The Role of a Political Body in Disseminating the European Convention on Human Rights Standards into the State Parties : With Particular Focus on Follow-up Activity of the Committee of Ministers

2014-10-30Special Issue on Institution Design for Conflict Resolution and Negotiation : Theory and Praxis (February 1-2, 2014, Nagoya, Japan)departmental bulletin pape

<Original Article> Cardiac Sympathetic and Vagal Activities during Suprapontine Brain and Midbrain Ischemic Pressor Responses in Rabbits

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Prospective study establishing a management plan for impacted third molar in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

ObjectiveAlthough dental treatment before hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is essential to prevent serious infections from oral sources, the best management plan for impacted third molar (ITM) is unclear.Study designThis study was planned to establish a management plan for ITM. Eighty-four candidates for HSCT therapy were consecutively enrolled in the prospective trial. The management plan, which was evidence based and prospectively decided, was to extract the symptomatic ITMs and to leave the asymptomatic ones untreated, regardless of their impacted position.ResultsEighty-seven ITMs were observed in 35 patients. The ITMs were in the maxilla of 25 patients and the mandible of 28 patients. Dental extraction of 7 teeth was performed in 6 patients without complications. All of the patients received the scheduled HSCT therapy and none experienced odontogenic infection while myelosuppressed.ConclusionsThis management plan for ITM appears to be appropriate for pre-HSCT patients. Moreover, the experienced dental provider is suggested as a necessary and valuable part of the HSCT team

Detailed structure of the outer disk around HD 169142 with polarized light in H-band

Coronagraphic imagery of the circumstellar disk around HD 169142 in H-band polarized intensity (PI) with Subaru/HiCIAO is presented. The emission scattered by dust particles at the disk surface in 0.2" <= r <= 1.2", or 29 <= r <= 174 AU, is successfully detected. The azimuthally-averaged radial profile of the PI shows a double power-law distribution, in which the PIs in r=29-52 AU and r=81.2-145 AU respectively show r^{-3}-dependence. These two power-law regions are connected smoothly with a transition zone (TZ), exhibiting an apparent gap in r=40-70 AU. The PI in the inner power-law region shows a deep minimum whose location seems to coincide with the point source at \lambda = 7 mm. This can be regarded as another sign of a protoplanet in TZ. The observed radial profile of the PI is reproduced by a minimally flaring disk with an irregular surface density distribution or with an irregular temperature distribution or with the combination of both. The depletion factor of surface density in the inner power-law region (r< 50 AU) is derived to be <= 0.16 from a simple model calculation. The obtained PI image also shows small scale asymmetries in the outer power-law region. Possible origins for these asymmetries include corrugation of the scattering surface in the outer region, and shadowing effect by a puffed up structure in the inner power-law region.Comment: 26 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in PAS