Muscle force analysis for cart-pushing motion: Examination of push-start operation by Yoshikazu KOBAYASHI, Hayato HONGOU, Yuto MIKUNI, Ayuko SAITO, Satoru KIZAWA, Kazuto MIYAWAKI

“…According to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in Japan in 2023, the numbers of fatalities and injuries at factories and other production sites have been decreasing, but the numbers of injuries have been increasing. …”
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NASSDA as a Data-Collaborative Network to Enhance Social Science Research in East Asia by Pei-Shan Liao, Shuai Wang, Hiroshi Ishida, Hearan Koo, Won-ho Park

“…Its member archives include Chinese National Survey Data Archive (CNSDA), Korean Social Science Data Archive (KOSSDA), Survey Research Data Archive (SRDA), and Social Science Japan Data Archive (SSJDA). Each data archive describes its purposes for establishment, data usage and infrastructure, research and promotion activities, and future developments. …”
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Propagation Mechanism of Deep-Water Impulse Waves Generated by Landslides in V-Shaped River Channels of Mountain Valleys: Physical Model of Regular Rigid Block by Rubin Wang, Yunzi Wang, Jianxin Wan, Weiya Xu, Yue Yang, Huanling Wang

“…Landslide-induced impulse waves in alpine valleys are a significant risk to large-scale dam and reservoir engineering projects in the surrounding area. …”
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Severe Enamel Defects in Wild Japanese Macaques by Ian Towle, Carolina Loch, Marina Martínez de Pinillos, Mario Modesto-Mata, Leslea J. Hlusko

“…In contrast, macaques from other islands and from mainland Japan have a low prevalence of the more common types of enamel hypoplasia and none exhibit PFEH. …”
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Estimation of the potential geographical distribution of invasive peach fruit fly under climate change by integrated ecological niche models by Farman Ullah, Yuan Zhang, Hina Gul, Muhammad Hafeez, Nicolas Desneux, Yujia Qin, Zhihong Li

“…Moreover, China, Philippines, Indonesia, and Japan showed highly climate suitability for B. zonata. …”
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Application of cluster management in COVID-19 prevention and control in the Emergency Department of a certain hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情防控期间中医院急诊科集束化管理措施)... by LIU Ai (刘爱), FENG Ying (冯莹), TONG Lu (佟璐), ZUO Ling (左琳), ZHAO Lina (赵丽娜), LI Yue (李悦), YAN Hong (颜红)

“…Great efforts were made to enhance the COVID-19 prevention and control, and cluster management measures were carried out including reforming the diagnosis and treatment environment, formulating principals and process of prevention, pre-screening, personnel training, cleaning and disinfection, and supervision of prevention and control. …”
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Forecasting Average Daily Temperature in the Khorasan Razavi Province by sayyed mohamad Hosseini, Abdolhossein Adelzadeh

“…The correlation results suggest that the United States has 25 pixels, Northern China 25 pixels, Africa 45 pixels and Japan with 65 pixels. Then, weighted average of pixels in heights by multiple regression equation station. …”
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Interaction of drivers and barriers of sustainable property management practice in shopping malls in Lagos, Nigeria by Lumbani B. Nyirenda, Caleb A. Ayedun, Innocent Musonda, Chukwuemeka O. Iroham, David O. Olukanni, Hilary I. Okagbue, Olugbemisola W. Samuel, Sunday E. Nto

“…LED energy saving bulbs (90%) and green leasing (6.9%) are the most and least adopted features while using environmental cleaning procedures (83%) and adopting green leasing (36.4%) are the top and least SPM adopted strategy. …”
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A Convenient and Sensitive LC-MS/MS Method for Simultaneous Determination of Carbadox- and Olaquindox-Related Residues in Swine Muscle and Liver Tissues by Heying Zhang, Wei Qu, Yanfei Tao, Dongmei Chen, Shuyu Xie, Lingli Huang, Zhenli Liu, Yuanhu Pan, Zonghui Yuan

“…Tissue samples were extracted with 2% metaphosphoric acid in 20% methanol and cleaned up by solid-phase extraction (SPE) on a mixed-mode anion-exchange column (Oasis MAX). …”
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Dynamic switching between brain networks predicts creative ability by Qunlin Chen, Yoed N. Kenett, Zaixu Cui, Hikaru Takeuchi, Andreas Fink, Mathias Benedek, Daniel C. Zeitlen, Kaixiang Zhuang, James Lloyd-Cox, Ryuta Kawashima, Jiang Qiu, Roger E. Beaty

“…Employing a meta-analytic network neuroscience approach, we analyze resting-state fMRI and creative task performance across 10 independent samples from Austria, Canada, China, Japan, and the United States (N = 2433)—constituting the largest and most ethnically diverse creativity neuroscience study to date. …”
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Diabetes Mellitus in Outpatients in Debre Berhan Referral Hospital, Ethiopia by Tesfa Dejenie Habtewold, Wendwesen Dibekulu Tsega, Bayu Yihun Wale

“…The collected data were entered, cleaned, and analyzed and Chi-square test was applied to test any association between dependent and independent variable. …”
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A comprehensive overview of selective and novel fibroblast growth factor receptor inhibitors as a potential anticancer modality by Jain Nem Kumar, Tailang Mukul, Thangavel Neelaveni, Makeen Hafiz A., Albratty Mohammed, Najmi Asim, Alhazmi Hassan Ahmad, Zoghebi Khalid, Alagusundaram Muthumanickam, Jain Hemant Kumar, Chandrasekaran Balakumar

“…Furthermore, futibatinib is the first-in-class covalent or irreversible pan-FGFR inhibitor that has received FDA approval for locally advanced or metastatic intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma harboring FGFR2 gene aberrations. …”
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Daily walking habits can mitigate age-related decline in static balance: a longitudinal study among aircraft assemblers by Kazuhiko Watanabe, Shoko Iizuka, Tatsuya Kobayashi, Saki Tsushima, Sora Hirohashi, Tomohiro Yoshimi, Masayoshi Zaitsu

“…We aimed to elucidate the age-related decline in one-leg standing time with eyes closed, an indicator of static balance, and mitigating influence of daily walking habits on this decline in Japan. This longitudinal study involved 249 manufacturing workers, including seven females, aged 20–66 years engaged in tasks performed at height in the aircraft and spacecraft machinery industry. …”
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A case of 49,XXXYY followed-up from infancy to adulthood with review of literature by Junko Kanno, Akinobu Miura, Sayaka Kawashima, Hirohito Shima, Dai Suzuki, Miki Kamimura, Ikuma Fujiwara, Masayuki Kamimura, Mitsugu Uematsu, Masataka Kudo, Atsuo Kikuchi

“…Moreover, no cases of 49,XXXYY have been reported in Japan. This SCA has been identified in two scenarios: in vitro fertilization and abortion. …”
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Variation characteristics and influencing mechanisms of CO2 flux from grassland ecosystem in the Central Tianshan Mountains, China by Kun Zhang, Yu Wang, Ali Mamtimin, Yongqiang Liu

“…We employed the eddy covariance (EC) system to quantify CO2 flux data and conducted a comprehensive analysis of the carbon balance in the alpine grassland ecosystem situated in the Central Tianshan Mountains. …”
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Legume content estimation from UAV image in grass-legume meadows: comparison methods based on the UAV coverage vs. field biomass by Kensuke Kawamura, Tsuneki Tanaka, Taisuke Yasuda, Shoji Okoshi, Masaaki Hanada, Kazuya Doi, Toshiya Saigusa, Takanori Yagi, Kenji Sudo, Kenji Okumura, Jihyun Lim

“…This study focuses on differences in LC measurements obtained from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images and ground surveys based on dry matter assessments in seven meadow fields in Hokkaido, Japan. We propose a UAV-based LC (LCUAV) estimation and mapping method using a land cover map from a simple linear iterative clustering (SLIC) algorithm and a random forest (RF) classifier. …”
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HISTORY OF HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA ERADICATION IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN 2016–2017 by M. S. Volkov, V. N. Irza, A. V. Varkentin

“…Major threat of the agent introduction comes from the neighbouring East Asia and Far East countries (China, Japan, Korea). Herewith, introduction of potentially zoonotic viruses is also possible. …”
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Estimation of true dates of various flowering stages at a centennial scale by applying a Bayesian statistical state space model. by Nagai Shin, Hakuryu Fujiwara, Shinjiro Sugiyama, Hiroshi Morimoto, Taku M Saitoh

“…Neodani Usuzumi-zakura (Cerasus itosakura) is a famous cherry tree in Gifu, Japan. On the basis of detailed decadal flowering phenology information published on the World Wide Web, we estimated the probability distributions of the year-to-year variability of the true dates of first flowering (FFL), first full bloom (FFB), last full bloom (LFB), and last flowering (LFL) from 1924 to 2024 by applying a Bayesian statistical state space model explained by air temperature data. …”
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Artistic time in D. Keyes’ novel Flowers for Algernon by Antonina V. Samoylova, Olga V. Spachil

“…The novel has been included in lists of the greatest books of our time, has become a modern classic, and the story of the same name from 1959 is mandatory reading for schoolchildren in the USA and Japan. This represents the first study of the category of artistic time in the novel. …”
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Quality of Vision after Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty (Fluid Dissection) Compared to Penetrating Keratoplasty for the Treatment of Keratoconus by Islam Mahmoud Hamdi, Momen Mahmoud Hamdi

“….), root mean square of the 3 mm and 5 mm OPD Scan (NIDEK Co. Ltd., Gamagori, Japan), steep and flat meridians (SimK1 and SimK2, resp.), and the difference (corneal cylinder) were not statistically significantly different between groups (P>0.05, all comparisons). …”
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