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Saito Takashi and Imahashi Kumiko
East and Southeast Asia (ESEA) are facing age-related eye health issues. Low-vision rehabilitation (LVR), which is a special rehabilitation service for individuals with vision impairment, is a promising solution for these health issues; however, poor acc...
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Intizar H. Khan and William C. Clyde
Analysis of lithofacies, paleoflow directions, and sandstone petrography of upper Paleocene-lower Eocene paralic and continental sediments exposed along the transpressional suture zone of the western margin of the Indian plate indicate that the process o...
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Rahim M. Quazi
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Many recent FDI studies have focused on the effects of corruption on FDI inflows. Theoretically, corruption can act as either a grabbing hand by raising uncertainty and transaction costs, which should impede FDI, or a helping hand by ?greasing? the wheel...
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Marko Keskinen, Joseph H. A. Guillaume, Mirja Kattelus, Miina Porkka, Timo A. Räsänen, Olli Varis
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The water-energy-food nexus is a topical subject for research and practice, reflecting the importance of these sectors for humankind and the complexity and magnitude of the challenges they are facing. While the nexus as a concept is not yet mature or ful...
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Marko Keskinen and Olli Varis
The water-energy-food nexus (?nexus?) is promoted as an approach to look at the linkages between water, energy and food. The articles of Water?s Special Issue ?Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Large Asian River Basins? look at the applicability of the nexus ap...
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Marko Keskinen, Joseph H. A. Guillaume, Mirja Kattelus, Miina Porkka, Timo A. Räsänen and Olli Varis
The water-energy-food nexus is a topical subject for research and practice, reflecting the importance of these sectors for humankind and the complexity and magnitude of the challenges they are facing. While the nexus as a concept is not yet mature or ful...
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Navneet Kumar, Asia Khamzina, Patrick Knöfel, John P. A. Lamers and Bernhard Tischbein
Climate change is likely to decrease surface water availability in Central Asia, thereby necessitating land use adaptations in irrigated regions. The introduction of trees to marginally productive croplands with shallow groundwater was suggested for irri...
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Berivan A Abdullah, Diana T Salih, Asia A. M Saadullah
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Introduction: Fungi live everywhere in the environment, most of them are not dangerous, but some types of fungi can be harmful to human health. The medicinal plants contain many antimicrobial components that make them recently used as powerful drugs. The...
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Asia A. M. Saadullah, Samir K. Abdullah
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Introduction: Dried vine fruits (raisins) and their juice are widely consumed by human as a diet. Raisins have been shown highly contaminated with ochratoxin A (OTA) and OTA-producing fungi. Ochratoxin A is a potent nephrotoxic and carcinogen to human an...
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Ephraim Sekyi-Annan, Bernhard Tischbein, Bernd Diekkrüger and Asia Khamzina
Improving irrigation management in semi-arid regions of Sub-Saharan Africa is crucial to respond to increasing variability in rainfall and overcome deficits in current irrigation schemes. In small-scale and medium-scale reservoir-based irrigation schemes...
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Lahouari Bounoua, Joseph Nigro, Kurtis Thome, Ping Zhang, Najlaa Fathi and Asia Lachir
Cities are poised to absorb additional people. Their sustainability, or ability to accommodate a population increase without depleting resources or compromising future growth, depends on whether they harness the efficiency gains from urban land managemen...
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Lahouari Bounoua, Joseph Nigro, Kurtis Thome, Ping Zhang, Najlaa Fathi and Asia Lachir
Cities are poised to absorb additional people. Their sustainability, or ability to accommodate a population increase without depleting resources or compromising future growth, depends on whether they harness the efficiency gains from urban land managemen...
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Zhijie Ta, Ruide Yu, Xi Chen, Guijin Mu and Yanfei Guo
Drought has become an important threat to industrial and agricultural production and human activities in Central Asia. Using the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), we explored the spatial and temporal patterns of dry and wet chan...
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Gulmira Mombekova,Gulzhan Turysbekova,Assel Baimbetova
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Cotton is the most important cash crop in the economy of the Central Asia countries. After the Central Asia countries acquired their independence, decisive steps have been taken to liquidate the dependence on the export of cotton fiber and to increase vo...
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Lin Crase, Bethany Cooper and Michael Burton
In this paper, we consider the process of transition from an equitable distribution of water to support semi-subsistence outcomes to market-oriented agriculture. We examine the stresses placed on water institutions as farmers adjust production to become ...
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Long Ma, Jilili Abuduwaili, Yaoming Li, Salamat Abdyzhapar uulu and Shuyong Mu
Based on water sampling of the upper reaches of the Syr River and its tributaries from the parts of Aral Sea Basin in Kyrgyzstan, the chemical compositions of river waters were systematically analyzed for revealing the hydrochemical characteristics and e...
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Teerachai Amnuaylojaroen
Southeast Asia (SEA), known for its diverse climate and broad coastal regions, is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The purpose of this study is to enhance the spatial resolution of temperature projections over Southeast Asia (SEA...
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Adam James Fenton
This paper examines hybrid threats to maritime transportation systems and their governance responses; focusing on the congested Straits of Malacca and Singapore (SOMS) as an illustrative case study. The methodology combines secondary sources with primary...
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Zhenxian Peng, Zhonglian Jiang, Xiao Chu and Jianglong Ying
As an important mode of transportation for the global trade, waterborne transportation has become a priority option for import and export trade due to its large load capacity and relatively low cost. Meanwhile, shipping safety has been highly valued. By ...
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Alexei B. Herman and Ksenia V. Domogatskaya
Three species belonging to the fern genus Ochotopteris E. Lebedev, including the new species O. lebedevii Herman et Domogatskaya, are revised, described and illustrated in this paper. The fossils come from Albian, Cenomanian, Turonian and Coniacian beds ...
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