Sentences with phrase «east asian»

The researchers who proposed the east Asian source are not convinced.

Half of the expressions were shown on a Western Caucasian face and half on an East Asian face.

With a length of ca. 5 centimeters it is the smallest fossil representative of this East Asian group, and a mere dwarf compared to its modern living relatives.

«Coronary artery disease tends to cluster in families and has a strong genetic basis; however, we do not fully understand that genetic foundation,» said senior author Danish Saleheen, PhD, an assistant professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Penn. «We conducted the largest genetic analyses on coronary artery disease to date, including information from people of European, African, South Asian, and East Asian heritages.»

East Asian viruses seemed to have migrated there from all over the world, he says, and new varieties seemed to originate anywhere.

One East Asian tree is so intimate with the moth that pollinates it that it holds the moth's offspring captive until they reach adulthood.

Now that chess and checkers are old news, other scientists in Schaeffer's group, including Martin Muller and Akihiro Kishimoto are turning their eyes to what many see as an ultimate test of artificial intelligence: the traditional East Asian board game go.

With a length of only 5 centimeters, Planktophaga minuta is also the smallest known fossil representative of this East Asian group.

«The first supernovae are especially interesting not only to people who study stars but also those doing cosmology,» said Ken Chen, an astrophysicist at the East Asian Core Observatories Association (EACOA) and lead author on a paper in The Astrophysical Journal that examines how the first supernovae influenced star formation and, along with it, the evolution of the universe.

However, a difference with lung cancers having sporadic EGFR mutations is a predominance for white ethnicity (compared with East Asian).

Nodes are grouped by continental super-population (AFR, African; AMR, Admixed American; EAS, East Asian; EUR, European; SAS, South Asian) and colored by haplogroup.

That earlier work found more genetic diversity in East Asian dog breeds, indicating that the breeds are older and probably represent the earliest domesticated dogs.

Curnoe counters, however, that the key comparison is with Pleistocene East Asian skulls and recent hunter - gatherer and agricultural populations.

While women in most Asian regions are far less likely to smoke than men, the study also found an increased risk of death from cancer, CVD and respiratory diseases among East Asian women.

Curnoe nicknamed the bones the Red Deer Cave people; he and his colleagues compared them with modern and contemporary human remains from Asia, Australia, Europe, and Africa, as well as with Pleistocene East Asian hunter - gatherer skulls.

As Susan Thornton, acting assistant secretary for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the U.S. State Department, predicted, «I don't think that [climate change is] going to be a major part of the discussion in Florida.»

That means many babies of an East Asian or South Asian mother may be classified as underweight, when in fact they are «normal» for their ethnic groups.

Shark - finning is lucrative, as fins fetch more than $ 100 per pound in East Asian markets to meet demand for shark fin soup.

The researchers plan to expand on these findings by exploring handshaking versus bowing, a traditional greeting in East Asian cultures.

Because the East Asian group displayed the greatest genetic diversity, the scientists posit that dogs were domesticated there first.

Made up of scores from 550,000 fourth and eighth graders from more than 40 countries, the assessment shows a handful of East Asian countries scored among the highest, whereas U.S. students wound up in the middle of the pack.

«Mistaken identity of East Asian vine species resolved after 100 years.»

The request is nothing new: It seems there's always someone crying out against film students or East Asian studies majors, wondering why these damn kids don't just study petroleum chemistry.

As for our different ear odors, they came about because of a tiny change, just one little letter in the genetic alphabet that long ago granted an East Asian population a reprieve from both smelly underarms and sticky earwax.

Meanwhile, ESO's current main facility, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Cerro Paranal in Chile, continues to be the world's most productive ground - based instrument, and the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), a new radio observatory built jointly with North American and East Asian countries, is opening up this previously little - studied window on the universe.

«Ironically the crossing of the «red line» on wetlands probably results from trying to achieve the «red line» on agricultural land,» says Spike Millington, chief executive of the South Korea — based East Asian - Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP), «since any agricultural land taken over for development has to be compensated by an equivalent area of newly created «agricultural» land elsewhere.»

She has since found differences in the mutation spectrum between Japanese and other East Asian populations.

«Coral reefs in the south - east Asian Coral Triangle region typify the situation in which marine reserves can be an effective management tool.

Although the world's attention is focused on the novel H1N1 virus causing the swine flu pandemic, H3N2, a seasonal strain of influenza, has popped up in many East Asian countries — and some variants in circulation may outfox the seasonal vaccine in use.

The results indicated that the three cultivated groups (Eurasian, East Asian, and Xishuangbanna) each are monophyletic and genetically quite homogeneous, but the Indian group shows clear evidence of substructure and genetic heterogeneity.

The subjects identified themselves either as non-Hispanic white, African American, Hispanic, or East Asian (Chinese or Japanese).

The researchers recruited a subset of 461 volunteers from the PhenoGenetic Project of African American, East Asian American, or European American ancestry.

But from 2700 years ago onward, the East Asian influence becomes more prominent in the samples.

However, East Asian countries like Taiwan, South Korea, and most notably China are catching up, he said.

Larson takes the findings to suggest that some European wolf gave rise to west Eurasian domestic dogs whereas some Asian wolf gave rise to east Asian domestic dogs.

«I'm not at all surprised by the new findings,» says East Asian art historian Robin D.S. Yates of McGill University in Montreal.

The markings suggest that some workshops made several types of ceramic objects, says East Asian art historian Lothar Ledderose of Heidelberg University in Germany.

The researchers say the Taiwanese figures might be underreported due to perceived stigmatization or negative social attitudes that are part of many East Asian societies.

Isoflavones have been shown to slow the growth of breast cancer cells in laboratory studies, and epidemiological analyses in East Asian women with breast cancer found links between higher isoflavone intake and reduced mortality.

Most El Niños weaken east Asian monsoons, but the Indian monsoon may survive.

The initiative strives to trigger action among automakers that are rolling back plans for greener cars amid the economic crisis, particularly in fast - growing emerging markets like the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), a regional bloc that includes Indonesia and the Philippines and purchases as many cars as India today.

But those in the urban group had a Western European genetic variation, whilst those in the Amazonian group had an East Asian strain.

Other research on stalagmites in China has shown that the East Asian monsoon changed at the same time as the Heinrich and Dansgaard - Oeschger climate changes.

When discussing East Asian students», the media used this as an opportunity to present the UK education system in a favourable light in comparison to their international rivals, and inferred that these students are fortunate to be studying in such an environment.

If they are right, then these measures could be used to test for consonance in music that is not based on the musical scales or notation developed by European and East Asian societies; for example, pre-Columbian music by certain American tribes, said Dante Chialvo, a neuroscientist at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.»

British East Asian in particular are singled out for negative coverage.

They discovered that British East Asian students are more likely to receive negative media coverage than East Asian students, primarily from China and India, who have come to the UK study.

«Whilst East Asian students are portrayed positively in the media due to their monetary value, British East Asians are subject to negative coverage containing racist undertones.

Attitudes to learning amongst British East Asian parents were also subject to criticism in the UK media, with continued reference to the «pushiness» of this group in regards to academia.

Using the sediment samples from the Qaidam Basin, Nie and Garzione show that the East Asian monsoon patterns in the late Miocene also follow similar 100,000 year cycles, with stronger monsoons peaking at 100,000 years and diminishing in the periods in between.