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Risk Management
Risk management consists of a series of actions to list out all possible risks, evaluate their influences, and reduce or avoid the losses. We hear the term “ ” in a number of fields including finance, corporat...
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Natural Disasters
Natural disasters are damages to human lives or social activities caused by dangerous natural phenomena. This chapter quickly reviews the history of natural disasters, specifically for earthquakes and volcanic...
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Predictive clinical characteristics for the efficacy of vildagliptin monotherapy in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a multicenter study
Our purpose was to clarify the predictive clinical characteristics for monotherapy efficacy using a dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitor, vildagliptin, in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), pa...
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Effects of a Novel Aldose Reductase Inhibitor, Fidarestat (SNK-860), on Vibration Perception Threshold and Subjective Symptoms in Patients with Diabetic Polyneuropathy
To evaluate the effects of fidarestat (SNK-860) on vibration perception threshold, as measured by C64 quantitative tuning fork (64Hz) analysis, as well as its effects on subjective symptoms in patients with di...
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Pasteurella multocida septicemia caused by close contact with a domestic cat: case report and literature review
We report here a case of Pasteurella multocida infection caused by cat exposure presenting with septic shock, sinusitis, and pneumonia. The patient was a febrile 20-year-old woman who had been experiencing distur...
