scholarly journals Out of Asia: An Allopatric Model for the Evolution of the Domestic Dog

ISRN Zoology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stan Braude ◽  
Justin Gladman
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Distinct Species ◽  
Domestic Dog ◽  
Asian Origin ◽  
Wild Canids

The domestication of the dog has been a ripe area of evolutionary speculation for more than 150 years. A wolf ancestry and probable East Asian origin of domestication are now widely accepted. We offer a new allopatric hypothesis for the domestication of dogs that recognizes the importance of isolation in the speciation of the dog from the wolf. Although sympatric isolation during domestication of many other species would not have been problematic, it has always been difficult to keep dogs from breeding with wild canids. Furthermore, wild canids readily hybridize with one another. This would have made it very difficult for an early domestic dog lineage to diverge from the wolf and to evolve into the morphologically, developmentally, and behaviorally distinct species that we recognize today. Our allopatric model is consistent with two subhypotheses: isolation when tamer scavenger wolves followed humans south and away from hunting populations of wolves or isolation when climate forced humans and tamer scavenger wolves into isolated refugia.

scholarly journals Sexual dysfunction among patients of south-east Asian origin

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 233-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asad Raffi
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Dysfunction ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Asian Origin

scholarly journals Communicating in the Face of Racism: Infinitive v. Gerund Verbal Complements in English

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melody Pao
Keyword(s):  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Asian Immigrants ◽  
Asian Origin ◽  
Teaching Technique ◽  
The Face ◽  
Esl Learners

As COVID-19 continues to spread across the country, Asian Americans and Asian immigrants have experienced an increase in racist attacks. This paper presents a lesson plan that is intended to help English as a Second Language (ESL) learners of East Asian origin communicate in the face of racial discrimination. In addition to outlining this teaching technique, the article provides a linguistic analysis of the lesson plan’s grammatical focus: the distinction between infinitive and gerund verbal complements. The author argues that the Bolinger Principle, a theory that articulates the reasoning behind this distinction, provides an effective and meaning-informed teaching strategy for teaching infinitives and gerunds. The purpose of the article is to offer guidance for teachers who may wish to use this form-focused technique in their own classrooms. Keywords: ESL, racism, Asian immigrants, infinitive complements, gerund complements, Bolinger Principle

scholarly journals Genetic evidence for an East Asian origin of Chinese Muslim populations Dongxiang and Hui

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong-Bing Yao ◽  
Chuan-Chao Wang ◽  
Xiaolan Tao ◽  
Lei Shang ◽  
Shao-Qing Wen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Genetic Evidence ◽  
Asian Origin

Conceptual Foundations

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-31
Author(s):  
Paul Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Oxford English Dictionary ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Asian Origin ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cultural Power ◽  
Conceptual Foundations ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 1 starts by interrogating the Oxford English Dictionary’s treatment of the term ‘martial arts’ as a way to broach the book’s concerns. Today, the idea that the term ‘martial arts’ is associated with practices that are ‘mainly of East Asian origin’ is contentious. But this chapter sets out how and why these connotations emerged. It goes on to deepen the case for the relationship between history and analysis within this work, to set out the core argument about the cultural power of media representation, and to lay out the ways in which its ensuing chapters will support the argument that ‘martial arts’ is a recently invented, variegated, and variable ‘discursive entity’.

scholarly journals P220 Behcet"s disease with right ventricular aneurysm

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
P Stoodley ◽  
D Tanous
Keyword(s):  
Right Ventricular ◽  
Behcet’S Disease ◽  
Cardiac Involvement ◽  
Behçet's Disease ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Inflammatory Disorder ◽  
Asian Origin ◽  
Ocular Lesions ◽  
Abstract Picture ◽  
Cardiac Manifestation

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Nil Introduction Behcet’s disease (BD) is a rare inflammatory disorder, which predominantly impacts people of Mediterranean and East Asian origin. While the aetiology is unknown, the prevailing disorder is vasculitis. Oral, skin and ocular lesions are common: cardiac involvement is rare. Case description A sixty-three year old male with Behcet’s disease (BD) presented for review. On clinical examination, atrial fibrillation, prominent V waves, mild pedal oedema and a ‘to and fro’ murmur were noted. Marked elevation of right ventricular (RV) end diastolic pressure was measured by cardiac catheter. Echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging revealed significant RV abnormalities. The mid and apical RV regions were heavily trabeculated, and an anterior aneurysm was identified (see 2D image in abstract picture). A prominent horizontal muscular ridge in the basal RV was noted, and the RV outflow tract was narrowed. While the tricuspid valve was not apically displaced, leaflet coaptation was absent with subsequent severe tricuspid regurgitation into a grossly enlarged right atrium (see colour image in abstract picture). Management included diuretics and continuing immunosuppressives. Discussion BD is a rare (chronic) inflammatory disorder, which mainly affects people of Mediterranean and East Asian origin, and is often first diagnosed (in the third or fourth decades of life) following recurrent oral ulcerations, skin and ocular lesions. With BD, the prevailing disorder is vasculitis. Blood vessels of all sizes, both arteries and veins, are impacted: true or false aneurysms can occur. BD rarely affects the heart. If there is cardiac involvement, pericarditis is the most common lesion - others include myocarditis, mitral valve prolapse, intra-cardiac thrombus and myocardial infarction. We present a rare (and possibly unique) cardiac manifestation of BD, anterior RV aneurysm. Conclusion In this case report we present a rare cardiac manifestation of BD, anterior RV aneurysm. Abstract P220 Figure. Echocardiography Images

Technical Analysis of Euphorbia caducifolia Haines Latex of South-East Asian Origin - Part I

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-151
Author(s):  
Sanjay K. Bhattacharyya ◽  
Saptarshi Kar ◽  
Sugata Chakraborty ◽  
Saikat Dasgupta ◽  
Rabindra Mukhopadhyay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Technical Analysis ◽  
Asian Origin ◽  
Origin Part

University Rankings: Quality, Size and Permanence

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 537-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Bejan ◽  
Umit Gunes ◽  
Bahri Sahin
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
Asian Origin ◽  
Demographic Composition ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
S Curve ◽  
The University

Why are the rankings of universities not changing? Why is the demographic composition of top universities the same? In this review, these questions are addressed based on physics. Although size matters, higher ranks do not correlate with bigger sizes. The higher ranks belong to universities that have more authors who receive more citations. Citations are a record of how ideas spread from the source to the whole globe, in accordance with the physics of the logistics S-curve phenomenon. The spreading occurs in three periods – slow, fast, slow – and the population served by each idea during its lifetime depends on the size of the first big channel that carries the idea. An idea from a famous university has a larger spreading territory around it than an idea from a lesser-known university. Creativity is key: rankings come from visibility through citations, and, in turn, visibility for an author is aided by the higher visibility of the university. The demographic composition of the top universities is the same: for instance, the percentage of female authors and authors of East Asian origin among the 200 most cited authors does not vary significantly over the 20 highest ranked universities.

Post-glacial East Asian origin of the alpine shrub Phyllodoce aleutica (Ericaceae) in Beringia

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1261-1274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hajime Ikeda ◽  
Valentin Yakubov ◽  
Vyacheslav Barkalov ◽  
Hiroaki Setoguchi
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Asian Origin ◽  
Alpine Shrub

Morphotypes or distinct species? A multilocus assessment of two East Asian scimitar babblers (Aves, Timaliidae)

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-279
Author(s):  
Chuanyin Dai ◽  
Feng Dong ◽  
Xiaojun Yang
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Distinct Species

The systematics of the south-east Asian genus Fangensis Rambla (Opiliones:Cyphophthalmi:Stylocellidae)

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Schwendinger ◽  
Gonzalo Giribet
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Distinct Species ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Ribosomal Genes ◽  
The Other ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
Southern Thailand ◽  
New Material ◽  
Three New Species

The hitherto monotypic opilionid genus Fangensis Rambla, 1994 is re-evaluated from new material collected in northern, western and southern Thailand. The original description of F. leclerci Rambla (type material not traceable) was based on specimens belonging to at least three distinct species. Fangensis leclerci is thus redefined and the binomen restricted to specimens from a cave in northern Thailand only. Three new species are described, F. spelaeus, sp. nov. and F. cavernarus, sp. nov. from two caves in western Thailand and F. insulanus, sp. nov. from forests on two islands in southern Thailand. Taxonomic characters are discussed and relationships among Fangensis species and between Fangensis and other cyphophthalmids are evaluated using morphological data and ~4 Kb of molecular data from three loci, two nuclear ribosomal genes and a mitochondrial coding gene. Overall, data indicate monophyly of Stylocellidae and morphological and ribosomal data suggest monophyly of Fangensis, which is in turn divided into two clades, one composed of the three species from northern and western Thailand and the other represented by the species from southern Thailand. Observations on mating in F. leclerci are provided.

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