cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hypena pulverulenta Wileman 1911
Creators: name: Jin, Dahee
name: Kim, Sung-Soo
name: Shin, Bora
name: Choi, Sei-Woong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Hypena
Hypena pulverulenta

description: Hypena pulverulenta Wileman, 1911
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Choi, Sei-Woong; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; disposition: Mokpo National University; occurrenceID: C81FAE0B-B02A-5846-A835-07AD4E5A9A15; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena pulverulenta; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: Sejong; county: Sejong; locality: Geumnam-myeon; verbatimCoordinates: 36°27'33"N 127°17'53E; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 9/5/2022; Record Level: modified: 3 / 30 / 2025; language: en; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Distribution
Korea, Japan.
Notes
This is the first record for the Korean fauna. The DNA barcode of Hypena pulverulenta was first recorded in this study (GenBank accession No. PV 274491). The p-distance with H. proboscidalis and H. tamsi was 10.25 %, while the lowest genetic distance (6.63 %) was recorded for H. obesalis (Figs 4 b, 8 a, b).
Diagnosis
Wingspan 24 mm. Antenna filiform covered with yellowish-brown scales; vertex and frons covered with yellowish-brown erected scales; labial palpi long, second segment yellowish-brown, six times longer than the third segment, third segment covered with blackish scales. Thorax yellowish-brown; tegula consisting of long scales and hair-like scales. Forewing ground colour dark brownish, dorsally ochreous with yellowish-brown; central fascia large triangular; discal dot small black; subterminal line costally blackish; apex distinct with a whitish oblique line. Hindwing pale yellowish-brown. Abdomen yellowish-brown. Male genitalia. Uncus long, rod-shaped, apex strongly sclerotised, sharply hooked, pointed. Tegumen hood-shaped; tuba analis long; juxta broad, thick diamond-shape on its side; saccus long, semi-rounded. Valva simple, weakly sclerotised, medially expanded; costal margin medially swollen; sacculus ventral margin medially weakly invaginated; basally a relatively thick and long division of clavus with a minute process. Aedeagus rod-shaped, anteriorly simple; vesica tubular, cornuti a row of spines.
description: Published as part of Jin, Dahee, Kim, Sung-Soo, Shin, Bora & Choi, Sei-Woong, 2025, An updated list of the genus Hypena Schrank (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) from Korea with five additional records to the fauna, pp. e 155581 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e155581, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e155581
title: Grundzüge und Tendenzen der japanischen Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik 2017/2018: Ein Jahr der strategischen Weichenstellungen?
Creators: name: Schulze, Kai
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Außenpolitik
subject: Sicherheitspolitik
subject: Geschichte 2017-2018
subject: 327

description: Recent Developments and Trends in Japanese Foreign Policy 2017/2018: A Strategic Turning Point for Japan? The most important issues regarding Japan’s foreign and security policy in 2017 and 2018 were the North Korean Nuclear and Missile Crisis, the upcoming trade conflict with the US, the finalization of the free trade agreement with the EU, and the further promotion of Japan’s new »Free and Open Indo-Pacific« strategy. Furthermore, there have been strong signs of rapprochement between Japan and China as well as between Japan as Russia, although there are still matters for concern between both countries. This article analyzes these developments and examines Japan’s bilateral relations with its most important partners, as well as its security, international trade and development policy.
description: Japan 2018: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 100
Etude de la cuisson par contact d'un produit céréalier
Creators: name: Ploteau, Jean Pierre
name: Le Bideau, Pascal
name: Glouannec, Patrick
Publisher: name: Société Française de Thermique
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cuisson direct pas contact
Méthode Inverse
Expérimentation
Densité de flus de chaleur
Cuisson
Banc expérimental

description: L'objectif de ces travaux est d'apporter une méthodologie et des pistes de réflexion en vue de la conception d'appareils de cuisson par contact direct plus performants en termes de consommation d'énergie et de qualité. Une cuisson non maitrisée ou l'utilisation de matériel non-approprié peut conduire à la formation de composés toxiques ou à la transmission par migration de particules vers l'aliment. En effet, ce type de cuisson, bien que très répandu est encore relativement peu étudié d'un point de vue scientifique pour des appareils domestiques. La démarche mise en œuvre est dans un premier temps décrit. Pour évaluer le flux de chaleur transmis lors du contact et suivre les cinétiques de cuisson une expérimentation pilote bien instrumentée a été réalisée afin de suivre des cinétiques de cuisson dans différentes conditions. Afin de bien appréhender les transferts par conduction directe un prototype de flux mètre a été développé. Le but des travaux est d'estimer le flux de chaleur transféré d'une plaque métallique chaude vers un produit alimentaire « froid » déposé sur celle-ci. L'évolution du flux est obtenue par le biais des techniques inverses et l'exploitation de mesures de températures au sein de la plaque chauffante. Le produit alimentaire est mis rapidement en contact, moins d'une seconde et donc, le flux thermique présente de grandes variations. Dans le cadre de cette communication des essais de cuisson d'un produit relativement complexe sont présentés. Il s'agit d'un produit céréalier à pate jaune qui subit différentes transformations couplées à des transferts de chaleur et de masse lors de la cuisson. Les cinétiques de cuisson sont obtenues par le biais de capteurs de température, une mesure en temps réel de la perte de masse et un suivi de la déformation. La confrontation de simulations numériques par un modèle multi-physiques aux cinétiques mesurés montre la pertinence de ces travaux.
Antiferromagnetic Spin Fluctuations and Structural Transition in Cluster Mott Insulator Candidate Nb3Cl8 Revealed by 93Nb- and 35Cl-NMR
Creators: name: Zhou, Y. Z.
name: Han, X.
name: Luo, J.
name: Wu, D. T.
name: Fang, A. F.
name: Shen, B.
name: Feng, B. J.
name: Shi, Y. G.
name: Yang, J.
name: Zhou, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent studies of the cluster Mott insulator candidate compound Nb3Cl8, this study performs 93Nb and 35Cl nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements to investigate the electron correlations. Below the structural transition temperature Ts ~ 97 K, all satellites of the 93Nb NMR spectra split into three distinct peaks, which suggests symmetry lowering due to the structural transition and could be attributed to the change in the Nb-Nb bond-lengths of the Nb3 clusters. The spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T1 divided by the temperature T, 1/T1T, increases upon cooling to Ts for all Cl sites, whereas only the Knight shift K of Cl located at the center of the Nb3 clusters exhibits a temperature dependence similar to that observed in magnetic susceptibility. These findings collectively demonstrate the existence of strong spin correlations between the Nb atoms in Nb3Cl8, which are closely associated with Mottness.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Supplementary materials: 9 pages, 7 figures
Moving data from the warehouse to the workbench: a bridge to Galaxy from the Tripal community genome database software platform
Creators: name: Staton, Margaret
name: Chen, Ming
name: Henry, Nathan
name: Grau, Emily
name: Wytko, Connor
name: Soto, Brian
name: Jung, Sook
name: Kuangching Wang
name: Watts, Nick
name: Chun-Huai  Cheng
name: Sanderson, Lacey A.
name: Wegrzyn, Jill
name: Main, Doreen
name: F. Alex  Feltus
name: Ficklin, Stephen P.
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Online community genome databases offer curated and mission-specific data and information to scientists with shared basic and applied research goals. In an effort to share a common code base, standardize storage formats, and simplify site construction, a coalition of genome databases have developed the software Tripal. Tripal is an open-source platform that bridges Drupal, a popular content management system (CMS), and Chado, a standardized relational database for storage of biological data. There is a need for users of community databases to not only discover, visualize and download genomic information but to directly port it to analysis workflow software such as the Galaxy platform. Through development of the new Tripal Galaxy module, site visitors will be able to select custom datasets from within and across Tripal databases and import those directly to a Galaxy instance from within a Tripal-based site. Additionally, a set of pre-designed workflows for common analyses needed by users of community databases will be made publicly available, including functional annotation of gene sequences, genomic variant discovery and genotype/phenotype association. Current efforts are focused on enabling authenticated users to move data from within a Tripal community database to the Tripal community Galaxy instance or a public Galaxy instance, creation of PHP bindings for the Galaxy API, and establishment of the most commonly needed analysis workflows for database users.
title: QUAD und das Indo-Pazifik-Konzept: Versuche, Chinas Hegemoniestreben einzudämmen
Creators: name: Knittel, Siegfried
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Indien
subject: Australien
subject: USA
subject: Quadrilateral Security Dialogue
subject: Sicherheitspolitik
subject: Indopazifik
subject: 327

description: QUAD and the Indo-Pacific Concept: Attempts to Contain China’s Endeavour for Hegemony This article shall attempt to explain the Indo-Pacific concept and the Quadrilateral Security Dialog QUAD to counter China’s aim to become Asia’s hegemon. Japan, India, Australia and the USA are members of the QUAD. The traditional Asia-Pacific policy between the USA and Japan did not include the region of the Indian Ocean, which includes states such as India and Bangladesh. The Indo-Pacific Concept aims to integrate the countries of South, South East and East Asia under liberal order and the rule of law. Japan is the driving force of this policy. However, Japan and the other countries must face the issue that these same countries, who wish to hinder the PR China and their aim to become the economic and military super power of Asia, are also economically deeply intertwined with China. Hence, although China is building military bases in the Indian and Pacific Ocean and in the South China Sea, QUAD members do not want to appear to be a similar group as NATO or an adversary of the PR China. The second problem for Japan and the other Asian countries is the USA. In the past, the USA has been the leading nation in Asia in terms of security and economic policy. However, this is not a guaranteed policy for the future. Japan, Australia and India see the Indo-Pacific concept and QUAD as a way to deal with China, even if the USA will no longer represent the economic leader and military guarantor for these Asian countries.
description: Japan 2018: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 121
Galaxy security practices in an age of clinical data for point of care services
Creators: name: Ganote, Carrie
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: One of the major users of bioinformatics pipelines is the medical field. This poses a challenge for system administrators and software developers who provide web-facing services – securing the client's data. Certain data sets in genomics can be considered sufficiently identifiable and thus qualify as electronic protected health information (ePHI), which is then further protected by HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).

This talk will be an outline of hurdles associated with making Galaxy robust in a clinical setting. Best practices leverage a two-tiered approach at both operating system and application layers. Initially, systems configuration will be explored including least privilege for service accounts and database users, encryption of files, and system access. Later, best uses of Galaxy will be highlighted as they apply to moving data, storage, and account policies, following a rigorous NIST-based cyber risk management framework.
title: Der »neue Geist des Kapitalismus« in Japan?
Creators: name: Nennstiel, Karin-Ulrike
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Wirtschaft
subject: Entrepreneurship
subject: Le nouvel esprit du capitalisme (Chiapello, Ève)
subject: Le nouvel esprit du capitalisme (Boltanski, Luc)
subject: 330

description: The New Spirit of Capitalism in Japan? The theory of the »New Spirit of Capitalism« as elaborated by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello (1999), has not received very much attention in Japan so far. Nonetheless, this »new spirit« is spreading in Japan as well as in Western countries. It may be more difficult to observe this occurrence in Japan, however, because of the fact that traditional structures, management methods and gratification systems are still predominant in and represented by extended enterprises, which have been the center of attention for foreign researchers for decades. The article starts with a short summary of the »New Spirit of Capitalism« theory and clarifies some of the literature which focuses on this topic in Japan. Next, the article outlines the eminent characteristics of the Japanese management and gratification system and its historical basis. These are contrasted with case studies of startup entrepreneurs, their biographies, ideas and principles of management. Some of them have been extraordinarily successful in managing to build up a new company, mostly in the IT, finance or insurance sectors. It is emphasized that these entrepreneurs represent the »New Spirit of Capitalism« in Japan and, despite being few in number, are exerting enormous influence on economic and educational politics.
description: Japan 2018: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 149
title: Das Ende des »Mythos« des sicheren Japans: Das Sicherheitsgefühl aus Sicht der japanischen privaten Sicherheitsindustrie
Creators: name: Polak-Rottmann, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Subjektive Sicherheit
subject: Bewachungsgewerbe
subject: 363

description: The Destruction of the Security »Myth«: The Feeling of Insecurity as It Is Understood by Private Security Companies in Japan Although the crime rate in Japan has been decreasing since 2002, the feeling of insecurity (taikan chian) in Japanese society has not been improving to the same extent. While private security companies can offer their clients services to prevent threatening risks from happening, they have had to deal with a reluctant public ever since their establishment in the 1960s. In popular discourse, security has often been taken for granted and considered to be a service that should not be paid for. By successfully providing a secure environment at major events such as the Ise-Shima Summit in 2016, however, private security companies are increasingly able to build trustful relationships with local police and citizens. In this paper, I am going to explain how views on security and risk are being put forward by these firms. I tackle this question by conducting a discourse analysis of articles published in newspapers and magazines specialized in this business sector. I refer to Olaf Corry’s approach of riskification as a suitable framework for showing the complex processes of how notions of security are being shaped. I shall conclude that joint statements from representatives of the police and private companies play a crucial role in constructing what is being perceived as a risk. In the articles, recent positive developments have been acknowledged, but special forms of crime are nevertheless seen as a challenge to Japanese society. Only by working together with local communities and private actors, can the aim for a »society without crime« be considered achievable. Thus, security firms are becoming more and more involved in actions that offer security not only to their clients, but to society in general. Considering these developments, it is questionable whether the monopoly over physical power as explained by Max Weber is still accurate.
description: Japan 2018: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 211
Quantitative PET/CT Imaging for Enhanced Evaluation of Prostate Cancer and Lymphoma
Creators: name: Fedrigo, Roberto
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans offer valuable insight into the progression of diseases, such as cancer. However, there is evidence that quantitative imaging metrics can enhance the prognostic value of PET and its ability to effectively guide treatment decisions. This thesis aims to improve the accuracy and reproducibility of tumour metrics as determined through PET images. To achieve this, we implemented both physical and simulated experiments using anthropomorphic phantoms. We evaluated two contrasting domains within nuclear medicine: (a.) Prostate cancer, in which prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET imaging is used for detection of focal lesions, as well as (b.) Primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma, in which [18F]FDG PET is used to detect bulky, heterogeneous lymph node conglomerates. For PSMA PET imaging, we propose and evaluate SUVapex, a segmentationfree metric for determining tumour tracer concentration. We also introduce the Canadian PET Prostate Phantom for Oncology (C3PO) - a PET/CT/MRI-compatible phantom designed for harmonization of PSMA PET imaging. Within the context of PMBCL PET, our results suggest that the 25% fixed threshold provides better accuracy for tumour volume quantification. Ideally, this study will lead to improved clinical reporting of tumour volume, which will result in improved outcome prediction and disease management of lymphoma within British Columbia.
Supplemental Material: Unpacking the connection between funding teams’ interdisciplinary practices
Creators: name: A. Díaz-Faes, Adrián
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 440710
subject: Research, science and technology policy

description: Supplemental Material from the paper “Unpacking the effect of funding on research teams’ interdisciplinary practices” published in Quantitative Science Studies
Make Money Move : Understanding the Nexus Between Geopolitical Risk and Foreign Direct Investment
Creators: name: Luo, Danielle Youlan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: The field of International Political Economy (IPE) conventionally looks at the relationship between domestic political risks and economic development, but in an international system with an increasing number of transnational challenges and crosscurrents introduced by new political forces and economic powers, the concept of geopolitical risk has become an additional salient dimension of IPE. Many traditionally domestic political risks now include a transnational facet due to rapid globalization and increased frequency of interactions between countries, propelling geopolitical risk to the forefront of economic decisions. This study verifies through empirical analysis if the most prominent discrete, regional geopolitical risks have any material impacts on investment flows, with a particular focus on foreign direct investment (FDI). This study’s contribution is two-fold. First, results and analysis of this research suggest that regional geopolitical risks do not have uniform impacts across the board on all countries affected by the regional risk factor, as there are both winners and losers in terms of their respective volumes of inward FDI. Second, analysis of this study identifies that the key determinants of the winners from geopolitical risks are (1) their respective attractiveness to Chinese investors, a rising source of FDI exporter and a new class of bargain hunters that seeks to acquire global assets; and (2) investors’ flight-to-safety reactions, which favour economies with better and more existing infrastructure and specialized clusters of industries.
title: Innenpolitik 2018/2019
Creators: name: Winkler, Christian
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Innenpolitik
subject: Parteiensystem
subject: Geschichte 2018-2019
subject: 320

description: Domestic Politics 2018/2019 This chapter will examine the results of the major elections on the national and subnational level: the 2019 upper house election marks the sixth straight national election that the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) – under Prime Minister Abe – has managed to win against a still divided opposition. Other topics discussed include the transition from Heisei to Reiwa, the formation of new opposition parties and their significance for Japan’s party landscape.
description: Japan 2019: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 23
Empath-D: VR-based Empathetic App Design for Accessibility
Creators: name: Kim, Wonjung
name: Choo, Kenny Tsu Wei
name: Lee, Youngki
name: Misra, Archan
name: Balan, Rajesh Krishna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With app-based interaction increasingly permeating all aspects of daily living, it is essential to ensure that apps are designed to be \emph{inclusive} and are usable by a wider audience such as the elderly, with various impairments (e.g., visual, audio and motor). We propose \names, a system that fosters empathetic design, by allowing app designers, \emph{in-situ}, to rapidly evaluate the usability of their apps, from the perspective of impaired users. To provide a truly authentic experience, \name carefully orchestrates the interaction between a smartphone and a VR device, allowing the user to experience simulated impairments in a virtual world while interacting naturally with the app, using a real smartphone. By carefully orchestrating the VR-smartphone interaction, \name tackles challenges such as preserving low-latency app interaction, accurate visualization of hand movement and low-overhead perturbation of I/O streams. Experimental results show that user interaction with \name is comparable (both in accuracy and user perception) to real-world app usage, and that it can simulate impairment effects as effectively as a custom hardware simulator.
description: 13 pages, published in ACM MobiSys 2018
Hypena albopunctalis
Creators: name: Jin, Dahee
name: Kim, Sung-Soo
name: Shin, Bora
name: Choi, Sei-Woong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Hypena
Hypena albopunctalis

description: Hypena albopunctalis (Leech, 1889)
Distribution
Korea, China, Taiwan.
Notes
Leech (1889) first recorded this species in Gensan, North Korea. In Japan, it is known to feed on Oreocnide frutescens (Thunb.) Miq. (Urticaceae), a plant species that is exclusively found in Biyang-do, Jeju Island, Korea. Kononenko and Han (2007) highlighted the ambiguity surrounding records of this species in Korea. Considering the distribution of its food plant and the observations made by Kononenko and Han (2007), the presence of this species in Korea remains uncertain.
description: Published as part of Jin, Dahee, Kim, Sung-Soo, Shin, Bora & Choi, Sei-Woong, 2025, An updated list of the genus Hypena Schrank (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) from Korea with five additional records to the fauna, pp. e 155581 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e155581, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e155581
title: Politik, Mediendiskurs und öffentliche Finanzen: Was Japans Staatsverschuldung über die Verfassung seiner Demokratie verrät
Creators: name: Buchmeier, Yosuke
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Öffentliche Schulden
subject: Finanzpolitik
subject: Massenmedien
subject: Berichterstattung
subject: 336

description: Politics, Media Discourse and Public Finance: What Japan’s National Debt Reveals about the State of its Democracy Japan’s public debt has been rising significantly since the 1990s; in recent years it has risen to about 240% in relation to GDP. Contrary to repeated promises, political and bureaucratic attempts at changing the direction of this trend have been ineffective for more than three decades. Therefore, the sustainability of Japan’s public finance is frequently challenged, even more so in the light of the Bank of Japan’s ongoing quantitative easing monetary policy. Although it is true that socio-structural and macroeconomic conditions make the accrual of a public deficit more likely, the political and democratic dimensions of fiscal discipline are gaining more attention at present. Public policy research stresses the existence of systemic loopholes in Japan’s fiscal governance and demonstrates that the legal framework and parliamentary control have proved inadequate in limiting the quest by politicians and bureaucrats for budget maximization. While major OECD countries have made considerable efforts to enhance their fiscal governance by increasing fiscal transparency, establishing independent fiscal institutions (IFIs) and enforcing binding constitutional rules – such as balanced budget amendments, commonly known as »Schuldenbremse« in Germany – steps towards a fiscal reform in Japan’s case are not yet in sight. To explain why Japan’s public finance has deteriorated to this degree (whereas other countries facing comparable social and economic challenges have managed to reduce their reliance on debt), this paper first examines critical aspects of the country’s fiscal governance. Then it moves on to a media analysis of how the debt issue is covered by the mainstream press, namely national television (NHK) and the major newspapers. It will be demonstrated that the topic of public debt tends to be marginalized in media discourse, questioning the public’s issue of awareness and the media’s ability to form a widely supported consensus that could pressure politicians to act and finally take effective measures towards fiscal consolidation. This paper will further illustrate that the shortcomings in fiscal governance are closely linked to the quality of public discourse, thereby underlining that the public deficit ultimately reveals not only Japan’s structural socio-economic challenges but also the fragile state of its democracy.
description: Japan 2019: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 41
Urinary Tract Infection Due to Trichosporon asahii in a Pediatric Patient with Nephrotic Syndrome: A Case Report
Creators: name: Jabrane Mona*
name: Maria Jaimi
name: Fatima Baboukh
name: Awatif El Hakkouni
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Trichosporon asahii, Urinary tract infection, Nephrotic syndrome, Pediatric fungal infection, Immunocompromised host, Antifungal resistance.

description: Abstract: - Trichosporon asahii is an emerging opportunistic fungal pathogen increasingly identified in immunocompromised hosts. We report a rare case of urinary tract infection (UTI) caused by T. asahii in a 6-year-old girl with nephrotic syndrome undergoing prolonged corticosteroid therapy. The diagnosis was confirmed at the Parasitology-Mycology Laboratory of the Mohammed VI University Hospital in Marrakech. This case highlights the diagnostic challenges, antifungal resistance patterns, and therapeutic considerations associated with this unusual infection in pediatric patients.
title: Ländliche Regionen im Wandel: Eine quantitative Vergleichsstudie zur Rolle der Binnenmigration für die Erhaltung ländlicher Siedlungen
Creators: name: Miserka, Antonia
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Ländliche Siedlung
subject: Binnenwanderung
subject: 304

description: Changing Rural Regions: A Comparative Study of Internal Migration and Its Role in Sustaining Rural Villages This study evaluates the possibility of sustaining a rural community through a migration inflow by analyzing whether there is a significant connection between a person’s intent to stay in their village and (1) their migration history and (2) their place of residence. Additionally, the possibility of considering children living near their hometowns as a potential resource for sustaining village life is evaluated. The analysis combines national migration statistics with the survey data (conducted in 2016 and 2017 using correlation analysis) from two small mountainous hamlets on Kyūshū Island, thereby giving an insight to overall population developments and verifying if migration can provide a solution to the hamlets‹ demographic problems. The results show that children living near their parents‹ home can help in sustaining village life for the time being. In the long term, return migrants and newly migrated people who show an intent to stay permanently could become a valuable resource for their village. However, their intent to stay varies between villages due to their local characteristics. Therefore, rather than determining a community’s sustainability using national statistical data, this study argues that it is of vital importance to assess the sustainability of rural villages individually, by analyzing their specific characteristics.
description: Japan 2019: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 78
title: Grundzüge und Tendenzen der japanischen Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik 2018/2019: Globales Japan mit vielen Problemen
Creators: name: Schulze, Kai
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Außenpolitik
subject: Sicherheitspolitik
subject: Geschichte 2018-2019
subject: 327

description: Recent Developments and Trends in Japanese Foreign Policy 2017/2018: Global Japan with Many Problems The most important issue regarding Japan’s foreign and security policy in 2018 and 2019 was the Japanese presidency of the G20 and the G20 summit meeting in Osaka. While Japan managed to organize a rather successful summit, there were also many bilateral conflicts involving Japan that overshadowed this event. For example, Japan stumbled into an escalating conflict with South Korea, heavily misjudged the Russian position regarding the conclusion of a peace treaty between both countries and could not find a solution to the trade conflict with the US. Nonetheless, the Abe administration tried to proceed with its plan to overcome the post-war order in East Asia and to establish Japan as an independent and significant actor on the global stage.
description: Japan 2019: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 103
Past, Present, and Future of Spatial Audio and Room Acoustics
Creators: name: Koyama, Shoichi
name: De Sena, Enzo
name: Samarasinghe, Prasanga
name: Thomas, Mark R. P.
name: Antonacci, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The study of spatial audio and room acoustics aims to create immersive audio experiences by modeling the physics and psychoacoustics of how sound behaves in space. In the long history of this research area, various key technologies have been developed based both on theoretical advancements and practical innovations. We highlight historical achievements, initiative activities, recent advancements, and future outlooks in the research area of spatial audio recording and reproduction, and room acoustic simulation, modeling, analysis, and control.
description: Accepted to International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2025
Batch Correction and Integration of Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Data from Multiple Lymphoma Subtypes
Creators: name: Winata, Helena
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) ia a relatively novel tool that allows the study of complex heterogeneous systems as found in many cancers. However, integration of scRNA-seq datasets with variable biological properties remains a huge bioinformatics challenge due to technical biases/batch effects. In lymphoma, the composition of the tumour microenvironment is predictive of clinical outcomes and varies between subtypes. This thesis aims to evaluate four batch-correction algorithms, FastMNN, Seurat, Harmony and LIGER, in terms of minimizing technical noise while preserving biological signal on classical Hodgkin and follicular lymphoma. Performance is evaluated using UMAP visualization and four assessment metrics: kBET, ARI, ASW, and LISI. Our results reveals that Harmony performs well in terms of batch mixing, as well as preserving cell purity in larger datasets. Notably, FastMNN ranks higher in cell type preservation, but is inferior to Harmony in terms of batch mixing. The complexity of batch-effect assessment is reflected by incongruent metrics results. Lastly, the importance of understanding the biological aspects of the dataset to prevent over-correction was highlighted.
ON THE HISTORY OF MILITARY AFFAIRS IN ANCIENT PERIODS
Creators: name: Toshboyev, F.E.
name: Ashirov, Y.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The fighting methods of our ancestors who lived in ancient times and raised them to the level of art. It is known from their graves that the peoples of Central Asia who lived in this period mainly practiced their fighting methods on horseback. In addition, in ancient times, various stone weapons were used, including spears, bows, shields and other weapons.
title: Japans Walfangpolitik: Die Gründe für den Austritt aus der Internationalen Walfangkommission
Creators: name: Holm, Fynn
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Walfang
subject: International Whaling Commission
subject: Austritt
subject: 639

description: Japan’s Whaling Policy: The Reasons for Leaving the International Whaling Commission (IWC) This article analyses the historical and political background that led to the Japanese withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission in June 2019. It is argued that Japan originally joined the IWC after the Second World War to enhance its standing in the international community. Japan remained a member after the commercial whaling moratorium in 1986 in the hope of a revocation. However, the defeat before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2014 confronted the Japanese government with the fact that the moratorium would not be lifted. Finally, the Japanese government decided to leave the IWC before the next American presidential election in 2020, as it was believed that the Trump administration would not sanction Japan for leaving an international organization. The IWC withdrawal also allowed the Japanese government to withdraw from its financially disastrous Antarctic whaling activities without giving the impression of having bowed to pressure from international NGOs. Domestically, the ongoing protests of international NGOs against Japanese whaling and dolphin hunts led an increased interest in a national whaling culture and an opposition to anti-whaling among many Japanese citizens.
description: Japan 2019: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 126
title: Neue Mobilität, Urbanisierung und die Zukunft der japanischen Automobilindustrie
Creators: name: Schulz, Martin
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Kraftfahrzeugindustrie
subject: Elektromobilität
subject: 338

description: New Mobility, Urbanization and the Future of the Automobile Industry According to the president of Toyota, Akio Toyoda, the Japanese automobile industry faces a »life-or-death battle.« The challenges come from two directions: the industry faces a connected, autonomous, shared, electric (CASE) revolution of car design, technologies, partnerships and services. At the same time, the mega-trends of digitalization, urbanization, sustainability, and individualization are fundamentally changing lifestyles and mobility demand. Based on their different strengths and weaknesses, countries and industries are now taking different pathways towards new e-mobility solutions. In the US, digital platform providers and software developers are at the forefront for new autonomy and mobility as a service (MaaS) solutions based on private cars. In China, large e-commerce providers – such as Alibaba and WeChat – and local governments are shaping new MaaS and CASE solutions based on huge digital platforms and the creation of massive public transport systems. In Germany, automobile suppliers are the key players in CASE development by creating the interfaces between new digital platforms and production supply chains (known as Industry 4.0). Additionally, German car companies are experimenting with individualized MaaS solutions to remain relevant during a period of sustainability-oriented city space redesign. Conversely, Japanese automotive companies have been much more conservative in their approach towards electro mobility. They have been leaders in hybrid electric vehicle and Li-ion battery development for some time and remain convinced that cost and energy efficiency will be key to effective future mobility solutions. From their perspective, more significant changes in e-mobility will take time because they will be based on new city designs and a growing range of community-oriented services, which require close collaboration with public transport providers and city governments. It is the automotive companies' experience in navigating fast demographic change within one of the most urbanized environments and highly developed public transport systems that leads to caution towards new mobility designs. Instead of developing new electric cars as fast as possible the industry focuses on better supporting aging drivers through augmented driving, integrating cars into household energy ecosystems, and developing new mobility designs for a more distant Society 5.0.
description: Japan 2019: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 152
Optimal sensor location for inverse heat conduction problem in multilayered building walls
Creators: name: Berger, Julien
name: Gasparin, Suelen
name: Ucinski, Dariusz
Publisher: name: Société Française de Thermique
Year: 2022
Subjects: parameter estimation problem
Practical identifiability
inverse heat conduction problem
optimal experiment design
sensor position

description: The estimation of wall thermal properties through an inverse problem procedure enables to increase the reliability of the model predictions for building energy efficiency. Nevertheless, it requires defining an experimental campaign to obtain on-site observations for existing buildings. The quality of the estimated parameter strongly depends on the quality of the experimental data used for the parameter identification. Pronzato highlights the relation between the experiment design and the precision of the retrieved parameters. The design of experiments enables to search for the optimal measurement plan. It ensures the highest precision of the parameter to be estimated. For on-site measurement in buildings, the design of experiments seeks to answer the following questions: How many sensors do we need? What is the sensor position $\chi$ in the wall? The Optimal Experiment Design (OED) methodology enables us to answer those questions. For example, Nenamorokov et al. searched the OED for the estimation of radiation properties. Artyukhin and Budnik inspected the optimal sensor location and their quantity in the inverse heat conduction boundary problem. More recently the optimal heating period and the duration of the experiment were investigated for the thermal conductivity estimation in building walls. In this paper, the OED methodology is used to answer the above-mentioned questions for a real case study. The unknown parameter is the thermal conductivity of each wall layer of an existing French house.
Echo state property and memory capacity of artificial spin ice
Creators: name: Taniguchi, Tomohiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Physical reservoir computing by using artificial spin ice (ASI) has been proposed on the basis of both numerical and experimental analyses. ASI is a many-body system consisting of ferromagnets with various interactions. Recently, fabricating magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) as ferromagnets in an ASI was achieved in the experiment, which enables an electrical detection of magnetic state of each MTJ independently. However, performing a recognition task of time-dependent signal by such an MTJ-based ASI has not been reported yet. In this work, we examine numerical simulation of a recognition task of time-dependent input and evaluate short-term memory and parity-check capacities. These capacities change significantly when the magnitude of the input magnetic field is comparable to a value around which the magnetization alignment is greatly affected by the dipole interaction. It implies that the presence of the dipole interaction results in a loss of echo state property. This point was clarified by evaluating Lyapunov exponent and confirming that the drastic change of the memory capacities appears near the boundary between negative and zero exponents, which corresponds to the edge of echo state property.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures
title: Diskriminierung von Homosexualität in Japan: Protest einer Minderheit
Creators: name: Blödel, Maria
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Homosexualität
subject: Diskriminierung
subject: 305

description: Discrimination of Homosexuality in Japan: Protest of a Minority Although Japan is considered a homogeneous country, protest in Japan is not as rare as it appears. Following the Fukushima triple disaster in 2011, Japanese citizens demonstrated against nuclear energy. However, these protests related to issues or events that affected the entire population. Therefore, what about other groups who are demonstrating for their own rights? This paper is concerned with the attempt to classify a minority in the terms of protest and its impact. First, the important concepts for this article, such as discrimination, protest and its forms, and the terms LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) and homosexuality are outlined. The topic of homosexuality represents one of the minority groups that are subject to discrimination in Japan. The key questions in this paper are therefore: how do homosexuals (dōseiaisha) as a minority group face discrimination, what are their reactions, and how does protest change the situation?
description: Japan 2019: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 178
title: Wer geht während der Schulzeit ins Ausland?: Soziale Selektivität in der Akkumulation transnationalen Humankapitals in Japan
Creators: name: Entrich, Steve
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Schule
subject: Schüler
subject: Schülerin
subject: Auslandsaufenthalt
subject: 37

description: Who Studies Abroad during School? Social Selectivity in Transnational Human Capital Accumulation in Japan Japanese families are known for their massive private investment in supplementary education services. Until recently, however, such investments rarely targeted the increase of students‹ transnational human capital during school, such as foreign language skills and intercultural competencies. Studying abroad is considered the best way to accumulate such capital. Contrary to assumptions based on international data from organizations such as the OECD, recent and more extensive surveys by the Japanese organizations JASSO and JAOS show that the total number of students going abroad for study purposes has increased significantly in recent years. Existing research on this topic is, however, more than tenuous. In this paper two particularly striking research gaps are addressed and enriched with new findings: on the one hand, existing Japanese (and international) research has primarily dealt with university students. Study-related stays abroad during school are hardly considered. On the other hand, existing studies focus more on the motivations and goals or the acquisition of students‹ linguistic and intercultural competences, as well as push- and pull-factors at the institutional/national level. The influence of individual socio-demographic factors on the probability to go abroad is not considered, and especially problematic is the prevalent practice of analyzing highly selective, small samples. Against the background of the discussion about increasing educational and social inequalities in Japan as well as various political programs for the intensification of international student mobility, the issue of social selectivity in student mobility becomes highly important. Based on theories of social and cultural reproduction, rational choice, and signal and screening, as well as using data from the Benesse Gakkōgai Kyōiku Katsudō ni kan suru Chōsa 2013 (N = 15.450), the influence (of parental human capital, aspirations, and other investments in children’s human capital) on the likelihood of students undertaking a study-based stay abroad (long- and short-term) during different episodes of schooling – from pre-school to high school – is predicted. Results show that children from wealthier families with high post-school educational aspirations are most likely to be sent abroad to study. The same families prefer long-term overseas study episodes over short-term experiences. These findings imply a contribution to social and horizontal inequalities, provided that these investments offer a competitive advantage in accessing higher education institutions and better labor market opportunities.
description: Japan 2019: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 230