Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Asia"
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The Asian Origins of Global Narcotics Control, c. 1860-1909
(2014-06-06)This dissertation traces the ferment of private ressentiment, public protest and political response to the Asian opium trade from the "Second Opium War (1856-60) to the first, multilateral anti-drug summit in human history, ... -
Biomass burning emission inventory with daily resolution: Application to aircraft observations of Asian outflow
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2003)We develop a daily-resolved global emission inventory for biomass burning using AVHRR satellite observations of fire activity corrected for data gaps and scan angle biases. We implemented this inventory in a global ... -
Coercive Institutions and State Violence Under Authoritarianism
(2013-09-30)Why do we observe such widely differing patterns of repression and state violence under authoritarian rule? Despite a wave of recent interest in authoritarian politics, the origins, design and behavior of the coercive ... -
Comparative inverse analysis of satellite (MOPITT) and aircraft (TRACE-P) observations to estimate Asian sources of carbon monoxide
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2004)We use an inverse model analysis to compare the top-down constraints on Asian sources of carbon monoxide (CO) in spring 2001 from (1) daily MOPITT satellite observations of CO columns over Asia and the neighboring oceans ... -
Effects of Non-Symbolic Approximate Number Practice on Symbolic Numerical Abilities in Pakistani Children
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Current theories of numerical cognition posit that uniquely human symbolic number abilities connect to an early developing cognitive system for representing approximate numerical magnitudes, the approximate number system ... -
The Impact of Radiocarbon Dating on Old World Archaeology: Past Achievements and Future Expectations
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A new smut fungus on a new grass: Sporisorium capillipedii-alpini (Ustilaginales) sp. nov. infecting Capillipedium alpinum (Poaceae) sp. nov., from Sichuan, China
(Magnolia Press, 2016)A new smut fungus, Sporisorium capillipedii-alpini (Ustilaginales), and a new species of grass, Capillipedium alpinum (Poaceae), on which it is growing, are described and illustrated. The collections were made in western ... -
Scientific Wealth in Middle East and North Africa: Productivity, Indigeneity, and Specialty in 1981–2013
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Several developing countries seek to build knowledge-based economies by attempting to expand scientific research capabilities. Characterizing the state and direction of progress in this arena is challenging but important. ... -
The Shear-Wave Velocity Structure in the Upper Mantle beneath Eurasia
(Blackwell Scientific Publications, 2008)We develop an approach that allows us to invert for the mantle velocity structure within a finely parametrized region as a perturbation with respect to a low-resolution, global tomographic model. We implement this technique ... -
Social and Spatial Clustering of People at Humanity’s Largest Gathering
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Macroscopic behavior of scientific and societal systems results from the aggregation of microscopic behaviors of their constituent elements, but connecting the macroscopic with the microscopic in human behavior has ... -
Transport and Chemical Evolution over the Pacific (TRACE-P) aircraft mission: Design, execution, and first results
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2003)The NASA Transport and Chemical Evolution over the Pacific (TRACE-P) aircraft mission was conducted in February–April 2001 over the NW Pacific (1) to characterize the Asian chemical outflow and relate it quantitatively to ...