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An Interview with Naoki Kasuga
No full textProfessor Naoki Kasuga is the editor of the Anthropology as critique of reality. He has worked at Hitotsubashi University since 2010, when he moved from a position at Osaka University. In many ways Kasuga is a unique figure in Japanese anthropology. He is the author of a series of experimental and highly divergent works, and he was one of the translators of Writing culture into Japanese. This interview weaves together a discussion of Kasuga's own trajectory with a story of some broader transformations in Japanese anthropology that have lead to current explorations of ontology
Autonomous oil flow generated by self-oscillating polymer gels
Get PDFThe previously reported gel and polymer actuators require external inputs, such as batteries, circuits, electronic circuits, etc., compared with autonomous motions produced by the living organisms. To realize the spontaneous motions, here, we propose to integrate a power supply, actuators, and control into a single-component self-oscillating hydrogel. We demonstrate self-actuating gel pumps driven by the oscillatory Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction without electronic components. We have developed the volume oscillation of gels synchronized with the BZ reaction (BZ gel). Since the self-actuating gel pumps are driven by chemo-mechanical energy from BZ gels, the self-actuating gel pumps don't require complex wiring designs, energy supply, and assembling. The mechanical work generated by BZ gels is extremely small. We formulated the thermodynamic cycle of BZ gels and maximized mechanical work. We found that pre-stretched BZ gel shows larger mechanical works. We physically separated the BZ gels and working fluid to create practical pumps. By using optimizing mechanical generated by BZ gels, we demonstrated the self-actuating gel pumps that transfer mechanical work through a stretchable elastomer membrane
A FUNÇÃO DA ESCRITA PARA O AUTISTA NAOKI HIGASHIDA
Get PDFThe present article starts a study that sought to understand a function of the writing for the author Naoki Higashida from his book "What makes me jump". The hypothesis raised for a writing makes possible a treatment of the voice and a stability of the signs, attending to the anxieties of the autism immutability. Starting from a psychoanalytic look on the voice and the autistic subjects, they were studied as supports of authors related to the subject, emphasizing as the supports of Higashida in its singularity in its relation with the writing. It was possible to conclude that the voice, as object, is something extracted by the autistic in its constitution, that is, the autist retains its voice. Higashida\u27s writing favors the sending of data to the outside world, since the work can be done, as well as the polysemy and the direct addressing of the voice to the other, not having the marked presence of this one. The continuity is once, the support by means of the double, the writing facilitates the communication with the letters, the indices and symbols, the access to the criteria of immobility sought by the author, besides enabling the connection and the social insertion.O presente artigo parte de um estudo que buscou compreender a função da escrita para o autista Naoki Higashida a partir do seu livro “O que me faz pular”. Diante da dificuldade que a voz falada apresenta para o autor, a hipótese levantada foi que a escrita viabiliza um tratamento da voz e a estabilidade dos signos, atendendo aos anseios de imutabilidade do autista. Partindo de um olhar psicanalítico sobre a voz e os sujeitos autistas, foram estudadas as contribuições de diversos autores relacionados ao tema, ressaltando as contribuições de Higashida em sua singularidade na sua relação com a escrita. Foi possível concluir que a voz, enquanto objeto a, não é algo extraído pelo autista em sua constituição, não favorecendo o endereçamento da voz ao outro, a partir da entrada na linguagem e, assim, o autista retém sua voz. A escrita de Higashida favorece à ele se conectar ao mundo externo, uma vez que possibilita o trabalho com signos, evitando polissemias e endereçamento direto da voz ao Outro, não havendo a presença marcante deste. A hipótese é confirmada uma vez que, sustentada pelo recurso ao duplo, a escrita proporciona tranquilidade ao lidar com letras, números e símbolos, atende aos critérios de imutabilidade buscado pelo autista, além de possibilitar a conexão e inserção social por meio dela
Um estudo psicanalítico sobre a escrita autobiográfica de dois autores autistas: Daniel Tammet e Naoki Higashida
Get PDFO objetivo desta pesquisa é refletir sobre a escrita autobiográfica produzida por autistas, por meio da qual relatam suas experiências e maneiras particulares de estar no mundo, as dificuldades encontradas na aquisição da linguagem, a apropriação da voz e o encontro com os outros. O eixo do estudo parte da leitura de duas obras autobiográficas: Nascido em um dia azul. Por dentro da mente de um autista extraordinário (2007), de Daniel Tammet, e O que me faz pular (2014), de Naoki Higashida. Daniel Tammet é um autista de alto funcionamento, com grandes habilidades matemáticas e capacidades consideráveis para aprender línguas, e descreve seu quadro autístico, seu pensamento alicerçado em imagens, o interesse por números, especialmente o número pi, e sua relação muito particular com a língua. Naoki Higashida é um adolescente que revela suas emoções, sentimentos e seu mundo permeado de sensibilidade e poesia, narrando vivências de sofrimento e angústia por não conseguir se comunicar com as pessoas; é um garoto que apresenta dificuldades para falar, porém, por meio da escrita, consegue transmitir sua singularidade e a maneira que encontrou para estabelecer laços sociais. Este estudo possui como fundamentação teórica e clínica a psicanálise lacaniana e procura destacar que essas produções autobiográficas ampliam e expandem a compreensão sobre os autismos. Os escritos autobiográficos revelam um saber próprio e, desse modo, contribuem para a clínica psicanalítica, possuindo importantes implicações no campo socialThe objective of this research is to reflect on the autobiographical and poetic writing produced by autistic subjects whereby they report their particular experiences and ways of being in the world. They especially describe the difficulties encountered in language acquisition and in voice appropriation. The focus of the study comes from the reading of two autobiographical works, initially ties Daniel Tammet's work “Born on a Blue Day” (2007) will be highlighted. He is a high-functioning autistic with great mathematical skills and considerable language learning capability. The author describes his autistic characteristic, his thoughts based on images, his interest in numbers and the particular relationship with language. Later the book “What makes me jump” (2014) by Naoki Higashida, a teenager who reveals his emotions, feelings and his world permeated with sensitivity and poetry. The author narrates experiences of suffering and anguish for not being able to communicate with people. Naoki is a boy who does not speak, but it is through writing that he can transmit his singularity and the way he found to establish social. This study has as its theoretical and clinical foundation in the lacanian psychoanalysis and seeks to give focus on the fact that these productions broaden and expand the understanding of autisms. The autobiographical writings reveal their own knowledge, and thus contribute to the psychoanalytic clinic, and have important implications in the social fiel
ビザンティン聖堂壁画における預言者像：形、場、意味
No full textギリシア北部、マケドニア地方のヴェリアにある救世主キリスト復活聖堂（以下、キリスト聖堂と略す）は、14世紀初頭に建てられた単廊式のバシリカ小聖堂で、内部に画家カリエルギスによる創建当初からのフレスコを有する。身廊の壁面は三段の帯状に分割され、上段に新約の諸場面、中断に預言者や四福音書記者、諸聖人の胸像を含むメダイヨン、下段に修道士や軍人聖人などの全身像が描かれる。また、東壁のアブシスのコンクに立像の聖母子と二天使、コンク下部に四人の教父が配される。東壁最上段の破風状区画には「インマヌエルのキリスト」のメダイヨンを支える二天使と、旧約の王ダヴィデとソロモンが表され、正対する西壁の破風状区画にはどっしりとした体躯のヨアキムとアンナが描かれる。筆者は現在、このような装飾プログラムを有するキリスト聖堂の壁画について、特に中断のメダイヨンにおいて巻物を広げて左右を仰ぎ見る旧約の預言者像に注目して考察を進めているが、その描かれ方や構図上の特徴を明らかにするには、その前に、広くビザンティン聖堂一般において旧約の預言者がどのように表されているのかを把握しておかなければならない
An experience with augmentation sigmoid cystoplasty for urinary incontinence caused by sacral agenesis: a case report
Get PDF26歳男, 尿失禁を主訴とした仙骨形成不全に対して, S状結腸を用いて膀胱拡大術を施行し, 尿失禁の改善をみたSacral agenesis is an uncommon disease. About 50 cases have been reported in Japan since 1929. Neurogenic bladder is often accompanied with the disease. The patient was a 26-year-old man who had suffered from persistent urinary incontinence since his childhood. Kidney-ureter-bladder (KUB) revealed Type IV sacral agenesis according to the classification by Renshaw. The upper urinary tract remained normal. Urodynamics study showed a low compliance bladder with low urethral pressure. Pharmacotherapy failed to improve his continence. Augmentation sigmoid-cystoplasty was undertaken to enlarge vesical capacity and it has successfully overcome his urinary incontinence. Clinical aspects of sacral agenesis are discussed focusing on urological problems
La transformation du système financier et la crise contemporaine : Le mode de régulation financière dans le capitalisme japonais
No full textThe transformation of the financial system and the contemporary crisis
This paper tries to characterize the financial system which supported the accumulation regime in the postwar Japanese economy, and to explain the role of the financial system in the transformation of the accumulation regime after the 1970's. The Japanese postwar « financial mode of regulation » consists of the following three elements : interventions and regulations by the financial authorities, the structure of corporate finance, and the structure of corporate governance. By using these elements, the author aims at shelding light on the financial aspect of the « company-ism regulation » in the postwar Japanese economy and considers possibilities for reforming the financial system to construct a new growth regime.Cet article tente de caractériser le système financier qui a soutenu le régime d'accumulation dans l'économie japonaise de l'après-guerre, et essaie d'expliquer le rôle du système financier dans la transformation du régime d'accumulation après les années 1970.
Le « mode de régulation financier » japonais de l'après-guerre se compose de trois éléments : les interventions et les régulations des autorités financières ; la structure de financement des entreprises ; la structure de gouvernement des entreprises.
A partir de ces éléments, l'auteur tente d'apporter un éclairage sur l'aspect
financier de la « company-issm regulation » dans l'économie japonaise de l'après- guerre et considère les possibilités de réforme du système financier pour construire un nouveau régime de croissance.Nabeshima Naoki. La transformation du système financier et la crise contemporaine : Le mode de régulation financière dans le capitalisme japonais . In: Revue d'économie financière, n°43, 1997. Le système financier japonais . pp. 37-79
Loosening phenomenon on thin plates bolted joint due to offset load
No full textIn this study, the new loosening behavior was discovered and investigated when offset loads were repeatedly applied to both ends of a bolted joint initially tightened to a thin plate made of high-tensile steel. In the experiments, the impact of offset distance on reduction of clamp force was investigated through multiple applications of symmetric offset axial load to the bolted joint assembly. The experimental results showed that even a slight offset load reduced the clamp force, and the larger the offset distance, the greater the reduction of the clamp force. It was also found that the decrease in clamp force depends not on the number of times the offset load is applied but on the magnitude of the offset load. Until now even if the thin plate bolted joint was subjected to an offset load, as long the plates do not deform significantly due to plastic deformation, it has been generally recognized that the clamp force is not reduced. This loosening phenomenon is new and its mechanism has not been elucidated yet. In order to clarify the mechanism that may lower the clamp force, this study conducted FE analysis using a simplified model of a bolted joint. In the FE model, the bolt and nut are considered as a single unit and the effect of slippage between the thread surfaces and the effect of plastic deformation is ignored by using elastic analysis. The results of the FE analysis showed that the main factor causing the reduction in clamp force was slippage between the thin plates to be joined, which was caused by offset load, and that the slippage didn't return to the original position resulting in the reduction in clamp force
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