著者
藤田 浩司 岩前 篤 佐藤 寛 高原 梨沙子 鈴木 曜
出版者
日本建築学会
雑誌
日本建築学会環境系論文集 (ISSN:13480685)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.85, no.768, pp.159-167, 2020 (Released:2020-02-28)
参考文献数
18
被引用文献数
2

The high cost of improving thermal insulation performance in houses is one of the hindrances to the spread of the improvement in thermal insulation performance, and it takes a long time to recover these costs through reduction of heating and cooling costs alone. Under such circumstances, in recent years, it has been reported that improvement in thermal insulation performance reduces the likelihood of various diseases among people inhabiting these houses, and this reduces medical costs. However, the relationship between thermal insulation performance and medical costs has not been quantitatively evaluated. If medical costs in relation to the thermal insulation performance of a house can be evaluated quantitatively, they can be taken into consideration in the recovery period of the costs of the improvement of the thermal insulation performance. Furthermore, it is possible to examine the most economical thermal insulation performance when considering the costs for thermal insulation, heating and cooling costs, and medical costs together. Therefore, in this study, we estimated the medical costs in relation to the thermal insulation performance of the house, and examined the thermal insulation performance that is most economical when the costs for thermal insulation, heating and cooling costs, and medical costs are considered. Furthermore, we examined the cost recovery period for the improvement in the thermal insulation performance from that which satisfied the 2013 standard to the above-mentioned most economical thermal insulation performance, taking into consideration the reduction in heating and cooling costs and medical costs. We assumed that the onset of various diseases is not directly affected by the thermal insulation performance of the house, but is affected by the thermal environment in the house, which is formed according to the thermal insulation performance of the house and the heating and cooling method. On the basis of the relationships between insulation levels of various houses and improvement rates in various diseases shown in the previous research, we estimated the thermal environments in houses in correspondence to each level of insulation and estimated medical costs from improvement rates in various diseases. We proposed formulas to estimate the medical costs for heart diseases and vascular brain diseases from the mean daily minimum operative temperature of the house from February 1 to February 7 and formulas to estimate the medical costs for diseases, excluding heart diseases and vascular brain diseases, from the mean operative temperature of the rooms the family inhabits from January 1 to February 28. We proposed these formulas separately for the age groups 0 to 19, 20 to 39, 40 to 59, and 60 and older. Furthermore, using these formulas, we examined the most economical insulation performance, including insulation costs, heating and cooling costs, and medical costs. The average heat transmission coefficient of the envelope (UA value) of a house having this most economical insulation performance is 0.4 to 0.5 W/m2K for a floor-insulation house, and 0.36 to 0.4 W/m2K for a foundation-insulation house. We found that by considering not only heating and cooling costs but also medical costs, the cost recovery period for the improvement in the thermal insulation performance from that which satisfied the 2013 standard to the above-mentioned most economical thermal insulation performance was significantly shortened, to around ten years.
著者
窪田 和雄 松沢 大樹 藤原 竹彦 伊藤 健吾 渡辺 弘美 小野 修一 伊藤 正敏 山浦 玄嗣 滝田 公雄 佐々木 雄一郎
出版者
一般社団法人 日本老年医学会
雑誌
日本老年医学会雑誌 (ISSN:03009173)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.22, no.6, pp.503-509, 1985-11-30 (Released:2009-11-24)
参考文献数
21

脳は老化に伴ない, 神経細胞を減じ, 体積が減少し, 脳室, 脳溝が拡大してゆく. 我々はこの過程をCTスキャンで定量的に解析し, 脳は加齢に伴ない著明に萎縮するだけでなく, 個人差が非常に大きくなることを明らかにしてきた. 今回脳萎縮の個人差を生ずる要因を明らかにするために, 喫煙が脳萎縮に及ぼす慢性効果について調べた.神経学的に, またCTスキャン上異常のない40歳から69歳までの喫煙者159人, 非喫煙者194人について, 脳萎縮を測定した. コンピューターを使用し, CT像を構成している画素を数え, 頭蓄内の脳実質の割合を求め, 更に若い健常者の脳に比べて何%萎縮したかを示す脳体積指数 (Brain Volume Index) を求めた. BVIは加齢に伴ない低下するだけでなく, 喫煙者において, 50歳~54歳, 55歳~59歳では危険率0.1%以下で, 65歳~69歳では危険率5%で非喫煙者よりも有意に低く, これらの年代では喫煙者の脳萎縮が非喫煙者よりも進んでいることを示した. また非喫煙者では男女差は見られなかった. 喫煙量に対する依存関係を50歳代男性で調べたところ, 喫煙者各群は非喫煙者よりも有意にBVIは低下し, 喫煙指数が多くなるにつれBVIは低下する傾向があったが, 喫煙者各群に有意差はなかった. また喫煙者では血清トリグリセライド (p<0.002) 及び収縮期血圧 (p<0.05) が非喫煙者よりも有意に高かった.脳血流が喫煙者では減少しているという我々の先の報告と合わせ, 喫煙は慢性的に動脈硬化を促進し, 動脈硬化や血圧の上昇その他の要因とともに脳血流を低下させ, 加齢に伴なう神経細胞の喪失を助長し, 脳萎縮を促進させると考えた.
著者
天崎 吉晴
出版者
日本臨床免疫学会
雑誌
日本臨床免疫学会会誌 (ISSN:09114300)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.33, no.5, pp.249-261, 2010 (Released:2010-10-31)
参考文献数
97
被引用文献数
1 9

免疫抑制剤シクロスポリンAとタクロリムスは臓器移植においてその利用が始まり,近年はリウマチ性疾患の治療にも使用され,優れた成績を上げている.これらの薬剤は脱リン酸化酵素カルシニューリン(CN)を標的としてその活性を抑制し,T細胞抗原受容体の刺激などによって惹起される細胞内カルシウム依存性シグナルを阻害することで,転写因子nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT)の核内移行を抑制する.CN-NFAT系は末梢ヘルパーT細胞のサイトカイン産生のみならず,他の免疫応答分子や制御性T細胞,NKT細胞などの様々な免疫系細胞の機能や分化,および免疫系以外の生命現象に関与している.CN阻害剤の投与はT細胞の機能抑制を及ぼすとともに,固有の機序による免疫系以外への影響をきたし,副作用の原因となる.それらの解明と理解はCN阻害薬のCNの適正・安全な使用のみならず,新たな免疫抑制剤の開発にも資すると考えられる.CN-NFAT系の機能に関する近年の知見と,現行および新たなCN阻害薬の可能性につき概観する.
著者
亀ヶ谷 雅彦
出版者
日本社会心理学会
雑誌
社会心理学研究 (ISSN:09161503)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.10, no.2, pp.134-146, 1995-01-31 (Released:2016-12-03)

This paper carried out quantitative content analysis of articles in "Political Psychology", which is the journal of International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), in order to realize how different academic disciplines get together as a new field. This study assumed "two-steps development model" in interdisciplinary process; from Multidisciplinary stage (where political science and psychology are well specialized but co-exist in a same field) to Interdisciplinary one (where basic theories and methods of both disciplines are so involved that the number of cooperated studies increase). Results of first analysis told that present phase of political psychology locates between them. Later examination proved that there is the tendency to change from multidisciplinary stage into interdisciplinary one in the aspects of the extent of cooperated studies and research methods sharing, but diversity of article's subject is decreasing according to polypsy integration. Finally, the author noted some implications about professional education to promote interdisciplinary concatenation in political psychology.
著者
三宅 茜巳
出版者
デジタルアーカイブ学会
雑誌
デジタルアーカイブ学会誌 (ISSN:24329762)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.5, no.3, pp.198-202, 2021-07-01 (Released:2021-07-01)
参考文献数
19

我が国においては、全国紙のみならず地方紙のデジタル化も徐々に進んでおり、こうした地方紙のデジタルデータの活用における課題として注目されているのが教育利用である。そこで本研究では岐阜の郷土紙を発行する岐阜新聞社と連携し、創刊以来140年にわたって蓄積されてきた岐阜新聞のデジタルデータを活用して地域学習のための教材を作成した。結果、岐阜新聞社には記事以外にも地域学習の教材となる画像が数多く収蔵されていることが分かった。今後の課題は、岐阜新聞のデータベースを県内すべての学校で利用できる仕組みを作り、教育利用を進めていくことである。
著者
Yasuyuki Nakamura Zoltán Korsós
出版者
Arachnological Society of Japan
雑誌
Acta Arachnologica (ISSN:00015202)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.59, no.2, pp.73-86, 2010-12-31 (Released:2011-09-27)
参考文献数
87
被引用文献数
5 7

Distributional data for the millipedes occurring in the Ryukyu Archipelago and adjacent islets (Senkaku and Daito Groups) are summarized based on an extensive literature survey. There are at least 58 species and one subspecies of millipedes known from the Ryukyu Archipelago (50 of these are native and 8 introduced), 5 species in the Senkaku Group, and 7 species in the Daito Group. Of these, the greatest diversity of indigenous millipede species (32 species) occurs in Okinawa-jima Island. Our results contribute to the knowledge of the millipede fauna in the region beyond the limited account presented in the previous reviews. The results also suggest that large portions of the Ryukyu Archipelago have been poorly sampled, and that further collections would considerably improve the present inventory.
著者
ベルテッリ ジュリオ・アントニオ
出版者
イタリア学会
雑誌
イタリア学会誌 (ISSN:03872947)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.63, pp.151-177, 2013-10-18 (Released:2017-04-05)

Negli anni immediatamente successivi alla nascita del Regno d'Italia, il governo italiano decise di intraprendere una serie di campagne oceaniche intorno al mondo, i cui scopi primari erano ottenere informazioni di tipo geografico e scientifico sulle zone meno conosciute del pianeta e affermare la presenza italiana negli angoli piu remoti del globo.. Assecondando le istanze dei primi rappresentanti diplomatici italiani in Giappone, la Regia Marina decise di far stazionare le sue navi da guerra a Yokohama (soprattutto durante i mesi della campagna bacologica), a difesa del prestigio, dell'autorita e degli interessi del Regno in quelle terre lontane. Negli anni 1871 e 1872 questo compito fu assegnato alla Regia Corvetta "Vettor Pisani", la quale stava compiendo il suo primo viaggio di circumnavigazione del globo. Esistono alcune testimonianze scritte, che ci forniscono preziose informazioni sul viaggio e sui paesi visitati, con molti riferimenti al Giappone. Tra esse spiccano il Diario del viaggio intorno al globo della regia corvetta Italiana "Vettor Pisani" negli anni 1871-73, pubblicazione a stampa ad opera del secondo piloto Ugo Bedinello, e i rapporti uffiiciali del comandante Giuseppe Lovera di Maria, nonche alcuni articoli apparsi sulla Rivista Marittima. Tuttavia, con il presente articolo intendo presentare e analizzare i contenuti di una fonte primaria finora inedita riguardante questo viaggio: le diciotto lettere che l'allora ventiseienne luogotenente di vascello Carlo Grillo (Alessandria, 1844 - Torino, 1906) invio alla madre durante il suo soggiorno in Giappone. Queste missive coprono circa un terzo dell'intero epistolario che il giovane ufficiale scrisse alla madre durante la campagna oceanica. Attraverso questo epistolario, Carlo ci descrive minuziosamente (e non senza una buona dose di ironia) il Giappone di quegli anni gravidi di cambiamenti e contraddizioni, illustrandoci la sua cultura, lo stile di vita dei giapponesi e il loro rapporto con gli stranieri, dandoci, allo stesso tempo, preziose informazioni anche sulla piccola comunita italiana di Yokohama (semai come Pietro Savio e Ferdinando Meazza, diplomatici come Alessandro Fe d'Ostiani, ecc...), sulla vita di bordo e sui membri dell'equipaggio della Vettor Pisani. Non mancano inoltre descrizioni di eventi storici vissuti in prima persona, come l'incendio del vapore statunitense 'America" nella rada di Yokohama (avvenuto il 24 agosto 1872), o di esperienze avventurose come l'incontro con le popolazioni indigene delle isole Ryukyu. Nelle sue missive, inoltre, Carlo allude ad opere d'arte e oggetti d'artigianato comprati in Giappone e inviati alla sua famiglia, parte dei quali sono attualmente ancora in possesso dei suoi discendenti. Oltre a tutto cio, Carlo riferisce alla madre le sue profonde riflessioni scaturite dall'incontro-scontro con un mondo sorprendentemente "civile" e totalmente diverso dal suo, e lo fa in modo estremamente obiettivo e ponderato, cercando di osservare il Giappone senza lasciarsi influenzare dai pregiudizi e dagli stereotipi a cui spesso si abbandonavano molti altri europei che in quegli anni visitavano l'Impero. Questo suo modo di osservare, descrivere ed analizzare il Giappone in modo vivace e obiettivo e il fatto che le sue impressioni e riflessioni giungano a noi in modo diretto e sincero (senza venire "filtrate" come quelle che normalmente si trovano nei resoconti ufficiali o nelle pubblicazioni a stampa) sono le caratteristiche che rendono questo epistolario una fonte primaria di raro valore storico, certamente degna di essere pubblicata in versione integrale.
著者
藤後 悦子 三好 真人 井梅 由美子 大橋 恵 川田 裕次郎
出版者
公益社団法人 日本心理学会
雑誌
心理学研究 (ISSN:00215236)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.89.17302, (Released:2018-07-14)
参考文献数
23
被引用文献数
2

Children’s community sports require assistance of parents, such as in overseeing practices and in transportation to and from game venues; this means that parents are deeply involved with the teams. Parents have both positive and negative experiences with respect to their children’s sports activities. As a qualitative survey, this study aimed to clarify the kind of negative experiences that mothers have regarding their children’s community sports activities and to explore the conditions necessary for building a better team environment. Eight mothers with children who belonged to the community sports team until “retirement” were interviewed. Through analysis using M-GTA, the six categories were extracted: Problems concerning children’s competitive activities, problems with coaches, difficulties in balancing their own lives and the children’s activities, problems concerning the interference from and expectations of fathers, problems related to roles and duties, and relationship problems between mothers. Based on these results, educational intervention for parents was shown to be necessary, and recommendations for the future sports environment are presented.
著者
西村 清和
出版者
美学会
雑誌
美学 (ISSN:05200962)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.60, no.1, pp.2-15, 2009-06-30 (Released:2017-05-22)

Ruins are places in which memories have been accumulated. For understanding the aesthetic phenomenon of ruins, we must make it clear what places really are. M. de Certeau considers a place as a configuration of the elements distributed within the relations of coexistence and a space as a crossing of historical subjects and 'a practiced place'. This conception of place is close to Gibson's 'ground theory' of space perception. The environment we perceive is, first of all, not an empty space but a place as a surface of the earth on which we are standing. The perception of the environment as the persisting structure of surfaces accompanies the perception of an instantaneous self, including the head, body, arms, and hands. And the nonperceptual awareness such as memory or expectation is made possible by the fact that the concurrent perception of the persistence of place and that of the change of a moving self are concurrent. Memory and expectation open a space of history. Yet the space turns back to the persisting place of a ruin when the history has come to be forgotten. The poetics of ruins consists not in retelling a history but in the awareness of the persistent linkage between us and the past.
著者
山岸 敬幸
出版者
特定非営利活動法人 日本小児循環器学会
雑誌
日本小児循環器学会雑誌 (ISSN:09111794)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.29, no.2, pp.68-74, 2013 (Released:2013-04-11)
参考文献数
4
被引用文献数
1

房室中隔は右心房と左心室を隔て, 心房中隔と心室中隔に連なる組織である. 房室中隔は房室管の心内膜床から発生する. 原始心筒がloopingし, 心房・心室が形態的に明らかになる頃, 房室管部では心ゼリーが残存・増生する. 心内膜から上皮間葉転換により遊離して形質転換した間葉系細胞が, その心ゼリーの中に侵入し, 心内膜床が形成される. 心内膜床は, 主に上方(背側)および下方(腹側)から隆起して発達する. 上・下心内膜床の中央部での癒合により房室中隔が形成され, 房室管が右側と左側の房室弁口に分割される. 上・下心内膜床は房室管に対して垂直な方向にも伸展し, 心房中隔一次孔の閉鎖と膜様部心室中隔の形成にも関与する. 房室中隔, 心室中隔, 心房中隔の発生異常により, 多くの先天性心疾患が発症する.
著者
栗田 英治 横張 真
出版者
公益社団法人 日本造園学会
雑誌
ランドスケープ研究 (ISSN:13408984)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.64, no.5, pp.589-594, 2000-03-30 (Released:2011-07-19)
参考文献数
25
被引用文献数
2 5

ゴルフ場が里山地域の生物多様性保全上, 果たし得る役割を, 景観及び群集・生態系レベルでの多様性という面から解明し, 管理指針を検討した。景観レベルにおける土地利用履歴の解明の結果ゴルフ場の履歴が様々な施業段階にある里山林であったこと, 施業初期段階にあたる草地的な緑地空間が失われたことが分かった。群集・生態系レベルにおける植生および管理状況の調査の結果, コナラ林を中心とした森林の環境は, 残置森林としてゴルフ場開設後も確保されたことが明らかになった。今後, 残置森林, ラフ等の管理にあり方に検討を加えることにより, ゴルフ場が景観及び群集・生態系レベルでの多様性を保全しうる可能性が示唆された。
著者
桝屋 隆太 岡本 好司 木戸川 秀生 山吉 隆友 野口 純也 伊藤 重彦 南川 将吾 神薗 淳司 家入 里志
出版者
特定非営利活動法人 日本小児外科学会
雑誌
日本小児外科学会雑誌 (ISSN:0288609X)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.55, no.4, pp.864-869, 2019-06-20 (Released:2019-06-20)
参考文献数
38

14歳男児.日常的にサーモンの刺身を食べていた.突然生じた右上下腹部痛のため当院を受診したところ同部に筋性防御,反跳痛を認めた.血液生化学検査で白血球および肝胆道系酵素の上昇を,腹部造影CTでは胆囊周囲および右下腹部に腹水貯留を認めたが胆石や胆管拡張の所見はなかった.審査腹腔鏡では黄色透明な胆汁性腹水貯留および胆囊漿膜の黄色変性を認めたが,明らかな穿孔部位はなく,胆囊摘出は施行せず腹腔内を洗浄しドレーンを留置して終了した.全身状態は速やかに改善し,術後1日目に腹痛はほぼ消失しドレーン排液も淡血性となった.原因検索のため便を鏡検したところ多数の虫卵を認め,形状から日本海裂頭条虫と診断した.プラジカンテル内服により翌日虫体が排泄され,腹部症状の再燃なく経過し,術後14日目に軽快退院した.条虫の感染を伴う漏出性胆汁性腹膜炎は極めて稀であり,文献的考察を踏まえ報告する.
著者
秦 俊貴 清野 諭 遠峰 結衣 横山 友里 西 真理子 成田 美紀 日田 安寿美 新開 省二 北村 明彦
出版者
日本公衆衛生学会
雑誌
日本公衆衛生雑誌 (ISSN:05461766)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.68, no.7, pp.477-492, 2021-07-15 (Released:2021-07-20)
参考文献数
58

目的 本研究の目的は,食品摂取の多様性を向上させるための10食品群の摂取チェック表(以下,食べポチェック表)について,使用した効果を明らかにする。方法 東京都大田区において実施した2016年と2018年の郵送調査に応答した65-84歳の8,635人を対象とした。2017年7月より大田区において,協力の得られたスーパーマーケットなどの機関に設置する等の方法で普及させた食べポチェック表について,2018年にチェック経験を尋ね,「習慣的にチェックしている」,「チェックしたことがある」と回答した者をチェック経験あり群に分類した。2016年の人口統計学的変数,社会経済的変数,身体的変数,医学的変数,生活習慣関連変数および食品摂取多様性スコア(DVS)の計37の共変量から傾向スコアを算出し,チェック経験あり群となし群の比を1:1としてマッチングし,2年間のDVSの変化をチェック経験あり群となし群各876人について二元配置分散分析を用いて比較した。また,2018年のDVS 3点以下および7点以上を従属変数として,チェック経験なし群に対するあり群の多変量調整済みオッズ比(OR)を多変量調整ロジスティック回帰分析にて算出した。結果 2018年に食べポチェック表のチェック経験があると回答した者の割合は11.9%であった。マッチング後のチェック経験あり群となし群のDVSの平均値±標準偏差は,2016年ではそれぞれ3.9±2.2点,3.9±2.3点,2018年ではそれぞれ4.5±2.4点,4.1±2.4点であり,チェック経験と時間による有意な交互作用が認められた(P<0.001)。2018年でのチェック経験あり群となし群のDVS 3点以下割合は,それぞれ35.2%,43.8%であり,DVS 7点以上割合は,それぞれ21.7%,16.8%であった。チェック経験なし群に対するあり群の2018年のDVS 3点以下のOR(95%信頼区間)は0.68(0.56-0.83)であり,2018年のDVS 7点以上のOR(95%CI)は1.40(1.10-1.78)であった。結論 食べポチェック表の普及とその活用により,高齢者の食品摂取の多様性が向上した可能性が示された。ただし,チェック表を使用した場合でも,欠食や社会的孤立,社会参加がないこと,およびフレイル傾向がある場合は食品摂取の多様性は向上しにくいことが示唆された。
著者
木村 昌紀 山本 恭子
出版者
日本感情心理学会
雑誌
感情心理学研究 (ISSN:18828817)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.24, no.2, pp.51-60, 2017-02-28 (Released:2017-04-06)
参考文献数
32
被引用文献数
1

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of exchanging emoticons through mobile text messages on interpersonal emotions. We examined whether reciprocal use of emoticons influence interpersonal emotions, by using the scenario method. The scenarios used were either usual mail exchanges, such as waiting for a friend (Study 1), apologizing, and being accepted by a friend (Study 2), or being rejected by a friend (Study 3). Results of Studies 1 and 2 indicated that positive emotions decreased and negative emotions increased when an emoticon was not used in response to a sent message with an emoticon, which could be caused by the violation of the reciprocity norm. In Study 3, the reciprocity norm had no effect and while positive emotions increased, negative emotions decreased as a result of emoticons in messages that were received. These results suggest that reciprocal use of emoticons is important in cooperative mail exchanges, such as usual communications, and when being accepted, but not important in non-cooperative situations, such as being rejected.
著者
山本 崇記
出版者
Japan Association for Urban Sociology
雑誌
日本都市社会学会年報 (ISSN:13414585)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.2009, no.27, pp.61-76, 2009 (Released:2011-10-07)
参考文献数
29
被引用文献数
3 2

This paper focuses on a squatter area in Kyoto City to clarify the conditions under which a residents movement can develop. My first purpose is to examine the difficulties of making residents' association in the underclass. In squatter areas, population fluidity is so high that it's difficult to make residents' association, so there are few research results about residents movements in lower class. Second is to approach minority and residents movements at the same time. The residents in the squatter area consist mainly of the Korean ethnic minority. For this reason, previous research has given more weight to ethnicity than to the viewpoints of the residents. This paper takes up a residents movement in a squatter area called ″40-banchi″ in Higashi-kujo. A marginal area, Higashi-kujo is located in south of Kyoto Station and is a Korean slum. Additionally, the slum is adjacent to a Buraku area. In fact, 40-banchi is lower than a slum or Buraku. Compared with these areas, it has stayed undeveloped and has been neglected by the local administration for a long time. 40-banchi is located in a river area between Takase and Kamo River, a substandard living environment where many shanties are squeezed together and which suffers damage from floods and fires frequently. The administration regarded 40-banchi as an illegal area. One could assume that making residents' association is difficult in such an area. But a powerful residents movement has risen up since the 1970s. In the 1990s, it made the administration build public housing that maintained characteristics of the community in the squatter area. The secretariat of the residents' association formed an NPO and is in charge of managing the housing. Thereby the practices in 40-banchi can be considered as an advanced reference point for community building of slums and Buraku.
著者
上原 真由美 荒牧 元 清 恵里子 宮野 良隆
出版者
The Japan Broncho-esophagological Society
雑誌
日本気管食道科学会会報 (ISSN:00290645)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.36, no.4, pp.406-409, 1985-08-10 (Released:2010-02-22)
参考文献数
6

Recently Heimlich maneuver has been recommended for the treatment of food choking in Japan. We think that the foreign body in the respiratory tract can not be removed by Heimlich maneuver in case of choking by some Japanese foods.We experimentally packed a small ping-pong ball, a mass of chicken, rice cake and chewing pork into the larynx of a mongrel dog, and tried Heimlich maneuver for removal of foreign bodies. A ping-pong ball and a mass of chicken could be removed by this maneuver, however, a mass of rice cake and chewing pork could not. Accordingly, we tried to remove these foreign bodies by finger maneuver and could remove them successfully.We recommend finger maneuver in case of difficulty in removing the foreign body by Heimlich maneuver.