157 research outputs found
On Mishima Yukio's Modern Noh Play “Yuya“
No full textpdfLike some other modern Noh plays by Mishima，“Yuya” (1959) may be evaluated as an attempt“at a kind of poetic drama” 1) and “at a marriage between the drama of ideas and the poetic drama.“ 2) It is also important to note that it was an adaptation of a typical Noh play of yūgen-gentle splendour and graceful and subtle beauty.
The Kabuki dance play “Yuya”， which Mishima wrote in 1955 for Nakamura Utaemon, helps us to see how he interpreted the original Noh. We may also note there that “the flower” the main theme of the play, was successfully represented and the feelings of the play skilfully created.
Some vulgar elements were introduced into his modern Noh play, but it was still “the flower“ that the author intended to create by “modernizing”the purple passages of the original. The heroine’s words and action, replacing music, dancing and stage-setting of the classical plays, are there to show the movement of her mind and emotion. When the critical climax arrives, however, she is required to act almost like a classical Noh actor in the “iguse”sc ene, characteristically paradoxical feature that the least movement is the most powerful expression. It is not an easy play to perform.conference pape
Natural history of genetically proven autosomal recessive Alport syndrome
No full textBackgroundAutosomal recessive Alport syndrome (ARAS) is a rare hereditary disease caused by homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations in either the COL4A3 or COL4A4 genes. Failure to diagnose ARAS cases is common, even if detailed clinical and pathological examinations are carried out. As the mutation detection rate for ARAS is unsatisfactory, we sought to develop more reliable diagnostic methods and provide a better description of the clinicopathological characteristics of this disorder.MethodsA retrospective analysis of 30 genetically diagnosed patients with ARAS in 24 pedigrees was conducted. The mutation detection strategy comprised three steps: (1) genomic DNA analysis using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and direct sequencing; (2) mRNA analysis using reverse transcription (RT)-PCR to detect RNA processing abnormalities; (3) semi-quantitative PCR using capillary electrophoresis to detect large heterozygous deletions.ResultsUsing the three-step analysis, we identified homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations in all patients. Interestingly, 20 % of our ARAS patients showed normal expression of ?5 in kidney tissue. The median age of developing end-stage renal disease was 21 years.ConclusionsThe strategy described in this study improves the diagnosis for ARAS families. Although immunohistochemical analysis of ?5 can provide diagnostic information, normal distribution does not exclude the diagnosis of ARAS
Big dragon, little dragons : China's challenge to the machinery exports of southeast Asia
No full textThis paper investigates the extent of China's export boom in machinery and analyzes trade in components and finished machinery between China and Southeast Asia. China has increased its world market share in machinery exports. The median relative unit value of its finished machinery exports has also risen. Yet the author finds no evidence that China's expansion in the world machinery market has squeezed the market shares of Southeast Asian machinery exports. Instead, components made by Southeast Asian countries are increasing in unit value and gaining market share in China.Markets and Market Access,Economic Theory&Research,Free Trade,General Manufacturing,Debt Markets
Good reduction criterion for K3 surfaces : an announcement (Algebraic Number Theory and Related Topics 2013)
No full text"Algebraic Number Theory and Related Topics 2013". December 9～13, 2013. edited by Tadashi Ochiai, Takeshi Tsuji and Iwao Kimura. The papers presented in this volume of RIMS Kôkyûroku Bessatsu are in final form and refereed.This is an announcement of another paper by the author (published in Math. Z.). We prove that whether a K3 surface has potential good reduction can be determined from the Galois representation defined from the l-adic or p-adic étale cohomology groups of the K3 surface. This is an analogue of the Néron-Ogg-Shafarevich criterion for abelian varieties. We also have an application to the period map of K3 surfaces in mixed characteristics
Method of thermally glazing an article, U.S. Patent 6,127,005
No full textCoating and filler materials for localized thermal processing of glazed ceramics and other brittle and low thermal conductivity materials. The coating materials include oxide compositions that exhibit coefficients of thermal expansion which are less than about 8×10-6 /° C. and glass transition temperatures which are less than about 400° C. The filler materials include particulate oxide materials which do not substantially react during localized thermal processing of glazed ceramics and other brittle and low thermal conductivity materials. The coating and filler materials are useable together as a composite material for repairing cavities having depths greater than about 2 mm
An Influence of Mean Stress on Fatigue Strength and Fatigue Fracture Origins for Aluminum Alloy Bolt
No full textEffects of hot airflow during spin-coating process on CH3NH3PbI3-xClx perovskite solar cells
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Body movements during early stages of chick embryo under intermittent low oxygen environment
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