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Hiromoto Katayama (present: Fumi Hayashi and Eiko Hosei Katayama), Berkeley, California: tape nos. 11 and 12: an interview by Sandra Taylor, October 27, 1987
No full textTypescript (63 pages), the transcript of an interview by Sandra C. Taylor with Hiromoto Katayama, a Japanese-American living in Berkeley, California. Some additional comments by two of his relatives present: Fumi Hayashi and Eiko Hosei Katayama. Interview took place on October 27, 1987, on behalf of the American West Center at the University of Uta
Design and analysis of high-speed random access memory with Coulomb blockade charge confinement
No full textA Quantile Based Test of Protection for Sale Model
No full textThis paper proposes a new test of the Protection for Sale (PFS) model by Grossman and Helpman (1994). Unlike existing methods in the literature, our approach does not require any data on political organizations. We formally show that the PFS model provides the following prediction: In the quantile regression of the protection measure on the inverse import penetration ratio divided by the import demand elasticity, its coefficient should be positive at the quantile close to one. We examine this prediction using the data from Gawande and Bandyopadhyay (2000). The results do not provide any evidence favoring the PFS model.Quantile Regression, Protection for Sale, Political Economy
Parascombrops analis Katayama 1957
No full text<i>Parascombrops analis</i> (Katayama, 1957) <p>Figs. 6H, 7A, 9A, 11B, 13A, 14F–G, 16, 35, Tables 2–7</p> <p> <i>Neoscombrops analis</i> Katayama 1957: 153, fig. 1 (holotype: NSMT [ex Katayama Fish Coll. 2447]; type-location off Owase, Mie Prefecture, Japan).</p> <p> <i>Synagrops analis</i>: Mochizuki 1984: 125; Hatooka 2002: 686; Fricke <i>et al.</i> 2014: 57.</p> <p> <b>Material examined</b> (18 specimens). AMS I.20919-038, 2 specimens, 91–107.5 mm SL, off Queensland, Australia, 11°58’S, 144°07’E, 400–420 m; ASIZP 72163, 2 specimens, 62–82 mm SL, Dong-gang, southwestern Taiwan; BSKU 50683, 70 mm SL, BSKU 73676, 51 mm SL, BSKU 94342, 74.5 mm SL, BSKU 94343, 74.5 mm SL, BSKU 94426, 63.5 mm SL, BSKU 94525, 82.5 mm SL, BSKU 101383, 29 mm SL, all Mimase fish market, Kochi, Japan; MNHN 1998-1056, 3 specimens, 77–82 mm SL, off Vanuatu, 16°52’S, 168°10’E, 486–494 m; MNHN 2011-0160, 43 mm SL, off Vanuatu, 15°52’S, 167°27’E, 944–956 m; NSMT P59841, 2 specimens, 72.5 and 74 mm SL, Mimase fish market, Kochi, Japan; NSMT P65718, 76.5 mm SL, off Honshu, Japan, 36°N, 148°E, 148– 167 m.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> Deep-bodied species with convex dorsal head profile. Anal fin III + 6 in specimens> 65 mm SL. Pectoral fin with 16–18 rays, pectoral length 21.5–27% SL. Gill rakers 15–18. Pseudobranchial filaments 16–23, increasing with size. First anal-fin pterygiophore long, slightly forward bent, with very broad tip and hollow. Ectopterygoid with single row of denticles. Orbit diameter 11.7–13.3% SL. Otolith compressed (OL:OH = 1.45–1.55).</p> <p> <b>Description.</b> Counts and measurements are summarized in Tables 2–7. Snout rounded; interorbital space strongly convex. Posterior edge of maxillary more or less concave with postero-dorsal and postero-ventral angles sharp and postero-ventral angle somewhat extended downward, but positioned on the same level with posterodorsal angle resulting in an almost vertical posterior rim of the maxillary. Preopercular lobe without longitudinal ridges, but denticles of hind margin serration extending onto preopercular lobe; inner edge of preopercle with 2–5 long denticles not extending along ventral branch. Three anal-fin spines, second and third spines almost equal in length, but third spine always less stiff than second; in specimens <65 mm SL the third spine sometimes not completely ossified, weak or transitional from soft ray to spine and then not counted as spine. First anal fin pterygiophore long, curved, broadened at tip, hollow, reaching last pair of pleural ribs. First haemal spine with a narrow posterior expansion. Pelvic-fin spine serrated along its outer edge; all other fin spines smooth. About 28 scales along lateral line.</p> <p>Dentition. Premaxillary with a pair of canines near symphysis, followed posteriorly by a wide band of tiny conical teeth. Dentary with a pair of canines and a band of minute conical teeth near symphysis, followed posteriorly by a row of several small conical teeth and three to four enlarged canine-like teeth on each side. Vomer with a triangular to V-shaped patch of small conical teeth, usually with one row of longer teeth at rear margin. Palatines with one row of sharp conical teeth anteriorly and two rows of granular teeth posteriorly; ectopterygoid with single row of denticles. Tongue toothless.</p> <p>Otolith morphology (n = 7). Otolith compressed, thin; OL:OH = 1.45–1.55; OL:OT about 5–6. Dorsal rim moderately high, broad, rounded pre- and postdorsal angles of nearly equal height, postdorsal angle shifted far backwards. Ventral deep, regularly curved, deepest anterior of the middle. Anterior tip with massive, somewhat pointed rostrum; weak antirostrum and excisura. Posterior rim broadly rounded, its tip located slightly below tip of cauda. Rims smooth or slightly undulating. Inner face slightly convex with shallow, slightly supramedian sulcus. Ostium shallow, about twice as wide as cauda, oval in shape, with distinct colliculum, tip of rostrum being positioned above mid-level. Cauda slightly deepened, narrow, almost straight with very slightly swung, rounded tip. CaL:OsL = 1.1–1.2. Dorsal depression shallow, large, well marked above crista superior. Ventral furrow moderately distinct, anteriorly very close to anterior rim of otolith, posteriorly slightly turned upward from ventral otolith rim and terminating close to tip of cauda. Outer face slightly concave, smooth with few weak radial furrows near ventral rim.</p> <p> <b>Size.</b> Attain about 110 mm SL.</p> <p> <b>Discussion.</b> This species can be distinguished from all other species of <i>Parascombrops</i> by the presence of three (vs two) anal-fin spines (specimens> 65 mm SL). The development of the third anal-fin spine is a secondary transformation of the first soft ray with growth, as demonstrated by the reduced number of soft rays in adults (6). It also has the deepest body (27.9–33.8% SL) of all species, and a distinctly convex dorsal head profile together with <i>P. madagascariensis</i> n. sp. and <i>P. yamanouei</i> n. sp. <i>Parascombrops analis</i> can be distinguished from both species by the vomerine tooth patch which is wider and more intensely covered by granular teeth, by a single row of denticles on the ectopterygoid (vs 2–4), and the first anal-fin pterygiophore being very broad, with a widened tipped and hollow (vs moderately broad, without widened tip and hollow).</p> <p> <b>Geographic and bathymetric distribution.</b> <i>Parascombrops analis</i> has a disjunctive distribution in the northwestern Pacific off southern Japan, Taiwan and the northern Philippines and in the southwestern Pacific from the Coral Sea to Vanuatu, but is absent from the tropical low latitudes. Specimens examined have been caught in a wide depth range between 148 and 956 m.</p>Published as part of <i>Schwarzhans, Werner W. & Prokofiev, Artem M., 2017, Reappraisal of Synagrops Günther, 1887 with rehabilitation and revision of Parascombrops Alcock, 1889 including description of seven new species and two new genera (Perciformes: Acropomatidae), pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 4260 (1)</i> on pages 27-31, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/571305">10.5281/zenodo.571305</a>
Imported Katayama fever: clinical and biological features at presentation and during treatment
No full textOBJECTIVES: To investigate the characteristics of imported Katayama fever (acute schistosomiasis) as well as evolution and outcome under treatment. METHODS: Between April 2000 and September 2004, we included prospectively all patients with confirmed diagnosis of Katayama fever. Follow-up was maintained at least until 6 months after symptoms resolved. Praziquantel (PZQ) was given as soon as the diagnosis was probable, most of the time with steroids. RESULTS: Twenty-three patients were diagnosed with Katayama fever by Schistosoma egg detection and/or by seroconversion. Clinical features were non-specific, with mainly respiratory and/or gastrointestinal symptoms. Diagnosis was confirmed at presentation in 17/23 (74%) patients, of whom 15 by serology. Immediate clinical exacerbation occurred in five of nine patients not given steroids concomitantly with PZQ. After initial resolution, fever recurred in five (22%) patients. When compiling initial and recurrent episodes (n=28), respiratory symptoms tended to occur at an earlier stage after exposure, while abdominal complaints were more frequent later. All patients were completely cured, sometimes after repeated treatments. CONCLUSIONS: Clinical presentation of Katayama fever is non-specific and involves respiratory and abdominal symptoms. Recurrence of fever is not unusual despite anti-helminthic treatment. Optimal therapeutic strategy remains to be defined to prevent recurrence
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Simulation Studies of Multiple Portmanteau Tests
No full textThe portmanteau statistic based on the first m residual autocorrelations is used for diagnostic checks on the adequacy of fitting a model with varying m. Katayama (2008) proposed an approximation of the joint probability of multiple portmanteau tests with different degrees of freedom (DF). This distribution is easy to compute when all DF are even integers; its empirical behavior is clarified in terms of asymptotic theory. This paper presents detailed simulation study over a variety of ARMA(p, q) models and different m\u27s to show the empirical sizes and powers of the proposed test
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