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Top-down and bottom-up ESD : divergence and convergence of Japanese ESD discourses and practices / Yoko Mochizuki -- Formal ESD in Japan : dissolving walls between classroom and community / Jane Singer and Yoshiyuki Nagata -- Implications of 3.11 for disaster education and education for sustainable development in Japan / Aiko Sakurai and Rajib Shaw -- Assessing sustainability learning and practice at Moriyama High School, Shiga, Japan / Yi Zhou and Jane Singer -- Globalising school education in Japan : an investigation using the academic ability model / Toshiya Kodama -- Perspectives on education for sustainable development through local cultural heritage / Shizuo Nakazawa and Tadashi Izumitani -- An investigation into fairness and bias in educational materials produced by the Japanese government to teach school children about nuclear power and radiation / Shinobu Goto -- Collaborating for change : teaching and assessing a university community sustainability course in Japan and Vietnam / Tracey Gannon, Jane Singer and Benjamin McLellan -- Community-based, non-formal and informal ESD in Japan : where top-down and bottom-up approaches meet / Fumiko Noguchi and Toyoshi Sasaki -- Can civil society revitalise dying rural villages? : the case of Kamiseya in Kyoto Prefecture / Binxian Ji and Katsue Fukamachi -- Multi-stakeholder community education through environmental learning programmes in Nishinomiya / Miki Yoshizumi -- From challenge to opportunity : Japanese non-profit organisations harness post-3.11 civic engagement / Sarajean Rossitto -- A radical approach from the periphery : informal ESD through rights recovery for indigenous Ainu / Fumiko Noguchi -- The Tohoku Green Renaissance Project : networking green rebuilding activities after a mega-disaster / Tsubasa Iwabuchi and Noriko Takemoto -- The importance of genfukei (spirit of place) to citizen participation in community building in Zushi City / Koichi Nagashima -- Exploring the values of rural communities through place-based education in Niigata Prefecture / Takako Takano -- Postscript : reflections on visions of rebuilding Tohoku : the future of ESD as a response to risk in Japan / Yoko Mochizuki with Makoto Hatakeyama

1 Food Security and Collaborative Advantage: Scoping the scene (Kiminami, Lily) -- Part I Food Security from the Asian Perspective -- 2 Defining Japan's Food Security in East Asia: From the perspectives of the distribution revolution, environmental degradation, and international cooperation (Hara, Yonosuke) -- 3 The Current Position and Future Direction of Agriculture in Northeast Asia (Shogenji, Shin-ichi) -- 4 Analysis of China's Food Supply and Demand Balance and Food Security (Chen, Yongfu and Nie, Fengying) -- 5 Korea's Food Security Schemes (Lee, Jaehyeon) -- Part II Food Clustering in Northeast Asia -- 6 The Food System based on Agriculture: Food collaboration (Saito, Osamu) -- 7 The Network Structure of a Soybean Cluster in Hokkaido (Morishima, Teruya) -- 8 Competitive Advantages of Green Tea Clusters in Japan (Akune, Yuko) -- 9 Food and Health-Related Industry Clustering in Niigata Prefecture:Empirical analysis on the cognitive aspects of corporations (Kiminami, Lily and Furuzawa, Shinichi) -- 10 Agricultural Industry Clusters in China (Kiminami, Lily and Kiminami, Akira) -- 11 Industrial Agglomeration of the Food Industry in China: An analysis of data by province(Yagi, Hironori) -- 12 The Agricultural Industrialization of China's Heilongjiang Province (Jiao, Jiang) -- 13 Agricultural Production and Related Business by Public Firms: A case study on Xinhua Farm, Heilongjiang (Yagi, Hironri and Zhu, Yonghao) -- 14 Promotion Policies for Food Industry Cluster in Korea (Lee, Byung-Oh) -- 15 The Trends and Potential for Food Industry Clusters in Korea (Lee, Jaehyeon) -- 16 The Promotion of and Challenges for the Agricultural Senary Industrialization Policy in the Republic of Korea(Lee, Youkyung) -- Part III Food Clustering in EU and North America -- 17 Cluster Initiatives in Eastern Poland: Good practices in agriculture and food-processing industry(Bojar, Ewa, Bojar, Matylda and Bojar, Wiktor) -- 18 Main Factors Affecting Food Industry Clustering in France (Ben Arfa, Nejla, and Daniel, Karine) -- 19 Industrial Cluster Analysis, Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Development(Stough, Roger R. and Yu, Junbo).

Abstract:  This article aims to clarify the conditions necessary for environmental governance through a case study of one of the most tragic examples of environmental destruction, the Minamata disease. The Minamata disease is methyl‐mercury poisoning resulting from the ingestion of contaminated fish and shellfish. The first incident of the Minamata disease occurred in the mid‐1950s, in Kumamoto Prefecture. In spite of the grave lesson that the pollution in Kumamoto provided, Japanese society went on to experience a second occurrence of Minamata disease in the mid‐1960s, in Niigata Prefecture. Conflicts between victims, the companies responsible for contamination, and the central and prefectural governments have continued for the past 50 years. As a whole, the history of the two incidences of Minamata disease shows a lack of environmental governance in Japanese society. Effective environmental governance is the ability to produce adequate solutions to a variety of environmental problems. In order to resolve an environmental problem such as Minamata disease adequately, four tasks must be achieved. These are the discovery of the cause, the prevention of suffering, recovery from suffering and the learning of a lesson. What factors are crucial to the achievement of these tasks? Through an analysis of the history of Minamata disease, I would like to point out three fundamental factors that have a decisive influence on the solution of an environmental problem. They are the existence of an effective and just juridical system, a mature public sphere, and the quality of individual actors who are concerned with an environmental problem. The following conditions are important to the fostering of environmental governance on a more concrete level: sensitivity of the society and the ability to set an agenda, autonomy of the research process and of any research groups, organization of the antipollution movement, an adequately designed system for compensation, and various measures which help to counter socially amplified suffering.

The one of dangerous heavy metal among the others that had negative effect to the environment and human's health is Mercury. The environmental could be degradation from the quality when Mercury have got in to them and out of to the threshold value limit. Characteristics of Mercury are very dangerous, Mercury have many characteristics : toxic, persistent, bioaccumulation, and it's could transfer from one place to far away by hydrological cycle. The administrative country boundary, geological and geographical condition could not be an effective factor to prevent the effects of Mercury. The important case that could be getting up the conscious of human is Minamata Disease. Minamata is a village in Kumamoto, Japan which there were many thousands of the victims of Mercury in 1953. P.T. Chisso Corporation, a chemical industry had gotten out the waste contained Mercury to the Minamata Bay that cause disease to the people who lived in Minamata Bay. Minamata Disease is the biggest one of environmental case in Japan, Niigata Minamata Disease was the other case. After the case of Minamata disease, The Disease that caused by Mercury was still occurring in many countries in the world, for example ; Guatemala, Rusia also Indonesia. The effect of Mercury to the environment and human is not a local or regional problem, but it is a global problem that it needed the international action to manage the Mercury. Because of the dangerous characteristic of Mercury, There are no countries could be handle by itself to protect their citizen from the negative effects of Mercury. Countries around the world must have been built cooperation among them to manage all abot Mercury (trade, mining etc) Indonesia is one of countries which sign in The Minamata Convention on Mercury in Kumamoto, Japan in October 10th 2013. Minamata Convention on Mercury is a agreement of many countries in the world to prevent and save the environmental and human health from the negative effects of Mercury. The government of Indonesia had been made the regulation to ...

Part 1. Real Estate and the Legal System -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Real Estate and the Legal System Japan -- Chapter 2. Legal issues of land plots with unknown owners -- Chapter 3. The efficiency of the titling system: Perspectives of Economics -- Chapter 4. Land plots with unknown owners: Causes and legal measures – The necessity for a thorough reduction of transaction costs -- Chapter 5. Realities and Challenges of Land Issues in the Era of Depopulation -- Chapter 6. The Negative Effect Factors of the Land Acquisition System for Profit-Oriented Enterprises in order to Promote Economic Growth -- Chapter 7. Empirical analysis on the system revisions of judicial real estate auctions - Comparison with general real estate trading -- Part 2. Real estate tax system and real estate market in Japan -- Chapter 8. Introduction: Real estate tax system and real estate market in Japan -- Chapter 9. Professional Practices in Fixed Assets Valuation and Assessor Education in North America ― Suggestions for Japan -- Chapter 10. The Optimal Reform about Property Tax -- Chapter 11. Requirements for the application of exemption from real estate acquisition tax due to purpose of use ─ Based on the acquisition of land usage for a school site by an Incorporated Educational Institution -- Chapter 12. Dual agency, commission levels, and the effect on sale price in residential real estate market: a questionnaire survey on real estate brokers in Japan -- Chapter 13. A study on the relation between residential land value and the distance to the center of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area (1970-2016) -- Chapter 14. Study on Premium Rent of Refurbished Apartments Based on Bayesian Modelling Using Stated Preference Data of the Tenants -- Chapter 15. Feasibility Evaluation for Condominium Reconstruction by Means of the Application of Discriminant Analysis on Real Estate Data -- Chapter 16. Factor Analysis of Rent Using Space Syntax Measures. - Comparative Analysis by Building Use around Shibuya Station -- Part 3. City planning and new technology -- Chapter 17. Introduction: City planning and new technology -- Chapter 18. Guiding urban facilities and functions in compact mixed-use development from the perspective of residents -- Chapter 19. Compact city corresponding to the advanced transport systems -- Chapter 20. Current status and issues for urban (regional area) formulation of the Location Normalization Plan: the case of Niigata City -- Chapter 21. The Overview and Legal Issues Regarding Real Estate Tech -- Chapter 22. Proposal of System for Calculating Sky View Factor Using Google Street View -- Chapter 23. Frontiers of Computer Vision Technologies on Real Estate Property Photographs and Floorplans. .

Population-based screening for early detection and treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC) and precursor lesions, using evidence-based methods, can be effective in populations with a significant burden of the disease provided the services are of high quality. Multidisciplinary, evidence-based guidelines for quality assurance in CRC screening and diagnosis have been developed by experts in a project co-financed by the European Union. The 450-page guidelines were published in book format by the European Commission in 2010. They include 10 chapters and over 250 recommendations, individually graded according to the strength of the recommendation and the supporting evidence. Adoption of the recommendations can improve and maintain the quality and effectiveness of an entire screening process, including identification and invitation of the target population, diagnosis and management of the disease and appropriate surveillance in people with detected lesions. To make the principles, recommendations and standards in the guidelines known to a wider professional and scientific community and to facilitate their use in the scientific literature, the original content is presented in journal format in an open-access Supplement of Endoscopy. The editors have prepared the present overview to inform readers of the comprehensive scope and content of the guidelines. ; Fil: Arrossi, Silvina. Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina ; Fil: von Karsa, Lawrence. International Agency for Research on Cancer; Francia ; Fil: Patrick, J. NHS Cancer Screening Programmes Sheffield; Reino Unido. University of Oxford; Reino Unido ; Fil: Segnan, N. International Agency for Research on Cancer; Francia. AO Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino; Italia ; Fil: Atkin, W. Imperial College London; Reino Unido ; Fil: Halloran, S. University of Surrey; Reino Unido ; Fil: Saito, H. National Cancer Centre; Japón ; Fil: Sauvaget, C. International Agency for Research on Cancer; Francia ; Fil: Scharpantgen, A. Ministry of Health; Luxemburgo ; Fil: Schmiegel, W. Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Alemania ; Fil: Senore, C. AO Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino; Italia ; Fil: Siddiqi, M. Cancer Foundation of India; India ; Fil: Sighoko, D. University of Chicago; Estados Unidos. Formerly International Agency for Research on Cancer; Francia ; Fil: Smith, R. American Cancer Society; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Smith S. University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust; Reino Unido ; Fil: Suchanek, S. Charles University; República Checa ; Fil: Suonio, E. International Agency for Research on Cancer; Francia ; Fil: Tong, W. Chinese Academy of Sciences; República de China ; Fil: Törnberg, S. Stockholm Gotland Regional Cancer Centre. Department of Cancer Screening; Suecia ; Fil: Van Cutsem, E. Katholikie Universiteit Leuven; Bélgica ; Fil: Vignatelli, L. Agenzia Sanitaria e Sociale Regionale; Italia ; Fil: Villain, P. University of Oxford; Reino Unido ; Fil: Voti, L. Formerly International Agency for Research on Cancer; Francia. University of Miami; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Watanabe, H. Niigata University; Japón ; Fil: Watson, J. University of Oxford; Reino Unido ; Fil: Winawer, S. Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center; Estados Unidos ; Fil: Young, G. Flinders University. Gastrointestinal Services; Australia ; Fil: Zaksas, V. State Patient Fund; Lituania ; Fil: Zappa, M. Cancer Prevention and Research Institute; Italia ; Fil: Valori, R. NHS Endoscopy; Reino Unido

I will consider the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale in Niigata, Japan as an "agentic assemblage" (Jane Bennett) that moves beyond the conception of "land" or "site" as an inert stage for human artistic intentions. The festival functions as the distributed agency of an assemblage including rice fields, river corridors, rural villages and villagers, landslides, heavy snowfall and art objects. This view suggests a fractal causality in which art is conceived within a network of human and nonhuman activity.
As artistic practice, the Triennale makes visible webs of relationships that move beyond notions of site specificity or socio-ecological restoration. From a New Materialist perspective, the festival's interaction within a mosaic satoyama landscape becomes a visible representation of an evolution of art away from exclusively anthropocentric intentionality. This view suggests deeper readings of the festival's practice, particular artworks, and of the emphasis on performative food production and consumption – the mutual transformation of material bodies.
私は、人間のアート製作という目的のための単なる舞台として「土地」や「場」を捉えるのではなく、「行為主の集合体」(ベネット)という観点から越後妻有トリエンナーレ(新潟県、日本)について考察する。この トリエンナーレは田圃、河川回路、地方の村と村人、がけ崩れ、大量の降雪とアートを含み込むひとつの集合体の分散的な行為体として機能している。この見方はフラクタルな因果関係を思わせ、その因果関係のなかでアートは人間及び人間以外のモノによる活動のネットワークとして理解される。
アート実践として、このトリエンナーレはサイト・スペシフィック性あるいは社会やエコロジーの回復といった考え方をさらに越えていくような関係性の網目を、眼に見える形にしている。ニュー・マテリアリズムの見地からすれば、このトリエンナーレのモザイク的な里山風景のなかでの相互作用は、過度に人間中心主義的な意図性から離れていくアートの進化を明瞭に表している。このように見ることで、越後妻有トリエンナーレの実践、個々の作品、そしてパフォーマンス的な食物生産と消費の強調−−−−物質的なもの同士の相互の変形−−−−をより深く解釈できるのである。
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Objectives: Depression symptom questionnaires are not for diagnostic classification. Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) scores >= 10 are nonetheless often used to estimate depression prevalence. We compared PHQ-9 >= 10 prevalence to Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (SCID) major depression prevalence and assessed whether an alternative PHQ-9 cutoff could more accurately estimate prevalence. Study Design and Setting: Individual participant data meta-analysis of datasets comparing PHQ-9 scores to SCID major depression status. Results: A total of 9,242 participants (1,389 SCID major depression cases) from 44 primary studies were included. Pooled PHQ-9 >= 10 prevalence was 24.6% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 20.8%, 28.9%); pooled SCID major depression prevalence was 12.1% (95% CI: 9.6%, 15.2%); and pooled difference was 11.9% (95% CI: 9.3%, 14.6%). The mean study-level PHQ-9 >= 10 to SCID-based prevalence ratio was 2.5 times. PHQ-9 >= 14 and the PHQ-9 diagnostic algorithm provided prevalence closest to SCID major depression prevalence, but study-level prevalence differed from SCID-based prevalence by an average absolute difference of 4.8% for PHQ-9 >= 14 (95% prediction interval: -13.6%, 14.5%) and 5.6% for the PHQ-9 diagnostic algorithm (95% prediction interval: -16.4%, 15.0%). Conclusion: PHQ-9 >= 10 substantially overestimates depression prevalence. There is too much heterogeneity to correct statistically in individual studies. ; Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) KRS-134297 PCG155468 PJT-162206 Fonds de recherche du Quebec -Sante (FRQS) Postdoctoral Training Fellowships FRQS Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre G.R. 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