987 research outputs found
Supplemental_Material_fragrant_envieonment_tumor_growth_Kusuhara__ICT-2018-210.R1 – Supplemental material for A Fragrant Environment Containing α-Pinene Suppresses Tumor Growth in Mice by Modulating the Hypothalamus/Sympathetic Nerve/Leptin Axis and Immune System
No full textSupplemental material, Supplemental_Material_fragrant_envieonment_tumor_growth_Kusuhara__ICT-2018-210.R1 for A Fragrant Environment Containing α-Pinene Suppresses Tumor Growth in Mice by Modulating the Hypothalamus/Sympathetic Nerve/Leptin Axis and Immune System by Masatoshi Kusuhara, Koji Maruyama, Hidee Ishii, Yoko Masuda, Kazutoshi Sakurai, Eiko Tamai and Kenichi Urakami in Integrative Cancer Therapies</p
Analysis of Climate Conditions upon Driving Distance of Vehicle Integrated Photovoltaics‐Powered Vehicles
No full textCitation: Masafumi Yamaguchi, Kyotaro Nakamura, Ryo Ozaki, Nobuaki Kojima, Yoshio Ohshita, Taizo Masuda, Kenichi Okumura, Takashi Mabuchi, Akinori Satou, Tsutomu Tanimoto, Yosuke Tomita, Yusuke Zushi, Takashi Nakado, Kazumi Yamada, Christian Thiel, Anastasios Tsakalidis, Arnulf Jaeger‐Waldau, Tatsuya Takamoto, Kenji Araki, Yasuyuki Ota, Kensuke Nishioka, Analysis of Climate Conditions upon Driving Distance of Vehicle Integrated Photovoltaics‐Powered Vehicles, Energy Technology, 12(1), 2023-11-20, https://doi.org/10.1002/ente.20230069
Do Surrounding Figures’ Emotions Affect Judgment of the Target Figure’s Emotion? Comparing the Eye-Movement Patterns of European Canadians, Asian Canadians, Asian International Students, and Japanese
No full textAlthough the effect of context on cognition is observable across cultures, preliminary findings suggest that when asked to judge the emotion of a target model’s facial expression, East Asians are more likely than their North American counterparts to be influenced by the facial expressions of surrounding others (Masuda, Ellsworth, Mesquita, Leu, Tanida, & van de Veerdonk, 2008). Cultural psychologists discuss this cultural variation in affective emotional context under the rubric of holistic vs. analytic thought, independent vs. interdependent self-construals, and socially disengaged vs. socially engaged emotion (e.g., Mesquita & Markus, 2004). We demonstrate that this effect is generalizable even when (a) photos of real facial emotions are used, (b) the saliency of the target model’s emotion is attenuated, and (c) a specific amount of observation time is allocated. We further demonstrate that the socialization factor plays an important role in producing cultural variations in the affective context effect on cognition
Tone sandhi rule for pattern substitution in Suzhou Chinese : Verification using words beginning with a Ru syllable
No full text1.はじめに 2.トーン交替規則 3.調査1 4.入声音節で始まる3音節語 5.調査2 6.パターン代入規則の成立過程 7.おわりにIt is well known that in Wu Chinese, there exists a type of tone sandhi that deletes tones from non-initial syllables and spreads the remaining tones to the whole word. In Suzhou dialect, a dialect of Wu Chinese, there is another type of tone sandhi, named pattern substitution, which alternates underlying tonal patterns of initial syllables with other tonal patterns. Masuda (2011) tried to show that pattern substitution in Suzhou dialect is not lexically determined, or in other words it is not the remnant of historical tonal alternation, but is caused by synchronic rules. He also presented the forms that these rules take. However, data of his work are restricted to words that do not include a syllable whose coda is a glottal stop, that is, Ru syllable, so pattern substitution in words that include a Ru syllable remains unexplained. This study examines novel loanwords created by the author with the Ru syllable as the first syllable. The result shows that pattern substitution is observed in these loanwords, although its realization is different from words which do not include Ru syllables. This finding supports the view that pattern substitution in Suzhou dialect is caused by the rules presented in Masuda (2011)
Blockchain and Crypto Currency
No full textThis open access book contributes to the creation of a cyber ecosystem supported by blockchain technology in which technology and people can coexist in harmony. Blockchains have shown that trusted records, or ledgers, of permanent data can be stored on the Internet in a decentralized manner. The decentralization of the recording process is expected to significantly economize the cost of transactions. Creating a ledger on data, a blockchain makes it possible to designate the owner of each piece of data, to trade data pieces, and to market them. This book examines the formation of markets for various types of data from the theory of market quality proposed and developed by M. Yano. Blockchains are expected to give data itself the status of a new production factor. Bringing ownership of data to the hands of data producers, blockchains can reduce the possibility of information leakage, enhance the sharing and use of IoT data, and prevent data monopoly and misuse. The industry will have a bright future as soon as better technology is developed and when a healthy infrastructure is created to support the blockchain market
Blockchain and Crypto Currency
No full textThis open access book contributes to the creation of a cyber ecosystem supported by blockchain technology in which technology and people can coexist in harmony. Blockchains have shown that trusted records, or ledgers, of permanent data can be stored on the Internet in a decentralized manner. The decentralization of the recording process is expected to significantly economize the cost of transactions. Creating a ledger on data, a blockchain makes it possible to designate the owner of each piece of data, to trade data pieces, and to market them. This book examines the formation of markets for various types of data from the theory of market quality proposed and developed by M. Yano. Blockchains are expected to give data itself the status of a new production factor. Bringing ownership of data to the hands of data producers, blockchains can reduce the possibility of information leakage, enhance the sharing and use of IoT data, and prevent data monopoly and misuse. The industry will have a bright future as soon as better technology is developed and when a healthy infrastructure is created to support the blockchain market
Blockchain and Crypto Currency
No full textThis open access book contributes to the creation of a cyber ecosystem supported by blockchain technology in which technology and people can coexist in harmony. Blockchains have shown that trusted records, or ledgers, of permanent data can be stored on the Internet in a decentralized manner. The decentralization of the recording process is expected to significantly economize the cost of transactions. Creating a ledger on data, a blockchain makes it possible to designate the owner of each piece of data, to trade data pieces, and to market them. This book examines the formation of markets for various types of data from the theory of market quality proposed and developed by M. Yano. Blockchains are expected to give data itself the status of a new production factor. Bringing ownership of data to the hands of data producers, blockchains can reduce the possibility of information leakage, enhance the sharing and use of IoT data, and prevent data monopoly and misuse. The industry will have a bright future as soon as better technology is developed and when a healthy infrastructure is created to support the blockchain market
Explanation of the Plates: Two Fragments of the “Animal Scroll” (Choju Giga): A Newly Discovered Fragment and the Fragment from the Former Masuda Collection
No full textIn addition to the four celebrated scrolls of satirical drawings of animals and people which are preserved in the Kōzanji, Kyoto, three fragments, comparable both in subject and style to the first scroll, have long been known: 1) in Tokyo National Museum, 2) in the former Masuda Collection, and 3) in the collection of Mr. A. B. Martin, Brooklyn Museum, New York. The author presents here a new fragment of the same type which was discrovered last year in a private collection. By reproducing it beside the Masuda fragment, it may likewise be compared with the first Kōzanji scroll and in this way its authenticity may be determined.
The long “Masuda fragment” (Pls. V to VII: 119.2 x 29.2 cm) presently in a private collection, is in fact an ingenious assemblage of three separate fragments (fig. 5). On the right a monkey is shown exercising his mount (a deer) before his adversary, a rabbit who is seated on the back of a fox. To the left to this scene there appears a well disguised vertical connection which passes just between the small rabbit and monkey who are situated at the lower edge of the composition. This is followed by a central scene representing a race between the rabbit and the monkey over a low ground accentuated with autumn grasses. Among the five scrolls of the Sumiyoshi copies dated 1598, there is one which is not preserved among the originals in the Kōzanji, The first two scenes of the “Masuda fragment” are found in the middle section of this scroll. But the third scene in the “Masuda fragment” which shows a fox, turtle, frog, crane and duck as spectators of the race, is found in a slightly different variation toward the end of the same Sumiyoshi scroll instead.
The new fragment (Pl. IV; 51,6 X 29.1 cm) shows a monkey-nun, a lady fox, etc., walking in an autumn setting. In the Sumiyoshi copy cited above, this particular scene is situated just after the composition represented by the “Martin fragment”, also related to the race episode, which shows the monkey fallen from his mount. The position of the new fragment is confirmed by an examination of the traces of damage which occur across the surfaces of the three fragments (see the article by Mr. Kenji Ueno in this number). The pattern of the damage is similar to that shown in the first ten sheets of the first Kōzanji scroll. After a close examination of the condition of the two fragments, it may be said that the paper resembles that of the first roll in quality, but is not as well preserved. Similarly, the ink lines have faded and are sometimes retouched or obliterated. If it is certain that these two fragments originally belonged to a long composition which preceded the existing first part of the first Kāzanji scroll at the time of the temple fire in the middle of the sixteenth century, it must be confirmed that the drawing of these fragments is really identical to the first scroll in technique and style.
Moreover, in the course of comparison, it was discovered that, contrary to previous opinions, the first scroll seems to have been drawn by two different artists. The first hand appears in sheets 1 to 10 (Pl. VIII) and the second hand in the remainder of the scroll (Pl. IX). The drawing of the Masuda, Martin, and newly-discovered fragments resembles, in use of the brush, touches and accents, the style of the first section of the first Kōzanji scroll, and suggests that they were indeed executed by the same person.journal articl
漢語蘇州方言におけるパターン代入規則 : 入声音節で始まる語を用いた検証
No full textIt is well known that in Wu Chinese, there exists a type of tone sandhi that deletes tones from non-initial syllables and spreads the remaining tones to the whole word. In Suzhou dialect, a dialect of Wu Chinese, there is another type of tone sandhi, named pattern substitution, which alternates underlying tonal patterns of initial syllables with other tonal patterns. Masuda (2011) tried to show that pattern substitution in Suzhou dialect is not lexically determined, or in other words it is not the remnant of historical tonal alternation, but is caused by synchronic rules. He also presented the forms that these rules take. However, data of his work are restricted to words that do not include a syllable whose coda is a glottal stop, that is, Ru syllable, so pattern substitution in words that include a Ru syllable remains unexplained. This study examines novel loanwords created by the author with the Ru syllable as the first syllable. The result shows that pattern substitution is observed in these loanwords, although its realization is different from words which do not include Ru syllables. This finding supports the view that pattern substitution in Suzhou dialect is caused by the rules presented in Masuda (2011).1.はじめに 2.トーン交替規則 3.調査1 4.入声音節で始まる3音節語 5.調査2 6.パターン代入規則の成立過程 7.おわり
Identification and characterization of monooxygenase enzymes involved in 1,4-dioxane degradation in Pseudonocardia sp. strain ENV478, Mycobacterium sp. strain ENV421, and Nocardia sp. strain ENV425:
No full textThe first part of this dissertation deals with the identification and analysis of oxygenases possibly involved in a biodegradation of a possible human carcinogen, 1, 4-dioxane.
The cometabolic oxidations of 1, 4-dioxane in three gram positive bacteria were analyzed. In Mycobacterium sp. ENV421 and Nocardia sp. ENV425, 1, 4-dioxane is oxidized during growth on propane. Three putative propane oxidizing enzymes (alkane monooxygenase, soluble diiron monooxygenase, and cytochrome P450) were identified in both strains. While in strain ENV425 only soluble diiron monooxygenase was expressed after growth on propane, in strain ENV421 all three genes were expressed. Although 1,4-dioxane oxidation activity could not be detected in heterologous host gene expression studies, aliphatic oxidation activity was observed with cytochrome P450 CYP153 from strain ENV421.
In strain Pseudonocardia sp. ENV478, 1, 4-dioxane oxidation activity was induced in the presence of tetrahydrofuran (THF). A THF-inducible soluble diiron monooxygenase was identified in strain ENV478. The oxygenase gene was transcribed in a complex operonic fashion yielding multiple transcripts with varying lengths. A gene knockdown experiment using antisense technology was employed to show that this gene is essential in THF and 1,4-dioxane degradation.
The second part of this dissertation dealt with the isolation and characterization of a novel solid alkane-utilizing β-Proteobacterium, Aquabacterium njensis sp. nov.
A novel liquid and solid alkane-degrading bacterium was isolated from hydrocarbon-contaminated soil in New Jersey, USA. The morphological, genomic, and metabolic properties of this organism were examined, including, observation with scanning electron microscopy, DNA-DNA hybridization, and nutritional screening of mainly aliphatic compounds as the sole source of carbon for growth. The preliminary screen of known alkane oxidation enzymes identified two alkane monooxygenase (AlkB) genes in the HMGZ-01 strain.
Sequence analysis of 16S rRNA showed that it has the highest similarity to the members of the genus Aquabacterium. The ability to hydrolyze urea and gelatin, NaCl tolerance, substrate utilization pattern and anaerobic growth distinguish the isolated strain from other members of this genus. We proposed the new species, Aquabacterium njensis, to be created with a single member and a type strain (HMGZ-01T).Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-161)by Hisako Masud
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