Sentences with phrase «southeast asian»

SOUTHEAST ASIAN J TROP MED PUBLIC HEALTH Vol 38 No. 4 July 2007

Ghee is a clarified form of butter that's been popular in Indian and Southeast Asian cooking for thousands of years....

Ethnicity — for instance, women who are white or of Southeast Asian descent have the greatest risk of osteoporosis, and African - American and Hispanic men and women have a lower, but still significant, risk of the disease

But, I didn't know how great my results were until Dr. Howayeck told me I had 2 major risk factors going against me — I am a woman of Southeast Asian descent.

Carrier screening for hemoglobinopathies such as sickle cell anemia is recommended by the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) via complete blood count and hemoglobin electrophoresis for people of African, Southeast Asian, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and West Indian descent considering having children.

Carrier screening for beta thalassemia and related hemoglobinopathies is recommended by ACOG via complete blood count and hemoglobin electrophoresis for people of African, Southeast Asian, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and West Indian descent considering having children.

Thai and other Southeast Asian cuisines commonly include this milk.

Graduates from TUM's privately operated Asian campus are in high demand among companies thanks to the successful combination of German engineering, management skills and understanding of Southeast Asian culture.

Meeting global challenges in high - impact research publications: The Southeast Asian perspective Presenter: Kamaruzaman Jusoff, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

An international team of researchers from Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia has sequenced the genome of durian (Durio zibethinus), a Southeast Asian tropical...

Young female Southeast Asian bricklayers (the fingerprint specialists» nightmare, as we reported on 29 January), rock climbers (especially those in the habit of having the skin of their fingertips removed by the Cuillins of Skye) and others who regularly abrade their fingers could face considerable practical problems if an idea being tested by Barclaycard to combat card fraud catches on.

However, given the incomplete information on strains in other Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia, Laos and Vietnam, it is possible that these strains were imported each year from the same location, according to Chen.

As domestication must have occurred subsequent to the dog — wolf divergence and before Southeast Asian dog divergence (∼ 17,500 — 23,900 years ago; Fig. 5b) our results provide an upper and lower bound for the onset of dog domestication, between ∼ 20,000 and 40,000 years ago.

One surprise in the genetic data is that both populations of Native Americans have a small admixture of genes from East Asians and Australo - Melanesians, including Papuans, Solomon Islanders and Southeast Asian hunter gatherers.

Elephants in the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar are facing a new, brutal brand of destruction at the hands of poachers: They're being slaughtered at an increasing rate for their skins, feet, genitalia and hair, according to a report published March 13, 2018, in PLOS ONE.

In 2015 — 2016, «a bit of rain at just the right moment prevented the Southeast Asian peat forest fires from spreading as widely as they did two decades ago,» says climate scientist Guido van der Werf at Vrije University Amsterdam.

We therefore performed unsupervised clustering analyses with ADMIXTURE (SNP array data; Supplementary Fig. 15) and NGSadmix (whole - genome data; Fig. 4 and Supplementary Fig. 16)(Supplementary Note 9) and found that, unlike contemporary European village dogs, all three ancient genomes possess a significant ancestry component that is present in modern Southeast Asian dogs.

In some ways, Jokowi's election has marked a departure from business as usual for the Southeast Asian nation made up of thousands of islands.

Health officials from South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines are beginning to screen food imported from Japan for radiation, and several other Southeast Asian countries are expressing concern over the potential for contamination of soil and water that could affect food sources.

Russell said that he and his colleagues found that each year since 2002 new strains of influenza A (H3N2), the most infectious variety of seasonal flu, originated in «the east and Southeast Asian circulation network,» which spans from Malaysia and western Indonesia to Korea and Japan.

Inspired by the 40 - year - old AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships program, five Southeast Asian nations — Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam — are participating in a pilot project to increase the use of science, technology, and objective analysis in the political decision - making process.

The initiative, announced by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), has tasked eight scientists and engineers to work for one year on policy matters related to biodiversity, climate change, reducing disaster risks, health, and water management.

Professor Taçon said that, «As with the early art of Europe, the oldest Southeast Asian images often incorporated or were placed in relation to natural features of rock surfaces.

The two Southeast Asian countries produce about 85 percent of the world's palm oil.

From Cambodia, gem miners and other migrants have carried resistant parasites to other Southeast Asian countries.

These results have implications not only for our understanding of Southeast Asian and European rock art but also Australian, because in Kakadu - Arnhem Land and other parts of northern Australia the oldest surviving rock art also consists of naturalistic animals and stencils.

Rolando González - José, an anthropologist at the University of Barcelona, and his team had minutely measured 33 skulls that were between 300 and 2,700 years old, only to discover that they resembled neither prehistoric northeastern Asians — those who presumably would have crossed the land bridge — nor modern American Indians; the fossils looked more like the progenitors of Southeast Asian peoples.

As Southeast Asian countries are coming to realise, there is no point in slavishly copying Japanese practices, not least because at the time Japan industrialised, it did not have Japan to beat.

Some shrimp grown in Southeast Asian factory ponds, for instance, are doused with toxic antibiotics outlawed here, according to Michael Doyle, director of the University of Georgia's Center for Food Safety.

SCENT MASTERS Southeast Asian hunter - gatherer communities display an ability to name different odors that's not observed in Western nations or even in a neighboring farming group.

It is best known as a culinary herb, featured in Italian cuisine, and also plays a major role in some Southeast Asian cuisines.

All of the New Guinea domestic pigs and those of the islands in the tropical Pacific Ocean carry DNA from those southeast Asian wild boar populations.

Barely the length of a fingernail, the Southeast Asian liver fluke is a flatworm that thrives in the freshwater lakes and rivers of the Mekong basin.

What's more, detailed studies of the Southeast Asian coastline of 50,000 years ago showed that an 800 - mile - long stretch of islands and at least eight ocean straits separated the island continent from the Asian mainland.

The Southeast Asian bush - cricket.

The greater production in Borneo may partly reflect higher solar radiation, but another important factor appears to be the different tree species composition: Species of the dominant Southeast Asian tree family Dipterocarpaceae exhibit significantly higher production than other tree species in the sampled plots.

But certain Southeast Asian nomads dive and swim without eye protection and still manage to harvest small camouflaged shells, clams, and sea cucumbers.

For recreational drug users looking for an opioidlike high without the legal problems of heroin, fentanyl, and oxycodone, the Southeast Asian plant called kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) has provided an attractive alternative.

But researchers have found that some Southeast Asian seafaring people can see underwater very clearly without such corrective devices.

Young female Southeast Asian brick - layers are the stuff that nightmares are made of, according to Biometric Technology Today magazine.

This weekend, Cyclone Nargis pounded the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar (aka Burma), killing an estimated 60,000 people thus far.

Ancient DNA studies had already suggested that humans from Africa reached Southeast Asian islands before 60,000 years ago.

Indonesia may be «simply running out of forest» At the same time, the new analysis showed some encouraging data for the Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia — the nation's annual tree average cover loss reached its lowest point recorded since 2003, WRI found, at 3.9 million acres.

They have arrived from North America, the Southeast Asian region, and Europe.»

The origins of Cavendish bananas come from several Musa acuminata subspecies that diverged after being geographically isolated in distinct Southeast Asian regions and islands.

The group is fighting for regulatory clearance in six other southeast Asian countries.

Half of the orangutans on the vast Southeast Asian island died between 1999 and 2015 as a result of hunting or habitat destruction by oil palm and other industries, a new study found.

Fish sauces are a standard condiment and ingredient in various Southeast Asian cuisines that add an umami element to many foods.

They are among the strangest things found on the Southeast Asian rainforest floor.

The reviewer is senior advisor of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-- Swiss Partnership on Social Forestry and Climate Change, Jakarta, Indonesia