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Angaria neglecta Poppe & Goto 1993
No full textneglecta, Angaria Poppe & Goto, 1993 Angaria neglecta Poppe & Goto, 1993: 22 (pl. 6). Gastropoda, Angariidae Paratype: MZSP 95951. Locality: Japan, Wakayama prefecture, Nada-Cho, 510 fms. Preservation: Dry. Remarks: Former Jens Hemmen Collection. The specimen listed above was initially designated as paratype # 12 in the original description. The senior author (Poppe, pers. comm.) confirmed the type status.Published as part of Cavallari, Daniel C., Dornellas, Ana Paula S. & Simone, Luiz Ricardo L., 2016, Second annotated list of type specimens of molluscs deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-59 in European Journal of Taxonomy 213 on page 38, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.213, http://zenodo.org/record/384012
Harmonizing Biodiesel Fuel Standards in East Asia: Current Status, Challenges and Way Forward
No full textAbstract: This paper discusses the development of and policy towards biodiesel fuel (BDF) in the East Asia Summit (EAS) Region (hereafter East Asia), with a focus on activities related to harmonizing BDF standards. It finds that the EAS countries have actively promoted the development of BDF for a variety of reasons. To minimize problems with engines arising from the use of BDF, most EAS countries have established their national BDF standards. However, these diverse standards cause barriers for BDF trade and act against the regional interest in maximizing benefits from BDF production and utilization. Therefore, the EAS policy makers decided to harmonize BDF standards, and a regional benchmark standard has been published. Through a comparative review of existing national standards against the benchmark, it finds that the harmonization is beneficial economically and environmentally, and is technically feasible but practically stalled due to the lack of political determination. Therefore, among a few policy implications, the key message to deliver is a call for political determination to implement the harmonization in the EAS region. Since harmonization of BDF standards has been tried in other regions, the findings of this paper may supplement the literature, enhance understanding of the EAS case, and provide lessons and implications that may be helpful in advancing similar harmonization elsewhere.
Materials on Awa-koku Hudoki in the Archives of historical documents of Goto
No full textTokusima-Han started a project of compiling Awa-koku Hudoki (chorography of present Tokusima-Prefecture)in ca 1869. The Archives of historical documents of Goto, Naruto University of Education, contains 23 documents on this project. These documents were written by Goto Hisatoyo, who was a member of the project. This author classified the documents into two types, namely, documents on the formal aspects of the project and substantial materials for the chorography. The author introduced the latter in this paper.departmental bulletin pape
Energy dissipation and flux laws for unsteady turbulence
No full textDirect Numerical Simulations of spatially periodic unsteady turbulence show that the high Reynolds number scalings of the instantaneous energy dissipation rate and interscale energy flux at intermediate wavenumbers are qualitatively different from the well-known cornerstone scalings of equilibrium turbulence where and are time-dependent rms velocity and integral length-scales. Instead, they both scale as where and are length and velocity scales characterizing initial/overall unsteady turbulence conditions
Contextualizing narrative theory: reading the politics of formal innovation in contemporary women's fiction
No full textTo ignore the strategies and structures through which stories are told, this thesis contends, is to neglect a vital dimension of their politics. Narratology provides productive analytical tools to illuminate the complex and varied mechanics of narrative form, yet it also bears the traces of its structuralist origins. Its value is therefore contingent upon its continuing reformulation as an expansive, pluralist and contextualized critical discipline. Participating in this expansion, this
thesis evidences the pertinence and vitality of some narratological models and the limitations of others. It opens up alternative critical possibilities by drawing upon insights within contemporary critical theory, from poststructuralist philosophy to transcultural feminism to
sociolinguistics. Above all, my interventions proceed from close readings of innovative fiction by women writers hitherto all but unrepresented in, and therefore potentially subversive of, existing models: Nicole Brossard, Daphne Marlatt, Hiromi Goto, Ali Smith, Jackie Kay, Erna Brodber, Dionne Brand, Aritha van Herk.
The first chapter formulates an in-between critical space where feminist and postmodernist theories of narrative intersect. It re-examines metafiction through the lens of auto(bio)graphical practice and feminist poststructuralist theories of self, and introduces the notions of folds and
echoes to describe specific structural innovations. Chapter Two examines unconventional uses of second-person address and reconsiders existing narratological approaches in their light, focusing on the `push and pull of narrative' that the `you' form enacts. Chapter Three addresses the insufficient attention paid to multiply narrated novels, theorizing them as `narrative communities' and introducing terms to describe different internal relations between narrators, relations that can often be read as determinedly 'democratic'. The final chapter contests the
hegemony of temporal models of narrativity by formulating a 'spatial poetics' that accounts both for how spatial structures can be agents of narrative change and for the complexity of textual constructions of space, which frequently exceed static definitions of 'setting'.
Running throughout is a reconception of narrative as located not with the figure of the narrator, but in relations of intersubjectivity. The narratological criticism formulated here works towards a situated ethics of reading responsive to the politics of writing: it is engaged, relational, and ever in process
Submarine geology in the vicinity of Tsushima-Goto Retto region.
No full textThe author studied the submarine geology of the Tsushima Goto Retto sea area between the Korea Peninsula and the southwestern part of the Japanese Islands. Although this area occupies geologically very important place between the Asian Continent and the Japanese Island Arc, Submarine stratigraphy, geological structure and history of geological development of this area have largely been left unknown. In paticular, to reveal the submarine geology of this area is important not only for better understanding of the genesis of marginal seas and the tectonic development of semi-isolated back arc basins such as the Tsushima Basin and the Okinawa Trough but also for revealing the geological relationship between the continent and the Island Arc. For this purpose, high density echo-sounding and seismic reflection profiling have been conducted. These data have revealed that the acoustic basement is divided into some blocks by several faults and folding axes, showing rough relieves in some places with topographic highs as knolls, banks and spurs. Some large scale tectonic lines have been recognized, which are represented by the Tsushima Goto Tectonic Line and Goto Submarine Canyon Tectonic Line.Publishe
Big Bang – can confidence be restored in time?
No full textThe author gives his view of the reasons behind the economic crisis in Asia in late 1990s and details his vision of the likely future course of events in the region. Article by Hiroshi Goto (Legal Department, Nissho Iwai Corporation) published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
Big Bang – can confidence be restored in time?
No full textThe author gives his view of the reasons behind the economic crisis in Asia in late 1990s and details his vision of the likely future course of events in the region. Article by Hiroshi Goto (Legal Department, Nissho Iwai Corporation) published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
Unstable periodic motion in large eddy simulation of homogeneous, isotropic turbulence
No full textWe study unstable, time-periodic solutions in Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of Homogeneous, Isotropic Turbulence (HIT). The turbulence is forced at large spatial scales by an external body force which induces four vortex columns in a rectangular domain with periodic boundary conditions. The dissipation range dynamics is represented by the Smagorinsky model. Both the kinematic viscosity and the Smagorinsky constant are used as a homotopy parameters connecting steady, laminar flow to turbulent inertial range dynamics. We find several families of periodic solutions, some bifurcating from the steady flow and some filtered from more turbulent dynamics, and attempt to track these solutions to the limit of fully developed turbulence
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