BACKGROUND Japan EPA Lipid Intervention Study (JELIS) was a large-scale clinical trial examining the effects of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) on coronary artery disease (CAD) in hypercholesterolemic patients. Herein, we focused on risk factors other than low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) to investigate the effects of EPA on CAD among JELIS primary prevention cases. METHODS Hypercholes...

MobilomeFINDER (http://mml.sjtu.edu.cn/Mobilome FINDER) is an interactive online tool that facilitates bacterial genomic island or ‘mobile genome’ (mobilome) discovery; it integrates the ArrayOme and tRNAcc software packages. ArrayOme utilizes a microarray-derived comparative genomic hybridization input data set to generate ‘inferred contigs’ produced by merging adjacent genes classified as ‘pr...

Objective: A significant negative association between serum thyroxine and urine perchlorate levels had been reported from NHANES 2001-2002 by Blount et al. (2006) for women age 12-85 with low iodine nutrition expressed as urine iodine (UI) less than 100 ug/l. We have reanalyzed the data using creatinine-adjusted urine iodine (UICr) as the measure of iodine nutrition and focused on women of chil...

Japan-EU Economic Partnership Agreement （EPA） got into force from February, 2019, and this paper examines three concerning issues, that is, the objective background of EPA, assessment implications regarding multinational enterprises （MNEs）.