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TOKYO, March 18 (UPI) -- China's foreign ministry has reproached the Japanese government for displaying a 1969 Chinese map of the Senkaku Islands that identifies the disputed territory by its Japanese name.
The Japan Times reported the Japanese foreign ministry's website released the map on Monday to show how neighboring China created surveys "on the premise the Senkaku islands are part of Japanese territory."
The map, Japanese foreign minister said, shows China's claim to the disputed islands has "no foundation at all."
Japan's foreign ministry states on its website China and Taiwan claimed the islands after the U.N. issued a report that the area held potential oil and gas reserves.
China swiftly responded to the official Japanese statement during a press briefing in Beijing.
South Korean news agency Yonhap reported that Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said the map reflects Japan's aggression and its colonial legacy in Taiwan. Prior to the Sino-Japanese War that lasted from 1894 to 1895, Hong said Western maps marked the islands as belonging to China.
Japan has control of the Senkaku, or Diaoyu Islands, but China and Taiwan each claim the territory.
On March 2 Japan's Kyodo News reported a Taiwan-based group of activists requested Japanese facilities on the islands be taken down.
They also requested the Japanese government to remove the Japanese flag on the disputed territory, claiming Japan's moves violates a Taiwan-Japan fisheries pact that lets both countries to fish inside Japan's exclusive economic zone, that excludes 12 nautical miles of waters surrounding the Senkaku Islands.
Taiwan uses the name Tiaoyutai for the islands.
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For decades, evolutionists have believed that when it comes to human reproduction, it's a case of survival of the fittest. However a new study into human genetics actually shows that wealth and power play an even stronger role.
AUT Professor Steve Pointing says in the last few thousand years, brawn's role in deciding which men pass down their genes is becoming less important.
"If a particular organism has favourable traits for environment, it will pass on more of its genes and have more offspring than if you have less favourable traits," he explained on Firstline this morning.
"But there's growing evidence now that in humans, the reverse is true we're actually dictating evolution because the wealth and power aspect of our society is actually driving evolution of our species."
The research, conducted by Arizona State University, looked at the Y chromosome of 500 men worldwide. They found that between 4000 and 8000 years ago, there was a bottleneck in genetic diversity for males.
At the same time, female genetic diversity was increasing rapidly implying at the time, only a few men were mating with many women.
"The smoking gun for that is the change from a nomadic, hunter-gatherer society to a more agrarian society, where we know wealth and power become concentrated in fewer individuals."
The findings are concerning for the future of the human race, because any loss in genetic diversity is "bad news".
"It means that as a species we become more susceptible to catastrophic diseases and events," says Prof Pointing.
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NEW YORK Complying with the health care law is costing small businesses thousands of dollars that they didnt have to spend before the new regulations went into effect.
Brad Mete estimates his staffing company, Affinity Resources, will spend $100,000 this year on record-keeping and filing documents with the government. Hes hired two extra staffers and is spending more on services from its human resources provider.
The Affordable Care Act, which as of next Jan. 1 applies to all companies with 50 or more workers, requires owners to track staffers hours, absences and how much they spend on health insurance. Many small businesses dont have the human resources departments or computer systems that large companies have, making it harder to handle the paperwork. On average, complying with the law costs small businesses more than $15,000 a year, according to a survey released a year ago by the National Small Business Association.
Its a horrible hassle, says Mete, managing partner of the Miami-based company.
But there are some winners. Some companies are hiring people to take on the extra work and human resources providers and some software developers are experiencing a bump in business.
Companies must track workers hours according to rules created by the IRS to determine whether a business is required to offer health insurance to workers averaging 30 hours a week, and their dependents. Companies may be penalized if theyre subject to the law and dont offer insurance.
Businesses must also track the months an employee is covered by insurance, and the cost of premiums so the government can decide if the coverage is affordable under the law.
Many companies have separate software for payroll, attendance and benefits management and no easy way to combine data from all of them, says John Haslinger, a vice president at ADP Benefits Outsourcing Consulting. And early next year, employers must complete IRS forms using information from these different sources. The process is more complex for businesses with operations in different states.
Mike Pattons health insurance broker is handling the extra administrative chores for his San Francisco Bay-area flooring company DSB Plus, but hes paying for it through higher premiums about $25,000 a year.
To pay for the extra services the business is getting from his broker, Patton cut back on workers bonuses and raises.
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Chronic disease accounts for 7 of every 10 deaths in the United States and more than 75% of total health care costs. Among people 65 years old and older, over 92% suffer from one or more chronic diseases. By 2020, it is estimated that 48% of the total population will have chronic disease. In an article published in The American Journal of Medicine, researchers discuss how existing health care delivery models are poorly constructed to manage chronic disease, and how a reengineering of the health care system might offer some hope in meeting this challenge.
"Chronic disease has become the great epidemic of our time," comment authors Richard V. Milani, MD, Ochsner Clinical School -- University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, and Carl J. Lavie, MD, Ochsner Clinical School -- University of Queensland School of Medicine, and Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, LA. "Our current delivery model is poorly constructed to manage chronic disease, as evidenced by low adherence to quality indicators and poor control of treatable conditions. New technologies have emerged that can engage patients and offer additional modalities in the treatment of chronic disease. Modifying our delivery model to include team-based care in concert with patient-centered technologies offers great promise in managing the chronic disease epidemic."
According to Milani and Lavie there are four factors that negatively impact the delivery of chronic disease care in the U.S.: physician time demands, rapidly expanding medical database, therapeutic inertia, and lack of supporting infrastructure.
The current U.S. model for delivery of chronic disease care rests with the primary care physician. The authors note that with a median length of a physician visit of less than 15 minutes, there is little time to address the root causes of many chronic diseases, such as poor nutrition and physical inactivity. Even when lifestyle modification advice is provided by the physician, patient adherence rates are disappointingly low.
The second factor that compromises chronic disease care is the incredible growth in medical literature, with 1.8-1.9 million articles published every year. The ability to keep up-to-date with accepted medical evidence is nearly impossible for a busy physician. This is further affected when a significant percentage of studies contradict current medical practice, adding to the burden.
Therapeutic inertia, the third factor, describes a situation in which a provider fails to modify a therapy when the original treatment goals remain unmet. For example, failure to intensify therapy in hypertensive patients with blood pressure greater than 140/90 has been reported to be as high as 86.9% of visits. The clinician, the patient, and the health care system all play a contributory role in this factor.
The fourth factor is the care model supporting the patient and physician. Studies have consistently shown that providing the primary care physician with a team-based infrastructure of specialized, non-physician caregivers whose role is to provide a continuous framework of monitoring and management, improves adherence to quality measures and yields superior outcomes, cost, and patient satisfaction.
Milani and Lavie describe specialized integrated practice units (IPUs), each employing nonphysician personnel such as pharmacists, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, health educators, dietitians, social workers, counselors, and therapists, all organized around the patient's medical condition.
The authors also note that social network influences have had considerable positive impact on behaviors associated with smoking, diet, exercise, depression, medication adherence, and obesity and successful disease management strategies that utilize the potential of social networks may provide sustainable and cost-effective solutions for patients with chronic diseases.
"Today, health care must reengineer its care delivery model to manage the chief medical crisis of the 21st century, chronic disease. The capacity of the stand-alone physician to produce high-quality, evidenced-based care, yielding meaningful and lasting change in lifestyle behaviors, has proven elusive. A new model of team-based care organized as an IPU will have the ability to deliver comprehensive consistent treatment and advice using a focused-factory approach. The IPU will employ the latest in technology innovation, thus better engaging patients, in addition to providing high-quality, consistent, personalized care delivery, and accelerate consequential lifestyle change," explain Milani and Lavie.
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Seven years after centralizing health care, Alberta decentralizes system.
EDMONTON Seven years after Alberta collapsed its health regions and centralized care in an attempt to save money and improve outcomes, it is moving back in the other direction.
Premier Jim Prentice said Wednesday that decentralization of health care is the way to go, despite earlier decisions by previous Progressive Conservative governments.
Im not going to defend what happened in the past. I wasnt the premier at the time, Prentice told reporters.
The pendulum is coming back in terms of local input into decision-making to protect the interests of people who live across the province.
The announcement followed the release of a government report into reforming rural care. Prentice said the government heard a lot from residents who have felt disenfranchised by the way the system has been operating.
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Health Minister Stephen Mandel said the province will set up eight to 10 new health districts by July 1. Each will be responsible for meeting performance targets and delivering health services.
Each district will receive advice from a local advisory council.
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New Rochelle, NY, March 18, 2015--Job recruiters may review hundreds of online resumes for a position, often screening them quickly and discarding those that are not appropriate. An applicant's email address can greatly impact first impressions and affect one's chances of getting hired according to a new study published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers . The article is available free on the Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking website until April 18, 2015.
Marlies van Toorenburg, Janneke Oostrom, and Thomas Pollet, VU University, Amsterdam, designed a study to determine whether the use of an informal rather than a more formal email address by a job applicant when sending an online resume affects how hirable the person would seem to a professional recruiter. An informal email address includes slang, cute, or made-up names instead of the applicant's real name.
In the article "What a Difference Your Email Makes: Effects of Informal Email Addresses in Online Rsum Screening," the authors describe how the formal or informal nature of an applicant's email address impacts a recruiter's hirability perceptions. The researchers also compare the importance of the email address to spelling errors and the typeface used in the email in passing judgment on an online resume.
"We all have unconscious biases, and first impressions, as we know, are often difficult to change," says Editor-in-Chief Brenda K. Wiederhold, PhD, MBA, BCB, BCN, Interactive Media Institute, San Diego, California and Virtual Reality Medical Institute, Brussels, Belgium. "This study may assist recruiters in becoming more conscious of their biases, as well as aiding job applicants in understanding the importance of their electronic identities."
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New Rochelle, NY, March 18, 2015-Who intentionally seeks to kill a policeman and why? In 2014 the rate of policemen purposely killed in the line of duty in the U.S. was nearly 1.5 times greater than in 2013. These incidents and what may have motivated the killers is the focus of an in-depth article in the peer-reviewed journal Violence and Gender, from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Violence and Gender website until April 18, 2015.
In the article "Men Who Kill Policemen," Michael Stone, MD, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons (New York, NY) and Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Hospital (Goshen, NY), reviews details of the intentional killings of police in the line of duty in 2013-2014. All the killers were male, and most used a gun. Dr. Stone describes whether the perpetrators were killed or committed suicide during the incidents, or were actively involved in a crime at the time of the killing. He examines a variety of possible motivations for intentional killing of a policeman, including belonging to a "cop-hating" group, mental illness, or intoxication. He also discusses societal factors that may lead to higher or lower rates of policemen killing in different social or minority groups.
"This unique study by Dr. Michael Stone, an Associate Editor of Violence and Gender, could not be more timely and relevant," says Editor-in-Chief Mary Ellen O'Toole, PhD, Director, Forensic Science Program, George Mason University; Forensic Behavioral Consultant; and Senior FBI Profiler/Criminal Investigative Analyst (ret.).
"Dr. Stone looked at all the police officers intentionally killed in the line of duty in the United States between 2013 and 2014," Dr. O'Toole continues. "He found that all of the 66 cop-killers were males, and their choice of weapon was a firearm. Dr. Stone identifies factors that led up to and contributed to these murders, and based on his experience and expertise as a world-renowned psychiatrist he offers the opinion that only a minority of these men likely suffered from a mental illness at the time of these murders. In the study of violence it is quite rare that research is so quickly available on contemporary issues, and this study exemplifies Dr. Stone's and the Journal's commitment to bring headline topics to our readers in scholarly and insightful ways."
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If wine tends to give you a hangover, science may have a solution, and it starts with a "genome knife." The phrase refers to an enzyme called RNA-guided Cas9 nuclease that's able to knock down a longstanding hurdle to genetic engineering in fermented foods, a researcher at the University of Illinois explains in a press release.
It's a little complicated, but the strains of yeast that ferment wine (along with beer and bread) are "polyploid" strains. Those strains "contain multiple copies of genes in the genome," says Yong-Su Jin, whose study was published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
The difficulty comes into play when you try to alter a gene in one copy of the genome. Essentially, you can't: "An unaltered copy would correct the one that had been changed." The enzyme fixes that problem.
It allows the genetic engineering of polyploid strains, specifically Saccharomyces cerevisiaewhich you're more likely to know as baker's yeast, Jove notes. Researchers are calling the engineered result a "jailbreaking" yeast.
Engineered yeast could make wine healthier by boosting the amount of a nutrient called resveratrol "by 10 times or more," Jin notes. As for post-booze headaches, the "genome knife" could act on what's known as malolactic fermentation, which can result in hangover-inducing toxic substances.
That's good news, though Medical Daily reports that the variety of factors leading to hangovers likely means such a product wouldn't get rid of them completely.
(It's not just the genetics involved in winemaking that affect your hangover risk: Your own genes do, too, according to research last year.)
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