347 research outputs found
Shimada Masahiko “Miira ni naru made”: Ibunka no me de mita
No full textEdición interna del I Simposio Internacional sobre Literatura Japonesa de la Universidad Ferris (Yokohama) en 2003.The anthology of short story by Shimada Masahiko (1961), a representative author of the postmodern age in Japan, Miira ni naru made (1987-1990) has been published in Italian as Mi farò mummia in 1995, and then in Spanish as Me convertiré en momia in 1999. In Spain there is no other publication of Shimada’s oeuvre, but this anthology is available in pocketbook format. In the Italian version we find an afterword to the four selections of stories taken from the Japanese original anthology, Armadillo ō. There we have a self-introduction by Shimada, where he shows his own position of extra-centrality in Japanese letters. I. e., the characters in Shimada’s stories reckon no identity references such as country, culture or family. They only have selfhood. But this does not mean one single personality per individual. These postmodern characters show multiple personalities in a positive sense, although the whole may present some fractures. This is how it works in the global era. Moreover, the typical circle of meaning in modernity, i. e. from the author (= creator) through the work (= meaning) to the reader (= interpreter), is sublated. In Shimada’s literature, the author and the work as well as the reader are all deconstructed. The author becomes the programmer, the work becomes the game, and the reader is nothing else but the player. If this is so, the character who decides to become a mummy in the main story is not particularly acting on religious purpose nor he wants to confront society. He just is involved in what we might call a life-game. Looking at his own suicide from the point of view of game-playing, he gets some pleasure from it. In conclusion, Shimada’s literature is not understood from the category of Japanese literature as opposed to world literature. Its universality is essentially related to the author’s postmodern attitude
Development of a Practical Video Conference System
No full textThe diagnostics group introduced a video conference system. This system is composed of two systems, Polycom's ViewStation^TM and Microsoft NetMeeting^TM. The former is used for sending audio and video images, and the later is used for presentation. This report shows the results of the video conference connecting two points and three points. This report will be helpful for those who consider introducing video conference systems.research repor
Optical Performance of a Wideband 28nm CMOS Double Bow-Tie Slot Antenna for Imaging Applications
No full textThe optical performance of a wideband double bowtie slot antenna, implemented in 28nm CMOS technology, is evaluated. The antenna serves as a verification antenna for an uncooled single-pixel radiometer operating from 200 GHz to 600 GHz. The performance is evaluated in terms of radiometric pattern that is derived from the measured radiation patterns and simulated optical efficiency.Tera-Hertz SensingElectronic
Dual Band Kinetic Inductance Bolometers for Submillimeter-wave Imaging:Experimental and Theoretical Optical Response
No full textIn this contribution, a focal plane array (FPA) at submillimeter wavelengths is presented for security applications. The detectors are based on kinetic inductance bolometers. Two frequency selective absorber (FSA) sets were designed to implement a security imager. The effective pattern of the imager coupled to a black body point source over a wide frequency band (1:6) was demonstrated experimentally with excellent agreement to the one estimated by using a Fourier optics based technique.</p
Inter-application communication during LHD consecutive short pulse discharge experiment
No full textLHD short pulse experiments are executed every three minutes. After the end of the discharge, the scientists must collect, analyze, visualize the last acquired data of the discharge, and prepare for the next discharge. From the beginning, the computer environment of the LHD (Large Helical Device) experiment has been built as a network distributed system, and various computers have been used for data acquisition or physical analysis. When one program is finished on one computer, that computer must send the results in order to the other computers to run programs. Smooth communication is required in order to finish all the tasks before the next discharge. To exchange the information among the applications running on the different computers, the authors have tried various methods, such as a commercial software to share the memory over the network, simple network file sharing method, IP multicast, web interfaces, and others. The purpose of this paper is to share our experiences of trial and error to build the network distributed systems for the consecutive plasma discharge experiments.journal articl
Application of container technology in LHD analysis system
No full textThe authors have developed AutoAna, an automatic registration system for physics data in LHD experiments. AutoAna has increased the number of data registrations and reduced the time required to complete them, making it possible to provide key data during three-minute intervals of short pulse experiments. The time reduction was achieved by running several analysis programs in parallel. However, problems arose due to this process, which could be solved by containerizing the execution environment of the analysis programs.journal articl
Characteristic polynomials of Linial arrangements for exceptional root systems
No full textThe (extended) Linial arrangement L-Phi(m) is a certain finite truncation of the affine Weyl arrangement of a root system with a parameter m. Postnikov and Stanley conjectured that all roots of the characteristic polynomial of L-Phi(m) have the same real part, and this has been proved for the root systems of classical types. In this paper we prove that the conjecture is true for exceptional root systems when the parameter m is sufficiently large. The proof is based on representations of the characteristic quasi-polynomials in terms of Eulerian polynomials
Improvement of Automatic Physics Data Analysis Environment for the LHD Experiment
No full textThe physical data of the Large Helical Device (LHD) project have been serviced by the Analyzed Data Server system, and approximately 600 kinds of physical data are served. In order to execute simulation programs for the LHD experiment, one must gather sets of physical data. Because the Automatic Analyzed Server (AutoAna) calculates the physical data automatically, it eases the scientist’s task of collecting these physical data. The AutoAna has provided better computing environments for the scientists. Thus, the scientists, having recognized its benefits, make various requests as issues arise. In this paper, the authors introduce the current status of the AutoAna system.journal articl
<Papers> On Mental Health --What is the Mental Health?--
No full textThe author discusses the mental health from the standpoint of a psychiatrist. 1. When we intend to understand the mind itself, we confront with some diffculties: Firstly, it consists itself as a whole and can not be divided into parts like the body which can be divided into heart, lever, stomach etc. Secondly, it is invisible as well as unmeasurable. Thirdly it has individuality spesific to a person who lives his own life, having not any universality common to others. 2. We cast the question if the mind of mental patients is truely inhealthy. Can their worries and sufferings be granted as being inhealthy? 3. The mind does not generate when our desires are immediately satisfied; it "emerges" in the process where, our desires being not satisfied, we try to deal with our conflicts, namely in worries and sufferings. Only in this instnace, it becomes more rich and plenty. Being worried and suffered does not necessarily mean to be inhealthy. The mind continues to generate itself beyond the opposition between the health-concep and the disease-concept
Financial regulation and performance : cross-country evidence
No full textCostly bank failures in the past two decades have focused attention on the need to find ways to improve the performance of different countries'financial systems. Belief is overwhelming that financial systems can be improved but there is little empirical evidence to support any specific advice about regulatory and supervisory reform. With scant cross-country comparisons of financial regulatory and supervisory systems, economists cannot decide how to correct incentives and moral hazard problems in developing economies--whether, for example, to require higher (and more narrowly defined) capital-to-asset ratios, to mandate stricter definition and disclosure of non-performing loans, to require that subordinated debt be issued, or to install world-class supervision. Proposed reforms usually involve changes in financial regulations and supervisory standards, but many pressing questions about reform remain unanswered. Making use of a new database, the authors come up with brief answers to three key questions: Do countries with relatively weak governments and bureaucratic systems impose harsher regulatory restrictions on bank activities? Yes. Do countries with more restrictive regulatory regimes have poorly functioning banking systems. No--or at least the evidence is mixed. Do countries with more restrictive regulatory systems have less probability of suffering a banking crisis? No. In fact, the reverse is true. In countries where banks'securities activities are restricted, the likelihood of a banking crisis is greater, other things being equal.Financial Crisis Management&Restructuring,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Banks&Banking Reform,Financial Intermediation,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Financial Intermediation,Financial Crisis Management&Restructuring,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research
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