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Evening rain at Azuma Shrine.
No full textPrint shows travelers on roadway near the entrance to the Azuma Shrine during a rainstorm.Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06.From the series: Edo kinkō hakkei no uchi : Eight views in the environs of Edo.Format: horizontal Oban Nishikie.Adachi modern reprint (Showa).Restricted access; material extremely fragile; please use online digital image.Purchase; H. Irving Olds; 1938.Forms part of: the H. Irving Olds collection.Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress)
A feminist guide to hacking this tech gatebox "Azuma Hikari"
No full textDouglas College student research essay submitted as partial requirement for GSWS 2101: Gender Today (Fall 2021) course. Faculty sponsor to submit this essay to DOOR: Dr. Jill Fellows.
The use of virtual assistants is increasing every day, as a technological tool that is marketed as a necessity to assist in making our modern lives more efficient. These tools are designed to help us with daily tasks such as searching for information, reading emails, writing messages, making calls and scheduling meetings with others. The most popular examples “Siri” or “Alexa” have been created with specific gendered characteristics and behavior as the author points out “virtual assistants are very obviously gendered. Siri and Alexa both have female names”, (Fellows, forthcoming 2022) designed with a personality of submissive and serviceable, as the author mentions “they portray a gender binary dominant-submissive relationship, positioning the user in the dominant position, and they play out subordination as feminine.” (Fellows, forthcoming 2022)Not peer reviewe
Enjoying cool evening on a boat beneath Azuma Bridge.
No full textPrint shows two women on a boat enjoying the cool of the evening beneath the Azuma Bridge.Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06.Format: left panel of a vertical Oban Nishikie triptych.Adachi modern reprint (Showa).Restricted access; material extremely fragile; please use online digital image.Purchase; H. Irving Olds; 1938.Forms part of: the H. Irving Olds collection.Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress)
Recrystallization Diagram for Polar Ice
No full textIce is the most frequent mineral on the Earth’s surface, however experiences conditions comparable to silicate
minerals at high metamorphic grades. In all natural conditions ice is a hot material with homologous temperatures between 0.9 and 0.7 at least. Under such circumstances recrystallization plays a decisive role in governing the state and thus the behaviour of the material. This has been recognized and interpreted in many ice cores in the last decades (Faria et al. in press a) assigning recrystallization regimes to ice sheet depth ranges. This assignment made use of microstructure observations (mainly grain size) and estimated boundary conditions (temperature and stress/strain amounts) which change systematically with depth. To generalize the use of recrystallization regimes we decouple their occurrence from the ice sheet depth information and connect them directly to the activators and causes: strain rate and temperature (Faria et al. in press b).
References:
Faria, S. H.; Weikusat, I. & Azuma, N. The Microstructure of Polar Ice. Part I: Highlights from ice core research. Journal of Structural Geology , in press a, DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2013.09.010
Faria, S. H.; Weikusat, I. & Azuma, N. The Microstructure of Polar Ice. Part II: State of the Art. Journal of
Structural Geology , in press b, DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2013.11.00
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Amioidinae Mabuchi & Fraser & Song & Azuma & Nishida 2014, new subfamily
No full textAmioidinae new subfamily Fraser & Mabuchi Type genus Amioides Smith & Radcliffe in Radcliffe 1912 Diagnosis. Incomplete, based on radiographs and external characters: Two dorsal fins VIII or IX dorsal spines deeply divided as VII or VIII+I,9–10; anal fin II,7–8; internal support of spines by serial proximal-middle radials closely associated, 6th and 7th elements broadening at fin division; two supernumerary dorsal spines; three supraneurals; first anal proximal-middle radial straight; 15 branched caudal fin-rays, upper and lower unbranched; preopercle ridge smooth, preopercle edges serrate; large supramaxilla; basisphenoid present; vertebrae10+14; rodlike ribs on 3rd to 10th vertebrae; epineurals present on ribs of 3rd to 8th vertebrae; PU 2 and PU 3 with autogenous haemal spines; two pairs of uroneurals; hypurals 1–5 present, not fused; parhypural free; three epurals; perforated anterior ceratohyal; posttemporal serrate or one or two large spines on edge; cephalic pore system complex with many small pores and canal flutes; multiple pores in lateral-line scales, many free neuromast on lateral-line scales; lateral-line scales large, 24–25, ctenoid; mouth brooding of eggs unknown. Distribution. Amioides is a deep-dwelling (77–267 m) genus known from limited material. The collection sites support the conclusion that it is widespread from continental locations and islands of the Indo-Pacific of East Africa to Japan and Vanuatu (Fraser 2013a). Holapogon is a deeper-dwelling (38–100 m) genus known from limited material from the Andaman Islands and in the Arabian Sea along the west coast of India and Oman. It should be expected along the coast of Yemen and possibly Somalia. Remarks. This subfamily contains two genera, two species: Amioides polyacanthus and Holapogon maximus (Boulenger 1888). Although the latter species was absent from the present molecular analyses, it is placed in this subfamily based on the morphology (see Fraser 1973). Among cardinalfishes the presence of a deeply divided spinous dorsal fin with IX dorsal spines, a visible, but small, eighth dorsal spine, a large supramaxilla shaped lacking an slender antero-proximal point, multiple pores in lateral-line scales with multiple free neuromasts on the lateral-line scales, serrated preopercular edge, perforated anterior ceratohyal, caudal skeleton (three epurals, two pairs of uroneurals, five free hypurals a free parhypural), ribs on 3rd to 10th vertebrae, nine epineurals and vertebrae arrangement with median fins are all plesiomorphic family characters. These characters plus other family characters possessed by this subfamily should be very useful in the hunt for close family relatives. The cephalic arrangement of pores and flutes are likely synapomorphies that united these two large, relatively deep-dwelling genera (Bergman 2004). Other possible synapomorphies await more detailed studies. The osteology of both species has not been studied with cleared and counter stained small specimens. No small specimens, <80 mm SL exist in collections, only large adults up to 198 mm SL (Fraser 2013a).Published as part of Mabuchi, Kohji, Fraser, Thomas H., Song, Hayeun, Azuma, Yoichiro & Nishida, Mutsumi, 2014, Revision of the systematics of the cardinalfishes (Percomorpha: Apogonidae) based on molecular analyses and comparative reevaluation of morphological characters, pp. 151-203 in Zootaxa 3846 (2) on page 175, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3846.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/492854
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Evidence of dynamic recrystallization in polar firn
No full textMicrostructural analyses have been performed on polar firn from the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica drilling site in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. The results derived from images of the firn structure in microscopic resolution indicate that dynamic recrystallization is active in firn at all depths, and it dominates the evolution of the microstructure when the firn density exceeds a critical value of 730 kg/m3 (overburden snow load ∼0.2 MPa). At the firn-ice transition (density ∼820 kg/m3) the microstructure is characterized by many small grains and bulged or irregularly shaped grain boundaries. More than half of all grains show subgrain boundaries. Thus, strain-induced boundary migration is an essential feature to describe the irregular grain structure. In agreement with previous studies, significant grain growth has been observed with depth for the largest grains in the samples. However, our microscopic analysis reveals that the grain growth with depth in fact vanishes if all grains larger than 65 μm in diameter are taken into account. This result reflects the fact that the growth of the largest grains is counteracted by grain size reduction by shrinking and subdivision of old grains, as well as production of new grains. Consequently, previous conclusions that grain growth in polar firn is essentially analogous to normal grain growth in metallic and ceramic sinters and that the stored strain energy is small in comparison with grain boundary energy can no longer be supported. Additionally, our observations show that the incipience of dynamic recrystallization in polar ice sheets is not as sensitive to temperature as supposed so far. A discussion of the change of the mean grain size due to the measuring technique is imperative
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
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