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Proust face à l’histoire de la réception des Mémoires : autour de l’anecdote de la disgrâce de Racine
No full textIkeda Jun. Proust face à l’histoire de la réception des Mémoires : autour de l’anecdote de la disgrâce de Racine. In: Cahiers Saint Simon, n°44, 2016. Saint-Simon et Proust. Journée d'études du samedi 12 mars 2016. pp. 63-73
The Flow of Funds through a Government – A Case Study on Japan
No full textIn Japan, the sustainability of public finance including that of social security is of serious concern. The underlying cause is that Japan is in transition to a new phase of economy and society because of medium-term changes in the revealed preferences of people about their lifestyle. Nevertheless, the socio-economic systems and institutions, which are founded on public opinion (or the stated preferences of people), have not kept up those changes. This would contribute to the distortion in the flow of funds through the government, adversely influencing the fiscal sustainability. That distortion should be corrected based on such an understanding.
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
Cuneiform inscriptions in the collection of the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem : the Emar tablets /
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 99-107) and index.1. Emar tablets / by Joan Goodnick Westenholz ; in collaboration with Jun Ikeda, e.a.2. The old Babylonian inscriptions / by Joan Goodnick Westenhol
Will New Trends in Foreign Direct Investment Change the Structure of Intra-industry Trade between China and Japan?
No full textIt is generally believed that Japan's cost-oriented and export-oriented direct investment has introduced a bilateral intra-industry trade pattern in ChinaJapan trade through which China imports accessories from Japan, processes them and exports the product to Japan. Based on investment and trade data in the machinery sector, this paper discusses whether Japan's market-oriented investment in China since 2000 has changed the structure of the trade between two countries. We conclude that the vertical division of labour, as described by the flying-geese model and applied to the machinery industry, is gradually disappearing. In its place, no stereotypical East Asian vertical division of labour has been formed in transport machinery industry, despite it being the sector into which investment has grown fastest since 2000. Rather, factor endowment is the main determinant of intra-industry trade in the machinery industry between the two countries.trade, foreign direct investment, Japan, China, Intra-industry trade
Proline-rich tyrosine kinase 2 mediates gonadotropin-releasing hormone signaling to a specific extracellularly regulated kinase-sensitive transcriptional locus in the luteinizing hormone beta-subunit gene
No full textG protein-coupled receptor regulation of gene transcription primarily occurs through the phosphorylation of transcription factors by MAPKs. This requires transduction of an activating signal via scaffold proteins that can ultimately determine the outcome by binding signaling kinases and adapter proteins with effects on the target transcription factor and locus of activation. By investigating these mechanisms, we have elucidated how pituitary gonadotrope cells decode an input GnRH signal into coherent transcriptional output from the LH beta-subunit gene promoter. We show that GnRH activates c-Src and multiple members of the MAPK family, c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase 1/2, p38MAPK, and ERK1/2. Using dominant-negative point mutations and chemical inhibitors, we identified that calcium-dependent proline-rich tyrosine kinase 2 specifically acts as a scaffold for a focal adhesion/cytoskeleton-dependent complex comprised of c-Src, Grb2, and mSos that translocates an ERK-activating signal to the nucleus. The locus of action of ERK was specifically mapped to early growth response-1 (Egr-1) DNA binding sites within the LH beta-subunit gene proximal promoter, which was also activated by p38MAPK, but not c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase 1/2. Egr-1 was confirmed as the transcription factor target of ERK and p38MAPK by blockade of protein expression, transcriptional activity, and DNA binding. We have identified a novel GnRH-activated proline-rich tyrosine kinase 2-dependent ERK-mediated signal transduction pathway that specifically regulates Egr-1 activation of the LH beta-subunit proximal gene promoter, and thus provide insight into the molecular mechanisms required for differential regulation of gonadotropin gene expression
Period of the Ikeda type lift for
No full textIn 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.
There are similar works done by the first author with his collaborator, but
new technical inputs are required and developed to overcome some difficulties
coming from the hugeness of .Comment: 36 pages, the titles was change
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
Can the New Antimonopoly Act Change the Japanese Business Community? : The 2005 Amendment to Antimonopoly Act and Corporate Compliance
No full textIt has been reported in the media that bid rigging is commonly practised in almost all public works projects in Japan. It was also said that the Japanese anti-trust authority, the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), was a watchdog that did not bite, in spite of having a long history of enforcement since 1947. However, the situation is significantly changing because the Japanese Antimonopoly Act was amended in 2005 to greatly strengthen anti-trust enforcement. The JFTC has already succeeded in cracking down against bid rigging committed by big and famous companies under the new Act. For the present, the Japanese business community has to seriously address compliance problems. Can the AMA change the business community?
An investigation of automotive seating discomfort and seat design factors. Final report
No full textIkeda Bussan Company, Ltd., Ayase, Japanhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/918/2/81163.0001.001.pd
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