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Letter from Harry Naka to Jack Noda, March 14, 1942
No full textLetter from Harry Naka, president of the American Loyalty League of Livingston, California, to Jack Noda, president of the Stanislaus Merced chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, regarding the "cooperation" between both organizations during the mass removal.The Nisaburo Aibara Collection features materials from the Turlock Social Club, a local Japanese-American community group active between 1939 and 1970. It contains documents regarding the Stockton, Turlock and Merced Assembly Centers and Japanese American Citizens League chapters. The Collection also features correspondences with reactions, responses, and preparations for the forced evacuation. Additionally, the Collection has records on the Central California Cantaloupe Company, Turlock Farm Corporation, Turlock Japanese Society, and family records and funeral service programs of Japanese-American residents of Turlock
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, 44th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textBenjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley was born to two True Temper wheel-barrow factory workers and belongs to the Onondaga Nation of Indigenous Americans in New York. He is the Affrilachian author of the collections Dēmos: An American Multitude (Milkweed, 2021), Colonize Me (Saturnalia, 2019), and Not Your Mama’s Melting Pot (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). He received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Tickner Center, and Kundiman, among others. His recent work has been published in The BreakBeat Poets: LatiNEXT, Native Voices: Honoring Indigenous Poetry, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Oxford American, Poetry, and Tin House
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textBenjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley is not the Ben Kingsley best known for his Academy Award-winning role as Mahatma Gandhi. This Ben is a touch less famous, and has not acted since his third-grade debut as the undertaker in “Music Man.” Affrilachian author and Kundiman alum, Kingsley belongs to the Onondaga Nation of Indigenous Americans in New York. His first collection, Not Your Mama’s Melting Pot, was selected by Bob Hicok. His forthcoming collection is Dēmos (Milkweed Editions, 2020). Peep his recent work in the anthologies Best New Poets 2017 (ed. Natalie Diaz), Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry from North America, and Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, as well as the journals American Indian Culture and Research, Boston Review, The Georgia Review, jubilat, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Oxford American, and Tin House
Part I, Series L, Section 5.12: Kunan Naka (= Song of Naka). ms pencil; A song of Naka (English commentary and translation) typescript; A song of Naka (English commentary and translation) ms pencilKunan Naka (= Song of Naka). ms pencil; A song of Naka (English commentary and translation) typescript; A song of Naka (English commentary and translation) ms pencil
No full textKunan Naka (Song of Naka), a creation story which tells of the voyage of Naka from Samoa to the north
Neutron induced activation in the IFMIF Lithium loop (Gamma decay sources and dose rate estimates)
No full textChris Naka Interview
No full text2009 interview with new media and video artist Chris Naka by Cheryl Franze
Naka-Rushton fit parameters.
No full text<p>Semi-Saturation contrast (SS%) and Contrast Gain parameters (CG) extracted from Naka-Rushton curve fits.</p
Aphaenogaster gamagumayaa Naka & Maruyama 2018, sp. nov.
No full textAphaenogaster gamagumayaa Naka & Maruyama, sp. nov. Type series. Holotype, worker, Nakagusuku-son, Okinawa-jima, Japan, 10 IX 2017, T. Naka (The Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kyushu University = KUM, no MMANT001). Paratypes, 7 workers, the same locality, collected between 31 VIII - 10 IX 2017 (5 in KUM, nos. MMANT002-006; 2 in MCZC = Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, nos. MMANT007,008). Diagnosis. This species is distinguished from the other East Asian species by having the most elongate body, the longest antennae and legs, and the most reduced eyes. Among the Japanese species, it is most similar to A. irrigua Watanabe & Yamane, 1999 described from Ryukyu Archipelago. It differs from A. irrigua in lighter color, smaller eyes (EL 0.19 x TmL vs. 0.38 x TmL), basal margin of mandible with weaker serration, and scapes more elongate and slim (SL 2.28 x HW vs. 1.53 x HW). Measurements. Workers (n = 6). HL, 1.499 ± 0.047 (1.439–1.566); HW, 1.118 ± 0.030 (1.073–1.152); TmL, 0.790±0.038 (0.743–0.843); GL, 0.808±0.027 (0.778–0.856); SL, 2.429±0.053 (2.350–2.509); EL, 0.143±0.006 (0.134–0.149); EW, 0.119±0.005 (0.114–0.128); ML, 2.563±0.074 (2.463–2.659); PSL, 0.363±0.017 (0.348– 0.388); SDL, 0.252±0.010 (0.242–0.270); HTL, 2.121±0.047 (2.046–2.176); PL, 0.753±0.026 (0.702–0.769); PPL, 0.480±0.017 (0.465–0.513); PH, 0.389±0.008 (0.380–0.399); PPH, 0.356±0.034 (0.330–0.423); PNW, 0.748±0.022 (0.713-0.775); PW, 0.271±0.009 (0.260–0.283); PPW, 0.327±0.007 (0.317–0.338). Description. Body (Figs. 1–4) almost entirely yellowish. Head and mesosoma yellow, but mandibles and antennae darker, and base of head and anterior area of prothorax brown; legs light yellow but bases of femora, tibiae and tarsi darker. Gaster light yellow, but basal constriction brown, and posterior 1/2 slightly darker. Head (Figs. 2, 3) oval, without basal constriction or neck. Anterior margin of clypeus with weak transverse wrinkles and shallowly concave. Eyes very small, 0.19 times as long as length of tempora. Scapes elongate and slim, 2.28 times as long as width of head, at base 1.7 times as wide as at apex, gradually widened, straight, only apex slightly bent down with slight preapical constriction. Surface of scape shiny, uniformly covered with short and sparse adherent setae. Scape straight, only apex slightly bent down with shallow preapical constriction. Funicle elongate and thin, 1.38 times as long as scape, first funicular segment elongate, 3.17 times as long as wide at apex, 1.74 times as long as second segment, relative lengths of segments, 100:57:68:75:76:76:92:150:145:143:213, apical segment 3.1 times as wide as first segment. Pronotum (Figs.1, 4) elongate, 1.37 times as long as wide, regularly convex in profile. Propodeum (Figs. 1, 4) almost as long as wide, propodeal spines short, needle-like, obliquely directed upwards. Petiole (Fig. 1,4) elongate with long peduncle, its anterior face deeply concave, node globular and strongly convex. Ventral margin of petiole with low, short carina around middle. In dorsal view, petiole gently widened postriorly before petiolar node. Postpetiole (Figs. 1, 4) short, 0.68 times as long as petiole, in profile regularly rounded, its node slightly lower than petiole. In dorsal view postpetiole 1.5 times as long as wide with regularly rounded sides. Mandible (Fig. 3) elongate, with outer edge straight, dorsal surface with distinct striation, inner margin with 7 or 8 small teeth. Lateral portion of clypeus (Fig. 3) with 2–3 thin oblique rugae, central part without sculpture, shiny. Frontal carinae short, not extending to line connecting anterior margin of eyes, subparallel; interantennal area deeply impressed, smooth and shiny, frontal triangle shiny, with a few, shallow longitudinal wrinkles. Anterior portion of frons with thin longitudinal rugae, mesal area between eyes glabrous and shiny, posterior portion around vertex without rugae but with distinct microreticulation (Fig. 3). Pronotum (Figs. 1, 4) with microreticulation, but with smooth areas postero-laterally, with 8 short setae. Top of mesonotum (Figs. 1, 4) covered with strong longitudinal rugae; mesopleuron with distinct granulate sculpture, matte. Propodeum (Figs. 1, 4) with slightly granulate sculpture, below spiracles with two short, thin, longitudinal rugae with distinct transverse wrinkles, and dorsal surface of both mesonotum and propodeum appears slightly matte. Entire petiole and postpetiole covered with fine microreticulation, without rugae. appearing slightly matte, covered with several sparse setae. Gaster (Fig. 1) smooth, shiny, without microreticulation except in basal area, tergites with sparse, suberect setae much shorter than propodeal spines. Legs (Fig. 1) very long, hind femora 1.13 times as long as mesosoma, hind tibiae 0.77 times as long as hind femora, hind tarsi 1.19 times as long as hind femora. Surface of legs shiny, fore tarsi only on ventral surface covered with very short, appressed pubescence; femora and mid- and hind tibiae completely without pubescence. Queens and males are unknown. Etymology. The specific epithet is a Ryukyuan dialect “ gamagumayaa ” (= cave-dwelling hermit), referring to the habitat of the new species. Biological notes. The type series of Aphaenogaster gamagumayaa is based on workers probably from a single nest, collected in a limestone cave on the island of Okinawa. All specimens were found in a guano hall (Fig. 5), an area of approximately 25 m 2 (2–3 m in height), approximately 20 m from the cave entrance. The hall is completely dark, and during the study period (August to October 2017), it was consistently cooler (<25°C during the day) than the exterior of the cave (28–32°C). The cave contains no pools or streams but is generally wet, and the substrate is clay soil. The ants were moving around an approximately 4-m2 area in which there were many small holes (Fig. 6) and cracks in the cave floor. Ants were observed entering these holes. Although one of the authors, TN, did not dig into the holes, they were surmised to be associated with a core part of the nest. TN observed a maximum of 12 individual workers, most likely nest mates; no aggression was seen between them. Most of them were solitary foragers and observed on the cave floor or on the lower part of the cave wall. However, on one occasion two ants were observed walking together (Fig. 7) for some time. On two occasions ants were seen carrying balls of guano into a hole (Fig. 8). Another individual was observed carrying a small white object that did not appear to be guano. Upon perceiving human movement, the ants stopped moving and hid. While motionless, they waved their antennae, most likely to assess the situation. Gaster bending behavior, which is often observed in other Aphaenogaster species (Terayama et al. 2014), has not been observed in A. gamagumayaa.Published as part of Naka, Takeru & Maruyama, Munetoshi, 2018, Aphaenogaster gamagumayaa sp. nov.: the first troglobiotic ant from Japan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae), pp. 135-141 in Zootaxa 4450 (1) on pages 136-139, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/144455
Adsorption kinetics for CO<sub>2</sub> on highly selective zeolites NaKA and nano-NaKA
No full textCarbon dioxide removal from flue gas via swing adsorption processes requires adsorbents with a high CO2 selectivity and capacity. These properties are particularly valuable to reduce the cost of carbon capture and storage (CCS). Zeolite NaKA was studied for its ability to selectively adsorb CO2 from flue gas, as we previously observed that zeolite NaKA, with a K+/(K++Na+) ratio of 17atomic%, was highly selective towards CO2 over N2 adsorption by tuning the size of the pore window apertures [1]. The reduced pore apertures may, however, retard the adsorption rate of CO2. Here, we studied the kinetics of CO2 adsorption on regularly sized zeolite NaKA and on nano-sized zeolite NaKA. We used in situ infrared (IR) spectroscopy and observed that CO2 physisorbed relatively rapidly. Density functional theory (DFT) was used for quantum chemical calculations, and the results indicated that CO2 molecules bridged across two or three Na+ ions in the samples with no or very small amount of K+. When more K+ ions are present the CO2 molecules no longer bridged across multiple metal ions and adopted an end-on configuration. The calculation showed a shift in the stretching vibration frequency of physisorbed CO2 as observed by IR spectroscopy. Nano-sized zeolite NaKA were synthesised and studied to improve the rate of CO2 adsorption, as the diffusion rate typically increases quadratically with decreasing particle size. Still, the CO2 adsorption rate on nano-sized zeolites NaA and NaKA did not increase significantly. For nano-sized zeolite NaA, we speculate that the absence of such an increased rate is an effect from a skin layer that had formed on the nano-sized zeolite NaA, a layer that was possibly related to intergrowths with extremely small crystals on the surface. The apparently slow adsorption kinetics of CO2 on nano-sized zeolite NaKA was more difficult to explain because it could relate to imperfections within the small crystals, remaining water, or other effects. Overall, the CO2 adsorption rates on zeolite NaKA crystals of different sizes were fast and relevant for the time scales required for adsorption based CCS processes, such as vacuum and temperature swing adsorption (VSA/TSA).</p
Analisis Kritrik Strukturalis Cerpen Yabu No Naka Karya Akutagawa Ryunosuke
No full textAbstrak Analisis struktural digunakan oleh penulis dalam menganalisis cerpen Yabu no Naka dengan jalan memisahkan unsur-unsur pembentuk cerpen yaitu: tokoh dan penokohan, alur, latar dan pelataran, tema, dan amanat. Dialog-dialog yang dilakukan antar tokoh menyebabkan perwatakan masing-masing tokoh dapat terungkap lebih jelas. Pengaluran dalam cerpen Yabu no Naka menggunakan alur flashback (regresif) dan ada konflik yang terjadi yang berhubungan dengan tokoh utama dan tokoh tambahan serta ada hubungan kausalitas antara peristiwa yang satu dengan peristiwa yang lain. Latar utama dalam cerpen Yabu no Naka ini adalah Yamashina, sebuah kota di Prefektur Kyoto. Tema utama dalam cerpen Yabu no Naka ini adalah pembunuhan dan pembenaran.Kata kunci: analisis struktural, regresif, alur Abstract Structural analysis is used by the writer in analyzing the short story of Yabu no Naka by separating the forming elements of short stories, namely: character and characterization, plot, background and court, theme, and date. Dialogues made between characters cause the character of each character can be revealed more clearly. The distribution in the short story of Yabu no Naka uses the flashback (regressive) flow and there is a conflict that occurs related to the main character and additional characters and there is a causal relationship between one event and another. The main setting in the short story of Yabu no Naka is Yamashina, a city in Kyoto Prefecture. The main theme in this short story of Yabu no Naka is murder and justification.Keyword: structural analysis, regressive, plo
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