前立腺がん患者の健康と病いの語りの分析 : スピリチュアリティに着目して

The purpose of this study was to clarify the spirituality of prostate cancer patients using the interview data "Narratives of Prostate Cancer" from DIPEx-Japan. For the analysis, we used text mining methods, especially the original text reference function, to extract relevant word expressions. The following words were selected: negative emotion, root/relationship, humanity, male function, God and Buddha, nature/universe, and view of life and death. By analyzing the health and illness narratives of prostate cancer patients, it was confirmed that the function of spirituality is to review and change the values, views of life and death that existed before the onset of the disease. We believe that understanding how patients review their values, views of life and death will provide an opportunity for supporters to derive elements for intervention

Influence of submarine topography and sediment environment on microbial assemblages in a coastal lagoon in northeastern Japan

The relationships among eutrophication, anoxia, and microbial distribution were investigated for Nagatsura-Ura Lagoon on the northeastern Pacific coast of Japan. In September 2017, the bottom environment in a small area of the inner part of the lagoon (which has a basin-shaped bottom topology) was eutrophic and anoxic, with high carbon, nitrogen, phosphate, acid-volatile sulfide, and low dissolved oxygen and oxidation-reduction potential. Dissolved oxygen levels improved during the winter. Bacillariophyta (diatoms) were the main organic component according to pigment analysis and next-generation sequencing of nucleic acids in seawater samples. Phylum Proteobacteria was dominant among the bacterial flora in the sediment but the proportions of Class Epsilon-proteobacteria and Chlorobium (a green sulfur-utilizing bacterium) were high in the inner part of the lagoon compared to other stations, and these groups were also present in winter. Apparently groups able to thrive in both anoxic and aerobic conditions were predominant in the inner part of the lagoon.journal articl