Background Although several therapeutic options are currently available for patients with
various cancers, the outcomes are often disappointing and a more effective modality needs to …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: MR neurography enables high resolution imaging of
peripheral nerves. Our aim was to evaluate the utility of MR neurography in lumbosacral …

… Feuer; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Alessandro Bonanno, Kae Sekine
and Hart N. Feuer to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for …

Japanese agriculture has stagnated since the late 1980s, setting in motion a steady process
of farmland readjustment. The notable consequence is an increase in the number of people …

The triad of cooperation, international exchange, and integration among institutions of higher
education has become the new norm in the global experience of learning and academic …

The Japanese government introduced a direct payment scheme (DPS) for hilly and
mountainous areas (HMAs) in 2000, with the aim of preventing further farmland abandonment in …

Subjects were shown black and white drawings of common objects in a common, and therefore
plausible, setting, in an unusual but plausible setting, or in a bizarre, that is, unusual and …

The extent to which Payments for Environmental/Ecosystem Services (PES) programs help
to promote collective stewardship of common property resources (CPRs) has been gaining …

Abnormal concentrations of nutritional factors were found in 24.1% of 187 patients with
neuropathy who were newly seen at our academic neuropathy referral center over a 1-year …

OBJECTIVE: To report visual acuity and anatomic outcomes, as well as complications,
associated with giant retinal tear management using intraoperative perfluoro-n-octane and to …