Prevention of Atopic Dermatitis in Babies by Skin Care from the Newborn Period.

Introduction: So far, no definitive conclusions have been reached regarding the preventive effect of moisturizers on atopic dermatitis (AD). The variability in results may be due to differences in skin care methods, including bathing and washing, among studies and study design. In hot and humid Japan, bathing and gauze washing have been routinely practiced from the neonatal period, but this may impair the skin barrier function.

Translation and Adaptation of the Japanese Version of the Revised Parental Stressor Scale: Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Introduction The physical, cognitive, and psychiatric disorders that occur in patients after leaving the intensive care unit (ICU) are collectively called post-intensive care syndrome (PICS). Moreover, PICS-family (PICS-F) refers to the long-term psychological and social disorders that occur in the family. The symptoms of PICS-F can be psychological, and stress is a known cause of these symptoms.

Interprofessional collaboration mediates the relationship between perceived organizational learning and safety climate in hospitals: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Organizational learning (OL) and interprofessional collaboration (IPC) are said to enhance medical safety in hospitals, but the relationship between these variables has not been quantitatively tested.

Objective: This study examines the mediating effects of IPC on the relationship between OL and safety climate (improvement, compliance, and patient/family involvement).

Methods: An anonymous self-reporting questionnaire was administered to 1,495 healthcare workers from November 2021 to January 2022.

QTL analysis of femaleness in monoecious spinach and fine mapping of a major QTL using an updated version of chromosome-scale pseudomolecules.

Although spinach is predominantly dioecious, monoecious plants with varying proportions of female and male flowers are also present. Recently, monoecious inbred lines with highly female and male conditions have been preferentially used as parents for F1-hybrids, rather than dioecious lines. Accordingly, identifying the loci for monoecism is an important issue for spinach breeding.

Interprofessional Team Collaboration as a Mediator Between Workplace Social Capital and Patient Safety Climate: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background And Objectives: Patient-safety climate is one of the most important organizational factors contributing to health care quality. We hypothesized that a patient safety climate is fostered by the willingness to collaborate and trust among members as well as by daily collaborative practices. This study aimed to clarify the effect of workplace social capital on patient safety climate.

Exploring Volatile Organic Compounds in Rhizomes and Leaves of Wall. Ex Baker Using HS-SPME and GC-TOF/MS Combined with Multivariate Analysis.

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) play an important role in the biological activities of the medicinal Zingiberaceae species. In commercial preparations of VOCs from rhizomes, its leaves are wasted as by-products. The foliage could be an alternative source to rhizome, but its VOCs composition has not been explored previously.

Factors and Challenges in Increasing the Utilization Rate of a New Long-term Care Service (Kantaki) in a Superaging Society: Cross-sectional Study.

Background: Japan is a superaging society unparalleled in the world. Elderly people who need medical care do not receive adequate support in the community. As a new service to address this issue, a small-scale multifunctional in-home care nursing service called Kantaki was created in 2012.

Recent developments of sequence-based prediction of protein-protein interactions.

The identification of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) can lead to a better understanding of cellular functions and biological processes of proteins and contribute to the design of drugs to target disease-causing PPIs. In addition, targeting host-pathogen PPIs is useful for elucidating infection mechanisms. Although several experimental methods have been used to identify PPIs, these methods can yet to draw complete PPI networks.

[Evaluation of the Japanese version of HLS-Q12 in older adults].

Objectives　The purpose of this study was to evaluate the internal consistency and factorial validity of the Japanese version of HLS-Q12 health literacy rating scale when used with older adults.Methods　A questionnaire-based mail survey was conducted among older adults living in a community. The data collection period was from January to February 2022.

Effects of Nurse and Care Worker-led Foot-Care Program on Older People's Foot Conditions: Before and After Intervention Study.

Introduction: An increasing number of older people with frailty in Japan use geriatric day care centers. Older people who have been certified as requiring long-term care attend centers during the day and receive nursing care help with bathing, excretion, meals, and functional training services. Many older people have foot problems with need foot care by nurses and care workers (NCWs) at geriatric day care centers.

COVID-19 Prevention Measures Targeting Homeless People in Japan: A Cross-sectional Study.

Reports worldwide have shown that COVID-19 has impacted vulnerable populations, including homeless populations. The rate of the COVID-19 infection among the homeless populations is still unknown in most countries due to these individuals being scattered inconsistently throughout urban areas; however, surveys have been conducted in some shelters and in areas outside of Japan. Further, psychological impacts associated with COVID-19 infection, such as stress and anxiety or preventive procedures to protect yourself from infection, have also not been well studied among homeless populations.

Prevalence of Psychological Distress and Associated Factors in Nursing Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Little is known about psychological distress and its associated factors during the COVID-19 pandemic among nursing students, especially during the initial spread. The present study aimed to investigate the prevalence of psychological distress among Japanese nursing students after the first semester of 2020 with shifted classes and practice online. Furthermore, we examined whether factors such as health issues and resilience were associated with psychological distress.

Vegetation Structure Index (VSI): Retrieving Vegetation Structural Information from Multi-Angular Satellite Remote Sensing.

Utilization of the Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) model parameters obtained from the multi-angular remote sensing is one of the approaches for the retrieval of vegetation structural information. In this research, the potential of multi-angular vegetation indices, formulated by the combination of multi-spectral reflectance from different view angles, for the retrieval of forest above-ground biomass was assessed in the New England region. The multi-angular vegetation indices were generated by the simulation of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) BRDF/Albedo Model Parameters Product (MCD43A1 Version 6)-based BRDF parameters.

Self-Supervised Learning of Satellite-Derived Vegetation Indices for Clustering and Visualization of Vegetation Types.

Vegetation indices are commonly used techniques for the retrieval of biophysical and chemical attributes of vegetation. This paper presents the potential of an Autoencoders (AEs) and Convolutional Autoencoders (CAEs)-based self-supervised learning approach for the decorrelation and dimensionality reduction of high-dimensional vegetation indices derived from satellite observations. This research was implemented in Mt.

Update of the GRIP web service.

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) can form homodimers, heterodimers, or higher-order molecular complexes (oligomers). The reports on the change of functions through the oligomerization have been accumulated. Inhibition of GPCR oligomerization without affecting the protomer's overall structure would clarify the oligomer-specific functions although inhibition experiments are costly and require accurate information about the interface location.

Employment status and contributing factors among adults with congenital heart disease in Japan.

Background: Working is an important concern in transitional care for adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) because work connects people with society. Employment status is correlated with gender, but studies on patient employment by gender have rarely been conducted. This study therefore aimed to examine the employment status of ACHD by gender and to explore the factors influencing this status.

Author Correction: Identifying long-term stable refugia for relict plant species in East Asia.

In the original version of this Article, an incorrect sample size was provided for the number of relict species (443 instead of 442) and the number of relict forests (423 instead of 422). These errors have been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.

Identifying long-term stable refugia for relict plant species in East Asia.

Today East Asia harbors many "relict" plant species whose ranges were much larger during the Paleogene-Neogene and earlier. The ecological and climatic conditions suitable for these relict species have not been identified. Here, we map the abundance and distribution patterns of relict species, showing high abundance in the humid subtropical/warm-temperate forest regions.

[Left and Right Hemispheric Contribution to Social Cognition].

Can we find hemispheric differences in the neural systems of social cognition? Social cognition is supported by a number of cognitive systems. Emotion plays an important role in understanding others and in controlling self-action. Theory of mind, the ability to infer the mental state of others, consists of subsystems such as empathy, mentalization, and perspective taking.

Factors Associated with Gastric Black Spot, White Flat Elevated Mucosa, and Cobblestone-Like Mucosa: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background/aims: Previous studies have reported a possible relevance between proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use and 3 new gastric mucosal changes: black spots (BSs), white flat elevated mucosa (WFEM), and cobblestone-like mucosa (CLM). The aim of this study was to investigate the association between these mucosal changes and multiple factors including PPI use.

Methods: All subjects who underwent a routine esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) were successively enrolled.

A Basic Architecture of an Autonomous Adaptive System With Conscious-Like Function for a Humanoid Robot.

In developing a humanoid robot, there are two major objectives. One is developing a physical robot having body, hands, and feet resembling those of human beings and being able to similarly control them. The other is to develop a control system that works similarly to our brain, to feel, think, act, and learn like ours.

[Voxel-Based Morphometry and Social Cognitive Function in Parkinson's Disease].

In recent years, voxel-based morphometry (VBM) has been increasingly used to investigate local brain structures in Parkinson's disease (PD). Compared to healthy participants, PD patients tend to show reduced brain volume in limbic and paralimbic areas in early disease stages, while the neocortical areas, such as the temporal and frontal cortices, are affected in advanced patients. Moreover, there are many studies showing correlation between cognitive performance and local brain volume.

A Machine Learning and Cross-Validation Approach for the Discrimination of Vegetation Physiognomic Types Using Satellite Based Multispectral and Multitemporal Data.

This paper presents the performance and evaluation of a number of machine learning classifiers for the discrimination between the vegetation physiognomic classes using the satellite based time-series of the surface reflectance data. Discrimination of six vegetation physiognomic classes, Evergreen Coniferous Forest, Evergreen Broadleaf Forest, Deciduous Coniferous Forest, Deciduous Broadleaf Forest, Shrubs, and Herbs, was dealt with in the research. Rich-feature data were prepared from time-series of the satellite data for the discrimination and cross-validation of the vegetation physiognomic types using machine learning approach.