The molecular properties governing solubilities of organic nonelectrolytes in water (original) (raw)
THE ASEAN 1985 AGREEMENT ON THE PROTECTION OF NATURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Monirul Islam, 2019
The ASEAN 1985 agreement is held for the protection of the natural world and natural resources which is an important contract between the ASEAN countries. This paper explains how to this ASEAN agreement can protect biological diversity to maintain essential ecological processes and life-support systems, to preserve genetic diversity, and to guarantee the sustainable utilization of living resources which includes also social progress, economic development, cultural development, regional peace with stability, and mutual assistance on the issue of common interest. However, if this 1985 agreement fails to fulfill above refereed elements it will be affected on nature and natural resources. For protecting the natural resources and other elements, the member states should make proper commitments with principals of justice and rule of law and ensure certain rules of behavior. Moreover, political issues can be mutually detached and promote a sense of regional identity in ASEAN.
Asian Journal Of Social Psychology, 2006
The present study examined how the representations of biotechnology using genetic engineering have been developed in Japan relying on media analysis. Specifically, using the online database of the Asahi Shimbun, one of the major opinion-forming newspapers in Japan, the annual numbers of articles concerning biotechnology were tallied from 1985 to 2000, and an analysis was conducted of the content of 850 articles from 10 particular years. Specifically, a framework in which a biotechnological issue was presented was focused on; the changes of dominant frames and the relationships between frames and specific biotechnological applications (e.g. medicine, agrifood and cloning) were investigated. The results showed that: (i) the number of articles increased sharply in particular since 1996-1997; (ii) although general attitudes toward biotechnology were persistently positive, a frame of biotechnological article became more diverse (i.e. the prospect frames were considerably dominant in the earlier phases, but the concern frames also became prominent in the later phases); and (iii) several articles were found which reported cloned animals in a frame of emotional attachment, a frame unique to Japan. These results were compared with those of European countries and discussed from a perspective of the theory of collective symbolic coping.