The debate over spatial planning highlights the need for more interdisciplinary, strategic, and collaborative methods to achieve broad policy goals such as resilience sustainability. Risk-based is gaining importance due rising vulnerability of urban infrastructure. Incorporating disaster risk management into requires a geographically based strategy reducing catastrophe risk. This article outlin...

Since 2008, Ciudad Juarez (Chihuahua, Mexico) has been undergoing a wave of violence due to a drug war, making the city a difficult environment in which to raise a family. This study uses qualitative methodology that incorporates 16 in-depth interviews with parents of children ages 0-5 years and 9 sets of photos from a subset of interviewed parents. The study explores how families' economic, so...

Despite declared political commitment to implement the Political Declaration of the High-Level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases, many countries are experiencing challenges in moving to concrete action. The response to the 2011 UN political declaration and to the regional framework for action which was endorsed by the Regio...

Angiostrongyliasis is difficult to be diagnosed for the reason that no ideal method can be used. Serologic tests require specific equipment and are not always available in poverty-stricken zone and are time-consuming. A lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA) may be useful for angiostrongyliasis control. We established a LFIA for the diagnosis of angiostrongyliasis based on 2 monoclonal antibodies (mAb...

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is clinically characterized as uncontrolled fat accumulation in the liver resulting in inflammatory responses, insulin resistance, elevated liver enzymes, and ultimately liver failure. Currently, there are no clinical lipid markers detectable by blood test to ascertain the manifestation of improper fat regulation in the liver. The cell membranes of hepa...

This paper describes the Gridworld Search and Rescue simulator: freely available educational software that allows students to develop an intelligent agent for a search and rescue application in a partially observable gridworld. It permits students to focus on high-level AI issues for solving the problem rather than low-level robotic navigation. The complexity of the search and rescue problem su...

R urgical oncology may be the best subspecialty in surgery ecause it allows for expertise in a great variety of types of ases, which include liver resections, Whipple operations, xtensive bowel resections, large soft-tissue resections for arcomas, and treatment of breast cancer and melanoma. urgical oncology training also is a good entry point for urgeons who want to treat only breast cancer. N...

In this study, we adopted a single qualitative case study method to explore and examine indigenous approaches to crisis counseling in Taiwan, through the distinct lens of an expert Taiwanese counseling psychologist. In-depth, open-ended interviews were conducted with the psychologist (as the case) to document her lived clinical experiences counseling a grief-stricken Taiwanese family in crisis ...

On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred off the coast of Sanriku, Japan. It is important to build a sustainable society through the reconstruction process rather than simply restoring the infrastructure. To compare the goals of reconstruction plans of quake-stricken municipalities, Japanese language morphological analysis was performed by using text mining techniques. Freque...