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The Centrality of Central Asia

Studies in History, 1992
From time to time Studies in History will carry a contribution challenging received wisdoms or turning long-standing issues on their head. Our first dialogue is initiated by Andre Gunder Frank who argues that the history of Central Asia is crucial to the understanding of developments in a very large part of the world.
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The burden of cardiovascular disease in Asia from 2025 to 2050: a forecast analysis for East Asia, South Asia, South-East Asia, Central Asia, and high-income Asia Pacific regions

The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific
Summary Background Given the rapidly growing burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Asia, this study forecasts the CVD burden and associated risk factors in Asia from 2025 to 2050.
R. Goh, B. Chong, J. Jayabaskaran, Silingga M Jauhari, Siew Pang Chan, M. Kueh, Kannan Shankar, Henry Li, Y. Chin, G. Kong, V. V. Anand, K. Chan, Indah Sukmawati, Sue Anne Toh, M. Muthiah, Jiongwei Wang, G. Tse, Anurag Mehta, Alan Fong, L. Baskaran, Liang Zhong, J. Yap, K. Yeo, Derek J. Hausenloy, J. Tan, Tze-Fan Chao, Yi-Heng Li, Shir Lynn Lim, K. Chan, P. Loh, P. Chai, T. Yeo, A. F. Low, Chi-Hang Lee, R. Foo, H. Tan, James W L Yip, Sarita Rao, Satoshi Honda, Satoshi Yasuda, T. Kajiya, Shinya H. Goto, Bryan P. Yan, X. Zhou, Gemma A. Figtree, M. Mamas, Yongcheol Kim, Y. Jeong, M. Kim, D. Park, Seung-Jung Park, A. M. Richards, M. Chan, Gregory Y. H. Lip, Nicholas W. S. Chew   +54 more
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Vulnerability of vegetation activities to drought in Central Asia

Environmental Research Letters, 2020
Central Asia (CA) is a continental region that is sensitive to water conditions. Hence, drought has one of the primary effects on the vegetation activities in CA and could vary with climate change.
Haoyu Deng, Yunhe Yin, Xiang Han
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Assessing extreme climatic changes on a monthly scale and their implications for vegetation in Central Asia

, 2020
The arid and semi-arid areas of Central Asia are especially susceptible and vulnerable to climatic change, thus making understanding the relationship between extreme climate and vegetation dynamics in recent decades very important.
M. Luo, Chula Sa, Fanhao Meng, Yongchao Duan, Tie Liu, Y. Bao   +5 more
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Development and utilization of water resources and assessment of water security in Central Asia

, 2020
The utilization of water resources and water security in Central Asia are critical to the stability of the region. This paper assesses the water security of the five Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and ...
Xuanxuan Wang, Yaning Chen, Zhi Li, G. Fang, Yi Wang   +4 more
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Central Asia

International Studies, 2016
The newly independent countries of Central Asia were eager to integrate their economies with the global economy. This required not only the dismantling of the state-controlled economy but also ushering in some form of democracy, free press and independent civil society. Beginning with 1991, the leadership in Central Asia tried to shed the tag of being
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Spatiotemporal variability of the precipitation concentration and diversity in Central Asia

, 2020
More extreme precipitation is expected to occur in the arid and wet regions due to climate warming. This intensification will increase the risk of floods, soil erosion, and droughts in the world's dry regions.
Tao Yang, Qian Li, Xi Chen, P. Maeyer, Xue Yan, Yang Liu, Tianbao Zhao, Lan-hai Li   +7 more
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Aeolian dust in Central Asia: Spatial distribution and temporal variability

, 2020
Aeolian dust is a significant factor influencing the atmospheric environment in arid and semi-arid areas, and one which deeply involves biogeochemical cycling, energy exchange, and the global carbon balance.
Xiao‐Xiao Zhang, C. Claiborn, J. Lei, J. Vaughan, Shi-xin Wu, Shengyu Li, Lianyou Liu, Zifa Wang, Yongdong Wang, Shuang‐Yan Huang, Jie Zhou   +10 more
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Increasing effective moisture during the Holocene in the semiarid regions of the Yili Basin, Central Asia: Evidence from loess sections

, 2020
The evolution of Holocene moisture in semiarid and arid regions of Central Asia is key to understanding changes in current and future water resources, and has been a hotly debated topic in the past few decades.
Shugang Kang, Xulong Wang, H. Roberts, G. Duller, Yougui Song, Weiguo Liu, Ran Zhang, Xingxing Liu, Jianghu Lan   +8 more
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Late Holocene hydroclimatic variation in central Asia and its response to mid-latitude Westerlies and solar irradiance

, 2020
Hydroclimatic variations in central Asia are widely recognized to be tele-connected with the North Atlantic climate via the mid-latitude Westerlies. However, the long-term hydroclimatic variation and its response to North Atlantic climate changes are not
Jianghu Lan, Jin Zhang, P. Cheng, Xiaoli Ma, L. Ai, S. Chawchai, K. Zhou, Tianli Wang, Keke Yu, Enguo Sheng, Shugang Kang, Jingjie Zang, D. Yan, Yaqin Wang, L. Tan, Hai Xu   +15 more
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