48 research outputs found
Phorinia breviata Tachi and Shima 2006
No full textPhorinia breviata Tachi and Shima, 2006 * Phorinia breviata Tachi and Shima, 2006: 260. Type locality: Japan, Fukuoka Pref., Fukuoka City, Mt. Aburayama. Material examined: North Korea, Kangvǒn-do Prov., Kumgang-san Mts., Onjong-ri near Kymgan-san hotel, 28. 08. 1987, 1 male, leg. E. Kierych. Distribution: Palaearctic: Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Tsushima Island). Oriental and Oceanian regions (Tachi and Shima 2006). First record from Korea. Remarks: In the first version of this paper I have given the information that among the specimens examined I found male belonging to the Phorinia aurifrons Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (after the Key to the insects of Russian Far East. Vol. VI. Diptera and Siphonaptera. Pt 3. Vladivostok. 2004. 124. Fam. Tachinidae. Richter: 197-198). However, one of reviewers, in his comments wrote: ” Phorinia aurifrons Robineau-Desvoidy (…) is considered to be misidentified from East Asia by some authors (see Tachi & Shima 2006, O’Hara et al. 2009, Shima 2014). The author is recommended to confirm identification of this species. If the species P. aurifrons really occurs in North Korea, it is very interesting”. My repeated examination of the specimen from Korea confirmed the suspicions of reviewer. Finally, I decided that it was P. breviata Tachi and Shima.Published as part of DRABER-MOŃKO, Agnieszka, 2015, State of knowledge of the tachinid fauna of Eastern Asia, with new data from North Korea. Part V. Exoristinae, pp. 79-98 in Fragmenta Faunistica 58 (2) on page 90, DOI: 10.3161/00159301FF2015.58.2.079, http://zenodo.org/record/625182
Treatment of Acute Liver Failure in Resource-Constrained Settings without Transplantation Facilities Can Be Improved
No full textAcute liver failure affects previously healthy and often young people and has a very high mortality due to rapid multi-organ failure. The diagnosis is based on the presence of coagulopathy (International normalized ratio >2 or prothrombin rate <50%) and hepatic encephalopathy within 8 weeks of onset of jaundice in patients with no previous liver disease (1).
In resource-constrained developing countries, hepatitis A, B, and E infections, traditional medicines (2), drugs, herbal supplements (3), and halothane (4) are the main causes. Even though liver transplantation is the treatment of choice nowadays, the survival rate without liver transplantation in adults is as high as 40% in high-income countries (5, 6). Unfortunately, it is much lower in developing countries (7) where cases are diagnosed too late or considered untreatable in the absence of a transplant center.
We propose a practical approach that can be used in Intensive Care Unit-equipped hospitals in resource-constrained countries to try and reduce the high mortality rate where liver transplantation is not available
Origamizer: A Practical Algorithm for Folding Any Polyhedron
No full textIt was established at SoCG'99 that every polyhedral complex can be folded from a sufficiently large square of paper, but the known algorithms are extremely impractical, wasting most of the material and making folds through many layers of paper. At a deeper level, these foldings get the topology wrong, introducing many gaps (boundaries) in the surface, which results in flimsy foldings in practice. We develop a new algorithm designed specifically for the practical folding of real paper into complicated polyhedral models. We prove that the algorithm correctly folds any oriented polyhedral manifold, plus an arbitrarily small amount of additional structure on one side of the surface (so for closed manifolds, inside the model). This algorithm is the first to attain the watertight property: for a specified cutting of the manifold into a topological disk with boundary, the folding maps the boundary of the paper to within epsilon of the specified boundary of the surface (in Fréchet distance). Our foldings also have the geometric feature that every convex face is folded seamlessly, i.e., as one unfolded convex polygon of the piece of paper. This work provides the theoretical underpinnings for Origamizer, freely available software written by the second author, which has enabled practical folding of many complex polyhedral models such as the Stanford bunny
REFLEKSI NIIMI NANKICHI DALAM CERPEN HANANOKI MURA TO NUSUBITO TACHI 「花の木村と盗人たち」という短編小説における新美南吉の反射
No full textABSTRACT
Wati, Wilujeng Diah Asmara. 2018. “The Reflection of Niimi Nankichi in Hananoki Mura To Nusubito Tachi short story”, A thesis of Japanese Language and Culture, Faculty of Humanities, Diponegoro University. 1st thesis supervisor: Yuliani Rahmah, S.Pd.,M.Hum. 2nd thesis supervisor: Dewi Saraswati Sakariah, S.S.,M.Si.
Hananoki Mura to Nusubito Tachi is a short story who was written by Niimi Nankichi. This story is telling about a group of thieves who will do steal in a village. But, they finally realize to change be a better person because of touched by the boy and murayakunin character’s kindness.
The aim of this research are to analyse intrinsic element of Hananoki Mura To Nusubito Tachi short story and to explain how far the author reflected himself on that short story. The method which used in this research is library study method. The theories which used in this research are Structuralism Theory and Expressive Approach Theory.
The Result of this research show that the authors reflected himself on the main character and background of that short story. Besides that, Niimi Nankichi reflected how lonely he is in that story.
Keywords: Hananoki Mura To Nusubito Tachi; Niimi Nankichi; Reflection; Expressive Approach
Origamizer: A practical algorithm for folding any polyhedron
No full text© Erik D. Demaine and Tomohiro Tachi. It was established at SoCG'99 that every polyhedral complex can be folded from a sufficiently large square of paper, but the known algorithms are extremely impractical, wasting most of the material and making folds through many layers of paper. At a deeper level, these foldings get the topology wrong, introducing many gaps (boundaries) in the surface, which results in flimsy foldings in practice. We develop a new algorithm designed specifically for the practical folding of real paper into complicated polyhedral models. We prove that the algorithm correctly folds any oriented polyhedral manifold, plus an arbitrarily small amount of additional structure on one side of the surface (so for closed manifolds, inside the model). This algorithm is the first to attain the watertight property: for a specified cutting of the manifold into a topological disk with boundary, the folding maps the boundary of the paper to within ϵ of the specified boundary of the surface (in Fréchet distance). Our foldings also have the geometric feature that every convex face is folded seamlessly, i.e., as one unfolded convex polygon of the piece of paper. This work provides the theoretical underpinnings for Origamizer, freely available software written by the second author, which has enabled practical folding of many complex polyhedral models such as the Stanford bunny
Hepatitis C virus infection in Ghana: time for action is now
No full textChronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a blood borne infection just like hepatitis B virus (HBV) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) with a significant global health impact. Since the discovery of the HCV, several developments including a better understanding of the clinical epidemiology, availability of diagnostics and approval of newer therapies over the last decade have occurred and changed the frontiers of HCV management. Many nations now place HCV infection as a priority public health issue. In Ghana however, awareness, advocacy and treatment of HCV still plays a second fiddle to HBV and HIV. This must change and the time to act is now
Pygophora lepidofera
No full textPygophora lepidofera (Stein, 1915) (Figs. 1f, 5a–d, 12) Coenosia lepidofera Stein, 1915: 50. Lectotype male (Senckenberg German Entomological Institute, Müncheberg, Germany), by designation of Crosskey (1962: 457). Type locality: Paroe, North Paiwan District, Taiwan. Redescription. Male. Differing from P. boninensis as follows: first flagellomere 2.1–2.3 times as long as pedicel; wing brownish hyaline without brown spot; hind tibia with 2 anterodorsal, 2 posterodorsal, 4–5 posteroventral setae and without apical lobe; abdominal tergite 5 with leaf-like setae; abdominal sternite 5 nearly rectangular, bifurcated apically, apical part curved inward in ventral view; surstylus broad apically in lateral view, bifurcated at middle with many short setae apically in dorsal view; cerci long and broad with several setae apically in dorsal view; postgonite broad on apical 2/5 and apical part notched at middle; phallus broad and orbicular on apical 2/3 with large membranous areas laterally. Female. Differing from male as follows: all femora black in basal 3/4; hind tibia without posteroventral seta. Abdominal tergite 3 with three black spots; abdominal tergite 5 without leaf-like seta and dorsal keel. Female terminalia. Very similar to P. boninensis. Body length. 3.3–4.0 mm. Material examined. JAPAN: 1 male (BLKU), Gusuku, Sumiyo town, Amami city, Kagoshima pref., 1. VII. 2013; 1 male (BLKU), Kayo, Nago city, Okinawa pref., 23. VI. 2013; 1 male (BLKU), Sedake, Nago city, Okinawa pref., 26. VI. 2013; 5 males and 4 females (BLKU), Siramizu, Ishigaki city, Ishigakijima Is., Okinawa pref. [N 24°25’19” / E 124°9’50”], 22–31. V. 2012; 1 male (BLKU), Aira river, Taketomi town, Yaeyama-gun, Iriomotejima Is., Okinawa pref., 21. VI. 2011; 1 female (BLKU), Urauchi, Taketomi town, Yaeyama-gun, Iriomotejima Is., Okinawa pref., 22. VI. 2011. Distribution. Japan (Kyushu, Ryukyu), China, Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia. Bionomics. This species was found and collected by the first author in a grassland. Remarks. This species is easily distinguishable from other Japanese species by having leaf-like setae on the male abdominal tergite 5 (Fig. 1f).Published as part of Yoshizawa, Satoshi & Tachi, Takuji, 2018, Taxonomic review of the genus Pygophora Schiner of Japan (Diptera: Muscidae), pp. 449-468 in Zootaxa 4418 (5) on page 457, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4418.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/124499
Pygophora immaculipennis Frey 1917
No full textPygophora immaculipennis Frey, 1917 (Figs. 4a–d, 12) Pygophora immaculipennis Frey, 1917: 15. Lectotype male (Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland), by designation of Crosskey (1962: 434). Type locality: Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. Redescription. Male. Differing from P. boninensis as follows: first flagellomere approximately 2.8 times as long as pedicel; wing brownish hyaline without brown spot; mid tibia with 1 anterodorsal seta; hind tibia without apical lobe; abdominal tergite 3 with a black spot at middle; abdominal tergite 5 with three black spots; abdominal sternite 5 without short projection at inside; cerci not bifurcated apically; postgonite slender at middle; phallus nearly straight apically. Female. Differing from male as follows: first flagellomere 2.1–2.3 times as long as pedicel; hind tibia without posteroventral seta; abdominal tergite 5 without dorsal keel. Female terminalia. Very similar to P. boninensis. Body length. 4.6–6.2 mm. Material examined. JAPAN: 1 female (BLKU), Henaji, Motobu town, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa pref. [N 26°39’20” / E 127°53’39”], 24. VI. 2013; 2 males and 4 females (BLKU), Kayo, Nago city, Okinawa pref. [N 26°33’10” / E 128°6’26”], 22–23, 27. VI. 2013; 1 male and 5 females (BLKU), Genka, Nago city, Okinawa pref. [N 26°37’45” / E 128°3’41”], 26. VI. 2013; 10 females (BLKU), Shiramizu, Ishigaki-jima Is., Okinawa pref. [N 24°25’19” / E 124°9’50”], 22–23, 30. V. 2012; 2 males (BLKU), Ôtomi, Iriomote-jima Is., Okinawa pref. [N 24°17’37” / E 123°52’58”], 25. V. 2012; 1 female (BLKU), Urauchi, Iriomote-jima Is., Okinawa pref. [N 24°24’10” / E 123°46’42”], 27. V. 2012. Distribution. Japan (Ryukyu), China, Taiwan, India, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Iran. Bionomics. This species was found and collected by the first author in a grassland and rice paddy field. Remarks. This species is similar to Pygophora confusa, but it is distinguished from the latter by having a hind tibia without apical lobe in male and creamy yellow first flagellomere in female.Published as part of Yoshizawa, Satoshi & Tachi, Takuji, 2018, Taxonomic review of the genus Pygophora Schiner of Japan (Diptera: Muscidae), pp. 449-468 in Zootaxa 4418 (5) on pages 454-457, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4418.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/124499
Discretised Airy stress functions and body forces
No full textThis paper extends polyhedral Airy stress functions to incorporate body forces. Stresses of an equilibrium state of a 2D structure can be represented by the sec- ond derivatives of a smooth Airy stress function and the integrals of body forces. In the absence of body forces, a smooth Airy stress function can be discretised into a polyhedron as the corresponding structure is discretised into a truss. The differ- ence in slope across a creases represents the axial force on the bar, while the zero curvatures of the planar faces represent zero stresses voids of the structure. When body forces are present, the zero-stress condition requires the discretised Airy stress function to curve with the integrals of these body forces. Meanwhile, the isotropic angles on the creases still indicate concentrated axial forces. This paper discretises the integrals of body forces into step-wise functions, and discretises the Airy stress function into quadric faces connected by curved creases. The proposed method could provide structural designers (e.g. architects, structural engineers) with a more intuitive way to perceive stress fields.Structural Design & Mechanic
