scholarly journals Progress on research on rodents and rodent-borne zoonoses in South-east Asia

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Blasdell ◽  
Frédéric Bordes ◽  
Kittipong Chaisiri ◽  
Yannick Chaval ◽  
Julien Claude ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Habitat Preferences ◽  
Rice Fields ◽  
Species Boundaries ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Accurate Identification ◽  
Complex Species ◽  
Rattus Tanezumi ◽  
Murine Rodents

This review aims to synthesise knowledge regarding the taxonomy of South-east Asian murine rodents and the challenges associated with the identification of habitat preferences and associated rodent-borne diseases. Recent studies concerning the Rattini tribe have identified unclear species boundaries that would benefit from further investigation. The development of barcoding may allow more accurate identification of rodents, specifically for complex species. However, knowledge on the distribution and habitat specialisations of many common murine rodents is still scarce, particularly regarding the specific habitat preferences of most synanthropic rodent species (Rattus tanezumi or Rattus exulans). Several studies have analysed the prevalence of major rodent-borne diseases in South-east Asia and it appears that the greatest risk of rodent zoonoses are in the lowland rain-fed and irrigated landscapes, generally in and around rice fields.

Evolution in Some South-East Asian Murinae (Rodentia), as Assessed by Microcomplement Fixation of Albumin, and Their Relationship to Australian Murines

1994 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 711 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHS Watts ◽  
PR Baverstock
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationship ◽  
East Asian ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Land Bridge ◽  
Murine Rodents ◽  
Microcomplement Fixation ◽  
Relationship Of

The interrelationships of 16 genera and 49 species of predominantly South-east Asian murine rodents were studied by means of microcomplement fixation of albumin to measure immunological distances among taxa. The results are viewed as a hypothesis of the phylogenetic relationship of these taxa that can be tested by other data sets. Three main groupings are suggested: (1) Maxomys; (2) Leopoldomys, Niviventer and Tokudaia; and (3) Bandicota, Berylmys, Bullimus, Bunomys, Komodomys, Nesokia, Papagomys, Paruromys, Rattus, Stenomys, Sundamys and Taeromys. Within this latter group, Bunomys chrsogasta, Komodomys and Rattus timorensis group together, as do Bullimus, Rattus and Stenomys, and Bandicota with Nesokia. The Australian murines, represented by Mesembriomys, may be part of this South-east Asian radiation but, if so, arose early in its history. Biogeographically, the results support South-east Asia as being a centre of murine evolution with secondary foci in Sulawesi, New Guinea and Australia. There is some evidence to suggest that a relatively recent land bridge between Sulawesi, Flores and Timor may have existed.

The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
East Asian ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
The Third ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Global Understanding

Writing from a wide range of historical perspectives, contributors to the anthology shed new light on historical, theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to the documentary film, in order to better comprehend the significant transformations of the form in colonial, late colonial and immediate post-colonial and postcolonial times in South and South-East Asia. In doing so, this anthology addresses an important gap in the global understanding of documentary discourses, practices, uses and styles. Based upon in-depth essays written by international authorities in the field and cutting-edge doctoral projects, this anthology is the first to encompass different periods, national contexts, subject matter and style in order to address important and also relatively little-known issues in colonial documentary film in the South and South-East Asian regions. This anthology is divided into three main thematic sections, each of which crosses national or geographical boundaries. The first section addresses issues of colonialism, late colonialism and independence. The second section looks at the use of the documentary film by missionaries and Christian evangelists, whilst the third explores the relation between documentary film, nationalism and representation.

‘Insolence and pride’: problems with the representation of the South-East Asian Portuguese communities in Alexander Hamilton's ‘A New Account of the East Indies’ (1727)

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-235
Author(s):  
STEFAN HALIKOWSKI-SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
East Asia ◽  
East Asian ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
Rhetorical Tropes

AbstractOne of the most influential European printed sources on South-East Asia at the turn of the eighteenth century was the Scottish sea-captain Alexander Hamilton's memoirs. The picture he paints of the Portuguese communities that had existed since the period of Portuguese ascendancy in the sixteenth century is overwhelmingly negative. But a close textual and empirical analysis of his text shows that not only was he frequently misinformed in terms of the historical developments relating to that community, but that he merely conforms to a set of standard rhetorical tropes we can associate with the Black Legend, which had grown up in Protestant countries of northern Europe since the 16th century to denigrate Portugal and her achievements. This article urges that this key text consequently be used with far greater circumspection than has hitherto been the case.

Parts of South-east Asia may adopt nuclear post-2030

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Energy Development ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Electricity Grid ◽  
Renewable Energy Development

Significance It is the only country in South-east Asia with a large-scale nuclear plant, although this was never loaded with fuel. Other countries in the region have tentative plans to develop nuclear power programmes. Impacts The current absence of nuclear power programmes will help avert the diversion of capital from renewable energy development in the region. South-east Asian countries with small, non-power reactors, built for research, will try to maintain these facilities. Across the region, the need for electricity grid investment will increase as more decentralised generation sources are deployed.

Ancient south east Asian maritime trade.

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-121
Author(s):  
James F. Hancock
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
East Asian ◽  
First Century ◽  
Maritime Trade ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
The South ◽  
Trade Network

Abstract This chapter entails fourteen subchapters that detail the course of the South East Asian maritime trade. The subsections are about the beginning of Indonesian trade, the origin of trade between India and South East Asia, maritime trade of the Anuradhapura Kingdom, the Indianization of Indonesia, China's slow entry into the South East Asia trade network, Java becomes the nucleus of Indonesia, the Chinese Pilgrims - Chroniclers of the ancient spice and silk routes, early trade in the outer reaches of Indonesia, the Golden Peninsula, the first great trading empire: Funan, South East Asian trading spheres in the early first century CE, European connections, the two ways to Rome, and finally, the first direct contact between Rome and China.

Representations of suicide in cinema

2021 ◽  
pp. 699-708
Author(s):  
Gérard Camy ◽  
Camilla Wasserman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
East Asia ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The United States ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Minor Part ◽  
East Asian Cinema ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Asian Cinema

Here, representations of suicide in fiction film from the United States, Europe, and South East Asia are presented. Films are helpful in addressing discourses on suicide worldwide. Typically, the sufferings of the characters considering suicide or taking their lives occupy a minor part of the plot in scenarios highlighting action, cultural, and social reflection or existential interrogations. In Hollywood dramas, redemption, punishment, lost love, and solitude are major reasons for suicides; often the consequence of genuine injustice. In the European films discussed, suicides on screen often open to comments and reflections on many tragic circumstances explaining the protagonists’ actions. Not recognizing oneself in and by society seems an important reason for suicide. Wanting to understand the motives behind the voluntary death of a peer is recurrent. Much South East Asian cinema reflects the malaise of a society, its interiorized violence, death’ fascination, and the distress of a youth lacking excitement.

scholarly journals Level of agency cost driven by cultural and corruption and earnings management: Evidence of South East Asia countries

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andi Manggala Putra ◽  
Gagaring Pagalung ◽  
Abdul Hamid Habbe
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Earnings Quality ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Agency Cost ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Management Behaviour ◽  
Corruption Index ◽  
Market Capitalisation

Purpose: This study scrutinises the correlation between earnings quality and agency cost based on corruption level and cultural values in six South-East Asian (SEA) countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.Design/methodology: We restrict categorisation of each SEA country whether they have low or high agency cost. This study employs 581 firm-years observations from the 30 biggest market capitalisation firms of six SEA countries. We run multiple regressions of three main accrual models for main analysis (Jones, 1991; Dechow et al., 1995; Kasznik, 1999) to get discretionary accruals.Findings: Results show that firms in low agency cost countries have lower earnings quality, and indicate that earnings management behaviour in this study is efficient rather than detrimental. Furthermore, results present that firms with bigger size engage less in earnings management conduct compared to their counterparts.Originality/value: This study provides broader acknowledgement of how cultural values and corruption and their assumed correlation to agency cost could affect earnings management behaviour in South East Asia. We use a single proxy of high/low agency cost based on national cultural and corruption index.

Catastrophic ongoing decline in Cambodia’s Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis population

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIMON P. MAHOOD ◽  
CHAMNAN HONG ◽  
SON VIRAK ◽  
PHEARUN SUM ◽  
STEPHEN T. GARNETT
Keyword(s):  
Sex Ratio ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Breeding Season ◽  
Total Population ◽  
East Asian ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
Conservation Programme ◽  
Tonle Sap ◽  
Rate Of Decline

SummaryIn 2013 a prediction was made that the South-East Asian subspecies of Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis blandini would be extinct within 10 years. In 2018 we conducted a survey in the Tonle Sap floodplain, Cambodia, of the last population of Bengal Florican in South-East Asia. We found that the rate of decline in displaying males was 55% over five years, a decline comparable to that recorded between 2005–2007 and 2012. The estimated number of displaying males in 2018 was 104 (95% CI: 89–117), down from 216 (156–275) in 2012. We also conducted surveys by flushing birds in the non-breeding season, which indicated that the sex ratio of males to females is 3:1. We therefore estimate that the total population of adult Bengal Floricans in Cambodia in 2018 was 138 (119–156), making H. b. blandini the most threatened bustard taxon. The number of sites that support displaying male Bengal Floricans was reduced from 10 to four between 2012 and 2018. Between 2012 and 2018 we monitored numbers of displaying males in most years at the sites that support 80% of the total population. The only site where numbers of birds are stable is Stoung-Chikraeng Bengal Florican Conservation Area, where there were 44 (25–63) displaying males in 2018. This is the only site that has an ongoing NGO-government conservation programme. Our data indicate that Bengal Floricans are lost from sites when the area of grassland falls below 25 km2. We found evidence that displaying male Bengal Floricans abandon display territories when grassland is lost, this also creates hope that they may disperse and could colonise newly created habitat. All remaining sites that support Bengal Floricans in Cambodia are imperilled and we outline what must be done to reduce the possibility that H. b. blandini will be extinct by 2023.

Economic Growth and Power Sector Developments in South East Asia

1997 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
Pavan Gupta ◽  
Ross L Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Direct Foreign Investment ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Power Sector ◽  
Financial Investment

In recent years, many South East Asian nations have shown strong economic growth coupled with success in attracting considerable direct foreign investment. In order to sustain the current and projected growth levels, many countries in South East Asia will need to focus on major investments for infrastructure development, especially in their power generation and distribution sectors. As highlighted by the current financial crises being experienced in several South East Asian nations, the future growth of this region will require much stronger support from the international financial institutions, which in turn will lead this region toward a greatly increased level of privatization. The establishment of contestable energy markets is a particularly good example of the type of developments required in these nations. In order to create a healthy climate for the massive financial investment needed for a truly liberalized energy market, a number of difficult political and social issues common to many of these rapidly developing economies must be resolved.

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