Before the invention of photography, the written and spoken word and artistic representation passed on the traditions of Japanese culture. The opening of Japan to international trade in 1854 and the Meiji Restoration in 1868 resulted in rapid modernization and profound cultural changes in Japanese life. At this time, the West brought with it the technology of photography ironically to record th...

The treatment of the control group in externally sponsored clinical trials is the issue of one of the most heated debates in international research ethics. The paradigmatic cases are the mother-to-child HIV-transmission trials that took place in 16 developing countries in 1997, where the control group received a placebo while proven treatment was available in industrialized countries. From this...

The world is getting modernized and industrialized day by day. As a result vehicles and engines are increasing. But energy sources used in these engines are limited and decreasing gradually. This situation leads to seek an alternative fuel for diesel engine. Biodiesel is an alternative fuel for diesel engine. The esters of vegetables oil animal fats are known as Biodiesel. This paper investigat...

SUMMARY The socio-economics, standard of living (in the poverty/affluence differential) reflects the quality of life, while in health care and management, physical, socio-environmental, psychological and mental health perspectives dominate the scenario. Chronic diseases, autism and other developmental disabilities, congenital anomalies, occupational hazards related disabilities, prevalence of A...

Can 28 major national organizations that collectively influence every part of the health care system really make a difference? That was my question when I first received a report from the National Quality Forum (NQF) in Washington, DC.1 Readers of my previous P&T columns might recall that Americans spend more per capita on health care than any other industrialized country, yet our results in te...

In the past, industrialized countries have invested in or financed numerous renewable energy projects in developing countries, primarily through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. However, critics have pointed to its bureaucratic structure, problems with additionality and distorted credit prices as ill-equipped to streamline renewable energy investment. In this paper, ...

In 1999, community health workers informed us that large numbers of immigrants and refugees lived and often worked in our Scarborough, Ont, community while being denied access to publicly funded health care. Our inquiries uncovered empirical evidence that Scarborough’s uninsured experienced health care access inequities, health disparities, financial hardships, and delayed acculturation. Scarbo...

This research divides the mode of industrialized organization into the following three modes, that is, the ones driven by large-scale farmers, the ones driven by leading enterprises and the ones driven by professional cooperatives. This paper takes edible fungi industrialized organization as an example and creates 9-12-3 type of BP neural network model to choose the dominant industrialized orga...