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Kiyoshi Fukami letter to Mabel Ring thanking her for assisting the Fukami family during their internment, April 29, 1944
No full textFukami writes to Mabel Ring from Minidoka, thanking her for her assistance in securing his release from federal imprisonment and her continued assistance to his family during their internment. Fukami writes "I wish to thank you for your kindness in writing an affidavit on my behalf in 1942. I am sure of it, together with many others, helped me in my release. I was paroled on January 7, 1944, and joined my family at April 2, 1944. It has been two years and two months since I was interned and you won't know how happy I was to meet my family once again although three of my children have relocated in the Eastern states."Fred and Mabel Ring were Seattle peace activists both before and after World War II. Their pacifist convictions, rooted in Christian beliefs, spurred them to reach out to Japanese American families who were incarcerated under Executive Order 9066. Most of these families they knew through their daughter Eleanor (Ellie), who had met many Japanese American friends as a student at the University of Washington, and as an active member of the University of Washington YMCA/YWCA. The Ring Family corresponded with several incarcerated families, providing support and small luxuries that were difficult to obtain in the camps.
Gordon Hirabayashi (1918-) was one of Ellie's YMCA/YWCA friends. Born in the Sand Point area of Seattle, he grew up on the farmland surrounding Kent. In Japan, both of Hirabayashi's parents had become members of Mukyokai, or the "non-church" movement. Teaching Christian principles free from denominational issues, Mukyokai stressed an uncompromising stand against social injustice. When he was a student at the University of Washington, Hirabayashi became a Quaker and a conscientious objector. Hirabayashi refused to comply with the curfew imposed on Japanese Americans in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and later refused to report for relocation to the internment camps on the grounds that the directives were based solely on race and therefore were unconstitutional.
After the last Japanese were forcibly removed from Seattle, Hirabayashi turned himself in to the FBI and was tried and convicted in the Federal District Court of Seattle. The case ultimately went to the Supreme Court, which ruled that the curfew was constitutional. Hirabayashi was sentenced to serve three months in a minimum security prison in Arizona. No funds were available to transport him, so Hirabayashi spent two weeks hitchhiking to get there. Later, he was tried and convicted of draft resistance and served nine months in the federal penitentiary on McNeil Island. When released Hirabayashi returned to the University of Washington and received BA, MA and PhD degrees in sociology. He then taught overseas at the American University in Beirut and the American University at Cairo. He retired from the University of Alberta in 1983. In the 1980s Hirabayashi and his legal team brought new evidence about the exclusion order's prejudice to the courts of government misconduct which then overturned his 1943 convictions
Paragoniastrea variabilis Kishi, Nomura & Fukami, sp. nov. (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia), a new coral species previously considered as a variant of Paragoniastrea deformis, from Japan and northern Taiwan
Full text linkA new zooxanthellate scleractinian coral, Paragoniastrea variabilis Kishi, Nomura & Fukami, sp. nov. (Scleractinia, Merulinidae), is described from non-coral reef regions of Japan and northern Taiwan. This new species was previously recognized as a morphological variant of Paragoniastrea deformis (Veron, 1990) and can be morphologically distinguished from that species by lacking groove-and-tube structures on corallite wall joints, and by having larger calices, numerous septa, and up to three corallites in one valley. The new species also formed an independent clade from its congeners, P. australensis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857), P. deformis and P. russelli (Wells, 1954), in the molecular phylogeny based on the mitochondrial intergenic region and nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacers
So Deep in the Mountains: Saigyo\u27s Yama fukami poems and Reclusion in Medieval Japanese Poetry
No full textExamining a set of poems exchanged by the monks Saigyō and Jakuzen, the author argues for their importance as records of a crucial moment in the development of religious reclusion imagery in waka. The author focuses on Saigyō, demonstrating how he created a new poetic space marked by a deepening of the tropes of sōan and yamazato, yielding a previously unarticulated realm of expression for his rigorous ideal of mountain seclusion. As “grass huts” and “mountain homes” became more commonly associated with hermits monks such as Saigyō, many of whom in fact spent the majority of their lives in the remote and indigent circumstances of mountain reclusion, the imagery relating to these spaces both shifted and expanded. Saigyō was a key figure in this development in Japanese poetics, and his yama fukami poems played an important role in the deepening and expansion of these topoi in the medieval period
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Material circulation of bioelements in lake Fukami-ike.
Full text link"Lake Fukami-ike is a small eutrophic lake of 2.1 ha with a maximum depth of 7.70 m in central Japan and water stratified from March to October. Anoxic conditions prevail below 4-5 m depth from April to October and photosynthetic green sulfur bacteria (BChl.c) accumulate in the hypolimnion. A variety of civil engineering structures are constructed in water areas for the purpose of environmental protection and disaster prevention. Some heavy metal elements are included in the bioelements required for the growth of organisms. Lake Fukami-ike is a water area that has been the subject of previous studies, and the nutrients in the lake have been measured. However, the inflow, outflow and vertical distributions of bioelements in this lake and the absorption and excretion of phytoplankton are not well understood. This purpose of this study was to reveal the present state and dynamics of dissolved and particulate bioelements. The concentration of particulate trace elements in the inflow and outflow was measured, and iron was observed to have the highest mean concentration (3.46 mgL-1). The mean levels of barium, silicon, aluminum and calcium were 1.49 mgL-1, 1.07 mgL-1, 0.48 mgL-1 and 0.20 mgL-1, respectively. The maximum values of particulate calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and sulfur were observed at the depth where purple nonsulphur bacteria appeared.
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Methane and zooplankton in the epilimnion of Lake Fukami-ike
Full text linkAccumulations of bubbled and dissolved methane concentrations in rpilimnion have been frequently observed in Lake Fukami-ike. Based on the idea that the feeding activities of living zooplankton contribute to the methane concentrations in the lake, we examined wheter investigate live zooplankton evolve methane as a consequence of their feeding activities. Dissolved methane concentrations were higher after 6 hours in the samples of zooplankton only. This result might be support the idea that the accumulated methane in the epilimnion is affected by the feeding activities of living zooplankton.Article信州大学山地水環境教育研究センター研究報告 2: 79-82(2004)departmental bulletin pape
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Perirenal fat stranding is not a powerful diagnostic tool for acute pyelonephritis [Corrigendum]
No full textFukami H, Takeuchi Y, Kagaya S, et al. Int J Gen Med. 2017;10:137–144.Page 137, Abstract, Results, the text “The frequency of PFS was 72% in the pyelonephritis group vs 39% in the control group” should read “The frequency of PFS was 72% in the pyelonephritis group vs 29% in the control group”.Page 140, Table 1, Control (PRB) column, last row, the data “93 (39%)” should read “93 (29%)”.Page 141, Discussion, line 5, the text “PFS was found in 39% of patients” should read “PFS was found in 72% of patients”. Read the original articl
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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