298 research outputs found
Playback
No full textPlayback, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Dumb Type.
The Japan Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 23 April – 27 November 2022. and at the Haus der Kunst Munich, 6 May-11 September 2022. Participated as one of 16 artists around the world (including Seigen Ono) to contribute a field recording of their immediate environment that was mixed/re-engineered as a sonic experience within the multi-media installation. Each sonic contribution remastered by Ryuichi was then turned into a vinyl ‘album’ and all played simultaneously in the installation. “Playback is about the ways in which we perceive the world having been drastically changed with the spread of things such as social media and coronavirus. Playback is also recognises the noise that exists in cities around the world and to feel the atmosphere of a city that doesn’t exist in that space, through its sounds’ Ryuichi Sakamoto (edited). The 2022 Biennale attracted a record attendance of 800,000+
Chemical and Biological Aspects of Water-Soluble Heterocyclic Marine Natural Products
No full textWater-soluble marine natural products are interesting as they generally do not penetrate into the cells but exhibit biological activities through cell surface receptors, ion channels, and glycans. Some molecules, however, interact with cell membrane and disrupt it. In this review, discovery, structures, and biological activities of water-soluble marine natural heterocyclic molecules are summarized with special emphasis on their biological activity and functions
Sound Unbound / Rhythm Science
No full textPaul D. Miller (aka Dj Spooky) is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working in NYC. His written work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Source, Ctheory, Artforum, Rap Pages, Paper Magazine, and a host of other periodicals. His work as an artist has appeared in a wide variety of contexts such as the Whitney Biennial, The Venice Biennial for Architecture, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne; The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and many other museums and galleries. Miller has recorded a large volume of music as “Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid” and has collaborated with a wide variety of pre-eminent musicians and composers such as Iannis Xenakis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kool Keith, Yoko Ono, and Thurston Moore. He also did the music score for the Cannes and Sundance award winning film “Slam” starring critically acclaimed poet Saul Williams. Paul D. Miller is a member of the editorial board of CTheory.Arthur Kroker, Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and TheoryFacultyUnreviewe
Constraints on the Level and Efficient Use of Labor in Japan
No full textWe examine a number of personnel practices, laws and regulations that lower the supply of labor in the Japanese economy. Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of impediments, those that restrict the movement of labor between firms, and those that discourage women from participating to a greater extent. Using other OECD countries and especially the United States as a benchmark, we estimate that removal of these barriers would increase the productive labor supply in Japan by some 13 to 18 percent and thus could raise the potential growth rate of the Japanese economy by roughly 1% per annum over a ten-year period.
New perspective on the clinical and laboratory characteristics of rheumatoid pleural effusion: A 29-case series
No full textThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Modern Rheumatology following peer review. The version of record Minoda Saki Sada, Sada Ryuichi Minoda, Akebo Hiroyuki, et al. New perspective on the clinical and laboratory characteristics of rheumatoid pleural effusion: A 29-case series. Modern Rheumatology, (2024) is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/mr/roae082.Objective: Rheumatoid pleural effusion (RPE) usually occurs in middle-aged men. Pleural fluid analyses have revealed high lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) levels and low pH and glucose levels in RPE. We aimed to investigate the clinical and laboratory features of patients with RPE since the beginning of the 21st century. Methods: Medical records of patients with RPE were reviewed between May 2006 and October 2021. The patients were divided into <60 year (younger) and ≥60 year (older) groups. Results: The younger group comprised 6 patients (median age 53.5 years, female 33%) and older group comprised 23 patients (median age 76 years, female 52.2%). Compared to the younger group, the older group had fewer cases of fever (83.3 versus 18.2%, P = .007) and chest pain (66.7 versus 8.7%, P = .008). In pleural fluid analysis, the older group presented higher pH (P = .004) and lower LDH levels (P = .044). Seven patients died during the follow-up period. Conclusion: Most patients with RPE were over 60 years of age, and approximately half of them were female. The pleural fluid analysis showed milder inflammation in older patients than in middle-aged patients. The mortality rate of patients with RPE was distinctly higher than that previously reported
Improvement of Production and Isolation of Human Neuraminidase-1 in Cellulo Crystals
No full textIn cellulo crystallization is a developing technique to provide crystals for protein structure determination, particularly for proteins that are difficult to prepare by in vitro crystallization. This method has a key advantage: It requires neither a protein purification step nor a crystallization step. However, there is still no systematic strategy for improving the technique of in cellulo crystallization because the process occurs spontaneously. Here we report a protocol to produce and extract in cellulo crystals of human lysosomal neuraminidase-1 (NEU1) in human cultured cells. Overexpression of NEU1 protein by the retransfection of cells pretransfected with neu1-overexpressing plasmid improved the efficiency of NEU1 crystallization. Microscopic analysis revealed that NEU1 proteins were not crystallized in the lysosome but in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Screening of the buffer conditions used to extract crystals from cells further improved the crystal yield. The optimal pH was 7.0, which corresponds to the pH in the ER. Use of a high-yield flask with a large surface area also yielded more crystals. These optimizations enabled us to execute a serial femtosecond crystallography experiment with a sufficient number of crystals to generate a complete data set. Optimization of the in cellulo crystallization method was thus shown to be possible.Accepted Author ManuscriptBN/Arjen Jakobi La
Nature of the possible magnetic phases in a frustrated hyperkagome iridate
No full textBased on the Kitaev-Heisenberg model with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions, we studied the nature of possible magnetic phases in the frustrated hyperkagome iridate, Na4Ir3O8 (Na-438). Using Monte Carlo simulation, we showed that the phase diagram is mostly covered by two competing magnetic ordered phases, the Z(2) symmetry breaking (SB) phase and the Z(6) SB phase, latter of which is stabilized by the classical order by disorder. These two phases are intervened by a first-order phase-transition line with Z(8)-like symmetry. The critical nature at the Z(6) SB ordering temperature is characterized by the three-dimensional XY universality class, below which U(1) to Z(6) crossover phenomenon appears: the Z(6) spin anisotropy becomes irrelevant in a length scale shorter than a crossover length A,, while it becomes relevant otherwise. A possible phenomenology of polycrystalline Na-438 is discussed based on this crossover phenomenon.SCI(E)[email protected]
ACCOUNTING FOR PHASE CANCELLATIONS IN NON-NEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION USING WEIGHTED DISTANCES
No full text(c)2014 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted components of this work in other works. Published in: Proc IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2014), Florence, Italy, 5-9 May 2014
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