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Volume 38 (1983 - 198･･･
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Volume 38, Issue 3
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Naoko Koizumi, Yoshiki Inoue, Toshiyuki Tsukamoto1983 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 667-676
Published: August 30, 1983
Released on J-STAGE: February 17, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSDiurnal variations were recorded of 10 substances from the urine of 22 healthy women, ranging from 32 to 65 years of age. Twenty-four-hour urine collections were done at each micturition and blood samples were taken on the same day.
From the data, it was examined whether the use of creatinine ratio as a measure of the completeness of a 24-hour urine samples was reliable.
The results were as follows:
1. Maximum/minimum concentration ratios of various urinary substances were 1.2-4.6, 1.9-9.0, 1.3-11, 1.3-8.0, 1.6-12, 1.5-12, 1.7-11, 1.8-9.8, and 2.0-12, for (specific gravity-1) ×1, 000, creatinine, urea nitrogen, uric acid, calcium, inorganic phosphorus, cadmium, zinc, and copper, respectively. There were very large individual variations-2.6-78-for the ratios of urinary β2-microglobulin.
2. Blood urea nitrogen slightly increased with age, but other substances showed no such changes.
3. The mean values of each substances matched between those taken at individual micturitions and those taken over 24 hours.
4. Concentrations of substances in early morning urine did not always show the high levels compared with those of a 24-hour urine.
5. Creatinine concentrations decreased with age. For elderly women, this fact resulted the high values from correction by creatinine for the concentrations of urinary substances.
6. Wide diurnal variations for values corrected by specific gravity or creatinine were observed of urinary 10 substances, and such substances were inaffective in correcting urinary concentrations.
7. The mean specific gravity of a 24-hour urine of all subjects was 1.018. For elderly women, the value calculated by specific gravity, that is, the one multiplied by 18/(G-1)×1, 000, was more accurate than the creatinine ratio.
8. Urinary protein or glucose had almost no influence on specific gravity, except in the case of glucose concentrations over 500mg/dl.View full abstractDownload PDF (1314K) -
Part 9 Susceptibility to antibiotics of airborne staphylococci from healthy subjectsKazuyuki Terayama, Fumiko Hirata, Hideki Ohno, Tadao Kawarabayashi, Ma ...1983 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 677-682
Published: August 30, 1983
Released on J-STAGE: February 17, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSTwo hundred and four strains of airborne staphylococci from healthy human subjects were tested for their biological properties and susceptibility to novobiocin. They were then classified into three groups based on the results of such tests. In addition, susceptibility to each of the major antibiotics-penicillin G, methicillin, cloxacillin, erythromycin, chloramphenicol, streptomycin and tetracycline-was tested. The results obtained were as follows:
1. Five strains were coagulase-positive. These were identified as Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). The remaining 199 coagulase-negative strains were further classified into S. epidermidis (171 strains) and S. saprophyticus (28 strains) according to novobiocin susceptibility.
2. Airborne S. aureus strains showed marked differences in minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) for penicillin G when compared to standard S. aureus strains (e. g. FDA209P).
3. Most airborne S. epidermidis strains had characteristic MIC values for each antibiotic except penicillin G. The number of strains resistant to the antibiotics tested was low for airborne S. epidermidis when this number was compared to the clinical isolates described elsewhere (Pulverer and Jeljaszewicz, 1973; Shimizu et al., 1977).
4. Nineteen of the S. saprophyticus strains were resistant to methicillin and novobiocin, and they appeared to be more virulent than the remaining novobiocin-susceptible strains.View full abstractDownload PDF (637K) -
An analysis of the relationship between health status and scholastic achievement using a quantification method entitled "II"Shinichiro Monden1983 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 683-690
Published: August 30, 1983
Released on J-STAGE: February 17, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSPhysical and mental health of students in college can be seen as a reflection of their academic performance. Therefore, 327 students of Fukuyama city women's junior college were selected, and the relationship between the status of their health and scholastic achievement were studied by a variety of statistical method including the quantification method entitled “II”.
In this report, scholastic achievement defied as experimental variable. While the 31 control variables were the obesity index, seven measurements of physical fitness, 18 selected items A-R from Cornell Medical Index-Health Questionnaire, two items from a psychological examination, a rough estimate of the student's high school scholastic achievement, total number of absences from high school and college entrance examination score.
The Analysis using a quantification method entitled “II” was indicated that the first root was 0.327 and the second root was 0.201 in the correlation rate. While the x2 test by the experimental variable and the 31 factors of the control variable was observed a significant relationship in five factors.
It was found that the factors most closely related to present scholastic achievement were 1) items concerned with tension, frequency of disease, cardiovascular and muscularskeletal system and depression from Cornell Medical Index-Health Questionnaire, 2) physical fitness such as repeated lateral jumping, vertical jumping and standing trunk flexion, 3) psychological factor and 4) total absences.
When each health was examined, higher levels of scholastic achievement in college were associated with frequency of disease-2 or more and tension-2 or more. Lower levels of scholastic achievement were associated with frequency of disease-one or 2 or more, depression-2 or more, tention-zero, cardiovascular system-one, repeated lateral jumping-35 or less and psychological factor-35 or less.View full abstractDownload PDF (1019K) -
Hideaki Taguchi, Makoto Miyaji, Kazuko Koike, Kikuo Fujiwara1983 Volume 38 Issue 3 Pages 691-696
Published: August 30, 1983
Released on J-STAGE: February 17, 2009
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSAn apparatus was devised to determine biodegradability under anaerobic conditions. Dissolved oxygen concentrations were reduced to 0.01ppm in test solutions by replacement with nitrogen gas. Biodegradability of the sample was calculated from the decrease in total organic carbon.
With 1, 2-dichloropropane, after 5 days of anaerobic incubation biodegradability was approximately 50%, even though in aerobic conditions, 1, 2-dichloropropane is generally considered nondegradable.
Test conditions were as follows: 0.1ppm of dissolved oxygen was kept in the test medium (pH 7.0±0.1), with 100ppm of test sample and 30ppm of activated sludge at a temperature of 25±1°C.
The results obtained suggest the necessity of making anaerobic tests when complete information on biodegradability is desired.
Total biodegradability is, therefore, estimatable by connecting the apparatus to the Coulometer, and determining aerobic degradation from O2 uptake.View full abstractDownload PDF (3689K)
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