Report from 1999 Spring Sedimentological Society of Japan Field Trip

The registry report of heart transplantation in Japan (1999-2013).

below, most of the patients undergoing heart transplantation are on some form of LVAD as BTT. At first, extracorporeal devices were the norm. Implantable devices were initially only used as part of clinical trials, but BTT therapy using an implantable LVAD, allowing treatment at home, is increasingly coming into use since medical insurance coverage became available for nonpulsatile implantable ...

The Registry Report of Heart Transplantation in Japan (1999-2014).

formed under the newly introduced Organ Transplant Law in February 1999. The number of heart transplants per year rose from 3 initially to 5, then to nearly 10. After the legislative amendments it rose to 30 and then 37 per year (Figure 1). Most of the early VADs used for BTT were extracorporeal devices, with implantable devices used mainly for clinical research or experimental trials of at-hom...

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I/S Nordforbrænding is an inter-municipal waste management company located north of Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, which serves approximately 180,000 inhabitants. It was founded in 1965 and it is owned by six municipalities in North Sealand: Allerød, Søllerød, Hørsholm, Fredensborg-Humlebæk, Karlebo and Helsingør as shown in Fig. 1. The company’s mission was to establish a Waste-to-Energy ...

Report from October 1999 Seminar:

OBJECTIVE: To study the effects on children of humanitarian aid agencies restricting help to refugee families (internally displaced people). DESIGN: Follow up study of 3 months. SETTING: Prabis peninsular outside Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau, which has functioned as a refugee area for internally displaced people in the ongoing war, and the study area of the Bandim health project in Biss...