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Tailored Approach is Key: the Health Guardian for Longevity Program Uses Mobile Technology to Sustain Healthy Life Behaviors by Freida Pemberton* in COJ Nursing & Healthcare The purpose of this article is to generate interest and excitement in an innovative approach to patient-centered, custom-tailored health care that is offered by the Health Guardian for Longevity program. The Health Guardian for Longevity program reflects an assimilation of the principals of nursing informatics and integrates the sciences of nursing , information, and computer, designed to improve the quality of care and sustain healthy life-style behaviors that incorporate the individual, family, and community uniqueness. The Health Guardian for Longevity program takes in hand the client’s assessed data, while activating the powerful tools of mobile, interactive, remote, video, and virtual technologies, as well as selected learning models and behavioral theories. https://crimsonpublishers.com/cojnh/fullte...

Science Versus Sushi : Implications of Japan’s and Withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission by Alice N Wünderlandt* in Examines in Marine Biology & Oceanography Japan’s recent decision to leave the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and resume commercial whaling [1] will have significant ramifications for that nation, as well as for international relations and whale populations in both the North Pacific and Southern Ocean . Here, I draw on my long experience as a member of the Molvanian delegation to the IWC to briefly review the background to this issue, and offer some predictions regarding potential outcomes, including for the future of Japanese whale research . After World War 2, Japan was one of fifteen nations to sign the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling [2]. Japanese whalers have operated widely in the Antarctic and North Pacific, as well as from shore-based whaling stations on the Japanese coast. The primary product has always been...