159 research outputs found
Progress report of the Information Field Office No. 4
No full textProgress report by Nori Nakai for Information Field Office No. 4 at the Manzanar incarceration camp. Report covers field office location, personnel, accomplishments, and services.The Tsuyoshi Roy Nakai Collection includes reports and and handwritten notes related to the Manzanar incarceration camp and the Nakai family
Restructuring the navigational field. individual predisposition towards field independence predicts preferred navigational strategy
No full textTo successfully navigate within an environment, individuals have to organize the spatial information in terms of salient landmarks, paths and general layout of the navigational environment. They may differ in the strategy they adopt to orientate themselves, with some individuals preferring to use salient landmarks (landmark spatial style, L-SS), others preferring to plan routes or paths through an egocentric strategy in which landmarks are connected with each other (route spatial style, R-SS) and others still create a global map-like configuration of the environment regardless of their own position in the environment (survey spatial style, S-SS). Here, we assessed whether Field independence (FI), that is the extent to which the individual perceives part of a field as discrete from the surrounding field rather than embedded in the field, predicted the individual’s spatial style. We assessed the individual’s spatial style using the spatial cognitive style test (SCST) and measured FI using the group embedded figure test (GEFT). We found that FI predicted general spatial ability, with a higher level of FI being associated with better performances on the SCST. Also, Field-independent individuals showed a marked preference for an S-SS. These results suggest that a higher level of FI is associated with better performance on higher level spatial tasks (i.e. R-SS and S-SS) that is tasks requiring individuals to restructure the “navigational field” according to the navigational goal. The results also suggest that a higher level of FI makes individuals more prone to use a global and complex map-like representation of the environmen
ACE inhibitory effect of the protein hydrolysates prepared from commercially available nori product by pepsin-trypsin digestion
No full textWe studied angiotensin I converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory effect of the protein hydrolysates prepared from commercially available nori products that contain Pyropia pseudolinearis as the main ingredient. The water extract of the nori product consisted mainly of phycobiliproteins and RubisCO. The proteins in the aqueous extracts were sequentially hydrolyzed with pepsin and trypsin, and the peptides in the pepsin-trypsin digests were fractionated by reversed-phase HPLC. As a result, 12 ACE inhibitory peptides containing ten novel peptides were identified. These peptides are suggested to have originated from the alpha- and beta-subunits of phycobiliproteins and the large subunits of RubisCO of P. pseudolinearis. The interactions of eight peptides (ALR, FAR, FSR, FDR, EVYR, AYR, GRP, and MVT) with ACE were then simulated using the flexible docking tool Auto Dock Vina. The results showed that all peptides interacted with the active center of ACE, and their docking scores ranged from - 6.8 to - 10.2 kcal/mol. In addition, we synthesized four peptides (AYR, FAR, EVYR, and GRP) and measured the IC50 values of these peptides for ACE. Consequently, FAR and GRP showed considerably low IC50 values (0.29 mu mol and 0.45 mu mol, respectively) in addition to other ACE inhibitory peptides. Moreover, FAR, which is specific to the nori product, was predicted to bind to the S1, S1 ', and S2 ' subsites of the catalytic center of ACE. Therefore, it can be expected that daily intake of "nori products" may have a positive effect on the prevention of hypertension
Restructuring the navigational field: individual predisposition towards field independence predicts preferred navigational strategy
No full textTo successfully navigate within an environment, individuals have to organize the spatial information in terms of salient landmarks, paths and general layout of the navigational environment. They may differ in the strategy they adopt to orientate themselves, with some individuals preferring to use salient landmarks (landmark spatial style, L-SS), others preferring to plan routes or paths
through an egocentric strategy in which landmarks are connected with each other (route spatial style, R-SS) and others
still create a global map-like configuration of the environment regardless of their own position in the environment
(survey spatial style, S-SS). Here, we assessed whether Field independence (FI), that is the extent to which the individual perceives part of a field as discrete from the surrounding field rather than embedded in the field, predicted the individual’s spatial style. We assessed the individual’s spatial style using the spatial cognitive style test (SCST)
and measured FI using the group embedded figure test (GEFT). We found that FI predicted general spatial ability,
with a higher level of FI being associated with better performances on the SCST. Also, Field-independent individuals
showed a marked preference for an S-SS. These results suggest that a higher level of FI is associated with better performance on higher level spatial tasks (i.e. R-SS and S-SS) that is tasks requiring individuals to restructure the “navigational field” according to the navigational goal. The results also suggest that a higher level of FI makes individuals more prone to use a global and complex map-like representation of the environment
Brevitas americana. Stephen Crane, traduzione poetica e visibilità modernista
No full textIn questi primi decenni del Duemila, The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895) di Stephen Crane è stato rivalutato non solo come «uno dei quattro libri» che «hanno dato forma alla poesia americana» dell’Ottocento, ma anche come «il primo libro americano stampato con un evidente design modernista» (McGann). Parimenti, il suo autore è stato eletto al ruolo di «primo modernista americano» (Auster). Sulla scia di tali audaci affermazioni, questo saggio esplora alcune liriche di Crane in relazione a diversi aspetti della traduzione. Caratterizzate da brevitas e proiezioni immaginative ad alta compressione linguistica e densità espressiva, le poesie del giovane americano si collocano all’interno di un terreno condiviso di visualizzazione, a cavallo di diversi sistemi di segni. I suoi versi generano potenti interazioni tra arte verbale e non verbale; sollecitano trasmutazioni endolinguistiche e intrasemiotiche; mettono in rilievo complessità intertestuali e semantiche a un crocevia in cui traduzione intersemiotica e traduzione interlinguistica convergono e si affiancano a sfidare ancor più il compito del traduttore letterario.In these early decades of the new millennium, Stephen Crane’s first volume of poetry, The Black Riders and Other Lines (1895), has been reassessed not only as one of the four works which «define the shape of American poetry» in the nineteenth century, but also as «the first American book printed with a clear Modernist design» (McGann). Likewise, its young author has been elected to enjoy the status of «the first American modernist» (Auster). In the wake of such bold reappraisals, this essay explores some of Crane’s shorter poems with a focus on different aspects of translation. Characterized by verbal brevity and compression, casting large figures upon the imagination and charged with meaning, Crane’s lines share a common ground of visualization across different signifying systems. They generate powerful interactions between verbal and nonverbal arts; provoke intralingual and intrasemiotic transmutations; foreground intertextual and semantic complexities at a crossroad where intersemiotic and interlingual translation meet and join one another, challenging the task of the literary translator
Child of Darkness: Stephen Crane and "The Black Riders and Other Lines"
No full textThis essay explores Stephen Crane's first volume of poetry ("The Black Riders and Other Lines") as an aesthetic and cultural paradox of the mid-1890s: a concentrated work where a contemporary and international vanguard movement of revolt and rejection in the arts and letters overlapped with a rearguard sacred tradition of consolidated institutional achievements, accepted beliefs, and richly elaborated forms. As such, "The Black Riders" stands as a striking and perhaps unique example of what may be called a Biblical poetics of fin de siècle. In his early twenties, without having completed any formal schooling and with no bulk of ascertainable readings on record, the author of "The Black Riders" may be said to have emerged out of the imposing Protestant tradition of the New World, confronting and disowning its body of doctrines and pieties – the "alien products of his kin," as Herbert Wells put it – while at the same time drawing heavily upon it. As part of "the expression in literary art of certain enormous repudiations," in Wells' memorable words again, Crane's ambitious efforts at verse were bound to impact the no less commanding tradition of the Protestant poetics that had dominated English and American culture since the early seventeenth century
Hypermedia navigation: Differences between spatial cognitive styles
No full textRecently, many studies have investigated the role of individual and cognitive differences during Web navigation and Web searching. Despite this interest, no works have considered the role may assume individual differences in real-environment navigation during Web navigation. The aim of this work is to investigate the effect of different spatial cognitive styles: Landmark style (LS), Route style (RS) and Survey style (SS), on Web searching behaviour. In real-environment navigation, having a specific style determines the type of information individuals selected to navigate and orient themselves. We hypothesize that LS individuals are less proficient during Web exploration due to their analytical analysis of the environmental features. Vice versa SS individuals will show high performance on Web exploration for their holistic analysis of the World. We asked 30 College Students (10 LS, 10 RS, 10 SS) to solve three Web information tasks. The spatial cognitive style of participants was assessed through the Spatial Cognitive Style Test, and they were also asked to fill in a questionnaire about their internet and computer use. An ad hoc key-logger program for browsers was used to collect Web behaviour measures. In particular, the measures considered were: search engine tools used (e.g. back button), pages visited and revisited, time spent on information searching, and mouse cursor movements. The results showed significant differences between the spatial cognitive styles: LS seems to use a trial and error strategy in order to obtain the relevant information. Differences also emerged in the distribution of mouse cursor movements during Web navigation
Navigational Style Influences Eye Movement Pattern during Exploration and Learning of an Environmental Map
No full textDuring navigation people may adopt three different spatial styles (i.e., Landmark, Route, and Survey). Landmark style (LS) people are able to recall familiar landmarks but cannot combine them with directional information; Route style (RS) people connect landmarks to each other using egocentric information about direction; Survey style (SS) people use a map-like representation of the environment. SS individuals generally navigate better than LS and RS people. Fifty-one college students (20 LS; 17 RS, and 14 SS) took part in the experiment. The spatial cognitive style (SCS) was assessed by means of the SCS test; participants then had to learn a schematic map of a city, and after 5 min had to recall the path depicted on it. During the learning and delayed recall phases, eye-movements were recorded. Our intent was to investigate whether there is a peculiar way to explore an environmental map related to the individual's spatial style. Results support the presence of differences in the strategy used by the three spatial styles for learning the path and its delayed recall. Specifically, LS individuals produced a greater number of fixations of short duration, while the opposite eye movement pattern characterized SS individuals. Moreover, SS individuals showed a more spread and comprehensive explorative pattern of the map, while LS individuals focused their exploration on the path and related targets. RS individuals showed a pattern of exploration at a level of proficiency between LS and SS individuals. We discuss the clinical and anatomical implications of our data
Nori holdings v PJSC bank and the tale of anti-suit injunctions
No full textThis article analyses the issues arising out of the recent High Court judgment of Males J in Nori Holdings Limited et al v PJSC Bank Okritie Financial Corporation [2018] EWHC 1343 (Comm). Traditionally, English Courts and practitioners have been steadily opposed to the ECJ driven prohibition of anti-suit injunctions under the Brussels I Regulation regime. The crack to this prohibition created by Advocate General Wathelet in Gazprom was accepted gloriously across the channel. Males J in his judgment, however, critically addressed this opinion and seems to side with the ECJ's interpretation even under the Brussels I Recast Regulation. This article considers Nori Holdings in the wider context of the remedies available to a court or tribunal when faced with torpedo or parallel proceedings. Finally, it considers how the situation might change and why this case could be important in a post-Brexit world. © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the London Court of International Arbitration
The Seosan Park Cheomji Nori as Example of the Republic of Korea’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding at Regional Level
No full textThe author presents results of a research conducted during a five-month study visit to the National Folk Museum of Korea in 2017 as a part of the International Partnership Program for Cultural Partnership Initiative (CPI) of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and
Tourism of the Republic of Korea. The objective of this visit was to study the Korean system of safeguarding their intangible heritage as well as its effects at the institutional and communal level. The paper deals with the latter and focuses on practices of safeguarding the local specific puppet play Park Cheomji Nori, which has been included into the regional Register of the intangible cultural heritage
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