Fetal death is an important indicator of national health care. In Korea, the fetal mortality rate is likely to increase due to advanced maternal age and multiple births, but there is limited research in this field. The authors investigated the characteristics of fetal deaths, the annual changes in the fetal mortality rate and the perinatal mortality rate in Korea, and compared them with those i...

BACKGROUND Dengue is a mosquito-borne febrile disease that represents a major public health problem in tropical and subtropical areas. Even though Korea and Japan are not the regions where dengue is epidemic, there have been many imported cases in both countries, and in increasing numbers. A better understanding of the characteristics of the prevalence of dengue and the recent trends in these n...

The complete DNA genome of sweet potato leaf curl virus (SPLCV) from samples obtained from eight regions was amplified by PCR and characterized in this study. The DNA genome of one group (SPLCV Korea group 1) consisted of 2828 nucleotides and that of the second group (SPLCV Korea group 2) consisted of 2829 nucleotides. Sequence comparisons showed that the genome sequences of SPLCV Korea isolate...

The Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak in the Republic of Korea has taken the world by surprise for its scale because the Republic of Korea is regarded to have one of the most advanced medical and public health systems worldwide. Now, a question has arisendwhat would be the next infectious disease that could affect Korea? Considering the impact of climate change and vector...

Information systems (IS) designers from the United States, Japan, and Korea were surveyed to explore potential similarities and differences in their views on two IS risk factors, various types of IS failure and the overall failure rate on IS projects. While there were only a few differences between the U.S. and Japan, there were a number of differences in the views of designers from the U.S. an...

Currency exchanges rates – updated monthly. Economic indicators of industrial production. Countries included: France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, States, Canada, Japan (Total G‐7), Eurozone and Total EU‐28 OECD). Updated car registration in Poland, Spain, Turkey, Japan, Republic Korea Other OECD OECD‐30). Monthly averages crude steel production thousand metric tons for Brazil, Mexico, A...

Background/Aims The presence of invasion is a diagnostic criterion of early gastric cancer (EGC) in Korea, whereas diagnosis in Japan is based on enlarged nuclei and prominent nucleoli. Moreover, the depth of invasion is the location of cancer cell infiltration in Korea, whereas it is the location of lymphovascular invasion (LVI) or cancer cell infiltration in Japan. We evaluated the characteri...

*Korea Ocean Satellite Center Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute 1270 Sa-2-dong Sangrok-gu Ansan-city, 426-744, Korea [email protected], 2) [email protected] **Department of Computer Science National Defense Academy 1-10-20 Hashirimizu, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 239-8686 Japan [email protected] *** Department of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering Hongik University...

We monitored the contamination by environmental estrogens (EEs) of coastal areas in Korea and Japan using the wild grey mullet. The grey mullet were collected from Ansan, Jeju, Yeosu, Tongyeong, and Busan in Korea and Nagasaki, Omuta, and Fukuoka in Japan. Contamination by EEs was determined by measuring vitellogenin (VTG) levels in serum and identifying gonadal abnormalities histologically (i....

Because of their widespread agricultural impact and rapid range expansions, true fruit flies (Tephritidae) are the subject of quarantine and control efforts worldwide. Among these flies, the pumpkin fruit fly Bactrocera depressa, which infests squash and other cucurbitaceous plants in Korea, Japan and Taiwan, was recently isolated from produce shipments entering Japan and identified as a regula...