This article compares the provision of long-term care (LTC) in Japan and Spain, two countries with similar demographic structures but which address the provision of LTCs in very different ways. Both countries provide universal LTC. However, Japan has developed a generous benefit package of formal services for dependents to alleviate the care burden on the family, but provides no cash benefits. ...

In the frame of the SISPyr project the feasibility of an Earthquake Early Warning system (EEW) covering Pyrenees is being studied. First of all, the analysis of the existing seismic stations shows that the SISPyr realtime network may be used as a base of a Pyrenean EEW despite that some difficulties exist to its implementation that should be solved. The exploration of an important Pyrenean wave...

Background: Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) suicides have been frequent in Japan in recent years. This study was performed to describe the epidemiologic profile of an outbreak of H2S suicides in Japan. Methods: In September 2008, questionnaires about patients involved in H2S suicides were sent to 250 hospitals in Japan. Data collected from each patient included gender, age, clinical manifestations, date...

Given the increasing importance of digital economy, competition for technologies and solutions, as well contest to influence norms, standards, regulatory mechanisms, is escalating. This distributed unevenly—digitalization leaders, primarily key Group 20 (G20) members, gain significant advantages, their potential shaping regulation through consistent inclusion domestic standards norms in documen...

M. Ohnishi, 1995a: Effect of anticipated change in global environment on rice yields in Japan. In: Climate Change and Rice [Peng, S., K.T. Ingram, H. Neue, and L.H. Ziska (eds.)]. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 291–302.Horie, T., H. Nakagawa, H.G. Centeno, and M.J. Kropff, 1995b: The rice crop simulation model SIMRIW and its testing. In: Modeling the Impact of Climate Change on Rice ...

On 12 May 2008, the 8.0-magnitude Wenchuan earthquake occurred in Sichuan Province, China, triggering thousands of landslides, debris flows, and barrier lakes, leading to a substantial loss of life and damage to the local environment and infrastructure. This study aimed to monitor the status of geologic hazards and vegetation recovery in a post-earthquake disaster area using high-resolution aer...

The main objective of this study is to estimate the future COVID-19 mortality rate for India using models from different countries. Here, regression method with optimal hyperparameter used build these models. In literature, numerous infectious diseases have been proposed, most which predict by extending one or more disease-related attributes parameters. But rates historical data. paper, Gaussia...

An investigation on the applicability of Cartesian grid approach to calculate flow over arbitrary terrain S Vengadesan, A Nakayama & S Yokojima Department of Applied Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai 600 036, India Department of Science of Regional and Built Environments, Graduate School of Science and Technology Kobe University, Kobe 657 8501, Japan Enviornmental Fluid Mechani...

Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE) and balloon-borne in situ measurements of methane in stratosphere and their relation to the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) P. K. Patra, S. Lal, S. Venkataramani, and D. Chand Frontier Research System for Global Change, Yokohama 236 0001, Japan Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad 380 009, India Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55020 Mainz, Germany ...