Although the Cold War has been over for a decade, conditions remain that are producing new instabilities—and potential conflicts—in the rapidly changing contemporary world. Missile proliferation issue is a case in point. Missiles, as the most effective delivery vehicles, have the advantages of high velocity, low cost, and great accuracy in a conflict. Few current control or defense measures are...

This study focused on the contribution of ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3) to aerosol optical depth (AOD) and direct radiative forcing (DRF) by aerosols over an East Asian domain. In order to evaluate the contribution, chemistrytransport model (CTM)-estimated AOD was combined with satellite-retrieved AOD, utilizing a data assimilation technique, over East Asia for the entire year of 2006. Using the as...

2 The Asia/Pacific Research Center (A/PARC) is an important Stanford venue where faculty and students, visiting scholars, and distinguished business and government leaders meet and exchange views on contemporary Asia and U.S. involvement in the region. A/PARC research results in seminars and conferences, published studies, occasional and discussion papers, special reports, and books. A/PARC mai...

period through subclinical or mild infection occurring sporadically. In order to understand how the virus infection recurs in the temperate epidemic zone, a hypothesis has been presented by Fukumi3 that the virus may survive through infections occurring sporadically in the tropical virus-reservoir zone. Several virological and epidemiological studies have been published on influenza in Thailand...

We analyze tropospheric column ozone (TCO) data observed by satellite instruments over East Asia for 15 years (from 1995 to 2009), and investigate the relationship between enhanced TCO (E-TCO) and ozone intrusion from the stratosphere near the subtropical jet (STJ). A belt of E-TCO is observed at mid-latitude over East Asia throughout the year; the belt is located at latitudes approximately equ...

 The estimated number of people living with HIV in Asia and the Pacific is just under 5 million (4.883 million in 2011)  160,000 of these people are children younger than 15 years.  Approximately 300,000 people died from AIDS-related causes in 2009. This figure has remained stable in recent years.  HIV epidemics in Asia and the Pacific remain largely concentrated among people who inject dru...

This article compares the income distribution’s equality in the economic growth of East Asia and Latin America, with the conclusion that the degree of social equality is not significant better in east Asia. And this article analyzes how the characteristics of social equality affects the economic development by the factors including industry policy, education, land reform, social security, urban...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates with a region of difference 105 (RD105) deletion, mainly Beijing family spoligotypes, were phylogenetically grouped into the East Asia lineage. We identified a single nucleotide polymorphism in codon 507, ATC to ATT, of the fadD28 gene as a robust marker and developed a rapid assay for East Asia lineage M. tuberculosis.