{"results":[{"id":"arxiv_2511.12476","title":"Performance and Risk Analytics of Asian Exchange-Traded Funds","authors":[{"name":"Bhathiya Divelgama"},{"name":"Nancy Asare Nyarko"},{"name":"Naa Sackley Dromo Aryee"},{"name":"Abootaleb Shirvani"},{"name":"Svetlozar T. Rachev"}],"abstract":"Investing in Asian markets through exchange-traded funds (ETFs) provides investors with access to rapidly expanding economies and valuable diversification opportunities. This study examines the advantages and challenges of investing in Asian ETFs by conducting comprehensive risk assessments, portfolio analyses, and performance comparisons. The dataset comprises 29 ETFs offering exposure across a wide spectrum of Asian markets, including broad regional funds, country-specific ETFs, as well as sector-focused funds, dividend-oriented ETFs, small-cap portfolios, and emerging market bond ETFs.   To evaluate risk and return dynamics, the study employs Markowitz's efficient frontier to identify optimal portfolios for given levels of risk, and conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) to capture potential extreme losses for a more comprehensive risk assessment. Multiple portfolio configurations are analyzed under long-only and long-short investment strategies to assess adaptability across varying market conditions. Furthermore, key performance risk measures, including the Sharpe ratio, Rachev ratio, and stable tail-adjusted return ratio (STARR), are calculated to provide an in-depth evaluation of reward-to-risk efficiency, with particular emphasis on the role of tail behavior in portfolio performance.   This research aims to deliver deeper insights into the risk-return trade-offs, tail-risk behavior, and efficiency of Asian ETFs, offering investors a practical foundation for constructing robust and well-diversified portfolios across both emerging and developed Asian markets.","source":"arXiv","year":2025,"language":"en","subjects":["math.OC"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12476","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.12476","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2025-11-16T06:48:53Z","score":69},{"id":"doaj_10.7717/peerj.18899","title":"The avifauna of Ramanathapuram, Tamil Nadu along the Southeast coast of India: waterbird assessments and conservation implications across key sanctuaries and Ramsar sites","authors":[{"name":"Hameed Byju"},{"name":"Hegde Maitreyi"},{"name":"Raveendran Natarajan"},{"name":"Reshmi Vijayan"},{"name":"Balu Alagar Venmathi Maran"}],"abstract":"Background Wetlands, globally, face significant threats from human activities, and waterbirds, as key indicators of wetland health, are essential to maintaining ecological balance. Any long-term conservation measures should prioritize coordinated habitat preservation, wetland restoration, and sustainable management practices involving local communities. Monitoring and analyzing waterbird population trends are critical for understanding restoration, conservation, and management practices. Methods The present study was carried out in five bird sanctuaries Chitrangudi, Kanjirankulam (Ramsar sites), Therthangal, Sakkarakottai, and Mel-Kel Selvanoor of Tamil Nadu, Southeast coast of India, over one year (April 2022 to March 2023). Monthly surveys using direct and block methods, with additional fortnightly visits during the breeding season, were conducted from vantage points to record species diversity, nesting activity, and conservation threats. Assessments of the residential status, national status (SOIB), and Convention for Migratory species (CMS) status were done along with the alpha and beta biodiversity profiles, principal component analysis, Pearson correlation and other statistical methods performed to assess breeding waterbirds community structure. Threats to the breeding waterbirds were categorised into high, medium, and low impacts based on degree of severity and irreversibility. Results The avifaunal checklist revealed a diversity of waterbird species utilizing the sanctuaries for breeding. Notable findings include two Near-Threatened species like, Asian Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia episcopus, and Spot-billed Pelican Pelecanus philippensis, where Asian Woolly-necked Stork recorded only in Therthangal Bird Sanctuary. Avifauna of each sanctuary with breeding waterbirds in parenthesis is as follows: Chitragundi 122 (13); Mel-Kel Selvanoor 117 (19); Therthangal 96 (23); Sakkarakottai 116 (17) and Kanjirankulam 123 (14). The breeding activity (incubation in nests) was from November to February except for Glossy Ibis and Oriental Darter whose breeding started in December; Spot-billed Duck and Knob-billed Duck breed only during January and February. Among the 131 species recorded from all the sanctuaries, 78% were resident birds; 27% were breeding waterbirds, and 21% were Winter visitors. The SOIB and CMS statuses underscore the necessity of implementing effective conservation measures to protect breeding habitats amid anthropogenic pressures. Water unavailability and nest tree unavailability in the sanctuaries are found to be the high degree threats to breeding waterbirds than others. This research provides critical baseline data for the forest department’s future wetland management plans.","source":"DOAJ","year":2025,"language":"","subjects":["Medicine","Biology (General)"],"doi":"10.7717/peerj.18899","url":"https://peerj.com/articles/18899/","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":69},{"id":"ss_3104d310cb100462ad3aae08958befc6889a0c20","title":"Generic classification of Asian horned toads (Anura: Megophryidae: Megophryinae) and monograph of Chinese species","authors":[{"name":"Zhi-Tong Lyu"},{"name":"Shuo Qi"},{"name":"Jian Wang"},{"name":"Sihong Zhang"},{"name":"Jian Zhao"},{"name":"Zhao-Chi Zeng"},{"name":"Han Wan"},{"name":"Jian-Huan Yang"},{"name":"YUN-MING Mo"},{"name":"Ying-Yong Wang"}],"abstract":"The subfamily Megophryinae, as a representative batrachian group of the Oriental Realm and one of the most diverse groups of amphibians, has attracted considerable attention due to continued conjecture regarding its generic classification and failure to reach a satisfactory consensus. China boasts the richest diversity of Asian horned toads, containing some two thirds of the total species cataloged. However, most species have a complicated taxonomic history, resulting in multiple misidentifications. As such, an overall clarification of historical records and regional checklists is required. In the current investigation, we established the phylogeny of the Asian horned toads and performed detailed examinations with redefinitions of several important morphological traits. Based on the phylogenetic relationships and morphological differences, we propose a new ten-genus classification for the Asian horned toad subfamily Megophryinae: i.e., Brachytarsophrys, Atympanophrys, Grillitschia, Sarawakiphrys gen. nov., Jingophrys gen. nov., Xenophrys, Megophrys, Pelobatrachus, Ophryophryne, and Boulenophrys. Revisions on the diagnosability, distribution, and content of each genus are provided. Furthermore, we present a careful review of the taxonomic history of Asian horned toad species from China and provide a monograph of congeners, including six species of Brachytarsophrys, four species of Atympanophrys, five species of Jingophrys gen. nov., 10 species of Xenophrys, two species of Ophryophryne, and 60 species of Boulenophrys. Finally, we discuss the importance of traditional morphological traits based on multiple populations in taxonomic work as well as taxonomic inflation caused by the genetic species delimitation.","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2023,"language":"en","subjects":["Medicine"],"doi":"10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2022.372","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3104d310cb100462ad3aae08958befc6889a0c20","pdf_url":"https://doi.org/10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2022.372","is_open_access":true,"citations":37,"published_at":"","score":68.11},{"id":"arxiv_2407.05142","title":"Subleading correction to the Asian options volatility in the Black-Scholes model","authors":[{"name":"Dan Pirjol"}],"abstract":"The short maturity limit $T\\to 0$ for the implied volatility of an Asian option in the Black-Scholes model is determined by the large deviations property for the time-average of the geometric Brownian motion. In this note we derive the subleading $O(T)$ correction to this implied volatility, using an asymptotic expansion for the Hartman-Watson distribution. The result is used to compute subleading corrections to Asian options prices in a small maturity expansion, sharpening the leading order result obtained using large deviations theory. We demonstrate good numerical agreement with precise benchmarks for Asian options pricing in the Black-Scholes model.","source":"arXiv","year":2024,"language":"en","subjects":["q-fin.MF","math.PR"],"doi":"10.1142/S021902492350005X","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05142","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.05142","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2024-07-06T17:49:20Z","score":68},{"id":"arxiv_2402.17684","title":"Stochastic Expansion for the Pricing of Asian and Basket Options","authors":[{"name":"Fabien Le Floc'h"}],"abstract":"We present closed analytical approximations for the pricing of basket options, also applicable to Asian options with discrete averaging under the Black-Scholes model with time-dependent parameters. The formulae are obtained by using a stochastic Taylor expansion around a log-normal proxy model and are found to be highly accurate for Asian options in practice as well as for vanilla options with discrete dividends.","source":"arXiv","year":2024,"language":"en","subjects":["q-fin.PR","q-fin.CP","q-fin.MF"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17684","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.17684","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2024-02-27T16:57:03Z","score":68},{"id":"ss_f6a7cab038f017ae4637c834519b2472179b55e6","title":"The Asian Thyroid Working Group, from 2017 to 2023","authors":[{"name":"K. Kakudo"},{"name":"Chan Kwon Jung"},{"name":"Zhiyan Liu"},{"name":"M. Hirokawa"},{"name":"A. Bychkov"},{"name":"H. Vuong"},{"name":"S. Keelawat"},{"name":"Radhika Srinivasan"},{"name":"Jen-Fan Hang"},{"name":"Chiung-Ru Lai"}],"abstract":"The Asian Thyroid Working Group was founded in 2017 at the 12th Asia Oceania Thyroid Association (AOTA) Congress in Busan, Korea. This group activity aims to characterize Asian thyroid nodule practice and establish strict diagnostic criteria for thyroid carcinomas, a reporting system for thyroid fine needle aspiration cytology without the aid of gene panel tests, and new clinical guidelines appropriate to conservative Asian thyroid nodule practice based on scientific evidence obtained from Asian patient cohorts. Asian thyroid nodule practice is usually designed for patient-centered clinical practice, which is based on the Hippocratic Oath, “First do not harm patients,” and an oriental filial piety “Do not harm one’s own body because it is a precious gift from parents,” which is remote from defensive medical practice in the West where physicians, including pathologists, suffer from severe malpractice climate. Furthermore, Asian practice emphasizes the importance of resource management in navigating the overdiagnosis of low-risk thyroid carcinomas. This article summarizes the Asian Thyroid Working Group activities in the past 7 years, from 2017 to 2023, highlighting the diversity of thyroid nodule practice between Asia and the West and the background reasons why Asian clinicians and pathologists modified Western systems significantly.","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2023,"language":"en","subjects":["Medicine"],"doi":"10.4132/jptm.2023.10.04","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f6a7cab038f017ae4637c834519b2472179b55e6","pdf_url":"https://doi.org/10.4132/jptm.2023.10.04","is_open_access":true,"citations":11,"published_at":"","score":67.33},{"id":"arxiv_2302.05421","title":"Some asymptotics for short maturity Asian options","authors":[{"name":"Humayra Shoshi"},{"name":"Indranil SenGupta"}],"abstract":"Most of the existing methods for pricing Asian options are less efficient in the limit of small maturities and small volatilities. In this paper, we use the large deviations theory for the analysis of short-maturity Asian options. We present a local volatility model for the underlying market that incorporates a jump term in addition to the drift and diffusion terms. We estimate the asymptotics for the out-of-the-money, in-the-money, and at-the-money short-maturity Asian call and put options. Under appropriate assumptions, we show that the asymptotics for out-of-the-money Asian call and put options are governed by rare events. For the at-the-money Asian options, the result is more involved and in that case, we find the upper and lower bounds of the asymptotics of the Asian option price.","source":"arXiv","year":2023,"language":"en","subjects":["q-fin.PR","math.PR","q-fin.MF"],"doi":"10.1080/15326349.2024.2394818","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05421","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.05421","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2023-02-10T18:37:08Z","score":67},{"id":"arxiv_2301.06460","title":"Sensitivities of Asian options in the Black-Scholes model","authors":[{"name":"Dan Pirjol"},{"name":"Lingjiong Zhu"}],"abstract":"We propose analytical approximations for the sensitivities (Greeks) of the Asian options in the Black-Scholes model, following from a small maturity/volatility approximation for the option prices which has the exact short maturity limit, obtained using large deviations theory. Numerical tests demonstrate good agreement of the proposed approximation with alternative numerical simulation results for cases of practical interest. We also study the qualitative properties of Asian Greeks, including new results for Rho, the sensitivity with respect to changes in the risk-free rate, and Psi, the sensitivity with respect to the dividend yield. In particular we show that the Rho of a fixed-strike Asian option and the Psi of a floating-strike Asian option can change sign.","source":"arXiv","year":2023,"language":"en","subjects":["q-fin.PR"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06460","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.06460","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2023-01-16T15:02:56Z","score":67},{"id":"arxiv_2308.04449","title":"The Disparate Impacts of College Admissions Policies on Asian American Applicants","authors":[{"name":"Joshua Grossman"},{"name":"Sabina Tomkins"},{"name":"Lindsay Page"},{"name":"Sharad Goel"}],"abstract":"There is debate over whether Asian American students are admitted to selective colleges and universities at lower rates than white students with similar academic qualifications. However, there have been few empirical investigations of this issue, in large part due to a dearth of data. Here we present the results from analyzing 685,709 applications from Asian American and white students to a subset of selective U.S. institutions over five application cycles, beginning with the 2015-2016 cycle. The dataset does not include admissions decisions, and so we construct a proxy based in part on enrollment choices. Based on this proxy, we estimate the odds that Asian American applicants were admitted to at least one of the schools we consider were 28% lower than the odds for white students with similar test scores, grade-point averages, and extracurricular activities. The gap was particularly pronounced for students of South Asian descent (49% lower odds). We trace this pattern in part to two factors. First, many selective colleges openly give preference to the children of alumni, and we find that white applicants were substantially more likely to have such legacy status than Asian applicants, especially South Asian applicants. Second, after adjusting for observed student characteristics, the institutions we consider appear less likely to admit students from geographic regions with relatively high shares of applicants who are Asian. We hope these results inform ongoing discussions on the equity of college admissions policies.","source":"arXiv","year":2023,"language":"en","subjects":["cs.CY"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04449","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.04449","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2023-08-03T22:41:54Z","score":67},{"id":"arxiv_2308.15672","title":"Asymptotics for Short Maturity Asian Options in Jump-Diffusion models with Local Volatility","authors":[{"name":"Dan Pirjol"},{"name":"Lingjiong Zhu"}],"abstract":"We present a study of the short maturity asymptotics for Asian options in a jump-diffusion model with a local volatility component, where the jumps are modeled as a compound Poisson process. The analysis for out-of-the-money Asian options is extended to models with Lévy jumps, including the exponential Lévy model as a special case. Both fixed and floating strike Asian options are considered. Explicit results are obtained for the first-order asymptotics of the Asian options prices for a few popular models in the literature: the Merton jump-diffusion model, the double-exponential jump model, and the Variance Gamma model. We propose an analytical approximation for Asian option prices which satisfies the constraints from the short-maturity asymptotics, and test it against Monte Carlo simulations. The asymptotic results are in good agreement with numerical simulations for sufficiently small maturity.","source":"arXiv","year":2023,"language":"en","subjects":["q-fin.PR"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15672","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.15672","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2023-08-30T00:00:57Z","score":67},{"id":"arxiv_2310.05381","title":"CCAE: A Corpus of Chinese-based Asian Englishes","authors":[{"name":"Yang Liu"},{"name":"Melissa Xiaohui Qin"},{"name":"Long Wang"},{"name":"Chao Huang"}],"abstract":"Language models have been foundations in various scenarios of NLP applications, but it has not been well applied in language variety studies, even for the most popular language like English. This paper represents one of the few initial efforts to utilize the NLP technology in the paradigm of World Englishes, specifically in creating a multi-variety corpus for studying Asian Englishes. We present an overview of the CCAE -- Corpus of Chinese-based Asian English, a suite of corpora comprising six Chinese-based Asian English varieties. It is based on 340 million tokens in 448 thousand web documents from six regions. The ontology of data would make the corpus a helpful resource with enormous research potential for Asian Englishes (especially for Chinese Englishes for which there has not been a publicly accessible corpus yet so far) and an ideal source for variety-specific language modeling and downstream tasks, thus setting the stage for NLP-based World Englishes studies. And preliminary experiments on this corpus reveal the practical value of CCAE. Finally, we make CCAE available at \\href{https://huggingface.co/datasets/CCAE/CCAE-Corpus}{this https URL}.","source":"arXiv","year":2023,"language":"en","subjects":["cs.CL","cs.AI","cs.LG"],"doi":"10.1007/978-3-031-44696-2_48","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05381","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.05381","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2023-10-09T03:34:15Z","score":67},{"id":"doaj_10.3389/fevo.2023.974315","title":"Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of Cyclommatus stag beetles (Coleoptera: Lucanidae): Insights into their evolution and diversification in tropical and subtropical Asia","authors":[{"name":"Xue Li Zhu"},{"name":"Jiao Jiao Yuan"},{"name":"Li Yang Zhou"},{"name":"Luca Bartolozzi"},{"name":"Xia Wan"}],"abstract":"Cyclommatus stag beetles (Coleoptera, Lucanidae) are very interesting insects, because of their striking allometry (mandibles can be longer that the whole body in large males of some species) and sexual dimorphism. They mainly inhabit tropical and subtropical forests in Asia. To date, there has been no molecular phylogenetic research on how these stag beetles evolved and diversified. In this study, we constructed the first phylogenetic relationship for Cyclommatus using multi-locus datasets. Analyses showed that Cyclommatus is monophyletic, being subdivided into two well-supported clades (A and B). The clade A includes the island species from Southeast Asia, and the clade B is formed by the continental species. The divergent time estimates showed these beetles split from the outgroup around 43.10 million years ago (Mya) in the late Eocene, divided during the late Oligocene (around 24.90 Mya) and diversified further during the early and middle Miocene (around 18.19 Mya, around 15.17 Mya). RASP analysis suggested that these beetles likely originated in the Philippine archipelago, then dispersed to the other Southeast Asian archipelagoes, Indochina Peninsula, Southeast Himalayas, and Southern China. Moreover, relatively large genetic distance and stable morphological variations signified that the two clades reach the level of inter-generic differences, i.e., the current Cyclommatus should be separated in two genera: Cyclommatus Parry, 1863 including the clade A species, and Cyclommatinus Didier, 1927 covering the clade B species. In addition, the evidence we generated indicated these beetles’ diversification was promoted probably by both long-distance dispersal and colonization, supporting an “Upstream” colonization hypothesis. Our study provides insights into the classification, genetics and evolution of stag beetles in the Oriental region.","source":"DOAJ","year":2023,"language":"","subjects":["Evolution","Ecology"],"doi":"10.3389/fevo.2023.974315","url":"https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.974315/full","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":67},{"id":"doaj_10.2218/himalaya.2023.8961","title":"Review of Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas by Alpa Shah","authors":[{"name":"Tim Burger"}],"abstract":"","source":"DOAJ","year":2023,"language":"","subjects":["Asian. Oriental","History of Asia","Anthropology","Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania","Sociology (General)"],"doi":"10.2218/himalaya.2023.8961","url":"https://journals.ed.ac.uk/himalaya/article/view/8961","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":67},{"id":"doaj_10.22162/2619-0990-2023-67-3-647-659","title":"Functions of Shamans in the Buryat Epic Tradition","authors":[{"name":"Natalia N. Nikolaeva"},{"name":"Liudmila S. Dampilova"}],"abstract":"Introduction. It is urgent enough to reveal original features of epic traditions in certain ethnic environments to draw a general epic picture of Central Asian peoples. As is evident, shamanism has given rise to diverse epic and poetic genres. Shamanic and epic texts of Mongols are characterized by identical mythological patterns of world order, unified heavenly pantheons, coherent and synonymous ideas and concepts. Goals. The article aims to identify the functions of a shaman/shamaness in plots of Buryat epic narratives, determine the former’s position and status in the system of images. So, the paper shall analyze epic texts clustering with different local traditions of Cis-Baikal Buryats, delineate images of shamans and shamanesses to consider them in a comparative perspective with the involvement of ethnographic material. Materials and methods. The study employs comparative-historical and contrastive methods as key tools of analysis. It examines Buryat epic texts — both published ones and those contained in archives of the Center of Oriental Manuscripts and Xylographs (IMBTS SB RAS). Results. The paper suggests that in the Buryat epic tradition shamans and shamanesses can be viewed as traditional characters traced back to most archaic beliefs, though their functions in uligers are essentially limited and monotypic. There is a gender division at different levels of the universe: celestial deities of upper realms are represented by male shamans, while only shamanesses exhibit activity in the Middle World (i.e., on the Earth). The functions of male shaman deities are nominal and not that significant for the plot. The status of a shamaness in variants and versions of the Unga Geseriad is quite high: she serves as mediator between Heaven and Earth, defender, assistant and adviser to the main characters, clairvoyant and soothsayer — and performs the classical role of shamans in society. Narratives recorded from shaman taletellers or individuals with extensive expertise in shamanic traditions tend to entrust shamanesses with larger plot development impacts rather than those delivered by mere narrators. However, in other uligers (not included in Geseriad) the shamaness — though endowed with the same functions of a clairvoyant, soothsayer and adviser — is opposed to the main character and supports his enemies. So, such uligers often contain the motif of her physical elimination. As can be seen from the above, in Buryat uligers male shamans are rather passive and nominal characters, while shamanesses do play most active roles. In general, the status of shamanesses in the epic tradition does not quite correlate with the traditionally high status of shamans and shamanesses among Cis-Baikal Buryats.","source":"DOAJ","year":2023,"language":"","subjects":["History (General)","Oriental languages and literatures"],"doi":"10.22162/2619-0990-2023-67-3-647-659","url":"http://kigiran.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/4494","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":67},{"id":"doaj_10.2218/himalaya.2023.7820","title":"Priestly Purity","authors":[{"name":"Stephen Christopher"}],"abstract":"This article analyzes the tribal aspirations of Sippis, traditionally a wool shearing caste closely associated with Gaddis. Sippis have different administrative classifications across three districts in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu. In most contexts, they self identify as part of the Gaddi tribe. In this regard, they are not alone; four other caste groups, partially integrated into Gaddi life, make similar claims of tribal belonging. They argue that Gaddis are a caste heterogeneous tribal community with entrenched forms of casteism and ritual exclusion. Some identify with the neologism “Scheduled Tribe Dalit” to reflect their intersectionality as both marginalized Dalits and tribal people. Sippis, however, demand tribal inclusion along different ideological lines, often de-emphasizing tribal casteism, and emphasizing status equivalence with Gaddi Rajputs and Brahmins. Sippis generally reject their subordination as landless peasants and unfree clients under patronage exploitation, a narrative central to many other self identifying Gaddi Dalits. In doing so, Sippis separate themselves from other Gaddi identifying caste groups as they appeal for Scheduled Tribe status in Kangra. Based on 22 months of fieldwork, I analyze the ideologies of Sippi exceptionalism in the domains of pilgrimage, ritual practice, vocational lifestyle, and belief. The widespread recognition of Sippis as the highest status group among Scheduled Caste Gaddis, both in terms of self stylization and tribal social acceptance, accounts for villages where lower status groups have legally changed their caste certificates to become Sippi. Attention to how reservation shapes spirituality has broader implications for the anthropology of affirmative action across South Asia.","source":"DOAJ","year":2023,"language":"","subjects":["Asian. Oriental","History of Asia","Anthropology","Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania","Sociology (General)"],"doi":"10.2218/himalaya.2023.7820","url":"https://journals.ed.ac.uk/himalaya/article/view/7820","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":67},{"id":"ss_a2e2b81cb53f68b871606e9a8f6b1b65e192cd14","title":"First report of Nosomma monstrosum ticks infesting Asian water buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis) in Pakistan.","authors":[{"name":"Ome Aiman"},{"name":"Shafi Ullah"},{"name":"L. Chitimia-Dobler"},{"name":"A. Nijhof"},{"name":"Abid Ali"}],"abstract":"Nosomma monstrosum Nuttall \u0026 Warburton, 1908 is a hard tick infesting mainly Asian water buffaloes, but it has also been recorded from cattle, horses, bears, dogs, wild boar and humans in the Oriental region. This tick species has previously not been recorded from Pakistan. A total of 15 adult N. monstrosum ticks (five females and ten males) were collected from an Asian water buffalo herd grazing in Haripur district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan. Molecular characterization using partial 12S, 16S rRNA, and cytochrome c oxidase 1 (cox1) gene sequences confirmed the identity as N. monstrosum. A phylogenetic analysis showed that N. monstrosum from Pakistan is closely related to specimens reported from Sri Lanka and Vietnam.","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2022,"language":"en","subjects":["Medicine"],"doi":"10.1016/j.ttbdis.2022.101899","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/a2e2b81cb53f68b871606e9a8f6b1b65e192cd14","is_open_access":true,"citations":25,"published_at":"","score":66.75},{"id":"arxiv_2210.11640","title":"Not All Asians are the Same: A Disaggregated Approach to Identifying Anti-Asian Racism in Social Media","authors":[{"name":"Fan Wu"},{"name":"Sanyam Lakhanpal"},{"name":"Qian Li"},{"name":"Kookjin Lee"},{"name":"Doowon Kim"},{"name":"Heewon Chae"},{"name":"Hazel K. Kwon"}],"abstract":"Recent policy initiatives have acknowledged the importance of disaggregating data pertaining to diverse Asian ethnic communities to gain a more comprehensive understanding of their current status and to improve their overall well-being. However, research on anti-Asian racism has thus far fallen short of properly incorporating data disaggregation practices. Our study addresses this gap by collecting 12-month-long data from X (formerly known as Twitter) that contain diverse sub-ethnic group representations within Asian communities. In this dataset, we break down anti-Asian toxic messages based on both temporal and ethnic factors and conduct a series of comparative analyses of toxic messages, targeting different ethnic groups. Using temporal persistence analysis, $n$-gram-based correspondence analysis, and topic modeling, this study provides compelling evidence that anti-Asian messages comprise various distinctive narratives. Certain messages targeting sub-ethnic Asian groups entail different topics that distinguish them from those targeting Asians in a generic manner or those aimed at major ethnic groups, such as Chinese and Indian. By introducing several techniques that facilitate comparisons of online anti-Asian hate towards diverse ethnic communities, this study highlights the importance of taking a nuanced and disaggregated approach for understanding racial hatred to formulate effective mitigation strategies.","source":"arXiv","year":2022,"language":"en","subjects":["cs.SI"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11640","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.11640","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"2022-10-20T23:55:50Z","score":66},{"id":"doaj_https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0082","title":"Social Networks and Organization of Thai Migrants in Europe: An Interview with Chongcharoen Sornkaew Grimsmann, President (2019-2022) of Thai Women Network in Europe","authors":[{"name":"Sirijit Sunanta"},{"name":"Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot"}],"abstract":"The interview with Mrs. Chongcharoen Sornkaew Grimsmann, a long-term member and former president of Thai Women Network in Europe (TWNE), was originally conducted in English over email by Sirijit Sunanta and Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot in July 2022. It was supplemented by an online interview (via WebEx) in Thai by Sirijit Sunanta in November 2022. Mrs. Grimsmann served as the President of TWNE from 2019 to 2022. TWNE is well-established and one of the most active organizations of Thai migrant women with individual and organizational members in 16 European countries, the US, and Thailand. TWNE seeks to collaborate with governmental and non-governmental organizations, both in Thailand and the destination countries, to improve the welfare of Thai migrant women. They organize annual general meetings to discuss topics relevant to Thai migrant women’s lives in destination countries and publish an annual newsletter Sarn Satree (สารสตรี) to circulate information. Mrs. Grimsmann has extensive experience of providing community service as a social volunteer and working with international organizations, particularly in the area of women and children’s welfare. She is now based in France and Thailand.","source":"DOAJ","year":2022,"language":"","subjects":["Asian. Oriental","History of Asia","South Asia. Southeast Asia. East Asia","Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania"],"doi":"https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0082","url":"https://aseas.univie.ac.at/index.php/aseas/article/view/7704","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":66},{"id":"ss_13fcc5444e9dc0dcecaeba4ef79855bc1a5723f1","title":"A little frog leaps a long way: compounded colonizations of the Indian Subcontinent discovered in the tiny Oriental frog genus Microhyla (Amphibia: Microhylidae)","authors":[{"name":"V. Gorin"},{"name":"E. Solovyeva"},{"name":"M. Hasan"},{"name":"Hisanori Okamiya"},{"name":"D. Karunarathna"},{"name":"Parinya Pawangkhanant"},{"name":"A. de Silva"},{"name":"Watinee Juthong"},{"name":"K. Milto"},{"name":"Luan Thanh Nguyen"},{"name":"C. Suwannapoom"},{"name":"A. Haas"},{"name":"David P Bickford"},{"name":"I. Das"},{"name":"N. Poyarkov"}],"abstract":"Frogs of the genus Microhyla include some of the world’s smallest amphibians and represent the largest radiation of Asian microhylids, currently encompassing 50 species, distributed across the Oriental biogeographic region. The genus Microhyla remains one of the taxonomically most challenging groups of Asian frogs and was found to be paraphyletic with respect to large-sized fossorial Glyphoglossus. In this study we present a time-calibrated phylogeny for frogs in the genus Microhyla, and discuss taxonomy, historical biogeography, and morphological evolution of these frogs. Our updated phylogeny of the genus with nearly complete taxon sampling includes 48 nominal Microhyla species and several undescribed candidate species. Phylogenetic analyses of 3,207 bp of combined mtDNA and nuDNA data recovered three well-supported groups: the Glyphoglossus clade, Southeast Asian Microhyla II clade (includes M. annectens species group), and a diverse Microhyla I clade including all other species. Within the largest major clade of Microhyla are seven well-supported subclades that we identify as the M. achatina, M. fissipes, M. berdmorei, M. superciliaris, M. ornata, M. butleri, and M. palmipes species groups. The phylogenetic position of 12 poorly known Microhyla species is clarified for the first time. These phylogenetic results, along with molecular clock and ancestral area analyses, show the Microhyla—Glyphoglossus assemblage to have originated in Southeast Asia in the middle Eocene just after the first hypothesized land connections between the Indian Plate and the Asian mainland. While Glyphoglossus and Microhyla II remained within their ancestral ranges, Microhyla I expanded its distribution generally east to west, colonizing and diversifying through the Cenozoic. The Indian Subcontinent was colonized by members of five Microhyla species groups independently, starting with the end Oligocene—early Miocene that coincides with an onset of seasonally dry climates in South Asia. Body size evolution modeling suggests that four groups of Microhyla have independently achieved extreme miniaturization with adult body size below 15 mm. Three of the five smallest Microhyla species are obligate phytotelm-breeders and we argue that their peculiar reproductive biology may be a factor involved in miniaturization. Body size increases in Microhyla—Glyphoglossus seem to be associated with a burrowing adaptation to seasonally dry habitats. Species delimitation analyses suggest a vast underestimation of species richness and diversity in Microhyla and reveal 15–33 undescribed species. We revalidate M. nepenthicola, synonymize M. pulverata with M. marmorata, and provide insights on taxonomic statuses of a number of poorly known species. Further integrative studies, combining evidence from phylogeny, morphology, advertisement calls, and behavior will result in a better systematic understanding of this morphologically cryptic radiation of Asian frogs.","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2020,"language":"en","subjects":["Biology","Medicine"],"doi":"10.7717/peerj.9411","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/13fcc5444e9dc0dcecaeba4ef79855bc1a5723f1","pdf_url":"https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9411","is_open_access":true,"citations":43,"published_at":"","score":65.28999999999999}],"total":1946811,"page":1,"page_size":20,"sources":["arXiv","DOAJ","Semantic Scholar","CrossRef"],"query":"Asian. Oriental"}