BACKGROUND Antimicrobial susceptibility of Legionella spp. has rarely been studied in Korea. Therefore, we aimed to determine the susceptibility of Legionella spp. to various antibiotics. METHODS We assessed the antimicrobial susceptibility of 66 environmental and clinical Legionella isolates collected between January 2001 and December 2008 from Korea and Japan. The minimum inhibitory concent...

Difference in crude neonatal and infant mortality rates (NMR and IMR) among different countries is due to the differences in its two determinants: birth weight distribution (BWD) and birth weight-specific mortality rates (BW-SMRs). We aimed to determine impact of BWD and BW-SMRs on differences in crude NMR and IMR among Korea, Japan, and the U.S. Our study used the live birth data of the period...

78 Many scholars have highlighted Japan and South Korea (hereafter, Korea) as distinctive models of the “developmental state”, which can share common features in terms of the condensed economic development.1 The close strategic relationship between the bureaucratic government and big businesses has been often cited as one of the many similarities in which the two countries pursued rapid economi...

Modularisation provides new challenges for the automobile industry. Following the trend, this study empirically compared the cases of Korea and Japan. This study finds out the characteristics of modularisation dynamics in Korea which are different from those of Japan. The results show that modularisation of Korean automobile industry is shifting to modularisation in inter-firm system which outs...

Photoluminescence Properties of Ce1−xTbxMgAl11O19 Phosphor Particles Prepared by Spray Pyrolysis Yun Chan KANG∗1, Seung Bin PARK1, I. Wuled LENGGORO and Kikuo OKUYAMA∗2 Department of Chemical Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8527, Japan 1Department of Chemical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1, Kusong-dong, Yusong-gu, Taejon, 305-701,...

Objective: To identify updated trends in antipsychotic prescribing patterns in patients with schizophrenia in East Asia. Methods: Using the data from the 2001, 2004, and 2008 Research on East Asia Psychotropic Prescription (REAP) studies, we compared the proportions of acute inpatients (stay <6 months), new long-stay patients (6 months to 3 years), and old long-stay patients (≥3 years), the rat...

Chan-Su Yang*, Youn-Seop Kim*, Kazuo Ouchi**, Jae-Ho Na* *Ocean Satellite Remote Sensing & Observation Technology Research, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute Ansan P.O. Box 29, Seoul, 425-600, KOREA [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] **Department of Computer Science, National Defense Academy 1-10-20 Hashirimizu, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 239-8686 Japan [email protected]...

Takahiro Yamaguchi,a1 Dong Yeon Lee,b Akio Miyao,c Hikohiko Hirochika,c Gynheung An,b and Hiro-Yuki Hiranoad2 a Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan b Division of Molecular and Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea c National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Kannondai...

bio¢lmformation Akiko Shime-Hattori, Tetsuya Iida, Michiko Arita, Kwon-Sam Park, Toshio Kodama & Takeshi Honda Department of Bacterial Infections, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan; Department of Genomic Research on Pathogenic Bacteria, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan; Department of Nutritional Science, Faculty of...

Cnidium officinale is a perennial herb belonging to the family Umbelliferae. Its origin China and also distributed in Korea Japan. In 2017, phenomenon of browning wilting leaves was discovered cultivation field National Institute Forest Science, Suwon, Korea. The pathogens isolated from plants were consistent with Fusarium solani as result morphological examination molecular phylogenetic analys...