Journal articles: 'Sex role in mass media Japan'

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Polkhova, E. V., and A. A. Sergunin. "The Arctic Lobby in Japan: Structures, Mechanisms of Infl uence and the Role in Developing Cooperation with the Russian Federation." Moscow University Bulletin of World Politics 12, no. 4 (December 20, 2020): 99–130. http://dx.doi.org/10.48015/2076-7404-2020-12-4-99-130.

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Japan’s Arctic strategy, particularly its geopolitical and economic aspects, has been thoroughly reviewed by both Russian and foreign experts. However, the structures and mechanisms behind this strategy remain somewhat obscure. This paper is intended to partially fill this gap by resorting to the study of the Japanese Arctic lobby. The authors identify the key interest groups which stand for an active Arctic policy and for cooperation with the Russian Federation in that regard. These include, in particular, the energy sector representatives that sought to take part in the construction of liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants. The decision of the Japanese government to join the Western anti-Russian sanctions disrupted these plans. However, the adoption of S. Abe’s 8-points plan in 2016 opened up new opportunities for the Russia-Japan Arctic cooperation. Yet another two groups of interest are equally interested in strengthening bilateral relations — shipping and ship-building industries. They also suffered from anti-Russian sanctions but now they are actively engaged in the construction of the LNG jetties near Murmansk and in Kamchatka. There is also a growing interest towards the Arctic region within the fishery industry — a very important sector of Japan’s economy. Cooperation with Russia increases Tokyo’s capacity to participate in the creation of international legal regime of fisheries in the Central Arctic ocean. Finally, the authors identify another important element of the Japanese Arctic lobby — regional elites. In that regard, they examine activities of the Hokkaido prefecture to engage in development of the Northern Sea Route. The paper examines the key mechanisms used by the Arctic lobby to influence the authorities, including sectoral, regional and national business associations, research and educational centers and mass media, as well as ‘built-in lobby’ in relevant ministries and agencies responsible for making and implementing Tokyo’s Arctic policies. The authors conclude that, although the Arctic lobby is unable to persuade the Government to remove anti-Russian sanctions altogether, elaboration of a selective strategy of cooperation with the Japanese business community could strengthen bilateral relations and provide new opportunities for exploiting natural resources of the Far North and developing the Russian Arctic.

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Pattanayak, Sibaprashad, Debabrata Saha, Bipin Kishore Bara, and Sanjit Kumar Nayak. "Palliative surgery in management of advanced carcinoma stomach and its outcome." International Surgery Journal 4, no. 1 (December 13, 2016): 300. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2349-2902.isj20164459.

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Background:Gastric cancer is the second leading cause of death from malignant disease World-wide and most frequently discovered in advanced stages. The incidence of gastric cancer in India is low compared to developed countries. But in India southern and northeast area more number of cases was diagnosed. More cases of cancer stomach are diagnosed in the early stages in Japan due to effective screening programme. Lack of such screening programme, ignorance about the disease and lack of awareness of warning signs of cancer lead to the detection of many cases in the advanced stage of gastric cancer. Where palliation is the mainstay of treatment. We discussed the different methods of palliative surgery and its outcome in this paper. Methods: This is a prospective study over 5 years February 2011 - 2016 January including 6 months follow up. 104 advanced carcinoma stomach patients were included in this study. To evaluate role of palliative surgery in advanced gastric cancer we analyse the data in the basis of presentation of disease, sex distribution, type of palliative surgery, relive of symptoms, preventions of complications, post-operative mortality morbidity, and overall survival.Results:In our study mean age of presentation is 58 years. Most common affected are male. Stage III disease are more common. Immediate post-operative mortality is 4 patients 7.14% comparable to the non-resection group 1 patients (2.63%). Symptoms relived 46 patients in resection group (82.14%), in non-resection group it is 16 (42.1%). Overall survival is (6 moths - 1 years) 19 (33.9%) patients, and in non-resection group it is only 2 (5.26%) patients. Median survival rate is 10 months.Conclusions:Palliative resection should be carried out for betterment of quality of life where it is possible. Relief from symptoms and complications can be achieved by resection of tumour mass in advanced carcinoma stomach.

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Ratnasingam, Malini, and Lee Ellis. "Sex Differences in Mass Media Preferences Across Four Asian Countries." Journal of Media Psychology 23, no. 4 (January 2011): 186–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000054.

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Background. Nearly all of the research on sex differences in mass media utilization has been based on samples from the United States and a few other Western countries. Aim. The present study examines sex differences in mass media utilization in four Asian countries (Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, and Singapore). Methods. College students self-reported the frequency with which they accessed the following five mass media outlets: television dramas, televised news and documentaries, music, newspapers and magazines, and the Internet. Results. Two significant sex differences were found when participants from the four countries were considered as a whole: Women watched television dramas more than did men; and in Japan, female students listened to music more than did their male counterparts. Limitations. A wider array of mass media outlets could have been explored. Conclusions. Findings were largely consistent with results from studies conducted elsewhere in the world, particularly regarding sex differences in television drama viewing. A neurohormonal evolutionary explanation is offered for the basic findings.

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Fisher, Glenn. "Mass media effects on sex role attitudes of incarcerated men." Sex Roles 20, no. 3-4 (February 1989): 191–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00287991.

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Satou, Akira, Naoko Asano, Seiichi Kato, Ahmed Ali Elsayed, Naoya Nakamura, Koichi Ohshima, and Shigeo Nakamura. "Prognostic Impact of MUM1/IRF4 Expression in Burkitt Lymphoma (BL): A Reappraisal of 89 BL Patients in Japan." Blood 126, no. 23 (December 3, 2015): 3886. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v126.23.3886.3886.

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Abstract Background: Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is a B-cell lymphoma with high proliferating ability, derived from germinal center B-cells (GCB). The MUM-1/IRF4 gene has been identified as a myeloma-associated oncogene which is activated at the transcription level as a result of t(6;14)(p25;q32) chromosomal translocation. In normal lymphohematopoietic tissue, MUM1 protein has an important role in lymphocyte activation and in terminal B cell differentiation, and is expressed in plasma cells and in a small percentage of GCB. It is known that some of BL express MUM1, suggesting late GCB origin, but its characteristics still remain controversial. Patients and methods: A total of 91 patients previously diagnosed as BL were retrospectively analyzed. Two patients were excluded from the study, because translocation or amplificationof BCL-2 was detected by FISH in addition to translocation of MYC. The other 89 cases were confirmed as BL based on morphology, immunophenotype and the result of FISH analysis for translocation of MYC and BCL-2. The expression of MUM-1 was examined by immunohistochemistry. Furthermore, to characterize MUM1-positive (MUM1+) BL, we have compared the clinicopathologic characteristics of MUM1+ BL and MUM1-negative (MUM1-) BL. Results: Forty out of the 89 cases showed positivity for MUM1. The clinical characteristics of 40 MUM1+ BL were as follows. There were 20 men and 20 women, with a median age of 28 years, ranging from 3 to 83 years old. Thirty three cases (83%) showed extranodal involvement at presentation. The most frequent sites of extranodal involvement were bone marrow (n=14), lower gastrointestinal tract (n=14), central nervous system (n=5) and peripheral blood (n=5). Eight (20%) of MUM1+ BL patients had a bulky mass, 27 (69%) were categorized as stage III/IV, and 14 (36%) had B symptoms. With regard to laboratory data at presentation, 35 patients (90%) had elevated level of LDH. According to international prognostic index, 27 cases (69%) were identified into high/high-intermediate. Compared with MUM1- BL, patients with MUM1+ BL showed significantly younger onset (p=0.0053) and a higher ratio of females (p=0.007). The MUM1+ BL was also featured by higher percentage of elevated level of LDH, and tended to have anemia (hemoglobin level <10g/dL) (p=0.049 and p=0.074, respectively). We have also highlighted the difference in the involved sites between the two groups. The MUM1+ group showed significantly lower ratio of stomach involvement (p=0.0060), and tended to more frequently involve peripheral blood, breast and kidney (p=0.088, p=0.090 and p=0.090, respectively). Regarding the therapy and prognosis, majority of the cases received intensive, short-duration chemotherapy, which is the standard therapy for BL. Patients with MUM1+ BL showed significantly worse overall survival curve compared with MUM1- BL (p=0.042). Of note, comparing MUM1+ and MUM1- BL cases of adults (age>20 years old), MUM1+ cases showed more significantly worse prognosis (p=0.0096). (Figure 1) Conclusion: MUM1+ BL showed significantly worse prognosis, particularly in adult cases, compared with MUM1- BL. In addition, the difference of the onset age, sex ratio, and involved sites between the two groups was highlighted. Our results demonstrate that MUM1 expression might predict worse prognosis of BL, and MUM1+ BL should be distinguished from MUM1- BL. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.

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Handayani, Diah. "Political Identity, Popular Culture, and Ideological Coercion: The Discourses of Feminist Movement in the Report of Ummi Magazine." Jurnal Pemberdayaan Masyarakat: Media Pemikiran dan Dakwah Pembangunan 5, no. 1 (June 18, 2021): 185–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/jpm.2021.051-08.

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This research examines the rise of Islamic populism in Indonesia and understands it as an instrument to clear a new pathway for populism movement into popular culture. Ummi magazine is one of the religious media used to be political vehicles of stablishing constituencies, especially for the Tarbiyah movement in the Soeharto era to the current tendency to popularize the Tarbiyah identity as a new lifestyle. Historically, The Tarbiyah movement in Indonesia is a social and political movement among Indonesian Muslimah students, especially activists in the Suharto period. Muslim middle class entrepreneurs launched a campaign of ‘economic jihad. This research uses a qualitative approach by interpreting and studying the data contained in Ummi Magazine. Media studies were carried out in the January 2017 to 2018 editions. The data obtained were described and associated with the magazine's transformation as an ideological medium and Muslim women's lifestyle today. The result shows that the magazine's transformation from ideology magazine to lifestyle magazine can influence readers because there are more new readers. Whether Ummi as a media for da'wah and a women's magazine, it is still perceived by the readers to apply ideological coercion or simply provide an alternative lifestyle or consumption where religious independence is the main characteristic of the magazine. We argue that Islamic populism is mainly a medium for coercion ideology to gain tracks to power, while the poor remain as ‘floating mass’, and entrapped in many so-called 'empowerment' projects. Populism can be interpreted as a communication style in which a group of politicians considers themselves to represent the people’s interests contrasted with elite interests. Nevertheless, the populism approach is gaining momentum. Abdullah, I. (1996). Tubuh, Kesehatan, dan Struktur yang Melemahkan Wanita. Kumpulan Makalah Seminar Bulanan. Pusat Penelitian Kependudukan UGM.Al-Abani, S. M. 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Gifari, Ichsan, and Kurniawaty Iskandar. "ANALISIS SUBJEKTIFITAS MEDIA DARING JEPANG MENGENAI ISU LARANGAN KELUAR MASUK JEPANG PADA MASA PANDEMI VIRUS COVID-19: SEBUAH PENELITIAN SEMIOTIK." HUMANIKA 27, no. 2 (December 7, 2020): 82–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/humanika.v27i2.33494.

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The polarization between conservative and progressive media created a middle ground for the print media to maintain sufficient readerships which are decreasing due to the declining Japanese birth rate. But why it relates to ‘security’, what is the reason? This research aims to examine news articles from the Yomiuri Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun mass media in English, namely, The Japan News and The Asahi Shimbun, as a reference medium to understand the framing between conservative and progressive Japanese mass media regarding the issue of prohibiting entry and exit of Japan for the international community during the pandemic. Researchers used qualitative methods, content analysis, with a semiotics approach in which researcher used the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) software to filter out low-frequency nouns with a number> 5 which became the key vocabulary to understand the debate on the prohibition of entry and leaving Japan during January- August 2020. No less than 19 news articles were collected from The Japan News and 21 news articles were collected from The Asahi Shimbun by searching for the terms Ban/ Re-entry/ Travel/ Entry. After being filtered, 22 nouns >5 were found which were used by The Japan News and The Asahi Shimbun. In addition, there are 5 nouns found only in one medium with a total of >5. The result shows that The Japan News is a pro-government media that rarely criticizes the government. Criticism will be made if government policies disrupt the economy and are related to the Keidanren (Japan Business Association). On the other hand, The Asahi Shimbun is a counter-government media that criticize the government but has close ties to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. To understand the Japanese mass media information data strategically, both mass media have an important role in the international community.

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Aboagye, Richard Gyan, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Collins Adu, John Elvis Hagan, Hubert Amu, and Sanni Yaya. "Mass Media Exposure and Safer Sex Negotiation among Women in Sexual Unions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Analysis of Demographic and Health Survey Data." Behavioral Sciences 11, no. 5 (April 28, 2021): 63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs11050063.

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(1) Background: Improving sexual autonomy among women in sexual unions comes with various benefits, including the reduction of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections. We examined the relationship between mass media exposure and safer sex negotiation among women in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). (2) Methods: The study involved a cross-sectional analysis of Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data of 29 sub-Saharan African countries. A total of 224,647 women aged 15–49 were included in our analyses. We examined the association between mass media exposure and safer sex negotiation using binary logistic regression analysis. The results are presented using a crude odds ratio (cOR) and adjusted odds ratio (aOR), with their respective confidence intervals (CIs). Statistical significance was set at p < 0.05. (3) Results: The overall prevalence of safer sex negotiation among women in sexual unions in SSA was 71.6% (71.4–71.8). Women exposed to mass media had higher odds of negotiating for safer sex compared with those who had no exposure (aOR = 1.94; 95% CI = 1.86–2.02), and this persisted after controlling for covariates (maternal age, wealth index, maternal educational level, partner’s age, partner’s educational level, sex of household head, religion, place of residence, and marital status) (aOR = 1.40; 95% CI = 1.35–1.46). The disaggregated results showed higher odds of safer sex negotiation among women exposed to mass media in all the individual countries, except Ghana, Comoros, Rwanda, and Namibia. (4) Conclusions: The findings could inform policies (e.g., transformative mass media educational seminars) and interventions (e.g., face-to-face counselling; small group sensitization sessions) in SSA on the crucial role of mass media in increasing safer sex practice among women in sexual unions. To accelerate progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal five’s targets on empowering all women and safeguarding their reproductive rights, the study recommends that countries such as Ghana, Comoros, Rwanda, and Namibia need to intensify their efforts (e.g., regular sensitization campaigns) in increasing safer sex negotiation among women to counter power imbalances in sexual behaviour.

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Nworgu, K. O. "Mass media and the premarital sexual behaviour of the adolescents in Imo State, Nigeria." Revista Brasileira de Gestão Ambiental e Sustentabilidade 7, no. 17 (2020): 1257–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.21438/rbgas(2020)071716.

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The authors set to investigate the influence of the Mass Media on adolescents' knowledge of and behavior towards sex and sexuality, especially, regarding early sex, the use of contraceptives and condoms. The participants were drawn from five secondary schools in Owerri Municipality, the Capital of Imo State, Nigeria. The simple size included 100 respondents made up of males and females between the ages of 10 and 19 years drawn from simple random sampling. Questionnaire containing semi-structured (close-ended) questions. Interview sessions involving media workers form select radio, television and newspaper houses in Owerri were conducted. Three research questions and one hypothesis were used to straighten the study. Results showed the respondents mean age for first sex is 17.8 years. The findings show that the media did not have very significant influence at 0.05 on adolescents' sexual behavior, especially, as regards, having first sex experience. This result is explained by the fact that most the respondents lived in boarding hostels and may not have access to media, while in school. It was recommended the influence of family members, including parents and peer groups should be given priority attention when adolescent sexual behavior is discussed, especially, in Nigeria where extended family members play a vital role in the socialization of the adolescents.

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Mbaye, Aminata Cécile. "The spectacle of the ‘Other’: Media representations of same-sex sexuality in Senegal." Sexualities 24, no. 1-2 (January 31, 2020): 13–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460719893623.

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This article examines media representations of same-sex sexuality in Senegal, and analyses how same-sex sexuality has been covered in a selection of Senegalese newspapers since the early 2000s. Drawing on Stuart Hall’s perspective on the role of mass media and ideology and the theory of Critical Discourse Analysis, this article describes how discourses produced by selected Senegalese newspapers generate and circulate ideological meanings. This article intends to underline the ways in which Senegalese media have come to fabricate a certain image of gay and lesbian people, often portrayed as deviant, mad or abnormal.

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Ōmichi, Haruka. "The “Itako” as Mass Culture." Journal of Religion in Japan 5, no. 1 (2016): 22–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22118349-00501001.

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The folk shamans (minkan fusha 民間巫者) called itako イタコ, mainly active in Aomori and surrounding prefectures (Akita and Iwate), are well known nationwide thanks to mass media coverage. However, despite their increased visibility, there seems to be a gap between the itako as folk culture and the image of the “itako” as a component of the mass culture produced by the media. This article attempts to clarify the actual conditions of the itako from the 1970s to 1980s, especially focusing on the influence of the occult boom, by analyzing the discourse in print media. Beginning in the 1970s, the occult boom in Japan rediscovered the religiosity of the itako as the occult the masses wanted. As a result, the itako changed from being culturally other to part of “our” mysterious knowledge. Although this involved an attribution of value to the itako, it also meant that the religiosity of the itako was turned into an object of consumption for mass culture. This popularization of itako religiosity played a significant role in establishing the itako as a part of mass culture.

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Zhang, Liying, Xiaoming Li, and Iqbal H. Shah. "Where do Chinese adolescents obtain knowledge of sex? Implications for sex education in China." Health Education 107, no. 4 (June 26, 2007): 351–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09654280710759269.

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PurposeSex education in China has been promoted for many years, but limited data are available regarding the sources from which adolescents receive sex‐related knowledge. The present study was designed to examine the sources from which Chinese adolescents obtain their information on puberty, sexuality and STI/HIV/AIDS, and whether there are any differences in sources of sex knowledge according to adolescents' demographic characteristics and sexual status.Design/methodology/approachThe data were collected in 2001 in Changchun City, China. Unmarried adolescents 15‐19 years of age (322 males and 360 females) were included in a cross‐sectional survey using self‐administered questionnaires.FindingsSchoolteachers and mass media were identified as the two most important sources of sex knowledge. Sources of sex knowledge among adolescents on various topics (puberty, sexuality, and STI/HIV/AIDS) differed by the level of taboo associated with these topics in Chinese culture. The percentage of adolescents obtaining knowledge for puberty, sexuality, and STI/HIV/AIDS from teachers declined by topic (45.4, 30.7 and 18.4 percent, respectively), while the percentage of adolescents obtaining knowledge from television/movie increased by topic (6.7, 12.2 and 27.5 percent, respectively). Adolescents obtained knowledge on topics with less taboo (e.g. puberty) from teachers and obtained knowledge on topics with more taboo (e.g. sexuality, STI/HIV/AIDS) from mass media. However, this differs by having been sexually experienced or not. Parents were the primary source for sex knowledge on less taboo subjects. Doctors were the primary source for STI/HIV/AIDS knowledge. Sexually active adolescents obtained sex knowledge mainly from peers or mass media, while those adolescents who were not sexually experienced identified teachers and parents as the main sources of sex knowledge.Originality/valueThe current study illustrates that it is necessary to improve and enhance current sex education programs in China by recognizing and strengthening the role of parents, teachers, and health care professionals in adolescent sex education.

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Ndonye, Michael M. "Mass-Mediated Feminist Scholarship failure in Africa: Normalised Body-Objectification as Artificial Intelligence (AI)." Editon Consortium Journal of Media and Communication Studies 1, no. 1 (April 30, 2019): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.51317/ecjmcs.v1i1.47.

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Mass media culture and its role in defining, inculcating and shaping sexual orientation of a society cannot be gainsaid. In this paper, the mass-mediated western feminist scholarship failure in Africa is interrogated in the wake of Sex Robots such as ‘Samantha.’ The argument is that these sex robots function to normalise woman body objectification. The study aims to anchor on Pan African project perspective and the ontological formulation of the African woman as human-being deserving her voice concerning her experiences with patriarchal social structures. The mass media, in its romanticisation of western feminist scholarship denies African woman this voice. There are four fundamental questions central to this paper: 1) what are the epistemological foundations of western feminist scholarship in patriarchal Africa? 2) What is the political economy of western feminist scholarship in sex robotics in Africa? 3) Can sex robots fill the western-feminist-scholarship-born inorganic sexist relation in Africa? And 4) what alternative framework is fit for African woman transformation and emancipation project? The study analyses the feminist scholarship from the past, present and future to give possible solutions to challenges and failures of the strategy toward woman emancipation and transformative agenda in Africa and the developing world.

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Mironova, Anna Valeryevna, Viktoriya Grigor'yevna Balasanyan, and Karina Leonidovna Zhuravleva. "The role of the pediatrician in the sexual education of adolescent girls." Pediatrician (St. Petersburg) 6, no. 1 (March 15, 2015): 76–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/ped6176-80.

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Sex educationis a sistem of medical and pedogogical actions in order to teach parents, children, teenagers and young people right attitude to sex questions. For most people the nenecessity of sex education and sex enlighenment is obvious. It is caused by epidemic outbreak of sexually trancmitted diseases STD), the leadership of Russia in the abortion rate, low reproductive aspiration, the descencion of age of the beginning of sexual life and the increase of number of sex partners. Numerous of researches show that nowdays girls teenagers have low level of sex reprodactive education and inadequate sex education in their families, that does not go with modern requirments. The suorces of information of such issues as sex attitude, STD, abortion for teenagers are mass media and the Internet as well as close social enviroment (parents and family members - 59,8 %, friends - 44,6 %). The doctors are ment to play the lading role in sex education of teenagers, in the first place - pediatricians as they contact with the tenagers most closely and regularly. Most girls (77 %) would like to get information while talking to the doctor privatly; the other 23 % prefer lections at school, broshures and booklets. The article presents the theoretical and methodological foundation of sex education of teenagers, and the role of the pediatrician in it. The paper highlights the essential principles and ways of sex education.

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Susiyanah, Yuli. "CITRA PEREMPUAN DALAM IKLAN KECAP DI MEDIA MASSA." Islamic Communication Journal 4, no. 1 (July 7, 2019): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.21580/icj.2019.4.1.3525.

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<p>This article examines the image of women in soy sauce advertisements in the mass media. In general, the image of them in the mass media is depicted by stereotypes and patriarchal cultures inherent in them. They are generally described as agents of domestic roles and sex objects, who must be discriminated and subordinated. The theory used in this paper is gender relationship and mass media with qualitative content analysis. The theory is applied to analyze the positions between men and women in order to realize gender equality. Using qualitative content analysis, ABC soy sauce ads “true husbands want to cook” shows that there is a reconstruction concept of the relationship between men and women from a stereotypical and patriarchal culture to be a culture of gender equality. In this advertisement, the domestic job that is identified with the duty and responsibility of woman being able to be reconstructed into a role that can be performed by all people including men. It can shape public opinion about the image of women who must not be discriminated in the mass media.</p>

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Saragih, Hanna Sriyanti, Rika Dinata Sianturi, and Jujuren Sitepu. "FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG BERHUBUNGAN DENGAN SIKAP REMAJA KELAS XI TERHADAP HUBUNGAN SEKSUAL PRANIKAH (INTERCOURSE) DI SMA DHARMA BAKTI MEDAN TAHUN 2014." Jurnal Ilmiah PANNMED (Pharmacist, Analyst, Nurse, Nutrition, Midwivery, Environment, Dentist) 9, no. 1 (January 29, 2019): 49–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.36911/pannmed.v9i1.346.

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The lack of information received by adolescents about reproductive health and lack of knowledge causes an effect on adolescent attitudes toward sexual behavior. Destination of the research for factors associated with adolescent attitudes toward class xi premarital sexual relations (intercourse) Medan of Dharma Bakti Senior High School year 2014. The role of parents also influence adolescent attitudes toward premarital sexual relations. Additionally teenagers often receive information about sex instead of one source, even misleading, for example, of the mass media that actually abused by teens. This research is analytic approach to cross-sectional design with a sample size of 60 respondents. Data were analyzed using univariate and bivariate Chi-Square test. The analysis showed that factors associated with adolescent attitudes toward premarital sexual intercourse in high school is Dharma Bakti field of reproductive health knowledge p value = 0,005 (<0,05), the role of parents p value = 0,001 (<0,05), the role of the mass media p value = 0,010 (<0,05). It is expected that the school can make this research as a guide to improve the provision of information or education about reproductive health especially about sex education for adolescent in school.

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Puji, Lela Kania Rahsa, Melizsa Melizsa, Tri Okta Ratnaningtyas, Nur Hasanah, and Dwi Ambarwati. "HUBUNGAN PENGETAHUAN, PERAN MEDIA MASSA DAN PERAN KELUARGA TERHADAP PERILAKU SEKS PRANIKAH SISWA-SISWI SMK MUHAMMADIYAH LEBAKSIU." Edu Dharma Journal: Jurnal penelitian dan pengabdian masyarakat 5, no. 2 (September 29, 2021): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.52031/edj.v5i2.176.

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ABSTRACTBased on data from SKKRI (Indonesian Adolescent Reproductive Health Survey) teenagers claimed to have supports who had prenuptial sexual intercourse aged 14-19 years (women 34.7%, men 30.9%) 24-19 years old (female 48.6%, male 465%). The persistence of this study was to find out the relationship of knowledge, the role of mass media and the role of family with prenuptial sex behavior in students of grade XI SMK Muhammadiyah Lebaksiu. This study used cross sectional method with the purpose of significant the liaison of independent variables and dependents, data composed by using questionnaires. The number of samples was 133 grade XI students at SMK Muhammadiyah Lebaksiu. Results of the study students who had had prenuptial sex as many as 106 respondents (79.7%) and students who had never had prenuptial sex as many as 27 respondents (20.3%). Statistical results presented that there is a liaison between mass media (p.value = 0.013) and the family (p.value = 0.020) with prenuptial sex behavior. From the results of this research, it is expected that educational institutions provide information related to the knowledge and impact of prenuptial sex behavior and for students are expected to use their communication media more wisely and to always be open with their parents.ABSTRAKBerdasarkan data Survey Kesehatan Reproduksi Remaja Indonesia remaja mengakui memiliki teman yang sudah pernah melakukan hubungan seksual pranikah usia 14-19 tahun (laki-laki 30,9%, perempuan 34,7%,) usia 24-29 tahun (laki-laki 465%, perempuan 48,6%,). Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui hubungan pengetahuan, peran media massa dan peran keluarga dengan perilaku seks pranikah pada siswa-siswi kelas XI SMK Muhammadiyah Lebaksiu. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode cross sectional dengan tujuan mengetahui hubungan variabel independen dan dependen, data dikumpulkan menggunakan kuesioner. Sampel sebanyak 133 siswa kelas XI di SMK Muhammadiyah Lebaksiu. Dari hasil penelitian diperoleh diperoleh hasil siswa yang yang sudah pernah melakukan seks pranikah sebanyak 106 responden (79,7%) dan siswa yang belum pernah melakukan seks pranikah sebanyak 27 responden (20,3%). Dari hasil uji statistik didapatkan hasil yang menunjukan terdapat hubungan antara peran media massa (p.value = 0,013) dan peran keluarga (p.value = 0,020) dengan perilaku seks pranikah. Dari hasil penelitian ini diharapkan institusi pendidikan memberikan informasi terkait pengetahuan dan dampak dari perilaku seks pranikah serta bagi siswa-siswi diharapkan untuk menggunakan media komunikasinya lebih bijak dan agar selalu terbuka dengan orang tuanya.

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Mandaglio, Lia Alexandra. "Speaking across the divide: a Functional Grammar analysis of feminist and masculist reproductive rights rhetoric." International Journal of Law in Context 7, no. 1 (February 4, 2011): 47–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1744552310000406.

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AbstractThis article applies Systemic Functional Grammar and Critical Discourse Analysis to assess the linguistic choices of feminist and masculist reproductive rights rhetoric. It explains these methodologies and provides a discursive history of the reproductive rights movement. Publications of advocacy groups and the mass media are analysed as data of current rhetorical trends. These interpretations conclude that female-affirmative rhetoric offsets contemporary feminist efforts by marginalising men and excluding considerations of paternity. This article suggests that in solely emphasising women's procreative rights, such feminist rhetoric potentially renders women to the role of primary parental agent, reinforces traditional sex-stereotypes, and incites inter-sex antagonism.

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Listiorini, Dina, and Irene Santika Vidiadari. "News of LGBT on online media in 2020: endless stigma." Jurnal Studi Komunikasi (Indonesian Journal of Communications Studies) 6, no. 2 (July 30, 2022): 531–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.25139/jsk.v6i2.4886.

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Mass media and its content on various platforms play a significant role in shaping knowledge in society, including the knowledge about sexuality. This article discusses news on LGBT on four Indonesian online media—Viva.co.id, Republika.co.id, Tempo.co.id, and Detik.com—by conducting quantitative content analysis. The result shows that the news on LGBT in 2020 centred on three main issues: the ban on gay individuals joining the army/police, the male rape case committed by Reynhard Sinaga, and male same-sex sexual intercourse in Wisma Atlet. The news structure on LGBT does not pay attention to the information depth, as indicated by the lack of paragraph numbers in the news and the lack of 5W+1H construction. In addition, the coverage is often one-sided, making it unbalanced. Eventually, the construct about LGBT becomes biased.

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Dahlberg-Dodd, Hannah E. "Script variation as audience design: Imagining readership and community in Japanese yuri comics." Language in Society 49, no. 3 (November 26, 2019): 357–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404519000794.

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AbstractBuilding on recent work supporting a sociolinguistic approach to orthographic choice, this study engages with paratextual language use in yuri, a subgenre of Japanese shōjo manga ‘girls’ comics’ that centers on same-sex romantic and/or erotic relationships between female characters. The comic magazine Comic Yuri Hime has been the dominant, if not only, yuri-oriented published magazine in Japan since its inception in 2005. Though both written and consumed by a primarily female audience, the magazine has undergone numerous attempts to rebrand and refocus the target audience as a means to broaden the magazine's readership. This change in target demographic is reflected in the stylistic representation of paratextual occurrences of the second-person pronoun anata, indicating the role of the textual landscape in reflecting, and reifying, an imagined target audience. (Script variation, manga, popular media, Japan, yuri manga)

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Babintsev, Valentin P., Galina N. Gaidukova, and Zhanna A. Shapoval. "Сulture role in consolidation potential development for urban communities in augmented social reality." Revista de Investigaciones Universidad del Quindío 34, S3 (September 15, 2022): 166–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.33975/riuq.vol34ns3.1017.

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This present article mainly intends to evaluate conjunctive and disjunctive trends in modern urban culture development within the context of augmented social reality, which is characterized by hybridity, saturation with machinery and technology, the availability of communicators. The methodological foundation of the study is the materials of the sociological study carried out by the authors over the course of 2020 in three areas of Belgorod, including a) the questionnaire survey of the urban people (500 individuals) on the basis of a quota (by age and sex), multistage and zoned sampling; b) the expert surveys; c) Focus groups (urban youth, and mass media staff). Given the results of the conducted sociological study, the authors state the presence of a dynamic balance between disjunctive and conjunctive tendencies in the cultural sphere growth, at least in towns.

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Parvin, Gulsan Ara, Md Habibur Rahman, S. M. Reazul Ahsan, Md Anwarul Abedin, and Mrittika Basu. "Media discourse in China and Japan on the COVID-19 pandemic: comparative analysis of the first three months." Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 20, no. 2 (January 10, 2022): 308–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jices-05-2021-0047.

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Purpose This study aims to analyze how English-language versions of e-newspapers in the first two countries affected, China and Japan, which are non-English-speaking countries and have different socio-economic and political settings, have highlighted Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic news and informed the global community. Design/methodology/approach A text-mining approach was used to explore experts’ thoughts as published by the two leading English-language newspapers in China and Japan from January to March 2020. This study analyzes the Opinion section, which mainly comprises editorial and the op-ed section. The current study groups all editorial discussions and highlights into ten major aspects, which cover health, economy, politics, culture and others. Findings Within the first three months, the media in both China and Japan shifted their focus from health and preparedness to the economy, politics and social welfare. Governance and social welfare were key concerns in China’s news media, while, in contrast, global politics received the highest level of attention from experts in Japan’s news media. Environment and technologies aspects did not receive much attention by the expert’s columns. Originality/value At the initial stage of a world crisis, how leading nations and initially affected nations deal with the problem, how media play their role and guide mass population with experts’ thoughts are highlighted here. The understanding developed in this study can provide guidance to news media in other countries in playing effective roles in the management of this health crisis and catastrophes.

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Cort, David A., Kathryn Reynolds, and Debadatta Chakraborty. "HIV stigma beliefs and unprotected sex among teenagers and young adults in sub-Saharan Africa: The moderating role of mass media exposure." Social Science & Medicine 317 (January 2023): 115615. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115615.

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Warlenda, Sherly Vermita, Arief Wahyudi, and Zahra Sumayah Siregar. "Determinan Masturbasi pada Remaja di SMA Negeri 3 Tapung Kabupaten Kampartahun 2017." Jurnal Kesehatan Komunitas 4, no. 2 (December 30, 2018): 46–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.25311/keskom.vol4.iss2.257.

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Masturbation is the activity of stimulate with touch or sex organs own up and down my leg . It is influenced by a factor of the development of the reproductive organs of growth that occurs in adolescents. Due to change sexual maturity is biologically experienced by teenager is one of the things that can cause teenagers experienced confusion in the face of sexual impulse is by masturbates. This study aims to analyze determinan of masturbation in adolescents public SMA Negeri 3 Tapung Kampar district in 2017. Method this study used a cross sectional. The sample collection in this research be conducted by way of technique stratified random sampling namely high school students which is going to be based on the number of sample were randomly selected a total of desired many as 87 students . Analysis done in univariat and bivariat by test statistic chi-square aimed at independent and to connect between variable. The research results show that 75,9 % of respondents exposed to mass media, 78.2 % of respondents knowledge low, 60,9 % of respondents have people parents are not had a role, 77 % of respondents have leverage their peers an influential.From the test chi-square shows that there are meaningful relations between the media mass (pvalue = 0,001 and or = 6,591 2,126-20,429), knowledge (pvalue = 0,018 and or = or = 4,200 1,405-12,558 ), the role of parents (pvalue = 0,001 and or = 8,533 2,726-26,708 ), and influence their peers (pvalue = 0,005 and or = 5,091 1,713-15,128). The conclusion the results of research 4 variables studied (mass media, knowledge, parent role and peer influence) 4 variable have significant relationship with masturbation and suggestions to make parents more able to establish more intensive communicate with adolescents

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Sarjiati, Upik. "Nuclear Village and Risk Constructio Japan: A Lesson Learned for Indonesia." Journal of Indonesian Social Sciences and Humanities 5, no. 1 (October 5, 2017): 39–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.14203/jissh.v5i1.26.

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Japans success in the development of nuclear energy cannot be separated from the role of the nuclear village, a pro-nuclear group comprising experts, bureaucrats, politicians and the mass media. The nuclear village created an image of nuclear energy as safe, cheap and reliable. Using this nuclear village was one of the strategies used to construct a perception of the risk of nuclear energy. Thus, the acceptance by Japanese people of nuclear energy is an important factor in their support for economic development. However, the Fukushima nuclear accident changed the publics perception of nuclear energy and the Japanese Government was asked to end the operation of nuclear power plants. The government decided to change energy policy by phasing out nuclear power by the end of year 2030. Conversely, the Fukushima nuclear accident has not impeded the Indonesian Governments plans to build nuclear power plants. Thus, understanding how the Japanese Government managed nuclear risk is expected to raise Indonesian public awareness of such risks.

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Yoshikuni, Shinichi. "Financial Education Renaissance in Japan and the Role of CCFIS : A Policy Commentary." International Review of Financial Consumers 3, No. 2 Oct 2018 (October 1, 2018): 29–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.36544/irfc.2018.1-2.3.

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Financial education became a global agenda after the global financial crisis, and is one of the important elements of the SDGs. In Japan, although we have established a comprehensive system of financial education, the level of financial literacy is not high enough in comparison to other advanced economies. Rapid aging of the society and the increase in financial fraud demonstrate stronger need for enhancing the financial literacy of general public. The Central Council for Financial Services Information responded by publishing the Financial Literacy Map which describes the necessary knowledge and skills regarding money and finance, targeting at different age groups. We also conducted the Financial Literacy Survey, the result of which was widely reported by mass media. Based on the aforementioned products of our work, the Council is conducting various seminars, and publishing materials aimed at protecting consumers from financial fraud by enhancing their financial literacy and at providing necessary knowledge and skills to cope with the era of the 100-year life. In this connection, we are faced with the issue of how to enhance the financial literacy of teachers in times of rapid financial innovation, as well as in the unprecedented financial environment, such as the zero/negative interest rates. In particular, FinTech could have the effect of causing reverse literacy gap between teachers and students. In order to deal with such challenges, the Council is collaborating with relevant public and/or private institutions, e.g., the Financial Services Agency, local governments, representatives of financial institutions, to revive the spirit of Meiji era, when prominent figures stressed the importance of money in life. We should aim at “financial education renaissance” in Japan.

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Yulita, Irma Rachmi, and Susy Ong. "The Changing Image of Islam in Japan: The Role of Civil Society in Disseminating better Information about Islam." Al-Jami'ah: Journal of Islamic Studies 57, no. 1 (November 29, 2019): 51–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/ajis.2019.571.51-82.

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This research focuses on the changing of image on Islam in Japan and the efforts of Japan’s civil society to eradicate Islam’s negative image created by Japan’s mass media. In preparation for the coming 2020 Olympic Games, the government, the local NGO, and even individual are taking initiatives to create a Muslim-friendly atmosphere. I try to look into their efforts to disseminate information, as well as to counter demagogues about Islam and Muslim. I have conducted in-depth interviews with 10 Muslims residing in Japan added with 2 respondents taken from book, and compared their stories with Japanese articles, books, and academic journals. My conclusion is that despite the success in making Japanese society more amicable to foreign Muslims, the human relations problems within the Muslim community must take prioritize to improve the response of Japanese society.[Tulisan ini fokus pada perubahan citra Islam di Jepang dan usaha lembaga swadaya masyarakat (NGO) untuk mengurangi citra negatif Islam yang dibentuk oleh media massa Jepang. Menjelang pekan olahraga Olimpiade 2020, pemerintah, NGO lokal dan sebagian individu mengambil inisiatif menciptakan suasana yang ramah bagi muslim. Kami mengamati usaha mereka dalam merespon informasi yang menyudutkan agama Islam dan pemeluknya. Kami melakukan wawancara mendalam dengan 10 penduduk muslim di Jepang serta 2 informan literer. Kemudian kami membandingkan cerita mereka dengan berita, jurnal dan buku yang terbit di Jepang yang terkait dengan Islam. Meskipun mereka cukup berhasil meyakinkan masyarakat Jepang, tetapi persoalan hubungan antar sesama kelompok muslim perlu menjadi prioritas dalam rangka meningkatkan respon positif masyarakat Jepang.]

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El-Qaderi, Saleh S. "Assessment of Health Awareness and its Sources among Journalism and Mass Communication Students at Yarmouk University, Jordan." International Quarterly of Community Health Education 17, no. 1 (April 1997): 77–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/66bw-ktg9-qe5x-rrn7.

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This study assesses the overall health awareness level of students of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at Yarmouk University/Jordan who are supposed to have an important leadership role among mass media professionals in Jordan. A Health Awareness Test (HAT) was administered to a random sample of 139 students of this group (52.85% of the target population). Findings revealed that their overall average performance on the HAT was significantly much lower than the acceptable criterion score determined by the HAT authors. Female students' performance on the HAT was significantly higher than males' performance. The academic level of these students (2nd, 3rd or 4th academic year) did not have significant influence on their scores. Furthermore, the two-way ANOVA analysis showed that there was no significant difference in the achievement of the study subjects on the HAT by sex and academic level. The major sources of the health awareness information of these students ranked by order were: mass media, self-education, academic preparation (information included in the curricula), family and peers, and finally cultural events in the form of extra-curricular activities at the University. Recommendations based upon these results are given.

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Montagnana, Martina, Elisa Danese, Alice Giontella, Sara Bonafini, Marco Benati, Angela Tagetti, Andrea Dalbeni, et al. "Circulating Bile Acids Profiles in Obese Children and Adolescents: A Possible Role of Sex, Puberty and Liver Steatosis." Diagnostics 10, no. 11 (November 20, 2020): 977. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics10110977.

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Background. Childhood obesity is becoming a major health issue and contributes to increasing the risk of cardiovascular disease in adulthood. Since dysregulated metabolism of bile acids (BAs) plays a role in progression of obesity-related disorders, including steatosis and hypertension, this study aimed to investigate BAs profiles in obese children with and without steatosis and hypertension, as well as exploring the interplay between BAs profile and vascular function. Methods. BAs concentrations were quantified with liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry in 69 overweight/obese children and adolescents (mean age, 11.6 ± 2.5 years; 30 females). Liver steatosis was defined with abdomen ultrasonography, whilst hypertension was defined according to the current European guidelines. Vascular function was assessed with ultrasound technique, by measuring carotid intima media thickness (cIMT) and common carotid artery distensibility (cDC). Results. Total and individual glycine-conjugated BAs concentrations were found to be significantly higher in males compared to females, as well as in pre-pubertal compared to pubertal stage (p < 0.05 for both). No difference in BAs concentration was observed between hypertensive and normotensive subjects. Total BAs and glycine conjugated BAs were significantly higher in participants with steatosis compared to those without (p = 0.004 for both). The values of total glycine-conjugate acids were positively correlated with cDC and this association remained significant in linear regression after adjusting for sex, age, pubertal stage, body mass index and aspartate aminotransferase. Conclusion. The results suggest a possible role of BAs in the pathogenesis of liver and/or vascular damage in children and adolescent. Further studies are hence needed to validate these preliminary findings.

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Hardjosoekarto, Sudarsono, Nadia Yovani, and Lea Santiar. "Institutional Strengthening for the Role of Mass Media in Disaster Risk Reduction in Japan and Indonesia: An Application of SSM-Based Action Research." Systemic Practice and Action Research 27, no. 3 (March 22, 2013): 227–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11213-013-9282-z.

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Suardani, Nyoman, Dewa Nyoman Wirawan, and Anak Agung Sagung Sawitri. "The role of information sources and characteristics of children in the acceptance of Japanese encephalitis (JE) mass immunization in Bali Province." Public Health and Preventive Medicine Archive 7, no. 2 (December 1, 2019): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.15562/phpma.v7i2.210.

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ABSTRACTBackground and purpose: Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a public health issue that can be prevented by immunization programs. Indonesia began the JE immunization campaign in Bali through simultaneous immunization for children aged 9 months to 15 years. Although information dissemination has been carried out, knowledge, perceptions and characteristics of mother and child can influence the acceptance and uptake of immunization for children. This study aims to determine the factors that influence acceptance of JE mass immunization in Bali Province.Methods: Secondary data analysis was performed on the results of the JE Supplementary Immunization Activities (SIA) Udayana University survey which consisted of 1,284 mothers and 2,107 children. The survey was conducted from June-August 2018 in nine districts/cities in Bali Province. The association between knowledge, perception and respondentsâ€™ characteristics with acceptance of JE mass immunization was analyzed with chi square test and multivariate analysis was conducted using logistic regression.Results: The proportion of children who received immunization was 93.9% (95%CI: 92.8-94.9). The results of the bivariate analysis showed that there was a significant association between acceptance of JE mass immunization with the childâ€™s age, sex, educational status, complete basic immunization history, motherâ€™s perception of severity, benefits, barriers, knowledge and sources of information (p<0.05). Multivariate analysis shows that the variables which significantly increase JE mass immunization acceptance are information from a combination of media and face to face education (AOR=3.95; 95%CI: 2.01-7.77), schooling children (AOR=2.43; 95%CI: 1.23-4.79), living outside of Denpasar City (AOR=2.32; 95%CI: 1.49-3.62), children who have received complete basic immunization (AOR=2.22; 95%CI:1.42-3.49), face to face information only (AOR=2.11; 95%CI: 1.21-3.70) and girls (AOR=1.68; 95%CI: 1.15-2.46).Conclusion: Information disseminated via a combination of media and face to face is the strongest variable influencing JE mass immunization acceptance. Providing appropriate information through a combination of media and face to face education by health or non-health workers needs to be considered.Â Keywords: Catch-up campaign, immunization campaign, Japanese encephalitis

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Farrall, Kenneth. "Online Collectivism, Individualism and Anonymity in East Asia." Surveillance & Society 9, no. 4 (June 20, 2012): 424–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ss.v9i4.4344.

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Anonymity on the internet has come under increasing criticism as a threat to public civility and safety. This article draws data from related academic studies, trade press and mass media to examine recent variations in the salience, use, and comparative value of anonymity, and its tripartite relationship with individuality and collectivism, across three specific cultural contexts: China, South Korea, and Japan. While online anonymity in East Asia plays a role in affiliation and in acts of collective cognition, it is also valued as an individual privacy resource. We must be especially wary about assuming social systems might be better off, more secure, without it.

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Videira-Silva, Antonio, Luis B. Sardinha, and Helena Fonseca. "Atherosclerosis Prevention in Adolescents with Obesity: The Role of Moderate–Vigorous Physical Activity." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 23 (November 23, 2022): 15537. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315537.

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Carotid intima–media thickness (cIMT) is a subclinical marker of atherosclerotic development, which is impaired in adolescents with obesity. This study aimed to analyze the impact of physical activity (PA), cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), body mass index (BMI), and body composition changes on the cIMT of adolescents with obesity. Longitudinal data (6 months) from adolescents aged 12–18 years, with a BMI ≥97th percentile, previously recruited for the non-randomized controlled trial PAC-MAnO (Clinicaltrials.gov-NCT02941770) were analyzed using partial correlations controlling for sex and pubertal status and multiple regressions. A total of 105 adolescents (51.4% girls, 86.7% Caucasian), 14.8 ± 1.8 years old, with a BMI z-score of 3.09 ± 0.74 were included. Total body fat mass (TBFM) (F(1,91) = 23.11, p < 0.001), moderate–vigorous PA (MVPA) (F(1,91) = 7.93, p = 0.0006), and CRF (mL/kg/min) (F(1,90) = 19.18, p < 0.001) predicted cIMT variance with an R2 of 0.24, 0.09, and 0.23, respectively. MVPA changes showed a high correlation with CRF variation (r(91) = 0.0661, p < 0.001). This study suggests that although cIMT is impaired in overweight adolescents, improvements in TBFM, MVPA, and CRF are associated with cIMT improvement. Although both energy intake and MVPA may influence TBFM, MVPA plays the most relevant role in cIMT development due to its direct association with CRF.

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Sharma, Rajesh. "Understanding Indian Consumer Attitudes towards Celebrity Based Television Advertising (CBTA)." Management and Labour Studies 34, no. 2 (May 2009): 165–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0258042x0903400201.

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Despite the obvious economic advantage of using relatively unknown personalities as endorsers in advertising campaigns, the choice of celebrities to fulfill that role has become common practice for companies competing in today's cluttered media environment During the past decades, celebrities have had a growing influence on consumers through mass media such as television. The proliferation of entertainment media worldwide has increased the exposure of celebrities to consumers and given them i.e., celebrities, an iconic status. In this article, we explore few important research questions. First, we seek to determine how attractive is celebrity based television advertising (CBTA) to the Indian consumer and what is the effect of CBTA on consumers' brand choice behavior? Next, we seek to explain how important is the celebrity-product match up? Lastly we seek to explain whether consumer attitudes towards CBTA, with respect to brand-choice behavior, vary by demographic variables such as sex and income. These research objectives were pursued through the empirical study of respondents in New Delhi. The data was analyzed primarily by One Sample t-test and One Way ANOVA. The main findings showed that the Indian consumers were interested in celebrity endorsements in advertising and found it attractive. Further, CBTA was found to positively influence consumers' brand choice behaviour. The study also found that celebrity-product match up was important for customers and that consumers' brand-choice is influenced by CBTA, due to demographic characteristics such as sex and income.

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Stead, Martine, Kathryn Angus, Tessa Langley, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Kate Hinds, Shona Hilton, Sarah Lewis, et al. "Mass media to communicate public health messages in six health topic areas: a systematic review and other reviews of the evidence." Public Health Research 7, no. 8 (April 2019): 1–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.3310/phr07080.

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BackgroundMass media campaigns can be used to communicate public health messages at the population level. Although previous research has shown that they can influence health behaviours in some contexts, there have been few attempts to synthesise evidence across multiple health behaviours.ObjectivesTo (1) review evidence on the effective use of mass media in six health topic areas (alcohol, diet, illicit drugs, physical activity, sexual and reproductive health and tobacco), (2) examine whether or not effectiveness varies with different target populations, (3) identify characteristics of mass media campaigns associated with effectiveness and (4) identify key research gaps.DesignThe study comprised (1) a systematic review of reviews, (2) a review of primary studies examining alcohol mass media campaigns, (3) a review of cost-effectiveness evidence and (4) a review of recent primary studies of mass media campaigns conducted in the UK. A logic model was developed to inform the reviews. Public engagement activities were conducted with policy, practitioner and academic stakeholders and with young people.ResultsThe amount and strength of evidence varies across the six topics, and there was little evidence regarding diet campaigns. There was moderate evidence that mass media campaigns can reduce sedentary behaviour and influence sexual health-related behaviours and treatment-seeking behaviours (e.g. use of smoking quitlines and sexual health services). The impact on tobacco use and physical activity was mixed, there was limited evidence of impact on alcohol use and there was no impact on illicit drug behaviours. Mass media campaigns were found to increase knowledge and awareness across several topics, and to influence intentions regarding physical activity and smoking. Tobacco and illicit drug campaigns appeared to be more effective for young people and children but there was no or inconsistent evidence regarding effectiveness by sex, ethnicity or socioeconomic status. There was moderate evidence that tobacco mass media campaigns are cost-effective, but there was weak or limited evidence in other topic areas. Although there was limited evidence on characteristics associated with effectiveness, longer or greater intensity campaigns were found to be more effective, and messages were important, with positive and negative messages and social norms messages affecting smoking behaviour. The evidence suggested that targeting messages to target audiences can be effective. There was little evidence regarding the role that theory or media channels may play in campaign effectiveness, and also limited evidence on new media.LimitationsStatistical synthesis was not possible owing to considerable heterogeneity across reviews and studies. The focus on review-level evidence limited our ability to examine intervention characteristics in detail.ConclusionsOverall, the evidence is mixed but suggests that (1) campaigns can reduce sedentary behaviour, improve sexual health and contribute to smoking cessation, (2) tobacco control campaigns can be cost-effective, (3) longer and more intensive campaigns are likely to be more effective and (4) message design and targeting campaigns to particular population groups can be effective.Future workFuture work could fill evidence gaps regarding diet mass media campaigns and new-media campaigns, examine cost-effectiveness in areas other than tobacco and explore the specific contribution of mass media campaigns to multicomponent interventions and how local, regional and national campaigns can work together.Study registrationThis study is registered as PROSPERO CRD42015029205 and PROSPERO CRD42017054999.FundingThe National Institute for Health Research Public Health Research programme.

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Wei-ming, Tu. "The Rise of Industrial East Asia: The Role of Confucian Values." Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies 4 (May 5, 1989): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/cjas.v4i1.1767.

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The study of East Asia as an intriguing Problematik in the field of economic development and as a methodological challenge in comparative politics has fascinated academicians in North America and in Western Europe for a whole generation. Only recently has it become a major concern of policy makers and the general public in the so-called First World. Ironically, as government officials and the mass media begin to show great interest in the rise of industrial East Asia, cautious academicians feel compelled to make more differentiated observations about the region. As a result, the public demand for broad generalizations is often met with considerable qualifications from the academic community. Indeed, scholarly efforts have been made to show that the whole concept, "Industrial East Asia," may be inadvisable, that Japan is an anomaly on the world economic stage and that the rise of these states as the most dynamic region in international trade has very little to do with shared cultural orientations. As a student of East Asian culture, I am excited that interpreting East Asia in the light of conceptual resources learned from the West, originally the professional goal of a small coterie of like-minded researchers, is now shared by a widening network of concerned citizens of the world. I am also grateful that fascination with Japan and the Four "Mini-Dragons" has progressed from exclusively economic and political analyses to include social studies and cultural appreciation. I use the word "progressed" advisedly. Even though I emphasize the vital importance of culture in our understanding of East Asia, I am fully cognizant of factors such as international trade, the geopolitical situation and the institutional sector in formulating an explanation for the rise of industrial East Asia.

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Nichols, Kellea, Audrey Poupeau, Eva Gatineau, Gertrude Arthur, Ming Gong, Volkhard Lindner, and Frederique Yiannikouris. "Sex-Specific Difference in Adipose Tissue and Blood Pressure in a New Mouse Model Expressing Human Soluble Prorenin Receptor in Adipocytes." Current Developments in Nutrition 4, Supplement_2 (May 29, 2020): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzaa040_056.

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Abstract Objectives Sex differences exist in obesity associated with cardiovascular disease; however, underlying mechanisms are not completely understood. Previous studies from our laboratory demonstrated that the prorenin receptor (PRR) and its soluble form (sPRR) contribute to adipogenesis and blood pressure control. The present study aimed to determine whether adipose-sPRR stimulated obesity is associated with hypertension and whether it is sex-dependent. Methods Transgenic mice on the C57BL/6 J background were generated expressing the human form of the soluble prorenin receptor (HsPRR) in a Cre-inducible manner. Male mice expressing Cre recombinase under the control of the adiponectin promotor were bred to heterozygote HsPRR/+ female mice to generate mice over-secreting sPRR (adi-HsPRR) and control littermate mice (CTL). The secretion of sPRR in the media doubled in primary adipocytes of adi-HsPRR mice compared to control mice (sPRR. CTL: 3729 ± 805 pg/ml; adi-HsPRR: 6170 ± 1237 pg/ml, P < 0.05) validating the mouse model. Male (CTL = 4; adi-HsPRR = 8) and female mice (CTL = 10; adi-HsPRR = 10) were fed a low-fat (LF) diet or a high-fat diet (HF) for 20 weeks. Body weight was assessed weekly and EchoMRI was examined monthly. Results After 20 weeks on LF diet, adi-HsPRR male mice gained significantly more weight than CTL male mice (CTL: 25.1 ± 0.8 g; adi-HsPRR: 29.0 ± 0.8 g P < 0.05), whereas no significant differences in body weights were observed in female mice. The body composition revealed a significant increase of fat mass, specifically in the epidydimal fat (CTL: 0.35 ± 0.04 g; adi-HsPRR: 0.61 ± 0.07 g, P < 0.05), and lean mass of HsPRR male mice compared to CTL male mice. In contrast, female mice exhibited similar body weights (CTL: 20.6 ± 0.3 g; adi-HsPRR: 20.4 ± 0.4 g) and there was no differences of fat mass or lean mass between CTL and adi-HsPRR female mice. The sex-specific mechanism of sPRR on adipogenesis and blood pressure (by radiotelemetry) with LF and HF diet is currently under investigation. Conclusions Overall, sPRR stimulated body weight gain and fat mass expansion in male mice but not in female mice suggesting that female mice are protected from sPRR induced-hypertrophic effect. Funding Sources R01_HL142969–01 Yiannikouris, PI 07/15/2018–06/30/2022 NIH/NHLBI Title: The role of soluble prorenin receptor in hypertension associated with obesity Role: Ph.D Graduate Student.

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Lemon, Jennifer. "Popular culture and the 'crisis of masculinity'." Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa 11, no. 2 (November 7, 2022): 5–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.36615/jcsa.v11i2.1976.

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The eighties and nineties have wit nessed a renewed and unpre cedented Interest in men and mas culinity due to the emergence of the alleged contemporary 'crisis of masculinity'. This has been most preva lent in popular culture representations, which appear on the sur face to offer the modern man a whole range of 'new' roles and rela tionships, freeing him from patria chal entrapment and the dicates and demands of the traditional male sex role. The New Man Is Imaged as soft, sensitive, expressive and un afraid to show his emotions. New erotosized Images have made their appearance, and men are Imaged as sex objects in a way that only women were represented In the past. However, the question arises as to what these Images mean, and whether or not they represent any change In the patriarchal status quo In Western societies. In this article an attempt is made to deconstruct some of the new notions of masculinity in the light of the contempo rary 'crisis of masculinity', and the new popular culture representations of men In the mass media.

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Lear, Scott A., Lindsei K. Sarna, Timothy J. Siow, G. B. John Mancini, Yaw L. Siow, and Karmin O. "Oxidative stress is associated with visceral adipose tissue and subclinical atherosclerosis in a healthy multi-ethnic population." Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism 37, no. 6 (December 2012): 1164–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/h2012-107.

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Oxidative stress plays an important role in the development of atherosclerosis. Excess visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and increased carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) are risk factors for coronary artery disease. We tested the hypothesis that VAT and IMT were associated with systemic oxidative stress. Healthy men and women (n = 565) matched for ethnicity (Aboriginal, Chinese, European, and South Asian) were recruited. Plasma malondialdehyde, a biomarker of oxidative stress, was measured as thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS). VAT and IMT were determined by computerized tomography and ultrasound scans, respectively. Plasma TBARS levels correlated with VAT and total atheroma burden (sum of IMT area and plaque area) in the entire cohort. When stratified by ethnicity, plasma TBARS levels correlated with distinct body composition and arterial measures in different ethnic populations with more associations present amongst Chinese and Europeans relative to Aboriginals and South Asians. VAT was associated with plasma TBARS levels independent of age, sex, ethnicity, smoking, and body mass index. Plasma TBARS levels were associated with IMT, the presence of plaques, and total atheroma burden, independent of age, sex, ethnicity, smoking, body mass index, and VAT. The association with total atheroma burden remained significant even when adjusted for apolipoprotein B. Results from the present study indicate that oxidative stress is positively associated with VAT as well as diffuse and focal carotid atherosclerosis in apparently healthy men and women.

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FELDMAN, OFER, and KAZUHISA KAWAKAMI. "Leaders and Leadership in Japanese Politics." Comparative Political Studies 22, no. 3 (October 1989): 265–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010414089022003002.

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This article attempts to observe Japanese students' perceptions of political figures during an election time, and to examine the factors that most dominantly contribute to such images. Employing a sample collected from more than 1,100 students at four universities in Japan, the discussion focuses on measuring the extent to which the respondents evaluated each of the political figures who were candidates for the premiership, the way they structured their evaluations, and the effects of variables such as political involvement and media exposure on this process. The findings show that, although there were no significant differences in the leadership style of the political figures, negative evaluations as a whole were expressed toward the candidate with the most potential ability to become the premier. Moreover, the respondents clustered their perceptions according to five clear dimensions, most notably in regard to the leaders' performance and contact with others. In addition, it was found that-more than any other factor-the mass media played a crucial role in determining the way the leaders were evaluated.

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Tivesten, Åsa, Johannes Hulthe, Karin Wallenfeldt, John Wikstrand, Claes Ohlsson, and Björn Fagerberg. "Circulating Estradiol Is an Independent Predictor of Progression of Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness in Middle-Aged Men." Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 91, no. 11 (November 1, 2006): 4433–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1210/jc.2006-0932.

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Abstract Context: Estrogen treatment of men with prostate cancer is associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality; however, the role of endogenous estrogen levels for atherosclerotic disease in men is unknown. Objective: The objective of the study was to determine whether endogenous serum estradiol (E2) levels predict the progression of carotid artery intima-media thickness in men. Design, Setting and Participants: This was a population-based, prospective cohort study (the Atherosclerosis and Insulin Resistance study) conducted in Göteborg, Sweden, among 313 Caucasian men without cardiovascular or other clinically overt diseases. Carotid artery intima-media thickness, an index of preclinical atherosclerosis, was measured by ultrasound at baseline (58 yr of age) and after 3 yr of follow-up. Serum sex hormone levels and cardiovascular risk factors (body mass index, waist to hip ratio, systolic blood pressure, serum triglycerides, plasma c-peptide, and smoking status) were assessed at study entry. Intervention: There was no intervention. Main Outcome Measures: Association between baseline total and free E2 levels and progression of carotid intima-media thickness over 3 yr with adjustments for cardiovascular risk factors was measured. Results: In univariate analyses, both total and free E2 levels at baseline were positively associated with the annual change in intima-media thickness. In linear regression models including E2 and cardiovascular risk factors, low-density lipoprotein and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and E2 were identified as independent predictors of progression of carotid artery intima-media thickness (total E2 beta = 0.187, P = 0.001; and free E2 beta = 0.183, P = 0.003). Conclusions: Circulating E2 is a predictor of progression of carotid artery intima-media thickness in middle-aged men. Further studies are needed to investigate the role of endogenous E2 for incident cardiovascular disease events.

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Ranford, Aiden. "Targeted translation." Journal of Internationalization and Localization 4, no. 2 (December 31, 2017): 141–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jial.00006.ran.

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Abstract Japanese popular culture in the form of anime, manga, and videogames, enjoys significant popularity with diehard international fan groups, who have often become acquainted with aspects of Japanese culture through fan-translated media. However, this base of knowledgeable fans stands unique amongst standard translation practice, which seeks to iron out cultural specificities to create a text that reads flawlessly for a mass audience. This article therefore sets out to explain how videogame translators adopt targeted translation strategies to make their products more marketable to either a mass audience, the members of which may be ignorant, ambivalent, or even hostile to Japanese pop culture products, or to dedicated niche fan groups whose interest in Japan has been stoked by unofficial translations that frequently position themselves as the only avenue for accessing an “authentic” text. The final releases for eight pairs of Japanese games from the Role-Playing Game genre will be analysed to illustrate how far-reaching translation decisions have been used to make individual games more marketable to either group.

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Menon, Bindu, and Ramalingam Krishnan. "Role of Leptin in Acute Ischemic Stroke." Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice 09, no. 03 (July 2018): 376–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jnrp.jnrp_5_18.

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ABSTRACT Purpose: Leptin has been implicated as a pathogenetic contributor to atherosclerosis. We aimed to investigate the association of leptin level with ischemic stroke. Materials and Methods: We prospectively enrolled 52 patients with acute ischemic stroke and measured leptin levels and compared with age- and sex-matched healthy controls. Risk factors, body mass index (BMI), biochemical parameters, intima–media thickness (IMT) on carotid vertebral Doppler and neuroimaging was done. Data were entered into MS-Excel and appropriate statistical analysis was done using SPSS software version 21.0. P = 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Serum leptin was significantly elevated in stroke patients (6598.1 ± 1035.1) compared to controls (3090.7 ± 698.86) (P < 0.01). Patients had higher BMI (26.9 ± 1.7) than controls (26.9 ± 1.7) (P < 0.00). BMI, total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, white blood cell (WBC) count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), and C reactive protein (CRP) were significantly elevated in stroke patients than controls. Correlation analysis among patient group showed that serum leptin positively correlated with CRP (r - 0.41, P - <0.05), WBCs (r - 0.28, P - <0.05), ESR (r - 0.429, P - <0.01) total cholesterol (r - 0.31, P - <0.05), LDL-cholesterol (r - 0.19, P - <0.05), and IMT (r - 0.714, P - <0.001). Conclusion: Our study showed high leptin levels in patients with stroke. Stroke patients with high leptin had higher BMI and inflammatory markers. The results of our study indicate that leptin may have a role in atherosclerosis mediated through inflammation. Future research should be directed toward understanding the role of leptin in the pathogenesis of cerebrovascular diseases and its potential role in preventive treatment of ischemic stroke.

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Dewi, Agustina Kusuma, Yasraf Amir Piliang, and Irfansyah Irfansyah. "DELEUZE CINEMATICA’ ETHIC IN JAVA WOMEN'S REPRESENTATION ON ‘SETAN JAWA’ GARIN NUGROHO'S FILM." VISUALITA 8, no. 1 (August 16, 2019): 39–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.33375/vslt.v8i1.1867.

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Film is a medium of visual communication that plays a role in the dissemination of women's concept discourse in Indonesia, one of which is due to its distinctive characteristics that can last for a long period of time, potentially wider in its dissemination, including also being a mass media hypnotic culture. The film is closely related to the concept of gaze, male gaze in the cinematography industry, which according to overly uses men's views, which is positioning women as subjects who have no power over themselves (self-possessiveness) but as objects of male gaze. Women become commodities in the film, a sex object that is commodified to construct an image that represents the position of women is as an additional role that is not important in one film narrative. In the male gaze narration, women in the film do not act, but become part of the actions of men. Morally, male gaze assumes that the behavior of women in films has a vacuum, but in Garin Nugroho's 'Setan Jawa’ using Deleuze's cinematic study, women are positioned to have other representations that differ from the ethics of cinematics which do not place women as signs of sex objectification for the sake of fulfillment of men's desires, but as subjects who are fully empowered and may wish of themselves.

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Kelishadi, Roya, Mohammad Hashemi, Noushin Mohammadifard, Sedigheh Asgary, and Noushin Khavarian. "Association of Changes in Oxidative and Proinflammatory States with Changes in Vascular Function after a Lifestyle Modification Trial Among Obese Children." Clinical Chemistry 54, no. 1 (January 1, 2008): 147–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1373/clinchem.2007.089953.

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Abstract Background: The association of changes in oxidative and proinflammatory states with vascular function after diet and exercise intervention among obese children has not been previously explored. Methods: In this 6-week diet and exercise intervention study in 35 obese children, age 12 to 18 years, we evaluated the relationship between changes in anthropometric indices, measures of insulin resistance, C-reactive protein (CRP), oxidized LDL (ox-LDL), and oxidative stress markers with changes in carotid intima-media thickness (C-IMT) and flow mediated dilation (FMD) of the brachial artery. Results: At the end of the study, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, and percentage body fat were decreased (P <0.05), but participants remained overweight (BMI ≥ 95th percentile). Although FMD improved (P <0.05), the improvement in C-IMT did not reach statistical significance. The changes in BMI, waist circumference, fat mass, ox-LDL, malondialdehyde (MDA), CRP, insulin, and homeostasis model assessment for insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) had an inverse correlation with the changes in mean FMD after adjustment for age and sex, with the highest correlations documented for ox-LDL, CRP, and WC. The age- and sex-adjusted changes in ox-LDL, waist circumference, CRP, MDA, and body fat mass had the highest correlations with changes in C-IMT. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that a common inflammatory stress condition associated with childhood obesity, notably with abdominal fat deposition, may play a role in the development of the earliest stages of proatherosclerotic inflammatory processes and subsequent vascular dysfunction. These changes might be partially reversible by short-term diet and exercise intervention, even if patients do not reach ideal body weight.

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Chen, Li, Haidong Zhu, Shaoyong Su, Gregory Harshfield, Jennifer Sullivan, Clinton Webb, James A. Blumenthal, et al. "High-Mobility Group Box-1 Is Associated With Obesity, Inflammation, and Subclinical Cardiovascular Risk Among Young Adults." Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology 40, no. 11 (November 2020): 2776–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/atvbaha.120.314599.

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Objective: We aimed to characterize circulating HMGB1 (high-mobility group box-1) levels, one of the better-characterized damage-associated molecular patterns, with respect to age, sex, and race in the general population, and investigate the longitudinal associations of HMGB1 with inflammatory markers, obesity, and preclinical markers of cardiovascular disease. Approach and Results: The analyses included 489 participants (50% Blacks, aged 24.6±3.3 years at the first visit) with up to 4 follow-up visits (1149 samples) over a maximum of 8.5 years. Systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity, and carotid intima-media thickness together with plasma HMGB1, hs-CRP (high-sensitivity C-reactive protein), IFN-γ (interferon-γ), IL-6 (interleukin-6), IL-10 (interleukin-10), and TNF-α (tumor necrosis factor-α) were measured at each visit. At baseline, plasma HMGB1 concentrations were higher in Blacks compared with Whites (3.86 versus 3.20 ng/mL, P <0.001), and in females compared with males (3.75 versus 3.30 ng/mL, P =0.005). HMGB1 concentrations increased with age ( P =0.007), and higher levels of obesity measures ( P <0.001). Without adjustment for age, sex, race, and body mass index, HMGB1 concentrations were positively associated with hs-CRP, IL-6, TNF-α, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity ( P <0.05) but not IL-10, IFN-γ or carotid intima-media thickness. After covariate adjustments, the associations of HMGB1 with hs-CRP, and carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity remained statistically significant ( P <0.05). Conclusions: This study demonstrates the age, sex, and race differences in circulating HMGB1. The increasing circulating concentrations of HMGB1 with age suggest a potential role of HMGB1 in the pathogenesis of chronic low-grade inflammation, obesity, and subclinical cardiovascular disease risk.

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Carmina, E., E. Guastella, R. A. Longo, G. B. Rini, and R. A. Lobo. "Correlates of increased lean muscle mass in women with polycystic ovary syndrome." European Journal of Endocrinology 161, no. 4 (October 2009): 583–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1530/eje-09-0398.

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ObjectiveMuscle mass plays an important role in determining cardiovascular and metabolic risks in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). In addition, whether lean mass influences carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) in PCOS has not been assessed.DesignProspective investigation.MethodsNinety-five women with PCOS were age- and weight-matched to 90 ovulatory controls. All women had dual X-ray absorptiometry for lean, fat and bone mass, and bone mass density (BMD). Serum testosterone, sex hormone-binding globulin, insulin, and glucose and carotid IMT were determined. Free androgen index (FAI) and insulin resistance (by QUICKI) were calculated.ResultsIn PCOS, waist circumference and insulin were higher and QUICKI lower than in controls (P<0.01). Trunk fat mass, % trunk fat, and lean mass were higher in PCOS compared to controls (P<0.01), while total bone mass and BMD were similar. IMT was increased in PCOS (P<0.01) but only 15% of PCOS patients had abnormal (≥0.9 mm) values. Lean mass correlated with fat parameters, insulin, QUICKI, and FAI, but not with total testosterone; and after adjustments for insulin and QUICKI, lean mass still correlated with fat mass (P<0.01) but not FAI. Lean mass correlated with IMT (P<0.01), but this was dependent on insulin. However, excluding those patients with abnormal IMT values, IMT correlated with lean mass independently of insulin. Bone mass correlated with lean and fat mass, but not with insulin or androgen. PCOS patients with ‘pathological’ IMT values had higher % trunk fat, lean mass, and insulin, lower QUICKI, and higher testosterone and FAI compared with those with normal IMT.ConclusionLean mass is increased in PCOS, while bone mass is similar to that of matched controls. The major correlates of lean mass are fat mass and insulin but not androgen. Lean mass also correlated with IMT, and although influenced by insulin, small changes in IMT may partially reflect changes in muscle mass, while clearly abnormal values relate to more severe abnormalities of PCOS.

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Larsen, Gretchen. "‘It’s a man’s man’s man’s world’: Music groupies and the othering of women in the world of rock." Organization 24, no. 3 (May 2017): 397–417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508416689095.

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Groupies are understood as a particular type of fan that are most commonly associated with rock music. The ‘groupie’ identity is almost exclusively applied to female fans but sometimes also to female music producers and is largely used in a derogatory manner both by the popular media and by fans themselves. This article argues that the ‘groupie’ identity is used to ‘other’ and exclude women from creative production in rock music. This study draws on a rhetorical analysis of five published biographical accounts of groupies to examine how the labeling of certain people as ‘groupies’ works as an othering practice that serves to support and maintain the gendered norms of rock and identifies three underlying discursive processes. First, popular and music media played a significant role in stereotyping groupie as female right from the emergence of the label. Second, the notions of ‘credibility’ and ‘authenticity’, which are central to serious music journalism, are constructed in such a way as to stigmatize and therefore exclude women from rock, primarily by reframing ‘groupies’ as inauthentic consumers rather than proper fans. Finally, the intertwining of femininity with fandom, as occurs in groupiedom, serves to magnify cultural assumptions about women as sex objects and as passive consumers of mass culture. In elucidating both the gender and marketplace role politics at play in the ‘groupie’ identity and the mechanisms involved in othering women, space is opened in which alternative possibilities for understanding and enacting the role of women in rock can be imagined.

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Garcés-Hernández, María José, Karen Pedraza-Escudero, Nayely Garibay-Nieto, Joselin Hernández-Ruiz, Jessica Lakshmi Prieto-Chávez, Lourdes Andrea Arriaga-Pizano, Eréndira Villanueva-Ortega, et al. "The CCR2+ Monocyte Subsets Increase in Obese Boys but Not Girls with Abnormally High Carotid Intima-Media Thickness: A Pilot Study." Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease 9, no. 10 (September 29, 2022): 330. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcdd9100330.

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The differential contribution of monocyte subsets expressing the C-C chemokine receptor 2 (CCR2) to subclinical atherosclerosis in girls and boys is unclear. In this pilot study, we compared classical, intermediate, and nonclassical monocyte subsets expressing CCR2 in 33 obese children of both sexes aged 8 to 16 divided by carotid intima-media thickness (IMT), considering values above the 75th percentile (p75) as abnormally high IMT. Obesity was defined as body mass index above the 95th percentile according to age and sex. Flow cytometry analyses revealed that boys but not girls with IMT ≥ p75 displayed increased CCR2+ cell percentage and CCR2 expression in the three monocyte subsets, compared to boys with IMT < p75. The CCR2+ cell percentage and CCR2 expression in the three monocyte subsets significantly correlated with increased IMT and insulin resistance in boys but not girls, where the CCR2+ nonclassical monocyte percentage had the strongest associations (r = 0.73 and r = 0.72, respectively). The role of CCR2+ monocyte subpopulations in identifying an abnormally high IMT shows a marked sexual dimorphism, where boys seem to be at higher subclinical atherosclerosis risk than girls.

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Torres-McGehee, Toni M., Eva V. Monsma, Thomas P. Dompier, and Stefanie A. Washburn. "Eating Disorder Risk and the Role of Clothing in Collegiate Cheerleaders' Body Images." Journal of Athletic Training 47, no. 5 (September 1, 2012): 541–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.4085/1062-6050-47.5.03.

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Context With increased media coverage and competitive opportunities, cheerleaders may be facing an increase in eating disorder (ED) prevalence linked to clothing-related body image (BI). Objective To examine ED risk prevalence, pathogenic weight control behaviors, and variation in clothing-specific BI across position and academic status among collegiate cheerleaders. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I and II institutions. Patients or Other Participants Female collegiate cheerleaders (n = 136, age = 20.4 ± 1.3 years, height = 160.2 ± 8.1 cm, weight = 57.2 ± 8.3 kg). Main Outcome Measure(s) Participants self-reported height, weight, and desired weight and completed the Eating Attitudes Test. Body image perceptions in 3 clothing types (daily clothing, midriff uniform, full uniform) were assessed using sex-based silhouettes (body mass index = 18.3 kg/m2 for silhouette 1, 23.1 kg/m2 for silhouette 4). Results The ED risk for cheerleaders was estimated at 33.1%. However, when body mass index was controlled using backward stepwise logistic regression, flyers had greater odds (odds ratio = 4.4, 95% confidence interval = 1.5, 13.2, P = .008) of being at risk compared with bases, but no difference was noted between the base and back-spot positions (odds ratio = 1.9, 95% confidence interval = 0.5, 6.6, P = .333). A main effect of BI perceptions was seen (P < .001), with a significant interaction by clothing type (F2,133 = 22.5, P < .001, η2 = 0.14). Cheerleaders desired to be smaller than their perceived BIs for each clothing type, with the largest difference for midriff uniform (2.6 ± 0.8 versus 3.7 ± 0.9), followed by full uniform (2.7 ± 0.8 versus 3.5 ± 0.9) and daily clothing (2.8 ± 0.8 versus 3.5 ± 0.9). Conclusions Cheerleaders, especially flyers, appear to be at risk for EDs, with greatest BI dissatisfaction when wearing their most revealing uniforms (ie, midriffs). Universities, colleges, and the national governing bodies of these squads need to focus on preventing eating disorders and BI dissatisfaction and promoting self-esteem.

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