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Data from: Cold temperature improves tannin tolerance in a granivorous rodent.xlsx
No full textThis data supports the article "Cold temperature improves tannin tolerance in a granivorous rodent", H.R. Windley & T. Shimada, 2019, Journal of Animal Ecology.</b
Re-evaluation of the relationship between rodent populations and acorn masting: a review from the aspect of nutrients and defensive chemicals in acorns
No full textThe responses of rodent populations to acorn masting were examined by reviewing 17 studies from the aspect of acorn nutrients and defensive chemicals. Oak species were grouped into three types based on their acorn nutritional characteristics by cluster analysis: Type 1 acorns (two North American red oaks, subgenus Erythrobalanus) were high in tannins and high in fat and proteins (and consequently rich in metabolizable energy); Type 2 acorns (two Japanese evergreen oaks, Cyclobalanopsis; three Japanese deciduous oaks, Lepidobalanus; one North American white oak, Lepidobalanus) were high in tannins but low in fat and proteins; and Type 3 acorns (one Cyclobalanopsis species; seven Lepidobalanus species) were low in tannins and had intermediate levels of fat and proteins. These three acorn groups were nutritionally, and thereby ecologically, not equivalent. Rodents, in general, responded differently to acorn masting depending on their feeding habits and the nutritional characteristics of acorns. Granivorous rodents showed positive responses to masting of Type 1 and 3 acorns, whereas rodents with feeding habits intermediate between granivory and herbivory showed positive responses to masting of Type 3 acorns. In addition, for herbivorous rodents, the responses to masting of any types of acorns have not been reported. The present findings emphasize that the relationship between rodents and acorn masting should not easily be generalized, because there are large variations in characteristics of both acorns and rodents. The viewpoint presented in this review could offer more convincing interpretations to the contradictory observations, found in the studies reviewed, on the response of rodent populations to acorn masting
, the Ise, and Kyūshū
No full textPublished online: 29 August 2023The Tensho Embassy has been predominantly portrayed from the ecclesiastical, European, or missionary perspectives, largely because of the availability of relevant sources. This article attempts to acknowledge the implicit agency of the legates by looking at their behavioural context through the buke kojitsu of the warrior class in sixteenth‑century Japan. It partially uncovers a Japanese cultural layer that their hosts in Italy and even Jesuit missionaries in Japan may not have perceived. It thus offers a non‑European, novel approach to the historiography, while introducing Japanese textual sources on the buke kojitsu to Western readership
A Case of Secondary Extramammary Paget's Disease Aroundthe Cutaneous Stoma after Radical Cystectomy
No full textWe present a case of secondary extramammary Paget's disease around the cutaneous ureterostomy stoma after radical cystectomy. An 85-year-old man with bacillus calmette-guérin refractory high-grade urothelial carcinoma underwent radical cystectomy and cutaneous ureterostomy construction. After right ureter cancer diagnosis, he underwent right nephroureterectomy 3 years after the cystectomy. He developed refractory dermatitis around the cutaneous stoma 1 year after the nephroureterectomy. Skin biopsy revealed secondary extramammary Paget's disease, cured by skin excision around the cutaneous stoma and skin grafting. Multiple urothelial carcinoma metastases were detected 6 months later ; he died of urothelial cancer 1 month later
The H-Invitational Database (H-InvDB), a comprehensive annotation resource for human genes and transcripts
No full textHere we report the new features and improvements in our latest release of the H-Invitational Database (H-InvDB; http://www.h-invitational.jp/), a comprehensive annotation resource for human genes and transcripts. H-InvDB, originally developed as an integrated database of the human transcriptome based on extensive annotation of large sets of full-length cDNA (FLcDNA) clones, now provides annotation for 120 558 human mRNAs extracted from the International Nucleotide Sequence Databases (INSD), in addition to 54 978 human FLcDNAs, in the latest release H-InvDB_4.6. We mapped those human transcripts onto the human genome sequences (NCBI build 36.1) and determined 34 699 human gene clusters, which could define 34 057 (98.1%) protein-coding and 642 (1.9%) non-protein-coding loci; 858 (2.5%) transcribed loci overlapped with predicted pseudogenes. For all these transcripts and genes, we provide comprehensive annotation including gene structures, gene functions, alternative splicing variants, functional non-protein-coding RNAs, functional domains, predicted sub cellular localizations, metabolic pathways, predictions of protein 3D structure, mapping of SNPs and microsatellite repeat motifs, co-localization with orphan diseases, gene expression profiles, orthologous genes, protein–protein interactions (PPI) and annotation for gene families. The current H-InvDB annotation resources consist of two main views: Transcript view and Locus view and eight sub-databases: the DiseaseInfo Viewer, H-ANGEL, the Clustering Viewer, G-integra, the TOPO Viewer, Evola, the PPI view and the Gene family/group
Cultural (in)commensurability between Catholic Europe and Japan in the early modern period, c.1582-c.1614 : the buke community, Jesuits, and the Tenshō Embassy
No full textDefence date: 23 June 2025Examining Board: Prof. Giancarlo Casale (European University Institute); Prof. Angelo Cattaneo (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche; Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea); Prof. Kiri Paramore (University College Cork); Prof. Lucy Riall (European University Institute)The Jesuit Mission in Japan (1549-1639) and the so-called Tenshō Embassy (1582-1590) – the first (Catholic) European-Japanese direct encounters in history – have been written conventionally and predominantly from European and/or missionary perspectives, based largely on Jesuit sources. Such an approach has prevailed despite the clear cross-cultural nature of the encounters. This thesis offers a view from a Japanese standpoint, examining the question of cultural (in)commensurability through the Embassy and in the buke (warlord class)-Jesuit negotiation that resulted from 1614 in the Tokugawa shogunate’s expulsion of Jesuits and other (Catholic) Europeans from the country. The thesis discusses 1) the agency of the adolescent “legates” while in Italy in 1585, 2) their behavioural context through the buke’s traditional code in Japan, 3) the Jesuits’ “understanding” of the buke’s political ethics behind their missionary practices, 4) the fermentation of distrust in the Jesuits among the buke community from the 1600s, and 5) ethos and pathos that constituted the fabric of the buke-ruled society. Overall, the thesis proposes the view that a certain habitus – a teleological(-theological) manner of perception, reasoning, and action – rendered the Jesuits (and the Embassy’s hosts generally) incapable of acknowledging Japanese alterity per se and of building a good rapport with buke rulers. The buke community’s political-cultural forces, which were organically grounded on historical events and practices but were interpreted by the Jesuits rather superficially and wilfully, proved to be vital in the way the buke-Jesuit negotiation unfolded. Methodologically, the thesis offers a case study that demonstrates how the Jesuits constructed a unilateral knowledge – what may be called positive ignorance – of the Other in Japan for Europe and subsequent historiography. Filling the lacunae by complementing the Jesuits’ history with various buke members’, the thesis underscores the significance of the cultural (in)commensurability however much impalpable it may have been in history and historiography.Chapter 2 'Contextualising the “good manners” of the legates' of the PhD thesis draws upon an earlier version published as an article 'Japanese context of the ‘good manners’ of the legates of the Tensho embassy in Italy (1585) : the Buke Kojitsu, the Ise, and Kyūshū' (2023) in the journal 'Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale'
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