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Reliģiski-filozofiski raksti, 26

2019

Volume XXVI is dedicated to the themes discussed during the scientific conference Dynamic Asia: Shaping the Future that took place in Riga on 13–15 April 2018, and were further explored after this conference. The conference was organised in cooperation between the Latvian Society for the Study of Religions and the Baltic Alliance for Asian Studies. This event brought together more than 80 participants from 20 countries. The topics presented at the conference are reflected in the current volume. Many of these articles are dedicated to Japanese culture, where spiritual, material and routine aspects intermingle in all walks of life. The Far East topic is expanded in papers on Korea and South E…

The impact of preoperative neurological symptom severity on postoperative outcomes in cervical spondylotic myelopathy

2021

Study Design: The study design is a retrospective cohort study.Objective: To compare patient-reported outcomes between patients with mild versus moderate-to-severe myelopathy following surgery for cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM).Summary of Background Data: Recent studies have demonstrated that decompression for CSM leads to improved quality of life when measured by patient-reported outcomes. However, it is unknown if preoperative myelopathy classification is predictive of superior postoperative improvements.Materials and Methods: A retrospective review of patients treated surgically for CSM at a single institution from 2014 to 2015 was performed. Preoperative myelopathy severity was c…

Orientālistika: Cilvēkzināšana un Āzijas aktualitātes (Latvijas Universitātes Raksti, 819. sējums)

2021

Recensione di Susumu Takenaga (ed) (2016). Ricardo and the Japanese Economic Thought. Selection of Ricardo studies in Japan during the interwar perio…

2017

Decoding the Japanese Lean Production System according to a Viable Systems Perspective

2012

The increase in the complexity and variability of the business environment, due to constant and rapid changes in markets, calls for more flexible and effective production systems. Of the most valuable production systems, the Japanese lean production system (LPS) is the best known and studied, but is still not the most widely applied with success outside Japan. The reason for the low level of success of lean production outside its native country is the lack of understanding of the strong interactions which hold between enterprises and business systems. In order to fill this gap in our knowledge, we investigate the systemic interactions according to the Viable System View. To develop our anal…

Evaluación de escritos históricos; Historia de la traducción japonesa; Ryōei, Motoki

2013

The first part of this paper revisits the rationale for examining historical views on translation and offers examples of questions that can help researchers—particularly those new to the study of translation history—contextualize and evaluate historical writings on translation. The second part applies some of these questions to a study of the relatively unknown writings of Motoki Ryōei, an eighteenth-century Japanese translator of European scientific works, in an indirect attempt to demonstrate how such questions, although best combined with a more holistic framework, can help researchers delve beyond the obvious historical facts

Visual kei žanra pretrunas Japānas populārajā kultūrā un mūzikā mūsdienās

2019

Bakalaura darba tēma Visual kei žanra pretrunas Japānas populārajā kultūrā un mūzikā mūsdienās izvēlēta ar mērķi izpētīt un iepazīstināt latviešu auditoriju ar unikālu, vizuāli spēcīgu, muzikāli sociālu kustību, kura joprojām ir saglabājusi savu vietu Japānas populārajā kultūrā, kā arī noskaidrot, pret kādām sabiedrības normām Visual kei ir negatīva nostāja. Visual kei ir mūsdienu nišas mūzikas žanrs un subkultūra, kuru mēdz attiecināt kā uz underground jeb pazemes mūzikas novirzienu, muzikāli pārkāpjot jebkādus mūzikas žanros pieņemtos standartus. Šis žanrs radies, ietekmējoties no diviem nozīmīgiem japāņu medijiem anime (multiplikācija) un manga (stāstījums ar grafiskiem attēliem). To rak…

Humanities and Social Sciences Latvia. Vol. 24, N. 1

2016

Two laboratory-confirmed cases of Japanese encephalitis imported to Germany by travelers returning from Southeast Asia

2011

Japanese encephalitis virus is the leading cause of encephalitis in Asia and parts of the Pacific. Despite the high number of symptomatic infections in endemic countries, clinical disease in travelers is rare. However, an increasing number of imported infections from popular holiday destinations in Southeast Asia have been recorded in the past few years, including serious disease courses in short-term travelers. Here we report two severe, non-fatal cases in tourists, who returned from a long-time stay in Thailand and a short-term trip to Bali, Indonesia, respectively. Recommendations for vaccination and pre-travel advice are discussed.

Traditional Chinese herbal medicine at the forefront battle against COVID-19: Clinical experience and scientific basis.

2020

Abstract Background Throughout the 5000-year history of China, more than 300 epidemics were recorded. Traditional Chinese herbal medicine (TCM) has been used effectively to combat each of these epidemics’ infections, and saved many lives. To date, there are hundreds of herbal TCM formulae developed for the purpose of prevention and treatment during epidemic infections. When COVID-19 ravaged the Wuhan district in China in early January 2020, without a deep understanding about the nature of COVID-19, patients admitted to the TCM Hospital in Wuhan were immediately treated with TCM and reported later with >90% efficacy. Approach We conducted conduct a systematic survey of various TCM herbal pre…