UTokyo Open Lectures: Protection
Content List
Disease Prevention
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#2 To What Degree Can Your Diet Protect Your Health?
With the number of experts in “preventive medicine through diet” on the rise, we will consider how to make sense of the flood of nutritional and health information now available, and discuss real wisdom on how to protect against disease through an appropriate diet lifestyle. Is your way of eating scientific? This will provide you with a chance to review your own situation. NOTE: …
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#3 Disease Prevention with Diagnostic Microchip
Disease prevention and primary care are important as much as medical treatment. This lecture introduces diagnostic microchip which is a new technology for helping to recognize omen of disease from ordinary life. NOTE: - No subtitles. This lecture was conducted only in Japanese.
#4 City Walls and Epidemics in Ancient Greece: Things What Were/Weren't Protected
We will look at the example of the city state of Athens in the 5th century BC, and consider what its ancient city dwellers wanted to protect as well as what they were unable to protect. NOTE: - No subtitles. This lecture was conducted only in Japanese.
Information Science and Basic Science for Protection
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#6 Protecting Twinkling Stars: Seeing the Universe with Adaptive Optics
This lecture will explain and consider the principles and actual conditions for “adaptive optics” technologies, which adjust for the shaky movement caused by the earth’s atmosphere, as well as their future and likely limits, based on conclusions drawn from recent images of the universe—images which became clearer thanks to such forms of observation. NOTE: - No subtitles. This lec…
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#7 The Truth Discovered by Drive Recorders: Preventing Traffic Accidents
Data collected by drive recorders has attracted attention, not only because of their application to accidents, but also because they can collect large amounts of data in the actual environment, involving near-miss accidents just before a close call. Such collection and analysis of driver behavior can pave the way for introduction of policies to protect against human error. NOTE: …
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Protection against Natural Disasters
#9 Protection against Landslide Disaster
This lecture introduces researches on disaster mechanism and trials for engineering works and alert/evacuation systems based on the synthetic science that integrates science, engineering, and social sciences for protection against natural disasters in particular landslide disaster. NOTE: - No subtitles. This lecture was conducted only in Japanese.
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#10 Saving Lives with Disaster Information
Can information really help to save lives? What kinds of conditions are actually required to save lives? Based on public surveys, we will consider in detail methods for releasing disaster information, methods for delivering it and methods for using it. NOTE: - No subtitles. This lecture was conducted only in Japanese.
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