Internet. Mobility agents’ hierarchies and regional registrations have been introduced in the foreign domain as a local-area mobility support solution. In this paper, we critique the current regional registration proposal identifying some drawbacks with its registration mechanisms signaling design. In addition, we in...

Recent developments in South Asian countries, especially the re-emergence of democratic governments, new growth momentum despite the global economic downturn and greater openness, warrant a fresh look at the region’s prospects for economic integration. On the basis of a thorough review of the literature on potential and prospects of regional integration in South Asia and after examining the tre...