item: #1 of 73 id: cord-003173-ymsl7snv author: Miura, Fuminari title: Estimating the Asymptomatic Ratio of Norovirus Infection During Foodborne Outbreaks With Laboratory Testing in Japan date: 2018-09-05 words: 3657 flesch: 35 summary: The epidemiological information we have an access includes (i) the total number of people involved (including healthy individuals) in each outbreak, (ii) the number of symptomatic cases, and (iii) the numbers of symptomatic virus shedding cases and asymptomatic virus shedding cases. We reanalyzed a published dataset that tested both symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals during norovirus outbreaks at food catering settings in Japan from November 10, 2005 to December 9, 2006 (n = 55 outbreaks). keywords: asymptomatic; individuals; infection; norovirus; outbreaks; ratio; shedding cache: cord-003173-ymsl7snv.txt plain text: cord-003173-ymsl7snv.txt item: #2 of 73 id: cord-004948-ad3i9wgj author: None title: 7th International Congress on Amino Acids and Proteins : Vienna, Austria, August 6–10, 2001 date: 2001 words: 73789 flesch: 41 summary: After the performic acid oxidation and the 6 M HCl hydrolysis of the protein, OPA/TATG (o-phthaldialdehyde/tetra-O-acetyl-1-thio--D-glucopiranoside) precolumn derivatisation method was used, and the enantiomers of sulphur containing amino acids were separated by RP-HPLC (LiChrosphere 100 RP-18e, 125 ϫ 4 mm, 5 µm column, Merck-Hitachi LaChrom HPLC). The dominant ones are water, ethanol, glycerol, sugars, organic acids, and various ions, while amino acids are present at much lower concentration. keywords: acids; activation; activities; activity; addition; administration; amino acid; analysis; animals; antagonists; apoptosis; approach; arginine; binding; biological; blood; brain; cancer; cell; chain; changes; clinical; complex; compounds; concentration; conditions; content; control; cysteine; data; decrease; department; derivatives; development; disease; dna; dopa; effect; enzyme; ethanol; experiments; expression; following; formation; free; function; gaba; gel; gene; glucose; glutamate; glutamine; group; growth; human; identification; increase; inhibition; institute; leucine; levels; liver; lysine; mass; mechanism; membrane; metabolism; methionine; method; mice; model; molecular; mrna; new; nmda; non; number; patients; peptide; plasma; polyamines; present; production; properties; proteins; rats; reaction; receptor; reduced; release; research; response; results; role; samples; sequence; stress; structure; studies; study; substrate; synthesis; system; taurine; time; tissue; transport; treatment; tumor; type; university; uptake; vitamin; vitro; vivo cache: cord-004948-ad3i9wgj.txt plain text: cord-004948-ad3i9wgj.txt item: #3 of 73 id: cord-005188-7syyl40y author: Matsubayashi, Makoto title: First report of molecular identification of Cystoisospora suis in piglets with lethal diarrhea in Japan date: 2016-04-01 words: 2708 flesch: 41 summary: Villous atrophy, diffuse necrosis, and flattening of mucosal epithelial cells were found in the ilea of examined piglets, and coccidian parasites were found in the cytoplasm of the epithelial cells. In some merozoites in the meronts, the presence of two nuclei indicated type 1 merozoites, characteristic of C. suis. keywords: coli; cystoisospora; japan; piglets; species; suis cache: cord-005188-7syyl40y.txt plain text: cord-005188-7syyl40y.txt item: #4 of 73 id: cord-006849-vgjz74ts author: None title: 27th International Congress of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) Sevilla, Spain, 12–15 June 2019 date: 2019-09-13 words: 222539 flesch: 45 summary: Day after surgery patient was asymptomatic, got full oral diet. Methods: From January 2001 to March 2005 all characteristics of surgical patients with diverticular and colon adenocarcinoma colovesical fistulae were reviewed. keywords: abdominal; acute; age; aim; aims; analysis; anastomosis; anatomy; anterior; approach; artery; associated; average; background; bile; biliary; bleeding; blood; bmi; body; bowel; bypass; cancer patients; cancer surgery; cases; cholecystectomy; chronic; clinical; closure; colon; complete; complications; conclusion; control; conventional; conversion; course; data; days; defect; diagnosis; differences; disease; dissection; distal; drainage; duct; emergency surgery; endoscopic; esophageal; esophagus; evaluation; examination; experience; factors; female; fluorescence; follow; following; gastrectomy; gastric; general; good; grade; group; hepatic; hernia; history; hospital; icg; imaging; incision; intervention; intraoperative; introduction; laparoscopic; leak; learning; left; lesion; level; line; liver; loss; lymph; management; mass; mean; median; medical; mesh; methods; model; months; morbidity; mortality; need; new; node; non; normal; number; objective; open; operation; operation time; order; outcomes; p =; pain; patients; perform; period; port; position; postoperative; preoperative; present; primary; procedure; quality; rate; recurrence; reflux; repair; report; resection; results; right; risk; risk patients; robotic; safety; scan; score; short; size; sleeve; space; stage; standard; stay; step; stomach; studies; study; study group; surgeons; surgery; surgery group; surgery patients; surgical; survival; suture; symptoms; system; technique; term; time; tissue; total; training; treatment; tumor; type; use; video; wall; weight; years cache: cord-006849-vgjz74ts.txt plain text: cord-006849-vgjz74ts.txt item: #5 of 73 id: cord-007009-4wbvdg1r author: Takahashi, Toru title: The First Identification and Retrospective Study of Severe Fever With Thrombocytopenia Syndrome in Japan date: 2014-03-15 words: 4691 flesch: 44 summary: SFTSV RNA was present, with high copy numbers, in the right axillary and cervical lymph node sections (Supplementary Table 3 ). Consistent with immunohistochemical analysis results, low copy numbers (100-1000 copies) of SFTSV RNA were also detected in the bone marrow, the spleen, the liver, and the adrenal glands. keywords: cells; fever; figure; japan; lymph; nodes; patients; rna; serum; sftsv; syndrome; thrombocytopenia; virus cache: cord-007009-4wbvdg1r.txt plain text: cord-007009-4wbvdg1r.txt item: #6 of 73 id: cord-009608-bvalr9bl author: Nomura, Shuhei title: Tracking Japan’s development assistance for health, 2012–2016 date: 2020-04-15 words: 6534 flesch: 46 summary: In the same year, MOFA also published the Basic Design for Peace and Health (Global Health Cooperation) as a guideline for global health policy under the new Charter. Between 2012 and 2016, approximately 70% was allocated to primary health care and the rest to health system strengthening. keywords: countries; dah; development; disease; foreign; global; health; hss; japan; ministry; multilateral; oda; phc; study cache: cord-009608-bvalr9bl.txt plain text: cord-009608-bvalr9bl.txt item: #7 of 73 id: cord-010088-s9tfvtao author: None title: Oral Abstracts date: 2013-11-01 words: 43554 flesch: 46 summary: The information of blood donors with rare blood types is registered into the National Registering System for Blood Donors with Rare Blood Types by professional technician from organizations join the program. Present methods to recruit blood donors based on age, gender and occupation groups for a stable blood supply. keywords: aims; anti; antibodies; antibody; antigens; background; blood; blood components; blood donation; blood donors; blood group; blood products; blood transfusion; cases; cells; collection; data; day; development; events; group; haemovigilance; hbv; hcv; health; hit; hla; identification; immune; infection; international; inventory; management; methods; national; non; patients; plasma; platelet; platelet transfusion; population; positive; process; production; products; quality; reactions; red; results; risk; safety; samples; study; system; testing; therapy; time; transfusion; treatment; use; years cache: cord-010088-s9tfvtao.txt plain text: cord-010088-s9tfvtao.txt item: #8 of 73 id: cord-010929-d598h08w author: Kashiwagi, Hirokazu title: Reference guide for management of adult immune thrombocytopenia in Japan: 2019 Revision date: 2020-01-02 words: 11824 flesch: 36 summary: Results of a French observational study Sustained remission of chronic immune thrombocytopenia after discontinuation of treatment with thrombopoietin-receptor agonists in adults Successful discontinuation of eltrombopag after complete remission in patients with primary immune thrombocytopenia Improved regulatory T-cell activity in patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenia treated with thrombopoietic agents Induction of immune tolerance to platelet antigen by short-term thrombopoietin treatment in a mouse model of immune thrombocytopenia Thrombopoietin-induced signal transduction and potentiation of platelet activation Thromboembolic events among adult patients with primary immune thrombocytopenia in the United Kingdom General Practice Research Database Risk of arterial thrombosis in patients with primary chronic immune thrombocytopenia: a Danish populationbased cohort study Risk of venous thromboembolism in patients with primary chronic immune thrombocytopenia: a Danish population-based cohort study Safety and efficacy of eltrombopag for treatment of chronic immune thrombocytopenia: results of the long-term, open-label EXTEND study Evaluation of bone marrow reticulin in patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenia treated with eltrombopag: data from the EXTEND study Bone marrow fibrosis in 66 patients with immune thrombocytopenia treated with thrombopoietin-receptor agonists: a single-center, long-term follow-up Safety and efficacy of romiplostim in patients with lower-risk myelodysplastic syndrome and thrombocytopenia Long-term follow-up for up to 5 years on the risk of leukaemic progression in thrombocytopenic patients with lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes treated with romiplostim or placebo in a randomised double-blind trial Association between acute myelogenous leukemia and thrombopoietin receptor agonists in patients with immune thrombocytopenia Toxicities of the thrombopoietic growth factors Eltrombopag versus romiplostim in treatment of adult patients with immune thrombocytopenia: a systematic review incorporating an indirect-comparison metaanalysis A retrospective pilot evaluation of switching thrombopoietic receptor-agonists in immune thrombocytopenia Use of eltrombopag after romiplostim in primary immune thrombocytopenia Thrombopoietin receptor agonist switch in adult primary immune thrombocytopenia patients: a retrospective collaborative survey involving 4 Spanish centres Alternate use of thrombopoietin receptor agonists in adult primary immune thrombocytopenia patients: a retrospective collaborative survey from Italian hematology centers Rituximab plus standard of care for treatment of primary immune thrombocytopenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis Rituximab and dexamethasone vs dexamethasone monotherapy in newly diagnosed patients with primary immune thrombocytopenia Dexamethasone plus rituximab yields higher sustained response rates than dexamethasone monotherapy in adults with primary immune thrombocytopenia A pilot randomized trial of adjuvant rituximab or placebo for nonsplenectomized patients with immune thrombocytopenia Low-dose rituximab combined with short-term glucocorticoids up-regulates Treg cell levels in patients with immune thrombocytopenia Rituximab as second-line treatment for adult immune thrombocytopenia (the RITP trial): a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial Efficacy and safety of rituximab in Japanese patients with relapsed chronic immune thrombocytopenia refractory to conventional therapy Rituximab therapy for chronic and refractory immune thrombocytopenic purpura: a long-term follow-up analysis Rituximab efficacy and safety in adult splenectomy candidates with chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura: results of a prospective multicenter phase 2 study Multi-center randomized open label phase II trial on three rituximab dosing schemes in immune thrombocytopenia patients Outcomes 5 years after response to rituximab therapy in children and adults with immune thrombocytopenia Rituximab in immune thrombocytopenia: gender, age, and response as predictors of long-term response Rituximab before splenectomy in adults with primary idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura: a meta-analysis Repeated courses of rituximab in chronic ITP: Three different regimens Safety and efficacy of rituximab in adult immune thrombocytopenia: results from a prospective registry including 248 patients Gender and duration of disease differentiate responses to rituximab-dexamethasone therapy in adults with immune thrombocytopenia The efficacy and safety of B-cell depletion with anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody in adults with chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura The effect of rituximab on anti-platelet autoantibody levels in patients with immune thrombocytopenia Lack of detectable platelet autoantibodies is correlated with nonresponsiveness to rituximab treatment in ITP patients GPIIb/IIIa autoantibody predicts better rituximab response in ITP Rituximab in autoimmune haemolytic anaemia and immune thrombocytopenic purpura: a Belgian retrospective multicentric study Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy after rituximab therapy in HIV-negative patients: a report of 57 cases from the Research on Adverse Drug Events and Reports project Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Pulse cyclophosphamide therapy for refractory autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura Dapsone for primary immune thrombocytopenia in adults and children: an evidence-based review Dapsone therapy for refractory immune thrombocytopenia patients: a case series Disappointing response to dapsone as second line therapy for primary ITP: a case series Danazol for the treatment of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura keywords: bleeding; cases; chronic; count; dose; efficacy; immune; itp; patients; platelet; platelet count; purpura; rituximab; splenectomy; therapy; thrombocytopenia; treatment cache: cord-010929-d598h08w.txt plain text: cord-010929-d598h08w.txt item: #9 of 73 id: cord-010980-sizuef1v author: None title: ECTES Abstracts 2020 date: 2020-05-11 words: 132805 flesch: 50 summary: Investigation of coagulopathies and its relevance with mortality and transfusion rates using thromboelastography in trauma patients Introduction: Inter-hospital variation in surgical intensity for trauma admissions: a multicenter cohort study L. Moore 1 , M. P. Patton 2 , I. Farhat 2 , P. A. Tardif 2 , C. Gonthier 3 , A. Belcaid 3 , F. Lauzier 2 , A. Turgeon 2 , J. Clément 2 1 Université Laval, Social and preventive medicine, québec, Canada, 2 CHU de Québec-Université-Laval, Québec, Canada, 3 Introduction: Guidelines for trauma patients are increasingly moving away from surgical management towards less invasive procedures but there is a knowledge gap on how these recommendations are influencing practice. keywords: 0.001; abdomen; abdominal; acute; admission; adult patients; age; aim; analysis; approach; average; bleeding; blood; blunt; bone; brain; cases; cause; chest; clinical; cohort; cohort study; comments; complications; conclusions; control; data; days; death; department; diagnosis; emergency; emergency surgery; factors; findings; fixation; follow; following; fractures; general; good; grade; group; head; hip; history; hospital; hospital mortality; icu; incidence; increased; injuries; injury; injury severity; introduction; investigation; iss; laparotomy; left; level; literature; male; management; material; mean; mechanism; median; medical; methods; model; months; mortality; mortality rate; neck; need; non; number; open; operative; outcomes; p =; pain; patients c; patients introduction; pelvic; period; plate; polytrauma patients; population; postoperative; pressure; primary; procedure; progressions; range; rate; reduction; results; review; right; risk; scan; score; screw; severity; shock; stay; studies; study; study introduction; surgeons; surgery; surgery patients; survival; system; technique; test; therapy; time; tissue; total; transfusion; trauma care; trauma center; trauma patients; trauma registry; trauma surgery; trauma team; treatment; type; university; use; vascular; wound; years cache: cord-010980-sizuef1v.txt plain text: cord-010980-sizuef1v.txt item: #10 of 73 id: cord-011062-ukz4hnmy author: None title: Poster date: 2020-03-11 words: 88442 flesch: 49 summary: Greater grip strength was associated with lower % of body fat and higher % of muscle mass. Conclusion: Older adult patients hospitalized for hip fracture who had frailty, functional dependence, and social problems had significant adverse events at a general hospital in Lima, Peru. keywords: activities; activity; adults; age; aging; analysis; assessment; association; background; baseline; bmi; body; care; cognitive; cohort; community; conclusion; criteria; cross; daily; data; day; decline; differences; disability; disease; dwelling; effect; elderly; exercise; factors; falls; fat; follow; frailty; frailty index; frailty screening; frailty status; function; gait; geriatric; grip; grip strength; group; health; high; hospital; impairment; increase; individuals; intake; intervention; level; life; living; loss; low; mean; measures; methods; model; months; mortality; muscle; muscle function; muscle health; muscle mass; muscle strength; non; obesity; objectives; outcomes; p<0.001; participants; patients; people; performance; physical; population; prevalence; program; protein; quality; regression; results; risk; sample; sarcopenia; score; screening; sex; speed; sppb; studies; study; subjects; surgery; test; time; total; training; university; vs.; walking; weight; women; years cache: cord-011062-ukz4hnmy.txt plain text: cord-011062-ukz4hnmy.txt item: #11 of 73 id: cord-011245-nkr0998x author: Yokomichi, Hiroshi title: Immune thrombocytopenic purpura risk by live, inactivated and simultaneous vaccinations among Japanese adults, children and infants: a matched case–control study date: 2020-04-06 words: 4602 flesch: 42 summary: Therefore, the risk associated with simultaneous vaccine administration needs to be investigated more comprehensively. Sex-adjusted common ORs for simultaneous vaccination were 1.52 (0.45–5.21, p = 0.71) for all vaccines, 1.83 (0.44–7.59, p = 0.40) for inactivated vaccines only, and 1.36 (0.29–6.30, p = 0.69) for mixed live and inactivated vaccines. keywords: case; children; control; itp; ors; patients; risk; study; vaccination; vaccines; years cache: cord-011245-nkr0998x.txt plain text: cord-011245-nkr0998x.txt item: #12 of 73 id: cord-014685-ihh30q6f author: None title: Posters P788 - P999 date: 2005-09-21 words: 38408 flesch: 42 summary: 12 physical property parameters of protein structure were chosen to construct a 12-dimension physical property space. These systems have proven to be also valuable as membrane mimetic structures, as promising matrices for controlled-release and delivery of proteins, vitamins and small drugs in pharmacological applications, and they offer a 3D lipid matrix for successful crystallization of membrane proteins which do not easily crystallize in bulk solution. keywords: activity; aggregation; analysis; beta; binding; cells; changes; complex; complexes; concentration; conformational; data; delivery; dna; domain; drug; dynamics; effect; energy; experiments; folding; function; human; institute; interaction; light; lipid; loop; mechanism; membrane; membrane protein; method; model; molecular; native; new; nmr; order; peptide; phase; potential; presence; process; properties; protein; protein structure; region; residues; results; rna; rst; sequence; signi; site; solution; speci; stability; state; step; structure; studies; study; surface; system; temperature; terminal; time; transition; transport; type; unfolding; university; uorescence; water; work cache: cord-014685-ihh30q6f.txt plain text: cord-014685-ihh30q6f.txt item: #13 of 73 id: cord-014922-pqy8bikp author: Hayes, Adrian C. title: Book reviews date: 2003 words: 5235 flesch: 44 summary: Chapter 1, by Goodman, discusses the evolution of applied anthropology, and explains what anthropology can offer to the studies of social policy. The anthropology of social policy is not only the study of meanings ascribed to slogans and symbols associated with the policy but also that of its production and consumption. keywords: book; chapter; diseases; health; human; mcmichael; policies; policy; population; work; years cache: cord-014922-pqy8bikp.txt plain text: cord-014922-pqy8bikp.txt item: #14 of 73 id: cord-014992-w9cg819b author: None title: Spotlight on Osaka date: 2009-09-23 words: 14821 flesch: 45 summary: The current institute was opened two years later and has since grown into one of the premium centres for protein research in the world. The monkeys, used at NIBIO for vaccine and other research, are also available to scientists and pharmaceutical companies throughout Japan for research on disorders such as hereditary diseases, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. keywords: biomedical; brain; cells; center; cluster; companies; development; drug; government; imaging; industry; institute; japan; life; medical; medicine; new; nibio; obi; osaka; osaka university; research; researchers; school; science; scientists; systems; technology; university; world cache: cord-014992-w9cg819b.txt plain text: cord-014992-w9cg819b.txt item: #15 of 73 id: cord-015569-vy49r1zd author: None title: Abstracts from the 45(th) Annual Meeting of Japanese Association for the Stusy of Taste and Smell (JASTS 2011), Kanazawa, Japan, October 5-7(th), 2011 (The president of the meeting was Dr. Takaki Miwa, Kanazawa Medical University) date: 2012-05-17 words: 18896 flesch: 49 summary: However, mechanism of recognition of taste receptor cells which express appropriate taste receptor is still unknown. Using calcium imaging and immunocytochemistry, we revealed that ATP activates type II and III taste cells and HCl activates type III taste cells, and also that HCl and ATP activate separate subpopulations of taste cells. keywords: acid; activity; cells; dashi; flavor; food; intake; mice; nerve; odor; olfactory; patients; preference; rats; receptor; responses; results; saliva; sensory; solution; stimulation; stimuli; study; subjects; sucrose; swallowing; system; taste; taste cells; type; umami; water cache: cord-015569-vy49r1zd.txt plain text: cord-015569-vy49r1zd.txt item: #16 of 73 id: cord-016105-jkaxemmb author: Nakao, Mutsuhiro title: Prevention and Psychological Intervention in Depression and Stress-Related Conditions date: 2011 words: 4506 flesch: 35 summary: It has long been acknowledged that patients and physicians tend to have different and sometimes conflicting views on health problems and on reasonable expectations for managing such problems. The reach of the disease-oriented system (DOS), problem-based learning (PBL), and case methods More broadly, we need to adopt procedures that enable the identification and measurement of problems, the analysis of key determinants, the development of intervention strategies, the selection of an optimal intervention strategy, and the evaluation of outcomes to solve public health problems involving depression or other mental illnesses. keywords: communication; depression; education; health; japan; method; patient; problem cache: cord-016105-jkaxemmb.txt plain text: cord-016105-jkaxemmb.txt item: #17 of 73 id: cord-016889-7ih6jdpe author: Shibuya, Kazuhiko title: Identity Health date: 2019-12-03 words: 7748 flesch: 38 summary: Especially, at 2015, after serial tragedies of the Tohoku Quakes and Fukushima nuclear disasters, the UNISDR as a part of the United Nations (at 2019, UNISDR was renamed to UNDRR 7 : The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) held the global conference on disaster management at both Tokyo and Sendai city of Japan. Especially, using social media data, there were innumerable examinations to analyze the relations with mental health and diagnosis of discourses on Twitter and SNS services. keywords: case; citizens; data; disaster; fukushima; future; health; human; influenza; japan; life; plants; power; risk; services; shibuya; trends cache: cord-016889-7ih6jdpe.txt plain text: cord-016889-7ih6jdpe.txt item: #18 of 73 id: cord-016950-fnb3yc45 author: Humphreys, Brad title: The History and Formation of East Asian Sports Leagues date: 2014-08-20 words: 11185 flesch: 60 summary: This chapter considers the creation and growth of professional sport leagues throughout East Asia. In part, this is because professional sports leagues in East Asia developed long after similar leagues in North America and Europe. keywords: asian; baseball; china; chinese; csl; east; football; game; japan; league; npb; players; professional; season; series; sport; teams cache: cord-016950-fnb3yc45.txt plain text: cord-016950-fnb3yc45.txt item: #19 of 73 id: cord-017245-kxqh32ip author: Sharma, Avinash title: Kawasaki Disease date: 2016-06-02 words: 4096 flesch: 53 summary: Such patients are said to have refractory KD. Several Japanese investigators [ 22 -24 ] have put forth risk scoring systems for predicting refractory KD. keywords: children; coronary; disease; fever; incidence; ivig; kawasaki cache: cord-017245-kxqh32ip.txt plain text: cord-017245-kxqh32ip.txt item: #20 of 73 id: cord-018839-yfaji9cv author: Kim, Yong-kyun title: Disaster Theory date: 2017-07-11 words: 17979 flesch: 33 summary: In late 1970, more than 100 federal organizations related to civil engineering and defense had fragmented responsibilities for hazard mitigation and disaster response, resulting in no coordinating organization taking the full responsibility for the entire phase of disaster management. The plan incorporates all aspects of disaster management in any given area, and it guides the roles and responsibilities of all related agencies for disaster response, depending on the size and complexity of a disaster. keywords: accident; act; agencies; agency; crisis; damage; disaster; disaster management; disaster prevention; disaster response; disaster risk; emergency; emergency management; federal; fire; government; korea; level; management system; national; organizations; plan; public; risk; risk management; safety; state; support; system; theory cache: cord-018839-yfaji9cv.txt plain text: cord-018839-yfaji9cv.txt item: #21 of 73 id: cord-020617-w36yri4g author: Kubo, Tomoko title: Divided Tokyo: Housing Policy, the Ideology of Homeownership, and the Growing Contrast Between the City Center and the Suburbs date: 2020-03-09 words: 9552 flesch: 38 summary: Taimeido, Tokyo Tanaka K (2010) Accessibility change to international airports in Tokyo metropolitan area: based on extension of Tokyo International Airport and the improvement of access to Narita International Airport An analysis of residential careers of metropolitan suburbanities: a case study of Kozoji New Town in the Nagoya metropolitan suburbs The Council of the Growth Strategies of MLIT (2010) A forward to the geographical study of urban slums and blighted areas, and their distribution in Tokyo city Going solo: the extraordinary rise and surprising appeal of living alone New dimension of housing acquisition in the Tokyo Bay area: skyscraper condominium residents in Toyosu Super high-rise condominium development in the Tokyo Bay area and their residents' lives Geographical housing studies in the Tokyo metropolitan area: changing residential structure after the late 1990s Les cités-jardins au Japon: entre urbanisme occidental et hybridation locale. keywords: airport; areas; central; century; cities; city; development; government; growth; housing; japan; land; metropolitan; narita; national; new; policies; suburbs; tokyo cache: cord-020617-w36yri4g.txt plain text: cord-020617-w36yri4g.txt item: #22 of 73 id: cord-021937-p9vqpazu author: Tsai, Theodore F. title: Immunization in the Asia-Pacific Region date: 2017-07-17 words: 9483 flesch: 25 summary: In China, vaccine recommendations are made through the National Centers for Disease Control based on recommendations of the Chinese Expert Committee on EPI under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; however, provincial or local Centers for Disease Control may issue independent recommendations for specific vaccines or modify the national recommendation for routine vaccines (see Tables 75.1 key: cord-021937-p9vqpazu authors: Tsai, Theodore F.; Rao, Raman D.S.V.; Xu, Zhi Yi title: Immunization in the Asia-Pacific Region date: 2017-07-17 journal: Plotkin's Vaccines DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-35761-6.00075-4 sha: doc_id: 21937 cord_uid: p9vqpazu nan and inactivated Vero cell-derived JE vaccines from China, Japan, and Korea, regionally; live attenuated hepatitis A vaccine from China, regionally; live attenuated and inactivated pandemic and seasonal influenza vaccines from India and China, internationally; and oral cholera vaccine from Vietnam, internationally). keywords: asia; cases; china; control; countries; development; disease; health; immunization; india; japan; manufacturers; national; new; public; region; vaccination; vaccine; virus; years cache: cord-021937-p9vqpazu.txt plain text: cord-021937-p9vqpazu.txt item: #23 of 73 id: cord-023049-fio7cjj5 author: None title: 2017 Peripheral Nerve Society Meeting July 8–12, 2017 Sitges, Barcelona, Spain date: 2017-06-22 words: 145714 flesch: 46 summary: We compared the median SNAP with radial SNAP measured antidromically at digit 1 in GBS patients whose nerve conduction study showed the sural-sparing pattern. The aim of the present investigation is to summarize the current knowledge on sweating disturbances in GBS patients. keywords: 1,2; activity; acute; addition; age; aim; amyloid; analysis; anti; antibodies; antibody; associated; axonal; axons; barré; baseline; biopsy; blood; cases; cause; cells; center; changes; charcot; children; chronic; cidp patients; cmt patients; cmt1a; cohort; conduction study; control patients; controls; course; criteria; data; days; degeneration; demyelinating; department; development; diabetic; diagnosis; differences; disability; disease; dominant; dose; effect; examination; expression; f 1; family; findings; following; foot; france; function; g 1; gbs patients; gene; group; guillain; healthy; hospital; human; igg; impairment; improvement; increase; inflammatory; injury; institute; intravenous; involvement; ivig; j 1; k 1; levels; limbs; loss; mag; marie; mean; measures; median; medical; medicine; mice; model; months; motor; motor nerve; mouse; mri; muscle; mutations; ncs; negative; nerve; nerve conduction; nerve fibers; nerve injury; nerve regeneration; neurological; neurology; neurons; neuropathies; neuropathy; new; nf155; non; normal; novel; number; onset; outcome; pain; participants; patients; phenotype; placebo; pmp22; polyneuropathy; positive; potential; present; progression; protein; range; reduced; report; respectively; response; results; risk; role; scale; schwann; score; sensory; sequencing; serum; severe; severity; skin; strength; studies; study; subjects; sural; symptoms; syndrome; system; test; testing; therapeutic; therapy; time; tissue; tooth; total; treatment; ttr; type; ulnar; university; upper; usa; variants; weakness; weeks; y 1; years cache: cord-023049-fio7cjj5.txt plain text: cord-023049-fio7cjj5.txt item: #24 of 73 id: cord-024984-d9s7akd5 author: Akabayashi, Akira title: A Brief History of Bioethics in Japan date: 2020-05-20 words: 4525 flesch: 47 summary: In addition, even if the arguments in medical ethics shift over to those concerning the beginning of life against the backdrop of new technological developments, issues with terminal medical care and end of life will continue to cause worry among patients and their families, as well as among medical caregivers involved in treatment. If we hope to resolve these ethical issues, we must take a multifaceted approach that is both policy-based (guidelines are issued, ethics committees are established, and healthcare systems are improved) and education-based (awareness and problem-solving capacities are increased among medical caregivers and researchers in those fields as a result of medical ethics education). keywords: bioethics; brain; ethics; issues; japan; japanese; life; phase; research cache: cord-024984-d9s7akd5.txt plain text: cord-024984-d9s7akd5.txt item: #25 of 73 id: cord-025108-fucyt0zc author: Yoshikawa, Toru title: COVID-19 and Japanese shareholder activism: brief respite for Japan’s self-healing concrete date: 2020-05-22 words: 1471 flesch: 31 summary: COVID-19 and Japanese shareholder activism: brief respite… Thus, pre-COVID-19, corporate Japan was undergoing a transitionary period that was potentially a crucial determinant of Japan's future corporate governance norms. key: cord-025108-fucyt0zc authors: Yoshikawa, Toru; Chua, Gavin title: COVID-19 and Japanese shareholder activism: brief respite for Japan’s self-healing concrete date: 2020-05-22 journal: keywords: activism; corporate; covid-19; japan; shareholder cache: cord-025108-fucyt0zc.txt plain text: cord-025108-fucyt0zc.txt item: #26 of 73 id: cord-030502-mvlib8ol author: Hatachi, Takeshi title: Early steroid pulse therapy among children with influenza virus-associated encephalopathy date: 2020-08-12 words: 4274 flesch: 40 summary: Confidence interval Acute encephalopathy associated with influenza and other viral infections Encephalopathy associated with influenza epidemics Pediatric neurological complications of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) Acute childhood encephalitis and encephalopathy associated with influenza: a prospective 11-year review Neurological manifestations of influenza infection in children and adults: results of a National British Surveillance Study Influenza-associated encephalitis/encephalopathy identified by the Australian Childhood Encephalitis Study Fatal viral infectionassociated encephalopathy in two Chinese boys: a genetically determined risk factor of thermolabile carnitine palmitoyltransferase II variants Epidemiology of acute encephalopathy in Japan, with emphasis on the association of viruses and syndromes National surveillance of influenza-associated encephalopathy in Japan over six years, before and during the 2009-2010 influenza pandemic Characteristics and outcomes of influenza-associated encephalopathy cases among children and adults in Japan The puzzling picture of acute necrotizing encephalopathy after influenza A and B virus infection in young children Cerebrospinal fluid and serum levels of cytokines and soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor in influenza virus-associated encephalopathy Elevated serum levels of neutrophil elastase in patients with influenza virusassociated encephalopathy Predictive value of serum interleukin-6 level in influenza virus-associated encephalopathy The specific therapy for influenza encephalopathy in Japan Guideline for the management of influenza associated encephalopathy Outcome of acute necrotizing encephalopathy in relation to treatment with corticosteroids and gammaglobulin Prognostic factors for acute encephalopathy with bright tree appearance Prediction of acute encephalopathy with biphasic seizures and late reduced diffusion in patients with febrile status epilepticus Validity of diagnoses, procedures, and laboratory data in Japanese administrative data The eye response test alone is sufficient to predict stroke outcome-reintroduction of Japan Coma Scale: a cohort study Constructing a control group using multivariate matched sampling methods that incorporate the propensity score Balance diagnostics for comparing the distribution of baseline covariates between treatment groups in propensity-score matched samples The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies Encephalitis and encephalopathy associated with an influenza epidemic in Japan Acute encephalopathy and encephalitis caused by influenza virus infection Detection of influenza virus RNA by reverse transcription-PCR and proinflammatory cytokines in influenza-virus-associated encephalopathy Prostaglandin E2: the villain in the host response to influenza virus The hidden burden of influenza: a review of the extra-pulmonary complications of influenza infection. key: cord-030502-mvlib8ol authors: Hatachi, Takeshi; Michihata, Nobuaki; Takeuchi, Muneyuki; Matsui, Hiroki; Fushimi, Kiyohide; Yasunaga, Hideo title: Early steroid pulse therapy among children with influenza virus-associated encephalopathy date: 2020-08-12 journal: J Intensive Care DOI: 10.1186/s40560-020-00479-8 sha: doc_id: 30502 cord_uid: mvlib8ol BACKGROUND: keywords: encephalopathy; iae; influenza; patients; pulse; steroid; therapy cache: cord-030502-mvlib8ol.txt plain text: cord-030502-mvlib8ol.txt item: #27 of 73 id: cord-031840-k9l91unc author: Lu, Li title: Forum: COVID-19 Dispatches date: 2020-09-11 words: 15690 flesch: 50 summary: Viruses are viruses are viruses. With the similar control of cases less than 20,000, Japan and South Korea remain at the heart of this imagined safe zone in company with China even though the reality has seen even fewer confirmed cases in other parts of Asia as well as the recent resurgence of virus spreading in all these three countries. keywords: china; chinese; coronavirus; countries; covid-19; crisis; earth; east; health; history; humans; india; japan; korea; life; media; national; new; normal; pandemic; people; public; south; state; time; viruses; world cache: cord-031840-k9l91unc.txt plain text: cord-031840-k9l91unc.txt item: #28 of 73 id: cord-032344-2cbeukpr author: Huang, Michael C. title: The impact of R&D and innovation on global supply chain transition: GTAP analysis on Japan’s public R&D investment date: 2020-09-19 words: 5828 flesch: 33 summary: The impact of E-commerce and R&D on economic development in some selected countries Table 7 Aggregation of sectors from SPIAS-e classification Sector Original classification in SPIAS-e AGR Agriculture (Main products Agriculture (Intra-firm R&D activity) Mining (Intra-firm R&D activity) Energy manufacturing (Main products); Energy manufacturing (Intra-firm ICT activity); Energy manufacturing (Intra-firm R&D activity) Food (Intra-firm ICT activity) Food (Intra-firm R&D activity) Synthetic (Intra-firm ICT activity) Synthetic (Intra-firm R&D activity) Pulp, paper (Intra-firm ICT activity) Pulp, paper (Intra-firm R&D activity); Miscellaneous manufacturing (Main products); Miscellaneous manufacturing (Intra-firm ICT activity); Miscellaneous manufacturing Material (Intra-firm ICT activity) Material (Intra-firm R&D activity) Public, non-profit); R&D Materials (Industry) CHP Chemical (Main products) Chemical (Intra-firm R&D activity) EEP Fibre-optical cable Fibre-optical cable (Intra-firm ICT activity) Fibre-optical cable (Intra-firm R&D activity); Semiconductor manufacturing (Main products); Semiconductor manufacturing (Intra-firm ICT activity); Semiconductor manufacturing (Intra-firm R&D activity); Communication devices (Main products) Communication devices (Intra-firm R&D activity); Computing equipment Computing equipment (Intra-firm ICT activity); Computing equipment (Intra-firm R&D activity); Semiconductor devices (Main products); Semiconductor devices (Intra-firm ICT activity) Semiconductor devices (Intra-firm R&D activity) Electronic component (Intra-firm ICT activity); Electronic component (Intra-firm R&D activity) Software (Intra-firm R&D activity) Information Management (Main products); Information Management (Intra-firm R&D activity) Internet (Intra-firm R&D activity) Machinery (Intra-firm ICT activity) Machinery (Intra-firm R&D activity); Electronic devices (Main products); Electronic devices (Intra-firm ICT activity) Electronic devices (Intra-firm R&D activity) Robot (Intra-firm ICT activity) Precise machinery (Main products); Precise machinery (Intrafirm ICT activity); Precise machinery (Intra-firm R&D activity) TEQ Heavy machinery, transportation equipment (Main products); Heavy machinery, transportation equipment (Intra-firm ICT activity); Heavy machinery, transportation equipment (Intra-firm R&D activity) TRS Transportation Transportation (Intrafirm R&D activity) SRV Construction (Main products) Construction (Intra-firm ICT activity) Construction (Intra-firm R&D activity) Communication (Intra-firm ICT activity) Communication (Intra-firm R&D activity) Commerce (Main products) Commerce (Intra-firm ICT activity) Commerce (Intra-firm R&D activity) Medical, welfare services (Main products) R&D Life science (Public, non-profit) R&D Information communication (Public, non-profit) Industry); Miscellaneous service (Main products); Miscellaneous service (Intra-firm R&D activity) A theory of demand for products distinguished by place of production (Une theorie de la demande de produits differencies d'apres leur origine) (Una teoria de la demanda de productos distinguiendolos segun el lugar de produccion) Global supply chains: why they emerged, why they matter, and where they are going Public R&D policies and private R&D investment: a survey of the empirical evidence Pharma's prescription Society 5.0, science and technology policy. The productivity parameters triggered by public R&D investment are calibrated from the SciREX Policymaking Intelligent Assistance System—Economic Simulator (SPIAS-e). keywords: activity; chain; equipment; firm; investment; japan; output; production; productivity; public; r&d; r&d activity; sectors; supply cache: cord-032344-2cbeukpr.txt plain text: cord-032344-2cbeukpr.txt item: #29 of 73 id: cord-033756-j8jj7qff author: McDonald, Kate title: Olympic Recoveries date: 2020-08-17 words: 4322 flesch: 63 summary: But a recovery revolution predicated on making contactless delivery and limited redelivery palatable by establishing parcel delivery boxes-a revolution that encourages consumers and businesses to expect more rather than less flexibility in parcel delivery-is manifestly not a recovery revolution for parcel delivery workers. In Japan, parcel delivery workers want to quit. keywords: abe; asahi; delivery; games; industry; japan; olympics; parcel; recovery; tokyo; tourism cache: cord-033756-j8jj7qff.txt plain text: cord-033756-j8jj7qff.txt item: #30 of 73 id: cord-257167-rz4r5sj7 author: None title: Abstracts for the 29th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society (Neuroscience2006) date: 2006-12-31 words: 241480 flesch: 43 summary: Inst., Kyoto Univ., Inuyama, Japan GABAergic cells in the cerebral cortex are divided into subgroups: parvalbumin (PV)-, somatostatin (SOM)-, calretinin (CR)-, and calbindin-containing types. In the present study, we therefore investigated the synthesis of sex steroids and corticosteroids in the hippocampus of adult male rats, by monitoring the metabolism of tritiated steroids with HPLC system. PS2A-G125 GABA depolarizes GnRH neurons isolated from adult GnRH-EGFP transgenic rats Chengzhu Yin, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Masakatsu Kato, Yasuo Sakuma Nippon Medical School, Department of physiology, Tokyo, Japan GnRH neurons are essential in the reproductive neuroendocrine system. keywords: 1,2; 100; acid; action; activation; activities; activity; addition; administration; adult; age; amplitude; amygdala; analysis; animals; antagonist; application; area; astrocytes; auditory; axons; bdnf; behavioral; binding; biology; body; brain; brain activity; brain development; brain function; brain research; brain science; bsi; ca1; calcium; camkii; cells; cellular; center; central; cerebellar; cerebral; changes; channel; chiba; cns; cognitive; complex; condition; contrast; control; correlation; cortex; cortex neurons; cortical; crest; cultured; current; data; days; death; decrease; dendrites; dendritic; department; dept; development; difference; differentiation; direction; disease; disorders; distribution; div; division; domain; dopamine; dopaminergic; dorsal; dynamics; effect; estrogen; evoked; excitatory; experiments; exposure; expression; eye; factors; family; fibers; field; findings; firing; fmri; following; formation; fos; frequency; function; funds; gaba; gabaergic; gene; gene expression; gfp; glutamate; gnrh neurons; graduate; granule; group; growth; gyrus; hand; health; high; hippocampal neurons; hippocampus; hiroshi; human; imaging; increase; individual; induced; induction; inhibition; inhibitory; injection; injury; inputs; institute; interaction; interneurons; intracellular; involvement; japan; japan brain; japan neural; japan neurons; japan science; jst; kakenhi; kinase; kyoto; kyoto university; lab; laboratory; layer; learning; left; level; life; like; localization; loss; ltd; ltp; male; manner; mechanisms; med; medical; medicine; membrane; memory; method; mice; microglia; migration; model; molecular; molecules; monkeys; motion; motor; motor neurons; mouse; mouse brain; movement; mrna; multiple; muscle; mutant; nagoya; national; nerve; nervous; network; neural; neurite; neuronal; neurons; neuroscience; new; nmda; non; novel; nuclei; nucleus; number; olfactory; onset; order; osaka; osaka university; pain; pathway; patients; pattern; period; phase; phosphorylation; physiology; plasticity; play; postnatal; postsynaptic; potential; prefrontal; presence; present; presynaptic; primary; process; processes; processing; progenitor cells; projection neurons; proliferation; properties; protein; ps2p; ps3a; ps3p; purkinje cells; pyramidal; rat brain; rate; rats; receptor; recorded; recording; reduced; region; regulation; relationship; release; report; required; research; research funds; research institute; response; results; reward; right; riken; role; saitama; school; sciences; second; selective; sensory; signaling; signals; site; size; slices; social; specific; spike; spinal; spines; state; stem cells; stimulation; stimuli; stimulus; stress; structure; studies; study; subjects; surface; synapses; synaptic; system; target; task; technology; temporal; term; terminals; test; time; tohoku; tokyo; tokyo university; transcription; transgenic; transmission; treatment; tsukuba; type; university; university graduate; university school; usa; visual; vitro; vivo; voltage; weeks; wild; zone cache: cord-257167-rz4r5sj7.txt plain text: cord-257167-rz4r5sj7.txt item: #31 of 73 id: cord-257189-foodz5c5 author: Ueno, Tomoaki title: Surveillance by age-class and prefecture for emerging infectious febrile diseases with respiratory symptoms, including COVID−19 date: 2020-04-15 words: 2599 flesch: 49 summary: key: cord-257189-foodz5c5 authors: Ueno, Tomoaki; Kurita, Junko; Sugawara, Tamie; Sugishita, Yoshiyuki; Ohkusa, Yasushi; Kawanohara, Hirokazu; Kamei, Miwako title: Surveillance by age-class and prefecture for emerging infectious febrile diseases with respiratory symptoms, including COVID−19 date: 2020-04-15 journal: nan DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.11.20061697 sha: doc_id: 257189 cord_uid: foodz5c5 Object The COVID-19 outbreak emerged in late 2019 in China, expanding rapidly thereafter. The present study examines Prescription Surveillance (PS) for detection of some clusters of emerging infectious febrile disease with respiratory symptom including unknown febrile disease with respiratory symptoms keywords: medrxiv; patients; preprint; surveillance cache: cord-257189-foodz5c5.txt plain text: cord-257189-foodz5c5.txt item: #32 of 73 id: cord-258777-9jxvngvz author: Kunii, Osamu title: The Okinawa Infectious Diseases Initiative date: 2006-12-22 words: 3723 flesch: 33 summary: For information and to offer suggestions, please contact the webmaster at: webmaster@vivaxmalaria.com Collaboration in the fight against infectious diseases G8 countries accused of ignoring debt relief Global plagues and the Global Fund: challenges in the fight against HIV, TB and malaria Japan's official development assistance: recent issues and future directions The United States and Japan pursue a common agenda Japan/United States collaboration in international HIV prevention and care Global parasite control initiative of Japan (Hashimoto Initiative) Infectious diseases, non-zero-sum thinking, and the developing world Social and economic impact of infectious diseases -United States Infectious diseases -new and ancient threats to world health Through infrastructure and institution building, in addition to provision of technical assistance, Japan supports and facilitates the development of health systems and sector reforms, thereby reinforcing health development planning and programmes, building capacity and helping to ensure sustainability of infectious disease control. keywords: assistance; control; countries; development; diseases; health; idi; initiative; japan cache: cord-258777-9jxvngvz.txt plain text: cord-258777-9jxvngvz.txt item: #33 of 73 id: cord-265023-lq5259yr author: Venter, Zoë title: The Interaction Between Conventional Monetary Policy and Financial Stability: Chile, Colombia, Japan, Portugal and the UK date: 2020-08-03 words: 6174 flesch: 48 summary: The results also show that monetary policy may be used to control fluctuations in the real business cycle as can be seen by the inverse relationship between the industrial production index and monetary policy shocks for the cases of Colombia, Japan and Portugal. Jiménez et al. (2012) also note that the GFC showed that the use of monetary policy rates as a means of supporting credit growth seems advisable. keywords: cases; colombia; credit; exchange; growth; japan; policy; rate; results; stability cache: cord-265023-lq5259yr.txt plain text: cord-265023-lq5259yr.txt item: #34 of 73 id: cord-265230-ozyx8u64 author: Takahari, Daisuke title: Managing a gastrointestinal oncology practice in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic: single institutional experience in The Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research date: 2020-10-21 words: 5756 flesch: 38 summary: Various reports have shown data indicating that cancer patients with COVID-19 have high morbidity and mortality rates. For cancer patients, of course, hospital visits for treatment and assessments are not subject to restriction, but the visits themselves can be a risk of infection, especially for individuals who have risk factors of COVID-19 infection. keywords: cancer; chemotherapy; clinical; covid-19; infection; japan; pandemic; patients; risk; s-1; treatment; trial cache: cord-265230-ozyx8u64.txt plain text: cord-265230-ozyx8u64.txt item: #35 of 73 id: cord-267235-8v2sz7xm author: Lee, K. title: Prevalence of Salmonella, Yersinia and Campylobacter spp. in Feral Raccoons (Procyon lotor) and Masked Palm Civets (Paguma larvata) in Japan date: 2011-01-13 words: 3995 flesch: 42 summary: The antimicrobial susceptibility test showed that 26.9 % of the isolates from raccoons were resistant to at least one antimicrobial agent, whereas none of the isolates from masked palm civets were resistant. These results showed that these pathogens can be transmitted by human activities, other wild animals, and the environment to feral raccoons and masked palm civets, and vice versa. keywords: animals; campylobacter; civets; isolates; palm; palm civets; pseudotuberculosis; raccoons; salmonella; spp; yersinia cache: cord-267235-8v2sz7xm.txt plain text: cord-267235-8v2sz7xm.txt item: #36 of 73 id: cord-267953-d2mpjkxh author: Kayama, Misa title: Acculturation and a sense of belonging of children in U.S. schools and communities: The case of Japanese families date: 2020-10-15 words: 8200 flesch: 39 summary: Japanese children are socialized to balance these two selves, the kokoro and jibun (e.g., Hosaka, 2005; Lebra, 1976) . In contrast, at the Japanese Supplementary School, parents observed that their children enjoy talking about Japanese cartoons and TV characters familiar to Japanese children. keywords: acculturation; belonging; children; cultural; ibasho; japanese; parents; school; u.s cache: cord-267953-d2mpjkxh.txt plain text: cord-267953-d2mpjkxh.txt item: #37 of 73 id: cord-269640-0u3e1493 author: Kasai, Takeshi title: Research and control of parasitic diseases in Japan: current position and future perspectives date: 2007-03-09 words: 3781 flesch: 34 summary: The unique ODA philosophy in Japan, which is based on the overriding concept of self help and human security, contributes to overseas development by exporting its achievements in disease control and in shaping support for disease research and control activities (http:// www.mofa.go.jp/policy/oda/cooperation/anniv50/pamphlet/ contents.html). Hashimoto fervently desired to contribute to the health of people in less-developed counties by transferring Japanese experience, especially in disease research and control. keywords: control; development; diseases; health; japan; japanese; parasitic; programmes; research cache: cord-269640-0u3e1493.txt plain text: cord-269640-0u3e1493.txt item: #38 of 73 id: cord-270265-gehesmpu author: Toyoda, Hidenori title: Liver Care and Surveillance: The Global Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic date: 2020-08-03 words: 2650 flesch: 47 summary: In this brief report, not surprisingly, we found that clinic visits for patients with chronic liver disease and surveillance imaging for HCC fell dramatically as the social distancing and COVID-19 stay-at-home measures were instituted. We obtained data on the number of liver clinic visits, abdominal ultrasound, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging using electronic query or clinic registry at three medical centers in the United States, Japan, and Singapore for the following periods: February 1 to March 14, 2018, 2019, and 2020; and March 15 to May 1, 2018, 2019, and 2020. keywords: liver; patients; trend; visits cache: cord-270265-gehesmpu.txt plain text: cord-270265-gehesmpu.txt item: #39 of 73 id: cord-275058-61eof7y8 author: Inoue, Hiroyasu title: The propagation of economic impacts through supply chains: The case of a mega-city lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19 date: 2020-09-15 words: 3993 flesch: 50 summary: key: cord-275058-61eof7y8 authors: Inoue, Hiroyasu; Todo, Yasuyuki title: The propagation of economic impacts through supply chains: The case of a mega-city lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19 date: 2020-09-15 journal: PLoS One DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239251 sha: doc_id: 275058 cord_uid: 61eof7y8 The negative effect of such a lockdown may propagate to other regions through supply chains because of supply and demand shortages. keywords: chains; effect; lockdown; production; supply; tokyo cache: cord-275058-61eof7y8.txt plain text: cord-275058-61eof7y8.txt item: #40 of 73 id: cord-275828-c6d6nk7x author: Mikasa, Keiichi title: JAID/JSC Guidelines for the Treatment of Respiratory Infectious Diseases: The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases/Japanese Society of Chemotherapy – The JAID/JSC Guide to Clinical Management of Infectious Disease/Guideline-preparing Committee Respiratory Infectious Disease WG date: 2016-07-31 words: 39699 flesch: 37 summary: In the treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia, the duration of antimicrobial therapy generally tends to be longer than required for the following reasons: opacity on chest X-ray often remains for reasons other than pneumonia even after the start of antimicrobial drug treatment; and there may be a large number of latent nonpneumonia (or non-infectious-disease) factors that may cause increase in body temperature or CRP level in inpatients (Table 5 GNR b ), the expression of intrinsic antimicrobial-drugresistance genes encoded in chromosome genes is induced during antimicrobial drug treatment, a phenomenon which is basically rarely seen in E. coli, Klebsiella spp., H. influenzae, and M. catarrhalis (Table 5 GNR a ) ( Table 5) keywords: administration; aspiration pneumonia; bacteria; cases; children; clinical; combination; community; day; days; diagnosis; disease; dose; drip; drug; drug therapy; guidelines; hospital; infection; japan; management; microorganisms; oral; patients; period; pneumonia; pulmonary; risk; severe; society; spp; study; susceptibility; symptoms; therapy; times; treatment; tuberculosis; type cache: cord-275828-c6d6nk7x.txt plain text: cord-275828-c6d6nk7x.txt item: #41 of 73 id: cord-280937-9z37ob31 author: Morimoto, Tomoko title: Assessment of intervention strategies against a novel influenza epidemic using an individual-based model date: 2009-11-26 words: 5490 flesch: 46 summary: There are currently two kinds of antiviral drugs, oseltamivir and zanamivir, and both are regarded as being highly effective for both the treatment and prophylaxis of influenza infection The implementation of STAP as a single intervention would also be highly effective in suppressing the outbreak during the early period of the first 90 days, but STAP was inferior to TAP in terms of the ripple effect of the administration of antiviral drugs, most likely because the STAP intervention, unlike TAP, only distributes antiviral drugs to students, including those at a low risk of infection, notwithstanding influenza infection spreading among adults. keywords: closure; days; drugs; infection; influenza; school; tap cache: cord-280937-9z37ob31.txt plain text: cord-280937-9z37ob31.txt item: #42 of 73 id: cord-284546-cbbtrksq author: Foxton, Richard M. title: Current concepts for operatively managing carious lesions extending into dentine using bioactive and adhesive direct restorative materials date: 2020-09-20 words: 6044 flesch: 37 summary: The effect of enamel prism orientation on colour shifting at the border of composite resin restorations was investigated using bovine enameland four composite resin materials (Estelite Asteria A2B, Estelite Pro A2E, Kalore E2 and Clearfil Majesty ES-2 It was found that the colour appearance at the border of composite resin restorations is influenced by the light illuminating direction in conjunction with the enamel rod orientation [36] . keywords: adhesive; caries; colour; composite; dentine; layer; resin; restoration; tooth cache: cord-284546-cbbtrksq.txt plain text: cord-284546-cbbtrksq.txt item: #43 of 73 id: cord-284711-l1za83w1 author: Anand, Sudhir title: Human security and universal health insurance date: 2011-08-30 words: 1231 flesch: 42 summary: key: cord-284711-l1za83w1 authors: Anand, Sudhir title: Human security and universal health insurance date: 2011-08-30 journal: Lancet DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(11)61148-3 sha: doc_id: 284711 cord_uid: l1za83w1 nan Human security is a multidimensional concept that has been a cornerstone of Japanese development cooperation for more than a decade. 1,2 Three distinct questions arise from the concept of human security. keywords: health; human; person; security cache: cord-284711-l1za83w1.txt plain text: cord-284711-l1za83w1.txt item: #44 of 73 id: cord-288304-80bn2wgd author: Sun, Y. title: The effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: A modeling study date: 2020-05-23 words: 2733 flesch: 51 summary: We developed an SIRD model to estimate the peak number of existing infected COVID-19 cases, the peak date, and the ܴ in different periods. Using the SIRD model, we calculated the peak number of existing infected cases and the peak date. keywords: cases; covid-19; number; peak; period cache: cord-288304-80bn2wgd.txt plain text: cord-288304-80bn2wgd.txt item: #45 of 73 id: cord-289335-9agazyre author: DeWit, Andrew title: An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Development, National Resilience, and COVID-19 Responses: The Case of Japan date: 2020-08-13 words: 2376 flesch: 40 summary: key: cord-289335-9agazyre authors: DeWit, Andrew; Shaw, Rajib; Djalante, Riyanti title: An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Development, National Resilience, and COVID-19 Responses: Moreover, as a Having analysed Japan's financial stimulus in responding to COVID-19 response from section 2 to 3, we turn to examine how integrated financial and economic stimulus can foster a rights-based, low carbon, resilient and sustainable recovery. keywords: climate; covid-19; japan; resilience; stimulus; sustainability cache: cord-289335-9agazyre.txt plain text: cord-289335-9agazyre.txt item: #46 of 73 id: cord-289422-5z012sr6 author: Kuniya, Toshikazu title: Prediction of the Epidemic Peak of Coronavirus Disease in Japan, 2020 date: 2020-03-13 words: 2128 flesch: 59 summary: It's a 'false hope' Coronavirus will Disappear in the Summer like the Flu, WHO Says Report 3: Transmissibility of 2019-nCoV Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV: Ealry estimation of epidemiological parameters and epidemic predictions Preliminary estimation of the basic reproduction number of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China, from 2019 to 2020: Japan Sets up Emergency Measures for Coronavirus Age-Structured Populatin Dynamics in Demography and Epidemiology Incubation period and other epidemiological characteristics of 2019 novel coronavirus infections with right truncation: A statistical analysis of publicly available case data Tracking and predicting COVID-19 epidemic in China mainland Population Estimates Monthly Report Japan's Hokkaido may Have 940 Infected, Researcher Says On the definition and the computation of the basic reproduction ratio R 0 in models for infectious diseases in heterogeneous populations Reproduction numbers and sub-threshold endemic equilibria for compartmental models of disease transmission Parameter estimation and uncertainty quantification for an epidemic model The Japan Times. keywords: epidemic; peak cache: cord-289422-5z012sr6.txt plain text: cord-289422-5z012sr6.txt item: #47 of 73 id: cord-291644-5y0ioety author: Akiyama, Tomohiro title: The Natural-Mineral-Based Novel Nanomaterial IFMC Increases Intravascular Nitric Oxide without Its Intake: Implications for COVID-19 and beyond date: 2020-08-29 words: 5841 flesch: 36 summary: No problem was found in the monitoring results when spraying IFMC solution on the body or when wearing clothes impregnated with IFMC over several months. We think that mineral components exist as ions in IFMC solution since crystals were obtained when it dried up. keywords: blood; blood flow; body; covid-19; flow; ifmc; increase; intravascular; nitric; oxide; potential; rate; surface; temperature; therapy; vasodilation cache: cord-291644-5y0ioety.txt plain text: cord-291644-5y0ioety.txt item: #48 of 73 id: cord-292451-2tpef19n author: Komiya, Kosaku title: The COVID-19 pandemic and the true incidence of tuberculosis in Japan date: 2020-07-07 words: 398 flesch: 32 summary: However, whether or not the decline in tuberculosis incidence is actually due to these prevention measures, as with other respiratory infectious diseases, is unclear. 6 As such, the infection control measures enacted to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission a short time after the COVID-19 outbreak are not expected to influence the trend in tuberculosis incidence. keywords: covid-19; tuberculosis cache: cord-292451-2tpef19n.txt plain text: cord-292451-2tpef19n.txt item: #49 of 73 id: cord-295201-u2dola34 author: Morimoto, Konosuke title: The Burden and Etiology of Community-Onset Pneumonia in the Aging Japanese Population: A Multicenter Prospective Study date: 2015-03-30 words: 5400 flesch: 41 summary: The proportion of pneumonia cases among outpatients in hospitals (α ij1 ) was calculated from the surveillance data. To estimate the proportion of pneumonia cases among outpatients in clinics (α ij2 ), we obtained the clinic databases from two clinics in Nagasaki City. keywords: age; aspiration; burden; cases; community; incidence; japan; patients; pneumonia; population; study; years cache: cord-295201-u2dola34.txt plain text: cord-295201-u2dola34.txt item: #50 of 73 id: cord-297724-xoqrc3xo author: Miyaji, Kazuki title: Large-scale survey of adverse reactions to canine non-rabies combined vaccines in Japan date: 2012-01-15 words: 2605 flesch: 44 summary: Adverse reactions to canine and feline vaccines A survey on the adverse reactions to combined vaccines in a small group of veterinary hospitals (35 hospitals) Veterinary Products Committee working group report on feline and canine vaccination Allergenic components of vaccines and avoidance of vaccination-related adverse events Vaccine-induced autoimmunity in the dog Adverse events diagnosed within three days of vaccine administration in dogs Adverse vaccinal events in dogs and cats A retrospective study on adverse reactions to canine vaccines in Japan Suspected allergic reactions after vaccination in 85 dogs in Japan IgE reactivity to vaccine components in dogs that developed immediate-type allergic reactions after vaccination Immunoblot analysis for IgE-reactive components of fetal calf serum in dogs that developed allergic reactions after non-rabies vaccination Mechanistic bases for adverse vaccine reactions and vaccine failures IgE antibody to gelatin in children with immediate-type reactions to measles and mumps vaccines Minimum estimated incidence in Japan of anaphylaxis to live virus vaccines including gelatin The authors would like to thank all staff of participating veterinary hospitals for their kind assistance in responding to the questionnaires. It is useful to record vaccine reactions routinely, and report VAAEs to specific agents such as local governments in veterinary medicine as well as human medicine. keywords: anaphylaxis; dogs; vaaes cache: cord-297724-xoqrc3xo.txt plain text: cord-297724-xoqrc3xo.txt item: #51 of 73 id: cord-298009-0iv9fdof author: Hori, Keiko title: Projecting population distribution under depopulation conditions in Japan: scenario analysis for future socio-ecological systems date: 2020-08-06 words: 8650 flesch: 30 summary: key: cord-298009-0iv9fdof authors: Hori, Keiko; Saito, Osamu; Hashimoto, Shizuka; Matsui, Takanori; Akter, Rumana; Takeuchi, Kazuhiko title: Projecting population distribution under depopulation conditions in Japan: scenario analysis for future socio-ecological systems date: 2020-08-06 journal: Sustain Sci DOI: 10.1007/s11625-020-00835-5 sha: doc_id: 298009 cord_uid: 0iv9fdof This study develops a projection model of future population distribution on the basis of Japan’s current depopulation trend and applies this model to scenario analyses that assume population compactification and dispersion. Given previous research in Japan (see Modeling future population distribution), this is a significant advance, as the model enables a realistic and complex projection of population distribution for countries experiencing depopulation. keywords: areas; distribution; future; grids; group; japan; land; model; municipalities; municipality; population; scenario; urban cache: cord-298009-0iv9fdof.txt plain text: cord-298009-0iv9fdof.txt item: #52 of 73 id: cord-300123-fzijbney author: Nemoto, Manabu title: Low prevalence of equine coronavirus in foals in the largest thoroughbred horse breeding region of Japan, 2012–2014 date: 2015-09-22 words: 1640 flesch: 56 summary: All samples collected from diarrheic foals were negative, and only three samples (2.5 %) collected from healthy foals were positive for ECoV. Using 120 rectal swabs collected from healthy foals, only three samples (2.5 %) were positive for ECoV. Rectal swabs from healthy foals preserved at worse condition than that of diarrheic foals as described above. keywords: ecov; foals; hidaka; japan; swabs cache: cord-300123-fzijbney.txt plain text: cord-300123-fzijbney.txt item: #53 of 73 id: cord-302433-5cch8w1m author: Soma, Takehisa title: Detection of Norovirus and Sapovirus from diarrheic dogs and cats in Japan date: 2015-03-26 words: 2473 flesch: 43 summary: The findings suggest there are species‐specific circulations of NoV and SaV among dogs and cats, in Japan. NoV, SaV, VeV, lagovirus and nebovirus, belong to the family Caliciviridae, which comprises small non-enveloped viruses containing approximately 7.7 kb singlestranded RNA; both NoV and SaV are clinically important enteric pathogens in humans (1, 2) . Although canine caliciviruses belonging to VeV have been detected and are widely prevalent in dogs in Japan and Korea, they have not yet been established as an enteric pathogen for dogs (3) (4) (5) (6) . keywords: canine; dogs; isolates; nov; sav cache: cord-302433-5cch8w1m.txt plain text: cord-302433-5cch8w1m.txt item: #54 of 73 id: cord-304432-9cdf6qpk author: Nishimoto, Y. title: Curve-fitting approach for COVID-19 data and its physical background date: 2020-07-04 words: 3703 flesch: 62 summary: 'Settling' in the graphs shows a date expected that daily cases go below the 1/100 of peak cases along the fitted curve (in red). There are several factors which could affect the reliability of the curve-fitting forecast although the background of them is still in a fog; (1) the accuracy estimated by the K curve (2) the variation caused by an asymmetric lingering effect (3) the effect of K value at initial in Japan and Taiwan All rights reserved. keywords: cases; curve; fitting; preprint; value cache: cord-304432-9cdf6qpk.txt plain text: cord-304432-9cdf6qpk.txt item: #55 of 73 id: cord-306720-86ovj7xg author: Kurita, Junko title: Forecast of the COVID-19 outbreak, collapse of medical facilities, and lockdown effects in Tokyo, Japan date: 2020-04-06 words: 3457 flesch: 59 summary: We therefore apply these proportions of asymptomatic cases to symptomatic cases in the simulation. This assumption about relative infectiousness among asymptomatic cases compared with symptomatic cases was used also in simulation studies for influenza [7] [8] keywords: cases; collapse; facilities; medrxiv; preprint cache: cord-306720-86ovj7xg.txt plain text: cord-306720-86ovj7xg.txt item: #56 of 73 id: cord-309742-fd1qmr87 author: Slepushkin, Vladimir A. title: Infection of Human Airway Epithelia with H1N1, H2N2, and H3N2 Influenza A Virus Strains date: 2016-12-14 words: 5542 flesch: 42 summary: Cleavage of hemagglutinin is an important, and often a host-limiting, step of influenza virus infection. In contrast, influenza virus infection resulted from binding to the apical plasma membrane ((32) and this study), similar to coronavirus (42, 43) and measles virus (44) . keywords: airway; apical; cells; epithelia; human; infection; influenza; japan; strain; surface; virus; x31 cache: cord-309742-fd1qmr87.txt plain text: cord-309742-fd1qmr87.txt item: #57 of 73 id: cord-314539-6vvgov43 author: Chen, Zhongxiang title: Forecast Possible Risk for COVID-19 Epidemic Dissemination under Current Control Strategies in Japan date: 2020-05-29 words: 3542 flesch: 50 summary: The purpose of this research was to assess the risk of COVID-19 epidemic dissemination in Japan by estimating the current state of epidemic dissemination and providing some epidemic prevention and control recommendations. Contemporaneously, the first COVID-19 case was reported on 15 February 2020 in Japan and the number of accumulated reported cases was 3858 on 5 April 2020. keywords: cases; covid-19; epidemic; january; japan; number cache: cord-314539-6vvgov43.txt plain text: cord-314539-6vvgov43.txt item: #58 of 73 id: cord-314634-udtoutew author: Furuse, Yuki title: Clusters of Coronavirus Disease in Communities, Japan, January–April 2020 date: 2020-09-17 words: 1298 flesch: 51 summary: We investigated clusters of COVID-19 cases and probable primary cases in Japan during January 15-April 4, 2020. B) Proportions of symptoms among probable primary cases of COVID-19 clusters at transmission (n = 16) and among at laboratory confirmed diagnosis (n = 22). keywords: cases; clusters; patients; transmission cache: cord-314634-udtoutew.txt plain text: cord-314634-udtoutew.txt item: #59 of 73 id: cord-324798-qh0cxp10 author: Tanaka, Miho title: Forgoing life-sustaining treatment – a comparative analysis of regulations in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and England date: 2020-10-16 words: 12041 flesch: 49 summary: Meanwhile, the Taiwan Act interprets the terminal stage more conservatively and considers terminal patients to be those who have been diagnosed as having an incurable disease or injury, and who cannot avoid death shortly based on the best available medical evidence. Moreover, patients who are diagnosed with such incurable diseases might feel threatened because the regulatory framework such as law or guidelines would classify them as terminal patients who can have their treatments withdrawn. keywords: act; care; countries; decision; end; family; forgoing; guideline; life; life care; lst; medical; patient; stage; treatment cache: cord-324798-qh0cxp10.txt plain text: cord-324798-qh0cxp10.txt item: #60 of 73 id: cord-328913-vli62nnk author: Takayama, Naohide title: Rabies: a preventable but incurable disease date: 2008-12-31 words: 5215 flesch: 58 summary: However, rabies cases began to increase due to the social disorder after World War II, leading to 76 cases of human rabies in 1949 and more than 800 cases of animal rabies in 1950. Genus Lyssavirus containing rabies virus is phylogenetically divided into two groups, phylogroups I and II. keywords: animals; cases; dogs; human; japan; patients; rabid; rabies; virus cache: cord-328913-vli62nnk.txt plain text: cord-328913-vli62nnk.txt item: #61 of 73 id: cord-330554-xg49foch author: Tanaka, Yoshikazu title: Suppression of feline coronavirus replication in vitro by cyclosporin A date: 2012-04-30 words: 3096 flesch: 39 summary: These findings show that CsA does not influence the NF-AT pathway in fcwf-4 cells and that the inhibition of FIPV RNA replication by CsA is independent of the calcineurin NF-AT pathway. Consequently, the action of CsA on intracellular FIPV replication does not involve the activation of interferonstimulated genes on fcwf-4 cells. keywords: cells; csa; feline; fipv; fk506; japan; pathway; protein; replication cache: cord-330554-xg49foch.txt plain text: cord-330554-xg49foch.txt item: #62 of 73 id: cord-334683-q4xh8xts author: Kano, Shigeyuki title: Trends in malaria cases in Japan date: 2003-12-04 words: 3958 flesch: 45 summary: key: cord-334683-q4xh8xts authors: Kano, Shigeyuki; Kimura, Mikio title: Trends in malaria cases in Japan date: 2003-12-04 journal: Acta Trop DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2003.10.003 sha: doc_id: 334683 cord_uid: q4xh8xts Just after World War II, more than 10,000 malaria cases per year were reported in Japan, including indigenous, imported and induced malaria. Table 1 shows the number of malaria cases through 1990-2000. keywords: cases; falciparum; group; japan; malaria; patients; treatment cache: cord-334683-q4xh8xts.txt plain text: cord-334683-q4xh8xts.txt item: #63 of 73 id: cord-335402-79zd7hpj author: Soma, Takehisa title: Detection and genotyping of canine coronavirus RNA in diarrheic dogs in Japan date: 2010-06-16 words: 2217 flesch: 48 summary: ( , 2003 reported two genotypes of CCoV; atypical CCoV, designated as CCoV type I with a spike-protein gene similar to that of FCoV, and the well-known typical CCoV, designated as CCoV type II. CCoV type I was detected in samples from 36 dogs (65.5%), CCoV type II in 40 (72.7%), and both in 22 (40.0%). keywords: ccov; dogs; et al cache: cord-335402-79zd7hpj.txt plain text: cord-335402-79zd7hpj.txt item: #64 of 73 id: cord-339673-hk1438c3 author: Imanishi, Tamami title: An ethnic model of Japanese overseas tourism companies date: 2007-04-30 words: 8391 flesch: 45 summary: If there is a difference, what is the reason for its formation? Even in overseas business, Japanese tourism companies take it for granted that Japanese people, people of their own descent, and Japanese companies compose one unit. Though there are many non-Japanese companies in each location, 87.5% of the headquarters and 82.2% of the foreign offices take it for granted that their competitors are local Japanese companies. keywords: behavior; business; companies; company; international; japanese; market; people; service; staff; subsidiaries; tourism; tourists cache: cord-339673-hk1438c3.txt plain text: cord-339673-hk1438c3.txt item: #65 of 73 id: cord-340202-ikptxviu author: Van Diep, Nguyen title: US-like isolates of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus from Japanese outbreaks between 2013 and 2014 date: 2015-12-02 words: 3791 flesch: 46 summary: As a result, the genetic characteristics and origins of prevailing PEDVs in Japan, the efficacy of PEDV vaccines being used in Japan in protecting previously well pigs from prevailing PEDVs, and the genetic differences between vaccine strains and field PEDV isolates remain critically important questions that have yet to be fully elucidated. Pairwise alignment of field Japanese PEDV isolates demonstrated high nucleotide and amino acid sequence identity between strains (99.1-100.0 and 97.2-100 %, respectively). keywords: diarrhea; gene; isolates; japan; orf3; pedv; strains cache: cord-340202-ikptxviu.txt plain text: cord-340202-ikptxviu.txt item: #66 of 73 id: cord-341130-pq71u2kh author: Kim, Jewoo title: Role of tourism price in attracting international tourists: The case of Japanese inbound tourism from South Korea date: 2017-03-31 words: 5996 flesch: 40 summary: It has generally been held that relative prices and exchange rates should be considered in tourism demand models, but it remains controversial whether these two components of living cost should be examined separately or combined as effective relative prices (Durbarry & Sinclair, 2003; Gray, 1966; Tan et al., 2002) . In contrast, Eilat and Einav (2004) and O'Hagan and Harrison (1984) argue that relative prices and exchange rates should enter separately into tourism demand models because it is highly likely that tourists will have more up-to-date information on exchange rates than on relative prices. keywords: cost; demand; exchange; inbound; japanese; korea; model; price; results; study; tourism; variables cache: cord-341130-pq71u2kh.txt plain text: cord-341130-pq71u2kh.txt item: #67 of 73 id: cord-342958-0av6gx7r author: Yamagishi, Takuya title: Descriptive study of COVID-19 outbreak among passengers and crew on Diamond Princess cruise ship, Yokohama Port, Japan, 20 January to 9 February 2020 date: 2020-06-11 words: 3953 flesch: 50 summary: Attendance at these parties could explain why passenger cases were scattered across all the decks with no discernible pattern. As the outbreak expanded in Wuhan, there was spillover of COVID-19 cases outside the country. keywords: cases; covid-19; crew; cruise; february; passengers; ship cache: cord-342958-0av6gx7r.txt plain text: cord-342958-0av6gx7r.txt item: #68 of 73 id: cord-344832-0ah4w59o author: Sakurai, Mihoko title: Disaster-Resilient Communication Ecosystem in an Inclusive Society – A case of foreigners in Japan date: 2020-08-15 words: 6686 flesch: 38 summary: Another American woman was supported by her friend in translating disaster information. The findings of this study imply that there could be two types of disaster information: a) risk information that refers to the potential effect of the disaster, i.e., emergency alert or warning, and b) action-oriented information that carries instructions for reducing the risk, i.e., an evacuation order and itinerary to be followed. keywords: communication; crisis; disaster; ecology; ecosystem; information; japan; japanese; media; resilience; risk; social; study; tweets cache: cord-344832-0ah4w59o.txt plain text: cord-344832-0ah4w59o.txt item: #69 of 73 id: cord-346629-770qyee8 author: Mase, M. title: Phylogenetic analysis of avian infectious bronchitis virus strains isolated in Japan date: 2004-07-15 words: 2367 flesch: 46 summary: In this study, prevalent IBV genetic groups in Japan were shown to be completely distinct from other known serotypes from Europe and North America by comparing amino acid sequences of the N-terminus in the S1 glycoprotein. Classically, IBV strains have been placed into serologically related groups on the basis of virus neutralization tests (VNT). keywords: bronchitis; groups; ibv; isolates; japan; virus cache: cord-346629-770qyee8.txt plain text: cord-346629-770qyee8.txt item: #70 of 73 id: cord-347806-q2lpwjt8 author: Ujike, Makoto title: Oseltamivir-Resistant Influenza Viruses A (H1N1) during 2007–2009 Influenza Seasons, Japan date: 2010-06-17 words: 3695 flesch: 44 summary: A (H3N2) virus in Japan Increased incidence of adamantane-resistant infl uenza A(H1N1) and A(H3N2) viruses during the 2006-2007 infl uenza season in Japan Monitoring of neuraminidase inhibitor resistance among clinical infl uenza virus isolates in Japan during 2003-2006 infl uenza seasons Detection of infl uenza viruses resistant to neuraminidase inhibitors in global surveillance during the fi rst 3 years of their use Neuraminidase sequence analysis and susceptibilities of infl uenza virus clinical isolates to zanamivir and oseltamivir Surveillance for neuraminidase inhibitor resistance among human infl uenza A and B viruses circulating worldwide from Use of oseltamivir in 12 European countries between 2002 and 2007-lack of association with the appearance of oseltamivir-resistant infl uenza A(H1N1) viruses Surveillance for neuraminidase-inhibitor-resistant infl uenza viruses in Japan Enzymatic properties of the neuraminidase of seasonal H1N1 infl uenza viruses provide insights for the emergence of natural resistance to oseltamivir European Infl uenza Surveillance Scheme. Moreover, in Japan, 2 recent infl uenza seasons were dominated by infl uenza viruses A (H1N1) (Figure 1 ). keywords: h1n1; infl; japan; orvs; oseltamivir; season; uenza; viruses cache: cord-347806-q2lpwjt8.txt plain text: cord-347806-q2lpwjt8.txt item: #71 of 73 id: cord-355465-qjtifwhd author: Van Diep, Nguyen title: Molecular characterization of US-like and Asian non-S INDEL strains of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) that circulated in Japan during 2013–2016 and PEDVs collected from recurrent outbreaks date: 2018-03-14 words: 6024 flesch: 52 summary: The coronavirus nucleocapsid is a multifunctional protein The identification and characterization of two novel epitopes on the Nucleocapsid protein of the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus An immunohistochemical investigation of porcine epidemic diarrhoea Porcine epidemic diarrhea: its diagnosis and control Molecular characterization of pig epidemic diarrhoea viruses isolated in Japan from Isolation and molecular characterization of porcine epidemic diarrhea viruses collected in Japan in 2014 US-like isolates of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus from Japanese outbreaks between Novel porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) variants with large deletions in the spike (S) gene coexist with PEDV strains possessing an intact S gene in domestic pigs in Japan: a new disease situation MEGA6: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis version 6.0 EMBOSS: the European molecular biology open software suite Emergence of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus in the United States: clinical signs, lesions, and viral genomic sequences Distinct characteristics and complex evolution of PEDV strains New variant of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus Identification of a conserved linear B-cell epitope in the M protein of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus Isolation and experimental inoculation of an S INDEL strain of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus in Japan Origin, evolution, and genotyping of emergent porcine epidemic diarrhea virus strains in the United States Genetic variation analyses of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus isolated in mid-eastern China from 2011 to 2013 Molecular characterization and phylogenetic analysis of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus field strains in Central China during 2010-2012 outbreaks Phosphorylation events during viral infections provide potential therapeutic targets Role of phosphorylation clusters in the biology of the coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus nucleocapsid protein Specific asparagine-linked glycosylation sites are critical for DC-SIGN-and L-SIGN-mediated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus entry Bioinformatics insight into the spike glycoprotein gene of field porcine epidemic diarrhea strains during 2011-2013 in Guangdong, China Measure to mitigate loss caused by PED (porcine epidemic diarrhea) using maternal immunity The work was conducted with funding from the University of Miyazaki (grant number 2014-70) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (KAKENHI program, grant number 17H04639). Due to the complexity in discriminating, isolating, and individually sequencing PEDV strains, only specimens containing PEDVs with an intact S gene were used in our study. keywords: diarrhea; epidemic; farms; field; gene; japanese; outbreaks; pedv; porcine; protein; strains cache: cord-355465-qjtifwhd.txt plain text: cord-355465-qjtifwhd.txt item: #72 of 73 id: cord-355567-60sfv60p author: Azuma, Kenichi title: Environmental factors involved in SARS-CoV-2 transmission: effect and role of indoor environmental quality in the strategy for COVID-19 infection control date: 2020-11-03 words: 9233 flesch: 37 summary: World Health Organization Saliva: potential diagnostic value and transmission of 2019-nCoV Measures against COVID-19 concerning Summer Indoor Environment in Japan Interaction of aerosol particles composed of protein and salts with water vapor: hygroscopic growth and microstructural rearrangement Study on thermal environmental ununiformity in office buildings Survey on control of indoor air environment in office buildings: Part5 evaluation of thermal environment by domestic and international standards Wells revisited: infectious particles vs. quanta of mycobacterium tuberculosis infection-don't get them confused Risk of indoor airborne infection transmission estimated from carbon dioxide concentration A probabilistic transmission dynamic model to assess indoor airborne infection risks Potential for airborne transmission of infection in the waiting areas of healthcare premises: stochastic analysis using a Monte Carlo model Review and comparison between the Wells-Riley and dose response approaches to risk assessment of infectious respiratory diseases Airborne infection. Theoretical limits of protection achievable by building ventilation The detection of airborne transmission of tuberculosis from HIV-infected patients, using an in vivo air sampling model A probabilistic transmission model to assess infection risk from mycobacterium tuberculosis in commercial passenger trains Spatial distribution of infection risk of SARS transmission in a hospital ward Airborne spread of measles in a suburban elementary school Cleaning the air: the theory and application of ultraviolet air disinfection HVAC filtration and the Wells-Riley approach to assessing risks of infectious airborne diseases Association of infected probability of COVID-19 with ventilation rates in confined spaces: a Wells-Riley equation based investigation Characterization of expiration air jets and droplet size distributions immediately at the mouth opening Size distribution and sites of origin of droplets expelled from the human respiratory tract during expiratory activities Airborne spread of expiratory droplet nuclei between the occupants of indoor environments: A review ASHRAE position document on airborne infectious diseases HVAC filtration for controlling infectious airborne disease transmission in indoor environments: predicting risk reductions and operational costs The history of ultraviolet germicidal irradiation for air disinfection Guidelines for environmental infection control in health-care facilities ASHRAE. keywords: air; control; coronavirus; cov-2; covid-19; droplets; environmental; infection; particles; rate; sars; spaces; surfaces; transmission; ventilation; virus cache: cord-355567-60sfv60p.txt plain text: cord-355567-60sfv60p.txt item: #73 of 73 id: cord-356085-rnia7mbq author: Gai, Ruoyan title: Managing healthcare delivery system to fight the COVID-19 epidemic: experience in Japan date: 2020-05-13 words: 1711 flesch: 39 summary: Amid the global pandemic of a novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), healthcare delivery system is being stretched. This commentary aims to briefly review related policies of Japan in managing healthcare delivery system. keywords: covid-19; delivery; healthcare; japan; system cache: cord-356085-rnia7mbq.txt plain text: cord-356085-rnia7mbq.txt