Communicable diseases are still major causes of deaths in developing countries. Cancer incidence, however, increased 19% between 1990 and 2000, mainly in this same developing world (Stewart and Kleihaus, 2003), and malignant neoplasms are now the second leading cause of mortality in these countries (WHO, 2003). Limitations of medical facilities and equipment mean that prevention is indispensabl...

The Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas, founded in 2004, brings together researchers from several countries in the Americas who have carried out empirical studies of the social and environmental impacts of economic liberalization. The goal of the Working Group Project is to contribute empirical research and policy analysis to the ongoing policy debates on national econ...

Malewa dam in Kenya was first studied the 1990s at preliminary design stage, through a study funded by Japanese Government who entrusted JICA with it. At that time, its main purpose water supply to Nakuru, Naivasha and Gilgil cities Rift Valley. Thirty years later, reviewed within frame of feasibility World Bank account for revised needs -now excluding Nakuru- also taking into increased awarene...

Related Projects (if any) 1. 2004 ~ present: A total of three fishery experts were dispatched to the Department of Fisheries. Following the assignment of a fishery technical adviser in 2004, a fishery administrative advisor was assigned in 2008 to assist in managing and maintaining this project. 2. 2005: One technician was dispatched to receive training in freezer maintenance in Japan. In addit...

Data on people flow has become increasingly important in the field of business, including the areas of marketing and public services. Although mobile phones enable a person's position to be located to a certain degree, it is a challenge to acquire sufficient data from people with mobile phones. In order to grasp people flow in its entirety, it is important to establish a practical method of rec...

Introduction: The Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, 2022. UNHCR reported, as April 6th, more than 4.3 million refugees have fled Ukraine, with 401,704 arriving in the Republic Moldova, around 100,000 whom remained country. JICA investigated whether Moldova's healthcare needs were burdened by accepting a large number Ukrainian refugees, and examined way to support them. Method: d...

Agricultural expansion and urban development without proper soil erosion control measures have become major environmental problems in Cambodia. Due to a high population growth rate increased economic activities, land use cover (LULC) changes will cause disturbances, particularly erosion. This research aimed estimate total amounts of loss using the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) mo...

HEALTHCARE WORK IN KENYA BY INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE, NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY NAGASAKI University was founded based on the Igaku Denshusho (Medical Training Institute), Japan’s first ever modern, western-style hospital (established in 1857). It has a long history of working at the forefront of medicine, including the establishment in 1942 of the East Asia Research Institute of Endemics within...

Perceptional abnormalities in schizophrenia are associated with hallucinations and delusions, but also with negative symptoms and poor functional outcome. Perception can be studied using EEG-derived event related potentials (ERPs). Because of their excellent temporal resolution, ERPs have been used to ask when perception is affected by schizophrenia. Because of its excellent spatial resolution,...