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Designs on “Old Seto” Porcelain
No full textIt is widely known that the porcelain ware called Ko (Old) Seto, produced in the Seto area around the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, shows the influence of Sung China in its shapes and designs. It has not been studied thoroughly, however, how the Chinese inspiration was accepted. Believing that such studies will be valuable, the author has made some researches on the subject. The existing pieces of the Old Seto ware are numerous, and ornamental designs on them cover a wide variety. The author chose, as the basis of his researches, jars and vases which are believed to be genuine and typical, and studied designs which appear frequently on these.
As space does not allow discussions on all individual pieces, the author herein reports only the results of his researches. Designs on them include those imitating ornaments of Chinese Lung-ch‘üan celadon and Ching-tê-chên pale-white porcelain (ying-ching) of the Southern Sung period, and of the Korean Kōrai (Koryo) celadon ; Chinese- and Korean-style ones to which Japanese-style motifs are added, or which are modified into Japanese style, and those consisting of Japnese-style motifs only. Through these designs the author found that they attest to considerably creative, original ideas of Seto potters.
It is evident that the Old Seto pieces were made during the last part of the Kamakura Period, but the chronological order of individual specimens is hard to tell ; it is therefore impossible exactly to describe how these designs developed. Nevertheless they are very significant from the viewpoint of designs in Japanese ceramics, and in Japanese handicrafts in general.
Pre-historic and proto-historic earthenwares are left out here. There are a few examples of Heian Period pottery which have ornaments in line-engraving, but the Old Seto ware has no ornaments either similar to or apparently derived from them. Furthermore, pottery pieces with decorative patterns prior to the Kamakura Period are mostly in shapes imitating those of metal objects, and their patterns, also following metal examples, are hardly ones peculiar to pottery. Designs on the Old Seto ware, however, are desings characteristic of ceramics, and are diferent in character from earlier ones. It cannot be denied that the tradition of the Sué Type Pottery of the Heian Period carried on partly into the Old Seto, but in decorative designs the Old Seto potters, instead of following old tradition, chose imported continental-style ornaments which they improved with their original ideas and which were laden with the vigorous spirit of the Kamakura Period of the warriors' rule. It is notable, too, that designs on the Old Seto ware are the first examples of pottery designs in the true sense of the term in Japan.
Comparison of Old Seto ornaments with designs in other fields of decorative arts is interesting. In lacquer art, the Kamakura-bori imitated the effect of the Chinese carved lacquer just as the Old Seto copied continental designs, but it did not achieve notable development. Designs in maki-e lacquer and in metalwork were traditional cnes flavoured with the taste of the time. Those on mirror-backs also adhered to tradition, though only a very few of them imitated Chinese Han-style mirrors of the Sung Dynasty. The novel designs in Old Seto discussed above are remarkable achievements of the then newly-risen ceramic industry in the Seto area.journal articl
Pengaruh Kepemimpinan, Motivasi Kerja, dan Budaya Organisasi terhadap Kinerja Karyawan Homeschooling Kak Seto Pusat
No full textTujuan dari studi ini adalah untuk mengetahui dan menganalisi bagaimana pengaruh kepemimpinan, motivasi kerja, dan budaya organisasi terhadap kinerja karyawan Homeschooling Kak Seto. Penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kuantitatif yang menggunakan sampel jenuh dengan seluruh karyawan Homeschooling Kak Seto dengan jumlah 115 responden dengan metode non probality sampling dengan data yang digunakan data primer yang didapat dari kuisioner. Teknik analisis yang digunakan regresi linear berganda. Hasil penelitian menunjukan : a) Variabel kepemimpinan tidak berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap kinerja karyawan Homeschooling Kak Seto dengan nilai t hitung sebesar 0.836 < t table sebesar 1.982 dan mempunyai taraf signifikan 0.405 > 0.05. b) Variabel motivasi kerja tidak berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap kinerja karyawan Homeschooling Kak Seto dengan nilai t hitung sebesar 1.892 < t table 1.982 dan memupunyai tarf siginifikan 0.61 > 0.05. c) Variabel budaya organisasi memiliki pengaruh secara signifikan terhadap kinerja karyawan Homeschooling Kak Seto dengan nilai t hitung sebesar 3.206 > t table 1.982 dan memupunyai tarif siginifikan 0.002 < 0,05.d) dengan nilai R square sebesar 0.210 atau 21 % . e) hasil persamaan regresi yang diperoleh Y = 38,518 0.024X1+0,230X2+0,371X3. Peneliti menyarankan kepemimpinan di Homeschooling Kak Seto untuk terus upadate dan upgrade agar menjadi teladan bagi karyawan dan memotivasi karyawan untuk terus meningkatkan kinerjanya serta mempertahankan dan meningkatkan budaya organisasi yang sudah baik dalam meningkatkan kinerja karyawan Homeschooling Kak Seto.
 
The Screening Scale for Pedophilic Interests (SSPI): Construct, Predictive, and Incremental Validity
No full textThis study of 410 adult male sex offenders against children, using data from the Dynamic Supervision Project (Hanson, Harris, Scott, & Helmus, 2007), examined the construct, predictive, and incremental validity of the Screening Scale for Pedophilic Interests (SSPI; Seto & Lalumière, 2001), a brief proxy measure of phallometrically assessed sexual response to children that is based on sexual victim characteristics. As predicted, the SSPI was significantly related to the Deviant Sexual Interests item on the STABLE-2007 (Hanson et al., 2007), a dynamic risk measure encompassing multiple domains, and with the Deviant Sexual Interests item from its predecessor, the STABLE-2000 (Hanson et al., 2007). The SSPI was unrelated (or more weakly related) to items measuring general antisociality. In addition, the SSPI significantly predicted sexual recidivism, defined as new charges or convictions for sexual offenses, and a broader sexual recidivism outcome that included breaches of community supervision conditions that might involve sexually motivated behavior (e.g., being in the presence of children unsupervised). The SSPI did not add to the predictive accuracy of 2 actuarial risk measures, the Static-99R and Static-200R (Helmus, Thornton, Hanson, & Babchishin, 2012), but it did add to the predictive accuracy of the STABLE-2007. Additional analyses suggest the SSPI can serve as a substitute for the STABLE-2007 Deviant Sexual Interests item, if necessary (e.g., in archival research), when assessing sexual offenders against children
Estudo comparativo entre dois processos construtivos sob o ponto de vista de sua influência na formação do fluxo de caixa de empreendimentos imobiliários habitacionais
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnologico. Programa de Pós-graduação em Engenharia CivilEste trabalho faz a investigação das questões ligadas às finanças de um empreendimento habitacional, definindo como problemática de estudo, buscando investigar se o processo construtivo adotado interfere no fluxo de caixa durante o ciclo de produção. Objetiva-se verificar os ingressos e os desembolsos financeiros de um empreendimento imobiliário habitacional e retirar dados e conclusões, visando auxiliar na investigação da viabilidade econômico-financeira do sistema construtivo que aplica a alvenaria estrutural com blocos de concreto. A definição de uma hipótese parte do princípio de que a tecnologia construtiva pode interferir no fluxo de caixa de um empreendimento habitacional. Uma atenção especial é dada ao desenvolvimento do fluxo de caixa e a importância de tê-lo como uma ferramenta para o auxílio à definição das estratégias e gestão de empresas. A metodologia utilizada envolve a revisão da literatura em obras pertinentes ao tema e o estudo do fluxo de caixa de um empreendimento localizado no município de Umuarama/PR. Como resultado, obteve-se a resposta de que o fluxo de desembolsos financeiros do processo construtivo em alvenaria estrutural não é muito diferente do processo construtivo em concreto armado com fechamento em tijolos cerâmicos furados
Changes in the Age Composition of Japanese Spanish Mackerel, Scomberomorus niphonius, in the Western Seto Inland Sea, Japan
No full textLong term changes in the population structure of Japanese Spanish mackerel, Scomberomorus niphonius (Cuvier) in the western Seto Inland Sea are discussed based on fisheries statistics, together with CPUE (catch per vessel) analysis and age composition data from Kawarazu Fisheries Port in Hiuchi-Nada. The catch of Japanese Spanish mackerel in the western Seto Inland Sea showed a maxima in the 1980s, with the highest catch being 2,848 ton in 1980. Thereafter the total catch tends to decrease, and in 1994 it was only 14.7% of the 1980 level. The annual landings at Kawarazu varied between 6.5 and 92.7 ton from 1982-1995, and these values showed a positive correlation with catches for the entire western Seto Inland Sea (r=0.838, p<0.001). Analysis of CPUE showed a marked decrease from 1987 onward, and in 1995 it was at 17.4% of the 1987 level. Coinciding with this phenomenon, the catch and effort in 1995 (annual total vessels operated) also decreased to 7.3 and 42.1% of their 1987 level, respectively. Analysis of length frequency histograms revealed that the composition of fish of 2-years and older constituted 81.0-100% of the whole population before 1994, thereafter these fish constituted 59.5% in 1995, and subsequently to 26.1% in 1996. The age composition data from fish scale analysis also exhibited the same change in age composition structure, though only a slight difference is noted in the relative composition. Inversely, composition of 1-year old fish increased in recent years from a low level ranging 0-19.0% from 1986-1994, and comprised 40.5% in 1995 and 73.9% in 1996. There is a tendency of increasing total length of 1 and 2-years old fish with decreasing CPUE. All these facts suggest that the population level of Japanese Spanish mackerel in the western Seto Inland Sea has decreased significantly over the past ten years, and excessive fishing pressure is assumed to be the prime factor causing this reduction.departmental bulletin pape
Radiation reaction in high-intensity fields
No full textR. Soc. Lond. A 167, 148 (1938)], many authors have tried to reformulate this model of the so-called “radiation reaction”. Recently, this effect has become important in ultra-intense laser– electron (plasma) interactions. In our recent research, we found a way of stabilizing the radiation reaction by quantum electrodynamics (QED) vacuum fluctuation [K Seto et al., Prog. Theor
Navigating Digital Borders: Seto Community in the Virtual Territory of the VK Social Network
No full textReceived 30 September 2024. Accepted 5 March 2025. Published online 30 April 2025.The paper examines the digital geography of the virtual Seto community in the VK social network (also known as VKontakte), focusing on how dispersed Seto people in Russia and Estonia use digital spaces to communicate, as well as express, preserve, and promote their cultural identity. By applying a multi-sited ethnographic methodology, the research involves both online explorations and offline semi-structured interviews, with fieldwork conducted in the Pechory District. Using the network and territory approaches to digital ethnography, the study highlights how the VK serves as a digital territory where Setos, divided by distances and physical borders, connect, share cultural practices, and foster a sense of community. Special attention is given to the Seto traditions of leelo polyphonic singing and festive costumes, both of which serve as vital markers of ethnic identity in this digital landscape. Through content analysis of Seto personal profiles and public pages, the research reveals how social networks help maintain connections and how digital geographies are constantly shaped and reshaped by cultural exchanges. This study underscores the adaptability of online spaces in sustaining fragmented ethnic communities across physical distances.This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation under Grant 23-78-10079, https://rscf.ru/project/23-78-10079/The author is grateful to the assistance of the Museum Reserve Izborsk, Manor Museum of the Seto people in the village of Sigovo, Pechory Museum of History, and the “Flax Province” Museum. The author is also highly appreciative of the valuable consultations and recommendations provided by Elena Variksoo, Tatiana Ogareva, Mare Piho, Malle Bogacheva, and Vera Fest
The experimental realism of William Dean Howells
No full textThe “experimental” in my title refers to Howells’s self-conscious development of a literary form that could give the most complete, deepest account of a reality characterized by the ordinary and even the banal. For the middle class, Howells’s perennial subject, the norm is to aspire to transcend, and the ordinary can appear elusive, even nonexistent. Of course, in political terms, a middle class culture considers everyone basically the same, this resemblance defining the ordinary. It is assumed that everyone shares the same economic goals, and the same desire for familial and individual success. Being ordinary is therefore a moral quality. This means, paradoxically, that ordinariness can only prove itself in exceptional individuals. To strive is virtuous, to fail is shameful; either way one’s ordinariness is subsumed to a greater drama. The drama at the center of middle class art is the plight of the exceptional individual demonstrating a Platonic ordinariness. It is hard to think of characters in novels who are not exceptional financially or morally. In Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove finance and morality go together. The novels of Eliot, Dickens, even those of the French realists unfold stories in which ordinary characters, by some exceptional moral quality, try to transcend their economic and historical situations. Howells called this story romantic and insisted on writing about the most mundane aspects of ordinary life. His novels were not about the exceptional who rise above the crowd but about ordinary people who do not transcend but stay on the ground. Howells described this divide between moral ideals and actual economic circumstance as “the infernal juggle of the mind. ” This contradiction at the heart of everyday life was what he wanted to depict. His design of characters and plots, even his sentences, develop continuously into further complexity as they discover the tensions and self-betrayal inherent in middle class optimism. “Discover” is the key term: Howells wrote in order to find out the truth about ordinary life, and the more he discovered the more his novels tended toward disjunction. In resisting the urge to reaffirm middle class morals, he was having not only a political argument with the dominant ideology of late-nineteenth century America but a formal argument with the conventional novel. Down the critical years, Howells’s trust in the novel form to do its own work has been difficult to see because his way of demonstrating it was so unusual. To the extent that his form was un-transcendent, descriptive rather than theoretical, it has been unapparent. My dissertation is an attempt to make evident and describe the working of Howells’s unapparent form. I have used a method of analysis congruent with his practice. I proceed as he wrote, historically, by following the unfolding events of his style and form.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Brian Seto McGrat
BENTUK, MAKNA, DAN FUNGI MANTRA DALAM KESENIAN KUDA LUMPING TURONGGO SETO MAYANGSARI DI SUMBER KOTES MALANG
No full textPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis dan mendeskripsikan bentuk, makna, dan
fungsi pada mantra kesenian kuda lumping Turonggo Seto Mayangsari. Penelitian ini
menggunakan teori bentuk puisi yang dikemukakan oleh Maskurun. Analisis makna
menggunakan teori semiotik yg diungkapkan oleh Ferdinan de Saussure, dan teori
fungsi yang dikemukakan oleh William R. Bascom dalam Danandjaya. Metode
penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kualitatif, sedangkan pengumpulan data dilakukan
dengan observasi, wawancara dengan narasumber menggunakan teknik rekaman,
catat, dan data pustaka. Setelah pengumpulan data, maka data tersebut dianalisis
bagaimanakah bentuk, makna, dan fungsi mantra pada kesenian kuda lumping
Turonggo Seto Mayangsari. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa dalam
mantra kesenian kuda lumping Turonggo Seto Mayangsari terdapat beberapa hal.
Dari segi bentuk, terdapat dua bentuk puisi yang digunakan yaitu seloka dan bidal.
Dari segi makna, makna pada mantra kesenian kuda lumping Turonggo Seto
Mayangsari dideskripsikan sesuai dengan makna bahasa yang dihubungkan dengan
kebudayaan. Kemudian terdapat empat fungsi kebudayaan yg digunakan untuk
penelitian ini, yaitu: 1. Sebagai sistem proyeksi (projective sistem), yakni sebagai alat
pencermin angan-angan suatu kolektif. 2.Sebagai alat pengesahan pranata-pranata
dan lembaga-lembaga kebudayaan. 3.Sebagai alat pendidikan anak (pedagogical
device). 4.Sebagai alat pemaksa dan pengawas agar norma-norma masyarakat akan
selalu dipatuhi anggota kolektifny
Chemical composition of pond waters on the ilands located in the Seto Inland Sea
No full textFreshwater ponds are found on a number of islands located in the Seto Inland Sea. The author made observation of the chemical properties of pond water at some of the ponds located on the islands in the western part of the Seto Inland Sea. The primary purpose of this survey was to know the effect of the "sea breeze" from the chlorine contents of pond water. Some of the surveyed ponds were utilized for irrigation. Almost all the surveyed ponds were relatively shallow, and dissolved oxygen was poor in the bottom layer. Chlorine contents were considerably lower than expected. Other chemical compositions and their contents in each pond were not extraordinary; they were of the same order as the average values reported by Dr. S. YOSHIMURA for the lake waters of Japan. The results of the observation and water analysis are shown in Table I.
It seemed that all the surveyed ponds could be utilized for the culture of freshwater fishes
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