365 research outputs found
Theatre and Civil Society: The Theatres Satoh Makoto Created and His Interactions with Asian Theatre
No full texthttps://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K00264/研究成果の概要（和文）：本研究は演出家・劇作家佐藤信を取り上げ、彼が創設に携わった数々の劇場と、アジアの近隣諸国との交流事業について調査研究するものである。当初、中国やフィリピンにおける活動について現地調査しようと計画していたが、新型コロナウィルス感染拡大により困難となった。その分、国内調査を重点的に行い、佐藤が運営している劇場の調査や、所蔵していた演劇関係資料を整理し、調査結果を単著『佐藤信と「運動」の演劇：黒テントとともに歩んだ50年』にまとめた。アジア演劇との交流を含む黒テントでの活動が後の公共劇場の運営や現在の創作活動にどのように引き継がれているかを考察した。本書はAICT国際演劇評論家賞を受賞した。
研究成果の概要（英文）： This study discusses Japanese theatre director and playwright Satoh Makoto and investigates the many theatres he has been involved in creating and his interactions with various neighboring Asian countries. Initially, the author planned to conduct on-site investigations into Satoh’s activities in China and the Philippines, but this became difficult with the spread of COVID-19. The author instead focused the investigation within Japan, explored the theatres that Satoh operates, organized the theatre-related materials in their collections, and summarized the investigation outcomes in the standalone work Satoh Makoto and Theatre as "Movement”: 50 Years with the Black Tent. The study considers how the activities of the Black Tent theatre company, including interactions with theatre in neighboring Asian countries, have been passed down to later public theatres operations and Satoh’s current creative activities. This book was awarded the AICT Prize.研究種目：基盤研究(C); 研究期間：2019～2021; 課題番号：19K00264; 研究分野：現代演劇; 科研費の分化・細目：Research Paperapplication/pdfresearch repor
Parental care strategies and sibling conflict of the substrate-brooding cichlid Neolamprologus furcifer in Lake Tanganyika
No full textThe Meanings of Nonverbal "Movement" in Clinical Psychology
No full textThis study aims to examine the meanings of nonverbal "movement" in clinical psychology, which is a problem not focused on in case study. The author attempts to define the meanings of "movement" in the clinical, psychological, and psychotherapeutic context. This "movement" involving various perspectives on human existence, is based on "implicit relational knowing" or the relationship between therapist and client in that session. We tend to understand "movement" as a human objective behavior, but "movement" includes the inner meanings of the human mind and expresses one's physical reality directly. In addition, the author distinguishes transmitting "movement" from expressive "movement." The former transmits effects or moods, which the human ego cannot control, to others through the body. On the other hand, the latter projects the human's physical, inner senses. The two "movements" have a primitive living rhythm, which humans feel by somatic sensations or common sense. This rhythm is concerned with life-sustaining activities. Natural life rhythm combines the physical part with the mental part, and potentially has the imaginative functions that make human beings humane
Partial hepatectomy for treatment of multiple liver abscess in a calf: a case report.
No full textBACKGROUND
Umbilical vein bacterial infections may cause liver abscesses during bacterial ascent. A single liver abscess can be surgically treated by marsupialization, but a risk of recurrence or non-healing remains. Moreover, there is no effective treatment for multiple abscesses.
CASE PRESENTATION
A 17-day-old Holstein female calf exhibited reduced general condition, swelling and drainage of the umbilicus, and pressure sores in the area of the carpus, resulting in reluctance to stand up. The umbilicus showed pain at palpation; deep abdominal palpation indicated a swollen umbilical vein coursing from the umbilicus toward the liver. Ultrasonography confirmed a swollen umbilical vein with pus accumulation and multiple abscesses in the liver. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) examination confirmed that the swollen umbilical vein with fluid continued to the liver, and multiple unenhanced lesions, most likely abscesses, were confirmed in the liver. Partial hepatectomy was performed to remove as many abscesses as possible. For the resection, a vessel sealing device (LigaSureTM) was used to excise a part of the left liver lobe. As we could not remove all the abscesses in the liver during the operation, cefazolin sodium (5 mg/kg) was administered for 14 days after surgery. Post-operatively, blood accumulation was observed in the abdominal cavity, but no signs of peritonitis were found. The calf returned to the farm on day 38 after surgery. Follow-up information was obtained after 1 year, and complications were not reported.
CONCLUSIONS
To our knowledge, this is the first report of partial hepatectomy using a vessel sealing device for a calf with multiple liver abscesses. This case report suggests that the combination of partial hepatectomy and long-term administration of antibacterial drugs may restore the health of calves with multiple liver abscesses
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No full textThe Owen mitochondrial genome in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.): possible mechanisms of extensive rearrangements and the origin of the mitotype-unique region
The Arabidopsis-accelerated cell death gene ACD1 is involved in oxygenation of pheophorbide a: inhibition of the pheophorbide a oxygenase activity does not lead to the "stay-green" phenotype in Arabidopsis
No full textOxygenation of pheophorbide a is a key step in chlorophyll breakdown. Several biochemical studies have implicated that this step was catalyzed by an iron-containing and ferredoxin-dependent monooxygenase, pheophorbide a oxygenase (PaO). It has been proposed that inhibition of its activity arrests the chlorophyll breakdown and leads to the "stay-green" phenotype. We searched the Arabidopsis genome for a possible PaO-encoding gene and hypothesized that it has homology to known iron-containing Rieske-type monooxygenase sequences. We identified three such open reading frames, Tic55, ACD1 and ACD1-like. We produced transgenic Arabidopsis plants which expressed antisense RNA as a method to inhibit the expression of these genes. The appearance of these antisense plants were indistinguishable from that of the wild type under illumination. However, after they were kept under darkness for 5 d and again illuminated, the leaves of the antisense ACD1 plants (AsACD1) were bleached. Leaves of AsACD1 accumulated 387 nmol (g FW)(-1) pheophorbide a which corresponded to 60% of chlorophyll a degraded. The rate of decrease in chlorophyll a was not influenced in senesced AsACD1 leaves. These results demonstrated that ACD1 is involved in PaO activity, and its inhibition led to photooxidative destruction of the cell instead of the "stay-green" phenotype.This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Plant and Cell Physiology following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Oxford University Press, Plant and Cell Physiology
, 44(12), 2003, p1266-1274 is available online at: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/ that the author will receive upon publication here].http://www.oxfordjournals.org
A single-cell RNA-seq analysis of early larval cell-types of the starfish, Patiria pectinifera: Insights into evolution of the chordate body plan
No full textAmbulacrarians (echinoderms and hemichordates) are a sister group to chordates; thus, their larval cell-types may provide clues about evolution of chordate body plans. Although most genic information accumulated to date pertains to sea urchin embryogenesis, starfish embryogenesis represents a more ancestral mode than that of sea urchins. We performed single-cell RNA-seq analysis of cell-types from gastrulae and bipinnarial larvae of the starfish, Patiria pectinifera, and categorized them into 22 clusters, each of which is composed of cells with specific, shared profiles of development-relevant gene expression. Oral and aboral ectoderm, apical plate, hindgut or archenteron, midgut or intestine, pharynx, endomesoderm, stomodeum, and mesenchyme of the gastrulae, and neurons, ciliary bands, enterocoel and muscle of larvae were characterized by expression profiles of at least two relevant transcription factor genes and signaling molecular genes. Expression of Hox2, Hox7, Hox9/10, and Hox11/13b was detected in cells of clusters that form the larval enterocoel. By comparing homologous gene expression profiles in chordate embryos, we discuss and propose how the chordate body plan evolved from a deuterostome ancestor, from which the echinoderm body plan also evolved
Development of DNA markers that distinguish male and female haploid germlings of the brown alga, Cladosiphon okamuranus
No full textOkinawa mozuku, Cladosiphon okamuranus, is one of many edible brown algae, yielding 22 Kton annually and contributing ¥5 billion to the Japanese economy. The life cycle of C. okamuranus is complicated, since the alga has self-cloning life cycles in both haploid (N, male and female) and diploid (2N) conditions, but only diploid “seeds” (germlings) become edible sporophytes. Because haploid and diploid germlings are morphologically indistinguishable, haploid germlings are often mistakenly combined with diploid germlings for cultivation, which results in less efficient harvesting of mozuku. Sexual identification of haploid germlings is essential to develop better diploid strains by crossbreeding. With this aim, we performed RNA-seq analysis of haploid germlings of C. okamuranus. Using its decoded diploid genome and transcriptomic information, we identified 269 genes that are expressed specifically in male or female haploids. BLAST analysis with Ectocarpus siliculosus gene models revealed that nine of 269 genes were putative sex determination-related genes of C. okamuranus. A unique set of polymerase chain reaction primers for these nine genes was designed, and DNA amplification using primers enabled us to distinguish male and female haploid and diploid germlings. This tool will enable mozuku farmers to select diploid germlings free of haploid germlings. Using this DNA marker technique, the amount of mozuku cultivated in Okinawa is expected to increase
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