The authors reported the results of field survey and family follow-up on acatalasemia and hypocatalasemia during the year of 1965. No hypocatalasemic case was seen in the tests of 2,897 individuals at two places of Japan Proper. And a hypocatalasemic boy was found out among 10,083 children of Miyako Is., Ryukyu. In 1965, ten acatalasemias of six families at various parts in the world were added...

Extreme and non-extreme response styles (RSs) are prevalent in survey research using Likert-type scales. Their effects on measurement invariance (MI) in the context of confirmatory factor analysis are systematically investigated here via a Monte Carlo simulation study. Using the parameter estimates obtained from analyzing a 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study data set, a ...

Evidence provided by Weir and Smith, particularly the findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), leads us to conclude that an increase in arthritis prevalence during the 1990s in the United States is probable, but the trend is likely overstated in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We show that a mistake in our earlier method does not change substantively o...

Abstract We have developed a method to make spectral-line-based survey of hot cores, which represent an important stage high-mass star formation, and applied the data FUGIN (FOREST Unbiased Galactic plane Imaging with Nobeyama 45 m telescope) survey. First, we select core candidates by searching for weak tracer lines (HNCO CH3CN) stacking, then conduct follow-up pointed observations on these in...

The use of camera traps as a tool for studying wildlife populations is commonplace. However, few have considered how the number of detections of wildlife differ depending upon the number of camera traps placed at cameras-sites, and how this impacts estimates of occupancy and community composition. During December 2015-February 2016, we deployed four camera traps per camera-site, separated into ...