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Hiroshi EGAWA
Article type: Original
1984 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
1-14
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The average length of stay is essentially an important and appropriate index for hospital bed administration. However, from the position that it is not necessarily an appropriate index in Japan, an analysis is made of the difference in the health care facility system between the United States and Japan. Concerning the length of stay in Japanese hospitals, the median appeared to better represent the situation. It is emphasized that in order for the average length of stay to become an appropriate index, there is need to promote regional health, especially facility planning.
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―Clinical Application and Experimental Evaluation as a Temporary Dressing Material―
Toshihiko FUJIWARA, Kunio IKEMURA, Yasutaka KOUNO
Article type: Original
1984 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
15-22
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In order to cover the defect of the oral mucosa temporarily, we used lyophilized porcine skin (LPS) in 10 cases. The use of LPS seemed to be effective from the following points of view; alleviation of postoperative pain and as a protection against exogenous irritants. A fixation method, that is, a continuous locked suture, was devised technically to prevent the LPS from tearing by suturing. With this simple method, the patient maintained good oral hygiene and had only a slight discomfort. Histological examination using Japanese white rabbits showed no apparent difference in wound healing between this method and interrupted suture with tie-over compression Re-epithelialization of the wound in the non-dressed (control) group was recognized earlier than that in the LPS-covered group.
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Hiroshi KlMURA, Toshiko YAMADA, Takashi AOYAMA, Toshiyuki NORIMURA, Ta ...
Article type: Original
1984 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
23-29
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The sensitivity to bleomycin of JTC-11 cells derived from Ehrlich ascites tumor was modified by both serum concentration and superinoculation on a sheet of Swiss 3T3 cells. The dose-survival curve of the JTC-11 cells was biphasic or triphasic, with a sensitive phase at lower doses (less than 10 μg/ml) and a resistant one at higher doses (more than 40 μg/ ml). Sensitivity of JTC-11 cells to bleomycin decreased with increases in the serum concentration. When JTC-11 cells were superinoculated on the sheet of Swiss 3T3 cells, the sensitivity of JTC-11 cells to bleomycin did not change with increases in the serum concentrations.
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Kozue NAKANISHI, Kyoko HIRAOKA, Yuzo KITAZAWA
Article type: Original
1984 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
31-38
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Metal contents in epiphytic bryophytes growing at Yahata Nishi-ku, Kitakyushu City and its vicinity were measured. Measurements were made both on the contents in the plant body of a single species
Clastobryella kusatsuensis and on those of the whole bryophytic community. Contents of eight elements (Fe, Zn, Mn, Cr, Pb, Ni, Cu and Cd) decrease generally with increase in distance from the center of the industrialized area. No such marked regional difference was seen in the contents of Ca and Mg. The ratios of seven kinds of elements (Fe, Mn, Cr. Pb, Ni, Cu and Cd) in bryophytes almost coincide with those in airborne particulates. It was proved that
C. kusatsuensis and communities of bryophytes can be an indicator of air pollution by metals.
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―Use in the Immunoelectron Microscopic Study of the Teleost Growth Hormone―
Hiroshi UEDA, Sunao FUJIMOTO
Article type: Original
1984 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
39-46
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By the application of the protein A-gold technique for immunocytochemistry of the tilapia pituitary growth hormone (GH), our electron micrographs revealed that the antigenicity of tilapia GH and the cytoplasmic structure were well preserved in the tissues fixed with periodate-lysine-paraformaldehyde followed by osmium tetroxide postfixation. Using the specific antiserum against tilapia GH, the immunoreactive gold particles of 20－40 nm in size were located on secretory granules (200－300 nm in diameter) exclusively of one cell type in the proximal pars distalis identified as GH cells on the basis of their ultrastructural characteristics. This technique is considered to be fairly efficient for the detection of intracellular antigenic sites on ultrathin sections.
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Fujie YABUUCHI, Yoshio ICHIKAWA, Miyuki ARAKAWA, Ginko CHIBA
Article type: Original
1984 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
47-55
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Nowadays, the average age at which menarche begins is lowering by three to four years every century, that is, four months every decade, according to both Japanese, and European and American annual changes of the average age. It emerged that the menarche shows a tendency to occur later in female gymnasts, because of the influence of strenuous muscle stimulation, and the fact that a higher level of technic is required in gymnastic games each year. These conclusions have been drawn from replies submitted to a questionnaire distributed among a relatively small number of gymnasts who participated in the competitions including the Inter High School Championship and the World Cup Championship. For example, at the age of 14, the percentage of women who had menstruated is almost 100% among women in general, but only 24% among World Cup Championship gymnasts, the average age at menarche of the latter being later than that of the former by as many as 3 years. At the age of 16, the percentage of women who had menstruated is 100% among women in general, but on the other hand, it is only 60% among World Cup Championship gymnasts, in other words, only a low percentage of women, of the latter group, had menstruated. Finally in our study, we established that the age at menarche of gymnasts is three or five years later than that of women in general. From our study, we concluded that the excessive burden imposed on muscles might cause an abnormal menstrual cycle, and the influence on menstruation would be considerable.
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Haruma YOSHlNAGA, Takashi MAKI, Atsushi YOSHIMURA, Tetsuji CHO, Shuzo ...
Article type: Original
1984 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
57-65
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Time-of-flight measurement was applied to obtain the energy spectra of the neutron emitted from tissue-equivalent plastic (TEP) exposed by
π- mesons. The separation of electrons and muons in beams was attempted. Neutrons from TEP exposed by
π- mesons at
Pπ = 500 MeV/c were separated from
γ-rays by the NE 213 liquid scintillator and the pulse-height analyzer. The double differential cross sections for neutron energy are obtained. The cross sections of the neutron energy distributions show a preponderance of low energy neutrons and a high energy tail extending to ～100 MeV.
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Masaharu HOSHI, Masahiro NAKANO, Takashi MAKI, Yoshihiko ONlZUKA, Tets ...
Article type: Original
1984 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
67-73
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A method of externally observing the stop-region of π
- meson for monitoring during exposure to a patient is discussed. Negative π mesic X-rarys, γ-rays and neutrons are emitted from the region where π
- mesons stop and produce stars. These radiations can be detected outside the exposed patient. Water phantom as normal tissue equivalent material was exposed by π
- mesons at various depths. The resulting γ-ray yields were determined by counting the γ-rays in coincidence with incident π
- mesons using a sodium iodide (Nal) detector. This type of γ-ray measuring system is useful to make sure that the peak position of the depth-dose distribution in the patient is exactly situated at the desired one during exposure. It is suggested that the scintillation camera with a multi-holecollimator is a powerful and convenient tool for the two dimensional peak positioning.
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Hayato SANEFUJl, Hironobu ADACHI, Kensuke BABA, Susumu ODA, Hajime NAK ...
Article type: Case Report
1984 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
75-86
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Presented is an autopsy case of a 79 year-old male who died of miliary tuberculosis. The patient was admitted to the University Hospital with an unknown fever and suspicion of leukemia. He expired on the 13th day of hospitalization. Postmortem examination revealed generalized miliary tuberculosis. The diagnosis of tuberculosis was established only after autopsy. Difficulty in diagnosis of miliary tuberculosis is discussed. Also discussed is a probable association of acute interstitial nephritis with chemotherapy or miliary tuberculosis. Leukemoid reaction is thought to be associated with miliary tuberculosis. The present case reminds us that miliary tuberculosis should never be forgotten when treating a patient having a fever of unknown origin. Cases with tuberculosis were compiled from the Annual of Pathological Autopsy Cases in Japan during 1974 through 1981. There were 3,242 cases of tuberculosis (1.4%) out of 235,095 autopsies recorded in the Annual of Pathological Autopsy Cases in Japan during the above 8 years. Of 3,242 cases 618 were miliary tuberculosis. The latter figure indicates 19.0% of all tuberculosis and 0.26% of all autopsies. Although all age groups were not spared, the 7th and 8th decades were more affected than the others. Tuberculosis has markedly declined since the advent of antituberculous antibiotics. But, autopsy cases with tuberculosis have not recently decreased in number. Clearly, increased awareness of the continuing presence of tuberculosis is needed.
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Shin-ichi YOSHIDA, Shinji URABE, Yasuo MIZUGUCHI
Article type: Case Report
1984 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
87-90
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A 23-year-old unmarried man was infected with gonorrhoea from a prostitute in Fukuoka City and was treated with ampicillin which resulted in failure. By a rapid iodometric test it was found that the isolates before the treatment were penicillinase-negative. After the ampicillin treatment, however, the isolates turned to penicillinase-positive but were, in fact. a mixture of penicillinase-positive and penicillinase-negative gonococcal strains. Treatment by spectinomycin and doxycycline resulted in failure but the gonorrhoea was cured by ribostamycin.
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―The Comfortable Environment to be Handed Down to Future Generations―
Yuzo KITAZAWA
Article type: Report
1984 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
91-92
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―An Inquiry into Robert Graves' King Jesus―
Nobuko NAKANO
Article type: Humanics
1984 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
93-108
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Robert Graves is a poet-mythographer, well-known in the U. K. and the U. S. A., but not in Japan despite his huge amount of poetic, mythographical, prose and critical works. Furthermore, even in the U. S. A. and the U. K., some people have been shunning him politely as a versatile iconoclast possessed of the White Goddess. In fact, it is not difficult to imagine that when
King Jesus, a life story of Christ, was published, people were shocked at his extraordinary mythographical Christology derived from his enthusiasm towards the White Goddess Cult. In Christ he discovered the fragments of maternal doctrine as a new concept in opposition to the Apollonian theory of Judaism, but they seemed to be quite incomplete in the author's eyes lacking in something most essential in life, recognition of love and hatred discipline. This paper is an inquiry into how the author developed his own hermaneutics of Christ through his wide and thorough scholarship on mythology, history, the Bible and Celtic poetry.
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―The Assimilation of Immigrants into American Life―
Shinichi OISHI
Article type: Humanities
1984 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
109-120
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The influx of around thirty million European immigrants into the United States in the relatively short time of a little more than a hundred years (1815－1920's) created a great challenge for the American people in their efforts to build a strong society. The newly arrived immigrants had the challenge of assimilating into a new culture and the native Americans found the supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon culture, upon which they hoped to build the ideal society, challenged by the various cultures of the immigrants. To see how both the native Americans and the immigrants faced this problem, three theories, the total assimilation theory, the melting pot theory, and the multi-cultural theory or cultural pluralism are investigated. My own reasons for thinking that the American society has not and will not become a melting pot and what I thinks is the best way for a heterogeneous society to strive to become an ideal society are presented in the conclusion.
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Kenzaburo TSUCHIYA
1984 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
i-ii
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World Health Organization
Article type: Announcement
1984 Volume 6 Issue 1 Pages
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