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Y Kume

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PubMed1984

[Analysis of mortality patterns in an area supplying tunnel workers away from home. Part 2. Mortality patterns among tunnel workers].

In order to clarify the long-term effect of tunnel work on the health of its workers, we examined its cause-specific mortality pattern. The subjects were 418 males who died after the age of 30 in 1977 in the southern part of Oita Prefecture, where many men come and work away from home as tunnel workers. Death certificates, 418 in number, presented to the health center were used to examine the causes of death. Occupational careers and life histories of the subjects were obtained by interviewing their families or relatives in 1980. The interviews were successfully carried out with 356 subjects (85.2%). The subjects were divided into two groups. One group was consisted of 73 males who had engaged in the tunnel work (tunnel workers) and the other was of 283 males without experience of tunnel work (others). Proportional mortality ratio (PMR) and proportional mortality classified by age were compared between the two groups. The mean ages at death were also compared among these two groups and all Japanese males over 30 years of age. The results were as follows. The proportion of the deaths of "tunnel workers" among the total deaths in the area surveyed was correlated to the regional rate of tunnel workers and the distribution of pneumoconiosis due to tunnel work. These results show that many tunnel workers suffering from pneumoconiosis had returned to their home area before they died. Excess deaths from the ICD category I; infective and parasitic diseases (000-136), tuberculosis (010-019) and silicotuberculosis (010) were found among the "tunnel workers."(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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PubMed1983

[Analysis of the mortality patterns in an area supplying migratory tunnel workers 1. Regional differences in the mortality patterns].

Tunnel work, digging a tunnel at the face, is a highly specialized job today. Many tunnel workers migrate from one place to another away from home throughout the year. They are exposed to hazardous factors such as dust, vibration, noise and so on, working under the two 12-hour shift system. Recently it has been reported that many workers who had suffered from pneumoconiosis and/or vibration disease returned to their home areas. The southern part of Oita Prefecture is well known as being one of the areas which supply many tunnel workers. In order to study the long-term effects of tunnel work on the health of the tunnel workers, the authors compared the mortality rate in the district supplying many tunnel workers with that of the district supplying few workers. Nine causes of death were chosen among many as indices indicating the characteristics of the structure of mortality in the district supplying many tunnel workers. The authors estimated these causes of death in relation to sex and age, analyzing simple correlations between the 9 causes of death and 33 socioeconomic factors. A principal component analysis of these indices was also carried out. The results were as follows. A close relationship was found between tunnel work and three causes of death such as silicotuberculosis (010), tuberculosis (010-019, A 6), and infective and parasitic diseases (000-136). The other 5 causes of death such as diseases of the digestive system (520-577), neoplasms (014-259), all causes (000-999), stomach cancer (151, A 47) and pneumoconiosis (515) were related not only to tunnel work but also to other regional characteristics such as fishery workers rate. No relationship was found between tunnel work and death by cerebrovascular disease (430-438, A 85). These results show that the tunnel work has an influence on the structure of mortality in the area supplying these workers.

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PubMed1982

Electrical stimulation of skin for information transmission--III: sequential signal transmission.

The transmission of sequentially discrete coding signals such as Morse Code from machines to human beings by means of skin sensation was tested by electrical stimulation of skin. Here, the temporal response of skin sensation to electrical stimulation of skin is a very important factor. In this study, the temporal characteristics of skin sensation when transmitting sequential signals were examined and two modulation methods of electrical stimulation of skin were evaluated. One uses a coaxial electrode with temporal modulation and the other uses a coaxial electrode array with spatio-temporal modulation. It has been found that temporally sequential signals are recognized with higher accuracy with spatio-temporal modulation than with temporal modulation. Information transmission performance was also quantitatively analyzed using the Information Theory.

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Application of ultra short acting beta blockade (esmolol) in pediatric open heart surgery: a trial in total anomalous pulmonary venous return.

BACKGROUND: In the repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR) under cardiopulmonary bypass, esmolol, ultra short acting beta blocker, was applied to obtain low heart rate and weak ventricular contraction under mild hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass. METHODS: Five infants aged from 14 to 158 days with an average of 70 days, underwent a primary or palliative repair of TAPVR. The type of anomalous return was supracardiac type (2), infracardiac (2), and intracardiac (1). A primary repair was done in three for isolated TAPVR with bypass time of 65 to 76 minutes, and a palliative repair for two with complex anomalies with bypass time of 64 and 87 minutes. RESULTS: There was one operative death from cerebral bleeding in an infant with complex TAPVR who underwent simultaneous pulmonary banding. CONCLUSION: This strategy seems to be applicable in pediatric cardiac surgery when aortic cross-clamping is better to be avoided and the surgery is mainly limited to the atrial level.

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Validation of the defining characteristics of body image disturbance in Japan.

PURPOSE: To examine the validity of the nursing diagnosis body image disturbance and to specify its major and minor defining characteristics in Japanese culture. METHODS: A qualified sample of 149 RNs with an average of 10 years of clinical experience and knowledge of nursing diagnosis was given a questionnaire consisting of 21 defining characteristics from NANDA, 8 additional items from the literature, and 2 distracting characteristics. FINDINGS: Four major diagnostic content validation (DCV) scores of 0.75 and higher and 15 minor defining characteristics with DCV scores from 0.60 to 0.74 were identified. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides a foundation for further study of culturally appropriate defining characteristics for use in Japan.

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Investigation of basic imaging properties in digital radiography 10. Structure mottle of II-TV digital imaging systems.

Single-frame images obtained with image intensifier (II)-TV digital systems contain a large amount of structure mottle. In the present study, we examined several II-TV digital systems by use of Wiener spectral analysis and noted considerable variation of the structure mottle over the wide spatial frequency range. We found that the structure mottle in these systems may originate in the input phosphor, the output phosphor, and/or the electronic components, and that the Wiener spectra of structure mottle seem to depend on the specific combination of these components. The results of observer performance studies indicated that structure mottle can significantly decrease the detection of low-contrast objects in a single-frame image when the exposure incident on the II is greater than approximately 0.1 mR. In addition, we showed that the structure mottle can be removed by subtraction of a uniformly exposed mask. This simple procedure will improve the quality of radiologic images obtained with II-TV digital systems. Note, however, that the structure mottle is largely eliminated by subtraction in digital subtraction angiography (DSA) images.

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Investigation of basic imaging properties in digital radiography. 11. Multiple slit-beam imaging technique with image intensifier-TV digital system.

We are developing a digital x-ray imaging system using a multiple slit assembly (MSA) and an image intensifier (II)-TV digital system. The advantage of this approach is that the scatter from an object and the veiling glare in the II-TV system can be reduced significantly while the x-ray utilization is maintained much better than that with a single slit-beam technique. The quality of reconstructed images is related to many parameters such as the slit width, the lead spacer, the number of image frames, and the reconstruction algorithm. In this study, reduction of scatter and veiling glare was measured quantitatively, and image artifacts were analyzed. It was found that the fraction of scatter and veiling glare can be reduced to approximately 0.01-0.1 by use of the MSA imaging technique, and that the magnitude of the fractions is strongly dependent upon the slit width and the lead spacer of the MSA used. The artifacts are caused by inaccuracies in the slit width, lead spacer, and scan motion, and by undersampling of image data. The overlap scanning technique was effective in reducing the magnitude of these artifacts in the reconstructed image.

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