• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.7065-7067
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• 2013

Background: Tobacco use is one of the leading causes of preventable death across the world today and the smoking rates among men in the Arab world are amongst the highest in the world. Smoking of dokha, a traditional Arab tobacco is common in some of the Middle East countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Iran. This review focuses on the prevalence, pattern and health effects of dokha use in the Middle East. For this purpose an electronic search was performed in the following databases and websites: MEDLINE, EMBASE, Proquest and Google scholar up to December 2012. The search strategy was based on Internet search for the synonyms of dohka or midwakh. From the results of the review it emerged that younger people are the most common users of dokha. Hence effective outreach health education programs, targeting adolescents, especially school students before they take up the habit of smoking, may thus curb the emergence of the problem.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.103-128
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• 2013

This paper analyzes the dynamics and nature of regional business cycle synchronization for East Asian countries in the period of 2000:Q1-2011:Q4. Estimating a dynamic two-factor model extracts the common factor and the nation-specific factor from both the macroeconomic aggregates and plausible driving forces of regional business cycles. Evidence for regional business cycle synchronization is particularly strong for Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines, while Japan shows weak evidence of regional synchronization. On the other hand, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and China are decoupling from regional business cycles. The driver of monetary aggregate is the most significant determinant of regional fluctuations of macroeconomic aggregates, whereas oil price and productivity are on average important driving forces of nation-specific fluctuations of real economic activities.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.389-416
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• 2020

This paper provides empirical evidence on the reorganization of GVCs in East Asia, highlighting that structural trends explain a decrease in the fragmentation of production after 2011 but that it is not the result of rising trade costs along the value chain. Using harmonized inter-country input-output tables, the paper first analyzes the global import intensity of production to document changes in the structure of GVCs. It then calculates theory-consistent bilateral trade costs for intermediate and final products using an approach derived from the gravity literature and introduces a new index of cumulative trade costs along the value chain. These data are used to discuss whether the decrease in global imports is the consequence of shifts in demand, efficiency-enhancing strategies of firms or rising trade costs. Between 2011 and 2016, cumulative trade costs have decreased in East Asian GVCs. However, as COVID-19 is likely to intensify trade and investment uncertainties, trade costs could increase in the future. Policies aimed at reducing uncertainties and preserving the gains from trade and investment liberalization will be key in this new environment.

• Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.101-102
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• 2005

Subaru Telescope proposes to hold Subaru East Asia Youth School (Tentative Name) in 2005.

• 한국기계연구소 소보
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• s.14
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• pp.145-155
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• 1985

The recent trend in shipbuilding technology is toward development of highly economical vessels of which construction and operation costs are minimized, whereas cargo transport capacity is maximized. But, most of the vessel which are now operated by some of the nation's shipping companies are uneconomical ones built before oil crisis and consequently the companies are suffering from long-lasted deficit problem. In this paper, derivation study of optimum vessel for multi purpose cargo vessel on south-East Asian trade route is carried out to solve this problem. The Required Freight Rate is used as a measure of merits.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.690-701
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• 2006

Rice grain has several styles, brown rice, white one, semi-white one, sprout one, etc. All of them are utilized as gohan(=boiled grain) in the dietary life. Among them, the sprout rice, recently developed on the industrial level, has been found to be so conspicuous for general functions in food science and for healthy functions in dietary life that would be worth to characteristically be called 'super rice'. Thus, the super rice should widely be promoted for production and consumption in the world.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.133-149
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• 1991

The contents of“Joo-chan”consist of eighty two items about alcoholics, a number of side dishes and soybean sauces. Interpreted content was classified and analyzed. Selected 52 items among those brewages, artless-brewing alcoholics, were distributed into 6 large patterns. The materials used for brewing artless alcoholics were regular rice, waxy rice, wheat and yeast(NURUK). Six patterns, grounded on these materials, were set one thing to another and analyzed.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.81-92
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• 1998

The pharmaceutical effects of non-alcoholic berverages made made in Limwonsibyukgi were studied. The type of beverage in Limwonsibyukgi were Tang(boiled herb extract), Ta(tea analog with/ without green tea), Jang(lactic acid fermented beverage), Galsoo and Suksoo. Most receipes for these beverages included boiling leaves, seeds, grains of grasses, trees and cereal, and adding honey and sugar as a sweetener, Each beverage has a pharmaceutical action : thirst elimination, enhancement of physical activity, and treatment of several diseases.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.311-333
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• 1991

This dissertation is a study on the dietary culture of Yuan Dynasty in China and that of Koryo Dynasty in Korea. Yuan Dynasty had some professional books about its dietary culture, and gives us comparetively comprehensive knowledge of the culinary art and foods used in those days. But Koryo Dynasty had few books about its dietary culture. Therefore, we had to collect information found here and there in miscellaneous books belonging to other categories, such as history, literature, medicine, etc. and arrange them in systematic orders. Here are some conclusions of the study.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.277-298
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• 1991

Review of Korean and Chinese traditional nuruk was performed on the longitudinal change of ingredients and method of each nuruk. Manufacturing process of common nuruk was that flour, wheat chaff, grinded green pea and smartweed were doughed, footpressed to make 凹 type, covered it with mugwort, lotus leaf and cocklebur leaf and suspended it with string for 60 days to get wild mold. This is named Beungkuk. Manufacturing process of Sankuk was that cooked rice or uncooked rice grain was scattered, mixed often for 30 days. Ryokuk and Hongkuk are called Sankuk.