Joint release by Hokkaido University, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Ulsan National Institute of Science.
Lack of oxygen, which is harmful to the brain, causes hydrogen sulfide sewer gas to accumulate in the brain. The brains of lab animals repeatedly exposed to hydrogen sulfide became tolerant to the gas and lack of oxygen. Researchers identified the mechanism that induces this tolerance, which could lead to new treatments for brain injuries caused by oxygen deprivation.
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Western Union and Japan’s Ritsumeikan University Simplify Tuition Fee Payments
May 10, 2021 GMT
TOKYO (BUSINESS WIRE) May 9, 2021
Western Union, a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments, announced a collaboration between Western Union Business Solutions and Ritsumeikan University. Together they will enable Ritsumeikan students worldwide to pay tuition using a simplified payment process that helps ensure funds arrive on-time and in-full, without hidden charges.
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Ritsumeikan University has implemented Western Union Business Solutions’ WU ® GlobalPay for Students platform, which provides students with a price comparison tool and allows them to lock-in exchange rates for up to 72 hours. Students can pay in their local or preferred currency to minimise surprise expenses and transparently track their payment status through the online portal, mob
Suicides rise for 15-to-24-year-olds
NO. 2 CAUSE OF DEATH: Control Yuan member Fan Sun-lu said that improving parents’ and schools’ understanding of mental health cannot be delayed
By Hsieh Chun-ling and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Suicide has become the second-biggest cause of death among people aged 15 to 24, statistics released by the Ministry of Health and Welfare showed.
Last year, 47 more people aged 15 to 24 died by suicide than in 2019, an increase of 22.4 percent, ministry data showed.
Suicides in the age group also accounted for 22.6 percent of all suicides reported last year, the sixth consecutive year that the figure increased, the data showed.
Rather than turning exclusively to cognitive science and contemporary ethical theories, Hershock shows how classical Confucian and Socratic philosophies help to make visible what a history of choices about remaking ourselves through control biased technology has rendered invisible. But it is in Buddhist thought and practice that Hershock finds the tools for valuing and training our attention, resisting the colonization of consciousness, and engendering a more equitable and diversity-enhancing human-technology-world relationship. Focusing on who we need to be present as to avoid a future in which machines prevent us from either making or learning from our own mistakes, Hershock offers a constructive response to the unprecedented perils of intelligent technology and seamlessly blends ancient and contemporary philosophies to envision how to realize its equally unprecedented promises.