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Maria Borovnik 《Asia Pacific viewpoint》2006,47(1):151-161
Abstract: Remittances sent home by seafarers employed on international merchant and fishing ships are a significant income component for the Kiribati economy, with immediate benefits for families and communities. This paper explores the strategies used and the amounts sent by seafarers to their family members by drawing on different data sets, such as remittances data kept in the form of allotment lists by employment agencies, and comparing these with interview responses from seafarers and their families. Remittances are spread throughout extended families and communities firstly via direct allotments sent to individual bank accounts, and secondly through channels of family and community obligations. This paper shows that the general flow of seafarers’ remittances into Kiribati is continuous and has increased over the years with more people engaged in seafaring employment. Families, however, were found to be dependent on individual decisions made by seafarers of how to share their remittances. Kiribati has no institutionalised social welfare system, and as a consequence remittances function as a private safety net for seafarer families. 相似文献
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Much of the post‐development agenda is concerned with decoupling Eurocentric imaginings of development from development practices in ‘remote’ regions and exploring new forms of economy that can enhance local well‐being. In the South Pacific (and elsewhere), small peripheral economies have confronted globalisation in varying ways. Some places, such as the Micronesian island state of Kiribati, have engaged directly with the global economy by investing capital generated locally in international financial markets rather than in domestic industries. Kiribati's trust fund, the Revenue Equalisation Reserve Fund, maintains a balanced portfolio of international equity and fixed income assets that produces a financial return, helping to augment Kiribati's other national income sources. In this paper we explore the results of capital flowing from Kiribati to global financial markets, noting that this alternative development practice can enhance local well‐being. 相似文献
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The Republic of Kiribati is a small, highly infertile Pacific Island nation and is one of the most challenging locations to attempt to support dense urban populations. Kiribati, like other nations in the Pacific, faces an urban future where food insecurity, unemployment, waste management and malnutrition will become increasing issues. Homegardening is suggested as one way to address many of these problems. However, the most recent study on agriculture production in urban centres in Kiribati shows that, in general, intensive cultivation of homegardens is not a common practice. This disparity between theory and practice creates an opportunity to re‐examine homegardening in Kiribati and, more broadly, in the Pacific. This paper examines the practice of homegardening in urban centres in Kiribati and explores reasons why change has or has not occurred through interviews with homegardeners and government/donor representatives. Results show that homegardening has increased significantly in the past five years, largely because of the promotion of homegardens and organic composting systems by donor organisations. While findings further endorse homegardening as an excellent theoretical solution to many of the problems that confront urban settlements in Kiribati and the Pacific, it raises additional questions regarding the continuation of homegarden schemes beyond donor support programmes. 相似文献
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Carole Faucher 《Asia Pacific viewpoint》2006,47(2):273-285
Abstract: This paper explores the discrepancies between the official rhetoric on Malayness and the emerging discourse on national identity among the urban Malay (Melayu) youth of the Indonesian province Kepri. The population of the Riau Archipelago is multiethnic, with Malays as the majority and Kepulauan Riau represents an important historical centre for the whole Malay World. Because of this, local leaders have engaged this newly formed province in a series of attempts to revitalise a transnational ethnic awareness based on an inclusive Malay identity framework. However, most of the students I met during my recent fieldwork in Tanjung Pinang’s public schools tend to reject most ideas of reinforcing the bridge with the Malays of neighbouring nations, and prefer to perceive themselves primarily as Indonesian. This should not come as a surprise. Since 1998, the popular culture scene has been largely influenced by reformasi movements all over Indonesia. For the Tanjung Pinang youth, urban Indonesia, represented especially by Jakarta, is synonymous with dynamism and democratisation, while Malaysia and Singapore are regarded as moralistic and patronising. 相似文献
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Abstract: Part of the globalisation phenomenon involves an increasing number of elite transmigrants traversing national boundaries in response to the global demand for skilled labour while maintaining multifaceted social ties astride political, geographic and cultural borders, linking home and host countries together. As transmigrants ‘live’ in several communities simultaneously, their identities, behaviour and values are often not limited by location. Thus, notions of ‘home’ and ‘national identity’ are also being reviewed given the discrepancies between these concepts and locality. In this context, this paper explores questions of ‘home’ and ‘national identity’ among skilled Chinese‐Malaysians working and residing in Singapore, portraying them as active participants of two (or more) countries. It focuses on their strategies and struggles in negotiating ideologies of ‘home’ and ‘national identities’ across borders in a setting of two neighbouring countries umbilically linked in a volatile political relationship. It further examines their degree of concern in the political affairs of both countries. Between ‘home’ and ‘host’, Chinese‐Malaysians redefine their practices of home(‐making) in relation to their national identity, drawing on the resources and resilience of familial ties, nostalgic memories and other practical lifecourse needs. 相似文献
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Jia Jihong 《保鲜与加工》1998,(1):97-101
This paper studies the duality of the Multiobjective optimization problem involving generalized F-invex functions in Banach space. The constraint qualification and lemma 1 are introduced. The Wolfe type of duality and Mond-Weir type of duality are obtained. Strong and weak duaity theorems and other results are given under weaker F- invexity assumptions. 相似文献
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Hiroyuki Kawahigashi Masao Oshima Tomotaro Nishikawa Hisahito Okuizumi Shigemitsu Kasuga Jun‐ichi Yonemaru 《Plant Breeding》2013,132(3):305-310
A loss of granule‐bound starch synthase I (GBSS I) activity results in starch granules that contain mostly amylopectin and little or no amylose, a phenotype described as waxy. Previously, two phenotypic classes of waxy alleles, wxa, associated with no detectable GBSS I, and wxb, associated with apparently inactive GBSS I in the endosperm, were reported in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench). In this study, the waxy alleles in a sorghum core collection were investigated using DNA markers. Of the 337 sorghum accessions examined, 17 accessions that were confirmed to be waxy by a negative iodine staining result and 16 were found to be wxa. A novel waxy allele, wxc, was found in a Taiwanese landrace. This allele consists of a +1G to C mutation in the 5′ splice site at the intron 10–exon 11 boundary, a mutation that most likely resulted in the suppression of GBSS I gene expression. A DNA marker specific for wxc was produced to distinguish the wxc allele from other alleles, allowing the identification of heterozygous non‐waxy plants. 相似文献
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针对采用梅尔频率倒谱系数（mel-frequency cepstrum coefficient,MFCC）作为身份认证向量（identity vector,i-vector）进行说话人识别存在语音信息不全的问题,提出一种基于语谱特征的身份认证向量识别说话人的方法。语音信号经过预加重、分帧加窗预处理之后,通过短时傅立叶变换转换成语谱图,语谱图被提交到高斯通用背景模型,在高维均值超向量空间中选择合适的低维线性子空间流型结构以构造符合正态分布的向量作为身份认证向量。这些获取的身份认证向量经过线性判别性分析实现降维并存储。最后采用对数似然比（log-likelihood ratio,LLR）方法对训练和测试阶段的i-vector进行评分,完成说话人识别。以TIMIT数据库为标准的数值实验结果表明,相比采用MFCC作为特征的识别方法,研究的等错误率（equal error rate,EER）更低。 相似文献
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Helen Lette 《Asia Pacific viewpoint》1996,37(2):195-208
Yogyakarta’s ‘wild’ guides are young men who pursue fantasies of true love and easy wealth by striking up ‘love affairs’ with tourist women. A hegemonic masculinity emerges as male peergroup gossip evaluates dramatic incidents to pinpoint ideal male withmale image and behaviour. In romances with Western women, guides renegotiate the sexual aspect of their masculinity, as tourist women’s holidayromance expectations of attentiveness and deference collide with this ideal masculine selfimage. The tension between disgust and desire within guides’ lifestyle leads to fragmented performances of identity for their different audiences. 相似文献
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从分布在高粱染色体10个连锁群上的103对SSR引物中,筛选出41对多态性引物, 并用其扩增国内外142份甜高粱种质资源, 检测到189个多态性片段, 每对引物的等位基因数在2~11之间,平均为4.6个。引物位点的多态信息含量指数(PIC)变幅为0.089~0.850,平均为0.543。品种间特异指数差异较大,介于109.1~454.7之间,平均为189.0。结果表明, 根据引物的等位基因数确定11对引物(Xtxp329、Xtxp258、Xtxp113、Xtxp303、Xtxp61、Xtxp201、Xtxp14、Xtxp91、Xtxp47、Xtxp217和Xtxp67)组合, 并用于构建142份品种资源的分子身份证, 有效地区分了各品种。 相似文献
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甘薯（Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.）及其近缘野生种原生质体的植株再生 总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5
对甘薯品种高系14号及其近缘野生种I.triloba L、和I.lacunosa L,进行原生质体植株再生研究。从离体培养植株的叶柄分离出原生质体,将其培养在含有0.05mg/L 2,4-D和0.5mg/L激动素(KT)的MS培养基中,从原生质体获得了高频率的愈伤组织。培养8-12周后,将直径达2—3mm的小愈伤组织转移到添加0.05mg/L 2,4-D的MS培养基上。转移3-6周后,将愈伤组织进一步转移到添加吲哚乙酸(IAA)和6-苄基嘌呤(BAP)的MS培养基上,一些愈伤组织再生出植株。未再生植株的愈伤组织进一步在MS基本培养基上培养,它们也再生出植株。本研究从I.triloba原生质体获得高频率的植株再生;首次从I.lacunosa原生质体再生出植株;从高系14号原生质体也再生出完整植株。 相似文献
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T.C. Chang 《Asia Pacific viewpoint》2005,46(3):247-253
Abstract: The rapid transformation of Asian societies and landscapes, especially since the mid‐1990s, has engendered much conjecture of the ‘Asian renaissance’ and the rise of a ‘New Asia’. This Special Edition of Asia Pacific Viewpoint explores the intersecting themes of ‘urban place’, ‘social memory’ and ‘cultural identity’ in the articulation of and contestation towards New Asia. Specifically, the six articles here offer various interpretations of New Asia – as tourism marketing tool, political vision and social identity – and the politics involved in urban, tourism and cultural development. From colonial hotels in key South‐East Asian cities to the historic waterfront of Singapore; from festivals and rituals in Hong Kong, Hoi An (Vietnam) and Penang (Malaysia) to the clash of cultural values in Manggarai (Indonesia), ‘selective remembering’ and ‘ideological forgetting’ are central to the construction of New Asian identities. Ultimately, this Special Edition hopes to provoke continuing discussions on the rhetoric of New Asia and its imaginative and contested geographies, sociologies and histories. 相似文献
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This paper explores cross‐border ethnic relations as an important socio‐economic strategy for the borderland Iban population in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Iban seeking more lucrative wage work have long used their ethnic identity to facilitate circular labour migration across the international border into Sarawak, Malaysia, a strategy which has also compromised their claims to Indonesian citizenship. Drawing on long‐term field research among the West Kalimantan Iban, we examine the close interconnections among cross‐border labour migration, ethnicity, identity, and citizenship, and how this plays into contemporary issues related to Indonesian political and economic change. 相似文献
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本研究致力于克隆油棕低温相应转录因子基因CBF。以NCBI网站上公布CBF基因设计引物,对油棕的基因组进行扩增,并对其进行回收,转化和测序。总共测了11个克隆,测序结果显示这11个克隆中有3个不同拷贝的CBF基因序列,它们序列之间的同源性分别是,99%,92%和91%。将克隆的CBF基因与不同物种的CBF基因进行了聚类分析,分析结果显示：这些不同物种的CBF基因可以分为3类,克隆的油棕的3个CBF基因被聚在一块,此外,油棕CBF基因与HvCBF1,OsDREB1E,HvCBF11以及TaCBF11的同源性较高。采用同源序列法,克隆了3个拷贝的CBF基因,通过Blast比对发现,克隆的CBF基因与NCBI数据库现有的CBF基因具有很高的同源性。这些工作将为油棕抗寒的分子选育奠定基础。 相似文献
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The nation‐building process of Timor‐Leste, the newest nation in Asia, faces significant demographic challenges due to its high population growth, which is the fastest in Asia. The major contributor for this unprecedented growth is the extremely high total fertility rate of Timor‐Leste, among the highest in the world. It is of great concern that if the current fertility rate and its implied population growth continue the population of Timor‐Leste will double in 17 years. The analysis in this paper clearly shows that the current extremely high dependency ratio will decline only marginally in the next 10 years and this will put tremendous pressure on the government to constantly keep up with the increasing number of children entering school every year. However, as the intrinsic value of human resource development feeds back into the overall society and economy, an adequate public investment in knowledge‐producing services at the earliest stages of life and throughout that life has the potential to change the demographic concern of Timor‐Leste into a future demographic dividend. 相似文献
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Fourteen isozymatk loci have been analyzed in 23 samples of populations belonging to genus Secale by starch gel electrophoresis. The allelic frequencies for these loci have also been estimated and used in calculating genetic identity values between populations. Isozymatic data agree with the hypothesis that there are four species in the genus Secale: S. cereale, S. montanum, S. silvestre, and S. vavilovii. The characteristics of growth and outbreeding habits, and the isozymatic variability along with the previously known cytogenetic data, maintain S. montanum as the probable ancestor of the other three species: two are self-pollinated and monomorphic for isozymes (S. silvestre and S. vavilovii) and the other is open-pollinated and variable (S. cereale) and dearly distinguishable by its genetic variability from the other two. Finally, from isozymatic data it is not possible to distinguish between populations belonging to S. montanum and populations, belonging to. S. cereale. 相似文献