by growing the population and need for settlement, many cities have been built on soft sediments and seismic areas. it emphasizes the need for a careful and reliable assessment of site effect phenomena. beyond the methods of studying site effects, microtremor recordings has become popular over the last decades as it offers a convenient, practical and low cost tool to be used in urbanized areas....

Studies featuring multimodal neuroimaging data fusion for understanding brain function and structure, or disease characterization, leverage the partial information available in each of the modalities to reveal data variations not exhibited through the independent analyses. Similar to other complex syndromes, the characteristic brain abnormalities in schizophrenia may be better understood with t...

In a symposium entitled “Parasitology and International Cooperation” chaired by Professors Kobari and Tanaka held during the 58th JSP meeting in 1989, it was stressed that the JSP should contribute along the concepts and ideals of international health cooperation. In this context, JSP established its internal International Cooperation Committee in 1990. The first task of this committee was to f...

This article tries to review and analyze that how the scholars who presented at the Zambian Education Forum (ZEF) catch actual condition of teacher profession in African and Asian countries. Before into analyzing, it is necessary to explain about ZEF and its back ground. The purpose was that to provide an opportunity for the people interested in education to share some knowledge and experiences...

Active case detection and treatment of malaria in a selective age group of children up to the age of fifteen was carried out to control malaria in a coastal village in North Sumatra, Indonesia from September 1983 to July 1984. A combination of chloroquine for three days with primaquine for three or five days was more effective than only chloroquine for three days. The spleen rate, the parasite ...

BACKGROUND Many studies have examined either electroencephalogram (EEG) frequency activity or gray matter volumes (GMV) in various psychoses [including schizophrenia (SZ), schizoaffective (SZA), and psychotic bipolar disorder (PBP)]. Prior work demonstrated similar EEG and gray matter abnormalities in both SZ and PBP. Integrating EEG and GMV and jointly analyzing the combined data fully elucida...