The Asian Values in Singapore`s Context of Use. The Curbsides of the Singapore`s Model of Democracy

Out of a sense of nationhood or out of mere circumstantial and specific relatings to a national context, it is altogether visible that anti-universalist debate is making headway in international relations, in cultural studies and in the political science, if we are to classify a broader consultation of events.This article is aimed at presenting how the Western ideas can be seen, in examination, as artificial structures, in the national context of Asia. The Asian Values are a very interesting evaluative specimen of the anti-universalist orations. In the case of many Asian states, they created settled forms of government, having an especial adaptation with the originating incidents that were their birthplace. With the inward of these units of contextualization, we will turn to the conferral of the Singapore democracy model and to its germane bloc and bond with the Asian Values. We will interrelate a personal conspectus regarding the correctness of the seal of fastening between the Asian Values and Singapore`s democracy model

Chinese Tidings of Role Conception in Southeast Asia

This article is aimed at providing a thorough analysis about the way in which China constructs an impersonation of its presence in Southeast Asian affairs. The Southeast Asian region is particularly important for Chinese foreign policy, as it was usually portrayed of being adjacent to Chinese backyard-type of influence.  With the same task of character and of function, China was able to maintain a specific closeness to Southeast Asian affairs, much like in the way it was able to do to the Northeast Asian affairs – the sub-region to which it forebode an act of belonging. The incipit part of the article is directed to pinpointing the glaring contemporary effect of Southeast Asian Affairs in Security Studies. We will be reffering here to the arguments tapped into, that make the region a focus of attention, from the perspective of economic development, and also from the perspective of strategic bearing. The last and the most turgid part of the article is directed to the desultory portraiture of China`s presence in Southeast Asian affairs. A historic overture will be in-played by the arguments presented, as well as security ratiocinations regarding the posture, that China understands to insert in the bi- and multilateral frameworks of engagement with the regional actors

Better than Expected or as Bad as You Thought? The Neurocognitive Development of Probabilistic Feedback Processing

Learning from feedback lies at the foundation of adaptive behavior. Two prior neuroimaging studies have suggested that there are qualitative differences in how children and adults use feedback by demonstrating that dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and parietal cortex were more active after negative feedback for adults, but after positive feedback for children. In the current study we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to test whether this difference is related to valence or informative value of the feedback by examining neural responses to negative and positive feedback while applying probabilistic rules. In total, 67 healthy volunteers between ages 8 and 22 participated in the study (8–11 years, n = 18; 13–16 years, n = 27; 18–22 years, n = 22). Behavioral comparisons showed that all participants were able to learn probabilistic rules equally well. DLPFC and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex were more active in younger children following positive feedback and in adults following negative feedback, but only when exploring alternative rules, not when applying the most advantageous rules. These findings suggest that developmental differences in neural responses to feedback are not related to valence per se, but that there is an age-related change in processing learning signals with different informative value

The genetic history of the Southern Arc: a bridge between West Asia and Europe

By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic period and Bronze Age (about 5000 to 1000 BCE), when extensive gene flow entangled it with the Eurasian steppe. Two streams of migration transmitted Caucasus and Anatolian/Levantine ancestry northward, and the Yamnaya pastoralists, formed on the steppe, then spread southward into the Balkans and across the Caucasus into Armenia, where they left numerous patrilineal descendants. Anatolia was transformed by intra–West Asian gene flow, with negligible impact of the later Yamnaya migrations. This contrasts with all other regions where Indo-European languages were spoken, suggesting that the homeland of the Indo-Anatolian language family was in West Asia, with only secondary dispersals of non-Anatolian Indo-Europeans from the steppe

Politici de gen post-conflict în Balcanii de Vest – între analogiile circulare cu securitatea umană și tendințe firave de detașare / Post-conflict gender politics in the Western Balkans – between the same circle of palms with human security and a small stream outside the box

Can the issue of gender politics trust to time and opportunity for better be discussed when it does not actually feel like that enough has been said, especially in the case of the Western Balkans ? The effective experience of pre-definition or of a case closed applies when one attempts to tackle the issue of gender politics, its hitching with human security and its call of revelation in the Western Balkans. The display of performing acts of the women` s role in the postconflict region of the Western Balkans has been multiply appreciated in analyses. Throughout this article, we will be housing a linking overture that this aspect entertains with human security and, above all, we will be reckoning a manner of adjudication to the foreordained elements that still have an important impact core upon the issue of gender politics in the Western Balkans.Pot oare dezbaterile legate de politicile de gen să își găsească momentul și oportunitatea pentru a fi discutate, chiar și atunci când se resimte situația că nu au fost făcute suficiente analize, în special în cazul Balcanilor de Vest ? Experiența efectivă a pre-definirii unui caz închis trenează în special când se încearcă abordarea problematicii politicilor de gen, a relevanței corelației cu securitatea umană și cu intromisiunile acesteia în aria Balcanilor de Vest. Rolul femeilor în problematicile de reconstrucție post-conflict în Balcanii de Vest a fost apreciat și considerat apreciabil în multe analize. Pe parcursul acestui articol, vom încerca să întreținem legături analitice ale acestei problematici cu securitatea umană și, mai presus de toate, cu modalitatea în care elemente pre-stabilite sunt adjudecate pentru consolidarea unui impact al politicilor de gen în Balcanii de Vest.Berna Ioana-Bianca. Politici de gen post-conflict în Balcanii de Vest – între analogiile circulare cu securitatea umană și tendințe firave de detașare / Post-conflict gender politics in the Western Balkans – between the same circle of palms with human security and a small stream outside the box. In: Hiperboreea. Journal of History, vol. 1, N°2, 2014. pp. 282-300

Chinese Tidings of Role Conception in Southeast Asia

This article is aimed at providing a thorough analysis about the way in which China constructs an impersonation of its presence in Southeast Asian affairs. The Southeast Asian region is particularly important for Chinese foreign policy, as it was usually portrayed of being adjacent to Chinese backyard-type of influence. With the same task of character and of function, China was able to maintain a specific closeness to Southeast Asian affairs, much like in the way it was able to do to the Northeast Asian affairs – the sub-region to which it forebode an act of belonging. The incipit part of the article is directed to pinpointing the glaring contemporary effect of Southeast Asian Affairs in Security Studies. We will be reffering here to the arguments tapped into, that make the region a focus of attention, from the perspective of economic development, and also from the perspective of strategic bearing. The last and the most turgid part of the article is directed to the desultory portraiture of China`s presence in Southeast Asian affairs. A historic overture will be in-played by the arguments presented, as well as security ratiocinations regarding the posture, that China understands to insert in the bi- and multilateral frameworks of engagement with the regional actors

STATE IDENTITY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY – IDENTITY THEFT OR A CASE FOR REESTABLISHING THEORETICAL CORDIALITY?

Abstract: The increase of similarity between the individual characteristics recognized and asserted for an actor is utilized under the character claim of identity. In International Relations, this has been the communication dependent of the Constructivist research program. The foundation of the theoretical content of identity has mostly been developed, in Constructivist thought, by the linkage to state-identity. In these attempts, the evidence of national identities has been lapsing or totally made an absentee of. Can the national level test experimental discovery for the clear outline of the concept of state-identity in International Relations? Our answer, given and refracted throughout this article, is a positive one. While in the first section of this article, we try to fork out why all connections to identity have been referring to state-identity, in the second section of the paper, we will try to urge reasons of new disquisitions on national identities and their weigh of deliberation for new conceptextractions for state-identity, departing from the theoretical framework of Alexander Wendt

Mutations in a TGF-β Ligand, TGFB3, Cause Syndromic Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections

Aneurysms affecting the aorta are a common condition associated with high mortality as a result of aortic dissection or rupture. Investigations of the pathogenic mechanisms involved in syndromic types of thoracic aortic aneurysms, such as Marfan and Loeys-Dietz syndromes, have revealed an important contribution of disturbed transforming growth factor (TGF)-β signaling.publisher: Elsevier articletitle: Mutations in a TGF-β Ligand, TGFB3, Cause Syndromic Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections journaltitle: Journal of the American College of Cardiology articlelink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2015.01.040 content_type: articlestatus: publishe