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Period of the Ikeda type lift for
Get PDFIn our previous work, he second and the third named authors constructed the
Ikeda type lift for the exceptional group from an elliptic modular
cusp form. In this paper, we prove an explicit formula for the period or the
Petersson norm of the Ikeda type lift in terms of the product of the special
values of the symmetric square -function of the elliptic modular form.
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An investigation of automotive seating discomfort and seat design factors. Final report
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I remember the Colleens
No full textIn this "I remember" memoir, Laye Ikeda Nagahiro recalls a service club she belonged to at Seabrook called "The Colleens." The Colleens were responsible for planning and organizing community events, such as dances and contests. They often received assistance from a boys group called the Hornets. The Colleens also babysat for various families at Seabrook. Ten cents of every dollar each girl earned was donated the club's treasury. The Seabrook Educational and Cultural Center has been soliciting current and past residents of Seabrook Farms for an "I remember" project. Residents are asked to create narratives regarding their experiences at Seabrook Farms. These memories help preserve the history and multi-cultural heritage of Seabrook Farms
Kalanchoe Shtein, Smith & Ikeda, 2021, sp. nov.
No full textKalanchoe ×descoingsii Shtein, Gideon F.Sm. & J.Ikeda sp. nov. (Figs 3 and 4). Type:— MADAGASCAR. Arboretum d’Antsokay, southeastern Madagascar, in a sparse forest floor, collected on 04 October 2018 by Jun Ikeda s.n., R. Shtein 501 (holotype TELA [TELA935]; isotype TELA [TELA936]). Material harvested as the holo- and isotypes was cultivated in Israel (Figs 3 and 4). Suggested parentage:— Kalanchoe laetivirens Descoings (1997: 85) × K. tubiflora (Harvey 1862: 380) Hamet (1912: 44). Diagnosis:— Kalanchoe × descoingsii differs from all other representatives of K. subg. Bryophyllum by being lowgrowing for most of its vegetative life span; by its densely foliated, solitary pseudo-rosettes that drastically elongate as flowering approaches; by being constitutively phyllo-bulbiliferous; by its oblong leaves that are apically obtuse to rounded; by having deeply dentate leaf blade margins subducted by recurved, spathulate bulbil-carrying pedestals; by its distal leaves and peduncular leaves gradually transitioning from conspicuously petiolate, deeply auriculate, basally broadened, oblong basal leaves, into being subsessile, attenuate, entire bar the apex, and generally not bulbil-forming; by its peduncle indistinctly transitioning from the distal vegetative part of the stem into the flower-bearing portion of inflorescence; by the corolla that is somewhat pinkish to whitish green when emerging, to being predominantly vibrant pink to orange-pink at anthesis; by the free sepal segments being longer than wide, ovate-deltoid, and about as long as to somewhat longer than the fused portion; by the calyx tube being wider than long; and by having nectar scales that are about as wide as long, spreading, and rounded-notched at the apex. Description:— Plants multi-annual, entirely glabrous, non-glaucescent throughout, unbranched, erect, often basally decumbent, about 0.8–1.2 m tall when in flower. Stem mostly herbaceous, lenticular, cylindrical; lower portion 25–35 cm long, 10–13 mm in diam., dense, green to pinkish brown; upper portion 50–80 cm long, 5–8 mm in diam., extremely sparse, purple; leaf scars narrowly crescentiform, conspicuous, slightly protruding, not connate; internodes 0.7–1.5 cm long basally, 4.5–6.0 cm long in distal half, distinctly lighter green to pink. Leaves opposite, decussate, succulent; basal leaves distinctly petiolate, densely arranged, wilting by anthesis; petiole 3.0– 5.5 cm long, 4–6 mm in diam. medially, up to 6–8 mm in diam. at base, subcylindrical, often slightly concave above and convex below, slightly widened around stem, green to purple, distinctly maculate with large dark brown or dark purple blotches; blade 8–12 cm long, 3.5–5.8 cm wide at base, 2.0– 3.5 cm wide elsewhere, adaxially green to green-brown, sometimes ornate with purple veining patterns centrally and basally, minutely dark-maculate, abaxially yellowish grey, strongly striped in dark brown or dark purple, narrowly elliptic to oblong, sometimes basally obtusely trilobate, widened distinctly in basal <⅓, widest at basal ¼, strongly guttered lengthwise, concave above and convex below; margins green-grey to reddish pink, regularly dentate, darkly blotched between dentations, below blotches marked by pale organogenic and/or embryogenic notches, later developing pedestals; dentations 2.0–5.5 × 3–6 mm, acute, broad, increasing in acuity basally and apically; bulbil production fully constitutive, occurs on dedicated pedestals, at least on apical ½ of each leaf blade margin or on its entirety; bulbils large, bearing 3–5 leaf pairs and sometimes their own bulbils while still attached to mother plant, almost round leafed, minutely maculate; pedestals 2.0–5.5 × ± 1.5 mm, spathulate, bent to abaxial blade surface, incurved apically; base strongly auriculate, extending up to 17 mm behind petiole-blade connection, often ornate with two erect, dentate, bulbiliferous auricles; apex obtuse to rounded; apical leaves petiolate to subsessile; petiole 1.5–2.5 cm long; blade 5.0–7.5 × 0.8–1.2 cm, equally wide throughout to widest apically, narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, mostly entire, few-dentate apically, not pedestalate, apically bluntly obtuse to rounded, basally minutely auriculate-cuneate to attenuate. Inflorescence a compact, many-flowered, capitate thyrse, lacking leaves or barely leafed at anthesis, non-bulbiliferous, i.e., dense bulbil clusters do not develop, but a few, large, discrete plantlets may form post-flowering, dense, terminal, 7.5–15.0 cm wide, consisting of 5–7 short dichasial cymes, each 5–9 cm long; peduncle 14–21 cm long, 4–6 mm in diam., single, cylindrical, indistinctly transitioning from distal vegetative part of stem into flower-bearing portion of inflorescence; bracts 3–5 × ± 1 cm, sessile, attenuate, narrowly oblong, mostly entire, few-dentate and bluntly obtuse apically, wilting soon; floral bracts ± 2 × ± 1 cm, bract-like, wilting soon; pedicels 12–18(–25) mm long, curved, cylindrical, tapering towards flowers from 1.2–1.4 mm to ± 0.60–0.75 mm in diam., purple. Flowers numerous, pendent, campanulate. Calyx 12–15 × 7–8 mm, light or grey-green to purple, dark purple-spotted where free sepal segments fuse, succulent, thick, campanulate-urceolate, rounded, basally ± flat, widest in middle of tube, then gradually constricted upwards; tube 5.5–6.5 mm long; free sepal segments 6.5–8.0 mm long, widest at base at ± 5 mm, ovate-deltoid, very acute, apiculate, adpressed to corolla to slightly spreading. Corolla 30–33 mm long, vibrant pink to orange-pink, whitish green when emerging and where obscured by calyx, non-stipitate; tube 22–24 mm long, especially basally ± 4-angled, basally adpressed around and above carpels, up to 5.5 mm wide, then diminishing to ± 4 mm wide at its thinnest, then gradually inflating to base of petals where it is generally widest at a width of 7–8 mm; lobes 8.0–9.5 × 6–7 mm [at base], widest at 8–9 mm at ⅓ from tip, broadly obovate, apically rounded, very slightly apiculate, somewhat spreading. Stamens 8, inserted low down in corolla tube, at ± level of carpels, slightly exserted, visible between, and reaching apex of petals; filaments of two similar lengths, fused basally, then adpressed, protruding inside base of corolla, free higher up for ± 20–22 mm, thin, yellow-green basally and apically, strongly infused with purple-pink elsewhere; anthers ± 1.0–1.2 × 0.8 mm, dark grey, producing yellow pollen, ovate-cordate, somewhat longer than wide. Pistil consisting of 4 carpels; carpels ± 7–8 × 1.7–2.0 mm, convergent, fused basally, free above, uniformly dark green, conical lanceolate, widest in lower ⅓, cuneate towards styles; styles ± 15–17 mm long, uniformly yellowish green; stigmas very minutely capitate, dark green; scales ± 1.5–2.0 × 1.5–2.0 mm, yellow-green, free, spreading, rounded-square, about as wide as long, thickened especially basally, incurved, upper corners rounded, emarginate. Follicles not seen. Seeds not seen. Chromosome number: 2 n = unknown. Eponymy:— Kalanchoe ×descoingsii commemorates Bernard Marie Descoings (born Paris, France, 7 September 1931 –died Largentière, Ardèche, France, 23 October 2018) (Madin 2018). He studied agronomy at Montpellier and in 1953 graduated as an agricultural engineer. From 1953 to 1954 he completed a training course at the Phanerogam Laboratory of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, in Paris, where, under the guidance of Jean Henri Humbert, he developed an interest in tropical botany. Descoings (Fig. 12) subsequently spent time in Madagascar (1954–1958) and after having been recruited by the ‘Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer’ (ORSTOM), spent four years in the Congo, where he directed ORSTOM’s Botanical Laboratory from March 1960 to 1965. Between 1965 and 1985 Descoings was variously based in Montpellier, French Guiana, and Burkina Faso, and from 1970 until his retirement in 1995 he additionally held various positions in Montpellier, France. In 1976 he defended his doctoral dissertation, ‘Approche des formations herbeuses tropicales par la structure de la végétation’, in Natural Sciences in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Montpellier. While Descoings was based at the Paris Herbarium as a young man, the exposure he had to Jean Henri Humbert likely sparked his interest in Kalanchoe, as Humbert himself had more than a passing interest in the genus (Humbert 1933a, b). From the late 1990s to mid-2000s, Descoings described 16 new species and nothospecies in the genus from Madagascar, including K. laetivirens and K. sanctula, both reviewed in this paper. In 2003 Descoings treated Kalanchoe in the Crassulaceae volume of the Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants project (Eggli 2003), which in several respects does not coincide taxonomically with the earlier treatment of Boiteau & Allorge-Boiteau (1995) of the genus as found in Madagascar. In 2005, Descoings paid special attention to the nothospecies of southern Madagascar, being the first to recognise their relatively common occurrence (Descoings 2005a). A year later he published an infrageneric classification that proposed the recognition of a morphologically diverse K. subg. Calophygia Descoings (2006: 24), but not K. subg. Kitchingia, a view with which we do not agree. Smith (2019) was dedicated to Descoings. Distribution:—Southern Madagascar, Arboretum d’Antsokay (Fig. 9). Mr Andry Petignat, Hermann Petignat’s son, an author and the current owner of the Arboretum d’Antsokay informed us that K. × descoingsii was not imported to his garden and therefore most likely spontaneously arose there. He further noted the similarities this plant bears to K. laetivirens, especially in habit and colouration, and that it rarely flowers, remaining rather short, though it has successfully spread in the garden, presumably vegetatively. Kalanchoe tubiflora and K. laetivirens, the parents of K. × descoingsii, are not known to grow sympatrically in the natural distribution range of K. laetivirens (discussed above in detail). In cultivation and in the Arboretum d’Antsokay, K. × descoingsii is able to rapidly reach its bulbil producing phase and spreads easily at a rate on par with that of K. × houghtonii. Detached bulbils may start bulbil production on their fourth leaf pair, or even carry bulbils of their own while still attached to the mother plant. Kalanchoe × descoingsii therefore poses a high invasiveness potential.Published as part of Shtein, Ronen, Smith, Gideon F. & Ikeda, Jun, 2021, Aspects of the taxonomy of the Kalanchoe daigremontiana species complex (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae) and associated interspecific hybrids in southern Madagascar, with the description of a new nothospecies, K. × descoingsii (= K. laetivirens × K. tubiflora), pp. 235-260 in Phytotaxa 524 (4) on pages 249-252, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.524.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/565638
Studying Economics as War Effort: The First Economic Treatise in the Ottoman Empire and its Militaristic Motivations
No full textThe introduction of post-Smithian economics into the Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century was primarily militaristically motivated. The first known treatise of economics in Ottoman-Turkish is a manuscript, entitled Risâle-i Tedbîr-i Ûmrân-ı Mülkî (A Treatise on the Administration of the Prosperity of the Country/State, c.1835), written exclusively for the Ottoman political-military elite. The manuscript is based mostly on Jean-Baptiste Say’s Cours complet d'économie politique pratique (1828-29). The anonymous author of this 84-page manuscript begins the text with the argument that military technologies and institutions got more sophisticated in modern times and the necessary institutional upgrading to catch up with these changes created a heavy burden on central state finances. This new discipline, i.e. economics, according to the author, provides statesmen with new scientific principles for organizing an effective war economy. Focusing on the militaristic objectives and content of the first known example of the Ottoman-Turkish economic literature, this paper examines the relationship between war and economics in the early nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. It also sheds light on the linguistic and cultural dynamics of the transmission of economic ideas into the Ottoman Empire
Studying Economics as War Effort: The First Economic Treatise in the Ottoman Empire and its Militaristic Motivations
No full textThe introduction of post-Smithian economics into the Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century was primarily militaristically motivated. The first known treatise of economics in Ottoman-Turkish is a manuscript, entitled Risâle-i Tedbîr-i Ûmrân-ı Mülkî (A Treatise on the Administration of the Prosperity of the Country/State, c.1835), written exclusively for the Ottoman political-military elite. The manuscript is based mostly on Jean-Baptiste Say’s Cours complet d'économie politique pratique (1828-29). The anonymous author of this 84-page manuscript begins the text with the argument that military technologies and institutions got more sophisticated in modern times and the necessary institutional upgrading to catch up with these changes created a heavy burden on central state finances. This new discipline, i.e. economics, according to the author, provides statesmen with new scientific principles for organizing an effective war economy. Focusing on the militaristic objectives and content of the first known example of the Ottoman-Turkish economic literature, this paper examines the relationship between war and economics in the early nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. It also sheds light on the linguistic and cultural dynamics of the transmission of economic ideas into the Ottoman Empire
Densho as Prophecy: Announcing NEA Big Read, King County
No full textDensho is a Japanese word meaning to pass on to the next generation . This session will discuss history behind Executive Order 9066 which incarcerated thousands of Japanese Americans. In truth, no Japanese American was found guilty of spying on the United States. This event serves as a prophetic voice for the perils of a manufactured crisis, the resilience of a community affected by racism, and how place-based stories combat injustice.
The National Endowment of the Arts has granted SPU a Big Read Grant for our community to read and discuss When the Emperor Was Divine. Author, Julie Otsuka, will visit campus on March 9. Today a local context of Otsuka\u27s book will be presented by Lorraine Bannai and Tom Ikeda. Professor Bannai is Director of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality at Seattle University School of Law and author of Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice. Tom Ikeda is Executive Director of Densho, a non-profit group dedicated to documenting Japanese American experiences. Free copies of Otsuka and Bannai\u27s books will be distributed. Others can access Otsuka\u27s book using e-cards from the King County Library System
A Stylistic and Pedagogical Analysis of Selected Solo Piano Works by Naoko Ikeda
No full textNaoko Ikeda (b.1964) is the first Japanese composer to sign with an American publisher, The Willis Music Company, which has exclusively published her works in the United States since 2004. As of this writing, Ikeda’s pedagogical compositions have begun to gain global appeal and are increasingly utilized in lessons, concerts, festivals, lectures, examinations, and competitions across Japan, the United States, Canada, and Europe. This document explores Naoko Ikeda’s solo piano works, presents an overview of her solo piano music, and analyzes 38 pieces from 6 selected collections from her output. Chapter 1 presents the overview, purpose, need, limitations, and procedures of the study, and includes a review of related literature. Chapter 2 offers a biographical sketch of Naoko Ikeda, shedding light on her musical upbringing and significant career accomplishments to date. Chapter 3 outlines Ikeda’s eclectic compositional style, which draws inspiration from a variety of Eastern and Western musical genres and styles. This chapter also briefly surveys her published works for piano to determine the development of her compositional style over the last two decades. To supplement this survey, chronological and leveled guides to Ikeda’s complete piano works to date are provided in Appendices A and B. Appendices C and D provide the Institutional Review Board’s Approval Letter and the Interview Guide used to conduct email interviews with Ikeda. Appendix E outlines Hal Leonard’s Copyright Permission Letter to reproduce Ikeda’s music in this document. Chapters 4 through 9 analyze 38 solo piano pieces from 6 collections: Shoukei, Book 1 (2004), Shoukei, Book 2 (2005), Moving Pictures (2006), Celestial Dreams (2007), Miyabi (2012), and Aya (2022). For each of these 6 collections, the author offers a brief discussion on the background of the piece, a compositional analysis, and a pedagogical analysis. Chapter 10 concludes the study, summarizes Ikeda’s compositional style and contributions as a composer, and suggests potential avenues for future research. By exploring Ikeda’s piano music, this document addresses the dearth of academic literature on Ikeda’s works, acknowledges her growing global importance as an educational composer, and serves as a resource for teachers and pianists interested in Ikeda’s music
A theory of Miyawaki liftings: the Hilbert–Siegel case
Get PDFThe Miyawaki liftings are defined by the pullbacks of Ikeda liftings. Recently, Ikeda and Yamana extended the theory of Ikeda liftings to Hilbert-Siegel modular forms. In this paper, using their results, we establish a theory of Miyawaki liftings, both locally and globally. In the local theory, we describe the Miyawaki liftings for almost tempered unitary representations explicitly. In the global theory, we discuss the non-vanishing of the Miyawaki liftings using seesaw identities and the global Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture. As an application of local Miyawaki liftings, we prove a new case of the local Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture
A construção da memória e da identidade na Sôka Gakkai : breve análise de escritos de Daisaku Ikeda
Get PDFEste artigo enfoca a adaptação estratégica do discurso e da memória do movimento leigo budista japonês Soka Gakkai Internacional (SGI) ao longo de seu processo de legitimação e acomodação. Considerando-se que a SGI vem reescrevendo sua história após o cisma com a seita Nichiren Shoshu em 1991, privilegia-se duas obras de Daisaku Ikeda (“Revolução Humana” e “Nova Revolução Humana”) para se discutir a construção da memória e da identidade religiosa inspirando-se na idéia de “invenção de tradições” . ____________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACTThis article focus on the strategic adaptation of the rhetoric and memory of the Japanese lay Buddhist movement Soka Gakkai International (SGI), in its process of legitimization and accommodation. While acknowledging the fact that SGI has been rewriting its history after its excommunication in 1991 by the sect Nichiren Shoshu, the author, inspired by the idea of “invention of tradition,” takes two of Daisaku Ikeda’s work (“Human Revolution” and “New Human Revolution”) in order to discuss the construction of memory and religious identity
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