BACKGROUND This study examined participation and performance trends in 'Ironman Hawaii' regarding the nationality of the finishers. METHODS Associations between nationalities and race times of 39,706 finishers originating from 124 countries in the 'Ironman Hawaii' from 1985 to 2012 were analyzed using single and multi-level regression analysis. RESULTS Most of the finishers originated from ...

A number of recent studies consistently show an area, known as the visual word form area (VWFA), in the left fusiform gyrus that is selectively responsive for visual words in alphabetic scripts as well as in logographic scripts, such as Chinese characters. However, given the large difference between Chinese characters and alphabetic scripts in terms of their orthographic rules, it is not clear ...

"This article addresses a... neglected, link between migration and ethnicity or nationality in Europe. It explores migrations of ¿ethnic unmixing' or ¿ethnic affinity'. Ethnic unmixing and ethnic affinity have somewhat different connotations and call attention to two distinct respects in which ethnicity may figure in such migrations: (1) as a push factors at the point of origin, and (2) as a pu...

This paper investigates whether the advanced Korean learners of standard Chinese produce Chinese with specific voice quality, and which voice quality parameters have significant difference. The study includes comparative analysis between the Korean and Chinese vowel /a/ for Korean speakers. It can be made certain by measuring voice quality parameters by means of EGG (electroglottalgraphy). The ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to compare smoking prevalence and risk factors of smoking between Korean and Korean-Chinese middle school students. METHODS Data was collected from seventh and eighth grade students from 12 schools in Korea and 6 schools in China. Descriptive statistics, Chi-square test, and t test were performed. RESULTS For data analysis 10,002 usable surveys were uti...

International university students face challenges due to the sociocultural differences in host country. However, only a few studies focused on issues for Chinese international South Korea. This study aimed understand experiences of Korean majoring public health and social care. The following questions guided current study, how do care describe their academic living Korea terms Sociocultural Psy...

The study examines national pride among youths between the ages of 20-25 years old in Malaysia and determines whether national pride varies by orientation in self-identification (more in nationality or racial identity terms) and language use in interracial communication with peers. The responses of 375 Malays, 238 Chinese and 77 Indian youths were analyzed. It was found that: (i) Malay and Chin...

The ZHENG (syndrome of traditional Chinese medicine) oriented effects and the multiple-targets' mechanism are the main challenges encountered by recent researches for Chinese herbal formula. Using methods of bioinformatics and systems biology, we proposed a biological network-based framework for understanding the mechanism of Chinese herbal formula, and reviewed our studies under this framework...