During the spring of 1944, the Deutsch-Japanische Gesellschaft , an organization devoted to improving and expanding German-Japanese cultural and intellectual engagement, solicited the German public for their thoughts and impressions about Japan through an essay contest. Participants were asked to identify the political, economic, and cultural values and institutions that united Germany and Japa...

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The inclusion of crime scene behavior in actuarial risk assessment so far is insufficient, unsystematic, and neglecting factors theoretically relevant to sexual recidivism. Therefore, the goal of the current study was to develop a brief actuarial risk scale based on crime scene characteristics. The development sample consisted of data (police databases, paper records, and the National Convictio...

The incidence of gonorrhoea as shown by the annual returns of the Ministry of Health has not shown the fall which could reasonably be expected. It is difficult to explain this satisfactorily, since the treatment of the disease is simple and effective. The simplicity and efficiency of treatment may in some ways have contributed to this continued high incidence by allowing re-infection to occur i...

BACKGROUND The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is developing rapidly, with many foreign construction, farm and industrial workers. AIMS To assess the epidemiology of occupational injury hospitalizations using a trauma registry. METHODS Surgical admissions from March 2003 to April 2005 were recorded in the registry at the main trauma hospital in Al Ain city (population 348,000). Prevention-relate...

CONTEXT There has been a steady rise in Nigeria's HIV/AIDS burden since the first sero-prevalence survey in 1991. Nigeria's economy is mainly dependent on oil that comes from the Niger Delta Region. The majority of the people of the Niger delta region depend on fishing and farming for livelihood. Years of oil exploration activities with frequent oil spillages have led to severe environmental de...

Objective: To evaluate the beliefs of medical university students regarding male circumcision (MC), as well as attitudes and the predictors of its promotion in the case of adults at risk of HIV. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted between 2013-2016 at the Medical University in Szczecin, Poland, among final year Polish/foreign students from Northern Europe, using a standardized quest...

FARM WORKERS, a declining sector of the work force for fifty years or more, are excluded from the protection of most Federal and State labor protective legislation and are covered only in part by the basic social security system. Few have workmen’s compensation protection (except in about a dozen States, including California) 1 and fewer than 25,000 are protected by unemployment insurance.2 Bes...

Studies indicate that about 23 percent to 28 percent of the physicians working and residing in the United States, Canada, Australia, the UK and New Zealand were born and trained in the low-income countries, areas suffering from critical shortages of physicians and other health workers. In the US alone, the preponderance of the foreign physicians hails from South Africa, Philippines, India, Paki...