著者
Hooi-Sean Ng
出版者
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
雑誌
Southeast Asian Studies (ISSN:21867275)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.11, no.3, pp.477-514, 2022-12-22 (Released:2022-12-22)
参考文献数
125

The increasing prominence of China on the world stage has sparked scholarly interest in studying the country’s representation in the media. Also driving the enthusiasm is the global expansion of Chinese state media, which some refer to as an attempt to export Chinese propaganda. Research on the topic in Southeast Asia remains lacking despite the region’s being in China’s backyard. This qualitative study aims to narrow the knowledge gap by looking at China’s representation in Malaysia. Using content analysis and in-depth interviews, it examines specifically the coverage of former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s 2016 visit to China by the Malay, Mandarin, and English bulletins on public and private television. The results show that China’s portrayal in the coverage is positive, notwithstanding the stories indicating concerns about the implications of China’s rise. The outcome points to the dominance of the state narrative, with instances of the press breaking the authorities’ restrictions to inform the audience. It appears that the reportage was not much impacted by Chinese media’s efforts to go global. Drawing on the Hierarchy of Influences model, the study demonstrates that the representation of China in Malaysian media coverage is a product shaped by intertwined social, cultural, and political factors as complex as Malaysian society.
著者
Akkanut Wantanasombut
出版者
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
雑誌
Southeast Asian Studies (ISSN:21867275)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.11, no.3, pp.451-475, 2022-12-22 (Released:2022-12-22)
参考文献数
55

In 2021 Thailand’s Ministry of Labour reported that approximately 2.4 million migrant workers had been permitted to work in Thailand, with two-thirds arriving from Myanmar (Samnak Borihan Raeng Ngan Tang Dao Krom Karn Jad Ha Ngan 2021). For decades, this large number of migrant workers from Myanmar has benefited the Thailand-Myanmar border trade, both directly and indirectly, including the remittances that Burmese migrant workers send to their families back home.This paper studies how the economic activities revolving around border trade developed. It describes how informal remittances from Myanmar migrant workers have become one of the key elements of the massive illicit border trade and introduces the possibility of digital technology replacing traditional informal remittance methods. The data presented here was collected by way of semi-structured interviews with 32 Burmese migrant workers living and working in Samutsakorn Province, nine Thai border traders in Mae Sot, officials, and a Thai financial technology company operating in Myanmar. The interviews revealed that most of the migrant workers had experience using mobile banking and financial applications, they were familiar with the technology, and they were aware of its capacity as an alternative method of sending money back home. However, many still preferred to use informal banking as it benefited them the most. The border traders interviewed for this paper further confirmed that there was still no threat of consequences for payment offsetting. Therefore, the digitalization of banking strengthens the informal banking system as it both hastens and improves the processes of money distribution.
著者
Kah Seng Loh Jeremy Goh
出版者
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
雑誌
Southeast Asian Studies (ISSN:21867275)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.11, no.3, pp.427-449, 2022-12-22 (Released:2022-12-22)
参考文献数
57

The National Wages Council (NWC) was the orchestra of Singapore’s wage policy in the 1970s and 1980s. Our paper explores two key episodes in its history: its formation in February 1972 and its adoption of a high wage policy between 1979 and 1981 as part of Singapore’s economic restructuring. We were able to draw upon partially declassified government records held at the National Archives of Singapore. Yet these records are incomplete and lacking in certain aspects as archival sources. We complemented them with other archival and published sources, including the oral history and writings of the NWC’s longtime chairman, Lim Chong Yah. Our research urged us to conceptualize a pair of ideas, “semi-archives” and “interim archives,” acknowledging the partiality of both archival and published sources in Singapore. The history of the NWC suggests a rethinking of the centrality of the documentary archive in the Western academic tradition. In Asian contexts like Singapore, a multi-archival approach is necessary for the writing of recent history. Singapore historians can work both modestly and imaginatively with a wider range of available historical sources, including archival, oral, and published sources.
著者
Ikwan Setiawan Albert Tallapessy Andang Subaharianto
出版者
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
雑誌
Southeast Asian Studies (ISSN:21867275)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.11, no.3, pp.399-426, 2022-12-22 (Released:2022-12-22)
参考文献数
84

This article aims to discuss the religious-ecological knowledge of the Tenggerese community on the slope of Mount Bromo, Probolinggo (East Java, Indonesia) and its contribution to disaster mitigation. Within the framework of traditional ecological knowledge, we will analyze field data from 2011 until 2016. The results of this study show that many Tenggerese people believe Mount Bromo to be the axis of religion and its surrounding area to be a sacred place. They also believe in and practice several religious-ecological customs in understanding volcanic eruptions and various natural signs. For them, an eruption is a supernatural process involving gods and goddesses that takes place to improve living conditions. However, living in postcolonial times with modern cultures and capitalistic agricultural practices has made some Tenggerese people question and challenge religious authorities when they experience the economic damage caused by volcanic eruptions. Religious authorities can handle the challenge by invoking the concept of communal harmony. Further, we argue, government agencies may incorporate Tenggerese religious-ecological knowledge into disaster mitigation practices. They can combine modern mitigation mechanisms with such wisdom. This hybrid mitigation model may facilitate the coordination of government agencies with traditional leaders to prepare strategically before a disaster strikes as well as implement tactical actions when a disaster occurs.
著者
T.  T. Giang Tran Karen Farquharson Deborah Dempsey
出版者
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
雑誌
Southeast Asian Studies (ISSN:21867275)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.11, no.3, pp.339-362, 2022-12-22 (Released:2022-12-22)
参考文献数
62

Son preference has traditionally been a fundamental cultural value in Vietnamese families, and this preference appears to have intensified in Vietnam in recent years. The key explanation for why parents prefer sons to daughters is that Vietnamese families embrace Confucian notions of gender hierarchy. Based on in-depth interviews with twenty first-generation Vietnamese migrant parents from refugee and skilled migrant backgrounds, and 18 Vietnamese Australian children of migrant parents, this paper explores whether Vietnamese migrants to Australia and their children display a preference for sons in their families. The findings suggest that sons are no longer valued in the ways that they were in Vietnam. Many parents in this study did not express a need to live with, receive financial support from, or be cared for by their sons. The children also expressed fewer financial support and caring obligations to parents. We propose that the greater financial security afforded to the elderly by the social welfare system in Australia may decrease parents’ dependence on sons, lowering the value of sons in families. This strongly suggests that the economic value of sons is key to the persistence of son preference in Vietnam, more so than Confucian notions of gender hierarchy.
著者
加藤 昌弘 村松 輝昭 田中 裕之 森谷 信次 柳沼 福夫 一色 尚次
出版者
The Japan Petroleum Institute
雑誌
石油学会誌 (ISSN:05824664)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.34, no.2, pp.186-190, 1991-03-01 (Released:2008-10-15)
参考文献数
3
被引用文献数
1 2

私達は, 先にアルコール-軽油混合液の沸点挙動について報告した1)。今回, アルコール-軽油混合溶液の液密度について検討した。使用した6種類のアルコールは, メタノール, エタノール, 1-プロパノール, 2-プロパノール, 1-ブタノール, 2-メチル-1-プロパノールである。さらに, 軽油の代表成分としてセタンを選び, メタノール-セタン, エタノール-セタン系についても検討した。密度測定には Anton-Paar 社製のデジタル密度計を用いた。Table 1に使用したアルコール, セタン, 軽油の物性値を示す。Figs. 1~3とTables 2~6に今回298.15Kで得られた密度データを示す。298.15Kにおいてメタノール-軽油, メタノール-セタン, エタノール-軽油, エタノール-セタン系で不均一領域が得られた。Tables 3~6に不均一となった4種の系について得られた密度データを示す。2液相領域では上相, 下相をそれぞれ取り出し密度を測定した。密度データの交点から相互溶解度を求めた。精度は軽油系で約±0.01, セタン系で約±0.001重量分率である。Table 7に今回求めた相互溶解度をそれぞれ示す。次に, メタノールあるいはエタノール10gと軽油10gからなる不均一混合溶液に第三成分として水を加え, 密度挙動を測定した。Tables 8, 9とFigs. 4, 5に測定結果を示す。Figs. 4, 5における実線の交点でアルコール相と軽油相が等密度となる。等密度エマルション混合溶液は相分離に時間がかかり, 自動車用エンジンにほぼ均一な供給が可能になる。
著者
石場 厚
出版者
愛知県警察本部科学捜査研究所
雑誌
奨励研究
巻号頁・発行日
2015

○研究目的2-アミノ-1-フェニル-プロパン-1-オンを基本骨格とするカチノン系薬物にはフェニル基に置換基が導入されたものが数多く存在する。しかしながらオルト、メタ、パラといった位置異性体の違いにより指定される法律が異なることもあり、これを正確に識別できなければ誤認逮捕につながりかねない。薬物分析で用いられるガスクロマトグラフ質量分析においては、位置異性体の識別が困難な場合が多く、他の分析法を併用する必要がある。そこで芳香族置換基の位置異性体を識別する方法として呈色反応に着目した。○研究方法今回、検討した薬物はα-PVP及びそのフェニル基に置換基(メチル基、メトキシ基、メチレンジオキシ基)を導入した化合物8種類の計9種類である。メチル基、メトキシ基が導入されたものについては当研究所で合成した。またメチレンジオキシ基が導入されたものについては当研究所保有の薬物を使用した。これらの薬物の溶液を呈色板に滴下し、風乾後、呈色試薬を滴下し室温で5分反応させた後、色の変化を観察した。呈色反応に使用した試薬は、マルキス試薬はじめ21種類の試薬を検討した。○研究成果メチル基が導入された薬物についてはいずれの呈色試薬を用いてもオルト、メタ、パラの異性体を識別することは困難であった。メトキシ基のものでは硫酸がオルトのみを呈色し、マルキス試薬がオルト及びメタを呈色することからこれらの呈色試薬を組み合わせることで異性体の識別は可能であった。メチレンジオキシ基のものではマルキス試薬で2, 3-体と3, 4-体を識別することが可能であった。カチノン系薬物はカルボニル基の電子吸引性により芳香環の反応性が低下しているため、電子供与性置換基が導入されている薬物については呈色反応による位置異性体の識別は可能であると考えられる。
著者
Daisuke Takada Susumu Kunisawa Akira Kikuno Tomoko Iritani Yuichi Imanaka
出版者
Japan Epidemiological Association
雑誌
Journal of Epidemiology (ISSN:09175040)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.32, no.7, pp.323-329, 2022-07-05 (Released:2022-07-05)
参考文献数
21
被引用文献数
2

Background: The transtheoretical model (TTM) is composed of the multiple stages according to patient’s consciousness and is believed to lead people to realize the importance of healthier behaviors. We examined the association of TTM stages with the decline of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR).Methods: We used the annual health checkup data and health insurance claims data of the Japan Health Insurance Association in Kyoto Prefecture between April 2012 and March 2016. TTM stages of change obtained from questionnaires at the first health checkup and categorized into six groups. The primary outcome was defined as a more than 30% decline in eGFR from the first health checkup. We fitted multivariable Cox proportional-hazards model for time-to-event analyses adjusting for age, sex, eGFR, body mass index, blood pressure, blood sugar, dyslipidemia, uric acid, urinary protein, and existence of kidney diseases at first health checkup.Results: We analyzed 239,755 employees and the mean follow-up was 2.9 (standard deviation, 1.2) years. As compared with the stage 1 group, the risk of eGFR decline was significantly low in the stage 3 group (hazard ratio [HR] 0.77; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.65–0.91); stage 4 group (HR 0.80; 95% CI, 0.65–0.98); and stage 5 group (HR 0.79; 95% CI, 0.66–0.95).Conclusion: Compared with the precontemplation stage (stage 1), the preparation, action and maintenance stages (stages 3, 4, and 5), were associated with a lower risk of eGFR decline.
著者
高岡 路枝 吉永 淳 田中 敦
出版者
一般社団法人 日本環境化学会
雑誌
環境化学 (ISSN:09172408)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.17, no.4, pp.629-634, 2007-12-18 (Released:2008-10-24)
参考文献数
12
被引用文献数
2 1

The concentrations of heavy metals (V, Mn, Co, Cu, Zn, Cd, Ba, in addition to Pb which was reported elsewhere) in surface soil samples collected from 31 public playgrounds in a ward in Tokyo were determined by ICP mass spectrometry after HNO3/HF/HClO4 digestion. Mean concentrations of all metals but Ba exceeded the levels of uncontaminated soils in Japan reported in the previous literature indicating the presence of soil pollution. The exposure to V via direct soil ingestion was estimated to contribute more than that via dietary intake; however, it was not serious enough to warrant immediate attention. For other metals, dietary exposure accounted much more than soil ingestion. There were strong positive correlations between metal concentrations in the soil samples, particularly between V and Mn (r=0.97), V and Co (r=0.95), Pb and Cu (r=0.75), or Pb and Zn (r=0.84). These correlations suggested that the metals, to a certain extent, shared common pollution source.
著者
Yoshihiro Sato Masahiro Kumada Hideki Kawai Sadako Motoyama Masayoshi Sarai Tsutomu Nakagawa Hideo Izawa
出版者
Fujita Medical Society
雑誌
Fujita Medical Journal (ISSN:21897247)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.2022-028, (Released:2022-12-27)
参考文献数
27

Objectives: Malnutrition is associated with an increased risk of hospital readmission for heart failure in patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF). Therefore, evaluation of the nutritional status in patients with ADHF may be important. The geriatric nutritional risk index (GNRI), the controlling nutritional status (CONUT) score, and the prognostic nutritional index (PNI) are widely used objective indexes for evaluation of the nutritional status. The present study was performed to determine the best nutritional index for predicting the prognosis in older adults with ADHF.Methods: We retrospectively studied 167 older adults (>65 years of age) who were admitted with ADHF from January 2012 to December 2015 and discharged alive. The objective nutritional status was evaluated using the GNRI, CONUT score, and PNI at admission. The endpoint of this study was unplanned hospitalization for worsening heart failure (WHF) within 1 year after discharge.Results: During the follow-up period, 58 patients were readmitted for WHF. In the multivariate Cox analysis, only the GNRI (p<0.0001) was independently associated with readmission for WHF among the three nutritional indexes. Kaplan–Meier analysis revealed that patients in the low-GNRI group (<90 as determined by receiver operating characteristic curve analysis) had a significantly greater risk of 1-year hospital readmission for WHF (p<0.0001; hazard ratio, 6.1; 95% confidence interval, 3.5–10.5).Conclusion: Among the objective nutritional indexes, the GNRI is the best predictor of readmission for WHF within 1 year after discharge in older adults with ADHF.
著者
Taro Okui Yoshikazu Kobayashi Madoka Isomura Masakazu Tsujimoto Koji Satoh Hiroshi Toyama
出版者
Fujita Medical Society
雑誌
Fujita Medical Journal (ISSN:21897247)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.2022-025, (Released:2022-12-27)
参考文献数
30

Objectives: This study investigated the relationships between quantitative values calculated from bone single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) images and histopathological findings observed in surgical specimens from patients with antiresorptive agent-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (ARONJ); it sought to clarify histopathological factors that cause accumulation in bone SPECT/CT images of patients with ARONJ.Methods: This study included 81 pathological specimens of 21 lesions obtained from 18 patients with ARONJ who underwent SPECT/CT and jaw resection. The maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) of each volume of interest of the specimens was calculated using RAVAT® software. The ratio of the SUVmax to the mean value of SUVmax in temporal bone was termed rSUVmax. The rSUVmax and pathological findings (sequestration, degree of fibrosis, degree of trabecular bone destruction, degree of inflammatory cell infiltration, and vascularity) were compared using the Mann–Whitney U test and the Kruskal–Wallis test.Results: In univariate analysis with rSUVmax as the dependent variable, the pathological findings of sequestration (P=0.058), degree of fibrosis (P=0.810), degree of trabecular bone destruction (P=0.237), degree of inflammatory cell infiltration (P=0.120), and vascularity (P=0.111) showed no significant difference among the groups for each variable.Conclusions: We found no association between quantitative values in bone SPECT/CT and histological changes in ARONJ, probably because bone SPECT/CT has limited spatial resolution. Limitations of this study may include the imaging findings of a decrease in tracer accumulation because of an involucrum of necrosed bone, various histopathological findings in ARONJ, and failure to consider the effect of preoperative anti-inflammatory treatment.
著者
Aya Hirata Tomonori Okamura Takumi Hirata Daisuke Sugiyama Takayoshi Ohkubo Nagako Okuda Yoshikuni Kita Takehito Hayakawa Aya Kadota Keiko Kondo Katsuyuki Miura Akira Okayama Hirotsugu Ueshima
出版者
Japan Epidemiological Association
雑誌
Journal of Epidemiology (ISSN:09175040)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.32, no.7, pp.303-313, 2022-07-05 (Released:2022-07-05)
参考文献数
31
被引用文献数
5 9

Background: Non-fasting triglycerides (TG) are considered a better predictor of cardiovascular disease (CVD) than fasting TG. However, the effect of non-fasting TG on fatal CVD events remains unclear. In the present study, we aimed to explore the relationship between non-fasting TG and CVD mortality in a Japanese general population.Methods: A total of 6,831 participants without a history of CVD, in which those who had a blood sampling over 8 hours or more after a meal were excluded, were followed for 18.0 years. We divided participants into seven groups according to non-fasting TG levels: ≤59 mg/dL, 60–89 mg/dL, 90–119 mg/dL, 120–149 mg/dL, 150–179 mg/dL, 180–209 mg/dL, and ≥210 mg/dL, and estimated the multivariable-adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) of each TG group for CVD mortality after adjusting for potential confounders, including high density lipoprotein cholesterol. Additionally, we performed analysis stratified by age <65 and ≥65 years.Results: During the follow-up period, 433 deaths due to CVD were detected. Compared with a non-fasting TG of 150–179 mg/dL, non-fasting TG ≥210 mg/dL was significantly associated with increased risk for CVD mortality (HR 1.56: 95% CI, 1.01–2.41). Additionally, lower levels of non-fasting TG were also significantly associated with increased risk for fatal CVD. In participants aged ≥65 years, lower levels of non-fasting TG had a stronger impact on increased risk for CVD mortality, while higher levels of non-fasting TG had a stronger impact in those aged <65 years.Conclusion: In a general Japanese population, we observed a U-shaped association between non-fasting TG and fatal CVD events.
著者
外山 敬介
出版者
一般社団法人 日本生体医工学会
雑誌
BME (ISSN:09137556)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.3, no.10, pp.5-17, 1989-10-10 (Released:2011-09-21)
参考文献数
16
著者
Chika Fujisawa-Tanaka Izumi Hiratsuka Megumi Shibata Kei Kurihara Naohiro Aida Takeshi Takayanagi Yusuke Seino Taihei Ito Takashi Kenmochi Atsushi Suzuki
出版者
Fujita Medical Society
雑誌
Fujita Medical Journal (ISSN:21897247)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.2022-019, (Released:2022-12-27)
参考文献数
28

Objectives: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) patients with diabetic kidney disease-induced kidney failure have a significantly impaired quality of life (QOL), resulting in a high level of physical, mental, and social anxiety. In this study, we evaluated the QOL of T1DM patients on the list for pancreas transplantation (PTx) at their registration, and determined whether PTx improved their QOL.Methods: There were 58 patients (men/women, 22/36; mean age, 42.8±8.0 years) with T1DM and who were registered on the waiting list for PTx. Quantitative QOL assessment was performed using the Medical Health Survey Short Form (SF-36) version 2. Changes in the QOL before and after PTx were also examined in 24 of these patients.Results: The mean value of each endpoint and the summary score of the SF-36 physical (PCS), mental (MCS), and role (RCS) components were all below the national normal level at PTx registration. No significant difference in QOL scores was observed in the intergroup comparison of 35 patients on dialysis, 13 patients without dialysis, and ten patients after kidney transplantation. The 24 patients who underwent PTx showed improvement in PCS, MCS, and most SF-36 scores.Conclusion: T1DM patients waiting for PTx had a decreased QOL, regardless of dialysis, and PTx improved their QOL.
著者
村野 一郎 常岡 英弘 飯野 英親 亀井 敏昭 中村 功 塚原 正人
出版者
一般社団法人 日本感染症学会
雑誌
感染症学雑誌 (ISSN:03875911)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.75, no.9, pp.808-811, 2001-09-20 (Released:2011-02-07)
参考文献数
8
被引用文献数
7 7

Two patients were reported as having been infectd with Bartonella henselae after having contact with a dog. Both of the patients owned a dog, but had no contact with cats.One patient was a 10-year-old boy who had experienced a fever of 38-39°C for 11 days, as well as having bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy. The boy's serum IgM antibodies to B. henselae were negative on the 6th and 16th day of his illness, whereas his IgG value, using indirect fluorescence antibody (IFA) method, was found to be elevated from 1: 256 to 1: 1, 024. B. henselae DNA was detected, by PCR method, in swabs from the gingiva and buccal membrane of the dog with which the boy had been in contact. The boy was first treated with cefdinir (300mg daily) for 6 days without beneficial effect. He responded, however, to minocycline (100mg daily) with symptom resolution in four days.The other patient was a 64-year-old man who had experienced a fever of 38-39°C for 27 days, as well as having right inguinal lymphadenopathy. The man's serum IgM antibody to B. henselae was negative, although his IgG value, determined by IFA, was 1: 1, 024. In addition, B. henselae DNA was detected, by PCR method, in parafin-embedded tissue obtained from the biopsied inguinal lymph nodes. The man was treated with cefazolin (2g daily). His fever resolved, but his lymph nodes remained swollen. After a regimen of erythromycin (1, 200mg daily), the swelling in his inguinal lymphnodes gradually disappeared.Careful review of suspected CSD victims' history of contact with animals is important in making a prompt diagnosis of B. henselae infection.
著者
吉田 博 草場 信秀 角野 通弘 佐田 通夫
出版者
一般社団法人 日本感染症学会
雑誌
感染症学雑誌 (ISSN:03875911)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.74, no.7, pp.563-566, 2000-07-20 (Released:2011-02-07)
参考文献数
18

猫ひっかき病 (CSD) 20例のBartonella henselae IgG型抗体及びIgM型抗体を酵素抗体法 (EIA) で測定した. B. henselae IgG型抗体はCSD20例中8例 (40%) が陽性であり, IgM型抗体は20例中5例 (25%) であった. IgG型抗体またはIgM型の一方が陽性を示したのは11例, 両者が陽性を示したのは1例で, 合計するとCSD20例中12例 (60%) がB. henselaeに対する抗体が陽性であった. IgG型抗体陽性例の平均年齢はIgM型抗体陽性例の平均年齢より有意に高かった. IgM型抗体は発症後4週から12週に陰性化した. IgG型抗体は2例が3週から8週後に陰性化し, 2例は一過性に低下し再上昇した. 2例は急性期より高値を示した. CSDにおけるB. henselae抗体は経時的に様々な変動がみられた.