Trilateralism among the United States, Japan and Korea has significantly contributed to the peace and security of East Asia in the last fifty years. The most important links in the US-Japan-Korea triangle are the US’s bilateral alliances with Japan and South Korea. But trilateralism has been important in issue areas such as policy coordination regarding North Korea. Building on this success, th...

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Eun-A Ryu, Su-Jin Kang, Chang-Hyun Song, Bong-Hyo Lee, Seong-Hun Choi, Chang-Hyun Han, Young-Joon Lee, Sae-Kwang Ku Department of Anatomy and Histology, College of Korean Medicine, Daegu Haany University Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Daegu Haany University The Medical Research Center for Globalization of Herbal Medicine, College of Korean Medicine, Daegu Haany U...

During the past 40 years, acupuncture, a therapeutic technique of oriental medicine, has become more and more popular, evolving into one of the most utilized forms of complementary integrative medicine interventions in the United States. In fact, more than 10 million acupuncture treatments are administered annually in the United States alone.(1) Its rise in popularity, particularly in the West,...

1 Ki Primo Research Laboratory, Division of Electrical Engineering, KAIST Institute for Information Technology Convergence, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea 2Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA 3 Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences...

OBJECTIVES In Korea, cancer is one of the most important causes of death. Cancer patients have sought alternative methods, like complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) together with Western medicine, to treat cancer. Also, there are many kinds of providers of CAM therapy, including providers of Korean oriental medicine therapy. The purpose of this study is to identify the behaviors of Kore...

Malaria, Typhoid, Tuberculosis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Urinary Tract Infection, Yellow fever, Hepatitis-B, Leprosy and Chicken Pox are the existing tropical diseases that are considered in this work. In sub-Saharan Africa, the application of fuzzy logic to the diagnosis of these diseases is still very sparse and in some places practically nonexistent. Fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic ar...

*London International Development Centre; School of Oriental and African Studies, Centre for Development, Environment and Policy, †London International Development Centre; University College London, Bartlett Development Planning Unit, ‡University College London, Centre for Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, §University College London, Bartlett Development Planning Unit, ¶University College...