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The Multiethnic Cohort Study of Diet and Cancer: Design and Early Findings

  • Kolonel, Laurence N.
    • Nutritional Sciences
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.53-58
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    • 2004
  • The Multiethnic Cohort Study was designed to study prospectively the relationship of diet and other lifestyle factors to the risk of cancer. The cohort was established in 1993-1996 in Hawaii and California (primarily Los Angeles) and included a representative sample of more than 215,000 men and women primarily from five different ethnic groups: Japanese, whites, Native Hawaiians, Latinos, and African- Americans. Because of the emphasis on diet, great attention was paid to developing and pre-testing a self-administered quantitative food frequency questionnaire that would adequately assess food and nutrient intakes in these groups. An extensive food composition database was also created for the study. In addition, during data collection, a calibration study was conducted that makes possible adjustment for measurement error in nutrient intakes and valid comparison of intakes across the several ethnic groups. At the present time, blood and urine specimens are being collected from cohort participants and should yield a biorepository of more than 80,000 subjects. Baseline data indicate that the cohort is well representative of the general population of Hawaii and California, so that results can be generalized. These data also show a wide range in dietary intakes and in other lifestyle variables that should facilitate the testing of etiologic hypotheses.

Isolation of Bacillus sp. as a Volatile Sulfur-degrading Bacterium and Its Application to Reduce the Fecal Odor of Pig

  • Ushida, Kazunari;Hashizume, Kenta;Miyazaki, Kohji;Kojima, Yoichi;Takakuwa, Susumu
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.16 no.12
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    • pp.1795-1798
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    • 2003
  • Fecal malodor is an acute environmental issue to be solved for the intensive animal agriculture in Japan. Among these substances volatile sulfur such as hydrogen sulfide (HS), methanethiol, and dimethyl sulfide, and dimethyl disulfide are the ones most strictly controlled in the Japanese national regulations. In this experiment, we have screened a range of standard strains of chemoheterotrophic bacteria and of the presently isolated soil bacteria for their capacity to decompose HS. We have demonstrated that Comamonas testosteroni $JCM5832^T$ and our isolate Bacillus sp. had a potential to reduce malodor when applied to the pig feces.

A Neglected Factor of French Prosody: The peak variation at the end of rhythmic groups

  • Claude Roberge;Noriko Hoki
    • MALSORI
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    • no.31_32
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    • pp.207-221
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    • 1996
  • The aim of this research is to study the functioning of the peak variations at the end of the rhythmic groups in spoken french. For this purpose, the text '60 Voix, 60 Exercices', published by Hachette in 1988, was selected. This textbook is based on interviews with 60 persons who briefly speak in a monolog from on a subject of their choice. 500 hundred different groups were selected and submitted to the auditory judgment of six informants, three French natives and three Japanese natives who had studied French for at least three years. It was found, first, that there exists a tendency to a change of either rising or tolling intonation compared with the flat one, and second, that the rising intonation obtains a flirty good score of frequency compared with the two other, ones even if the examined sentences do not pertain to the strict classical types of interrogative or exclamative sentences or dialogs, where affectivity is so often an important factor.

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Standardization of Clothing Sizing System (의류 표준화에 관한 연구)

  • Choi Kyung Jin;Shon Hyei Sook;Huh Moon Yeol
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.69-73
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    • 1981
  • With the advance of technology, the order-made clothes gradually give way to ready-made clothes. It is already well-known that more than 80 percentage of Japanese are choosing ready-made clothes while less than 5 persons out of 100 are spending their money and valuable time to have their clothes order-made in the United States. One of the fundamental steps to reach the system of mass production of clothes is recognized as a 'reasonable' sizing system. 'Reasonable' can be interpreted 'optimum' in the sense of minimum loss from both producers and customers. This paper desires the methodology to obtain the sizing system utilizing the human body measurement data, The suggested methodology could be extended to the sizing system for the design of other items including industrial equipments.

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A Study on the Fashion Design imaged by Kimono in the 1990s (1990년대(年代) 패션에 나타난 기모노 이미지 디자인의 분석(分析))

  • Yum, Hae-Jung
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.95-109
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    • 2001
  • The purpose of this study was for analyzing the fashion design imaged by Kimono in the 1990s. Through the work, what is the way to create the non-western fashion design can be found. For this purpose, I took my design data from fashion magazines in the 1990s, and referred to the literal materials about history of western costume and Kimono. The result were as follows ; Kimono in Japanese denotes thing to wear. Ki is derived from the verb kiru, to wear, and mono, thing. However, in the western world the term came to mean the T-shaped outer garment formerly known in Japan as the kosode. It is consists of sleeve(sode), wide sash(obi), hemline(suso), collar(eri), and material. There were many complex reasons for its diversity in the west, and for its evolution during the past one hundred years from the peignoir including exoticism, eroticism, women's liberation to the high fashion imaged by folklore and avant-garde. Therefore the fashion design imaged by Kimono was divided into feminine style, natural & folklore style, modern & avant-garde style.

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여성 자켓의 2장 소매패턴에 관한 연구(제1보) -기존 소매패턴의 비교 연구-

  • 김효숙;노희숙
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.575-584
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    • 1998
  • The purpose of this study was to develop the better fitting and more comfortable sleeve pattern for women's jacket, as the first step. Five types of existent sleeve pattern were collected, made and worn compared with the sensory evaluations method. The main results of this study were as follows 1. Sensory evaluation for appearance; According to the result of Duncan's multiple range test among the five sleeve patterns, TOJAIUN method sleeve was most satisfactory, and the next was the JUNGMYUNGJA method sleeve followed by NASAN, MOONWHA, ESMOD method sleeve. 2. Sensory evaluation for comfort; The result of Duncan's multiple range test showed that the ESMOD method sleeve was comfortable, and the next was the Japanese MOONWHA method sleeve followd by JUNGMYUNGJA, TOJAIVN, NASAN method sleeve. The result of 3-way ANOVA, main effect for 3 independent variables and interaction for pattern x part, posturers part showed significant difference.

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Alcohol Consumption Behaviors and Ethnicity in Hawaii

  • Kim, Jeoung-Hee
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.115-132
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    • 2000
  • The purpose of this study is to provide baseline information on the risk-taking health behavior of alcohol consumption in four ethnic groups, Caucasian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, residing in the State of Hawaii. Secondary data from the State-based Health Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, designed by the Center for Disease Control, were used. The total sample analyzed for this study contained 6,068 persons. Univariate and logistic regression analysis were performed in order to determine sociodemographic profiles and the predictor variables to produce the findings of this study. The percentage distribution of six sociodemographic factors by race was very similar in all alcohol consumption factors, acute drinking, chronic drinking, and drinking and driving. In this study there were significant ethnic differences in alcohol consumption factors except drinking and driving.

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Public Health Education at a Crossroad (기로에 선 공중보건학 교육 : 국내 보건대학원을 중심으로)

  • Kim, JeoungHee
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.27-46
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    • 2013
  • Objectives: The objective of this review article was to verify the accreditation plan of the Korean council on school of public health(KCSPH). Methods: Two data were used in order to review the topic of this article. The first one was a catalog compiled by journal articles published in Korea. Second data was accquired from websites created by 24 member universities of KCSPH. Results: The issue of accreditation has been discussed officially for decades. The confusion in the essence of public health seems to be intensified by the influence of Japanese health education system. Accordingly current SPHs in Korea are relatively multifarious and seem to suffer from an identity problem. Conclusions: The accreditation plan issued by KCSPH is valid and public health problem in Korea.

The Dark Side of TESOL: The Hidden Costs of the Consumption of English

  • Piller, Ingrid;Takahashi, Kimie;Watanabe, Yukinori
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.20
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    • pp.183-201
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    • 2010
  • Based on case studies from Japan and South Korea, this review paper explores the hidden costs of English language learning (ELL). In a context where English has become a commodity and ELL a form of consumption, we focus on the personal and social costs of (a) studying abroad as a much-touted path to "native-like" proficiency and (b) sexualization of language teaching materials in order to reach new niche markets. The hidden costs of ELL are embedded in language ideologies which set English up as a magical means of self-transformation and, at the same time, an unattainable goal for most Japanese and Koreans. We end with the call to expose debilitating language ideologies in order to shed light on the hidden costs of ELL.

A Characteristic of Hyeonmoyangcheo-discourse for Education of Girls' School in the 1950s (1950년대 여학교 교육을 통해 본 '현모양처'론의 특징)

  • Kim, Eun-Kyung
    • Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.137-151
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    • 2007
  • The characteristics of Hyeonmoyangcheo-ism (wise mother, good wife) in the 1950s, which were observed through the girls' school curriculums and homekeeping textbooks, were arranged as follows. Firstly, Hyeonmoyangcheo-ism in homekeeping textbooks in the 1950s stressed the modern housewife. The Confucianwomen's virtues, such as submissiveness, faithfulness and samjongjido (obedience to father, husband and son), that were in girls' moral training and home management textbooks during the Japanese imperialism. This was a part of girls' education built on democracy and equality asserted by a new Korea, the 'modern nation'. Secondly, with the increasing demands for women's labor after the Korean War, women's occupations were reinforced and incorporated in homekeeping textbooks in the 1950s. Even though having a job was a secondary task to the role of a homemaker, the details of women's occupation illustrates the characteristics of Hyeonmoyangcheo-ism in this period of time. Thirdly, The resident practice program emphasized the tradition women's behavior along with the modern homemaker, the rational designer of homekeeping. This seems to have been reinforced from the criticism towards women based on Westernization after the Korean War.

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