108 research outputs found
Oil the possible relationship between the Matsushiro earthquake swarm and the inactivity of Asama-yama Volcano
No full textDuring the famous Matsushiro earthquake swarm more t h a n 700 000 (volcanic) earthquakes were observed. At (he same time remarkable contortion of the ground also took place together with other strange geophysical phenomena. In the course of these events, volcano Asama-yama (one of the most active volcanoes of the world) showed a perfect inactivity. This volcano is situated at a distance of about 30 km measured from Matsushiro, that is very near the site of the events. In the paper a causal relationship is suggested between the geophysical phenomena at .Matsushiro and the inactivity of Asama-yama. Two alternative possibilites are t r e a t e d briefly. The hypothetical character of these ideas is strongly emphasized by the author, however both possibilities appear to be physically real and can explain all the important geophysical events observed on the spot
Chronic pancreatitis: Novel concepts in diagnostics and treatment
No full textChronic pancreatitis (CP) is an inflammatory disease of the pancreas. The most prominent symptom is abdominal pain, which often leads to recurrent hospitalizations, absence of work, multiple interventions, and opioid addiction. Ten years after onset of the disease, more than half of the patients are still suffering from pain. The ongoing inflammation often leads to fibrosis and pancreatic function loss. Within 5 years, 50% of the patients becomes endocrine insufficient and 80% exocrine insufficient. This thesis is divided in three parts. The first part focuses on the diagnostics in CP, in which we describe the diagnostic accuracy of imaging modalities for the diagnosis of CP, compare CT with MRI in patients with CP, and compare diagnostic tools for CP. The second part explores the natural course of CP. We describe the nationwide prospective Dutch Chronic Pancreatitis Registry (CARE), and the long-term outcomes in terms of recurrent pancreatitis and progression to CP in a large cohort of patients with a first acute pancreatitis episode. The third part evaluates the treatment of CP, where we evaluate the role of preoperative opioid use on the success of thoracoscopic splanchnicectomy in terms of long-term pain relief, and describe a randomized controlled multicenter trial, which evaluates the benefits, risks and costs of early surgical intervention: the Early Surgery versus Optimal Current Step-up Practice for Chronic Pancreatitis (ESCAPE) – trial
So Deep in the Mountains: Saigyo\u27s Yama fukami poems and Reclusion in Medieval Japanese Poetry
No full textExamining a set of poems exchanged by the monks Saigyō and Jakuzen, the author argues for their importance as records of a crucial moment in the development of religious reclusion imagery in waka. The author focuses on Saigyō, demonstrating how he created a new poetic space marked by a deepening of the tropes of sōan and yamazato, yielding a previously unarticulated realm of expression for his rigorous ideal of mountain seclusion. As “grass huts” and “mountain homes” became more commonly associated with hermits monks such as Saigyō, many of whom in fact spent the majority of their lives in the remote and indigent circumstances of mountain reclusion, the imagery relating to these spaces both shifted and expanded. Saigyō was a key figure in this development in Japanese poetics, and his yama fukami poems played an important role in the deepening and expansion of these topoi in the medieval period
The D1-triangulation in simplicial variable dimension algorithms for computing solutions of nonlinear equations
No full textNonlinear Equations
Kresnik: An Attempt at a Mythological ReconstructionKresnik: poskus mitološke rekonstrukcije
No full textThe Slovene Kresnik tradition has numerous parallels in Indo-European mythologies. Research has established connections between the myth about a hero’s fight with a snake (dragon) and the vegetational cult of Jarilo/Zeleni Jurij. The Author establishes a hypothesis about Iranian influences (resemblance to figures of Yima/Yama and Mithra) and outlines a later transformation of Kresnik in the period of Christianization
Dharma. By Alf Hiltebeitel.
No full textOn the cover, along with the names of the book, author, and book series (‘Dimensions of Asian Spirituality’), are two pictures, on a matt grey-green background. In the upper picture is Yama Dharmarāja, lord of the passage through death, enthroned in his hall of audience. There is a gruesome attendant on one side, and a turbanned fellow seated on the other, reading aloud from an open book, and apparently presenting a handsome couple, in the foreground, to Yama.
The lower picture is a strip of swirling blue, the postmortem River Vaitaraṇī, with people in it, and water-monsters. One woman has been grabbed by the ear. A woman in the centre is holding the tail of a cow, which seems to be paddling along happily, with a man’s head in front of it. Perhaps the man is leading the cow. Perhaps he is the tail-woman’s husband. Perhaps they are the couple in the upper picture
PENGARUH SUBTITUSI SEBAGIAN SEMEN DENGAN VARIASI KOMPOSISI ABU SEKAM PADI TERHADAP KUAT TEKAN BETON K-300
No full textAlong with the increasing advancement in technology development of a region, resulting in further increase the use of cement as a base for such development. Therefore, the need for an alternative to cement as a base for development. In this thesis the author uses abu sekam padi as a cement substitute, abu sekam padi contains pozzolan which is similar to cement.
Abu sekam padi is used from rice mill in Pagar Alam. In this thesis the author reviewed the compressive strength of concrete with cement substitution using abu sekam padi, with variations in the composition of 10%, 11%, and 12% as well as a variation of 0% as control variables. Concrete compressive strength testing time starting from the age of 7 days, 14 days, 21 days and 28 days.
From the results of testing the strength of concrete by using a variation of the composition of 0%, 10%, 11%, and 12% abu sekam padi obtained value of the compressive strength of each - each as follows: 344.44 kg / cm2, 317.04 kg / cm2, 239 , 26 kg / cm2, and 201.48 kg / cm2. From the test results obtained value of normal concrete cement water factor of 0,535; concrete with a mixture of 10% abu sekam padi of 0.63; a mixture of 11% abu sekam padi by 0.66; and with a mixture of 12% abu sekam padi 0,68. Based on the test results for the addition of 10% abu sekam padi reached the compressive strength of the plan is quality concrete K300 which enter the category concrete class III and can be used for structural construction, while 11% of abu sekam padi did not compressive strength of concrete plans K300 but remained concrete category class III and to the addition abu sekam padi of 12% decreased quality of concrete compressive strength did not reach the plan and get in on the concrete class II category
Hyakunin Isshu and the author : about the waka <Fuku karani...>
No full textKokin Wakashu carries the following waka: Fuku karani Aki no kusaki no Shiorure ba Mube yama-kaze wo Arashi to iu ramu. This waka is inserted in Hyakunin Isshu also. The name of the auther, Funya no Yasuhide is written in the book. We can notice a different opinion against the hypothesis that the auther is Funya no Yasuhide, and the annotation is published to modify the name from Funya no Yasuhide to Funya no Asayasu. However, in my opinion, I can not point out any solid reasoning in this objection that seems to be extreme. I come to the conclusion that we should take the register deserving of the respect, written in each of the books. This paper consists of establishing a hypothesis based on the background of this debatable waka.departmental bulletin pape
Letter from Kunio Nakatani to his parents, October 24, 1940
No full textLetter from Kunio Nakatani to his parents translated from Japanese to English. Kunio writes from a dorm of the Kaigai Kyoiku Kyokai. He indicates in his letter that it has been one month and a half since he came to Japan. He describes his school on the Masugata-yama. For original Japanese version, see sac_nak_0182.The collection consists of documents, diaries, letters, books, calendars, newspapers, photographs, artifacts and audiovisual media pertaining to Kikuyo Morimoto Nakatani, a Japanese-born woman who lived in Isleton, California. During World War II, her family was incarcerated in the Minidoka and Tule Lake incarceration camps. After the war, she moved to Los Angeles and studied tea with Madame Sosei Matsumoto, and became a tea master acknowledged by the Urasenke Headquarters in Japan. The collection also contains letters from her son, Kunio, who served aboard the Yamato battleship for the Empire of Japan during World War II
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