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Noether's problem and rationality problem for multiplicative invariant fields: a survey (Algebraic Number Theory and Related Topics 2016)
Get PDF"Algebraic Number Theory and Related Topics 2016". November 28 - December 2, 2016. edited by Yasuo Ohno, Hiroshi Tsunogai and Toshiro Hiranouchi. The papers presented in this volume of RIMS Kôkyûroku Bessatsu are in final form and refereed.In this paper, we give a brief survey of recent developments on Noether's problem and rationality problem for multiplicative invariant fields including author's recent papers Hoshi [Hos15] about Noether's problem over Q, Hoshi, Kang and Kunyavskii [HKK13], Chu, Hoshi, Hu and Kang [CHHK15], Hoshi [Hos16] and Hoshi, Kang and Yamasaki [HKY16] about Noether's problem over C, and Hoshi, Kang and Kitayama [HKK14] and Hoshi, Kang and Yamasaki [HKY] about rationality problem for multiplicative invariant fields
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Market, Medicine, and Empire: Hoshi Pharmaceuticals in the Interwar Years
Get PDFThis dissertation examines the connections between global capitalism, modern medicine, and empire through a close study of Hoshi Pharmaceuticals during the interwar years. As one of the leading drug companies in East Asia at the time, Hoshi embodied Japan's imperial aspirations, rapid industrial development, and burgeoning consumer culture. The company attempted to control every part of its supply and distribution chain: it managed plantations in the mountains of Taiwan and Peru for growing coca and cinchona (the raw material for quinine) and contracted Turkish poppy farmers to supply raw opium for government-owned refineries in Taiwan. Hoshi also helped shape modern consumer culture in Japan and its colonies, and indeed, became an emblem for it.
At its peak in the early 1920s, Hoshi had a network of chain stores across Asia that sold Hoshi-brand patent medicines, hygiene products, and household goods. In 1925, however, the company's fortunes turned for the worse when an opium trading violation raised suspicions of Hoshi as a front for the smuggling of narcotics through Manchuria and China. Although the company was a key supplier of medicines to Japan's military during World War Two, it could not financially recover from the fallout of the opium scandal. In 1952, the industrialist Otani Yonetaro seized control of the company from the Hoshi family.
By tracing Hoshi's activities across Japan's expanding empire and beyond, this dissertation shows how private, transnational drug companies such as Hoshi played a vital role in manufacturing and selling Japan as a modern nation and empire. Like many other transnational corporations during the autarkic global climate of the interwar years, Hoshi constantly looked abroad to learn about, borrow, and translate technologies that were circulating across the globe to support the "business" of empire building. Hoshi Pharmaceuticals embodied the symbiotic connections between government and business interests; an ideology of cooperation where the "interests of capital and labor are one"; and adaptations of global, particularly American, technologies of management
Hoshi and the Red City Circuit
No full textDue to their unique neurology, only the enslaved Operator caste can program the quantum computers that run 26th century Red City. When three of the caste are ritually murdered, it\u27s up to private investigator Hoshi Archer -- herself a recently liberated Operator -- to help the police solve the case. Things get complicated when one of the victims turns out to be Hoshi\u27s ex-girlfriend, and power-hungry bureaucrats and old rivals stir up new problems. An immortal, amoral alien may even be involved. To unwind the plot to take over the city, Hoshi must decipher a deadly computer program and learn to communicate with the alien, before it\u27s too late for the next victim -- and the city
Rationality problem for quasi-monomial actions (Algebraic Number Theory and Related Topics 2012)
Get PDF"Algebraic Number Theory and Related Topics 2012". December 3～7, 2012. edited by Atsushi Shiho, Tadashi Ochiai and Noriyuki Otsubo. The papers presented in this volume of RIMS Kôkyûroku Bessatsu are in final form and refereed.We give a short survey of the rationality problem for quasi-monomial actions which includes Noether s problem and the rationality problem for algebraic tori, and report some results on rationality problem in three recent papers Hoshi, Kang and Kitayama [HKKi], Hoshi, Kang and Kunyavskii [HKKu] and Hoshi and Yamasaki [HY]
Electrophysiology of Triturus nephron: Cable properties and electrogenic transport systems
No full textThe Robert F. Pitts Memorial Lectureships were founded in 1978, when the many friends and admirers of Robert Pitts established a fund in memory of that distinguished physiologist. The Lecturer is selected by the Renal Commission of the International Union of Physiological Sciences, with the Chair of Physiology at Cornell University Medical College acting ex officio. The Lecture is presented at each International Congress of Physiological Sciences. At the XXXI Congress held in Helsinki, Finland, the Pitts Lecturer was Professor Takeshi Hoshi, from Shizuoka, Japan. He delivered the lecture on July 13, 1989.There are several aspects about the choice of Professor Hoshi that seem singularly fitting. First and foremost, he is an outstanding physiologist who, like Robert Pitts, has contributed much to our understanding of renal function. Professor Hoshi, in a classical experiment with Sakai in the early sixties, showed for the first time that ions can cross the proximal tubule epithelium while avoiding the cytosol. These experiments which were concomitant with those of Windhager, Boulpaep and Giebisch, have been confirmed by others. The paracellular pathway for ion flow is now accepted as of paramount importance to the function of leaky epithelia. Then in 1968 Professor Hoshi with his coworkers discovered that glucose and sodium ions share a common mechanism as they enter the proximal tubular cells from the lumen during absorption. And shortly after he made similar findings concerning the relation between amino acids and sodium transport, and concerning the transport of other organic molecules and sodium. Again, these findings have been confirmed in other laboratories. These and other findings of Professor Hoshi contribute not only to a better knowledge of kidney function, but they have increased our understanding of the function of other epithelia as well.Professor Hoshi graduated from the School of Medicine ofTohoku University, Senday, and finished the Graduate Course in Physiology in 1954 in the same University, where he was an Instructor in Physiology until 1957 when he moved to the University of Tokyo. There in 1968 he became Professor of Physiology and Chairman until 1987. He then moved as Dean and Professor Emeritus of Physiology in the University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka. Professor Hoshi has been a Fulbright Scholar in the Laboratory of Professor Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen in Duke University in the United States. He has been scientific adviser to the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan. He is a member of the editorial board of various Journals and has held offices in the directive bodies of several Japanese scientific societies.Guillermo Whittembury Chair, Renal Commission IUPSPrevious Robert F. Pitts Memorial lectures1980 Rolf Kinne, Federal Republic of Germany1983 James A. Schafer, USA1986 Gerhard Malnic, Brazi
Hoshi Shin'ichi and the genre shoto shoto
No full textThis thesis "Hoshi Shin'ichi and the Genre Shto Shto" is addressed to the work of the author, who is in particular renowned for his so-called short short story production. This very genre, which I've intended to focus on with the thesis, has eventually become Hoshi's domain and he thus contributed to the treasure of both Japanese and world's literature by more than one thousand original stories, that have gained the micro-story form considerable popularity of readership as well as acknowledgement and appreciation of experts with broad range of themes, distinctive humour and contemplation on society's nature and future. In addition to abstracting the history and development, basic characteristic features and variety of both themes and genres of the microfiction form also other areas of author's beneficial activity and his personal life and background - that as if predestined him for a writer's path - can't be omitted
Kω - Open-source library for the shifted Krylov subspace method of the form (zI - H)x = b
No full textWe develop Kω, an open-source linear algebra library for the shifted Krylov subspace methods. The methods solve a set of shifted linear equations (z_k I - H)x^(k) = b (k = 0, 1, 2, ...) for a given matrix H and a vector b, simultaneously. The leading order of the operational cost is the same as that for a single equation. The shift invariance of the Krylov subspace is the mathematical foundation of the shifted Krylov subspace methods. Applications in materials science are presented to demonstrate the advantages of the algorithm over the standard Krylov subspace methods such as the Lanczos method. We introduce benchmark calculations of (i) an excited (optical) spectrum and (ii) intermediate eigenvalues by the contour integral on the complex plane. In combination with the quantum lattice solver HΦ, Kω can realize parallel computation of excitation spectra and intermediate eigenvalues for various quantum lattice models
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
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