cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Disentangling the Power Dynamics in Participatory Data Physicalisation
Creators: name: Cazacu, Silvia
name: Panagiotidou, Georgia
name: Steenberghen, Therese
name: Moere, Andrew Vande
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Participatory data physicalisation (PDP) is recognised for its potential to support data-driven decisions among stakeholders who collaboratively construct physical elements into commonly insightful visualisations. Like all participatory processes, PDP is however influenced by underlying power dynamics that might lead to issues regarding extractive participation, marginalisation, or exclusion, among others. We first identified the decisions behind these power dynamics by developing an ontology that synthesises critical theoretical insights from both visualisation and participatory design research, which were then systematically applied unto a representative corpus of 23 PDP artefacts. By revealing how shared decisions are guided by different agendas, this paper presents three contributions: 1) a cross-disciplinary ontology that facilitates the systematic analysis of existing and novel PDP artefacts and processes; which leads to 2) six PDP agendas that reflect the key power dynamics in current PDP practice, revealing the diversity of orientations towards stakeholder participation in PDP practice; and 3) a set of critical considerations that should guide how power dynamics can be balanced, such as by reflecting on how issues are represented, data is contextualised, participants express their meanings, and how participants can dissent with flexible artefact construction. Consequently, this study advances a feminist research agenda by guiding researchers and practitioners in openly reflecting on and sharing responsibilities in data physicalisation and participatory data visualisation.
description: In CHI'25, ACM (2025)
title: Innenpolitik 2020/2021
Creators: name: Winkler, Christian
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Innenpolitik
subject: Parteiensystem
subject: Geschichte 2020-2021
subject: 320

description: Domestic Politics 2020/2021 This chapter discusses recent major development in Japan’s domestic politics, including the first year in office of the Suga Cabinet and the ongoing struggle against the COVID-19 pandemic. It also includes analyses of the Tokyo prefectural assembly elections and potential implications for the major parties’ strategies against the backdrop of the upcoming Lower House election campaign. Moreover, this chapter outlines the government’s new energy policy and major scandals.
description: Japan 2021: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 25
TR-Based Antenna Design with Forward FD: the Effects of Step Size on the Optimization Performance
Creators: name: Bekasiewicz, Adrian
name: Koziel, Slawomir
name: Dhaene, Tom
name: Narloch, Marcin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Numerical methods are important tools for design of modern antennas. Trust-region (TR) methods coupled with data-efficient surrogates based on finite differentiation (FD) represent a popular class of antenna design algorithms. However, TR performance is subject to FD setup, which is normally determined a priori based on rules-of-thumb. In this work, the effect of FD perturbations on the performance of TR-based design is evaluated on a case study basis concerning a total of 80 optimizations of a planar antenna structure. The obtained results demonstrate that, for the considered radiator, the performance of the final designs obtained using different FD setups may vary by as much as 18 dB (and by over 4 dB on average). At the same time, the a priori perturbations in a range between 1.5% and 3% (w.r.t. the initial design) seem to be suitable for maintaining (relatively) consistent and high-quality results.
Supplementary document for Three-Dimensional Inter-Layer Optical Signal Transmission Realized by a Monolithically Integrated Semiconductor-based Carrier Transport Structure - 6189959.pdf
Creators: name: Wei, Yu-Chien
name: Mao, Ming Hua
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Verification of a simple-exponential-decay function as the fitting function for photo-carrier decay length extraction in a Si microrod
Post traumatic serpentine type hepatic artery pseudoaneurysms
Creators: name: Shriduth, Premshanker
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Trauma

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 25 years
description: Clinical History: A 25 year old female was brought to ER in an unconscious state, after a high impact collision with a motor vehicle. FAST done showed gross hemoperitoneum, large right lobe liver laceration, and hypoechoic right kidney. CT abdomen contrast was ordered by t... Final Diagnosis: Grade VI liver injury with large serpentine right hepatic pseudoaneurysms
Oral Fibroepithelial Hyperplasia: Clinical Presentation and Management in a Rare Case
Creators: name: Dr. Suryakanth Malgikar*
name: Dr. Juliet Josephine J.
name: Dr. G Vijaya Vardhini
name: Dr. Duddelli Pranathi
name: Dr. Ch. Shruthi Sinduri
name: Dr. Sneha Pogu
name: Dr. Reshma Parchuri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Electrocoagulation, Fibroepithelial Hyperplasia, Fibroma

description: Abstract: - Fibromas represent the most prevalent type of fibrous overgrowths found in the oral cavity, usually arising as a result of prolonged, mild irritation. Management includes meticulous plaque control, removal of underlying causative factors, and conservative surgical removal to minimize the risk of recurrence. Hence, it is crucial for clinicians to possess a comprehensive knowledge of these lesions to effectively distinguish them from other lesions with similar clinical appearances.

In this case report, a 60-year-old female patient presented with a gingival overgrowth on the left anterior maxilla, persisting for the past three months. The presence of ossifications within fibroepithelial hyperplasia in this age group is a rare and unusual finding, as noted in previous case reports. The lesion was surgically excised using electrocautery, and postoperative healing was uneventful within one week.

Histopathological differential diagnoses of fibroepithelial hyperplasia include pyogenic granuloma, peripheral giant cell granuloma, and irritational fibroma. Electrocautery, a precise and efficient surgical modality, was utilized in this case for effective lesion removal with minimal tissue trauma and is preferred for its ability to minimize bleeding, reduce infection risk, and promote faster healing.
Specification-Oriented Automatic Design of Topologically Agnostic Antenna Structure
Creators: name: Bekasiewicz, Adrian
name: Dzwonkowski, Mariusz
name: Dhaene, Tom
name: Couckuyt, Ivo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Design of antennas for modern applications is a challenging task that combines cognition-driven development of topology intertwined with tuning of its parameters using rigorous numerical optimization. However, the process can be streamlined by neglecting the engineering insight in favor of automatic de-termination of structure geometry. In this work, a specification-oriented design of topologically agnostic antenna is considered. The radiator is developed using a bi-stage algorithm that involves min-max classification of randomly-generated topologies followed by local tuning of the promising designs using a trust-region optimization applied to a feature-based representation of the structure frequency response. The automatically generated antenna is characterized by -10 dB bandwidth of over 600 MHz w.r.t. the center frequency of 6.5 GHz and a dual-lobe radiation pattern. The obtained performance figures make the radiator of use for in-door positioning applications. The design method has been favorably compared against the frequency-based trust-region optimization.
Linear stability analysis of a ferrofluid in a radially heated concentric cylindrical annulus with an applied magnetic field
Creators: name: Hiremath, Anupam Mahantayya
name: Meyer, Antoine
name: Yoshikawa, Harunori
name: Mutabazi, Innocent
Publisher: name: Société Française de Thermique
Year: 2022
Subjects: Thermomagnetic convection
ferrofluids
linear stability analysis

description: A study of linear stability analysis (LSA) was conducted on a ferrofluid confined in an an infinitely long cylindrical annulus, with differential radial heating. A stack of magnets inside the inner cylinder providing a magnetic field. In addition, the cylinders can rotate rigidly with an angular frequency. Besides the Archimedean buoyancy and the centrifugal buoyancy, the ferrofluid is subjected to the magnetic Kelvin force. The later consists of a conservative part which does not create flow and non-conservative force which can be seen as a magnetic buoyancy with an effective radial magnetic gravity $g_m$. To test the stability of the base state in the annulus, we add small perturbations to the base state and linearize the resulting equations. The small perturbations are expanded the perturbations in form of normal modes and we search the marginal states with a zero temporal growth rate. Two cases are investigated. In the first one, microgravity conditions are considered in which either the cylindrical annulus is at rest or it is rigidly rotated for Ta=10, Ta=20 and Ta=40. We found that the threshold increases with the radius ratio $\eta$ and that the solid-body rotation delays the threshold of instability. In all cases, the threshold $Ra_{mc}$ is independent of the Prandtl number (Pr). In the second case, the Earth gravity acts on the ferrofluid confined in a stationary vertical cylindrical annulus. For weak value of Gr, i.e. $Gr Gr_c$ and $Ra_m < Ra_{mc}$, critical modes are either oscillatory hydrodynamic modes for Pr < 12.45 and oscillatory thermal modes for Pr > 12.45. An energetic analysis will be performed to get a better insight into the powers associated to each buoyancy force. The obtained results are analogous to those obtained in the same cylindrical annulus subject to a dielectrophoretic force and to a solid-body rotation.
Miniaturization-Oriented Design of Spline-Parameterized UWB Antenna for In-Door Positioning Applications
Creators: name: Bekasiewicz, Adrian
name: Dhaene, Tom
name: Couckuyt, Ivo
name: Litka, Jacek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Design of ultra-wideband antennas for in-door localization applications is a challenging task that involves development of geometry that ensures appropriate balance between the size and performance. In this work, a topologically-flexible monopole has been generated using a stratified framework which embeds a gradient-based trust-region (TR) optimization algorithm in a meta-loop that gradually increases structure dimensionality. The optimization has been performed using a composite objective function that maintains acceptable size/performance trade-off. The final design features a reflection below -10 dB within the UWB spectrum and a small footprint of only 182 mm2. The considered method has been benchmarked against a standard TR-based routine executed directly on a multi-dimensional representation of the antenna model.
Community state transitions during assembly differ under priority effects and environmental filtering
Creators: name: Han, Peng
name: Zou, Heng-Xing
name: Si, Xingfeng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Abstract

A major goal of community ecology is to understand the processes by which species assemble from the regional species pool to form local communities. The assembly process often leads to transitions between community states driven by two fundamental processes: environmental filtering and priority effects. Environmental filters can determine which species can successfully establish and persist in the patch and promote a single stable equilibrium, while priority effects often lead to alternative stable states due to the stochasticity in assembly history. Despite their important yet often contrary roles in determining community compositions, how the interaction between environmental filtering and priority effects affect community assembly is unclear. Here, we explore the interaction between environmental filtering and priority effects in community assembly with a seasonal metacommunity model. We found that priority effects reduced alpha diversity and accelerated community stabilization on larger patches by enabling early-arriving species to dominate, whereas environmental filtering promoted species coexistence and delayed the emergence of early warning signals. In contrast, the strength of priority effects declines as habitat loss intensifies environmental filtering on smaller patches. These findings enhance our understanding of how priority effects and environmental filtering jointly influence community composition during assembly, providing a process-based foundation for predicting biodiversity patterns under global change.

 

Code Files

The file Community_dynamic_Models.R contains all functions used to construct the models and run the simulations. This script contains all functions used to: Construct seasonal metacommunity models; Implement priority effects and environmental filtering; Simulate population dynamics across patch networks; Generate outputs related to biodiversity metrics and community state transitions.

All simulations were conducted using R version 4.4.2.

AcknowledgmentsWe thank the members of Si lab at East China Normal University for their feedback on the project. This study was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (no. 2024YFF1307602) and the National Nature Science Foundation of China (no. 32311520284 and 32371590).
Influence des échanges radiatifs sur l'identification du coefficient d'échange thermique à l'interface verre/outil
Creators: name: Cressin, Maxime
name: Béchet, Fabien
name: Moreau, Philippe
name: Naceur, Hakim
name: Lochegnies, Dominique
Publisher: name: Société Française de Thermique
Year: 2022
Subjects: Rayonnement
Verre
Coefficient d'échange
Expérimental
Formage

description: Lors de la mise en forme du verre, et plus particulièrement lors du formage de bouteille via le procédé soufflé-soufflé, la température du verre et des outils de formage varie (de 1100$^{\circ}$C à 650$^{\circ}$C pour le verre et de 500$^{\circ}$C à 650$^{\circ}$C pour les moules). Le comportement mécanique du verre étant très dépendant de la température, il est nécessaire, pour simuler efficacement ces opérations de mises en forme du verre, de déterminer avec précision les échanges thermiques et en particulier l'échange thermique à l'interface entre le verre et les outils. Cet échange est représenté par le coefficient de transfert, noté Hc, qui caractérise thermiquement la mince couche située entre le verre et les outils composée d'air et de produits de combustion issus de la lubrification. Par ailleurs, le caractère semi-transparent du verre implique des échanges par rayonnement à l'intérieur du verre et à sa surface. La prise en compte du rayonnement dans la simulation numérique demande de résoudre l'équation de transfert radiatif (ETR) et implique des temps de simulations plus importants. Afin de résoudre l'ETR, il est nécessaire de connaitre des propriétés telles que l'indice de réfraction du verre ou le coefficient d'absorption qui sont dépendants de la composition du verre et de sa teinte. Dans cette communication, une méthodologie d'identification inverse est proposée pour identifier le coefficient d'échange à l'aide de données expérimentales et d'un modèle numérique 1D différences finies. Cette méthode est basée sur un modèle numérique thermique qui a été développé pour être représentatif d'un essai expérimental dédié à l'étude du contact entre un poinçon et un cylindre de verre, et permet de simuler le problème avec ou sans prise en compte du rayonnement. Une première étude vise à étudier à l'aide de la méthode inverse, la sensibilité de l'identification du coefficient d'échange vis-à-vis de différents paramètres (température initiale du verre, position du thermocouple, temps de propagation). Une deuxième étude vise à étudier l'influence du rayonnement sur l'identification du coefficient d'échange.
title: Stadtumgestaltung und Widerstand in Tōkyō: Die Rolle von Kunstschaffenden und Kreativen in Shimokitazawa
Creators: name: Drewing, Michael
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Tokio
subject: Shimokitazawa
subject: Stadtteilplanung
subject: Stadtteilkultur
subject: 307

description: Urban Redevelopment and Opposition in Tokyo: The Role of Creative People and Artists in Shimokitazawa Shimokitazawa is one of the rare neighborhoods of Tokyo where an urban redevelopment project led to long-lasting and loud opposition that changed parts of the project and led to a victory in court. The small area next to Shibuya and Shinjuku is well known for its small-scale buildings and an overall atmosphere that feels more like Tokyo’s Shitamachi than a suburb. Change is imminent because of redevelopment in the station area that lead to strong reactions from mostly creative people over the course of more than 15 years. This article examines the recent development of Shimokitazawa, the 60-year-old origin of the redevelopment project in that area, and the different actors that led lasting movements with lots of media coverage and international support against the backdrop of what is called a »resonant city«.
description: Japan 2021: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 46
title: Wandel der Rolle des Premierministers in Japan: 20 Jahre Reformprozess in der Exekutive und die Entstehung von sontaku
Creators: name: Erckenbrecht, Lewis
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Verfassung
subject: Politisches System
subject: Regierungschef
subject: Japan. Sōrifu
subject: Geschichte 2000-2021
subject: 321

description: The Changing Role of the Prime Minister in Japan: An Evaluation of 20 Years of Executive Reform and the Rise of sontaku When Prime Minister Shinzō Abe resigned in 2020 for health reasons, he had been the longest-serving Japanese prime minister in history, holding office for almost eight years. His powerful and unprecedented position in the Japanese political system has been characterized by the slogan Abe ikkyō: »nobody but Abe«. To date, the scientific discussion has focused mainly on explaining this phenomenon by Abe’s personal leadership qualities and a favorable political context, such as limited intraparty competition and the increasing prominence of security and foreign policy. Structural factors for the extraordinary position of the Abe government, however, have not received as much attention. This article discusses the impact of 20 years of executive reform that led to a fundamental shift in the position of the office of prime minister within Japan’s political system. The reform increased his authority and strengthened his administrative support, most importantly giving the prime minister exclusive control over appointing the higher bureaucratic positions within the ministries through the Cabinet Bureau of Personnel Affairs. This in turn gave rise to the phenomenon of sontaku, which further solidified the prime minister’s position and completely changed the power dynamic within the executive branch.
description: Japan 2021: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 72
Étude du comportement de mouillage d'une goutte d'eau sur une surface superhydrophobe en fonction de la température et de l'humidité
Creators: name: Samah, Walid
name: Clain, Pascal
name: Fournaison, Laurence
name: Rioual, François
name: Delahaye, Anthony
Publisher: name: Société Française de Thermique
Year: 2022
Subjects: Transfert thermique
congélation
échangeurs
surface superhydrophobe
angle de contact
transition de mouillage
glace
adhérence.

description: Dans le contexte de la réfrigération secondaire, les coulis de glace offrent des avantages énergétiques et environnementaux par rapport aux fluides monophasés (généralement l'eau) en raison de la présence de particules de glace dans le liquide porteur. Ces coulis sont souvent obtenus par des générateurs à surface raclée. Cependant, ces dispositifs présentent certains inconvénients, notamment une surconsommation d'énergie liée au raclage, qui dégrade le rendement énergétique de l'installation, ainsi que des coûts de maintenance liés à l'usure des lames de raclage. Ainsi, le développement de générateurs sans raclage fait l'objet de nombreuses recherches. Ici, on s'intéresse à l'utilisation d'un revêtement superhydrophobe (SH) pour la production de coulis de glace. En effet, les surfaces superhydrophobes (SH) sont connues pour leur capacité à augmenter le degré de surfusion et à retarder la congélation, ce qui présente un grand intérêt dans le domaine de la production de froid, soit pour réduire la formation de glace sur les évaporateurs des machines frigorifiques afin d'améliorer les transferts thermiques, soit pour produire de l'eau surfondue pour des applications de réfrigération secondaire. L'objectif de ce travail est de caractériser la congélation d'une goutte d'eau sur des plaques en aluminium avec revêtement superhydrophobe (SH). Un intérêt particulier est porté aux changements des propriétés superhydrophobes (SH) de ces surfaces pendant le refroidissement. Des mesures de l'évolution de l'angle de contact ont été utilisées pour caractériser l'état de mouillage des plaques revêtues et non revêtues à différentes températures et niveaux d'humidité. Les résultats montrent que le revêtement maintient la superhydrophobie des plaques à des températures supérieures à 10 $^{\circ}$C pour différents niveaux d'humidité. À basse température, le revêtement superhydrophobe (SH) entraîne un sous-refroidissement de la goutte avec un degré de surfusion d'environ 8 $^{\circ}$C. Les angles de contact diminuent significativement avec la baisse de la température et l'augmentation de l'humidité. Un modèle semi-empirique de l'évaporation d'une goutte sur une surface superhydrophobe est présenté et comparé aux résultats expérimentaux.
title: Betroffenenbewegungen und das Recht: ‚Heimatverlust‘ als Schaden in der Nariwai-Sammelklage gegen TEPCO und den Staat
Creators: name: Wiemann, Anna
name: Şahin, Köksal
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Kernkraftwerk Fukushima
subject: Reaktorunfall
subject: Tōkyō Denryoku Kabushiki Kaisha
subject: Schadensersatzanspruch
subject: Sammelklage
subject: 348

description: Victim Movements and the Law: ›Loss of Home‹ as Suffered Damage in the Nariwai Class Action Lawsuit against TEPCO and the Government Ten years after the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011, many civil proceedings against TEPCO and/or the government are still in progress. In addition to more than 400 lawsuits brought to court by individual claimants affected by the disaster, about 30 class action lawsuits have been filed by major groups. They represent a total number of more than 12,000 members. In four of these lawsuits (Chiba, Kyoto, and two in Fukushima), the claimants aim in particular for the recognition of ›loss of home‹ (furusato sōshitsu) as compensable mental damage. In August 2011, the Japanese government released an interim guideline defining measures and terms for compensation, including reimbursement for suffered mental damage caused by forced evacuation. However, the guideline does not cover ›loss of home‹ as a result of the incident. The class action members, their lawyers, and the courts thus face the challenge of framing ›loss of home‹ in legal terms to be recognized and reimbursed. Based on the so-called Nariwai class action, the largest among these cases with approximately 5,000 members, this report examines the framing of ›home‹ and ›loss of home‹ by the claimants and their lawyers and its assessment by the courts. From the perspective of sociology of law, we show how an aspect of social life - a perceived ›loss of home‹ caused by nuclear disaster - finds its way into legal language, leading to legally adequate court decisions. For this purpose, we examine the process of preparing the claim statement, the claim statement itself, and legal reasoning by the courts. Our analysis concludes with a reflection on the effect of the legal framing of ›home‹ and ›loss of home‹ in socio-political discourse, now validated in a normative sense by the judiciary.
description: Japan 2021: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 97
The Impact Active Listening Skills Has On Opinion Writing
Creators: name: Turk, Kenzie
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Active Listening
subject: Opinion Writing
subject: Musical Elements
subject: Writing
subject: Elementery
subject: Education -- Research papers (Graduate).

description: This study examined whether active listening skill instruction impacts opinion writing performance among fourth grade music class students.  The study used a convenience sample of two intact pre-existing classes. The Active Listening group (n = 25) was given explicit instruction and practice in active listening skills with most activities related to three musical compositions. The Control group (n = 24) listened to the three musical compositions the same number of times but participated in typical classroom learning activities.  The intervention took place during 10 weekly music class sessions. After the intervention, the students wrote opinion essays in which they identified their favorite of the three compositions and provided supporting evidence.  The essay content was structured and students revised their work. They had 4 sessions to complete their essays.  Essays were scored using a researcher created grading rubric.  The Control group's mean Opinion Writing Assignment score (Mean = 25.35, SD = 7.16) did not differ significantly from the Active Listening group's mean score (Mean = 25.72, SD = 8.09) [t(46) = .17, p = .87].While there was not a significant difference between the writing scores, observational data suggested that the intervention had positive outcomes such as greater student engagement and that further research appears warranted. Implications and ideas for future research are discussed.
title: Grundzüge und Tendenzen der japanischen Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik 2020/21: Das erste Jahr nach der Abe-Ära
Creators: name: Schulze, Kai
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Außenpolitik
subject: Sicherheitspolitik
subject: Geschichte 2020-2021
subject: 327

description: Recent Developments and Trends in Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy 2020/21: The First Year after the Abe Era In September 2020, the long-serving Prime Minister Shinzō Abe resigned, and September 2020 to August 2021 became the first year following the Abe Era in Japan’s foreign and security policy. As in the previous year, the COVID-19 pandemic overshadowed much of Japan’s diplomatic activity, now under the new Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide. Despite Suga’s inexperience in foreign policy, Japan was nonetheless able to reach important achievements, such as coming to security agreements with significant partners (first and foremost Australia), pushing forward its Free and Open Indo-Pacific initiative, and applying so-called »vaccine diplomacy«, which set Japan ahead of long-term rival China as a leading power in combating the pandemic in Southeast Asia.
description: Japan 2021: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 119
Supplementary document for Study on Stability Of Silicon Resonator Temperature Sensor With Pound-Drever-Hall Technique - 6190192.pdf
Creators: name: Zhu, Xiantao
name: Li, Yanjie
name: Lin, Zude
name: You, Minmin
name: Liu, Jing
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
title: Demographie, Deflation und die „Neue Normalität“: Lehren aus der japanischen Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Creators: name: Waldenberger, Franz
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Wirtschaft
subject: Geschichte 2020-2021
subject: 33

description: Demography, Deflation, and the »New Normal«: Lessons from Japan’s Economic Development Whether it is the miracle of growth, kaizen, keiretsu, industrial policy, trade conflicts, the »bubble economy«, or deflation, for decades the Japanese economy has repeatedly offered exciting new research questions and reasons to rethink economics and revise textbooks in the subject. In this article, this statement will be illustrated by current topics: demographic development and its effects on savings and investment, the extremely high level of government debt that is also associated with this, and the futile attempt to be free from a deflationary environment with the help of extremely expansive monetary policy.
description: Japan 2021: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 145
title: Zusammenführende Tageseinrichtungen in Japan: Wie die demographische Transition neue Pflegeansätze fördert
Creators: name: Hüsler, Samira-Salomé
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Altentagespflege
subject: Kindertagesstätte
subject: 362

description: Combining Day Care for Children and Elderly in Japan: How the Demographic Transition Promotes New Care Approaches As a result of its high life expectancy and simultaneously declining birth rate, Japan has been experiencing a fast demographic transition since the mid-twentieth century. The number of people in the so-called Third and Fourth Age is gradually increasing and already constituted 28% of the Japanese population in 2019. This situation led to the introduction of long-term care insurance in 2000, which indirectly promoted an increase of small local care services. Given their size, these care services are more flexible and quicker to implement new concepts. A noticeable trend in this regard is the spread of intergenerational care approaches. This paper describes selected local care institutions and analyzes whether some intergenerational day care centers provide an extension of the nuclear family and its support services. The analysis is based on a six-month field research project in cooperation with different institutions (N=14) in Japan. The data was mainly collected through participant observation. The findings, when compared with Jurczyk’s »Doing Family« concept and Erikson’s view of generativity, indicate that certain institutions indeed function as an extension of the modern nuclear family.
description: Japan 2021: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 162
title: Covid-19 in Japan: Politische Maßnahmen und Wirkungsmechanismen
Creators: name: Nennstiel, Karin-Ulrike
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: COVID-19
subject: Gesellschaft
subject: Kultur
subject: Prävention
subject: 614.5

description: COVID-19 in Japan: Policies and Mechanism This article discusses the question of how to understand what has appeared as Japan’s ›success‹ in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic through analyzing the contribution of specific social mechanisms in shaping societal responses to governmental policies. A comparison of multiple countries in East Asia and West Europe indicates that Japan has been relatively ›successful‹ in containing the spread of COVID-19, at least when contrasted with Western states rather than other Asian states. This outcome is notable in particular in that it was achieved without reliance either on strict legal restrictions (as in some Western countries) or extensive surveillance of the population using digital tools. In fact, despite many of the government’s COVID-19-related measures lacking solid legal underpinnings, they appeared to be endorsed and obediently followed by a significant majority of the Japanese population. Meanwhile, a more differentiated analysis shows that there are certain variations even within this general pattern of »Japanese obedience«, both across time and social segments. While this can on the one hand be associated with differing levels of fear of contracting the virus, this only provides a partial explanation of the specific observable patterns of »non-obedience«. Empirical evidence together with theoretical sociological accounts of social control point toward a more nuanced picture in which social pressure plays a substantial role in encouraging compliance of governmental rules - albeit in a highly uneven way - exerting strong influence over certain parts of the population while leaving others relatively untouched.
description: Japan 2021: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 187
CO Observations of the SMC-N66 Hii Region with ALMA: Properties of Clumps along Filamentary Molecular Clouds and Possible Expansion Motion
Creators: name: Ilyasi, Batool
name: Neelamkodan, Naslim
name: Tokuda, Kazuki
name: Barman, Susmita
name: Sewilo, Marta
name: Sano, Hidetoshi
name: Onishi, Toshikazu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The star-forming region N66, as a host of the majority of OB stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, provides a unique opportunity to enhance our understanding of the triggers of high-mass star formation. We investigate the properties of the molecular cloud in N66 using the $^{12}$CO(1-0) data obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. A cloud decomposition analysis identified 165 independent cloud structures and substructures. The size-linewidth scaling relation for the entire region exhibits an index of 0.49, indicating that the region is in a state of virial equilibrium. In contrast, a detailed analysis of the central N66 region revealed a size-linewidth scaling relation with an index of 0.75, suggesting that distinct factors are influencing the dynamics of this central area. Averaging the spectra in the central N66 region revealed three distinct velocity peaks at 145, 152, and 160 $\mathrm{km \, s^{-1}}$, indicating that some kinds of interactions are occurring within the cloud. The analysis of the position-velocity diagrams in the central region revealed a ring-like structure, indicating the presence of an expanding bubble. The bubble exhibits supersonic characteristics, with an expansion velocity of $v_{\mathrm{exp}} \approx 11$ $\mathrm{km \, s^{-1}}$, and an overall systemic velocity of $v_{\mathrm{sys}}\approx $ 151 $\mathrm{km \, s^{-1}}$. The radius is estimated to be in the range of $r \approx [9.8 - 12.9] \pm 0.5$ pc and is approximately 1.2 Myr old.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
title: Geschichte und Geschichtsbewusstsein im Jahr der Jahrestage 2020
Creators: name: Weber, Torsten
name: Scherer, Anke
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Kollektives Gedächtnis
subject: 306

description: History and Historical Awareness in 2020: The Year of Anniversaries The high status of history in the Japanese public sphere has been visible for many decades, among other things, through the large number of popular history magazines, the popularity of historical television dramas, and disputes about historical events and interpretations that have been carried out in the mass media. In 2020, a multitude of anniversaries also contributed to a strong public focus on history, most notably the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. 2020 was also dominated by the Tokyo Olympics, which at the end of March 2020 were postponed by one year to the summer of 2021. In German-Japanese relations, the so-called »peace statue« in Berlin-Mitte caused a major controversy that has not yet been settled. Within Japan, the controversial decision of Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide not to appoint six of the nominated candidates to the Science Council led to a vivid debate about political interventions in science, in which numerous historians participated.
description: Japan 2021: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 213
Squaric acid as an organocatalyst for Knoevenagel condensation and 1,6-conjugate addition reactions
Creators: name: Singh, Nirmal
name: Pandey, Ankur G
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Catalysts play an integral role in rationalizing several organic reactions despite suffering major challenges like poor efficiency, high cost and toxicity. In this work, we have reported a green, cost effective and highly efficient squaric acid as an organocatalyst for catalyzing two of the most vital organic reactions, Knoevenagel condensation and 1,6-conjugate addition reactions. Under our optimized conditions, the organocatayst showed excellent yields of up to 94% for both the reactions with an extensive substrate scope and excellent reusability for multiple reaction cycles. In addition, the catalytic efficacy of squaric acid was showcased by employing it in the synthesis of 2-amino-4H-chromene derivatives.
title: Zwischen Diaspora und hybrider Identität: Generationeller Wandel in Identitätsdiskursen der koreanischen Minderheit in Japan
Creators: name: Aresin, Jana
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Zainichi
subject: Ethnische Identität
subject: Kulturelle Identität
subject: 305

description: Between Diaspora and Hybrid Identity: Generational Change in Identity Discourses of the Korean Minority in Japan This article analyzes developments in zainichi-Korean identity discourses using the example of zainichi youth and cultural organizations in Japan. It explores generational differences in discussions of ethnic identity and observes a partial change from essentialist and nationalist conceptions of identity to an understanding of identity as hybrid, ambivalent, and outside of clearly demarcated national and ethnic categories such as »Japanese« or »Korean«. It is based on fieldwork conducted in 2018 in three zainichi-Korean organizations in Osaka that are to varying degrees engaged in and concerned with community and cultural activities, political activism, and representation of zainichi-Korean history in Japanese society. The article concludes that these organizations distance themselves from previous identity discourses of the two largest and most established zainichi-Korean organizations (Mindan and Chongryon) by defining ethnic identity through shared history and experiences rather than cultural or legal markers such as Korean language skills, familiarity with Korean culture, or Korean citizenship. The article differentiates between internal and external identity discourses: whereas internal discourses tend to emphasize hybridity, representations of zainichi- Korean identity directed towards Japanese society retain more elements of diasporic and nationalistic narratives.
description: Japan 2021: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 234
Building community identity through storytelling: the power of digital stories in museum contexts
Creators: name: Carlino, Carola
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Digital Storytelling, Accessibility, Museum

description: The aim of this study is twofold: to demonstrate that learning practices in the museum sector can be facilitated and enhanced by exploiting digital storytelling as an educational and entertainment resource, and that, in the meantime, cultural and generational barriers can be broken down by promoting greater accessibility to cultural heritage.
title: „Kochen ist (nicht) nur Mama-Sache“: (Vor-) Bilder von Ernährungs-versorger(inne)n in den japanischen Medien zwischen Kontinuität und Wandel
Creators: name: Reitzig, Stefanie
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Massenmedien
subject: Geschlechterrolle
subject: Familie
subject: Mutter
subject: Kochen
subject: Mahlzeit
subject: 305

description: »Cooking is (Not) Just a Mom Thing«: Images and Idols of (Female) Meal Managers in Japanese Media between Continuity and Change In Japanese media, the image of the mother as a caring meal manager is only gradually shifting. Japanese family households show a similar picture: mothers as exclusive meal managers are still ubiquitous, and meal-preparing fathers are a marginal phenomenon. This analysis of current media formats offers an excellent opportunity for understanding the shift of perceived ideals of meal management in society. Therefore, selected media such as magazines, television, and internet platforms were examined. Utilizing the viewpoint of working mothers extracted from an interview study conducted in Tokyo in 2014, the changing gender stereotypes of meal managers in the media as well as current division of responsibilities of mothers and fathers in the kitchen were pursued in a complementary approach. As a result, it becomes clear that these mothers desire to overcome the strong focus on maternal caring and preparing food in the kitchen, which most of them still find superimposed on them. Eventually, most promising changes can be observed among the younger generation of men. New idols of meal-preparing fathers and new mothers in the media are sure to help shift gender stereotypes.
description: Japan 2021: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 258
SotA Service Mesh 24/25
Creators: name: Burkhardt, Detlef
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: ServiceMesh
SOA
Microservice
ESB

description: This is a State-of-the-Art exploration about Service Mesh Solutions between Q2/2024 and Q1/2025. It analyses 9 products with around 12 properties in 5 categories:

- Basic Properties- Interoperability- Advanced Capabilies- Strength & Weakness- Commercial Offerings

9 instead of 10, because the NGINX Service Mesh (7) was archived.
description:  

Introduction

Properties (overview)

Basic properties:

Interoperability:

Advanced capabilities:

Strengths & weaknesses

Commercial offers

Product overview

Basic overview

Summaries

Strengths and weaknesses

Basic features comparison

Interoperability comparison

Comparison of advanced properties

Github Numbers (April/24)

Products in detail

1. Istio

2. LinkerD

3. Consul Connect

4. AWS App Mesh

5. Service Fabric Mesh

6. Traefik Mesh

7. NGINX Service Mesh

8. Rancher

9. Kuma

10. Cilium

Properties in detail

1. Basic properties:

2. Interoperability

3. Advanced capabilities

4. Strengths and weaknesses

5. Commercial offers

Glossary
Hétérogénéité des modes de transferts convectifs au sein des centrales solaires photovoltaïques
Creators: name: Amiot, Baptiste
name: Ferrand, Martin
name: Le-Berre, Rémi
name: Giroux--Julien, Stéphanie
Publisher: name: Société Française de Thermique
Year: 2022
Subjects: Photovoltaïque
Micro-relief
Régimes convectifs
Renouvelables

description: Dans le contexte de la transition énergétique, les installations solaires photovoltaïques de plusieurs hectares bénéficient d'une viabilité économique accrue du fait des gains d'échelle réalisables. Malgré la bonne fiabilité des modèles de production électrique à l'échelle locale (module photovoltaïque), l'hétérogénéité des conditions météorologiques à l'échelle de la centrale photovoltaïque entraîne une incertitude sur le productible réel. L'hétérogénéité de l'irradiation est ainsi de plus en plus étudiée numériquement et expérimentalement, et permet de pondérer le flux solaire reçu par les modules, notamment lorsque le ciel est partiellement nuageux. Cette technique permet de réguler le productible initialement estimé via des mesures localisées et ponctuelles. La modification du champ de vent à l'intérieur des parcs solaires est une seconde hétérogénéité qui amène une incertitude sur le mode de transfert convectif qui s'établit à l'échelle du module. Sachant que le rendement électrique des cellules en silicium est négativement corrélée à la température d'opération des jonctions, la détermination des modes convectifs au sein des centrales permet de mieux définir la température d'opération de chaque module et prédire plus précisément le productible électrique. La question de l'hétérogénéité induite par les effets aérauliques est cependant complexe à appréhender que ce soit expérimentalement et numériquement (nombre de mesures, positionnement des sondes, modélisation de la turbulence, de la dynamique et des flux thermiques turbulents). Dans ce travail, deux expériences numériques réalisées à l'aide du code de calcul CFD code saturne sont présentées. Dans un premier temps, un module unitaire est modélisé suivant une coupe 2-D. Celui-ci est soumis à un champ de vitesse de vent transversal et des conditions de périodicité permettent de simuler l'agencement d'une infinité de modules, en situation de centrale solaire. Une comparaison avec les champs de vent obtenus dans une configuration similaire en soufflerie est produite et une importante disparité des caractéristiques du vent sous les modules photovoltaïques est démontrée. Cette étude apporte une solution simple pour réduire le coût de calcul nécessaire pour simuler le comportement dynamique et thermique des grandes centrales. Dans la seconde expé
title: Doppelverdiener-Haushalte in Japan: Sozialpolitische Implikationen für eine Dual Earner Society
Creators: name: Schad-Seifert, Annette
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Doppelverdienerhaushalt
subject: Geschlechterrolle
subject: Frau
subject: Berufstätigkeit
subject: 306

description: Dual-Income Households in Japan: Social Policy Implications for a Dual-Earner Society While Japan’s post-war social system was based on the male-breadwinner model, current Japanese social policy is working on structures that should facilitate development into a society with a high proportion of dual-income households. In 2016, the Japanese government passed a law to »Promote the Active Utilization of Women«, which has triggered a set of work style reforms. It seems that policy makers in Japan have finally admitted the negative associations between Japan’s corporate culture and women’s career empowerment. In fact, statistical data reflects an increase in the proportion of fulltime employed Japanese women living in a family with children. But recent studies on family and work in Japan have pointed out that there is still a critical gap between the political and legal initiatives intended to promote full-time working couples and the actual social reality of the gender-segregated domestic household. The paper addresses current data and survey results that help to understand how social policy in Japan mediates the relationship between economic resources such as employment and gender norms regarding family and work.
description: Japan 2021: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 290