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Letter from S. Masaki to Dominguez Estate Company, April 16, 1942
No full textLetter refers to a check payment for a land lease rent payment at 3931 W. Huntington Street, Torrance for two years rent. Masaki's letter was accompanied by a check payment for a land lease at 3931 W. Huntington Street, Torrance, California. In the letter Masaki states the lease began in 1942 and ends in 1944. The envelope is accompanied by the letter, showing Masaki at the Santa Anita Temporary Assembly Center in Arcadia, California
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Disenchanting Japan: Japanese Futurity in Neuromancer and the Science Fiction of Masaki Goro
No full textI apply enchantment theory to William Gibson's Neuromancer and several works by the Japanese SF author Masaki Goro to reveal shared assumptions about Japan as the locus of an emergent techno-social hybridity. Both Gibson and Masaki register signs of widespread disenchantment stemming from an increasingly technologically advanced society with a ruthlessly efficient take on capitalism. However, they mobilize their portrayals to different ends. I demonstrate that the authors diverge in their assessments of a technologically-mediated reenchantment. I also argue that the authors' use of conventions from hard-boiled fiction performs several functions. First, it ironically highlights the impossibility of nostalgia in such a future world, where the concept of home is divested of stability. Second, it evinces an anxiety over the transition from individualistic subjectivity to decentered posthumanity. Third, it reinforces the theme of the supplantation of the traditional nation-state by hyper-capitalist forms
Argon adsorption on MCM-41 mesoporous crystal studied by in situ synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction
No full textEquilibrium argon adsorption from the gas phase on mesoporous MCM-41 silica of hexagonal structure is directly studied by in situ synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements at SPring-8. The diffraction intensity data is analyzed by extending the previously developed analytical formula for the crystal structure factors of MCM-41 to account for argon adsorbed in the pores. It is clearly observed that argon adsorbs in layers on the pore walls at low gas pressures and exhibits sudden capillary condensation as the gas pressure increased. The proposed method of interpretation of XRD data allows one to calculate the density ratio between the silica wall and condensed argon, the pore size, and the pore wall fluctuation/roughness, together with the thickness of the adsorbed layer as a function of the gas pressure. The results of in situ XRD experiments are compared with the results of argon adsorption volumetric experiments. The adsorption data are interpreted with the quench solid density functional theory (QSDFT), which takes into account the pore wall roughness. The perfect agreement of the QSDFT isotherm predicted from the adsorption data and the XRD recalculated isotherm suggests that the adsorption porosimetry and XRD measurements can be reconciled provided a proper interpretation of the experimental data.</p
Long-range scattering for a critical homogeneous type nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with time-decaying harmonic potentials
No full textThis paper is concerned with the final state problem for the homogeneous type
nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with time-decaying harmonic potential. The
nonlinearity has the critical order and is not necessarily the form of a
polynomial. In the case of the gauge-invariant power-type nonlinearity, the
first author proves that the equation admits a nontrivial solution that behaves
like a free solution with a logarithmic phase correction in [22]. In this
paper, we extend his result into the case with the general homogeneous
nonlinearity by the technique due to the Fourier series expansion introduced by
Masaki and the second author [26]. To adapt the argument in the aforementioned
paper, we develop a factorization identity for the propagator and require a
little stronger decay condition for the Fourier coefficients arising from the
harmonic potential. Moreover, in two or three dimensions, we improve the
regularity condition of the final data in [26, 28].Comment: 36 page
Microeconomics : principles, problems and policies
No full textThe author team is pleased to acknowledge the contibution of sean masaki flynm to the seventeenth edition
Microeconomics : principles, problems and policies
No full textThe author team is pleased to acknowledge the contibution of sean masaki flynm to the seventeenth edition
The “Author Concept” and Knowledge of Expository Texts: The Case of Expository Texts about Natural Science in Elementary Schools
No full textThe purpose of this paper was to develop a framework for the “author concept” of expository texts from a perspective of “knowledge”. The developed framework has the following four features: (1) the author and reader are scientists; (2) the author belongs to the academic world as a producer of knowledge and he/she explains it to the reader belonging to the life world; (3) the author explains this to the reader belonging to the life world as a mediator of the academic world and the life world; and (4) the author and reader belong to the life world in the life world. I used this framework to examine expository texts on natural science used by third and fourth grade elementary school students
Articulatory effects of vowel context on fricatives: an MRI study
No full textMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is increasingly used in speech production research, particularly to obtain three-dimensional images of sustainable sounds such as fricatives or vowels. However, acoustic studies of fricatives [Shadle et al., Proc. ETRW, 193-196 (1996)] have shown that the spectral shape varies with vowel context, with the amount of variation depending on the fricative. This study, therefore, uses MRI to study the articulatory correlates of vowel context effects on fricatives. Two subjects (male French, female American English) for whom a large acoustic, aerodynamic, and articulatory database of fricatives already existed, were studied. Three different imaging methods were used that varied in acquisition time, image quality, and image extent: midsagittal turbo-flash (2 s), midsagittal spin-echo (15 s), and full coronal and axial spin-echo scans (approx. 2 min each). The subjects uttered the fricatives [f, theta, s, S] in vowel contexts [a, i, u]. Results indicate that not only are vowel context effects preserved in the longer duration images, they are often heightened. [f] showed the greatest variation in configuration with vowel context. Comparison to acoustic results and other MRI studies will be presented. [Work supported by ATR HIP Laboratories, while the first author was an invited researcher at ATR.]
Inter-application communication during LHD consecutive short pulse discharge experiment
No full textLHD short pulse experiments are executed every three minutes. After the end of the discharge, the scientists must collect, analyze, visualize the last acquired data of the discharge, and prepare for the next discharge. From the beginning, the computer environment of the LHD (Large Helical Device) experiment has been built as a network distributed system, and various computers have been used for data acquisition or physical analysis. When one program is finished on one computer, that computer must send the results in order to the other computers to run programs. Smooth communication is required in order to finish all the tasks before the next discharge. To exchange the information among the applications running on the different computers, the authors have tried various methods, such as a commercial software to share the memory over the network, simple network file sharing method, IP multicast, web interfaces, and others. The purpose of this paper is to share our experiences of trial and error to build the network distributed systems for the consecutive plasma discharge experiments.journal articl
2009年現在の世界のノルディックウォーキングの動向 : International Nordic Walking Federation主催のConvention 2009の様子から
No full text2009年10月15日から18日にかけて,ドイツのアルガウ,ネッセルワングにおいて国際ノルディックウォーキング連盟(International Nordic Walking Federation: INWA)主催のコンベンション2009が開催された.筆者はこれに参加し,いくつかの情報収集が出来たので,その内容を報告することとする.INWAコンベンションにはこれで2回目の参加で,報告も2回目になるが,今回の報告においては,1)2007年から2009年にかけてのNWの世界の動向,2)コンベンションから示唆できること,3)NWの将来への問題と展望,の観点から述べることとした.International Convention of Nordic Walking hosted by International Nordic Walking Federation (INWA) has been held in Nesselwang, Allgau, Germany from 15th to 18th of October 2009. The author has participated in this Convention and gotten the information about Nordic Walking trend. This is a second review for the trend for Nordic Walking in the World and Japan as the following stand points of view; 1) a trend for Nordic Walking from 2007 to 2009 in the World, 2) suggestions from the content of convention, and 3) the subjects (problems) have to be resolved in the future for Nordic Walking popularization.報告(Report)p.[90]の作成者表記に誤りあり (誤)Masaki Tekeda → (正)Masaki Takedaapplication/pd
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