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Persescaphium pari Ivan Löbl & Ryo Ogawa 2016
No full textAn additional specimen of Persescphium pari comes from Iran, Golestan, Loveh-Forest, 37.3182° N, 55.6761° E, 0 4.10.2016, on fruiting bodies of Hericium coralloi- des, leg. F. Lange (coll. Frank Lange, Niedernhausen).Published as part of Ivan Löbl & Ryo Ogawa, 2016, Persescaphium pari new genus and species, with an overview of Iranian Scaphidiinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 35-40 in Entomologische Blätter und Coleoptera 112 (2) on page 40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.88703
Healing Literatures by Contemporary Japanese Female Authors: Yoshimoto Banana, Ogawa Yoko, and Kawakami Hiromi
No full textIn this dissertation, I examine three popular contemporary Japanese female writers—Yoshimoto Banana (b.1964), Ogawa Yoko (b.1962), and Kawakami Hiromi (b.1958), who all debuted after the peak of Japan’s bubble economy in the late 1980s. Focusing on the works of these three living authors, I investigate the ways in which they deal with the theme of spiritual and emotional healing, and how they are original in the world of Japanese literature. Since they are all women, in terms of feminist context, I also look into how differently they respond to the gender issues from the prior generation of female authors.In Introduction, I begin with the examination of how prewar authors dealt with the theme of spiritual healing. Using Snow Country (1937) by the male writer Kawabata Yasunari and “A Floral Pageant” (1937) by the female author Okamoto Kanoko (1899-1939), I discuss the commonality of these two authors, apart from the evident disparities related to their difference in gender. Their stories both end with the description of their protagonist’s spiritual climax, associated with their transcendental leap from their everyday reality. Comparing those prewar authors, I discuss how differently the three contemporary authors approach the same topic. In terms of their common gender, I also address outstanding characteristics of feminist messages delivered by their previous generation of female authors from the postwar to the 1970s, and how our authors are different from the previous ones in terms of their interest in feminism and women’s issues.Chapter 1 examines the novels of Yoshimoto Banana, the author who debuted before the other two. I begin with an analysis on how her interest in spirituality is related to the social background of the bubble-collapse period between the late 1980s and the early 1990s—in relation, in particular, to the healing boom and the impact of Aum Shinrikyō’s sarin gas attack on Tokyo Subways in 1995. With her critiques on the so-called shin shin shūkyō, newly established religious groups, she claims that spiritual healing should be based on one’s awakening of his or her connection with nature to be blessed. And she stresses and encourages with that awareness to live through everyday reality with hope.Chapter 2 explores works of Ogawa Yoko. I analyze how she develops her theme of girlhood by examining her earlier works, which recurrently focus on her adolescent protagonists’ anxieties—their fear of separation from their girlhood and their frustration about moving into a sexualized female adulthood. At the end of this chapter, I examine Mīna’s March, a work, which extensively features a young protagonist’s girlhood and her days growing up. Ogawa implies that richness of girlhood—free from sexuality and gender tensions—is the key source for female mental growth.Chapter 3 investigates stories of Kawakami Hiromi. I begin with an introduction of her essays, which show her core theme of “sakaime” (borderline realm). I examine her earlier stories about relationships between human and nonhuman characters, and as well as her later stories about relationships between two human characters. I consistently find that the “sakaime” opens her protagonists to an animistic vision of a human relationship with nature—a vision which human lives are part of nature’s vast, unsteady, and ever-changing life flows. Ultimately, the animistic sensitivity works for her protagonists’ inner growth.In conclusion, I summarize the three authors’ differences and commonalities in spiritual and emotional healing and related topic such as female independence, individualities, and the human relationship with nature. I conclude that the three authors responded in a timely and effective manner to the needs of the readers in the contemporary society of Japan.</div
Presentazione
No full textPresentazione dell'opera di Tadashi Ogawa su Machiavelli e la filosofia fenomenologica, studio originale che istituisce nessi coerenti e sostenibili fra il modo di pensare di Machiavelli e le strutture di fondo del metodo husserliano
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Analysis on ƒÀ and ƒÐ Convergences of East Asian Currencies
No full textThis paper investigates recent diverging trends among East Asian currencies as well as recent movements of the weighted average value of East Asian currencies (Asian Monetary Unit: AMU) and deviations (AMU Deviation Indicators) of the East Asian currencies from the average values by ƒÀ and ƒÐ convergence methods. Our empirical analysis shows that linkages with the US dollar have been weakening since 2001 or 2002 for some of the East Asian countries. On the other hand, the monetary authority of China continues stabilizing the exchange rate of the Chinese yuan against the US dollar even though it announced its adoption of a currency basket system. It is found that the weighted average of East Asian currencies has been appreciating against the US dollar while depreciating against the currency basket of the US dollar and the euro until the global financial crisis in 2008. Also, the analytical results on ƒÀ and ƒÐ Convergences show that deviations among the East Asian currencies have been widening@in recent years, reflecting the fact that these countriesf monetary authorities are adopting a variety of exchange rate systems. In other words, a coordination failure in adopting exchange rate systems among these monetary authorities increases volatility and misalignment of intra-regional exchange rates in East Asia.
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Comparação entre os métodos de Ogawa-Kudoh e Petroff modificado para o cultivo de micobactérias no diagnóstico da tuberculose pulmonar.
No full textRESUMO Objetivo: Comparar o desempenho do método de Ogawa-Kudoh ao de Petroff modificado no diagnóstico da tuberculose pulmonar. Métodos: Utilizaram-se 205 amostras de escarro de 166 pacientes com suspeita clínica ou controle de tuberculose pulmonar atendidos em um hospital público terciário, entre os meses de julho de 2014 a julho de 2016. Todas as amostras foram processadas simultaneamente pelos métodos de descontaminação Ogawa-Kudoh e Petroff modificado, seguindo as recomendações do Ministério da Saúde. Na análise estatística, foi empregado o teste de McNemar, para comparação de proporções, e o índice Kappa, para verificar o grau de concordância entre os dados. Resultados: Os métodos Ogawa-Kudoh e Petroff modificado mostraram-se eficientes na detecção de micobactérias, não sendo verificadas discordâncias significativas tanto nas comparações de pares de resultados (p=0,549), como na taxa de contaminação das culturas (p=0,065). O grau de concordância das técnicas foi considerado excelente (índice Kappa de 0,877), e o Ogawa-Kudoh, em relação ao Petroff modificado, apresentou 90,4% de sensibilidade, 96,6% de especificidade, 94,3% de valor preditivo positivo e 94,2% de valor preditivo negativo. Conclusão: O método de Ogawa-Kudoh revelou-se suficientemente sensível e específico para o diagnóstico da tuberculose pulmonar e, portanto, adequado para a aplicação na rotina laboratorial. Por ser mais simples, de baixo custo e com menores exigências técnicas de biossegurança e capacitação profissional, o Ogawa-Kudoh apresenta-se como alternativa para gestores e profissionais da área promoverem a ampliação da cobertura diagnóstica bacteriológica da tuberculose pulmonar
Scaphisoma duplex Löbl & Ogawa, 2016, nov.sp.
No full text5.2.20.2. Scaphisoma duplex nov.sp. (Figs 219, 220) T y p e m a t e r i a l: Holotype 6: Philippines, Luzon: Lagunas Mt.Banahaw nr school about 1km from Kinabuhayan, 500m, degraded rainforest, 28,XI.1995 [leg. J. Kodada] (MHNG). Paratypes: Luzon, Lagunas Prov., Mt. Makiling 4 km SE Los Banos, 11.IV.1977, leg. L. Watrous, 1 6, 1♀ (MHNG); with same data but 8.IV., 1♀ (MHNG). D e s c r i p t i o n: Length 1.72 mm, width 1.20 mm. Head and body ochreous, apical abdominal segments and appendages lighter than most of body. Very similar to and with most characters as in S. bilobum. Antennae somewhat shorter, with length/width ratio of antennomeres as: III 10/6: IV 33/5: V 45/7: VI 40/7: VII 48/10: VIII 36/7: IX 46/9: X 45/10: XI 50/10. Inner apical angles of elytra about at level of outer angles, submesocoxal areas 0.03 mm, hardly as fourth of intervals to metacoxae; submesocoxal lines almost parallel; apicomedian area of metaventrite flat; metanepisterna narrowed anteriad; sternite 1 with few coarse basomedian punctures; submetaxocal areas 0.04 mm, about as fourth of intervals to apical margin of sternite. Aedeagus (Figs 219, 220) 0.76 mm long. Median lobe and parameres similar as those in S. bilobum, apical process of median lobe conspicuously widened posterior mid-length and truncate at apex (lateral view). Ety molo gy: The species epithet is a noun derived from Latin duo (two) and Greek plax (flat), referring to characters shared with S. bilobum. C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: The species has a unique shape of the apical process of the median lobe and thus may be easily distinguished by its aedeagal characters.Published as part of Ivan Löbl & Ryo Ogawa, 2016, On the Scaphisomatini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scaphidiinae) of the Philippines, IV: the genera Sapitia ACHARD and Scaphisoma LEACH, pp. 1339-1492 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 48 (2) on pages 1430-1431, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.24720
Scaphisoma jankodadai Löbl & Ogawa, 2016, nov.sp.
No full text5.2.19.12. Scaphisoma jankodadai nov.sp. (Figs 212, 213) Holotype 6: Philippines, Palawan centr. above San Rafael, ca 300 m, 4.XII.1995, J. Kodada leg. (MHNG). Description: Length 1.58 mm, width 1.06 mm. Head, body and femora ochreous, apical abdominal segments, tibiae, tarsi and antennae lighter, yellowish. Pronotum and elytra not microsculptured and not iridescent. Length/width ratio of antennomeres as: III 13/8: IV 34/7: V 44/7: VI 41/7: VII 47/14: VIII 37/8: IX 45/12: X 41/12: XI 58/14. Pronotum very finely and fairly densely punctate; lateral contours evenly rounded, lateral margin carinae hardly visible in dorsal view, lateral striae appearing impunctate. Exposed tip of scutellum small. Elytra with lateral margin carinae visible in dorsal view, apical margins truncate, inner apical angles not prominent, situated posterior level of outer angles; sutural margin not raised, sutural striae fairly deep, hardly curved at base, very weakly converging apically, punctate; adsutural areas narrow, flat, densely and very finely punctate, lateral striae appearing impunctate; discal punctation coarser than pronotal punctation, dense and fine, with puncture intervals slightly larger to four times as large as puncture diameters. Hind wings fully developed. Hypomera and mesanepisterna not microsculptured, smooth. Mesepimera about 1.5 times as long as intervals to mesocoxae, about four times as long as wide. Metaventrite in middle part hardly convex, with strigulate microsculpture and very finely, sparsely punctate, with single shallow mesal impression; microsculpture present between mesocoxae and metacoxae, lateral parts of metaventrite not microsculptured, sparsely and very finely punctate; antecoxal puncture rows absent. Submesocoxal areas 0.03 mm, about as fifth of intervals to metacoxae, submesocoxal lines parallel, distinctly punctate. Metanepisternum flat, narrowed anteriad, inner margin straight in middle part, rounded near angles, impressed below margin of metaventrite. Tibiae straight. Abdomen with strigulate microsculpture, very finely punctate, submetacoxal areas 0.05 mm, almost as fourth of intervals to apical margin of sternite 1, submetacoxal lines convex, distinctly punctate. M a l e: Protarsomeres 1 to 3 and mesotarsomeres 1 and 2 distinctly widened. Aedeagus (Figs 212, 213) 0.90 mm long, symmetrical, fairly sclerotized. Median lobe with dorsal branches of apical process short, ventral branch shorter than basal bulb, weakly inflexed, tapering (dorsal view), with somewhat sinuate ventral side and two subapical denticles on dorsal side (lateral view). Articular process robust, not prominent. Parameres sinuate and widened posterior mid-length in lateral view, almost evenly wide and strongly bent in dorsal view. Internal sac complex, with very dense, elongate bunch of proximal denticles, followed by two robust admesal teeth joint in middle, pair of hornlike teeth, several small sclerites in-between, and several elongate subapical spines; membranes posterior robust teeth with scale-like structures. E t y m o l o g y: The species is dedicated to a friend of the senior author, Jan Kodada, Bratislava, Slovakia, who collected this species. C o m p a r a t i v e n o t e s: The aedeagal characters suggest close relationships of S. jankodadai with S. luzonicum PIC. The internal sacs differ conspicuously, in particular by the proximal bunch of denticles and the shape of the large admesal teeth present in S. jankodadai. The new species differs from S. luzonicum in external characters by the uniformly ochreous body and the parallel submesocoxal lines.Published as part of Ivan Löbl & Ryo Ogawa, 2016, On the Scaphisomatini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scaphidiinae) of the Philippines, IV: the genera Sapitia ACHARD and Scaphisoma LEACH, pp. 1339-1492 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 48 (2) on pages 1426-1427, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.24720
Analysis on β and σ Convergences of East Asian Currencies
No full textThis paper focuses on recent events which include the RMB reform in China and the global financial crisis to investigate statistically recent diverging trends among East Asian currencies. For the purpose, their weighted average value (Asian Monetary Unit: AMU) and their deviations (AMU Deviation Indicators) from benchmark levels are used to analyze both β and σ convergences of East Asian currencies. Our analytical results show that the monetary authority of China has still kept stabilizing the exchange rate of the Chinese yuan against only the US dollar even though it announced its adoption of a managed floating exchange rate system with reference to a currency. Analytical results on β and σ convergences show that deviations among the East Asian currencies have been diverging in recent years, especially after 2005. The widening deviations reflect not the RMB reform but recent international capital flows and the global financial crisis. In addition, it is important as its background that the monetary authorities of the countries are adopting a variety of exchange rate systems. In other words, a coordination failure in adopting exchange rate systems among these monetary authorities increases volatility and misalignment of intra-regional exchange rates in East Asia.
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