385 research outputs found
Letter from Masaru Teshiba, to Virginia B. Lowers, January 24, 1946
No full textIn this letter, Masaru Teshiba writes to Virginia Lowers, his former English teacher from 1942. He describes his experience of being incarcerated first at the Manzanar incarceration camp and then to Tule Lake. The decision to move to Tule Lake was motivated, according to Teshiba, to reunite with his father who had already been brought to Tule Lake. He notes in this letter that the "majority [of people] it seemed were loyal to Japan." He then describes briefly how he became involved in an organization of pro-Japanese young men which eventually lead to him renouncing his American citizenship. Teshiba then explains that his purpose for writing to his former teacher is to request a character reference from her, as his lawyer explained, such a recommendation from a "Caucasian person" would be beneficial in making the case that he should be able to remain in the United States as a citizen. Also included is a short note to the censor requesting that this letter be mailed although it is perhaps too long.Gerth Archives Japanese American History Collection contains books, pamphlets, flyers, photographs, booklets, correspondence, periodicals, and oversized material related to Japanese Americans. Subjects in the collection include incarceration camps, Southbay local history, World War II propaganda, Japanese American families, incarceration camp pilgrimages, and other topics
Uniform Ductility of High Carbon Steels
Get PDFTitle: Uniform Ductility of High Carbon Steels, Author: Masaru Yamaguchi, Location: ThodeThe effect of microstructure on uniform ductility was analyzed by utilizing a fact that uniform ductility is equal to the work hardening coefficient in parabolic true stress-true strain equation. A Hall-Petch relation was found for the flow stress of lamellar and spheroidized high carbon steels. The uniform ductility was formulated as a function of reciprocal flow stress and found to fit the experimental data.An attempt to interpret the results obtained, based on the scanning and transmission electron microscopy observations, were given.ThesisMaster of Engineering (ME
Pharmacological Studies of Triazine Derivatives. II. Psychotropic Actions of 2-Amino-4-substituted-6-trifluoromethyl-s-triazine Derivatives
No full textNon-linear extended thermodynamics of real gases with 6 fields
No full textReceived 5 February 2015 Accepted 5 February 2015 Available online 13 February 2015
Keywords:
Extended thermodynamics Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of gases Meixner's theory
Dynamic pressure
1. Introduction
Rational extended thermodynamics [1] (hereafter referred to as ET)1 is a thermodynamic theory that is applicable to non-equilibrium phenomena with steep gradients and rapid changes in space–time, which may be out of local equilibrium. It is expressed by the hyperbolic system of field equations with local constitutive equations.
As ET has been strictly related to the kinetic theory with the closure method of the hierarchy of moment equations, the applic- ability range of the theory has been restricted within rarefied monatomic gases. Only recently, however, the ET theory of dense gases and of polyatomic rarefied gases has been successfully devel- oped by the present authors obtaining a 14-field theory that, in the limit of small relaxation times (parabolic limit), reduces to the Navier– Stokes–Fourier classical theory [2]. This new approach to the case of polyatomic rarefied gases, in particular, is in perfect agreement with the closure procedure using the Maximum Entropy Principle (MEP) at the kinetic level in which the distribution function depends on an extra variable that takes into account the influence of degrees of freedom of a molecule on energy transfer during collisions [3].
n Corresponding author.
E-mail addresses: [email protected] (T. Arima),
[email protected] (T. Ruggeri), [email protected] (M. Sugiyama), [email protected] (S. Taniguchi).
1 Rational extended thermodynamics is sometimes referred to as RET in order to distinguish it from other approaches in extended thermodynamics. However, in this paper, we use, for simplicity, the acronym ET for indicating rational extended thermodynamics.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2015.02.005
0020-7462/& 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
abstract
We establish extended thermodynamics (ET) of real gases with 6 independent fields, i.e., the mass density, the velocity, the temperature and the dynamic pressure, without adopting the near-equilibrium approxima- tion. We prove its compatibility with the universal principles (the entropy principle, the Galilean invariance and the stability), and obtain the symmetric hyperbolic system with respect to the main field. In near- equilibrium we recover the previous results. The correspondence between the ET 6-field theory and Meixner's theory of relaxation processes is discovered. The internal variable and the non-equilibrium temperature in Meixner's theory are expressed in terms of the quantities of the ET 6-field theory, in particular, the dynamic pressure. As an example, we present the cases of a rarefied polyatomic gas and study the monatomic-gas limit where the system converges to the Euler system of a perfect fluid
How ICTs Raise Manufacturing Performance: Firm-level Evidence in Southeast Asia.
Get PDFThis paper examines the effects of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on business performance, using firm-level data obtained through a questionnaire survey in four ASEAN countries (Indonesia, The Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam). Sources of information and new technologies exchanged via ICTs by firms are also explored to investigate the mechanism behind ICT adoption. Empirical results verify that the introduction of ICT to reorganize business processes is significantly correlated with business performance, in particular the development of export markets and improvement of production management. ICTs facilitate access to information and technologies accumulated in in-house departments and joint-venture (JV) affiliates of the respondent firms. There are considerable differences between multinational companies (MNCs)/JVs and local firms. MNCs/JVs make use of information and technologies obtainable via ICTs from their own R&D departments, JVs established with local partners and foreign-owned suppliers/customers to improve factory management, mostly for product quality improvement and production cost reduction. In contrast, local firms interconnect their own R&D departments via ICTs to enhance their business performance in broader areas than MNCs/JVs, including the development of export markets.
The history and progress of local anesthesia: multiple approaches to elongate the action
No full text
Affidavit confirming qualification to lease land and compliance with alien land laws, Masaru Kitano, 1942
No full textAffidavit written by Dominguez Estate Company. Statement qualifies tenant to rent land from the company and that in doing so, the tenant and company are not violating the Alien Land Law of California. The document is notarized
- …
