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Exploring legal‐ and health‐risk messaging to reduce demand for elephant skin
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) are poached for an illegal trade in their skins, which are used in traditional medicine in Africa and Asia. We explored whether messages about the legal and health risks of using elephant skin for medicinal purposes (stomach illness) could reduce such consumption.
Beilu Duan +10 more
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Parasites & VectorsBackground Southeast Asia is well known as a hotspot of biodiversity. However, very little is known about cave-dwelling hematophagous insects that are medically important. Taxonomic knowledge and ecology of phlebotomine sand flies are very poorly studied
Khamsing Vongphayloth +9 more
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Serologic study of pig-associated viral zoonoses in Laos
, 2012 We conducted a serologic survey of four high-priority pig-associated viral zoonoses, Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), hepatitis E virus (HEV), Nipah virus (NiV), and swine influenza virus (SIV), in Laos. We collected blood from pigs at slaughter during
Jarman, R.G. +15 more
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Developmental or Liberal? How Japan and South Korea Diffuse Hybrid Financial Market Norms
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT East Asian economies have become major creditors in recent decades. However, while existing studies address the macroeconomic impact on the global economy of capital flows from East Asian economies, the impact of norm and policy diffusion that accompany such flows has received relatively little attention.
Yaechan Lee, Saori N. Katada
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Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past decade, cyber scamming has expanded rapidly across Southeast Asia. These operations cluster in compounds within business parks, casinos, industrial zones and other real estate developments. Although organized crime is often assumed to thrive where states are weak, this article offers a politically grounded explanation for why ...
Neil Loughlin
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Conservation assessment of Pinus cernua (Pinaceae)
Turczaninowia, 2017 The paper presents results of completed conservation assessment of the strict Laos-Vietnamese endemic, Pinus cernua, based on survey of all previous publications and data obtained from extensive fieldworks during September–October 2016, supported by ...
L. V. Averyanov +4 more
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Economics of Smallholder Rubber Production in Northern Laos
In response to demand from China, rubber smallholdings are being established by shifting cultivators in Northern Laos, encouraged by government land-use policy.
Cramb, Rob A., Manivong, Vongpaphane
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, 1947 Variante(s) de titre : Remplacé par : "Bulletin officiel du Royaume du ...
Commissariat de la République française au Laos. Auteur du texte +1 more
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The Political U: New Evidence on the Economic Costs of Hybrid Regimes
Economics &Politics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent research establishes a positive causal effect from democracy to income, although this evidence relies mostly on binary regime classifications. We extend the identification framework of Acemoglu et al. (2019) to a classification that distinguishes democracies, autocracies, and hybrid regimes for about 170 countries over 1960–2024.
Nauro F. Campos +2 more
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