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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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Lipid Profile Comparison between Opium Addicts and Non-Addicts [PDF]
Journal of Tehran University Heart Center, 2008 Background: This study was done to test the notion that opium can reduce serum lipids and decrease the risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD) in opium addicts; we made a comparison between the lipid profiles of opium addicts and non-addicts. Methods: In
Seyedeh Seddigheh Fatemi +3 more
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Responding to Afghanistan's Opium economy challenge : lessons and policy implications from a development perspective [PDF]
Opium, Afghanistan's leading economic activity, lies at the heart of the challenges the country faces in state building, governance, security, and development.
Byrd, William A.
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, 2021 In 1856 when urging diplomatic recognition of the Taiping by the United States, the American Presbyterian missionary W.A.P. Martin laid out a world historical showdown between abstemious Christian revolutionaries of a rising China and besotted pagan and ...
Johnson, KA
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Effect of Opium Smoking on Concentrations of Carcinoembryonic Antigen and Tissue Polypeptide Antigen
The International Journal of Biological Markers, 2004 Previous studies have related opium and its pyrolysates to the risk of developing certain cancers. The aim of this work was to evaluate the clinical usefulness of determining carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and tissue polypeptide antigen (TPA) levels in ...
F. Naghibalhossaini +4 more
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Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Biology, 2019 Drug abuse remains a serious health and social threat in the world. According to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 1n 2010, an estimated 16.5 million people use opium or its derivatives illicitly (1). Meanwhile, Iran has the first rank
Hossein Ghahremani +2 more
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Indian deindustrialization revisited: New data, estimates, and interpretations
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The fate of the handloom cotton textile industry is one of the most debated topics in the economic history of India. This paper presents novel employment estimates for cotton textile handweaving and spinning in the period 1800–1940. I put together plausible values for labour productivity and combine these with aggregate input usage to generate
Alexander Nagar
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