1,146 research outputs found
Data for: Intensive Margin of the Volcker Rule: Price Quality and Welfare
No full textThe replication file is also available from the author's webpage.https://sites.google.com/site/sakaiando/researc
Ando Kenkyusho : One of the Important Manufacturers Which Had Made Psychological Apparatuses in Japan before World War II.
No full textThere were four important manufactures which had made psychological apparatuses in Japan before World War Ⅱ. The author already investigated other three manufactures except Ando Kenkyusho and published the provided results. In the present research the author examines Ando Kenkyusho and its founder, Hitsujiro Ando, and shows newly obtained information. When H.Ando was an officer of the Japanese Navy (1905 -1924), he devoted himself to the development of an aptitude test and completed the test which was composed of 44 inspection items. He devised many kinds of apparatuses for the test and carried out the test to various kinds of workers of the Navy. He founded Ando Kenkyusho in November, 1924 when he was 40 years old and devoted himself to the improvement of the apparatuses used in the test until his early death in 1932. The author gave light on his work through the existing products of Ando Kenkyusho as well as through historical documents relating to him and his company
Time-resolved-absorption spectroscopic detection of 10,10-dimethyl-10-silaanthracen-9(10H)-one oxide
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Stock ownership and corporate performance in Japan: Corporate governance by institutional investors
No full textFaced with an aging population and a low fertility rate, Japan finds it increasingly essential to shift diminishing national savings into productive investment in order to preserve the dynamism of its economy. Stock investment by institutional investors is important for corporate financing, and shareholder involvement in governance influences corporate growth. Using panel data for Japan's listed companies and foreign investors' votes on shareholder proposals, this paper demonstrates: (1) an increase in stock ownership by foreign investors' had a positive effect on productivity growth, but it has not recently improved other corporate performance indices, and (2) foreign investors' strong attitudes towards voting had a positive effect on productivity growth. This paper concludes that external stakeholders' active, qualitative involvement in corporate governance and their quantitative involvement by increasing stock ownership are key to improving corporate growth.
Letter from T. Ando to The Dominguez Estate Company,
No full textRequesting a current address for Mr. M. Matsuda. For reply see item csudh_rsp_030
Letter from Kisaburo Ando, Minister of Home Affairs, Japanese Government, to Taneo Akiyama, February 19, 1944.
No full textLetter from the Japanese Government granting Taneo Akiyama's request to regain Japanese citizenship.The Akiyama’s owned the Florin Fish Store until it was burned down during their WWII incarceration. Their four sons went to Japan for further education as teenagers and one was conscripted into the Imperial military. After December 7, 1941 Mr. Akiyama was detained by the FBI in Crystal City, Texas. Mrs. Akiyama and her three sons were forcefully evacuated to Fresno Assembly Center, Jerome incarceration camp and then to Crystal City to join Mr. Akiyama. In December 1945 the family repatriated to Japan and were reunited in Sacramento after six years in Japan. Part of the Japanese American Archival Collection
DNS of turbulent channel flow with a flexible square cylinder
No full textFluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) problem is concerned with in various research fields such as mechanical, aerospace, civil and medical engineering. Their accurate prediction and control are desired. So far, in order to improve the performance of various applications, many kind of research, on the heat transfer enhancement due to vortex generator in heat exchangers, on the drag reduction through the setting of bluff body in pipe-line systems, and on the reduction of flow induced vibration, are conducted. In particular, since the wake of wall-mounted cylinder is a common flow regime in above-mentioned research, the detail of the flow has been aggressively investigated so far[1]. The present study, we pay attention to the flow control using flexible structures in the above mentioned flows. To investigate the potentiality of the control in advance, both high accurate and stable computational scheme is needed so that theactual phenomena including turbulence is well predicted. Therefore, in order to analyze the fluid-structure interaction, we propose aweak-coupling method[2] in which for flexible structures, the rigorous equations of motion are discretized with finite volume method (FVM[3]); for a flow computation, the finite difference method (FDM) is used and the flexible structures is reproduced via immersed boundary method[4]. In this present paper, we demonstrate on the result of flow structure around of rigid and elastic cylinder in turbulent channel flow
Direct numerical simulation of dynamic rotating jets
No full textJets are the most basic flow used in industrial field and are widely used for heating, cooling, mixing. Recently, the improvement of mixing efficiency is required in order to downsize many industrial equipments and upgrade their performance. In the case of jets, their characteristic, such as the diffusion, depends on the inlet condition. Therefore, by controlling jet to give appropriate inlet conditions, the mixing efficiency can be improved. Thus far previous studies have mainly investigated excitation control associated with the instability of jets. However, in our previous study, as a new method we proposed dynamic control to enhance mixing or diffusion of free jets and have found its characteristics[1]. In this study, we focus on the vector control in which an inflow is rotating around the streamwise direction. In order to investigate the performance of the proposed method, the DNS of axisymmetric jet under the vector control are conducted and its structures are visualized; the mixing efficiency based on a mixing measure are quantified
Circle-equivariant classifying spaces and the rational equivariant sigma genus
No full textWe analyze the circle-equivariant spectrum MString_C which is the equivariant analogue of the cobordism spectrum MU of stably almost complex manifolds with c_1=c_2=0. The second author has shown how to construct the ring T-spectrum EJ representing the T-equivariant elliptic cohomology associated to a rational elliptic curve J. In the case that J is a complex elliptic curve, we construct a map of ring T-spectra MString_C --> EJ which is the rational equivariant analogue of the sigma orientation of Ando-Hopkins-Strickland. Our method gives a proof of a conjecture of the first author
GC Separation of cis-Eicosenoic Acid Positional Isomers on an Ionic Liquid SLB-IL100 Stationary Phase
No full textGas chromatography (GC) of cis-eicosenoic acid (20:1) positional isomers has been investigated on a capillary column of ionic liquid 1,9-di(3-vinyl-imidazolium)nonane bis(trifluoromethyl)sulfonylimidate stationary phase (SLB-IL100). A test mixture of isomeric 20:1 methyl esters was prepared from flathead flounder flesh lipids. On a 60-m column operated at 150-180 °C, six peaks appeared in the elution order of 20:ln-15 → 20:ln-13 → 20:ln-11 → 20:ln-9 → 20:ln-7 → 20:ln-5. These peaks were baseline resolved within 20 min at 180 °C. The 20:ln-13 and 20:ln-11 isomers, poorly resolved on conventional polar polysiloxane stationary phases, were completely separated from each other with separation factor α = 1.02 and peak resolution (Rs) >- 1.57. When equivalent chain length (ECL) values were compared between the SLB-IL100 and CP-Sil 88 (biscyanopropyl polysiloxane), those of 20:ln-15 and 20:ln-13 exceptionally tended to be lower on the SLB-IL100. The excellent separation of 20:1 isomers seems due to less retention of 20:ln-15 and 20:ln-13 on SLB-IL100 rather than simply due to its high polarity. Analysis of herring oil 20:1 revealed the occurrence of 20:ln-13 in the Pacific herring but not in the Atlantic herring. The ionic liquid stationary phase, SLB-IL100, is effective for analyzing 20:1 isomers occurring in fish and other natural oils
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