This article discusses the topic ofsharing the results of anthropological studies, such as disseminating research results to health professionals and to social movements. The starting point is a dialog with a number of successful and less successful publicizing experiences. This has allowed us to find negotiations and limits of this practice, and the different dimensions of which it is a part. ...

The water-energy balance of many mid-latitude watersheds has been changing in recent decades due to global warming. These changes manifest themselves over both long timescales (e.g., hydrologic drought) and short agricultural may be ameliorated or exacerbated by vegetative response. We apply a Budyko framework assess short-term response long-term trends water heat stress (HS) across North Ameri...

The aim of the study was to determine motor and morphological factors, and to assess their impact on specific motor skill performance in rhythmic gymnastics (RG). Experimental training process aimed at learning and improving basic movement structures of rhythmic gymnastics was performed for nine months in a sample of 50 female rhythmic gymnastics novices (mean age 7.1 +/- 0.3 years). Seven dime...

Since text mining has been assumed to apply for unformatted text (document), it is necessary to represent text with simplified models. One of the most commonly used models is the vector space model, in which text is represented as a bag of words. Recently, many researches tried to apply a graph-based text model for representing semantic relationships between words. In this paper, we surveyed re...

In March 2008, a group of experts in anthropology, law, epidemiology, ethics, and social networking met to share their diverse perspectives on preventing childhood obesity. In meeting their charge to identify innovative ways to lower the prevalence of childhood obesity, they asked several questions: What has succeeded and what has not? What are the barriers to success? Whose job is it to addres...

Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine has established the Tohoku-RITM Collaborative Research Center on Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases at Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) in the Philippines in 2008. Our aim of the center is to conduct operational researches, which can contribute to control of infectious diseases in the Philippines. Therefore most of our researches in th...

BACKGROUND Recent researches have led to find strategies to prevent relapse and to improve survival for gastric cancer patients, including preoperative neo-adjuvant approaches. However, the efficacy of some neo-adjuvant regimens including 5-fluorouracil, cisplatin, and docetaxel have been less investigated. The present study evaluated the outcome and mid-term survival of patients with gastric c...