357 research outputs found
Letter from Atsuko to Mr. Bengston
No full textPost-WWII, Pollock maintains various correspondence with folks from the Fresno Assembly Center, as well as other correspondence with the Pentagon.Walter E. Pollock was the head of the service division at the Fresno Assembly Center. He was deeply affected by his time working at the center and was working on a memoir of his experiences there, but unfortunately passed away before it could be completed. The collection contains his research and draft chapters
Letter from Atsuko to Mr. Bengston
No full textPost-WWII, Pollock maintains various correspondence with folks from the Fresno Assembly Center, as well as other correspondence with the Pentagon.Walter E. Pollock was the head of the service division at the Fresno Assembly Center. He was deeply affected by his time working at the center and was working on a memoir of his experiences there, but unfortunately passed away before it could be completed. The collection contains his research and draft chapters
Letter from Atsuko to Mr. Bengston
No full textPost-WWII, Pollock maintains various correspondence with folks from the Fresno Assembly Center, as well as other correspondence with the Pentagon.Walter E. Pollock was the head of the service division at the Fresno Assembly Center. He was deeply affected by his time working at the center and was working on a memoir of his experiences there, but unfortunately passed away before it could be completed. The collection contains his research and draft chapters
Postcard from Atsuko Nagano to Mr. Walter E. Pollock. June 6. 1979
No full textPost-WWII, Pollock maintains various correspondence with folks from the Fresno Assembly Center, as well as other correspondence with the Pentagon.Walter E. Pollock was the head of the service division at the Fresno Assembly Center. He was deeply affected by his time working at the center and was working on a memoir of his experiences there, but unfortunately passed away before it could be completed. The collection contains his research and draft chapters
Letter from Ann Atsuko Nagano to Mr. Pollock, July 7, 1981
No full textPost-WWII, Pollock maintains various correspondence with folks from the Fresno Assembly Center, as well as other correspondence with the Pentagon.Walter E. Pollock was the head of the service division at the Fresno Assembly Center. He was deeply affected by his time working at the center and was working on a memoir of his experiences there, but unfortunately passed away before it could be completed. The collection contains his research and draft chapters
Real-time and Single Fibril Observation of the Formation of Amyloid β Spherulitic Structures
No full textThis research was originally published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Tadato Ban, Kenichi Morigaki, Hisashi Yagi, Takashi Kawasaki, Atsuko Kobayashi, Shunsuke Yuba, Hironobu Naiki and Yuji Goto. Real-time and Single Fibril Observation of the Formation of Amyloid β Spherulitic Structures. J. Biol. Chem. 2006; 281, 33677–33683. © the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyIn Alzheimer disease, amyloid β, a 39-43-residue peptide produced by cleavage from a large amyloid precursor protein, undergoes conformational change to form amyloid fibrils and deposits as senile amyloid plaques in the extracellular cerebral cortices of the brain. However, the mechanism of how the intrinsically linear amyloid fibrils form spherical senile plaques is unknown. With total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy combined with the use of thioflavin T, an amyloid-specific fluorescence dye, we succeeded in observing the formation of the senile plaque-like spherulitic structures with diameters of around 15 μm on the chemically modified quartz surface. Real-time observation at a single fibrillar level revealed that, in the absence of tight contact with the surface, the cooperative and radial growth of amyloid fibrils from the core leads to a huge spherulitic structure. The results suggest the underlying physicochemical mechanism of senile plaque formation, essential for obtaining insight into prevention of Alzheimer disease
Language, Nation, Race
No full textLanguage, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when a “national language” (kokugo) was produced to standardize Japanese. Faced with the threat of Western colonialism, Meiji intellectuals proposed various reforms to standardize the Japanese language in order to quickly educate the illiterate masses. This book liberates these language reforms from the predetermined category of the “nation,” for such a notion had yet to exist as a clear telos to which the reforms aspired. Atsuko Ueda draws on, while critically intervening in, the vast scholarship of language reform that engaged with numerous works of postcolonial and cultural studies. She examines the first two decades of the Meiji period, with specific focus on the issue of race, contending that no analysis of imperialism or nationalism is possible without it. “Language, Nation, Race is an exceptional book. It not only provides a cogent interpretation of Meiji-era linguistic and literary reform movements but also productively challenges the current scholarly consensus regarding the meaning of these movements. Atsuko Ueda makes an entirely original and convincing argument about the relevance of ‘whiteness’ to the understanding of linguistic, aesthetic, and cultural values within these movements.”—JAMES REICHERT, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University “A remarkable accomplishment, bound to have a lasting impact in the field of Japan studies and beyond. Ueda’s compelling reading of Meiji period literary and linguistic debates opens new avenues for a philosophical questioning of phoneticism and its significance to the formation of the geopolitical categories of ‘West’ and ‘non- West.’”—PEDRO ERBER, author of Breaching the Frame: The Rise of Contemporary Art in Brazil and Japa
THE CRITICALITY OF CRITICISM: VISIONS OF "LITERATURE" IN MEIJI JAPAN
No full textCriticism in Japan's Meiji period (1868–1912) envisioned literature yet to come. In its envisioning, criticism prompted periodization ("modern"), nationalization ("Japanese"), categorization ("literature"), and perceptual standardization ("aesthetic object") of a diverse range of writings from Chinese classics to prose fiction. In this dissertation, I pay particular attention to debates—a crucial site of criticism—of the late 1880s and early 1890s that revolved around literature's boundaries, and investigate how criticism paved the way for modern Japanese literature. The processes and outcomes of criticism's endeavors are the story of this work.
Contrary to the assumption that criticism arises in response to literature, criticism in late nineteenth-century Japan arrived prior to literature by offering visions of a modern national literature. This apparently inverted order was tightly connected to the colonial context in which Japan found itself in the late nineteenth century, where having a national literature was considered as a marker of modernization. During this time, debates, typically formed as exchanges of written essays through print media among intellectuals, operated to strip off multiple potential futures of literature. In so doing, these debates facilitated a homogenized vision of literature as a national, aesthetic object that could serve as a modern, independent form of knowledge.
Criticism claimed a role of primacy in shaping the onset of a modern national literature, while demanding for itself to be an objective evaluator of literature from a distance. In time, however, practiced criticism betrayed its premise. Many debates, in their attempts to delineate literature's boundaries and their own placement outside of those, disclosed how such a distance could not be withheld. However, in this very inability to maintain the border between literature and itself, criticism began to exercise its criticality. Precisely in failing to fulfill its ostensible premise, the language of criticism mobilized in debates invited rhetoric that was unfit to the time and space within which it was inserted. This dissertation argues that criticism's failure prompted moments of discordance with contemporary discourses on Japan's modernization, and thereby generated a critique against what historically conditioned the emergence of such criticism itself
Tanaka, Atsuko Der Eigentumsubergang von der Erbschaft und das Grundbuchwesen (Sachenrechtliche Forschung I)
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