Imura, Takeshi Nagasawa, Yuki Fukuyama, Hiroki Imada, Naoki Oki, Shuichi Araki, Osamu
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Disability and rehabilitation
An early and intensive rehabilitation program in a Japanese hospital affects functional outcomes of acute stroke patients. Implications for Rehabilitation Early and intensive rehabilitation for the stroke patients is an effective means of improving FIM score. Early and intensive rehabilitation affects the improvement of FIM efficiency without incre...
Togashi, Takehiro Mitsuya, Nodoka Sumino, Shuji Takanami, Yohei
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Vaccine
Vaxem™ Hib was generally well tolerated and immunogenic in Japanese children when administered by intramuscular injection in a three-dose primary series and as a booster with concomitant routine vaccines. Clinical trial registry: Registered on Clinical Trials.gov: NCT02074345.
Haseda, Maho Kondo, Naoki Takagi, Daisuke Kondo, Katsunori
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Health & place
Although studies have suggested that community social capital contributes to narrow income-based inequality in depression, the impacts may depend on its components. Our multilevel cross-sectional analysis of data from 42,208 men and 45,448 women aged 65 years or older living in 565 school districts in Japan found that higher community-level civic p...
Ishizaka, Kimishige
It has been a little more than 50 years since we discovered IgE, a key molecule for the allergic response and a target for treating allergies and severe asthma. Here, I trace my career, from the kindling of my interest in immunochemistry to groundbreaking discoveries in the biology and chemistry of immunoglobulins. I describe my service to the broa...
Chihara, Izumi Ae, Ryusuke Kudo, Yuka Uehara, Ritei Makino, Nobuko Matsubara, Yuri Sasahara, Teppei Aoyama, Yasuko Kotani, Kazuhiko Nakamura, Yosikazu
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BMC psychiatry
Although professional organizations suggest that suicidal patients are seen by a psychiatrist, many were not, especially at secondary EDs. Further research is needed to assure that suicidal patients presenting to EDs receive appropriate psychiatric assessment and follow-up after discharge.
Ono, Eiri Ikkatai, Yuko Enoto, Teruaki
Scientific activities driven by citizens who are not specialists in the field are traditionally called “citizen science” contrary to conventional science, which is limited to professional researchers. Recent developments of web-based information and communication tech-nology (ICT) have further changed methods and styles of citizen science. This new...
Rühle, Michael
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SIRIUS - Zeitschrift für Strategische Analysen
Die US-amerikanische Politik der erweiterten Abschreckung für ihre Verbündeten in Ostasien ist durch die nuklearen Ambitionen Nordkoreas sowie die zunehmend militärisch unterfütterte Außenpolitik Chinas erneut ins Zentrum der Betrachtung gerückt. Die aktuelle Diskussion in Asien zeigt – nach einer Phase des Herunterspielens der nuklearen Dimension ...
Poulidis, Alexandros P. Takemi, Tetsuya Shimizu, Atsushi Iguchi, Masato Jenkins, Susanna F.
With the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull (Iceland) in 2010, interest in the transport of volcanic ash after moderate to major eruptions has increased with regards to both the physical and the emergency hazard management aspects. However, there remain significant gaps in the understanding of the long-term behaviour of emissions from volcanoes with long...
Takei, Haruka Ishiwada, Naruhiko Takeuchi, Noriko Ohkusu, Misako Hoshino, Tadashi Murata, Shota Sato, Hiroko Abe, Katsuaki Shizuno, Kenichi Hishiki, Haruka
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Japanese journal of infectious diseases
Although invasive meningococcal disease is rare in Japan (0.028 cases per 100,000 population), its incidence is 10 times greater in many other countries. Colonization is a prerequisite for invasive meningococcal disease. However, no study in Japan has specifically analysed the carriage rate of Neisseria meningitidis in children. During 5 months in ...
Sakata, Yuichi Ushigami, Tsuyoshi Anzawa, Kazushi Mochizuki, Takashi
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Japanese journal of infectious diseases
Trichophyton tonsurans, a major pathogen of tinea capitis and tinea corporis, has been isolated from players of contact sports in Japan. To understand the contemporary epidemic in Japan, the molecular types of 208 strains isolated between 2011 and 2015 were determined. Of these, 142 were isolated from practitioners of judo, 28 from wrestlers, seven...
