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No full textThis is data from: Active foraging for toxic prey during gestation in a snake with maternal provisioning of sequestered chemical defenses, Kojima, Yosuke, Mori, Akira
Contemporary Art in Japan and Cuteness in Japanese Popular Culture
No full textThis thesis is an art historical study focussing on contemporary Japan, and in particular the artists Murakami TakashL Mori Mariko, Aida Makoto, and Nara Yoshitomo. These artists represent a generation of artists born in the 1960s who use popular culture to their own ends. From the seminal exhibition 'Tokyo Pop' at Hiratsuka Museum of Art in 1996 which included all four artists, to Murakami's group exhibition 'Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture' which opened in April 2005, central to my research is an exploration of contemporary art's engagement with the pervasiveness of cuteness in Japanese culture.
Including key secondary material, which recognises cuteness as not merely something trivial but involving power play and gender role issues, this thesis undertakes an interdisciplinary analysis of cuteness in contemporary Japanese popular culture, and examines howcontemporary Japanese artists have responded, providing original research through interviews with Aida Makoto, Mori Mariko and Murakami Takashi. Themes examined include the deconstruction of the high and low in contemporary art; sh6jo (girl) culture and cuteness; the relation of cuteness and the erotic; the transformation of cuteness into the grotesque; cuteness and nostalgia; and virtual cuteness in Japanese science fiction animation, and computer games.
Director of Studies: Toshio Watanabe
Supervisors: David Ryan and Omuka Toshihar
Reproductive characteristics of Elaphe quadrivirgata (Serpentes: Colubridae) from ecologically dissimilar main island and island populations
No full textTanaka, Koji, Mori, Akira (2010): Reproductive characteristics of Elaphe quadrivirgata (Serpentes: Colubridae) from ecologically dissimilar main island and island populations. Journal of Natural History 45 (3-4): 211-226, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2010.522262, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2010.52226
New species of Blaesodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Tsingy karstic outcrops in Ankarana National Park, northern Madagascar
No full textJono, Teppei, Bauer, Aaron M., Brennan, Ian, Mori, Akira (2015): New species of Blaesodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Tsingy karstic outcrops in Ankarana National Park, northern Madagascar. Zootaxa 3980 (3): 406-416, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.3.
Tanjiro Saito with Joyce Teruko, Faye Michiko, and Ted Akira
No full textA photograph of Tanjiro Saito with his daughter, Joyce Teruko Mori, and grandchildren, Faye Michiko and Ted Akira, taken in his back yard of the Saito family house in Los Angeles, California. On the back side, Tanjiro Saito describes the situation with pleasure, calling his daughter and grandchildren to take a photo together
Figure 4 in Reproductive characteristics of Elaphe quadrivirgata (Serpentes: Colubridae) from ecologically dissimilar main island and island populations
No full textFigure 4. Comparisons of (A) mean relative clutch mass (RCM) and (B) mean relative egg mass (REM) of Elaphe quadrivirgata between Shiga and Yakushima Island. RCM was calculated as clutch mass divided by post-ovipositional maternal body mass. REM was calculated as mean egg mass of a clutch divided by post-ovipositional maternal body mass. For snakes from Shiga, the right-hand column shows the subset of data which comprises snakes with an SVL range comparable to that of snakes from Yakushima. Vertical bars are 1 SD. Numerals above bars represent sample sizes.Published as part of Tanaka, Koji & Mori, Akira, 2010, Reproductive characteristics of Elaphe quadrivirgata (Serpentes: Colubridae) from ecologically dissimilar main island and island populations, pp. 211-226 in Journal of Natural History 45 (3-4) on page 220, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2010.522262, http://zenodo.org/record/521244
FIG. 3 in Effects of Body Size and Condition on Antipredator Behavior Related to Nuchal Glands in Rhabdophis subminiatus
No full textFIG. 3. Relationship between body condition index (BCI) and the frequency of neck butt (NB), neck flatten (NF), neck arch (NA), body flatten (BF), jerk (JK), and flee (FL) of Rhabdophis subminiatus. A significant correlation (P <0.05) was observed only for the relationship between BCI and NB frequency, for which regression lines are shown. Shaded areas represent 95% confidence intervals of the regression coefficients.Published as part of Anita, Syahfitri, Hamidy, Amir & Mori, Akira, 2022, Effects of Body Size and Condition on Antipredator Behavior Related to Nuchal Glands in Rhabdophis subminiatus, pp. 454-460 in Journal of Herpetology 56 (4) on page 458, DOI: 10.1670/21-050, http://zenodo.org/record/787726
FIG. 4 in Effects of Body Size and Condition on Antipredator Behavior Related to Nuchal Glands in Rhabdophis subminiatus
No full textFIG. 4. Relationships of snout–vent length (SVL) and body condition index (BCI) category with the neck butt (NB) frequency of Rhabdophis subminiatus. Each point represents individual data of snakes in poor condition (triangle, BCI <-0.145), average condition (circle, -0.145Published as part of Anita, Syahfitri, Hamidy, Amir & Mori, Akira, 2022, Effects of Body Size and Condition on Antipredator Behavior Related to Nuchal Glands in Rhabdophis subminiatus, pp. 454-460 in Journal of Herpetology 56 (4) on page 458, DOI: 10.1670/21-050, http://zenodo.org/record/787726
Saccharopolyspora rhizosphaerae sp. nov., an actinomycete isolated from rhizosphere soil in Thailand
No full textIntra, Bungonsiri, Euanorasetr, Jirayut, Také, Akira, Inahashi, Yuki, Mori, Mihoko, Panbangred, Watanalai, Matsumoto, Atsuko (2019): Saccharopolyspora rhizosphaerae sp. nov., an actinomycete isolated from rhizosphere soil in Thailand. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 69 (5): 1299-1305, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.003307, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.00330
Japanese Philosophy of Moral Education:From Watsuji Tetsurô to Mori Akira
No full textThis article builds on the ethics of Watsuji Tetsurô (1889–1960) through a comparison with Mori Akira’s (1915–1976) the philosophy of education to show how Watsuji’s “ethics of emptiness” can be concretely manifested in human formation. While keeping Watsuji’s ethics in view, this article examines Mori Akira’s early philosophy of moral education in the 1950s, which can be found in his philosophy book, his teacher’s manual, and his moral education student textbooks. This article begins with Watsuji’s idea of “human existence” and its similarities with Mori Akira’s idea of “human becoming,” which adds a developmental angle to Watsuji’s tensional view of the human being. It then proceeds to sketch out how ethics and education emerge from the view of human being/becoming of both thinkers. Finally, it carefully analyzes the key problem of the “dual-negative structure”: How can we be good if goodness requires that we be both individual and collective, two aspects that are negatively related to each other? After showing Watsuji’s issues, it shows Mori’s contribution, which includes philosophical theory, scientific theories drawn from developmental psychology, and praxis drawn from Mori Akira’s textbooks
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