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The Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization: Origin, Development and Outlook
No full textThis paper discusses the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization (CMIM); its origin, development and future outlook. It puts forward a number of proposals to make the liquidity support role of the CMIM more effective. It is further argued that the CMIM can bring about major changes to the policy institutional infrastructure of East Asia, particularly through the establishment of an Independent Surveillance Unit (ISU). The ISU can provide technical and secretariat support to financial cooperation processes in the region, which have thus far been driven by officials on a part-time basis. Consolidation of the main financial forums in the region is also proposed, specifically the Finance Minister Process and the Central Bank Process. Membership of these two processes should be expanded and unified, with the ISU providing technical and secretariat support. It is argued that regular policy meetings can be institutionalized and that this could enhance the role of East Asia in the global financial arena, whilst facilitating policy cooperation, with important regional and global implications.asian financial cooperation; asian policy cooperation; asian institutional infrastructure
General Chiang Kai-shek : the builder of new China
No full textGeneral Chiang Kai-shek"Significant speeches [by General Chiang]": p. [51]-107.by Chen Tsung-hsi, Wang An-tsiang and Wang I-ting; with an introduction by Dr. Chenting T. Wang and a preface by Dr. Wang Chung-hui
Dynamics of kinship and the uncertainties of life: Spirit cults and healing management in northern Thailand
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This thesis is about kinship, health and healing in a Northern Thai village. Although
traditional spirit mediums and spirit cult observances in Chiang Mai city are in
decline and have led to a breakdown of the matrilineal system, in the village of Baan
Yang Luang in Mae Chaem district the belief in matrilineal spirits and ancestors is
still maintained in interesting counterpoint to social change. The power of spirits is
used to manage human suffering-whether sickness, death or agricultural failure.
Kinship in Mae Chaem is based on the relationship between humans and ancestral
spirits or lineage guardian spirits. Illness is thought to derive from conflicts among
humans or between humans and spirits. Healing is attained by the reforming and
reshaping of relationships, and by the reconciliation of conflicted parties. The thesis investigates how matrilineal spirit cults, personhood, and social relatedness are
created, shaped and transformed through the struggles of illness and healing management. It examines the complex relations among illness, kinship and personhood in reincarnation, healing, lineage recruitment, sacrifice, and spirit worship. In conclusion, it explores the mutual relationship between the two processes: kinship transformation and healing management, both of which depend crucially on
power relations within the society. People use the dynamic aspects of the kinship
system to interpret and manage illness; at the same time, illness is used as a means to
reform and maintain the fluidity of kin relationships. The dynamic systems of health
and kinship enable people to create, choose, negotiate and participate in the
transformation of social relations and identity, in order to cope with a changing
society. Finally, I hope this study will shed light on how identity, kinship,
personhood, and lay medical knowledge are conceived, created and sustained from an
emic perspective.This work is funded by the Thai Govenment and Chiang Mai University
Short-term effects of air pollution and temperature on daily morbidity in Chiang Mai Thailand
No full textAir pollution is associated with mortality and morbidity worldwide. Hot and cold temperature is also related to increased deaths and possibly hospital visits and admissions in many settings. Climate change is anticipated to pose increasing risks of deaths and illnesses associated with air pollution and temperature variations, particularly in developing world. To date, research studies about health effects of air pollution and temperature have been conducted in developed countries with cool climate more than in developing countries with subtropical or tropical climate. Furthermore, studies to identify susceptible populations are still limited. This study aims to investigate heath effects of air pollution and temperature and to identify people who are more susceptible to air pollution and temperature in a developing, tropical country, Thailand.
A regression analysis of retrospective time series data was employed to assess the shortterm effects of air pollution and temperature on daily out-patient visits and hospital admissions in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from October 2002 to September 2006. Generalised negative binomial regression was used to model the relationships between the exposure and health outcomes, controlling for seasonal patterns and other possible potential confounders. Lag effects up to 4 days for air pollution, and up to 13 days for temperature were considered. Effect modification by age, sex, occupation, season, and previous out-patient visits before admissions were also examined.
There were positive, but not significant, effects of air pollution for some pollutants (particularly for S02), with notably larger effect sizes compared to previous studies in Western countries. There was evidence of hot temperature effects (though wide confidence intervals), with an increase in diabetic visits of 26.3% (95% Cl, 7.1% to 49.0%), and in circulatory visits of 19.2% (95% Cl, 7.0% to 32.8%) for each 1°C increase in temperature above 29°C. There was a rise of both the visits (3.7% increase, 95% Cl, 1.5% to 5.9%) and admissions (5.8% increase, 95% Cl, 2.3% to 9.3%) due to intestinal infectious disease for each 1°C increase across the whole temperature range. Despite no statistically significant differences between subgroups, air pollution effects were stronger in the elderly, females and manual workers, whereas temperature effects were stronger in the elderly, male and unemployed people.
This study suggests that while there was little evidence of air pollution effects, there was significant evidence of high temperature effects on daily morbidity in Chiang Mai. The elderly seemed to be more vulnerable to the daily changes of both air pollution and temperature
Chiang Ching-Kuo (1910-1988): una vida interesante en el corto siglo XX chino
No full textChiang Ching-kuo (1910-1988) is an essential figure to understand the contemporary Chinese world. This article examines the most important chapters of his life, from his experience in the Soviet Union until his presidency in Taiwan during the 1970s and 1980s. Chiang Ching-kuo’s vital trajectory allows us to study the complexities behind the particular Chinese modernization project that materialised in the island as a result of the combination of both exogenous and endogenous elements and a degree of contingency that was not expected by the political elite of the Kuomintang. This work seeks to contribute to the development of the Chinese and Taiwanese studies in Spanish. It advances the concept of “Chinese short century” and opens up new avenues for future research that seek to cast into doubt the dominant discourse around the “Taiwanese miracle”.Chiang Ching-kuo (1910-1988) es una figura imprescindible en la comprensión del Mundo Chino contemporáneo. El presente artículo propone una aproximación a través de los capítulos más importantes de su vida, desde su experiencia en la Unión Soviética hasta su presidencia de Taiwán durante la década de los años setenta y ochenta. La trayectoria vital de Chiang Ching-kuo permite asomarse al complejo nudo de relaciones existentes detrás del especifico proyecto modernizador chino que se cristalizó en la isla debido a una combinación de elementos exógenos y endógenos con un grado de contingencia no prevista por la élite política del Kuomintang. Este trabajo, que busca contribuir al desarrollo de los estudios chinos y taiwaneses en español, propone el concepto de “un corto siglo chino” y sugiere nuevas líneas de investigación conducentes a cuestionar el discurso dominante sobre el “milagro taiwanés”
Deux versions des Mémoires de Chiang Ching-kuo, fils de Chiang Kai-shek, de son séjour en Union Soviétique
No full textThe subject of this work is the presentation of two contradictory versions of memoirs of Chiang Ching-kuo, son of Chiang Kai-shek, the president of the Republic of China’s until 1975, describing his twelve years’ stay in Soviet Union between 1925 and 1937. After his return to China, Chiang Ching-kuo assisted his father in his autocratic conduct of Chinese politics directed against Mao’s communists, at first in continental China and then in Taiwan. The first memoirs, published in 1947, glorify communist achievements in the Soviet Union during Chiang Ching-kuo stay there, but the second memoirs, on the contrary, vilify the communists and their deceitful, in the opinion of its author, ideology.
This work presents the French translation of the first memoirs, never yet fully translated into any European language, and points out the contradictions, omissions and distortions of reality in both of them. It tries to explain reasons lying behind those inconsistencies.</p
The impact of alcohol on vestibular function in relation to legal limit of 0.25 mg/L breath alcohol concentration
No full textPaying tribute to James Eells and Joseph H. Sampson: In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of their pioneering work on harmonic maps
No full textAs a prominent professor and an inventive mathematician, Eells’s mathematical influence in the field of harmonic maps became internationally recognized and widespread. According to the Mathematics Genealogy Project, he advised thirty-eight PhDs, who, in turn, produced 198 descendants
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