The Role of Europe in Enhancing Cooperative Security in Asia and the Pacific: A View from Japan. Egmont Security Policy Brief No. 50, October 2013

Asia is a prominent export market for Europe while in the East and South China Seas, tensions continue. Europe has searched for its political role in Asia. This policy brief presents an analysis and argues the role of Europe in enhancing cooperative security in Asia and the Pacific, which would promote stability and peace there.

Arginine vasotocin regulation of interspecific cooperative behaviour in a cleaner fish

In an interspecific cooperative context, individuals must be prepared to tolerate close interactive proximity to other species but also need to be able to respond to relevant social stimuli in the most appropriate manner. The neuropeptides vasopressin and oxytocin and their non-mammalian homologues have been implicated in the evolution of sociality and in the regulation of social behaviour across vertebrates. However, little is known about the underlying physiological mechanisms of interspecific cooperative interactions. In interspecific cleaning mutualisms, interactions functionally resemble most intraspecific social interactions. Here we provide the first empirical evidence that arginine vasotocin (AVT), a non-mammalian homologue of arginine vasopressin (AVP), plays a critical role as moderator of interspecific behaviour in the best studied and ubiquitous marine cleaning mutualism involving the Indo-Pacific bluestreak cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus. Exogenous administration of AVT caused a substantial decrease of most interspecific cleaning activities, without similarly affecting the expression of conspecific directed behaviour, which suggests a differential effect of AVT on cleaning behaviour and not a general effect on social behaviour. Furthermore, the AVP-V1a receptor antagonist (manning compound) induced a higher likelihood for cleaners to engage in cleaning interactions and also to increase their levels of dishonesty towards clients. The present findings extend the knowledge of neuropeptide effects on social interactions beyond the study of their influence on conspecific social behaviour. Our evidence demonstrates that AVT pathways might play a pivotal role in the regulation of interspecific cooperative behaviour and conspecific social behaviour among stabilized pairs of cleaner fish. Moreover, our results suggest that the role of AVT as a neurochemical regulator of social behaviour may have been co-opted in the evolution of cooperative behaviour in an interspecific context, a hypothesis that is amenable to further testing on the potential direct central mechanism involved.

Desenvolvimento sociomoral, ética profissional e educação para a cidadania ao longo do ciclo de vida

A educação para a cidadania ao longo do ciclo de vida constitui uma preocupação da sociedade contemporânea, estando mesmo consagrada nas recomendações do Conselho da Europa. O objectivo desta comunicação é demonstrar que a operacionalização desta recomendação deverá privilegiar estratégias de promoção do desenvolvimento sociomoral, comparativamente a estratégias de mera doutrinação ou de clarificação de valores. A utilização dessa abordagem deverá ser privilegiada em qualquer etapa do ciclo de vida, uma vez que se considera não existir uma ruptura conceptual entre as estratégias utilizadas com crianças e adolescentes e as estratégias utilizadas com adultos, deverão efectuar-se apenas algumas adaptações de conteúdo, relacionadas com as experiências pessoais e profissionais próprias da vida adulta. Assim, revêem-se algumas das principais teorias do desenvolvimento sociomoral, integrando os contributos quer das teorias que enfatizam aspectos cognitivos, quer das teorias que salientam aspectos afectivos e emocionais, com vista a delinear as estratégias pedagógicas mais adequadas para se efectuar uma educação para a cidadania ao longo de todo o ciclo de vida. Apresentam-se alguns dados exploratórios relativos a dilemas morais relatados por estudantes do 1º ano de Serviço Social, diferenciando-se os relatos dos estudantes com e sem experiência profissional. Os relatos dos estudantes com experiência profissional parecem indicar que a experiência profissional constitui um importante contexto de resolução de conflitos e exercício de cidadania. As estratégias pedagógicas baseadas na promoção do desenvolvimento sociomoral são discutidas como as mais adequadas para a promoção de uma cidadania democrática e participativa.

Unauthorized migration : an economic development response : executive summary : report of the Commission for the Study of International Migration and Cooperative Economic Development.

"July 1990."

Unauthorized migration : addressing the root causes : hearings before the Commission for the Study of International Migration and Cooperative Economic Development, 1987-1990

Mode of access: Internet.

Guanchias Limitada : a case study of an agrarian reform cooperative and its long-term relationship with a multinational firm in Honduras /

"PN-AAL-046"--Cover.

Peru, agricultural cooperative federations development : project paper : proposal and recommendations for the review of the Development Loan Committee /

"Unclassified."

Cooperative research and development agreement with Graseby/Nutech Corporation : monitoring equipment for volatile organic compounds.

Mode of access: Internet.

Cooperative research and development agreement with Frandon Enterprises : development and evaluation of multi-media test kits for lead and other trace metals.

Mode of access: Internet.

Cooperative research and development agreement with Ford Motor Company : environmental damage to automobile coatings.

Mode of access: Internet.