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Insertion sequence elements of Pseudomonas savastanoi: Nucleotide sequence and homology with Agrobacterium tumefaciens transfer DNA
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The Allocation of Time: Young Versus Elderly Households in Japan
Get PDFOur study shows that the household production theory illuminates the behavior of households in the allocation of time and consumption expenditures. Among the noteworthy findings derived from our data, the various household non-market time allocations (consequently, market labor supply) cannot be separated from consumption expenditures. An increase in market wage rates for both young and elderly households reduces their time spent on household nonmarket activities, such as child care, medical care, and listening to the radio and watching TV. The high opportunity costs of waiting at the hospital clearly discourage working people from visiting the hospital. These results show not a few similarities between the household non-market time allocation in Japan and that to be found in the U.S.
Risky health behaviors and behavioral differences of the US youth: quasi-evidence with empirical study: policy implications
No full textThe focus of this paper is to examine the determinants and analyze the effects of risky health behaviors of alcohol and illicit drug use on social violence (drunken driving, riding in a car driven by a drunken driver, and not wearing seatbelts) among youth in the United States. Alcohol and illicit drug use usually lead to social violence as well as a reduction in health status and earnings. Although it is illegal to drink and drive in the U.S., forty-five percent of the traffic accidents among the age group of 14-18 are alcohol-related. Alcohol is a leading factor in deaths related to motor vehicle accidents.
This research defines use of alcohol, tobacco, cocaine, and other illicit drug use as risky health behavior. The use of some substances tend to precede and increase the risk of initiating habitual use of substances among the youth. The data used for this project is drawn from the 1992 and 2017 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey to examine the behavioral difference between two periods. The study examines the relationship between alcohol and illicit drug use and three types of violent behaviors: (1) drunken driving, (2) occupying a car driven by someone who has been drinking, and (3) not wearing seatbelts.
The results show that there is a positive relationship between the risky health behaviors of alcohol and illicit drug uses and social violence (drunken driving, riding in a car driven by a drunken driver, and not wearing seatbelts) among youth. The results suggest that binge drinking, smoking habits, as well as illicit drug use will contribute to the escalation of habitual, high-risk behaviors such as: drunken driving and not using seatbelts, among youth. The results also indicate that youth attitudes toward drunken driving will become more sensitive to multi-consumption habits as they get old. Controlling the consumption of alcohol and drug use at an early age is indeed an important factor in reducing drunken-driving behavior later. Drunken driving behavior is more likely to be a habitual behavior, and to reduce this behavior, access to alcohol and illicit drugs must be restricted among early teens.This audio recording was presented at the first annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity while the author was an undergraduate student at Rutgers University-Camden
Curative Activities of Township Hospitals in Weifang Prefecture, China: An Analysis of Environmental and Supply-Side Determinants
Get PDFTownship hospitals, which are an important link of the Chinese rural healthcare system, were affected by the successive socio-economic reforms since the 1980s. As a consequence, their utilization declined. From longitudinal data covering nine years (2000-2008) and 24 township hospitals randomly selected in Weifang prefecture (Shandong province, China), this article analyses the environmental and supply-side determinants of the volume of township hospitals curative activities, measured by the number of outpatient visits and that of discharged patients. The Hausman-Taylor and the Fixed-Effect Vector Decomposition estimators are used in order to cope with time-invariant variables. Results of the estimations are confronted and highlight similar outcomes. Findings show that the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme, introduced in 2003, has contributed to increase the activity of township hospitals, although financial barriers remain to the access to expensive medical services. The analyses underline also that referral practices between health facilities levels should be reinforced and that the size of the township hospitals needs to be adequate with environmental factors as they appear to be over-sized.Health insurance, China, Healthcare services, Hausman-Taylor, Fixed-effects vector decomposition
Prognostic and predictive significance of long interspersed nucleotide element-1 methylation in advanced-stage colorectal cancer
Get PDF金沢大学博士（医学）博士論文要旨Abstract 以下に掲載：BMC cancer 16(945) pp.1-10 2016. BioMed Central. 共著者：Mami Kaneko, Masanori Kotake, Hiroyuki Bando, Tetsuji Yamada, Hirofumi Takemura, Toshinari Minamotothesi
Estimation of a Simultaneous Model of Married Women's Labor Force Participation and Fertility in Urban Japan
Get PDFA strong and negative correlation between married women's labor force participation and fertility has been witnessed in Japan in past decades. Relative to empirical studies of a traditional single equation on female labor supply, there exist few econometric studies dealing explicitly witha possible interdependency between married women's labor supply and fertility behaviors in urban Japan. Using the recently published 1980 Population Census of Japan, we have estimated a simultaneous-equation model of married women's labor force participation and fertility in urban Japan. Our model shows very satisfactory results to explain the negative correlation between those variables based on a method of 2SLS. Estimated labor supply elasticities for married women with respect to their fertility rates, wife's labor earnings, and male labor earnings are -0.67, 0.23, and -1.76 at the sample means, respectively. On the other hand, estimated elasticities of fertility with respect to married women's labor force participation and family income are -0.31 and 0.23, respectively. We find some of these elasticities for Japanese married women very comparable to those of married women in the United States.
Continent urinary diversion with the Florida pouch
Get PDF1)手術時間は平均9時間4分と長く, 術前の充分の排便処置やOlssonらの吸収針4列装填自動縫合器の導入などにより時間短縮をはかる必要がある。2)パウチ増設直後の容量は90～180mlと小さいが, 3ヵ月後には3倍以上となり, ほぼ満足すべき管理状況である。3)導管の長さは原法では10cmであったが, 回盲弁をその両脇から的確に縫縮すれば8cmでも尿禁制を保つことが可能である。4)合併症は早期には腹壁ヘルニア2例, 導管壊死1例がみられ, 前者は13因子欠乏が主因と思われた。晩期では尿管パウチ吻合部狭窄が2尿管, パウチ尿管逆流現象が1尿管に見られたFrom October 1990 through June 1993, the Florida pouch, a continent urinary reservoir using the ascending colon and the dexter half of the transverse colon was constructed in 7 patients after cystectomy for invasive tumor. Concerning the length of the efferent limb, although 10 cm was adopted in the first three cases, we shortened it and finally considered 8 cm to be the adequate length. Although the capacity of the reservoir ranged from 90 ml to 180 ml immediately after operation, an increase of capacity by three times or more within three months after operation was seen. The patients performed self-catheterization 4-5 times during the day and 0-2 times at night for volumes ranging from 300 to 600 ml. Continent colonic urinary diversion did not appear to create either any significant acid-base changes or azotemia in patients with normal renal function. Every patient received both a serum value evaluation and an absorption test for vitamin B12 (Schilling test). Although there were no patients with a reduced serum vitamin B12 level, one patient showed a slightly low absorption value. Because there is a large quantity of vitamin B12 reserve in the liver, it must be emphasized that even when the entero-hepatic circulation has been injured by surgical interruption of the intestinal tract, it may be years before reduced serum vitamin B12 value become apparent. Accordingly, the vitamin B12 absorption test should be performed regardless of the ileal length incorporated into the resection
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