Concept: South Korea
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Effects of Mirodenafil, a Phosphodiesterase-5 Inhibitor, on Female Rat Bladder in a Partial Bladder Outlet Obstruction Model: Physiological and Immunohistochemical Aspects
- OPEN
- Korean journal of urology
- Published over 5 years ago
- Discuss
We investigated the effects of mirodenafil, a phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitor developed in South Korea, on the female rat bladder in a partial bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) model.
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Gouleako and herbert viruses in pigs, republic of Korea, 2013
- OPEN
- Emerging infectious diseases
- Published about 4 years ago
- Discuss
Several viruses in the family Bunyaviridae are pathogenic to animals and cause vector-borne zoonoses. In 2013, investigation of cause of death of 9 pigs on 1 farm in the Republic of Korea found infection with Gouleako and Herbert viruses. Subsequent investigation revealed high prevalence of these viruses among pigs throughout the country.
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South Korea’s Thyroid-Cancer “Epidemic” - Turning the Tide
- OPEN
- The New England journal of medicine
- Published about 3 years ago
- Discuss
Since a physician coalition called attention to the extremely high incidence of diagnoses of thyroid cancer in South Korea and proposed that thyroid screening with ultrasonography be discouraged, there has been a marked decrease in the number of thyroid operations.
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Lizards ran bipedally 110 million years ago
- OPEN
- Scientific reports
- Published about 1 year ago
- Discuss
Four heteropod lizard trackways discovered in the Hasandong Formation (Aptian-early Albian), South Korea assigned to Sauripes hadongensis, n. ichnogen., n. ichnosp., which represents the oldest lizard tracks in the world. Most tracks are pes tracks (N = 25) that are very small, average 22.29 mm long and 12.46 mm wide. The pes tracks show “typical” lizard morphology as having curved digit imprints that progressively increase in length from digits I to IV, a smaller digit V that is separated from the other digits by a large interdigital angle. The manus track is 19.18 mm long and 19.23 mm wide, and shows a different morphology from the pes. The predominant pes tracks, the long stride length of pes, narrow trackway width, digitigrade manus and pes prints, and anteriorly oriented long axis of the fourth pedal digit indicate that these trackways were made by lizards running bipedally, suggesting that bipedality was possible early in lizard evolution.
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Mortality Risk Factors for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Outbreak, South Korea, 2015
- OPEN
- Emerging infectious diseases
- Published over 3 years ago
- Discuss
As of July 15, 2015, the South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare had reported 186 case-patients with Middle East respiratory syndrome in South Korea. For 159 case-patients with known outcomes and complete case histories, we found that older age and preexisting concurrent health conditions were risk factors for death.
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Outsourcing CO2 within China
- OPEN
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Published over 5 years ago
- Discuss
Recent studies have shown that the high standard of living enjoyed by people in the richest countries often comes at the expense of CO2 emissions produced with technologies of low efficiency in less affluent, developing countries. Less apparent is that this relationship between developed and developing can exist within a single country’s borders, with rich regions consuming and exporting high-value goods and services that depend upon production of low-cost and emission-intensive goods and services from poorer regions in the same country. As the world’s largest emitter of CO2, China is a prominent and important example, struggling to balance rapid economic growth and environmental sustainability across provinces that are in very different stages of development. In this study, we track CO2 emissions embodied in products traded among Chinese provinces and internationally. We find that 57% of China’s emissions are related to goods that are consumed outside of the province where they are produced. For instance, up to 80% of the emissions related to goods consumed in the highly developed coastal provinces are imported from less developed provinces in central and western China where many low-value-added but high-carbon-intensive goods are produced. Without policy attention to this sort of interprovincial carbon leakage, the less developed provinces will struggle to meet their emissions intensity targets, whereas the more developed provinces might achieve their own targets by further outsourcing. Consumption-based accounting of emissions can thus inform effective and equitable climate policy within China.
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Association between screening and the thyroid cancer “epidemic” in South Korea: evidence from a nationwide study
- OPEN
- BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
- Published about 2 years ago
- Discuss
To investigate whether screening for thyroid cancer led to the current “epidemic” in South Korea.
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Severe Fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus, South Korea, 2013
- OPEN
- Emerging infectious diseases
- Published over 4 years ago
- Discuss
During 2013, severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome was diagnosed in 35 persons in South Korea. Environmental temperature probably affected the monthly and regional distribution of case-patients within the country. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that the isolates from Korea were closely related to isolates from China and Japan.
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Relationship Between Staff-reported Culture Change and Occupancy Rate and Organizational Commitment Among Nursing Homes in South Korea
- The Gerontologist
- Published over 6 years ago
- Discuss
This study aims to examine culture change in nursing homes in South Korea and to identify the outcomes of culture change implementation.
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The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of a greater horseshoe bat subspecies, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum quelpartis (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae)
- Mitochondrial DNA
- Published over 6 years ago
- Discuss
There are two subspecies of Rhinolophus ferrumequinum currently recognized in South Korea. The Korean greater horseshoe bat subspecies, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum quelpartis, is distributed only in Jeju Island. The complete mitochondrial genome of the island subspecies was determined and revealed 99.7% similarity to the mainland subspecies Rhinolophus ferrumequinum korai. If d-loop region is excluded, similarity of the two genomes was 99.9%.