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Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands

Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place is an ethnography of culture and politics in Monyul, a Tibetan Buddhist cultural region in west Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India. For nearly three centuries, Monyul was part of the Tibetan state, and the Monpas — as the communities inhabiting this region are collectively known — participated in trans-Himalayan trade and pilgrimage. Following the colonial demarcation of the Indo-Tibetan boundary in 1914, the fall of the Tibetan state in 1951, and the India-China boundary war in 1962, Monyul was gradually integrated into India and the Monpas became a Scheduled Tribe. In 2003, the Monpas began a demand for autonomy under the leadership of Tsona Gontse Rinpoche. This book examines the narratives and politics of the autonomy movement regarding language, place-names, and trans-border kinship against the backdrop of the India-China border dispute. It explores how the Monpas negotiate multiple identities to imagine new forms of community that transcend regional and national borders.
A premium for good governance

Does good governance pay? In theory, it should increase the market valuation of companies by improving their financial performance, reducing the risk that boards will make self-serving decisions, and generally raising investor confidence. Indeed, surveys suggest that institutional investors will pay as much as 28 percent more for the shares of wellgoverned companies in emerging markets. Do such investors practice what they preach? To find out, we looked at 188 companies from six emerging markets—India, Malaysia, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, and Turkey—and tested the link between the market valuation and the corporate-governance practices of these companies in 2001.
Study of serum traditional and nontraditional biomarkers in Rheumatoid arthritis patients

The study of biomarkers in Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is highly indispensable to understand mechanisms of pathogenesis, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of disease. The role of traditional biomarkers like Anti-CCP, RF, and in lammatory markers like ESR and CRP is well established. In this study, we aimed to measure nontraditional biomarkers like Hyaluronic acid (HA), Cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP), and Osteocalcin in the serum of RA patients and also to establish an associationwith traditional markers. It was a cross-sectional study involving 152 RA patients based on the 1987 ACR criteria for the diagnosis of RA and 68 ageand sex-matched healthy controls. After the clinical examination, traditional markers were assessed to measure the disease activity along with non traditional markers in RA patients. All the valueswere expressed asmedian (25th–75th percentile). In our study, therewas a signi icant increase in serum HA levels in RA patients compared to healthy controls (p < 0.03), whereas no signi icant difference in serum COMP and osteocalcin levels. The traditional in lammatory markers were signi icantly increased in RA patients than controls with (p < 0.001). The serum HA levels were signi icantly correlated with traditional markers in RA patients. Conclusion: Signi icant increase in serum HA level in RA patients indicating synovial in lammation, but there were no notable changes in COMP and osteocalcin level in serum presuming the combination of these markers may be useful along with traditional markers in the different stages of RA.
Political implications of disconnection on social media: A study of politically motivated unfriending

This study examines the political implications of social media through the lens of digital disconnectivity. Specifically, it focuses on politically motivated unfriending and examines its influence on individuals’ political engagement, namely political expression and information consumption on social media. Furthermore, considering the importance of minority–majority relations for understanding disconnection phenomena, we investigate whether the impact of unfriending is more pronounced among opinion minorities than majorities. Using a two-wave panel survey conducted in the post-Umbrella Movement Hong Kong, we find that politically motivated unfriending predicts an increased level of political expression, but that it is only significant among people who perceive themselves as holding minority opinions. At the same time, we find no relationship between unfriending and information consumption on social media. Based on the findings, we discuss the implications of unfriending for building digital “safe spaces” and its distinct role in promoting political engagement in times of political conflicts.
Microstructure analysis of welding fume of low and medium carbon steels

espanolEn este estudio, la muestra de humo de soldadura se obtuvo a partir de aceros de bajo y medio carbono y los electrodos utilizados en la soldadura. Las microestructuras de las particulas se analizaron mediante microscopia electronica de barrido (SEM), espectrometro de dispersion de energia (EDS), difractometro de rayos X (XRD) y espectrometro de infrarrojos por transformada de Fourier (FTIR). En los experimentos se encontro que los elementos Be, O, F, Fe, Si, Cl, K, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn tenian contenidos atomicos superiores al 1%. Con base en este hallazgo, se revela que la estructura esta constituida principalmente por oxidos tipos Fe2O3, Fe3O4, MnO2, TiO2, SiO2, Fe3Mn3O8, FeMn2O4, BeO, CrO. Tambien se encontro mediante analisis XRD que los elementos con contenidos inferiores al 1% atomico se encontraban tambien asociados a fases en forma de oxidos. Debido a que las estructuras oxidadas amenazan el medio ambiente y la salud humana, se ha descubierto experimentalmente que los metales emitidos por los humos de soldadura siguen contaminando y amenazando el medio ambiente. EnglishIn this study, the sample of welding fume was obtained from low and medium carbon steels and the electrodes used in welding. The microstructures of the particles were analysed using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS), X-ray diffractometer (XRD) and fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR). In the experiments; Be, O, F, Fe, Si, Cl, K, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn were found to be atomically more than 1%. Based on this finding, it is revealed that the structure is composed mainly of oxides such as Fe2O3, Fe3O4, MnO2, TiO2, SiO2, Fe3Mn3O8, FeMn2O4, BeO, CrO. It was also found with XRD analysis that the elements which were found to beatomically less 1% formed oxide phases. Because oxidized structures threaten the environment and human health, it has been experimentally found that the metals and heavy metals emitted by welding fumes still keep polluting and threatening the environment.
Cultural bridges and reimagined geographies: International students navigating and engaging the complex cultures present in the academic world of Taiwan

With the growth of higher education literature featuring emerging study destinations and new demographics of international students facilitated by government scholarships, scholars must address how students desire and imagine culture and diversity in study-abroad experiences and what impact these experiences have on cultural imaginaries and future aspirations. This article introduces a case study in Taiwan (officially Republic of China), an emerging study destination that attracts international students through government scholarships and accentuates powerful cultural discourses based on both Chineseness and Western-style development. Through qualitative interviews and analysis based on ‘capacity to aspire’, it examines students’ desires and perceptions of ‘culture’, their susceptibility to institutional cultural narratives, and ability to enact individual agency and reimagine culture and geography independently from ‘host images’ portrayed by institutions. A key finding is how students develop aspirations for their classmates’ home countries based on new perceptions of culture and place, revealing a new dimension of South–South student mobilities.
THE PRACTICES OF ENTOMOPHAGY AROUND THE WORLD WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO NORTH-EAST INDIA: A PRIMITIVE PRACTICE THAT NEEDS TO BE SAFEGUARDED

The indigenous people of many regions of the world have always relied on edible insects for food and livelihood. This is because edible insects possess valuable nutritional components that are comparable to conventional foods. This practice is very old and has become a crucial part of the pristine culture of the natives all over the world. However, this unique culture is day by day fading in some parts of the world by the force of ‘westernization’, modern culture, and ‘disgust factor’. In North-East India where the status of entomophagy is impressive and widely prevalent, the same threats are being perceived. A very few edible insects have been analysed nutritionally. This article discusses the prevalence of entomophagy around the world in general and focuses on the states of North East India particularly Assam and Arunachal Pradesh's edible insects and their nutritional analyses. The results show that edible insects are the potentially good and smart choice in the case of nutrients and can also potentially suffice for other conventional food products whenever they are not available or readily accessible. These results in particular will also help the public acknowledge edible insects, spread awareness, and thereby preserve this special knowledge of the locals. Therefore, there is an urgent need to analyse the rest of the edible insects of North East India recorded in literature, which will strengthen our knowledge of edible insects and sustain the culture to continuity.
‘Notre Chine’ : China’s shifting position within Marguerite Duras’s Cycle indochinois

This essay takes Marguerite Duras’s presentation of Sino-French relations as a case study to re-examine and call into question postcolonial theorizations of China’s shifting position vis-à-vis the West. I use two understudied essays by Duras, which describe her childhood travels to Yunnan, a Chinese province that borders Indochina, and her views on the Tiananmen Square protests. In each iteration of Duras’s Cycle indochinois, spanning almost four decades, she significantly alters her depictions of Chinese characters and settings – namely that of the Chinese lover and Cholon. I explore how Duras utilizes her memories of China as a thread to connect and re-interpret different parts of her personal life while also reflecting the regional interplay between China and France in continental Southeast Asia, as well as China’s growing power within the world economic system. I contend that the personal anxiety Duras projects towards China’s so-called ‘rise’ in her late-career signals a contemporary re-balancing of Franco-Chinese cross-cultural representations as the author’s engagement with the country shifts from that of a mythical, timeless civilization to a geopolitical and historical reality.
The German Data Journalist in 2021

Data journalists have become established in online newsrooms. Previously considered tech-savvy journalistic outsiders, they have repeatedly been described as their own closed community which has only recently gained severe attention and importance due to heavy data-driven reporting (e.g., COVID-19, investigative journalism, climate crisis). This is particularly true for data journalists in Germany who have repeatedly received worldwide attention (e.g., cum ex, Panama papers). Taking on a perspective of re-negotiated journalistic boundaries, this study sets out to describe this influential journalistic sub group and presents a most-representative quantitative survey among N = 102 data journalists in Germany. Results indicate that data journalists in Germany are everything but journalistic outsiders in that they share strong journalistic backgrounds, high formal education, and long-lasting journalistic employment. Daily routines less often include large projects but regular translations of ready-made data into journalistic value. Thereby, data journalists in Germany enjoy large degrees of autonomy and perceive themselves as scrutinizers and adversaries of political leaders by means of factual information and analyses. Conclusions are drawn for journalistic curricula and the urgent need for a negotiation around quality norms and standards in a rapidly institutionalizing field that is data journalism.
Food security in the United Arab Emirates: External cereal supply risks

Abstract The coronavirus pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have exposed the vulnerability of the food systems of import-dependent countries to supply chain disruptions. This study measured the short-term external cereal supply risks for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by applying the Herfindahl–Hirschman Concentration Index (HHI) and the Shannon–Wiener Diversity Index (SWI) during 2012–2020. We measured the security of UAE’s external cereal supplies by taking the degree of UAE’s cereal import dependency, the level of political- and business-related risks of UAE’s cereal supplying countries, and the distance between UAE and its supplying countries into account. The results of the index values generally imply that UAE’s cereal external supply risk has been low during the sample period. However, the external wheat supply risk has increased since 2017. This was mainly attributable to UAE’s increasing dependence on less secured countries, i.e. countries with higher levels of risk assessment values such as Russia. UAE has heavily been dependent on one or two, mostly price competitive, sources for its cereal imports, which also raises the external cereal supply risk. The UAE’s increasing dependence on Russia as the main source of cereals and the increasing consolidation of sources pose a serious threat to sustaining food security.
Effects of Geopolitical Risks on Gold Market Return Dynamics: Evidence from a Nonparametric Causality-in-quantiles Approach

ABSTRACT This study uses a nonparametric causality-in-quantiles approach to investigate the causal relationship between the gold market and geopolitical risks from 4 January 2000, to 17 November 2017, using high-frequency data. The results indicated that geopolitical risks affect volatility rather than returns in the gold market. We also decompose intraday volatility into continuous and discontinuous jump components and find that geopolitical risks have stronger causality with the jump component under bear and normal market conditions. The results show, moreover, that the effects of geopolitical risks on realized volatility are asymmetric. Lastly, we divide the entire sample into four major geopolitical events (i.e. the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Irap invasion, the Russia-Ukraine crisis, and Paris attacks) and find that the effect of these events on the gold market varied by type and scope.
Russo-Ukrainian War: Prediction and explanation of Twitter suspension

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting what is now known as the Russo-Ukrainian War, initiating an online discourse on social media. Twitter as one of the most popular SNs, with an open and democratic character, enables a transparent discussion among its large user base. Unfortunately, this often leads to Twitter's policy violations, propaganda, abusive actions, civil integrity violation, and consequently to user accounts' suspension and deletion. This study focuses on the Twitter suspension mechanism and the analysis of shared content and features of the user accounts that may lead to this. Toward this goal, we have obtained a dataset containing 107.7M tweets, originating from 9.8 million users, using Twitter API. We extract the categories of shared content of the suspended accounts and explain their characteristics, through the extraction of text embeddings in junction with cosine similarity clustering. Our results reveal scam campaigns taking advantage of trending topics regarding the Russia-Ukrainian conflict for Bitcoin and Ethereum fraud, spam, and advertisement campaigns. Additionally, we apply a machine learning methodology including a SHapley Additive explainability model to understand and explain how user accounts get suspended.
Quality of life and sexual health after sex reassignment surgery in transsexual men.

INTRODUCTION Although sexual health after genital surgery is an important outcome factor for many transsexual persons, little attention has been attributed to this subject. AIMS To provide data on quality of life and sexual health after sex reassignment surgery (SRS) in transsexual men. METHODS A single-center, cross-sectional study in 49 transsexual men (mean age 37 years) after long-term testosterone therapy and on average 8 years after SRS. Ninety-four percent of the participants had phalloplasty. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Self-reported physical and mental health using the Dutch version of the Short Form-36 Health Survey; sexual functioning before and after SRS using a newly constructed specific questionnaire. RESULTS Compared with a Dutch reference population of community-dwelling men, transsexual men scored well on self-perceived physical and mental health. The majority reported having been sexually active before hormone treatment, with more than a quarter having been vaginally penetrated frequently before starting hormone therapy. There was a tendency toward less vaginal involvement during hormone therapy and before SRS. Most participants reported an increase in frequency of masturbation, sexual arousal, and ability to achieve orgasm after testosterone treatment and SRS. Almost all participants were able to achieve orgasm during masturbation and sexual intercourse, and the majority reported a change in orgasmic feelings toward a more powerful and shorter orgasm. Surgical satisfaction was high, despite a relatively high complication rate. CONCLUSION Results of the current study indicate transsexual men generally have a good quality of life and experience satisfactory sexual function after SRS.
Accounting Information Quality From The Perspectives Of Msmes Operating In The State Of Arunachal Pradesh, India

: The study strives to assess Accounting Information Quality (AIQ) of MSMEs in Arunachal Pradesh from the perspective of Sector and Type of Enterprise. The primary purpose was to see if AIQ of MSMEs is affected by Sector where they operate or Type of Enterprise they are. Sector includes Manufacturing and Service, whereas Micro, Small and Medium were the Type of Enterprise considered for the present study. The study used a schedule questionnaire targeting 290 MSMEs across various districts of Arunachal Pradesh. To arrive at the desired results, Independent sampled t-Test and ANOVA test were conducted. The findings reveal no statistically significant mean differences in AIQ among the MSMEs in Arunachal Pradesh when they were classified based on the Sector in which they operate and enterprise type under which they are classified. The study finally concludes in line with the findings that AIQ of MSMEs shares no significant relationship either with the Sector or the Type of Enterprise. Whether they are Micro or Small or Medium Enterprises belonging to Manufacturing or Service sector, AIQ observed through survey remains unaffected.
Crustacea decapoda : studies of the Plesionika narval (Fabricius, 1787) group ( Pandalidae ) with description of six new species

Samples collected by ((Institut Service Mixte de Contrôle Biologique des Armées (SMCB) and the National Taiwan Ocean University in the Indo-West Pacifie (off Madagascar, Seychelles Islands, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Chesterfield Islands, New Caledonia and Polynesia) as weil as others obtained on loan from various museums led to a reexaminalion of the species belonging to the Plesionika narval group. Fourteen species are recognized of which 6 are new : P. yui from Taiwan, P. echinicola from New Caledonia, P. laurenJae from New Caledonia and Eastern Australia, P. flavicauda from New Caledonia and Polynesia, P. rubrior and P. curvala from Polynesia. P. escalilis (Stimpson, 1860) is considered to he a synonym of P. narval. The specimens from the Atlantic identified as STIMPSON's species by LEMAITRE and GORE (1988) are identified as P. longicauda (Rathbun, 1901). P. narval and P. serralifrons (Borradaile, 19(0) are considered as distinct species but so similar that finding reliable characters to separate them is very difficult especially as individual variations are observed. P. narval is presently regarded as living only in the Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic (from Spain to Cape Verde Islands) but it appears
Cloning and Mrna Expression Analysis of a Novel Human Protooncogene, C-merr

Abstrad A human B-lymphoblastoid Agtl 1 expression library was screened using anti-phosphotyrosine antibodies yielding complementary DNAs encoding adive tyrosine kinases. The resulting clones were used to obtain the sequence of a novel 984 amino acid transmembrane tyrosine kinase. Analysis of the complementary DNA revealed extracellular immunoglobulin and fibronectin type III domains and the unusual kinase signature sequence KWIAIES; all are charaderistic of the axi family of tyrosine kinases. The novel tyrosine kinase was not expressed in normal Band T-lymphocytes but, unlike ax! , was expressed in numerous neoplastic Band T-cell lines. Transcripts for the novel receptor-like tyrosine kinase were deteded in normal peripheral blood monocytes and bone marrow. One alternatively spliced transcript was deteded which contained an insert in the membrane proximal region that could encode for a truncated, soluble receptor. Sequence comparison shows that the kinase may be the human protooncogene for the recently isolated chicken retroviral oncogene v-ryk (recently renamed v-eyk), a truncated tyrosine kinase whose expression by retroviral infedion produced sarcomas in chickens. The intracellular domain of the human kinase shows 83% similarity and 71 % identity to v-ryk. Since the ryk designation has been used to name another tyrosine kinase and an analysis of RNA expression demonstrated that this novel human kinase is expressed in monocytes and tissues of epithelial and ieprodudive origin, we have designated our novel protooncogene c-mer. Introdudion Tyrosine-specific protein kinases were first detected in studies of transforming retroviruses. Several of these retrovmrally Received 2/5/94; revised 3/25/94; accepted 4/4/94. in this paper have been deposited in the GenBank database (Accession Number U08023). 2 These two authors contributed equally to the publication. encoded oncogenes were derived from cellular genes whose products are now known to be intracellular tyrosine kinases thought to act as signaling molecules. Studies of oncogenic intracellular protein tyrosine kinases have demonstrated that if the regulatory restraints are removed by mutation or deletion of key sequences, malignant transfon-mation may ensue (1). Multiple receptor tyrosine kinases have also been identified; many play a critical role in the tnansmembrane transfer of growth and differentiation signals. These receptors are normally activated by soluble or membrane-bound ligand (2). However, several transforming oncogenes derived from receptor tyrosine kinases have demonstrated that these too can be mutated so as to escape normal control mechanisms. For example, the transforming ability of the c-fms and neu protooncogenes can be induced by a single amino acid change in the extracellu Ian or …