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A few years ago, when I wrote an editorial note, there was an unseasonable heavy snowfall,making the city of Tokyo havoc This time the cause is the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) Infection by this novel virus had become grave news involving the whole world by the end ofJanuary Now, as I am writing this, there is no cure, and the number of patients is also increasingday by day in Japan Masks are out of stock throughout the city, and I have heard that people queueup for few masks in front of drug stores from early in the morning The effectiveness of wearing a mask to prevent infection is limited What is the cause of such asituation? As a matter of fact, in an epidemic of infection, the most serious problem is not infectionitself, but unscientific rumors and people who are easily swayed by them Avoidance of vaccinationby insisting that vaccines have no effect or that they are harmful to the body is fundamentally thesame The anti-vaccination movement still exists despite the evidence-based medicine, and thereare concerns about its expansion However, even with scientific evidence, it is not easy to persuadeanti-vaccinationists, and this is the moment, when we, academia, feel powerless Nevertheless, we should not be discouraged The mission of academia is to conduct reliableresearch Reliable data are obtained from such research, and scientific solution of the problemssteadily proceed Based on the outcomes of these data and solutions, scientists themselves shouldcreate the methods of advocacy and persuasion or rely on experts in this area However, scientists should solve the problems with science Academic journals such as theJuntendo Medical Journal may be of marked significance in this regard It is important to get theexcellent findings, but even negative data need to be published somewhere and shared amongvarious people, whenever they lead to academically important questions Such data promote thediscussions, deeper research perspectives, and new themes Submitting articles in English has beenestablished in the Juntendo Medical Journal The journal will achieve further progress in the nearfuture Toshihiro MitaDepartment of Tropical Medicine and ParasitologyCall for feature article proposalsTo introduce the latest medical findings, Juntendo Medical Journal features a specific focus areafor each issue We would like to request all our readers to address any suggestions or proposals forsuitable focus areas to our editorial office
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An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses the challenges and achievements earned by the editorial board and staff of \'Nationalities Papers\' journal in the midst of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
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For US Latinas/os, those two events held special meaning: some of them were part of the \'repatriations\' of the 1930s, in which Mexicans and many Mexican Americans became scapegoats for the ailing economy and were summarily shipped to Mexico by local governments and some nonprofits 1 During World War II, many Californios noticed that their Japanese neighbors were suddenly no longer around;they had been taken to concentration camps in different parts of the country Floyd was accused of passing a counterfeit $20 bill and died after an officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes as Floyd pleaded for his life-all this videotaped on a cell phone Sinta examines several themes from interviews with fourteen men and women: cultural and language maintenance, political and civic engagement, religious placemaking, gender roles, immigration For the Notes from the Community section, two professors at the University of Texas at El Paso joined with a high school teacher to create the Coco Project, in which high school students conducted unrecorded oral-history interviews with family members
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In the rubric Security and Military Strategy you can find the paper written by Colonel (r) Crăişor-Constantin Ionită, PhD, Adapting Mosaic Warfare Specific Capabilities to the New Technological Developments, represents a continuation of the study undertaken by the author in the previous edition of the journal;the article presents the developments made so far by the US armed forces in order to put into practice the \'mosaic\' type war, by using the great innovations in robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and unmanned systems Next, for the Strategic Dialogue heading, we had the privilege of interviewing the leaders of the three categories of forces [ ]Major-General Viorel Pană, PhD, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Major-General Iulian Berdilă, Chief of Staff of the Land Forces and Rear Admiral Mihai Panait, Chief of Staff of the Naval Forces, presented their perspective regarding the activity of categories of forces in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic [ ]we would like to encourage those interested to publish in our journal to prospect and evaluate thoroughly the dynamics of the security environment and, also, we invite the interested students, Master Students and Doctoral Candidates to submit articles for publication in the monthly supplement of the journal, Strategic Colloquium, available on the Internet at http://cssas unap ro/ro/cs htm, indexed in the international database CEEOL, Google scholar and ROAD ISSN
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Pointing to Schuyler\'s and Baker\'s deliberate dissolution so as to escape the uneven hierarchies of gender, race, and class within the organization, Hunt uses the concept of planned failure to question schemas of historical longevity used to measure the success of social movements and to posit ecstatics as an alternative to hope [ ]in her fascinating essay \'Window Walls and Other Tricks of Transparency: Digitality, Colonial, and Architectural Modernity,\' Jasmine Rault addresses the concept of transparency as a technology of communication messaging honesty, accountability, truth, and justice The first event review, by Lori Pierce and Kaily Heitz, discusses Equal Justice Initiative\'s Legacy Museum: From Slavery to Mass Incarceration and its companion site, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened in April 2018 in Montgomery, Alabama
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Professor Ofra Bengio of Tel Aviv University and Israel\'s Shalem College returns for her second article in the Journal, offering an insightful comparison of elementary school textbooks in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) and the autonomous Kurdishgoverned areas of northern Syria known as Rojava \'Reclaiming National Identity in Kurdish School Textbooks\' shows that, despite marked differences in ideological orientation, both sets of books inculcate Kurdish nationalism and an irridentist patriotism that run somewhat against the commitments of each regional authority \'Political and Military Obstacles to the North African Regional Capability\' provides an assessment of the NARC based on internal government correspondence and interviews in addition to public documentary records
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Reading mechanisms of negotiation, survival, and resistance to the Zionist state, Eilan illustrates a mode of transience in which Palestinians and Mizrahim accommodated, undermined, and exploited a new social order The faith and generosity of our mentors, Judith Tucker and Michael Hudson, allowed us to imagine the impossible Since its first issue in 1992, the journal has been a space for collaborative thinking and practice The single author you see on any piece of writing is a mask
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[ ]Cristian Băhnăreanu, PhD Senior Researcher, highlights the economic impact of the pandemics;next, Alexandra Sarcinschi, PhD Senior Researcher, analyses the distinction between the terms \'social distance\' and \'physical distance\', identifying their impact on the societal security sector, in the article Measures and Consequences of Managing COVID-19 Pandemic: from Physical Distance to Social Distance For those who read for the first time Strategic Impact, it is an open-access peer reviewed journal, edited by the Centre for Defence and Security Strategic Studies and published with the support of the \'Carol I\' National Defence University Publishing House, and, according to the National Council for Titles, Diplomas and Certificates (CNATDCU), the publication is a prestigious scientific journal in the field of military sciences, information and public order [ ]we would like to encourage those interested to publish in our journal to prospect and evaluate thoroughly the dynamics of the security environment and, also, we invite the interested students, Master Students and Doctoral Candidates to submit articles for publication in the monthly supplement of the journal, Strategic Colloquium, available on the Internet at http://cssas unap ro/ro/cs htm, indexed in the international database CEEOL, Google scholar and ROAD ISSN
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現在，COVID-19禍の真っただ中で本稿を執筆している．感染症は，このように全てを吹き飛ばす威力があることを身をもって体感し，自分が生きている間にこのような事態が起こり，自分にも迫ってきていることに驚愕している．院内でも，生活習慣病などはまさに自己責任といった感じで，癌ですら二の次といったところであろうか．かくなる私も三月内に2回東京経由の出張をしたことで，長崎では危険分子として扱われ，また関東圏での国内留学や帰省していた教室員は現在自宅待機中で，復帰前にはPCR検査を受けるようである．長崎大学は熱帯医学など感染症を主軸とした大学であるので，厳格な基準を設けて臨んでおり，致し方ないかとも考える． さて，そのようななかでも本誌の発行は進み続ける．医学，科学の進歩はたゆまぬものであり，止めてはいけないものである．いずれCOVID-19も過去の話となり，もとの生活に戻ったときに一からでは困るのである．できる範囲でアカデミア活動は継続すべきであろう．特にCOVID-19が出現してからは，症例報告の重要性が世界で再認識され，軽視されがちであった症例報告に日が当たっていることは，本誌の存在意義の自信を再認識させてくれる． 本稿での私の一押し論文は，筑波大学の馬上らの「幽門輪に近接した胃異所性膵管内乳頭粘液性腫瘍に対して胃内手術により幽門機能温存が得られた1例」である．手術のアイデア，巧みさのみならず，経験された疾患も世界で11例目の報告と大変価値が高い． 私事ではあるが，思い返すと最初の医学論文筆頭著者は「日本消化器外科学会雑誌」であった．「十二指腸悪性神経鞘腫の1例」で1994年27巻1号 p 112-116に掲載された．当時の元島幸一講師（故人），橋本聡先生に御指導いただき，「ノイヘーレンが論文書くこともあるのか」と可愛がってもらいながら，なんとか仕上げた．当時はスライドも手作りのブルースライド時代であり，図表は当時最新機器であったMacintosh Classicを抱えて当直先に出向き，取り組んだ事が今でも思い出される．掲載された暁には当時の兼松隆之教授に「自分達が経験した稀有な症例を広く世に伝えて共有することは，外科医としても大切である」とお褒めいただいた．私のその後の道に少し関わったのが，本誌でありその編集委員を務めさせていただいているのも縁を感じる． 近年，若手外科医の症例報告の場が減りつつあり，最初の一歩を踏み出す場がないことを危惧している．貴重な成功体験を得ることができない．本誌の役割は，COVID-19と私の初期体験からしても大変重要であることは間違いないようである． （江口 晋） 2020年4月1日
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