Political constitutionalism emerged on the Chinese academic scene in mid-2000s as a countermovement to rights-based, court-centered, and textual mainstream constitutional scholarship. On surface, it has launched biting sophisticated critique of institutional Westernization reasserted sense particularity. However, contrary its intellectual self-representation genuinely phenomenon, movement’s for...

Together, gastrointestinal (GI) cancers now account for 25% of neoplastic deaths in the West. In Poland, GI cancer rates are likely to increase further as westernization progresses. Given that conventional cancer therapies have made only modest reductions in cancer mortality, there is a great interest in chemoprevention to prevent or slow malignant transformation from premalignant lesions. The ...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is aiding the transition of society into information society and ultimately knowledge society. Embedded within ICT are the cultural and philosophical undercurrents of the society in which the ICT solutions are developed, currently predominantly the Western culture. The proliferation of ICT is therefore inadvertedly leading to more Westernization of...

Westernization has propelled changes in urbanization and architecture, altering our exposure to the outdoor environment from that experienced during most of human evolution. These changes might affect the developmental exposure of infants to bacteria, immune development, and human microbiome diversity. Contemporary urban humans spend most of their time indoors, and little is known about the mic...

disease have resulted in a greater number of deaths attributed to PE in recent years in Japan.2 Whereas the early diagnosis and treatment of VTE can result in relatively good outcome, PE is a fatal disease characterized by a high rate of mortality; indeed, sudden death may be the presenting symptom of VTE.3 Early diagnosis and early treatment, including inhibition of DVT progression and prevent...

The prevalence of obesity in the Japanese population has been increasing dramatically in step with the Westernization of lifestyles and food ways. Our study demonstrated significant associations between obesity and a number of gastrointestinal disorders in a large sample population in Japan. We demonstrated that reflux esophagitis and hiatal hernia were strongly related to obesity (BMI > 25) in...

Colorectal tumors are rare in the developing countries but common in the civilized world. With the event of westernization of the diet, the incidence is increasing in the developing countries such as Nigeria. Caecal tumors present late because of the anatomical features of this part of colon. The tumors in the caecum are insidious in onset and often attend large size. Barium enema and colonosco...

Hypertension is the most common chronic disease of adults in the Caribbean today, affecting some 22% of this population (I); as a result, it contributes directly and indirectly to the leading causes of death in most of the English-speaking islands (2). While many epidemiologic surveys (3, 4, 5) have defined the prevalence of this disease in the community, there are very few studies that documen...