background: obesity has become a serious problem for chinese han nationality. this research aimed to evaluate the prevalence of and trends in obesity among chinese korean nationality children and adolescents (1991–2010). methods: we used data from chinese national surveys on students’ constitution and health (cnssch). cnssch was utilized to monitor chinese students’ health condition and release...

BACKGROUND Obesity has become a serious problem for Chinese Han nationality. This research aimed to evaluate the prevalence of and trends in obesity among Chinese Korean nationality children and adolescents (1991-2010). METHODS We used data from Chinese National Surveys on Students' Constitution and Health (CNSSCH). CNSSCH was utilized to monitor Chinese students' health condition and release...

Adults implicitly judge people from certain social backgrounds as more "American" than others. This study tests the development of children's reasoning about nationality and social categories. Children across cultures (White and Korean American children in the United States, Korean children in South Korea) judged the nationality of individuals varying in race and language. Across cultures, 5- t...

Ginseng has been traditionally used to recover vital energy from Qi deficiency in oriental countries. Recent reports suggested that ginseng could regulate blood pressure (BP), but much controversy still remain. Therefore, we intended to assess the anti-hypertensive effect of some ginseng species on Koreans and Chinese. This is a randomized, double blinded controlled clinical trial. The study su...

National identity is an important magnetic force that draws individuals and organizations to co-locate in the same geographic areas in foreign countries, thus providing a fertile socio-economic context for relationship formation and other social exchanges. Whether the focus is on individuals such as Chinese immigrants in Metropolitan cities (Zhou & Logan, 1989) or organizations such as Korean f...

Westudy to what extend Chinese, Japaneseand Korean faces can be classified and which facial attributes offer the most important cues. First, we propose a novel way of obtaining large numbers of facial images with nationality labels. Then we train state-of-the-art neural networks with these labeled images. We are able to achieve an accuracy of 75.03% in theclassification task, with chancesbeing ...

We performed a case-control study to investigate whether SNPs of CHIP might affect the development of IA in Chinese Han nationality. We believe we are the first to have screened IA patients for mutations in the CHIP gene to determine the association with these variants. The study group comprised 224 Chinese Han nationality patients with at least one intracranial aneurysm and 238 unrelated healt...

This paper is an empirical attempt verifying the interplay between political change, fleet nationality, and the evolution of shipping networks. North Korea offers a good example of a socialist maritime country that experienced much contrasted geopolitical contexts during the last two decades. A database of vessel movements between North Korean ports and other ports is analyzed. Main results sho...

OBJECTIVES Completeness and timeliness are key attributes of accurate disease surveillance. This study aimed to evaluate the completeness and timeliness of tuberculosis (TB) notification in the Republic of Korea, by comparing notification data from the Korean National Tuberculosis Surveillance System and reimbursement data from the National Health Insurance. METHODS We evaluated reimbursement...

This study examines the mediating effect of brand factors and moderating nationality age in relationship between compulsive buying tendency repurchase intention herbal cosmetics by female consumers. The subjects were 205 Korean Chinese consumers who had used cosmetics. collected data was analyzed to get general characteristics research using SPSS 23.0 program, descriptive statistics, reliabilit...