2,030 research outputs found
sj-docx-2-hpq-10.1177_13591053221105350 – for Role of personality traits in determining the association between social participation and mental health: A cross-sectional study in Japan
No full textsj-docx-2-hpq-10.1177_13591053221105350 for Role of personality traits in determining the association between social participation and mental health: A cross-sectional study in Japan by Mari Yamashita, Takumi Abe, Satoshi Seino, Yu Nofuji, Yasuhiro Sugawara, Shoji Shinkai, Akihiko Kitamura and Yoshinori Fujiwara in Journal of Health Psychology</p
sj-do-4-hpq-10.1177_13591053221105350 – for Role of personality traits in determining the association between social participation and mental health: A cross-sectional study in Japan
No full textsj-do-4-hpq-10.1177_13591053221105350 for Role of personality traits in determining the association between social participation and mental health: A cross-sectional study in Japan by Mari Yamashita, Takumi Abe, Satoshi Seino, Yu Nofuji, Yasuhiro Sugawara, Shoji Shinkai, Akihiko Kitamura and Yoshinori Fujiwara in Journal of Health Psychology</p
sj-smcl-3-hpq-10.1177_13591053221105350 – for Role of personality traits in determining the association between social participation and mental health: A cross-sectional study in Japan
No full textsj-smcl-3-hpq-10.1177_13591053221105350 for Role of personality traits in determining the association between social participation and mental health: A cross-sectional study in Japan by Mari Yamashita, Takumi Abe, Satoshi Seino, Yu Nofuji, Yasuhiro Sugawara, Shoji Shinkai, Akihiko Kitamura and Yoshinori Fujiwara in Journal of Health Psychology</p
sj-dta-1-hpq-10.1177_13591053221105350 – for Role of personality traits in determining the association between social participation and mental health: A cross-sectional study in Japan
No full textsj-dta-1-hpq-10.1177_13591053221105350 for Role of personality traits in determining the association between social participation and mental health: A cross-sectional study in Japan by Mari Yamashita, Takumi Abe, Satoshi Seino, Yu Nofuji, Yasuhiro Sugawara, Shoji Shinkai, Akihiko Kitamura and Yoshinori Fujiwara in Journal of Health Psychology</p
Phylogeny and properties of a novel lectin family with β-trefoil folding in mussels
No full textA novel lectin, termed "MytiLec", was isolated and characterized from the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis, an important food and environmental indicator species found in marine coastal areas worldwide. MytiLec binds to the sugar moiety of globotriose (Gb3), an α-galactoside, leading to apoptosis of Gb3-expressing Burkitt's lymphoma cells. The amino acid sequence of MytiLec is unusual, but 3-dimensional structural analysis reveals the presence of β-trefoil fold, a well-known feature in "R-type" lectins, a family of galactose-binding proteins found in many types of organisms. To date, MytiLec has been found only in a few species of the mollusk family Mytilidae and the phylum Brachiopoda, which also express typical R-type lectins. In this minireview, we discuss: (i) possible reasons for the unusual coexistence of two distinct lectin families in the same animal family; (ii) structural models of MytiLec that are useful for design of lectins with improved anti-cancer properties; (iii) construction of "Mitsuba", an artificial lectin based on MytiLec that has similar carbohydrate-binding activity but a more stable monomeric form; (iv) regulation of cell growth by MytiLec and related lectins through binding to glycans
Japanese Conservatism and Foreign Policy: A Focus on Prime Ministers Nakasone Yasuhiro, Koizumi Junichirō and Abe Shinzō
No full textThis dissertation investigates the influence of Japanese conservatism on the government’s foreign policy.
The core set of questions of this research consists of the following: what is the position and status of conservatism in the spectrum of post-war Japanese political thinking? How has conservative thinking (especially conservative intellectuals) affected the perceptions and behaviour of the leaders and how has the leaders’ foreign policy-making reflected their conservative thinking? What is the mechanism by which conservative thinking exerts its influence on Japan’s foreign policy-making? What are the different ways in which different Japanese prime ministers exploited conservative intellectuals and vice versa? And, how did this double-way exploitation affect foreign policy-making?
To address the research questions, first the place of conservatism among post-war Japanese ideologies is examined. Post-war Japan experienced a variety of ideological trends, including the partial revival of certain pre-war ideologies such as conservatism. Second, as the dominant ideology, how conservatism affected Japanese political practices, or what is the connection between conservative thinking and foreign policy is addressed. Third, Prime Ministers Nakasone Yasuhiro, Koizumi Junichirō and Abe Shinzō are taken up as cases to study the mechanism of how conservative thought affects foreign policy-making.
The role of the concept of conservatism in the policy-making process has been extensively studied in political science and international relations. Likewise, “from concept to foreign policy” is the focal question of this study. Specifically, the aim is to find out how conservative intellectuals affect real politics (realpolitik) and foreign policy. Three paths are investigated: first, direct conversions from conservative intellectuals to conservative politicians; second, conservative intellectuals acting as political advisors to the three prime ministers, thereby providing them with intellectual support; and third, conservative intellectuals disseminating their thinking in Japanese society using their own influence, and eventually affecting government policy through the force of public opinion.
This study draws on Robert A. Dahl’s pluralist theory of democracy, which suggests that political outcomes arise through competitive interest groups, rejecting the assumption that the state (or government) is the sole rational actor in politics. Using this insight, the dissertation examines the plural factors contributing to the origin and formation of the prime ministers’ conservative thought, including education, early environment, family legacy, and the relationships of the three prime ministers with their political advisors. In the Conclusions, a comparison of the conservative thought and foreign policies of the three prime ministers is carried out, examined in the context of the contemporary social ethos and international environment, leading to an elucidation of the causal mechanisms linking Japanese conservatism to Japanese foreign policy
The Changes of Accounting Standards and Structural Reform in Japanese companies
No full textIn the business year beginning on April 1 1999 or later our accounting standards have been greatly changed. Concretely (1) the disclosure of consolidated financial statements as audited documents, (2) consolidated statements of cash flows, and (3) tax consequences accounting have been introduced in the business year beginning on April 1 1999 or later. In addition (4) the standard for fair value accounting of financial instruments and (5) the accounting standard for employees retirement benefits (Hereafter this accounting standard will be abbreviated to retirement benefits accounting) have been introduced in the business year beginning on April 1 2000 or later. This has been often called, Big Bang Reforms of Accounting Standards in our country. The reforms of accounting standards are still now in progress. In this paper I tried to analyze not only the direct effects of the above 5 new accounting standards into the figures of financial statements of Japanese companies, but also the ripple effects into their behaviors and our economic performances on macro basis. Also I tried to consider the implications of the changes of Japanese companies caused by the Big Bang Reforms of Accounting Standards for economic policy makers. For the transition from the former accounting standards to the new ones, Japanese companies had been forced to report the huge amount of costs as extra-ordinary losses in FY1999, FY2000, and FY2001. However, the amount of extra-ordinary losses has continued to show a decrease since FY 2001. This could indicate that Japanese companies have made progress to adapt with new accounting standards. Additionally Japanese companies with the capital of 10 billion yens or more in particular have improved their performances of indicators such as ROA, ROE and turnover of tangible assets since FY2002. Moreover the close relationships between banks and private companies through cross-shareholding stocks, has been weak. These changes on micro basis could affect Japanese economy as a whole. One of the above possible positive effects may be that private investments have shown a recovery mainly due to the improvements of rate of return of Japanese companies as a natural effect of new accounting standards, accompanied by the export boom and strong demand for digital electronic devices. On the other hand, considering at least the following two examples, it may be meaningful to reconsider the effects of economic policy measures to private corporations activities under the new accounting standards. (1) As many Japanese companies have been streamlined, there has been produced fund surplus in private non-financial corporations sector as a whole. In contrast the amount of fund surplus in households sector has been decreased due to the lack of enough size of flow of fund from private non-financial corporations to household sector as well as to the effect of the aging population. If we should try to reduce fund shortage in general government sector on the assumption that the size of fund surplus in private corporations sector would be unchanged, by definition, this might increase the size of fund shortage in overseas sector ordecrease the size of fund surplus in households sector. However there may be limitations to the both above changes, whereas we cannot expect very much that private corporations will increase compensation of employees. (2) The retirement benefits accounting may weaken the effect of loose monetary policy. One example for this is that the low interest rate policy has been increasing the amount of retirement projected benefits obligation of companies through the decline of discount rate under retirement benefits accounting, and decreasing expected rate of return on pension assets, although it has much contributed to the decrease of interest repayments of companies with lots of liabilities.Accounting Standards, structural reform, Japan
Holonomies of gauge fields in twistor space 6: Incorporation of massive fermions
No full textAbstractFollowing the previous paper arXiv:1205.4827, we formulate an S-matrix functional for massive fermion ultra-helicity-violating (UHV) amplitudes, i.e., scattering amplitudes of positive-helicity gluons and a pair of massive fermions. The S-matrix functional realizes a massive extension of the Cachazo–Svrcek–Witten (CSW) rules in a functional language. Mass-dimension analysis implies that interactions among gluons and massive fermions should be decomposed into three-point massive fermion subamplitudes. Namely, such interactions are represented by combinations of three-point UHV and next-to-UHV (NUHV) vertices. This feature is qualitatively different from the massive scalar amplitudes where the number of involving gluons can be arbitrary
A note on generalized hypergeometric functions, KZ solutions, and gluon amplitudes
No full textAbstractSome aspects of Aomoto's generalized hypergeometric functions on Grassmannian spaces Gr(k+1,n+1) are reviewed. Particularly, their integral representations in terms of twisted homology and cohomology are clarified with an example of the Gr(2,4) case which corresponds to Gauss' hypergeometric functions. The cases of Gr(2,n+1) in general lead to (n+1)-point solutions of the Knizhnik–Zamolodchikov (KZ) equation. We further analyze the Schechtman–Varchenko integral representations of the KZ solutions in relation to the Gr(k+1,n+1) cases. We show that holonomy operators of the so-called KZ connections can be interpreted as hypergeometric-type integrals. This result leads to an improved description of a recently proposed holonomy formalism for gluon amplitudes. We also present a (co)homology interpretation of Grassmannian formulations for scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang–Mills theory
Effects of Participatory and Physical Life Goals in a Preventive Care Program for Frail Community-Dwelling Older People: A Retrospective Cohort Study
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/31/2017
Life goals related to activities and participation had a more positive effect on frail older people’s health and quality of life than did life goals related to physical function and structure. The setting of meaningful goals may help to improve the effectiveness of preventive care programs.
Primary Author and Speaker: Yoshimi Yuri
Additional Authors and Speakers: Shinichi Takabatake, Yoko Tsuji, Yuri Fujii, Toshikatsu Kaneda, Yasuhiro Higashi, Hiroko Hashimoto, Kazuyo Nakaoka, Mari Oka</jats:p
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