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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (3): 550.
Published: 01 May 1977
...Arthur W. Galston Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 Plant Studies in the People's Republic of China: A Trip Report of the American Plant Studies Delegation . Washington, D.C. : National Academy of Sciences , 1975 . 205 pp. $7.25 550 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (3): 519–529.
Published: 01 May 1982
... yoru kodaiteki saibai shokubutsu ibutsu no tansaku ” [Research on ancient domesticated plant remains by plant opal analysis]. Kokogaku zasshi 62 , 63 : 54 – 62 . Kosaku Hamada and Seiichi Mizuno . 1938 . Hung-shan-hou, Ch'ih-feng . Archaeologia Orientalis ser. B, vol. 6 : 1 – 51...
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Published: 01 August 2011
Figure 3. Depopulation in Four Potential Nuclear Plant Host Communities
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 17 (2): 303–304.
Published: 01 February 1958
...Richard Haag Japanese Flower Arrangement . By Seido Iwata . New York : Studio Crowell , 1957 . Illus. $6.95. Bonsai: Miniature Trees . By Claude Chidamian . Princeton : D. Van Nostrand , 1955 . 94 pp. Illus. $3.95. The Art of Growing Miniature Trees, Plants...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 65–87.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Projit Bihari Mukharji Abstract This article critically examines the assumptions and processes involved in identifying historically distinctive plant identities by their Latin botanical names. By following late-colonial efforts to identify a medicinal herb mentioned in some versions of the Ramayana...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (3): 783–788.
Published: 01 August 2024
...David Biggs 2. Were, like many anthropologists, does not use Latin-based scientific names for these species but local Nalik names; I have added them to aid readers who may know these plants from other places. 1. Kathleen C. Gutierrez, “From Objects of Study to Worldmaking Beings...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (2): 370–372.
Published: 01 February 1977
...John D. La Plante The Axis of Eros . By Walter M. Spink . New York : Penguin Books , 1975 . (First published by Schocken, 1973) 191 pp. Illustrations. $3.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 370 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES is that those generalized...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 295–296.
Published: 01 May 2023
... wonder of plants is as old as human history. For centuries, and to this day, we continue to marvel at their beauty and bounty. The study, identification, naming, collection, cultivation, use, and trade of plants have inspired the progress of civilization: from the fertile valleys of the rivers Tigris...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 481–497.
Published: 01 May 2017
... on catastrophe as a scholar of Brazil and a cultural anthropologist interested in medical anthropology and critical science studies. Specifically, I consider how experts working on issues related to the Angra dos Reis nuclear energy plant in Brazil—the site of my current research—viewed and discussed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 423–436.
Published: 01 May 2017
... erupted in the fall of 2011 when local media began reporting on a train from Kazakhstan carrying more than eight thousand tons of it (in 130 wagons) to a heating plant in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Upon discovering that radioactivity in the shipment was eight times higher than normal, Kyrgyz authorities had...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 857–871.
Published: 01 November 2012
... the question of whether Japanese political leaders would push for restarting a number of the offline nuclear power plants across the country in order to cover expected gaps in Japan's electricity supply. At first the debate's participants took up the countervailing pressures Japanese policymakers face...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1942) 2 (1): 58–65.
Published: 01 November 1942
... was delegated to “extend his studies to the tertiary and diluvial fauna of Java.” From that year until 1895 Dubois explored all the localities known from earlier investigations to be particularly rich in fossil remains, and assembled from them a large collection of plants and animals. Copyright ©...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1946) 5 (2): 189–199.
Published: 01 February 1946
... that sub-critical deficiencies of these amino-acids, sufficient to reduce general vitality and well-being, are already widespread in the region. These amino-acids are the ones least abundant in the produce of crop-plants which yield the highest returns of energy-foods. Expanded production of these special...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1956) 15 (2): 215–227.
Published: 01 February 1956
... dimensions. The dominant form of agriculture depends upon irrigated lands planted primarily with rice. In upland areas, where the topography has limited the spread of the irrigated land, the residential units are relatively small and isolated, and a characteristic village organization has developed in which...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (3): 545–548.
Published: 01 May 1982
... have been greatly encouraged and aided by scientific excavations. As in many other areas of the world, plant domestication has not been thoroughly studied in Korea. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 VOL. Xli, No. 3 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES MAY 1982 Comments ON KIM...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (2): 329–351.
Published: 01 May 2001
... in the land that led to an explosion of the wild boar population. Wild boar thrived in the newly deforested terrain—a terrain that, with its ample brush and many tuberous plants, supplied them with shelter and food. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 List of References...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 683–705.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Figure 3. Depopulation in Four Potential Nuclear Plant Host Communities ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 989–1000.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of plant and animal species; and widespread pollution of sky, sea, and land make clear the extent to which humans have shaped global ecologies. An understanding of Asia—home to more than half the world's population, an increasingly significant contributor to global carbon dioxide emissions, the site...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (2): 363–371.
Published: 01 February 1970
... over the entire mainland and Indonesia during the Paleolithic period which embraced the first million years of human evolution. There is growing evidence for the existence of many centers of plant domestication in Asia, each of which appears to have developed out of an indigenous “mesolithic” period...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1947) 6 (3): 283–293.
Published: 01 May 1947
.... Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1947 1947 1
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el al., The industrialization of Japan and Manchukuo, 1930–1940 ( New York : Macmillan , 1940 ), pp. 240 , 331 . 2 See Table 1 for details and reference. 3 The capacity of all plants...
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