Apart from some relatively minor cultural influences, the most significant lasting effects of the Portuguese presence was the disruption and reorganisation of the Southeast Asian trade, and in eastern Indonesia — including Maluku — the introduction of Christianity.

For example, Asian cultures de-emphasis individuality ; therefore Chinese and Japanese people might not be as affected by the effects of personal involvement on vividness of flashbulb memories.

The crisis had significant macroeconomic-level effects, including sharp reductions in values of currencies, stock markets, and other asset prices of several Asian countries.

As the world undergoes increasingly extreme and erratic weather, a variety of international bodies, especially the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which has been particularly hard-hit by tropical storms, have proposed projects to use their vast computing resources to attempt to intervene, utilising chaotic effects to their advantage, in global weather patterns with such precision as to minimise weather-related destruction while also minimising the scale of the efforts necessary to do so.

The contraction in GDP tends to be short lived, however when the bust is accompanied with a financial crisis the effects can be much large ; after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, GDP in Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines fell by more than 10 %, in the aftermath of the Argentine crisis GDP collapsed by roughly 23 %.

East Asian variety programs are known for its constant use of sound effects, on-screen visuals and comedic bantering.

Betel leaf is mostly consumed in Asia, and elsewhere in the world by some Asian emigrants, as betel quid or paan, with or without tobacco, in an addictive psycho-stimulating and euphoria-inducing formulation with adverse health effects.

By late 1997, the company was also beginning to feel the effects of the Asian economic crisis.

Construction on the building's first phase therefore commenced in 1997, and was officially opened on March 4, 1999, even though the effects of the Asian financial crisis has started to bite on the economy during that period.

In the 2nd century BCE, a fresh nomadic movement started among the Central Asian tribes, producing lasting effects on the history of Rome in Europe and Bactria, Kabul, Parthia and India in the east.

" Malang was spared many of the effects of the Asian financial crisis, and since that time it has been marked by steady economic and population growth.

Due to Taiwan ’ s strategic location along East Asian trade routes, Taiwanese were also exposed to cosmopolitan influences and the effects of European commerce.

( 2003 ) indicates that: "( 1 ) there is an underlying unity of female lineages in India, indicating that the initial number of female settlers may have been small ; ( 2 ) the tribal and the caste populations are highly differentiated ; ( 3 ) the Austro-Asiatic tribals are the earliest settlers in India, providing support to one anthropological hypothesis while refuting some others ; ( 4 ) a major wave of humans entered India through the northeast ; ( 5 ) the Tibeto-Burman tribals share considerable genetic commonalities with the Austro-Asiatic tribals, supporting the hypothesis that they may have shared a common habitat in southern China, but the two groups of tribals can be differentiated on the basis of Y-chromosomal haplotypes ; ( 6 ) the Dravidian tribals were possibly widespread throughout India before the arrival of the Indo-European-speaking nomads, but retreated to southern India to avoid dominance ; ( 7 ) formation of populations by fission that resulted in founder and drift effects have left their imprints on the genetic structures of contemporary populations ; ( 8 ) the upper castes show closer genetic affinities with Central Asian populations, although those of southern India are more distant than those of northern India ; ( 9 ) historical gene flow into India has contributed to a considerable obliteration of genetic histories of contemporary populations so that there is at present no clear congruence of genetic and geographical or sociocultural affinities.

South Asian influences are particularly evident in Pentaerophonia for wind quintet, which imitates gamelan effects.

Read won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 1999 for a series that dramatized the global effects of the Asian financial crisis through the movement of a container of french fries from a Washington-state farm to a McDonald's restaurant in Singapore.

The result is that most Asian people are better at metabolizing alcohol, often not feeling the alcohol " buzz " to the same extent as others, and due to this fast metabolism of alcohol instead experience the toxic effects of acetaldehyde which in many Asians is made even worse because of slower metabolism of acetaldehyde.

In economics, demonstration effects may help explain the spread of financial or economic crises like the Asian financial crisis.

However, the destructive effects on local East Asian economies was not a major concern.

From Sumatra, monsoon winds blew the smoke eastward and hence creating negative environmental effects ( externalities ) on other Southeast Asian nations.

Asian filmmaking confirms its vitality, and with this year's most important works demonstrates that it has once again been capable of challenging the most intelligent spectacular effects from Hollywood.

Research has shown that the Asian mussel can have a variety of effects on various ecosystems.

The bookkeeping process refers primarily to recording the financial effects of financial transactions only.

As of September 2011, Canada's national unemployment rate stood at 7. 1 %, as the economy continues its recovery from the effects of the 2007-2010 global financial crisis.

Spraying programs ( especially using DDT ) were curtailed due to concerns over safety and environmental effects, as well as problems in administrative, managerial and financial implementation, but mostly because mosquitoes were developing resistance to DDT.

New research discloses the mischaracterization of investment safety and measures of financial products and markets so complex that their effects, especially under conditions of uncertainty, are impossible to predict.

By contrast, methods such as POST, PUT and DELETE are intended for actions that may cause side effects either on the server, or external side effects such as financial transactions or transmission of email.

In contrast, the POST method is not necessarily idempotent, and therefore sending an identical POST request multiple times may further affect state or cause further side effects ( such as financial transactions ).

The effects of the financial and economic crisis were severe.

Then, the balance sheet of the buyer will be modified and the decision maker should take into account the effects on the reported financial results.

Its immediate failure left him in financial ruins, and he auctioned off his personal effects, including his musical instruments, to recoup his losses.

A snuff film is a motion picture genre that depicts the actual murder of a person or people, without the aid of special effects, for the express purpose of distribution and entertainment or financial exploitation.

These included major controversy over the United States ' proposal to allow credit for carbon " sinks " in forests and agricultural lands, satisfying a major proportion of the U. S. emissions reductions in this way ; disagreements over consequences for non-compliance by countries that did not meet their emission reduction targets ; and difficulties in resolving how developing countries could obtain financial assistance to deal with adverse effects of climate change and meet their obligations to plan for measuring and possibly reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Aside from laments about loves lost, interpersonal tensions and unwanted changes to the region ( e. g., the visible effects of mountaintop coal mining ), bluegrass vocals frequently reference the hard-scrabble existence of living in Appalachia and other rural areas with modest financial resources.

The film grossed over $ 100, 000 and Dawley used the cut effects footage in a sequel Along the Moonbeam Trail ( 1920 ) and the documentary Evolution ( 1923 ), but O ' Brien received little financial reimbursement from this success.

Studies and reports include the effects of consolidation of public accounting firms, the role of credit rating agencies in the operation of securities markets, securities violations and enforcement actions, and whether investment banks assisted Enron, Global Crossing and others to manipulate earnings and obfuscate true financial conditions.

Filmed in the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system ( music and sound effects only ), Sunrise was not a financial success, but received several Oscars at the very first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929.

Zola's intent was to show the terrible effects of speculation and fraudulent company promotion, the culpable negligence of company directors, and the impotency of contemporary financial laws.

At a July 13, 2004, Senate Banking Committee hearing on the effects of the GLBA five years after passage, the Legislative Director of the Consumer Federation cited Roger Ferguson ’ s 2003 speech and stated the “ extravagant promises ” of universal banking had “ proven to be mostly hype .” He noted that advocates of repealing Sections 20 and 32 had said “ anks, securities firms, and insurance companies would merge into financial services supermarkets ” and, after five years, some mergers had occurred “ but mostly within the banking industry, not across sectors .” Within the banking industry, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan testified to Congress in 2004 that commercial bank consolidation had “ slowed sharply in the past five years .”

At the July 13, 2004, Senate Banking Committee hearing on the GLBA ’ s effects, the Securities Industry Association representative explained securities firms had not taken advantage of the GLBA ’ s “ financial holding company ” powers because that would have required them to end affiliations with commercial firms by 2009.

Yet, despite the successes of the new owners, the effects of the financial crisis of 2007 – 2010 weakened the company's financial outlooks while those of its immediate competitor McDonald's grew.

In the human species competition can be expensive on many levels, not only in lives lost to war, physical injuries, and damaged psychological well beings, but also in the health effects from everyday civilian life caused by work stress, long work hours, abusive working relationships, and poor working conditions, that detract from the enjoyment of life, even as such competition results in financial gain for the owners.

The economy suffered the effects of the global recession unleashed by the financial crisis in Asia, and the Economic Ministry reduced its 1999 economic growth estimate from 3. 9 % to 3. 7 %.