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Kitamura and Shimotsu girls in yard of Shimotsu residence at Landa Farms, Donna, Texas
No full textPhotograph shows (l. to r." Alice Kitamura, Amy Shimotsu, Jewel Kitamura, and Dorothy Shimotsu wearing Japanese kimono robes
Jewel Kitamura, Saburo Kitamura Farm, San Benito, Texas
No full textPhotograph shows Jewel Kitamura with hand on the automobile radiator cap
Teruko Kitamura holding slice of watermelon, San Benito, Texas
No full textPhotograph shows Teruko Kitamura outside the Kitamura residence
George Kitamura and Lee Onishi at Kumazo Tanamachi Farm, San Benito, Texas
No full textPhotograph shows George Kitamura (left) and Lee Onishi standing near garden
Group on lawn outside Kumazo Tanamachi farmhouse, San Benito, Texas
No full textPhotograph shows (l. to r.) top: Yuriko Kawamura and George Kitamura; bottom: Alice Kitamura (left) and Keeter Otsuki
Men preparing barbecue for wedding reception of Mr. and Mrs. Holly Onishi, Kumazo Tanamachi Farm, San Benito, Texas
No full textPhotograph shows (left to right): S. Kitamura, Walter Tanamachi, Mrs. Kitayama, Takeo Oyama, and Goro Tanamachi. Snapshot decorated with ink
Group on the lawn of the Saburo Kitamura residence, near Brownsville, Texas
No full textPhotograph shows (l. to r.) Mamoru Hada, Sam Hada, Tomiko Otsuki, and Suzumi '' Hada
Big Mac parity, income, and trade
No full textNontraded inputs account for the lion's share of a Big Mac price (Ong 1997, Parsley and Wei 2003). Major departures from Big Mac PPP may then be explained by the Balassa-Samuelson income differences effect, as shown e.g. by Click (1996). But it has been argued that Click''s result is not robust to changing estimation methods, sample of countries, and time period (Fujiki and Kitamura 2003). Here we address a key theoretical distinction between high and low income countries for the Balassa-Samuelson effect to be properly evaluated. Since this distinction is missing in Click''s analysis, we revisit his finding and take a sample which is distinct (in terms of both set of countries and time period) to meet Fujiki-Kitamura''s criticism. We find that distinguishing high from low income makes no harm to Click''s result. But we also find that openness to trade (viewed as a proxy for trade barriers) helps to explain departures from Big Mac PPP.
CubeHarmonic: A new interface from a magnetic 3D motion tracking system to music performance
No full textWe developed a new musical interface, CubeHarmonic, with the magnetic 3D motion tracking system IM3D. This sys- tem precisely tracks positions of tiny, wireless, battery-less, and identifiable markers (LC coils) in real time. The Cube- Harmonic is a musical application of the Rubik’s cube, with notes on each little piece. Scrambling the cube, we get dif- ferent chords and chord sequences. Positions of the pieces which contain LC coils are detected through IM3D, and transmitted to the computer to recognize the status of the Rubik’s cube, that plays sounds. The central position of the cube is also measured by the LC coils located into the corners of Rubik’s cube, and, depending on the position, we can manipulate overall loudness and pitch changes, as in theremin playing. This new instrument, whose first idea comes from mathematical theory of music, can be used as a teaching tool both for math (group theory) and music (music theory, mathematical music theory), as well as a composition device, a new instrument for avant-garde per- formances, and a recreational tool
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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