BACKGROUND The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has focused its attention on appraising health development assistance projects and redirecting efforts towards health system strengthening. This study aimed to describe the type of project and targets of interest, and assess the contribution of JICA health-related projects to strengthening health systems worldwide. METHODS We collec...

The integration of event-related potential (ERP) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can contribute to characterizing neural networks with high temporal and spatial resolution. This research aimed to determine the sensitivity and limitations of applying joint independent component analysis (jICA) within-subjects, for ERP and fMRI data collected simultaneously in a parametric audito...

Joint independent component analysis (jICA) can be applied within subject for fusion of multi-channel event-related potentials (ERP) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), to measure brain function at high spatiotemporal resolution (Mangalathu-Arumana et al., 2012). However, the impact of experimental design choices on jICA performance has not been systematically studied. Here, the s...

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Current practices in studying cardiac arrhythmias primarily use electrical or optical surface recordings of a heart, spatially limited transmural recordings, and mathematical models. However, given that such arrhythmias occur on a 3D myocardial tissue, information obtained from such practices lack in dimension, completeness, and are sometimes prone to oversimplification. The combination of comp...

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 2003), and malignant neoplasms are now the second leading cause of mortality in these countries (WHO 2003). Limitations of medical facilities and equipment means that prevention is indispensable for cancer c...

While a number of studies have examined gender preferences for children by studying behavioral measures, such as skewed sex ratios, sex imbalance in infant mortality, and sibling size/order; attitudinal measures have been analyzed less systematically. Using 50 Demographic and Health Surveys conducted between 2000 and 2008, this paper seeks to advance our understanding of gender preferences in d...

Introduction: Emergency Medical Team Coordination Cell (EMTCC) was established in WHO Moldova Country Office to coordinate responding International EMTs March 2022. Japan Cooperation Agency (JICA) sent an EMTCC assistance team support the WHO-approved minimum data collection for emergency medical teams, Minimum Data Set (MDS), operations and other coordination activities. Introducing activities...

TOMOHIDE YASUNAGA1, ZAYAR SOE2, SHINE SHANE NAING2 & ANDRZEJ WOLSKI3 1Research Associate, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, c/o JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Myanmar Office, #701 Sakura Tower No. 339, Bogyoke Aung San Road, Kyauktada Township, Yangon. E-mail: [email protected] 2Fluit Fly Laboratory, Plant Protection Division (PPD), ...