240 research outputs found
Tra esotismo ed eroismo. Bartolomeo Balbi e lo sviluppo dell’immagine del Giappone in Italia durante la prima metà del Novecento
No full textBartolomeo Balbi (1874-1961) was an Italian army officer and japanologist, who served as an attaché at the Italian Embassy in Tokyo, taught Japanese language at the University of Naples, and started a publishing house that issued several fiction and non-fiction books on Japan from the 1910s to the 1950s – among them, the novels of the pseudo-Japanese author Myū Tsubaki, pen name of the Italian writer Attilia Pozzi (1876-1938). This essay reconstructs Balbi’s life and publishing activity, exploring the structure and functioning of Japanese studies in the first half of the 20th century, and the transformations of the West’s exotic and heroic image of Japan in the 1905-45 period
Minedition
No full textThis is a lovely book I happened to find when I was trying to spend down the little money left on my Eurocheck debit card in the late days of my stay in Mannheim. The book is unusual in opening not from right to left but from down to up; that is, one needs to hold it sideways and lift the cover. The cover picture shows the half-painted jackdaw as he returns after opening his craw and being recognized by the doves whose food he was eating. Why does his fellow jackdaw have various colored feathers protruding from his black body and even one such feather in his beak? The pearl that the rooster finds in CJ is part of a ring. The little goat dancing for the wolf uses a hula-hoop! The expanding frog in OF is about to reach the ceiling of a modernistic garden-house! He is elevated off the floor like a helium-filled balloon. The one illustration for FS includes both the plate for the stork and the vase for the fox. In fact, the wall behind the stork features several plates and the floor behind the fox shows three large vases with steam bubbles emerging from them. The resting hare in TH has a hammock slung across the trail. The dropped meat bubbles through the text, dividing its lines in DS. The grapes break down through the ceiling of the fox's room in FG as clouds blow through the windows. The city mouse is fishing in the soup at the city meal in TMCM! A highway--or a racetrack?--winds among cheese wedges and salt and pepper shakers in this fable's tailpiece. The rack of the stag in the pool reaches out like a tree and even includes a birdhouse! What lovely imaginative work! The book is, as regularly with Neugebauer, beautifully produced.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: GermanNacherzählt von Renate Raeck
On Jacobi Inversion Formulae for Telescopic Curves
No full textFor a hyperelliptic curve of genus g, it is well known that the symmetric products of g points on the curve are expressed in terms of their Abel-Jacobi image by the hyperelliptic sigma function (Jacobi inversion formulae). Matsutani and Previato gave a natural generalization of the formulae to the more general algebraic curves defined by yr=f(x), which are special cases of (n,s) curves, and derived new vanishing properties of the sigma function of the curves yr=f(x). In this paper we extend the formulae to the telescopic curves proposed by Miura and derive new vanishing properties of the sigma function of telescopic curves. The telescopic curves contain the (n,s) curves as special cases.The author would like to thank Professor Shigeki Matsutani for answering a question on the
paper [18] kindly and sending his unpublished paper. The author would like to thank Professor
Atsushi Nakayashiki for inviting him the conference “Curves, Moduli and Integrable Systems”
at Tsuda College and giving valuable discussions. The author would like to thank Professor
Masato Okado for the support of travel costs for a presentation at Tsukuba University. The
author would like to thank Professor Yoshihiro Onishi for inviting him Meijo University and
giving valuable discussions. The author would like to thank the anonymous referees for reading
our paper carefully and giving many valuable comments. In particular, the author is deeply
grateful for their warm encouragement
Influence of sensory feedback on arm reaching movements
No full textThe 11th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines. Kobe University, Japan. 2023-06-06/09. Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines Organizing Committee.Poster Session P6
Influence of sensory feedback on arm reaching movements
No full textThe 11th International Symposium on Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines. Kobe University, Japan. 2023-06-06/09. Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines Organizing Committee.Poster Session P6
Characteristics of factors associated with antenatal depression in Ethiopia by their odds ratio, confidence interval strength of association, author and year.
No full textCharacteristics of factors associated with antenatal depression in Ethiopia by their odds ratio, confidence interval strength of association, author and year.</p
Retrospective and prospective information coding by different neurons in the prefrontal cortex
No full textNeurons in the lateral prefrontal cortex show sustained activity during the maintenance of visual memory. Previous studies have also indicated that prefrontal neurons show predictive activity in anticipation of upcoming visual stimuli. Because these retrospective and prospective coding of visual stimuli have been examined in separate experiments, how these processes interact in individual neurons remains unknown. To examine this, we recorded from single prefrontal neurons while monkeys performed two behavioural tasks. In one task, the animals passively viewed a moving object during fixation, whereas in the other, they remembered the location of a briefly presented visual cue for subsequent saccades. We found that many neurons were reactive and responded only after the visual stimulus appeared in their receptive field, while some neurons were predictive and increased their activity even before the moving stimulus entered the receptive field. In the memory-guided saccade trials, the reactive neurons exhibited sustained activity during the delay period, whereas the predictive neurons did not. Delays of visual response to a moving stimulus did not correlate with visual latency for a stationary stimulus. Instead, it correlated with the magnitude of sustained activity during the delay period in the memory-guided saccade task. Our data show that retrospective and prospective coding of visual information are represented by distinct neuronal populations, and that their temporal preferences are stable across different task conditions. Reactive signals may reflect the amount of temporal integration in short-term memory, whereas predictive signals may solely represent future events in isolation from the maintenance of past information
Manipulation of Object Choice by Electrical Microstimulation in Macaque Frontal Eye Fields
No full textFor each saccade, we select an object to direct gaze and to specify the direction and amplitude of eye movement. Although these 2 processes are inevitably interdependent when visual stimuli are held stationary, several lines of evidence suggest that the neuronal signals in the frontal eye fields (FEF) that underlie the selection of visual objects are distinct from those underlying the selection of saccades. In the present study, we overtly dissociated these 2 processes spatially and temporally using the covert object-tracking paradigm, in which 4 identical objects moved randomly for 3 s before monkeys made a saccade to a previously selected target. To assess the causal role of the FEF in the 2 selection processes, we applied electrical microstimulation to the FEF at various times during the motion period. When stimulation was delivered at the motion onset, animals tended to choose an object that was initially presented at a particular location depending on the stimulation site. In contrast, the same stimulation delivered at the motion end failed to alter saccade end points. These results indicate that manipulation of FEF activity can change the selection of a visual object without affecting saccade goals, suggesting the existence of neurons solely regulating visual selection
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