Running Parameter Analysis in 400 m Sprint Using Real-Time Kinematic Global Navigation Satellite Systems.

Accurate measurement of running parameters, including the step length (), step frequency (), and , is essential for optimizing sprint performance. Traditional methods, such as 2D video analysis and inertial measurement units (IMUs), face limitations in precision and practicality. This study introduces and evaluates two methods for estimating running parameters using real-time kinematic global navigation satellite systems (RTK GNSS) with 100 Hz sampling.

Intercultural sensitivity among nursing educators: Comparison between Japan and China.

Background: Due to globalization, intercultural sensitivity is critical for nursing educators to train students for diverse cultural settings. However, research on factors influencing intercultural sensitivity among nursing educators is limited worldwide, including in Japan and China.

Aim: To compare the factors related to intercultural sensitivity among nursing educators in Japan and China.

Factors associated with cultural sensitivity and global nursing education among nurse educators: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Nurse educators must be culturally sensitive to teach cultural care to nursing students effectively.

Objective: To explore the factors associated with cultural sensitivity and global nursing education among nurse educators.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional exploratory study.

Factors related to resilience and attitudes towards care of the dying among critical care nurses.

Background: Many critical care nurses provide care to patients who are injured or ill and are at the end-of-life. Therefore, they are at high risk for developing negative emotional responses due to exposure to patient suffering and death.

Aim: To determine the association between attitudes towards care of the dying, resilience, and Sense of Coherence.

Comparison of global nursing education and necessary supports for nurse educators between Japan and four English-speaking countries: An international cross-sectional study.

Aim: This study aimed to compare characteristics of nurse educators, factors related to teaching global nursing, contents of global education and support and the level of burden of global education and factors related to the burden between nurse educators among top nursing universities in Japan and four English-speaking countries.

Background: Intercultural sensitivity is the active desire to motivate oneself to understand, appreciate and accept different cultures. Nurse educators need to be culturally sensitive to teach cultural care to nursing students.

Language confidence and job satisfaction among foreign-born nurses in Japan: mediating effect of workplace discrimination and moderating effect of immigration duration.

Aim: This study explored the relationship between language confidence and job satisfaction, the mediating role of workplace discrimination, and the moderating role of immigration duration among foreign-born nurses in Japan.

Introduction: Job satisfaction is an important factor in preventing migrant nurses' turnover intentions; however, the relationships among language confidence, immigration duration, workplace discrimination, and job satisfaction among foreign-born nurses remain unclear.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted.

Anxiety among Japanese nursing researchers before and after dispatch for COVID-19 pandemic support: Effects of anxiety-enhancing and buffering factors.

Aim: We investigated the levels of anxiety and the factors influencing it among Japanese nursing researchers before and after engaging in dispatch support activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study also tested the relationships between pre- and post-relief anxiety and their enhancing and buffering factors.

Methods: A web-based survey was conducted with 9832 members from the Japan Academy of Nursing Science, covering 15 items related to participant attributes such as age and disaster relief qualifications, factors affecting anxiety about support activities such as the content and duration of one activity, and the level of anxiety before and after activities.

Comparing factors related to perceived control and preventive behaviors from COVID-19 between Japanese and American nursing students: A cross-sectional study.

Aim: Higher levels of perceived control are important to maintain health. The difference in factors related to perceived control and preventive behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic between Japanese and American nursing students remains unknown. This study aimed to compare factors related to perceived control and infection preventive behaviors between the two countries.

Cross-sectional study of factors related to COVID-19 vaccination uptake among university healthcare students.

Introduction: Healthcare students are more likely to become infected than other university students as they may encounter patients with COVID-19 during clinical training. Vaccination uptake is essential to prevent infection. This study explored factors related to COVID-19 vaccination uptake among healthcare students.

Enhancing intercultural sensitivity in Japanese nursing students through international online nursing courses: A quasi-experimental study.

Background: Globalization has highlighted the importance of being competent in communicating with people of various cultural backgrounds.

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of international courses for nursing students through online education in terms of intercultural sensitivity and perceived English proficiency.

Design: A one-group pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design with an online self-reported questionnaire was conducted.

The Impact of Collaborative Online International Learning on Intercultural Sensitivity Among Nursing Students in the United States and Japan.

Collaborative online international learning (COIL) is a curricular approach that allows students to collaborate across cultures using various communication technologies. Little is known about the influence of COIL on intercultural sensitivity, a key competency for nursing students to better serve increasingly diverse patient populations. We implemented COIL in undergraduate nursing courses in the United States and Japan and examined its impact on intercultural sensitivity using the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS) as a pretest and posttest.

Healthcare graduate students' perceived control and preventive behavior for COVID-19 in Japan and the United States: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Both individual and policy level perceived control are known to be positively related to preventive behavior, and both may differ among healthcare graduate students with different cultural backgrounds. This study compared the preventive health behavior and perceived control among domestic and international healthcare graduate students in Japan and the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, and analyzed factors associated with preventive health behavior and perceived control.

Methods: The study used a self-administered online survey, conducted at two universities in Japan and one university in the United States.

Factors related to mental health effect among nursing students in Japan and the United States during the coronavirus pandemic: A cross-sectional study.

In the context of mental health, university students have been considered a vulnerable population. However, limited studies have underscored the association between preventive health behaviour levels and mental health effects among nursing students. The current cross-sectional study provides a comparative analysis of the impact of mental health factors on nursing students in Japan and the United States (US) in the context of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Pathological variants in genes associated with disorders of sex development and central causes of hypogonadism in a whole-genome reference panel of 8380 Japanese individuals.

Disorders of sex development (DSD) comprises a congenital condition in which chromosomal, gonadal, or anatomical sex development is atypical. In this study, we screened for pathogenic variants in 32 genes associated with DSDs and central causes of hypogonadism (CHG) in a whole-genome reference panel including 8380 Japanese individuals constructed by Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization. Candidate pathogenic (P) or likely pathogenic (LP) variants were extracted from the ClinVar, InterVar, and Human Gene Mutation databases.

A Case Report of Collaborative Online International Learning in Nursing and Health Studies Between the United States and Japan.

Collaborative online international learning (COIL) is an innovative and cost-effective pedagogy to develop cross-cultural awareness through digital technology across shared multicultural learning environments. We implemented our first COIL virtual exchange for undergraduate students at universities in the United States and Japan. We used Padlet for asynchronous discussions to build rapport among students at each institution and Zoom for synchronous discussions to deliver oral presentations.

Relationship Between Resilience and Perceived Control After Acute Coronary Syndrome: A Prospective Study.

Background: Patients with acute coronary syndrome report poor health-related quality of life and decreased levels of perceived control. Perceived control is a person's belief that they can cope with negative events. Resilience is an adaptation that gives people the capacity to recover from difficult situations, and higher levels of resilience may impact recovery after an acute event.

Perceived Control, Preventative Health Behaviors, and the Mental Health of Nursing Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Perceived control is an individual's subjective beliefs about the amount of control he or she has over the environment or outcome. To examine the relationship between perceived control, preventive health behaviors, and mental health effects of undergraduate nursing students during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-sectional correlational study used online self-administered questionnaires.

Factors related to perceived control and health-related quality of life of patients after acute coronary syndrome during admission and after discharge.

Aim: To explore the relationship between demographic factors, acute coronary syndrome-related factors, perceived control and health-related quality of life during admission, 3 months and 6 months after discharge, in patients with acute coronary syndrome.

Methods: Participants were recruited for this longitudinal study after admission for acute coronary syndrome in three university hospitals in the Tokyo metropolitan area, Japan. Self-administered questionnaires included demographic data, perceived control, health-related quality of life, acute coronary syndrome symptoms, fatigue, depression and anxiety.

Effectiveness of ethinylestradiol/drospirenone for premenstrual symptoms in Japanese patients with dysmenorrhea: Open-label pilot study.

Aim: A combined oral contraceptive containing ethinylestradiol 20 µg plus drospirenone 3 mg (EE20 + DRSP) in a 24/4 regimen has been shown to alleviate the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder. This study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of EE20 + DRSP in Japanese patients with premenstrual symptoms.

Material And Methods: A multicenter, prospective, open-label, single-arm, phase IV study was performed in Japanese women with dysmenorrhea and premenstrual symptoms.

Relationship between admission day and timing of surgery for patients with hip fracture.

Aim: This study investigated: (i) the relationship between admission day of the week and the timing of surgery; (ii) whether the admission day of the week predicted length of stay or patients' outcomes; and (iii) the relationship between the timing of surgery and mortality.

Methods: This was a retrospective, observational study of two community general hospitals in Japan. The inclusion criteria were patients aged 65 years or older who had experienced a hip fracture and undergone surgery during April 2007 to March 2011.

Dietary intake of nutrients with adequate intake values in the dietary reference intakes for Japanese.

The Adequate Intake (AI) values in the Dietary Reference Intakes for Japanese (DRIs-J) 2010 were mainly determined based on the median intakes from 2 y of pooled data (2005-2006) from the National Health and Nutrition Survey-Japan (NHNS-J). However, it remains unclear whether 2 y of pooled data from the NHNS-J are appropriate for evaluating the intake of the population. To clarify the differences in nutrient intakes determined from 2 and 7 y of pooled data, we analyzed selected nutrient intake levels by sex and age groups using NHNS-J data.

Curcumin targets the AKT-mTOR pathway for uterine leiomyosarcoma tumor growth suppression.

Background: Uterine leiomyosarcomas generally do not respond well to standard chemotherapy. We previously demonstrated that curcumin, the active ingredient derived from the herb Curcuma longa, inhibits uterine leiomyosarcoma cells in vitro via the inhibition of the AKT-mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway. As a preclinical investigation, we performed an in vivo study using female nude mice to confirm the therapeutic potential of curcumin against uterine leiomyosarcoma.

Curcumin induces cross-regulation between autophagy and apoptosis in uterine leiomyosarcoma cells.

Objective: Uterine leiomyosarcoma (LMS) has an unfavorable response to standard chemotherapy. A natural occurring compound, curcumin, has been shown to have inhibitory effects on cancers. We previously demonstrated that curcumin reduced uterine LMS cell proliferation by targeting the AKT-mTOR pathway and activating apoptosis.

Evaluation of the introduction of a diagnosis procedure combination system for patient outcome and hospitalisation charges for patients with hip fracture or lung cancer in Japan.

Objectives: To evaluate the effects of introducing the Diagnosis Procedure Combination (DPC) system on outcomes, length of stay (LOS) and hospitalisation charges for patients with hip fractures or lung cancer. Patient outcome was evaluated by inpatient mortality, condition at discharge, and readmission within 42 days after discharge.

Methods: DPC data were collected from 92 Japanese Red Cross Medical Centres and community hospitals between April 2005 and December 2008.

The antidiabetic drug metformin inhibits uterine leiomyoma cell proliferation via an AMP-activated protein kinase signaling pathway.

Uterine leiomyomas are the most common gynecological benign tumors and greatly affect reproductive health and wellbeing. Metformin is the most widely used antidiabetic drug in the world, and there is increasing evidence of a potential efficacy of this agent as an anticancer drug. In order to understand metformin's anti-tumorigenic potential better, in this study, we investigated the inhibitory effect of metformin and expression of key targets of metformin cell signaling in leiomyoma cells.