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No Place, New Places: Death and its Rituals in Urban Asia
Urban Studies, 2011 In many land-scarce Asian cities, planning agencies have sought to reduce space for the dead to release land for the living, encouraging conversion from burial to cremation over several decades. This has caused secular principles privileging efficient land use to conflict with symbolic values invested in burial spaces.
Lily Kong
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American Review of Public Administration, 2020 Existing commentaries on government responses to COVID-19 have focused on such factors as competent leadership, policy instruments, or cultural dispositions. Yet, few have provided a synthesis that examines how these factors relate to each other.
Brian Y. An, S. Tang
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Shifting the Focus to East and Southeast Asia: A Critical Review of Regional Game Research
Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021 This paper examines the prominence of East and Southeast Asia as a focus of communications and game studies. The idea of going regional when researching video games comes from the fact that each locale has its trait to construct its gaming industry and ...
PQ Anh
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Indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism, 2015 Since their introduction in clinical practice in the 1950's, Sulfonylureas (SUs) have remained the main-stay of pharmacotherapy in the management of type 2 diabetes. Despite their well-established benefits, their place in therapy is inappropriately being
M. Shekar +22 more
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Microsoft Research Asia’s Systems for WMT19 [PDF]
Conference on Machine Translation, 2019 We Microsoft Research Asia made submissions to 11 language directions in the WMT19 news translation tasks. We won the first place for 8 of the 11 directions and the second place for the other three.
Yingce Xia +14 more
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Expanding global commodities trade and consumption place the world’s primates at risk of extinction
PeerJ, 2019 As a consequence of recent human activities. populations of approximately 75% of the world’s primates are in decline, and more than 60% of species (n = 512) are threatened with extinction.
A. Estrada, P. Garber, A. Chaudhary
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E-Commerce as a Potential New Engine for Growth in Asia
IMF Working Papers, 2019 The use of e-commerce around the world has accelerated in recent years, with Asia, led by China, spearheading the rise. Using cross-country enterprise survey data, this paper shows that firms engaged in e-commerce have higher productivity and generate a ...
Tidiane Kinda
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Corruption and Wildlife Trafficking: Three Case Studies Involving Asia
, 2018 As wildlife trafficking or the illegal wildlife trade has taken a more prominent place on the global agenda, discussions are taking place as to how wildlife trafficking happens. An increased understanding has revealed that corruption is a key facilitator
T. Wyatt +4 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background B‐acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B‐ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer, and while most children in high‐resource settings are cured, therapy carries risks for long‐term toxicities. Understanding parents’ concerns about these late effects is essential to guide anticipatory support and inform evolving therapeutic approaches ...
Kellee N. Parker +7 more
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