Dynamical influence of the Tibetan Plateau on the winter monsoon over southeastern Asia [PDF]
Previous studies have shown (1) that the Tibetan Plateau produces a significant fraction of the two components of the Equatorial Mountain Torque (EMT) in winter, (2) that these torques are in part related to the East Asian cold surges, and (3) that the cold surges affect the convection over the maritime continent.
Sylvain Mailler+2 more
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Uplift of Central Mongolia Recorded in Vesicular Basalts [PDF]
Epeirogenic histories of highland areas have confounded earth scientists for decades, as there are few sedimentary records of paleoelevation in eroding highlands.
Ancuta, L. D.+4 more
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Millennium-length precipitation reconstruction over south-eastern Asia: a pseudo-proxy approach [PDF]
Quantifying precipitation variability beyond the instrumental period is essential for putting current and future fluctuations into long-term perspective and providing a test bed for evaluating climate simulations.
S. Talento+5 more
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Vitamin A deficiency and xerophthalmia among school-aged children in Southeastern Asia [PDF]
To determine provisional estimates of the extent of vitamin A (VA) deficiency and xerophthalmia among school-aged children.Literature search of published, unpublished and website-based population survey and study reports, with country-specific imputation of prevalence rates and numbers of children affected by: (1) VA deficiency based on measured or ...
Keith P. West, Veena Singh
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Paleo-Balkan and Slavic Contributions to the Genetic Pool of Moldavians [PDF]
Moldova has a rich historical and cultural heritage, which may be reflected in the current genetic makeup of its population. To date, no comprehensive studies exist about the population genetic structure of modern Moldavians.
Kharkov, Vladimir+7 more
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Survival Among the Birds of Eastern and Southeastern Asia
A bird banding scheme known as the Migratory Animal Pathology Survey was active in Eastern and Southeastern Asia during the years 1963-1971. Birds were ringed extensively in South Korea, Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand, Malaya, Sarawak, Sabah, Singapore, Java, Bali, and India, with some work being done in a few other localities.
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Estimating site occupancy for four threatened mammals in southeastern Laos [PDF]
textThe tropical forests of Indochina harbor a suite of globally threatened tropical mammal species. These species are difficult to detect, and subsequently understudied. Noninvasive camera trapping was used to survey terrestrial mammals from a protected
Tilker, Andrew
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The late Mesozoic-Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the South China Sea: A petrologic perspective [PDF]
This paper presents a review of available petrological, geochonological and geochemical data for late Mesozoic to Recent igneous rocks in the South China Sea (SCS) and adjacent regions and a discussion of their petrogeneses and tectonic implications. The
Castillo, PR, Shi, X, Yan, Q
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We characterized the spatial distribution of drug-susceptible (DS) and multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB) cases in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, a major metropolis in southeastern Asia, and explored demographic and socioeconomic factors associated
Ruan Spies+18 more
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Description of Ixodes lanigeri sp. nov., a new hard tick species (Acari, Ixodidae) collected from mouse-eared bats (Vespertilionidae, Myotis) in Vietnam [PDF]
Historically, for more than one and a half centuries, only one so-called “long-legged bat tick” species, i.e., Ixodes vespertilionis Koch was known to science.
Sándor Hornok+5 more
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