OBJECTIVE This study aims to provide alternative care plans for mental health of North Korean refugees who are in protective facilities in China. METHODS Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) was utilized to measure the presence/absence of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among 65 North Korean refugees. RESULTS The gender differences in PAI t-scores showed that women exhibited meaning...

dear editor:   the nuclear denotation due to the leakage from nuclear electricity plant in japan after the giant tsunami is a great concern. there are many possible health effects including induction of ophthalmic disorder on the affected population to the nuclear denotation. indeed the observation on the effect of radioactive leaking from the nuclear plant after the well-known nuclear leakage ...

We build on our earlier results (DE-FC52-06NA27324, Dreger et al., 2008; Ford et al., 2010; Ford et al., 2009a, b; Ford et al., 2008) in which it has been demonstrated that regional distance moment tensor analysis can discriminate explosions from naturally occurring earthquakes and mine collapses. In this project, as an effort to refine procedures for implementation we develop a more complete u...

The challenge of this paper is to underline the capability of an Event-Cloud Platform to support efficiently an emergency situation. We chose to focus on a nuclear crisis use case. The proposed approach consists in modeling the business processes of crisis response on the one hand, and in supporting the orchestration and execution of these processes by using an Event-Cloud Platform on the other...

The end of the Second World War brought about emergence two super powers, United States and Soviet Union that assumed major key players in global Politics. superpowers adopted expansionist policies their attempt to build alliances so as implement protect diverse ideological interests. In process, proxy wars ensued different part globe. Adopting secondary source data Content Analysis well Power ...

Peninsula. In this essay, we compare notes on German and Korean unification by looking at entry, tipping and endpoints of strategic diplomacy. We argue that political integration needs to drive the strategic diplomacy of Korean unification. German unification was not preordained, but was the product of strategic choices made at critical junctures of the process. While long-term developments pos...

This paper explicitly provides the experimental analyses for the fundamental arguments of Kyungsang (KS) tone. It provides the locations of the main accent in KS words and its basic tonal units. Furthermore through the results it ultimately contributes to the typological categorization of KS Korean tone. That is, the results of the current experimental analysis of the KS words provide us the ev...