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Assessing global pandemic risks from emerging infectious diseases and high containment laboratory leaks: A country‐level spatial network SIR model analysis

open access: yesRisk Analysis, EarlyView.
Abstract Future pandemics could arise from several sources, notably, emerging infectious diseases (EID); and lab leaks from high containment biological laboratories (HCBL). Recent advances in infectious disease, information technology, and biotechnology provide building blocks to reduce pandemic risk if deployed intelligently.
Ross J. Tieman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants Of Barries To Quality Of Direct Foreign Investments Evidences From South & East Asian Economies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The objective of this paper is to examine whether FDI inflows in South & East Asian economies posses any barriers which are deterring to attract FDI of their actual potential? If so, what are those various set of barriers?
Aristidis, Bitzenis P.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Female Education and Child Marriage

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine why the education of young girls has historically lagged behind that of young boys across different countries. Using data from 105 countries during 1990–2020, we discover some evidence that is consistent with the idea that parents in many traditional societies reduce investments in the primary schooling of their daughters after they
Hasan A. Faruq
wiley   +1 more source

The Becoming of Human Rights Documents: An Exploration of a Social Media Campaign

open access: yesProceedings from the Document Academy, 2015
This study explores the social media campaign related to the disappearance of a journalist in the Maldives in August 2014. At a simple level, this study asks whether the Facebook and Twitter hashtag postings meet the standards of a human rights document.
Hilary Yerbury, Ahmed Shahid
doaj   +1 more source

Resettlement as climate change adaptation: what can be learned from state-led relocation in rural Africa and Asia? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
There is growing interest in helping people in developing countries cope with climate change by reframing population relocation as an adaptation strategy.
Arnall, Alex
core   +1 more source

Sedimentological characterisation is a necessary prerequisite for interpretation of stable carbon isotope ratios of bulk sediment from reefal settings

open access: yesSedimentology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For most of Earth history, carbonate sediments deposited in shallow marine settings are the only remaining archive of changing biogeochemical cycles. All deep‐sea sediments older than >200 Ma have been subducted and are therefore lost from the record. Stable carbon isotope (δ13C) values of shallow marine carbonates are available for older time
Colleen N. Brown   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Studies in Trade and Investment - AGRICULTURAL TRADE - PLANTING THE SEEDS OF REGIONAL LIBERALIZATION IN ASIA [PDF]

open access: yes
this chapter maps the agricultural trade liberalization efforts of the South Asian Economies (SAEs).agricultural trade, South Asian ...
Kamal Marunagoda   +2 more
core  

Modal verbs in South Asian Online Englishes: Exploring the use of must, (have) got to, have to and need to

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
wiley   +1 more source

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