natural gas is one of the hydrocarbon resources which is consumed vastly in the world. the asian and european markets, facing with a growing demand of hydrocarbon resources especially natural gas, are the most important consuming markets. hence, the security of natural gas supply is very important. based on the estimation of gas supply security index (gssi), the amount of vulnerability of selec...

BACKGROUND There is strong research evidence for falls prevention among older people in the community setting, although most is from Western countries. Differences between countries (eg sunlight exposure, diet, environment, exercise preferences) may influence the success of implementing falls prevention approaches in Asian countries that have been shown to be effective elsewhere in the world. T...

In recent years, with the rapid economic growth and concentration of the population into urban areas, some unregulated developments have been conducted in urban areas in Southeast Asian countries, so that their governments are under the pressure of necessity to develop an adequate operation of urban planning systems. Not all of the Southeast Asian countries, however, always have appropriate tec...

Abstract T he financial crisis in 2007-2008 has turned into the most far-reaching international financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression. Indeed, the crisis-affected Asian countries experienced varying degrees of changes in the exchange rate and prices following an initial shock of sharp depreciation of their currencies in the second half of 1997. Moreover,...

The ERP adoption rate in developing countries in Asia is very low. Apart from obvious differences in relative wealth of organizations in Western versus most Asian countries, the literature suggests that national cultures of the Asian countries, which are quite different to the culture of the Western world—the birth place of ERP—may be one reason for such low adoption rates in developing countri...

In this paper the relevance of the PPP as a long-run relationship is studied using a panel of Latin American and Asian countries. We investigate the stationarity of real exchange rates by applying a new panel unit root test that is robust to structural breaks due to currency crises. It turns out that the long-run PPP relationship is relevant for the Asian countries, which experienced a flexible...

To date, antipsychotics remain the mainstay of treatment for schizophrenia and related disorders although other psychotropic medications and non-pharmaceutical interventions have been used adjunctively in some patients and settings. Regular surveys on access to and prescription patterns of psychotropic medications in clinical practice are an important and efficient way of examining the use and ...

Over the past decade, a number of countries have adopted an inflation-targeting framework for the conduct of monetary policy. The majority of these have been developed countries, although Chile and Israel have also pursued some form of inflation targeting for the best part of ten years. In part spurred on by the successful economic performance of the countries that have adopted inflation target...