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Journal articles on the topic "Understanding Asia's Past"
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Tripathi, Neha, and Anubhav Kumar. "Changing Dynamics of Constitutionalism: South Asia's Tryst with Constitution." Lentera Hukum 9, no. 1 (April 30, 2022): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.19184/ejlh.v9i1.28564.
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The prevailing view of the constitutional framework in South Asia is seen as secondary and subsidiary to developed constitutional systems worldwide. Meanwhile, South Asian countries have merely re-produced the constitutional framework of developed nations. The emergence and development of South Asian constitutionalism present a range of perspectives and methodological approaches that contribute to comparative constitutional law scholarship in South Asia. The overt attention toward the Western notion of liberalism has often led to an incomplete and unclear approach to South Asian constitutionalism. The paper aimed to explore the elements of South Asian constitutionalism alongside underlying socio-economic and political discourse surrounding its contemporary understanding. It also analyzed the role of courts in affirming and transforming South Asian constitutionalism. Instead of reviving interest in South Asia and Third World Approach to International Law, this paper showed that it is only practical and pragmatic to study constitutionalism with specific reference to the modern discourse of democracy, judicial review, separation of power, and human rights enshrined in their respective constitutions. In terms of its emergence from the colonial history and other prevalent forms of distinct cultural, social, and political practices, South Asia presented a heterogeneous experience in the light of recognition and enforcement of socio-economic rights and transformations and deviations from its past experiences.
KEYWORDS: Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutionalism, South Asia.
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Norreys, Peter A., Christopher Ridgers, Kate Lancaster, Mark Koepke, and George Tynan. "Prospects for high gain inertial fusion energy: an introduction to the second edition." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 379, no. 2189 (December 7, 2020): 20200028. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2020.0028.
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Part II of this special edition contains the remaining 11 papers arising from a Hooke discussion meeting held in March 2020 devoted to exploring the current status of inertial confinement fusion research worldwide and its application to electrical power generation in the future, via the development of an international inertial fusion energy programme. It builds upon increased coordination within Europe over the past decade by researchers supported by the EUROFusion Enabling Research grants, as well as collaborations that have arisen naturally with some of America's and Asia's leading researchers, both in the universities and national laboratories. The articles are devoted to informing an update to the European roadmap for an inertial fusion energy demonstration reactor, building upon the commonalities between the magnetic and inertial fusion communities’ approaches to fusion energy. A number of studies devoted to understanding the physics barriers to ignition on current facilities are then presented. The special issue concludes with four state-of-the-art articles describing recent significant advances in fast ignition inertial fusion research. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Prospects for high gain inertial fusion energy (part 2)’.
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Lape, Peter. "ON THE USE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY IN ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 45, no. 4 (2002): 468–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852002320939320.
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AbstractThis paper reviews the use of archaeological and documentary sources in the understanding of the past in Island Southeast Asia. The relationship between these two sources of data (and data sources that cross the boundaries of these categories) has varied over time, depending on the availability of data, changing interpretive strategies and scholarly trends and influences. The wealth of documentary sources relevant to Island Southeast Asia's past, and the increasing availability of detailed archaeological data have increased the potential to understand the past in this region from a variety of points of view. While this potential has not yet been fully realized, in part due to an unsophisticated use of these separate lines of evidence, recent scholarship has pushed the boundaries and revealed new information and insights into this history. Cet article passe en revue l'utilisation de sources documentaires et archéologiques dans la connaissance du passé des îles du Sud-Est asiatique. La relation entre ces deux sources d'information (et les sources qui dépassent les limites de ces deux catégories) a évolué au fil du temps en fonction de la disponibilité des données, des changements dans les stratégies d'interprétation et des tendances et influences académiques. La richesse des sources documentaires utiles dans l'étude du passé des îles du Sud-Est asiatique, et la disponibilité croissante de données archéologiques détaillées ont permis, à plusieurs niveaux, de faciliter la compréhension du passé de cette région. Bien que ce potentiel n'ait pas encore été complètement exploité, en partie à cause d'une utilisation peu raffinée de ces distinctes catégories de preuves, des études universitaires récentes ont repoussé ces limites et ont dévoilé de nouveaux indices, permettant ainsi de mieux pénétrer l'histoire des îles du Sud-Est asiatique.
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Nishiuchi, Takumi. "Reconstruction of the eating habits of the Japonesians by proteomics." Impact 2021, no. 3 (March 29, 2021): 86–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.21820/23987073.2021.3.86.
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The study of ancient civilisations enables us to establish an understanding of how societies have changed over thousands of years and helps provide useful context for present-day civilisations, as well as highlighting similarities between past and present civilisations. The large-scale study of proteins – proteomics – is one way that scientists can discover the foodstuffs that ancient civilisations grew and ate and gain interesting insights into what life was like back then. This is done through the identification of proteins in materials found during excavations and is at the heart of the work of Associate Professor Takumi Nishiuchi, Advanced Science Research Center, Kanazawa University, Japan. Through the analysis of ancient proteins, Nishiuchi and his team are stimulating ancient food and using archeological data to envisage the lifestyles of ancient civilisations. The researchers are working at ruins in China and South Korea, as well as at two Japanese ruins in Fukuoka prefecture, with a view to better understanding the propagation of rice food culture and, in the process, providing context to Asia's ongoing food culture. In innovative work involving Orbitrap mass spectrometry, the team has performed protein analysis in plant remains and food crusts found at various sites, which is something that has not been done many times before. The researchers hope their work will lay the foundations for similar studies at sites across the globe, providing insights into other civilisations.
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RASUL, GOLAM. "Political ecology of the degradation of forest commons in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh." Environmental Conservation 34, no. 2 (June 2007): 153–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892907003888.
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Indigenous people have widely been blamed for degrading South Asia's montane forest resources through the practice of shifting cultivation, yet some studies have revealed that indigenous people used forests in a sustainable way for centuries until external intervention. The history of external intervention in the forests of South Asia is more than two centuries old. The process of degradation of forest resources requires understanding of the political and social processes that condition access, control and management of the land and resources involved. The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh, a part of the Himalayan region, underwent essentially the same socio-political and historical processes as many other countries in the region and had very similar experiences in forest management. By examination of policies and associated effects on CHT forest over the past two centuries, this paper reveals that the process of forest degradation in the CHT started during the British colonial period with the nationalization of forests, establishment of reserve forests (RFs), management of forests by government agencies and weakening of traditional institutions. The process of degradation was accelerated by: privatization of forest land for the promotion of sedentary agriculture, horticulture and rubber plantation; the construction of a hydraulic dam on the Karnafuli River; the settlement of lowland people; and the constant conflict between indigenous people and the Forest Department. The degradation of CHT forests is not only the result of traditional agricultural practices, but also of many other factors including inappropriate policies and programmes.
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Joshi, Nirmala, and Kamala Kumari. "Understanding Central Asia’s Security and Economic Interests." India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs 75, no. 1 (January 24, 2019): 29–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0974928418821474.
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Central Asia has always been at the centre of global power play, due to its geographic location in the centre of Eurasia and its abundant natural resources that have attracted world attention. It has, however, been caught in the vortex of international politics. An interplay of globalisation, technology and geopolitics is evident in the evolving Eurasian politics. Connectivity projects, rail, road and energy pipelines are criss-crossing the region. Its geographical proximity to Afghanistan—part of its geopolitical space—impinges on its efforts to build peace and stability. Regional cooperation is gradually taking shape in Central Asia and holds the promise of their status as independent entities. As Afghanistan is crucial for them, as well as for the world at large, understanding the security and economic issues of Central Asia becomes important. This article apart from highlighting the security and economic interests would also delineate the challenges accompanying these issues keeping the potential perspective in mind.
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Chun, Jahyun. "Understanding Mistrust and Instability in East Asia." Pacific Affairs 95, no. 3 (September 1, 2022): 595–604. http://dx.doi.org/10.5509/2022953595.
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In recent years, East Asian countries have faced numerous security threats, including territorial disputes in the East China Sea, the US-China conflict, and economic turmoil due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Under such circumstances, a stable regional order and economic prosperity are crucial. This essay reviews three recent books that attempt to identify the distinct features of East Asian international relations and the main causes of regional instability. The first part of this essay addresses the main themes and contributions of each book, and o ers an evaluation of their implications. The second section focuses on two key themes touched on in each of the books: "China and East Asian regional order" and "history still matters." The conclusion presents the challenges to, and provides recommendations for, peaceful coexistence in East Asia. This review elucidates not only the distinct features of current Sino-Japanese relations and East Asia's international politics but also addresses the future of the region.
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Jerabek, I., and A. F. De Man. "SOCIAL DISTANCE AMONG CAUCASIAN-CANADIANS AND ASIAN, LATIN-AMERICAN AND EASTERN EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS IN QUEBEC: A TWO-PART STUDY." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 22, no. 3 (January 1, 1994): 297–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.1994.22.3.297.
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Caucasian Canadians and Asian, Latin-American, and Eastern European immigrants (N=109) participated in a two-part study of inter-group social distance. In the first part, ANOVA showed that of the four groups, Asians reported the greatest social dist ance toward others, whereby they did not differentiate between the three out -groups. Next were the Latin-Americans who preferred Caucasian Canadians over Eastern Europeans and Asians. Eastern Europeans in turn felt closest to Caucasian Canadians and less close to Latin-Americans and Asians. Caucasian Canadians reported the smallest overall social distance; they did not differentiate between the three out-groups. As target group, Caucasian Canadians were more preferred than were Asians, Latin-Americans, and Eastern Europeans. The latter three groups in turn received greatest sympathetic understanding from Caucasian Canadians. In the second part, analyses of the data of the four groups combined indicated that individuals with limited education, low family income, and high authoritarianism perceived greater social distance between themselves and members of out-groups.
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Liu, Wen, Long Ma, Jilili Abuduwaili, Gulnura Issanova, and Galymzhan Saparov. "Sediment Organic Carbon Sequestration of Balkhash Lake in Central Asia." Sustainability 13, no. 17 (September 5, 2021): 9958. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13179958.
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As an important part of the global carbon pool, lake carbon is of great significance in the global carbon cycle. Based on a study of the sedimentary proxies of Balkhash Lake, Central Asia’s largest lake, changes in the organic carbon sequestration in the lake sediments and their possible influence over the past 150 years were studied. The results suggested that the organic carbon in the sediments of Lake Balkhash comes mainly from aquatic plants. The organic carbon burial rate fluctuated from 8.16 to 30.04 g·m−2·a−1 and the minimum appeared at the top of the core. The organic carbon burial rate continues to decline as it has over the past 150 years. Global warming, higher hydrodynamic force, and low terrestrial input have not been conducive to the improvement of organic carbon sequestration in Balkhash Lake; the construction of a large reservoir had a greater impact on the sedimentary proxy of total organic carbon content, which could lead to a large deviation for environmental reconstruction. This is the first study to assess the sediment organic carbon sequestration using the modern sediments of Central Asia’s largest lake, which is of great scientific significance. The results contribute to an understanding of organic carbon sequestration in Central Asia and may provide a scientific basis for carbon balance assessment in regional and global scales.
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Hossain, Muhammad, John Crossland, Rebecca Stores, Ann Dewey, and Yohai Hakak. "Awareness and understanding of dementia in South Asians: A synthesis of qualitative evidence." Dementia 19, no. 5 (October 8, 2018): 1441–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1471301218800641.
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Background Despite a growing elderly South Asian population, little is known about the experience of diagnosis and care for those living with dementia. There have been a number of individual qualitative studies exploring the experiences of South Asian people living with dementia and their carers across different contexts. There has also been a growing interest in synthesizing qualitative research to systematically integrate qualitative evidence from multiple studies to tell us more about a topic at a more abstract level than single studies alone. The aim of this qualitative synthesis was to clearly identify the gaps in the literature and produce new insights regarding the knowledge and understanding of the attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs of the South Asian community about dementia. Methods Following a systematic search of the literature, included qualitative studies were assessed by two independent reviewers for methodological quality. Data were extracted and pooled using the Joanna Briggs Institute Qualitative Assessment and Review Instrument (QARI). Findings were synthesized using the Joanna Briggs Institute approach to qualitative synthesis by meta-aggregation. Results Seventeen papers were critically appraised, with 13 meeting the inclusion criteria. Participants were mostly of South Asians of Indian background; followed by Pakistani with a few Sri Lankans. Missing South Asian countries from the current evidence base included those from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, and Nepal. Three meta-synthesis themes emerged from the analysis: (1) a poor awareness and understanding of dementia, (2) the experience of caregiving, and (3) the attitudes toward dementia care provision. Conclusions A consistent message from this qualitative synthesis was the limited knowledge and understanding of dementia amongst the South Asians. Whilst symptoms of dementia such as ‘memory loss’ were believed to be a part of a normal ageing process, some South Asian carers viewed dementia as demons or God’s punishments. Most studies reported that many South Asians were explicit in associating stigmas with dementia.
Books on the topic "Understanding Asia's Past"
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Eileen, Tamura, ed. China: Understanding its past. Honolulu, Hawaii: Curriculum Research & Development Group, University of Hawaii and University of Hawaii Press, 1997.
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Stringing the past: An archaeological understanding of early Southeast Asian glass bead trade. Diliman, Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2006.
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Bracken, Gregory, ed. Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462986947.
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What does it mean to be a good citizen today? What are practices of citizenship? And what can we learn from the past about these practices to better engage in city life in the twenty-first century? Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self is a collection of papers that examine these questions. The contributors come from a variety of different disciplines, including architecture, urbanism, philosophy, and history, and their essays make comparative examinations of the practices of citizenship from the ancient world to the present day in both the East and the West. The papers’ comparative approaches, between East and West, and ancient and modern, leads to a greater understanding of the challenges facing citizens in the urbanized twenty-first century, and by looking at past examples, suggests ways of addressing them. While the book’s point of departure is philosophical, its key aim is to examine how philosophy can be applied to everyday life for the betterment of citizens in cities not just in Asia and the West but everywhere.
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Bogolyubov, S. Development of environmental law in the Eurasian space. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1160970.
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The monograph examines the features of environmental norms, methods, legal relations, ensuring their understanding and accessibility, compensation for present and past environmental damage, and the formation of competitive principles of environmental law.
The article analyzes the current legal problems of using natural resources - soils, subsurface resources, forests, water, wildlife, climate protection, taking into account public access to information about them, land management, combining civil and administrative methods of regulation, and the structure of environmental law.
The subject of the research is the systems of environmental legislation in some European and Asian States, its implementation in the Arctic, Baikal, Crimean territories, in cities and other settlements in order to prevent and suppress environmental offenses.
For scientists, teachers, postgraduates, undergraduates, students of higher legal institutions studying environmental, natural resource, land law, as well as for a wide range of readers interested in modern legal problems of nature protection.
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Hodges, Sarah. South Asia's Eugenic Past. Edited by Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195373141.013.0013.
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The strong continuities between colonial eugenics agendas and postcolonial population control efforts are striking elements in the history of eugenics in South Asia. This article discusses the role of different strands within colonial eugenics—particularly neo-Malthusianism—at different points in time and in the region's different postcolonial nations. It mentions that eugenics in a poverty-stricken colonial context provides a powerful and enduring template for connecting reproductive behavior to the task of revitalizing the nation as a whole. This article relates the history of eugenics in colonial India with the history of birth control advocacy. It discusses in detail the eugenics associations that held public meetings and advocated contraceptive use. It provides an understanding of the relative insignificance of heredity to Indian eugenics in light of the conditions for the development of eugenic science in India.
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Lush, Noren W., Francis K. C. Tsui, Linda K. Menton, and Warren Cohen. China: Understanding Its Past. University of Hawaii Press, 1997.
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Chatterjee, Shibashis. India's Spatial Imaginations of South Asia. Edited by Sumit Ganguly and E. Sridharan. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199489886.001.0001.
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Since India attained independence, its foreign policy discourse has imagined its South Asian neighbourhood through the politics of realism. This imagination explicates state interest in South Asia by establishing it as a space of sovereign territoriality. Even today, India’s foreign and security policies are primarily shaped by geopolitical centrism, and remain unaffected by economic prosperity and community concerns. As a part of the Oxford International Relations in South Asia series, this volume examines alternative conceptions of South Asian space in terms of geo-economics and community, and justifies why they have been unable to replace its dominant understanding, irrespective of the political regime. This volume probes reasons behind the relevance of differentiated cartography of territorial nationalism in our shared understanding of space, politics, society, and the community.
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Ho, Jennifer. Southern Eruptions in Asian American Narratives. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037832.003.0009.
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This chapter discusses the emergence of Asian American literature and film about the South as they disrupt multiple narratives about race relations and racial subjectivity. It particularly studies Susan Choi's novel The Foreign Student (1998), Mira Nair's feature-length film Mississippi Masala (1992), and Paisley Rekdal's creative nonfiction collection of autobiographical essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In (2000). Asian American stories set in the South erupt the myth of imaginary lines between the past and present, arguing that the inclusion of Asian American voices signals not simply a pluralistic affirmation of racial harmony but the complications of understanding race beyond a black–white paradigm. Indeed, a true understanding of southern race relations crosses the geographic borders of the American South into not only Europe and Africa but the Caribbean, Latin America, and Asia as well, because the South is a space that is implicated in larger transnational and global flows.
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Westad, Odd Arne. The Weight of the Past in China’s Relations with Its Asian Neighbors. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190675387.003.0008.
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Historically, regional power shifts have tended to be messy affairs. Such changes often produced not only wars, but long, drawn-out forms of conflict that devastated the regions in which they occurred. With the exception of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, none of these power-shift conflicts have yet been truly global, and it is unlikely that the rivalry between the United States and China will spill over into a global confrontation any time soon. The chapter provides an overview of two of the key conflict areas within East Asia, notably Korea and Southeast Asia, mainly from a Chinese perspective, and it indicates how a better understanding of the international history of the region can help with measuring the framework for current rivalries. It also suggests key issues for consideration in terms of how the potential for great power conflict can be reduced.
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Spencer-Rodgers, Julie, and Kaiping Peng, eds. The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of East Asian Cognition. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199348541.001.0001.
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The unprecedented economic growth in many East Asian societies in the few past decades have placed the region center stage, and increasing globalization have made East-West cultural understanding of even greater importance today. This book is the most comprehensive on East Asian cognition and thinking styles to date, and is the first to bring together a large body of empirical research on “naïve dialecticism” (Peng & Nisbett, 1999; Peng, Spencer-Rodgers, & Nian, 2006) and “analytic/holistic thinking” (Nisbett, 2003), theories in cultural psychology that stem from Richard Nisbett’s (2003) highly influential and successful book on The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently … and Why. More specifically, the current book examines the psychological, philosophical, and cultural underpinnings and consequences of “dialectical thinking” (Peng & Nisbett, 1999) and cognitive holism (Nisbett, 2003) for human thought, emotion, and behaviour. Since the publication of Peng and Nisbett’s (1999) seminal article, research on this topic has flourished, and East-West cultural differences have been documented in almost all aspects of the human condition and life, from the manner in which people reason and make decisions, conceptualize themselves and others, to how they cope with stress and mental illness, and interact with others, including romantic partners and social groups. Twenty-one chapters written by leading experts in psychology and related fields cover such diverse topics as cultural neuroscience and the brain, lifespan development, attitudes and group perception, romantic relationships, extracultural cognition (the adoption of foreign mind-sets and perspectives), creativity, emotion, the self-concept, racial/ethnic identity, psychopathology, and coping processes and wellbeing. This research has practical implications for business and organizational management, international relations and politics, education, and clinical and counselling psychology, and may be of particular interest to business professionals, managers in government and non-profit sectors, as well as educators and clinicians working with East Asians and Americans of East Asian descent.
Book chapters on the topic "Understanding Asia's Past"
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Soeya, Yoshihide. "The Evolution of Japan’s Public Diplomacy: Haunted by Its Past History." In Understanding Public Diplomacy in East Asia, 79–105. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137532299_5.
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Pozzi, Laura. "China, the Maritime Silk Road, and the Memory of Colonialism in the Asia Region." In Regions of Memory, 139–60. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93705-8_6.
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AbstractThis chapter analyzes how the city museums of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Galle Fort deal with the memory and legacy of colonialism in the framework of the expanding economic and political power of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Asia. In the PRC, the historical memory of the country’s colonial past has been shaped by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In contrast to the transnational nature of the communist ideology, the CCP’s interpretation of history is strongly nationalist. China’s political expansion in the ex-British colony of Hong Kong and its economic ties to other Asian countries such as Sri Lanka open space for a discussion about its power to influence these countries’ understanding of their own history. How is the expansion of China, defined by many as a neo-colonial power, changing the way other countries in Asia understand the colonial past? Is China able to exports its own vision of colonialism and post-colonial order outside its own borders? This chapter answers these questions through an analysis of the permanent exhibitions of three city museums: The Shanghai History Museum; the Hong Kong Museum of History, and the Galle Fort Museum in Sri Lanka, part of the “One Belt, One Road” project.
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Yeung, Wei-Jun Jean. "Introduction." In Demographic and Family Transition in Southeast Asia, 3–15. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85679-3_1.
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AbstractIn the past decade, Southeast Asia’s economic and geopolitical profile in the world has risen dramatically. It is one of the fastest growing markets and least well-known regions in the world. Countries in this region are important because they are large in aggregate, strategically located, exceptionally diverse, and intellectually interesting. This book on Demographic and Family Changes in Southeast Asia (SEA) presents the trends and patterns of family changes from all eleven countries in the region for the past 50 years (till 2015). It collects indicators on marriage, fertility, and household structures, and child and youth well-being based on data that are dispersed in many different sources and compiles them in one single document making it easier for researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers who are interested in this diverse and rapidly growing region to refer to. The report is meant to be a resource book to provide a snapshot of changes in the last half a century in key demographic, socio-economic characteristics, and family structure in the region to facilitate an understanding of the transitions that have undergone.
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Kilichova, Nargiza. "Development Aid in Central Asia: A “Chessboard” for Great Powers?" In Securitization and Democracy in Eurasia, 77–94. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16659-4_5.
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AbstractCentral Asia, once part of the Soviet Union's southern belt, quickly became a focal point for competing interests and donor influence after gaining independence in the early 1990s. Players in this arena include the so-called Western actors such as the European Union (EU) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), as well as major regional powers such as Russia and China. The main objective of the chapter is to examine how and in what ways the domestic rule of law institutions and the contexts of donor and organization development policies differ from each other, and how this gap is translated into rule of law promotion approaches abroad. This question is examined within the realm of externally assisted rule of law reform using the Central Asian region as a case study. To answer this question, this chapter compares rule of law promotion strategies of the EU, the OSCE, Russia, and China by breaking down development policies according to contextual understanding, goals, organization, promotion approaches, and objectives. Based on these comparative analyses, the chapter examines how the EU and the OSCE position themselves in the midst of a fierce struggle between the major regional powers in the still near and yet so distant Central Asia.
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Penso, Jacopo. "Masters Through the Ages: Interpretation of a Renaissance Martial Art System and the Foundation of a Modern School." In Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia, 307–28. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2037-0_11.
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AbstractThis paper aims to describe the modern experience and process of reconstructing a five-hundred-year-old martial art (the Renaissance arte delle armi) from the study of extant sources and materials, mainly treatises and weapons of the time, for the understanding and practice of motions and embodied concepts. The approaches, methods, and praxis will be analyzed, exploring the delicate operation of reconstructing a martial art system from written words. Among the masters of the past, this experience focuses on the teaching of Master Achille Marozzo from Bologna, who published his treatise on fighting, Opera Nova, in 1536. Today, the Opera Nova School brings back to life this art of the past through its ongoing research and teaching, thanks to a complex and syncretic approach that condenses a wide range of information and experiences into contemporary practice. In this paper, I discuss the example of the two-handed sword discipline. The fixed sequences of codified moves, the assalti or forms, are the precious teachings provided by the historical source, which form the basis for modern interpretation. Through cycles of theoretical comprehension and practical application, it is possible to grasp the complexity of a martial art system, giving new life to an ageless art.
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Long, William J. "Introduction." In A Buddhist Approach to International Relations, 1–18. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68042-8_1.
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AbstractMany scholars have wondered if a non-Western theory of international politics founded on different premises, be it from Asia or from the “Global South,” could release international relations from the grip of a Western, “Westphalian” model in which self-interest (and opposition to the other) and system anarchy treat conflict and violence as natural and ethical behavior among states. As part of the emergent literature in Global International Relations, this monograph suggests that a Buddhist approach to international relations could provide a genuine alternative. Because of its distinctive philosophical positions and its unique understanding of reality, human nature, and political behavior, a Buddhist theory of IR offers a means for transcending the Westphalian predicament. This chapter situates a Buddhist approach to international relations within the sweep of traditional and recent international relations theory. It then outlines the subsequent chapters of the monograph that address the philosophical foundations of Buddhist IR; Buddha’s ideas about politics, economics, and statecraft; and the manifestations of Buddhist political principles in practice, one ancient and one modern, that illustrate this alternative approach.
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Gotti, Roberto. "The Dynamic Sphere: Thesis on the Third State of the Vitruvian Man." In Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia, 93–147. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2037-0_4.
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AbstractThe subject of this paper is the basic principles of a martial art that has been perfected over millennia of social strata, skirmishes, and settlements, and is the amalgamation of different cultures and traditions which flourished during the Renaissance. We can learn this art today thanks to the texts written and printed during that period. In his most famous drawing, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) shows a man drawn inside two geometrical shapes: the square with the center at his groin and the circle with the center at his navel. But there is another possible representation that provides an anthropometric revelation with his center at the solar plexus. That is the man I define as dynamic. Many traces of him may be found in the Masters’ texts and we have magnificent examples of him in daily life: the man who, through performing perfect combat moves, is able to move and “become” a sphere, the “Palla,” or ball, as Camillo Agrippa calls it, with changing circumference and surface. He can move his center within his own body and outside of it, to the palm of his hand, to the blade of his sword, and even to inside his enemy. The dynamic man represents the development upon both the natural man, depicted in a square with his groin at the center and the speculative man, depicted in a circle with his navel at the center. This man creates a sphere around himself, with the solar plexus at its center. He has the ability to move that center to any part of his body, even to his blade and as far as the blade’s end, thus modifying the circumference of his sphere as he pleases. The findings presented here are the fruit of over twenty years of research and practice, reflecting my own progression in the theoretical and practical understanding of Italian martial arts.
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Pavlova, Margarita. "Introduction: Unpacking Greening and Skills Recognition in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises." In Education for Sustainability, 3–22. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2072-1_1.
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AbstractThis first chapter presents the nature of the regional research study on recognising green skills through non-formal learning across seven countries and one territory in Asia and the Pacific Region (APR), the methodology and approach to data collection, and the analytical framework. Furthermore, this chapter establishes the rationale for the book by detailing the argument that implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including the key aspects of sustainable development and lifelong learning, is closely related to green skills development and recognition in enterprises. As such, the two starting points for this study are the invisibility of the decisive role of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) (definition included in the glossary) in promoting green practices and green skills development, and the need for making visible the invisible outcomes of workers’ participation in learning activities through green skills recognition (definition included in the glossary). This chapter also introduces the analytical framework that is used in the study to develop a holistic understanding of the principles and approaches required for green skills recognition. To frame the analyses presented in Chap. 2 of the book and the model presented in Part III, macro, meso, and micro-levels are included in this framework: political decisions and policies that countries, and, in the context of this study, one territory, use to move towards green transition and greening of education and training; the role of standards, learning outcomes, and quality assurance mechanisms related to green skills and their inclusion in RVA; and actions at the level of enterprises.
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Olfos, Raimundo, Masami Isoda, and Soledad Estrella. "Multiplication of Whole Numbers in the Curriculum: Singapore, Japan, Portugal, the USA, Mexico, Brazil, and Chile." In Teaching Multiplication with Lesson Study, 25–35. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28561-6_2.
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AbstractThis chapter shows how the teaching of multiplication is structured in national curriculum standards (programs) around the world. (The documents are distributed by national governments via the web. Those documents are written in different formats and depths. For understanding the descriptions of the standards, we also refer to national authorized textbooks for confirmation of meanings.) The countries chosen for comparison in this case are two countries in Asia, one in Europe, two in North America, and two in South America: Singapore, Japan, Portugal, the USA (where the Common Core State Standards (2010) are not national but are agreed on by most of the states), Mexico, Brazil, and Chile, from the viewpoint of their influences on Ibero-American countries. (The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards (published in 2000) and the Japanese and Singapore textbooks have been influential in Latin America. Additionally, Portugal was selected to be compared with Brazil). To distinguish between each country’s standard and the general standards described here, the national curriculum standards are just called the “program.” The comparison shows the differences in the programs for multiplication in these countries in relation to the sequence of the description and the way of explanation. The role of this chapter in Part I of this book is to provide the introductory questions that will be discussed in Chaps. 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 to explain the features of the Japanese approach. (As is discussed in Chap. 1, the Japanese approach includes the Japanese curriculum, textbooks, and methods of teaching which can be used for designing classes, as has been explored in Chile (see (Estrella, Mena, Olfos, Lesson Study in Chile: a very promising but still uncertain path. In Quaresma, Winsløw, Clivaz, da Ponte, Ní Shúilleabháin, Takahashi (eds), Mathematics lesson study around the world: Theoretical and methodological issues. Cham: Springer, pp. 105–122, 2018). The comparison focuses on multiplication of whole numbers. In multiplication, all of these countries seem to have similar goals—namely, for their students to grasp the meaning of multiplication and develop fluency in calculation. However, are they the same? By using the newest editions of each country’s curriculum standards, comparisons are done on the basis of the manner of writing, with assigned grades for the range of numbers, meanings, expression, tables, and multidigit multiplication. The relationship with other specific content such as division, the use of calculators, the treatment of multiples, and mixed arithmetic operations are beyond the scope of this comparison. Those are mentioned only if there is a need to show diversity.
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"Ethics and Self-Cultivation in Ancient India." In Understanding Asian Philosophy. Bloomsbury Academic, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350284937.part-002.
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Zaidil, Hanani, and Sim Siong Wong. "Understanding the Impact of Corrosion on Gas Wells Past its Design Life." In Offshore Technology Conference Asia. OTC, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4043/31456-ms.
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Abstract Field X produces dry gas from a carbonate reservoir with moderate aquifer support consisting of 16 wells most of which were drilled between 1986 to 1987. Up until 2021, these wells would have been in service for approximately 35 years, past its theoretical design life. Based on production forecast, the field is expected to continue producing for another 10 to 18 years. In view of the prolonged life extension, there is a need to review the integrity status of the well to ensure safe production until the end of field life. Wellhead preventive maintenance are conducted on a six-monthly basis to assure safety critical equipment (SCE) functionality and performance. Maintenance data collected since 2008 provides a good view on surface and subsurface valve integrity. In recent years, observations on external corrosion have received some attention. At the same time, there were efforts in determining and verifying the corrosion rates for production tubing, wellhead and x-mas tree. For well tubing and production casing, load based assumptions were used to estimate the minimum allowable tubular thickness to establish a basis for remaining life estimates. To verify the remaining life estimates, in 2019, a multi-finger caliper log was ran across the tubing of Well B to measure actual metal loss around the pipe. A magnetic log was also run in Well B in the same year to obtain quantitative measurement of remaining metal thickness in 13-3/8", 9-5/8" and 7" tubing. The observations from these exercises indicate that calculated estimates are more conservative as they do not account for the impact of the highly dynamic conditions downhole. While logging provided an independent view of the condition of the tubing and casing, no inspection of the x-mas tree cavity was carried out. An opportunity to close this gap and obtain information on the internal condition of the x-mas tree body is presented to Field X with the abandonment campaign on two idle wells in quarter three of 2021. The x-mas tree was retrieved, and internal inspection was conducted. The same is done for retrieved tubing from the abandoned wells. This study and its findings will enhance understanding on well design life, especially for vintage wells of over 30 years and provide assurance that wells are safe to produce.
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Wijianto, Wijianto, and Winarno Winarno. "The Difficulty of Civic Education Teacher to Understanding the Characteristics of Students as part of Pedagogical Competence." In Proceedings of the 3rd Asian Education Symposium (AES 2018). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/aes-18.2019.80.
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Pilsudski, Thibault, Si Ying Tan, Devisari Tunas, Fabien Clavier, Andrew Stokols, and Araz Taeihagh. "The shift towards smart cities in Southeast Asian cities." In 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Beyond Metropolis, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia. ISOCARP, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/uvxt9843.
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Smart cities utilise technological and digital solutions to resolve urban issues, to enhance accessibility of services, and increase the quality of life (ASEAN, 2018). In 2018, Singapore leveraged its ASEAN presidency to initiate the ASEAN Smart Cities Network to develop a collaborative forum to improve translation of smart technologies between ASEAN cities by exploring potential synergies and complementarities, developing tailored action plans and sharing best practices. However, the translation, adoption and implementation of technologies across unique geographical, developmental and governance contexts vary substantially (Taeihagh, 2017). Without sufficiently understanding these variations, the translation process will likely fail. To understand these variations and their implications for city governance, we seek to unpack the different institutional forces that shape the adoption and implementation of such technologies. The paper aims therefore to identify key aspects of urban governance that guide the adoption and implementation of smart city technologies, by questioning (1) the drivers for smart city adoption, (2) the origin of policy ideas, (3) the factors hindering or facilitating their local translation, and (4) the impact of smart city development on city-level governance. This paper is part of an ongoing research on smart cities in Indonesia.
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Mostapa, Muhammad Ferdaos, Alex Tarang Patrick, Huu Nghi Nguyen, and Arie Purba Tata. "New Understanding of Ultra-Deepwater Thin Beds Interpretation and Compartmentalization in Light of New Seismic Reprocessed Data and Well Results." In Offshore Technology Conference Asia. OTC, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4043/31675-ms.
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Abstract Deepwater fields are well known for their complex turbidite heterogeneity. J field, which has a water depth of 1600-1800 meters, is a distal deepwater turbidite fan located within a high compressional area, resulted in highly faulted structures. All wells drilled in the J field penetrated thin-bedded sand-shale reservoirs (average 30-80 cm) which are below current available tools’ resolution. This has directly impacted the accuracy of reservoirs properties interpretation and characterization. Additionally, based on the acquired pressure data from past appraisal campaigns, the field is proven to be laterally and vertically compartmentalized. However, reservoir connectivity and producibility away from those appraisal wells remains uncertain and challenging to be identified, due to the legacy 3D seismic image quality, limitation in data resolutions, and limited regional data. This paper will briefly address the challenges of deepwater distal turbidites understanding while proposing a holistic workflow with the integration of 3D seismic and well data to enhance thin-bed interpretation and complex compartmentalization prediction.
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Purnell, Maria Kathryn N. "The Prevailing Art and Tradition of Intentional Dental Modification in Prehistoric Southeast Asia | Ang Namamayaning Sining at Tradisyon ng Intensyonal na Modipikasyon ng Ngipin sa Sinaunang Timog-Silangang Asya." In The SEAMEO SPAFA International Conference on Southeast Asian Archaeology and Fine Arts (SPAFACON2021). SEAMEO SPAFA, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.26721/spafa.pqcnu8815a-06.
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Since prehistoric times, humans have changed select characteristics of their bodies, such as tattooing, hair-dyeing, cranial and feet deforming, and teeth modifying. Teeth are some of the most well-preserved remains in the archaeological record, with which we can study past cultural and ritualistic beliefs. Previous publications on dental modifications in Southeast Asia are mostly limited to the mainland, thus this paper reviews modifications observed in prehistoric sites across Southeast Asia, identifying common techniques and motivations. Findings show occurrence of dental ablation, filing, plating, and coloration, which began in the Neolithic, disappeared in the Bronze Age, but reappeared in the Iron Age, although the absence may be due to sampling shortage. Modifications have been associated to aestheticism, group identity, rite of passage, practicality, and medical benefit, but whether these all ring true remains uncertain. It is recommended that future research expand scope for better data representation, analyze modifications with context of community profiles, and investigate the significance of migration in the prevalence of certain techniques and patterns as part of understanding the cultural aspects of past humans’ lives, and assess the cultural (dis)continuity of these traditions into modern-day forms of body modification, art, healing, self-expression, and identity. Magmula sinaunang panahon, maitatala ang mga pagbabagong pisikal sa katawan, tulad ng pagtatato, pagkukulay ng buhok, at pag-iiba-anyo ng ulo, paa, at ngipin. Nabibilang ang ngipin sa mga lubos na napepreserbang artepakto sa arkiyoloji, at sa gayo’y magagamit pang-aral ng mga nakalipas na kultura at ritwal. Kasalukuyang limitado sa mainland ng Timog-Silangang Asya ang saliksik sa intensyonal na modipikasyon ng ngipin, kaya tatalakayin dito ang mga sinaunang modipikasyong nabanggit sa buong rehiyon, at tutukuyin ang pagkakatulad sa mga teknik at motibasyon. Nagsimula ang paglaganap ng sadyang pagtatanggal, pagliliha, pagkakalupkop, at pagkukulay ng ngipin noong Panahong Neolitiko, naglaho noong Panahong Tanso, at bumalik muli pagsapit ng Panahong Bakal, ngunit maaaring iukol ang paglaho sa kakulangan ng datos. Hindi pa tiyak, pero pwedeng ang mga modipkasyon sa estetisismo, pakikisama, pagriritwal, praktikalidad, at benepisyong-medikal. Inirerekomendang palawakin sa susunod na saliksik ang sakop para sa mas mabuting representasyon ng datos, suriin ang mga modipikasyon sa konteksto ng komunidad, at imbestigahan ang kahalagahan ng migrasyon sa paglaganap ng mga partikular na teknik at padron habang inuunawa ang mga aspetong kultural ng sinaunang panahon, at tasahan ang pagpapatuloy (o hindi) ng mga tradisyong nabanggit sa kasalukuyang modipikasyon ng katawan, sining, paggagamot, pagpapahayag ng sarili, at identidad.
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Alpert, Erika. "Men and Monsters: Hunting for Love Online in Japan." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.1-2.
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This paper presents the results of initial fieldwork on Online dating (netto-jô konkatsu, koikatsu) and other types of internet-based partner matching options in Japan, focusing on the possibilities for textual and interactional self-representation on different sites and apps available to single Japanese. This includes widespread international apps like Tinder and Grindr, along with local apps like 9 Monsters, a popular gay app that also incorporates light gaming functions, or Zexy En-Musubi, a revolutionarily egalitarian site aimed at heterosexual singles specifically seeking marriage. I approach this question by looking at the different technological affordances for profile creation using these services, and the ways users engage with those affordances to create profiles and to search for partners, based on examinations of websites, apps, and public profiles; interviews with website producers; and ethnographic interviews with past and current users of Online dating services. I primarily argue that self-presentation in Japanese Online dating hinges on the use of polite speech forms towards unknown readers, which have the power to flatten out gendered speech differences that are characteristic of language ideologies in Japan (Nakamura 2007). However, dominant cultural ideas about gender, sexuality, and marriage—such as patriarchal marriage structures—may still be “baked into” the structure of apps (Dalton and Dales 2016). Studying Online dating in Japan is critical because of its growing social acceptance. While in 2008 the only “respectable” site was a Japanese version of Match.com, in 2018 there are numerous sites and apps created by local companies for local sensibilities. Where Online dating was already established, in the West, there was little sociological study of it while it was becoming popular, in part because research on the internet also lacked respectability. By looking at Japan, where acceptance is growing but Online dating has not yet been normalized, we can gain a deeper understanding of its gender, sexuality, romance, and marriage practices. Japan’s experiences can also potentially provide a model for understanding how Online dating practices might develop elsewhere. In the US, Online dating faced many of the stigmas that it continues to face in Japan—such as that it was “sleazy,” “sketchy,” or desperate. In spite of these stigmas, however, Online dating grew slowly until it suddenly exploded (Orr 2004). Will it explode in Japan? By looking at how people use these sites, this paper also hopes to shed light on the uptake of Online partner matching practices.
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Gomar, Mostafa, and Behzad Elahifar. "Understanding Thermo-Poroelastic Mechanical Stress Induced Damages in Network of Pre-Existing Fractures During Drilling Operation." In IADC/SPE Asia Pacific Drilling Technology Conference and Exhibition. SPE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/209837-ms.
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Abstract In drilling the reservoir sections of a well, one of the most challenging issues is reducing damage to the reservoir by controlling downhole pressure. Many drilling techniques such as underbalanced drilling (UBD) and managed pressure drilling (MPD) are employed to minimize the risks associated with drilling as well as to minimize damage to the porous rock. Even though chemical and physical damages may be short-term and could be repaired by some stimulation techniques, the long-term effects of mechanical damages in porous and fractured reservoirs have received insufficient attention. Accordingly, not only could the above drilling techniques be applied to solve downhole drilling problems, but they also may be used to reduce induced mechanical damages in fractured rocks. This article presents a new method for modeling changes in fracture permeability caused by drilling in fractured rocks. As part of the approach, the finite element method (FEM) is employed to conduct a thermo-poroelastic analysis of stress distributions around the borehole and the displacement discontinuity method (DDM) is used to model fracture deformations. Based on different fracture spacings and fracture inclination angles, we have considered models of regular fracture networks in the present study. This study focuses on the differences in permeability in underbalanced and overbalanced drilling operations that are compared together in different models. Effective stress differences (over 40 MPa) were found along and around borehole periphery. Shear stresses in the oblique fracture network also governed aperture change. Short-term mechanical stresses and long-term thermal and fluid pressures determine the fracture aperture. In the long run, fluid pressure and thermal stresses contribute to long term permeability change of fractures while mechanical stresses cause a short-term change. Underbalanced drilling was simulated to reduce fracture permeability, while cooling and pressurizing of rock encouraged fracture permeability without considering solid particle plugging. Fracture aperture adopts a seesaw pattern in a small-spaced fracture network. When the fracture aperture increases in a fracture, the neighboring fractures experience decreased apertures. Despite the drilling method, fractures intersecting boreholes have reduced permeability after drilling for a long time, as they choked in a few locations along the fracture length. At present, the industry considers managed pressure and underbalanced drilling to be the priority for resolving drilling problems. This paper investigates stress-induced damages in fractured rocks under overbalanced and underbalanced drilling conditions. It is also of significant interest in geothermal reservoirs, where the temperature difference between the rock and the well bore fluid is large. Furthermore, such an analysis would provide the optimal well location from a geomechanical and reservoir engineering standpoint.
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Anuar, Astriyana, and Rohaizad M Norpiah. "Integrated Approach in Implementing Hydrate Management Strategies in Deepwater Gas Developments." In Offshore Technology Conference Asia. OTC, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4043/31582-ms.
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Abstract Hydrates have been a constant threat to subsea deepwater operations. Partial or total hydrate blockages usually occur after shutdown of a host facility, which invariably affects the resumption of production. The complexities of subsea production systems and extensiveness of deepwater fields present challenges in implementing hydrate management strategies. In the past, erroneous and ad-hoc strategies were implemented due to a lack of flow assurance (FA) awareness and understanding, resulting in production deferment caused by frequent hydrate formation/ blockages. Hydrate inhibition based on Mono-Ethylene Glycol (MEG) and Methanol (MeOH), if not properly understood and managed may lead to significant increases in a field's annual operating expenditure (OPEX). PETRONAS has gained a fair amount of experience in dealing with hydrates. The approaches taken in mitigating hydrate related issues in subsea developments have been exemplary and it is beneficial to be shared across the fraternities. These approaches will be discussed in detail throughout the article based on case studies from two subsea field developments: Field D Deepwater Gas Development and BG Gas Flowline at Field C
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Faust, Maria. "Revitalizing Eastern and Western Online Communication: A Micro-Meso-Macro Link of Temporal Digital Change." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.2-2.
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This paper explains in a de-westernized sense (Gunaratne, 2010) how internet-mediated communication changes the way we deal with and plan time both individually and culturally in Germany and China. Therefore, it blends Western and Eastern culture and media theories. The paper focuses on two distinct phenomena: temporal change due to social media, and Online journalism, as the core of Internet-mediated communication (for Germany 39% communication, media use 24% Projektgruppe ARD/ZDF-Multimedia, 2016; for China 90.7% instant messaging, 82% Internet news China Internet Network Information Center, 2017), with other temporal change via smart devices touched upon (Ash, 2018). General research on time in post modern societies, recently more focused on media’s temporal change phenomena (e.g. Barker, 2012; Barker, 2018; Castells, 2010; Eriksen, 2001; Hartmann, 2016; Hassan, 2003; Innis, 2004; Neverla, 2010a, 2010b; Nowotny, 1995; Rantanen, 2005; Wajcman, 2010; Wajcman and Dodd) has not yet linked the different societal and cultural levels of temporal change. Thus, we suggest the following to fill this research gap: For a micro perspective the notions of network theories (e.g. Granovetter, 1973; Schönhuth, 2013), media synchronicity (Dennis, Fuller, and Valacich, 2008) and the idea of permanent connectivity (Sonnentag, Reinecke, Mata, and Vorderer, 2018; van Dijck, 2013; Vorderer, Krömer, and Schneider, 2016) are linked. On a meso level, institutional change in Online journalism with a focus on acceleration is modeled (Ananny, 2016; Bødker and Sonnevend, 2017; Dimmick, Feaster, and Hoplamazian, 2011; Krüger, 2014; Neuberger, 2010). On a macro level, mediatization theory (Couldry and Hepp, 2017; Krotz, 2001, 2012) and recent acceleration theory (Rosa, 2005, 2012, 2017) is discussed. The levels are systematically linked suggesting a micro-meso-macro-link (Quandt, 2010) to then ask if and how many of the dimensions of the construct temporal understanding (Faust, 2016) can be changed through Internet-mediated communication. Temporal understanding consists of nine dimensions: General past, general future, instrumental experience (monochronicity), fatalism, interacting experience (polychronicity), pace of life, future as planned expectation and result of proximal goals as well as future as trust based interacting expectation and result of present positive behavior. Temporal understanding integrates the anthropological construct of polychronicity (Bluedorn, Kalliath, Strube, and Martin, 1999; Hall, 1984; Lindquist and Kaufman-Scarborough, 2007), pace of life (Levine, 1998) and temporal horizon (Klapproth, 2011) into a broader framework which goes beyond Western biased constructs through the theory driven incorporation of Confucian notions (Chinese Culture Connection, 1987). Finally, meta trends are laid out.
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Ashraf, Shameed, Rahmad Haidzar Muhamad Husin, and Fakhuma Ubaidillah Mohd Hafiz. "Effects of Well Cement Additive Particle Size and Density Towards Overall Blend Characterization." In IADC/SPE Asia Pacific Drilling Technology Conference. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/201049-ms.
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Abstract Well cementing has evolved tremendously since its first application in the early 1900s. In the past, cement was mixed with water at the optimal ratio and combined with silica, bentonite, and additives according to the conditions of use. This simple formulation cannot serve the full breadth of oilfield applications. As a result, cement blend composition has evolved with advanced materials such as lightweight glass beads, cenospheres, polymeric beads, hematite, silica, manganese tetroxide, and many more. The wide variety of material used combined with poor understanding of the modern blend has resulted in operational issues, causing failures in blend delivery and execution. There have been cases of unfavorable blend leading to operation failure after it got stuck within the silo, unable to be pneumatically transferred. Some blend has high segregation potential, causing components to separate out, leading to problems in terms of mixing and having stable density during execution. The focus of this study is to establish a comprehensive understanding of modern cement blend additives for seamless operational execution. Several commonly used materials have been selected to form a case study of powder additive behavior. These materials are grouped into three categories: light, medium, and heavy density, with specific gravity between 0.1 and 1.9, 2.0 and 3.9, and 4.0 and 6.0 g/cm3, respectively. Each group is further divided into subcategories based on the particle sizes of fine, medium, and coarse. These materials are then characterized in terms of flowability factor, aeration energy, and compaction ratio, which consists of the Carr index and Hausner ratio. These are typical physical flow characteristics of the bulk solids. Results show that particle size and density significantly influence the flowability factor, aeration energy, and compaction ratio of a powder blend. In general, materials with fine particle size tend to have higher resistance to flow when evaluated through the flowability factor. Both medium- and coarse-particle additives tend to have higher flowability factor than fine-particle blends, that results in easier blend movement. Aeration energy requirements are much higher for high-density and coarse particles compared to medium and fine particles. The compaction ratio evaluation shows that coarse materials have lower tendency to compact compared to the fine and medium materials. Based on the established understanding of individual components, mixtures are then formed with the intention of improving the overall blend character. The poor characteristics of a high-density fine material are significantly improved by combining the fine material with a lightweight cenosphere. The high aeration energy requirements of heavy coarse particles can be halved by adding lightweight glass beads. For improved behavior, a different particle size of silica materials can be mixed at optimized ratio. Combining materials to obtain optimal particle-size distribution and density is crucial to ensuring an overall blend with favorable characteristics. The behavior of individual components based on particle size and density has paved the way for effective optimization of blends for seamless operational deliverables
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Lazonick, William, Philip Moss, and Joshua Weitz. Equality Denied: Tech and African Americans. Institute for New Economic Thinking, February 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36687/inetwp177.
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Thus far in reporting the findings of our project “Fifty Years After: Black Employment in the United States Under the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,” our analysis of what has happened to African American employment over the past half century has documented the importance of manufacturing employment to the upward socioeconomic mobility of Blacks in the 1960s and 1970s and the devastating impact of rationalization—the permanent elimination of blue-collar employment—on their socioeconomic mobility in the 1980s and beyond. The upward mobility of Blacks in the earlier decades was based on the Old Economy business model (OEBM) with its characteristic “career-with-one-company” (CWOC) employment relations. At its launching in 1965, the policy approach of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission assumed the existence of CWOC, providing corporate employees, Blacks included, with a potential path for upward socioeconomic mobility over the course of their working lives by gaining access to productive opportunities and higher pay through stable employment within companies. It was through these internal employment structures that Blacks could potentially overcome barriers to the long legacy of job and pay discrimination. In the 1960s and 1970s, the generally growing availability of unionized semiskilled jobs gave working people, including Blacks, the large measure of employment stability as well as rising wages and benefits characteristic of the lower levels of the middle class. The next stage in this process of upward socioeconomic mobility should have been—and in a nation as prosperous as the United States could have been—the entry of the offspring of the new Black blue-collar middle class into white-collar occupations requiring higher educations. Despite progress in the attainment of college degrees, however, Blacks have had very limited access to the best employment opportunities as professional, technical, and administrative personnel at U.S. technology companies. Since the 1980s, the barriers to African American upward socioeconomic mobility have occurred within the context of the marketization (the end of CWOC) and globalization (accessibility to transnational labor supplies) of high-tech employment relations in the United States. These new employment relations, which stress interfirm labor mobility instead of intrafirm employment structures in the building of careers, are characteristic of the rise of the New Economy business model (NEBM), as scrutinized in William Lazonick’s 2009 book, Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy? Business Organization and High-Tech Employment in the United States (Upjohn Institute). In this paper, we analyze the exclusion of Blacks from STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) occupations, using EEO-1 employment data made public, voluntarily and exceptionally, for various years between 2014 and 2020 by major tech companies, including Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Facebook (now Meta), Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP Inc., Intel, Microsoft, PayPal, Salesforce, and Uber. These data document the vast over-representation of Asian Americans and vast under-representation of African Americans at these tech companies in recent years. The data also shine a light on the racial, ethnic, and gender composition of large masses of lower-paid labor in the United States at leading U.S. tech companies, including tens of thousands of sales workers at Apple and hundreds of thousands of laborers & helpers at Amazon. In the cases of Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Intel, we have access to EEO-1 data from earlier decades that permit in-depth accounts of the employment transitions that characterized the demise of OEBM and the rise of NEBM. Given our findings from the EEO-1 data analysis, our paper then seeks to explain the enormous presence of Asian Americans and the glaring absence of African Americans in well-paid employment under NEBM. A cogent answer to this question requires an understanding of the institutional conditions that have determined the availability of qualified Asians and Blacks to fill these employment opportunities as well as the access of qualified people by race, ethnicity, and gender to the employment opportunities that are available. Our analysis of the racial/ethnic determinants of STEM employment focuses on a) stark differences among racial and ethnic groups in educational attainment and performance relevant to accessing STEM occupations, b) the decline in the implementation of affirmative-action legislation from the early 1980s, c) changes in U.S. immigration policy that favored the entry of well-educated Asians, especially with the passage of the Immigration Act of 1990, and d) consequent social barriers that qualified Blacks have faced relative to Asians and whites in accessing tech employment as a result of a combination of statistical discrimination against African Americans and their exclusion from effective social networks.
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Nietschke, Yung, Anna Dabrowski, Maya Conway, and Chaula Pradhika. COVID-19 Education Response Mapping Study: Building Resilience in the Kyrgyz Republic: Readiness, Response, and Recovery. Australian Council for Educational Research, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.37517/978-1-74286-702-1.
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis has caused unprecedented levels of disruption to education systems worldwide. Across the Asia region, it is estimated that around 760 million children were impacted by school closures at the height of the pandemic. Government response strategies have varied across the region, with some countries imposing prolonged school lockdowns while others have had short, repeated closure periods. As countries begin to reopen schools and continue to prepare for subsequent waves of COVID-19 infection, there is a need to develop the greater capability of education systems to safeguard learning and address persistent barriers to learning equality by harnessing the opportunities for systemic change. However, school-based practices and responses that have been effective in supporting the continuity of learning during the COVID-19 pandemic have yet to be well examined, particularly in Asia. While the system and school structures are a crucial component of educational quality, understanding what happens in a school setting can offer meaningful insights into overcoming barriers to educational quality as education systems recover and rebuild from the pandemic. This report presents the findings of research undertaken in the Kyrgyz Republic, Central Asia. It forms part of a broader study that aims to explore the system and school-level practices that have supported learning continuity in Asia during the pandemic. The study will focus on the practices of policymakers that have supported teaching and learning and consider ways in which school leaders, teachers, and parents have worked to support children during periods of disruption. Rather than comparing the responses of countries in Asia, this study will highlight innovations in the system and school policies and programs in the Kyrgyz Republic and make recommendations based on insights from the Kyrgyz Republic’s education system. The study will focus on the system and school participants that support students in the Kyrgyz Republic but will not include students themselves.