cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Gratulation zum 25jährigen Jubiläum der VSJF
Creators: name: Trommsdorff, Gisela
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung
subject: 063

description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 47
Candidate gene prioritization with Endeavour
Creators: name: Ardeshirdavani, Amin
name: Léon-Charles Tranchevent
name: Elshal, Sarah
name: Alcaide, Daniel
name: Aerts, Jan
name: Auboeuf, Didier
name: Moreau, Yves
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Genomic studies and high-throughput experiments often produce large lists of candidate genes among which only a few are truly relevant to the disease, phenotype, or biological process of interest. Gene prioritization tackles this problem by ranking candidate genes by profiling candidates across multiple genomic data sources and integrating this heterogenous information into a global ranking. We describe an extended version of our gene prioritization method, Endeavour, now available for 6 species and integrating 75 data sources. Validation of our results indicate that this extended version of Endeavour efficiently prioritizes candidate genes. The Endeavour web server is freely available at https://endeavour.esat.kuleuven.be/
title: Statement zum 25jährigen Bestehen der VSJF
Creators: name: Vollmer, Klaus
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung
subject: 063

description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 49
SynergyScreen, an R package for design and analysis of compound synergy screens
Creators: name: Bukhman, Yury
name: Bottoms, Scott
name: Dickinson, Quinn
name: Hinchman, Li
name: Piotrowski, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Screening sets of chemical compounds for potential synergy or antagonism has a wide range of applications, from medicine to bioenergy research.  In order to facilitate design and analysis of synergy screens, we have developed an R package, SynergyScreen.  Given a set of compounds and dose ranges, SynergyScreen can produce a design of a screen testing their pairwise combinations.  The package generates layouts for a set of 96-well microtiter plates.  It includes titration series for each compound and each combination in a fixed ratio, comprising a set of single-ray synergy experiments.  Once the experiments have been carried out, SynergyScreen can analyze the data to detect synergistic and antagonistic compound pairs.  The analysis includes normalization to remove potential plate bias, modeling each individual dose-response curve, and computing interaction index values for a set of effect sizes.  The package can produce tabular outputs and visualizations.  We demonstrate SynergyScreen functionality using example data.
Engineering robust strain transmission in van der Waals heterostructure devices
Creators: name: Cenker, John
name: Fonseca, Jordan
name: Nguyen, Mai
name: Hu, Chaowei
name: Chica, Daniel G.
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Zhu, Xiaoyang
name: Roy, Xavier
name: Chu, Jiun-Haw
name: Xu, Xiaodong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atomically thin van der Waals materials provide a highly tunable platform for exploring emergent quantum phenomena in solid state systems. Due to their remarkable mechanical strength, one enticing tuning knob is strain. However, the weak strain transfer of graphite and hBN, which are standard components of high-qualityvdW devices, poses fundamental challenges for high-strain experiments. Here, we investigate strain transmission in less-explored orthorhombic crystals and find robust transmission up to several percent at cryogenic temperatures. We further show that strain can be efficiently transferred through these crystals to other 2D materials in traditional heterostructure devices. Using this capability, we demonstrate in-situ strain and gate control of the optical properties of monolayer WS2 utilizing the high-\k{appa} dielectric insulator Bi2SeO5 as a substrate. These results enable the exploration of combined cryo-strain and gate tuning in a variety of layered systems such as moiré heterostructures, air-sensitive 2D magnets and superconductors, and any gated 2D device.
description: To appear in Nano Letters
FORMATION AND MODERN MANAGEMENT METHODS OF AGRICULTURAL CLUSTERS
Creators: name: Bekchanov, X.T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article analyzes the formation of the cluster system in agriculture and modern methods of its effective management. Agro-clusters are considered as a system that ensures interconnected processes of production, processing, storage, and marketing. The paper explores the legal and economic foundations of cluster activities, mechanisms of state support, innovative management models, and opportunities for digitalization. Furthermore, it offers recommendations aimed at improving the efficiency of agricultural clusters.
title: Japanische Innenpolitik 2012/13
Creators: name: Pohl, Manfred
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Innenpolitik
subject: Parteiensystem
subject: Geschichte 2012-2013
subject: 320

description: Japanese Domestic Politics 2012/2013 Nothing ever changes in Japanese politics? Seemingly unchangeable voting behaviour and election results in 2012/13 tend to confirm this rather depressing conclusion: after two national elections and a double regional ballot in Tokyo the LDP is safely back in power, controlling a two-third majority in both houses of Parliament. The DPJ, which triumphed in the 2009 elections, in turn took a terrible beating in the Lower House election of December 2012 and suffered another humiliating defeat in the Upper House election in July 2013. Also both the governorship and the majority of the city council in Tokyo fell to pro-LDP forces. Disappointed by its tax policies Japanese voters decided against the DPJ, but not principally for the LDP and its coalition partner New Kômeitô. While in the two years after the Fukushima catastrophes of 2011 the antinuclear movement seemed to have grown in numbers and thus as a strong domestic political force, yet it could not transform this into significant election results. The colourful, motley (and split) movement never turned itself into an efficient political force. On the other hand fear of further economic decline and the loss of jobs after a complete shut-down of nuclear plants made voters of all generations opt for alleged stability and continuity, i.e. in tendency for the pro-nuclear parties and candidates, even amongst young people and those voters who live close to nuclear power plants. 2012/13 was thus a year of »Abenomics« and a conservative revival.
description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 51
title: Die Beschränkung des Erbpolitikertums als neues Nominierungsprinzip der DPJ
Creators: name: Kopietz, Simone
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Minshutō
subject: Politiker
subject: Nachfolge
subject: 324

description: The Restriction on Hereditary Candidacies within the DPJ: Commitments and Challenges to an Innovative Recruitment Policy Japanese political recruitment is well known for its democratic deficits. In terms of equal opportunities the dominance of a few chosen paths restrict the chances for newcomers to access national politics for a long time. The so called hereditary system represents the most famous privileged paths, drawing its advantage from the legacy of loyal voters and financial strength within the context of a highly personalized and cost-intensive style of Japanese election campaigning. Political reform in 1994 aiming at a new pattern of electoral competition did have some impact on the hereditary system’s popularity with the Japanese voter as well as the major political parties, the DPJ and LDP, but did not translate into the complete disappearance of hereditary practices at national level elections. Therefore still highly relevant in 2009 it became subject to a new recruitment policy set by the DPJ headquarters – which included a restriction on the nomination of hereditary candidates. When implementing this new counter measure, the focus was officially put on the goal of democratization. This article asks whether this ambitious goal was realized or not. Does the restriction produce equal opportunities for all aspirants for state level candidacy regardless of one’s political ancestry? As this study will show, the party’s commitment to the realization of an effective restriction was exposed to the forces of intra-party opposition and the strive for electoral success. Whereas any such implementation can be considered an unprecedented commitment in itself, deeper investigation reveals a set of deficits and loopholes intended to undermine the newly implemented nomination principle, testifying to the DPJ’s lack of determination and underscoring the persistence of old patterns.
description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 75
Optimisation multicritère d'un système solaire thermique avec un stockage inter-saisonnier
Creators: name: Lapertot, Arnaud
name: Kadoch, Benjamin
name: Le Metayer, Olivier
Publisher: name: Société Française de Thermique
Year: 2022
Subjects: aide à la décision
système énergétique
énergie renouvelable
optimisation multi-objectif.

description: Le secteur résidentiel représente environ 45 \% de la consommation d'énergie finale en France. Il est donc important de rendre nos bâtiments moins énergivores et plus autonomes. Une des solutions possibles est d'utiliser un système énergétique basé sur les énergies renouvelables. Cependant, le dimensionnement d'un tel système est difficile à mettre en \oe uvre, c'est pour cela que les outils de simulation et d'optimisation doivent être envisagés afin d'estimer la configuration optimale. La modélisation du système est constituée d'un bâtiment résidentiel et d'un système énergétique qui permet de répondre aux besoins de chauffage en hiver et d'eau chaude sanitaire (ECS) tout au long de l'année. Le système est capable de collecter l'énergie solaire à l'aide de ses panneaux solaires thermiques afin de la stocker soit dans un stockage de chaleur inter-saisonnier (IS) soit dans un ballon d'ECS. Le stockage IS permet de conserver l'énergie solaire pendant l'été et de la réutiliser pendant l'hiver, lorsque les besoins en chauffage sont les plus importants. Le but de cette étude est d'utiliser une méthodologie d'optimisation multicritère à ce système énergétique complexe. Cette procédure est appliquée aux variables de dimensionnement tels que les caractéristiques des capteurs solaires et des stockages de chaleur, ainsi qu'aux paramètres de régulation tels que la différence entre les températures d'entrée et de sortie des capteurs solaires et le volume de consigne. Les objectifs du problème d'optimisation sont simultanément de maximiser la fraction solaire, de minimiser le coût de l'énergie et les émissions de CO2. La méthodologie est composée d'une analyse de sensibilité pour sélectionner les paramètres influents, d'une optimisation multi-objectif pour déterminer le front de Pareto et d'une aide à la décision multicritère pour sélectionner le meilleur compromis. Les résultats montrent que les objectifs sont contradictoires et n'évoluent pas dans le même sens, ce qui permet d'identifier l'ensemble des bons compromis pour les objectifs considérés. La méthodologie d'optimisation permet d'obtenir un système énergétique rentable et autonome. Dans ces travaux, une étude de la stratification du stockage de chaleur est prise en compte afin de voir l'impact sur la solution optimale.
Mid-range inductive power transfer through conductive media using split toroidal loop-gap resonators
Creators: name: Wandinger, Joseph N.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: We investigated mid-range inductive power transfer (IPT) through salt water. Our inductivelycoupled transmitters and receivers were made from loop-gap resonators (LGRs) having resonant frequencies near 100 MHz. Electric fields are confined within the narrow gaps of the LGRs, making it possible to strongly suppress the power dissipation associated with electric fields in a conductive medium. Therefore, the power transfer efficiency in our system was limited by magnetic field dissipation in the conducting medium. We measured the power transfer efficiency and spatial bandwidth of the system as a function of both the distance between the transmitter and receiver and the conductivity of the water. We also present an approximate calculation of the power dissipation expected from an oscillating magnetic field in a conducting medium. The results of the calculation are used to identify important design parameters for practical systems.
title: Von Noda zu Abe: Japans außenpolitische Reaktion auf wachsende Bedrohungswahrnehmung 2012/13
Creators: name: Vosse, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Außenpolitik
subject: Sicherheitspolitik
subject: Geschichte 2012-2013
subject: 327

description: From Noda to Abe: Japan’s Foreign Policy Reaction to Increasing Threat Perception Because of increasing Chinese economic and military power, heightening territorial disputes concerning Senkaku, Takeshima, and the Kuril Islands, threat perceptions and a feeling of powerlessness have intensified among the Japanese public. In addition to deep disappointments about the three DPJ governments between 2009 and 2012, this has led to landslide victories of the LDP now under Prime Minister Abe in the Lower House elections in December 2012 and the Upper House elections in July 2013. Developments are now leading to a major change towards more involvement of Japan not only in its own defence, but increasingly also in the security in the Asia-Pacific region. This chapter provides an overview of the recent development of the Japanese bi- and multilateral relations and three main foreign policy areas, namely security, trade and development policy.
description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 101
Computing the Subdifferential of Convex Piecewise Linear-Cubic Functions
Creators: name: Mahnic, Aaron Matthew
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: Computational Convex Analysis (CCA) studies the computation of convex operators commonly used in convex analysis. CCA allows researchers to visualize non-trivial convex transforms and build an intuition from these examples. Using the convexity and structure of piecewise linear cubic (PLC) functions as a model, the foundation for a new CCA toolbox has been implemented. The CCA toolbox is built in MATLAB and includes extensive test coverage and examples. In addition, it is free and open source. The CCA toolbox provides several plotting methods to visualize PLC functions and their properties. Plotting the domain of a PLC function is a useful tool for both research and visualizing the correctness of computed output. Within a PLC function, any polyhedral set can be unbounded and plotting the domain of such a function would lead to an unbounded plot which cannot be displayed. We introduce a method that manipulates the PLCVC data structure in the CCA toolbox to plot an unbounded domain within a specified window. A convex analysis operation of considerable interest is the Legendre-Fenchel transform, also known as the Fenchel conjugate. The computation of the Fenchel conjugate can be done in linear time. As a first step in implementing a linear time conjugate computation for the CCA toolbox, we introduce a new class (PLCVP) that implements a method for computing the subdifferential at any point of a PLC function.
title: Der Wandel der japanischen Sicherheitspolitik vor dem Hintergrund einer neuen ostasiatischen Sicherheitsarchitektur
Creators: name: Adebahr, David
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Sicherheitspolitik
subject: Geschichte 1990-2013
subject: 327

description: The Transformation of Japanese Security Policy in the Context of a New East Asian Security Architecture By maintaining the bilateral security alliance with the U.S. even after the end of the Cold War, Japan had to accept that the parameters of this cooperation had been adjusted constantly and therefore changed Japan’s role within this alliance and – in particular – in terms of its foreign policy perceptions. By using a theoretical frame of a regime- and systemic oriented approach from the area of International Relation Theory, this paper will show that Japan did engage in a more pro-active security policy within and outside this bilateral alliance since 1990 and mainly after 2001. This analysis will conclude that due to a fear-of-abandonment and to a changing security architecture, Japan had to take up more responsibility in International Security to strengthen its security regime with the U.S. and to counter-balance emerging powers in East Asia.
description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 125
title: Katastrophenmanagement im Rahmen der U.S.-japanischen Allianz: Operation Tomodachi und die japanischen Selbstverteidigungsstreitkräfte
Creators: name: Gawor, Lukas
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Japan. Jieitai
subject: USA. Army
subject: Japan
subject: USA
subject: Militärische Kooperation
subject: Katastrophenhilfe
subject: Geschichte 2011-2013
subject: 355

description: Disaster Management within the U.S.-Japan Alliance: Operation Tomodachi and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces This article provides an overview of the disaster management measures of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the U.S.-Military following the events of the earthquake on March 11th 2011. It argues that the cooperation of these two forces strengthened the U.S.-Japan relationship. The triple catastrophe (earthquake, Tsunami and meltdown in Fukushima No. 1 nuclear reactor) represented a unique and extreme scenario for Japanese and U.S.-disaster management systems. The combination of two natural disasters with the imminent danger of wide-spread nuclear contamination resulted in the necessity to redefine and reinterpret existing standards and guidelines in the field of disaster and consequence management. Procedures that would have been applied by the U.S.-Government in case of a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear assault had to be redesigned in a broader legal framework. The article discusses the procedures and problems within the process of creating a legal basis for a disaster relief mission. Furthermore, Operation Tomodachi was the countries’ first joint military operation, in which the SDF and the U.S.-Forces worked under emergency conditions. Although the U.S. and Japan came to no resolution regarding the relocation of the Futenma military base, the article shows that Operation Tomodachi improved the overall perception of the U.S.-Forces and the SDF, but had no long-term consequences for the plan to relocate Futenma. Although it could not remove the obstacles within the negotiations, it nevertheless gave new momentum for Japan’s security cooperation.
description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 149
title: Japans Entwicklungszusammenarbeit mit Afghanistan: Strategische Überlegungen zwischen Terrorismusbekämpfung und Energiesicherheit
Creators: name: Winkscha, Alexander
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
subject: Entwicklungshilfe
subject: Afghanistan
subject: 327

description: Japan’s ODA to Afghanistan: Underlying Strategies from Anti-Terror to Energy Supplies Japan is the second largest Official Development Assistance (ODA) donor to Afghanistan after the United States. At the same time, Afghanistan is the top third recipient country of Japanese ODA. This article takes a closer look at the strategic decisions that inform the Japanese engagement and asks for the possible motivations. Japan’s ODA to Afghanistan has focused on three main areas of intervention: a) strengthening the capacities to implement security in the country (focused mostly on training and paying the salaries of the police); b) disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of former Taliban soldiers; and c) supporting Afghanistan in achieving self-led sustainable development, an umbrella category encompassing projects in education, health, agriculture, energy, etc. Japan traditionally pitches its ODA engagements as contributions to enhancing human security worldwide. The intervention in Afghanistan is prominently described as part of a Japanese counter-terrorism strategy and as such clearly shows the limited military cooperation possibilities Japan has in dealing with an unstable and insecure state like Afghanistan. However, the last ODA White paper from 2012 signals a shift in the ODA goals for Afghanistan in that greater emphasis is being put on boosting the Afghan economy and investing in infrastructure. Both these points seem to illustrate a different strategic interest of Japan in Afghanistan. The region of Central Asia is economically interesting for Japan because of its energy resources. A stable Afghanistan (which the MOFA counts to the Middle Eastern region) not only means more safety for the transport of energy supplies from the Central Asian states, the investment in Afghan infrastructure can actually be used as a segment in the route of transportation of this energy to Japan. The latest Japanese pledge for ODA to Afghanistan during the Tokyo 2012 Conference was accompanied by a pledge to invest even more money in the surrounding states. Japan’s interest in a stable Afghanistan is thus only secondary in terms of counter-terrorism, the primary strategic goal is securing energy resources from the Central Asian region.
description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 177
Epidemiology and outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in a developing country – A multicenter cohort study
Creators: name: Minaz Mawani
name: Kadir, Muhammad Masood
name: Azam, Iqbal
name: Mehmood, Amber
name: McNally, Bryan
name: Stevens, Kent
name: Nuruddin, Rozina
name: Ishaq, Mohammad
name: Junaid Abdul Razzak
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Introduction

Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Survival post OHCA has been reported to be poor and limited studies have been conducted in developing countries. We aimed to investigate the rates of survival from OHCA and explore the components of chain of survival in Karachi, Pakistan.

Methods

We conducted a prospective cohort study at emergency departments (ED) of five major public and private hospitals of Karachi, Pakistan from January 2013 to April 2013.  These are the largest teaching hospitals  of the city where majority of patients and most of the EMS(Emergency Medical Services) visits are received. Combine, these hospitals receive population that is diverse in socioeconomic status and ethnicities and is largely representative of the general population. Twenty-four hour data collection was performed by a team consisting of 17 trained data collectors, using a structured questionnaire. All patients > 18 year, presenting with non-traumatic OHCA, were included. Patients with Do-not-resuscitate status or referred from other hospitals were excluded. Primary outcome of this study was survival of OHCA patients at the end of ED stay.

Results

During the study period, about 399 OHCA patients were assessed. Overall survival at the end of emergency department stay was only 1.5%. More than a half(56.6%) of the patients were brought to the hospital in a public or private transportation (Non-EMS vehicle). Patients utilizing Non-EMS transportation reached to the hospital earlier with a median time of 23 minutes, however, patients utilizing ambulance with life support facilities, had the shortest time to receive any life support interventions (16 minutes). Most of the patients (92.2%) had a witnessed arrest whereas a smaller percentage (1.7%) received bystander CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation). Median time from arrest to receiving first CPR was 20 minutes and a smaller percentage of patients were found to have a shockable rhythm on first assessment (1.5%)

Conclusion

This is the first city wide study for OHCA, assessing its outcomes in Karachi Pakistan. The overall survival is poor in this population. Lack of bystander CPR and weak EMS systems leading to a delay in receiving life support interventions were some of the important observations. Poor survival emphasizes the need to standardize EMS systems, initiate public awareness programs and strengthen links in the chain of survival.
Hypena Schrank 1802
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

description: Hypena Schrank, 1802
Ameltropalpis Mabille, 1884 - Mabille (1884) | Anepischetos Smith, 1900 - Smith (1900) | Apanda Moore, 1882 - Moore (1882) | Badausa Walker, 1863 - Walker (1863) | Bomolocha Hübner, 1825 - Hübner (1825) | Camhypena Prout, 1927 - Prout (1927) | Dichromia Guenée, 1854 - Guenée (1854) | Erichila Billberg, 1820 - Billberg (1820) | Eugrona Holland, 1894 - Holland (1894) | Euhyphena Grote, 1873 - Grote (1873 c) | Harita Moore, 1882 - Moore (1882) | Herpyzon Hübner, 1822 - Hübner (1822) | Lomanaltes Grote, 1873 - Grote (1873 a) | Macrhypena Grotte, 1873 - Grote (1873 c) | Mathura Moore, 1882 - Moore (1882) | Meghypena Grote, 1873 - Grote (1873 b) | Nesamiptis Meyrick, 1899 - Meyrick (1899) | Ophiuche Hübner, 1825 - Hübner (1825) | Peliala Walker, 1865 - Walker (1865) | Plathypena Grote, 1873 - Grote (1873 c) | Placerobela Turner, 1903 - Turner (1903).
Notes
TS: Phalaena proboscidalis Linnaeus, 1758. TL: Europe.
Diagnosis
Antennae minutely ciliated in male; labial palpi large, roughly scaled, the second segment long and porrect, strongly projected beyond frons; frons with long projected tufts. Thorax ventrally with long hairs. Forewing ground colour greyish, brownish or light blackish; medial fascia distinct with slanted postmedial lines; apex depressed, slightly acute; areole present. Hindwings ground colour yellowish or slightly darker than forewing; areole formed between veins 3 and 4; discal dot present. Male genitalia. Uncus long, hooked. Valva with distinct clavus; costa slightly sclerotised, curved or straight. Aedeagus with a bundle of cornuti on globular vesica. Female genitalia. Papillae analis broad; anterior apophyses often long, more than twice the posterior apophyses. Ostium broad, cup-shaped, without sclerotised appendages; ductus bursae broad and shrunken or slender; corpus bursae large, globular without a signum.
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: Bescheidene Managementgehälter und sich schliessende Lohnscheren: Neue Einblicke in den japanischen Arbeitsmarkt
Creators: name: Blind, Georg
name: Lottanti, Stefania
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Arbeitsmarkt
subject: Lohnniveau
subject: Führungskraft
subject: Gehalt
subject: Gender Pay Gap
subject: 331

description: Modest Executive Pay and Narrowing Wage Gaps for Women and Non-Regular Employees: Evidence from Recent Statistics With the Abe government continuing its efforts to beat deflation, to weaken the Yen, and to spur growth, we briefly take stock of recent developments that have lent their fate to the July 2013 election that has seen the re-elected LDP prime minister expanding his control over the second chamber of parliament. Amidst these ongoing developments, however, we propose a paramount perspective on what might be considered the ›market that makes society‹, i.e., the market where labour is exchanged for wages. Two recent discourses have attracted public interest: allegedly low executive pay levels and declining general wage levels. This paper investigates into: 1) What does explain the low level of Japanese executive pay in international comparison, and what role does culture play? 2) Did the structural changes in the labour market during the last 20 years really result in generally lower wage levels? With regards to 1), we find that existing management theories offer a number of potential explanations, questioning any moderating impact of Japanese culture on executive pay. With regards to 2), we find that lower employee pay levels can only be found for a limited number of age cohorts. Furthermore, between 1988 and 2010 the gender wage gap as well as the pay gap between regular and non-regular employees significantly narrowed. Moreover, the share of labour compensation in national income increased by six percentage points during the investigation period. As these findings do not warrant the received negative perception of the Japanese labour market, we propose two lines of argument aimed at explaining this obvious misperception.
description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 203
title: Japans Senioren auf dem Arbeitsmarkt: Zwischen ökonomischer Notwendigkeit und innerem Antrieb
Creators: name: Kohlbacher, Florian
name: Mollenhauer, Hendrik
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Alter
subject: Älterer Mensch
subject: Arbeitsmarkt
subject: 331

description: Japan’s Elderly in the Labour Market: Between Economic Necessity and Inner Motivation As Japan’s birthrate declines and its population ages many companies and other organizations as well as the national economy as a whole face challenges in terms of foreseen labour shortages and a loss of corporate expertise. Japan’s population is shrinking and therefore several socio-political regulations were introduced in the past to ensure that the ageing working population gain full access to the regular labour market. It became necessary to improve the employment situation for the elderly workforce since members of the so called »baby-boomer-generation« are close to reaching the official retirement age. The baby-boomer-generation in Japan are those born from 1947 to 1949, with the first cohort of them having turned 65 years old in 2012. However many of Japan’s senior citizens are willing to continue working until old age. Based on the »productive ageing theory« (Bass and Caro 2001) this paper calls the internal and external factors for the motivation of elderly people staying active into question. Due to the demographic change in Japan it becomes crucial to support the participation of older people in the domestic labour market in order to ensure a sustainable development of the economy as well as successful and productive ageing at the individual level. The results of our research suggest that occupational employment options correspond insufficiently with the preferences of older people. An important reason for the limited economic participation of older people in the Japanese labour market – both in terms of quantity and quality – is the low degree of compatibility of interests and possibilities of the supply and demand side. The job offer of companies is often limited to the provision of non-regular employment until age 65. This uniform arrangement appears inappropriate because it does not take the divergent preferences of older people into account. In addition, the current policies do not seem to be suitable for balancing the bargaining power between firms and elderly workforces and break down the barriers on the way to a successful employment at old age.
description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 229
The effect of stellar evolution on dispersal of protoplanetary disks: Disk fraction in star-forming regions
Creators: name: Komaki, Ayano
name: Yoshida, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of stellar evolution on the dispersal of protoplanatary disks by performing one-dimensional simulations of long-term disk evolution. Our simulations include viscous disk accretion, magnetohydrodynamic winds, and photoevaporation as important disk dispersal processes. We consider a wide range of stellar mass of $0.1$ - $7M_{\odot}$, and incorporate the luminosity evolution of the central star. For solar-mass stars, stellar evolution delays the disk dispersal time as the FUV luminosity decreases toward the main sequence. In the case of intermediate-mass stars, the FUV luminosity increases significantly over a few million years, driving strong photoevaporation and enhancing disk mass loss during the later stages of disk evolution. This highlights the limitations of assuming a constant FUV luminosity throughout a simulation. Photoevaporation primarily impacts the outer regions of the disk and is the dominant disk dispersal process in the late evolutionary stage. Based on the results of a large set of simulations, we study the evolution of a population of star-disk systems and derive the disk fraction as a function of time. We demonstrate that the inclusion of stellar luminosity evolution can alter the disk fraction by several tens of percent, bringing the simulations into closer agreement with recent observations. We argue that it is important to include the stellar luminosity evolution in simulations of the long-term dispersal of protoplanetary disks.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
title: Katastrophenvolunteers in Tōhoku: Lebensinhalt, Strategie, Selbstzufriedenheit?
Creators: name: Klien, Susanne
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Tohoku 〈Region〉
subject: Katastrophenhilfe
subject: Helfer
subject: Ehrenamtlicher Mitarbeiter
subject: Motivation
subject: Geschichte 2011-2013
subject: 363

description: Disaster Volunteers in Tōhoku: Purpose in Life, Strategy, Self-Complacency? This ethnographic study examines disaster volunteers in Tohoku aged between 20 and 40 years old. The empirical data obtained from fieldwork between April 2011 and April 2013 point to an inherent link between volunteering and personal transformation. Ethnographic analyses of individual volunteer experiences are rare (Stevens 1997, Ozawa 2001, Nakano 2005). Contrary to the conventional belief that volunteering is primarily about altruism and empathy I argue that most volunteers pursue their own interests while helping others. The aim of this study is the qualitative exploration of the multiple experiences and changes of selected younger volunteers: some seek to overcome their social aversion through volunteering, some hope to reintegrate into society and consider their activities as their »first career«. Others have abandoned their stable well-paid jobs in Tokyo and aspire to new professional challenges and thus pursue their volunteering activities as their »second career«. My empirical data obtained from fieldwork and semi-structured interviews suggest that regardless of the various motivations of individuals social work constitutes a context where individuals position themselves vis-à-vis society rather than retreating from it (Stevens 1997, Nakano 2005). Volunteering is depicted as a milieu where individual identities are re-framed and the changes of Japanese society as such becomes evident, especially its transition from lifelong employment to self-determined project work and new forms of living.
description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 255
title: »Sushi global«: Zwischen J-branding und kulinarischem Nationalismus
Creators: name: Mladenova, Dorothea
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Sushi
subject: Globalisierung
subject: 641

description: Sushi Gone Global: Between J-branding and Culinary Nationalism Based on a historical outline of how Sushi travelled from Japan via the U.S. to Europe with a special focus on Germany, it is argued that today there exist at least two forms of Sushi, the »original« and the »glocal«, both of which have their own history and legitimacy. By applying the globalization theories of Appadurai (2008), Ritzer (2008) and Ng (2001) it is shown how global Sushi emerged from Japanese Sushi while becoming an independent item and hybridizing itself. Therefore, Sushi does not fit in the narrow framework of »national« or »ethnic« cuisine any more. The article states that by referring to global Sushi variations as »fake«, the Japanese agents who advocate a »clean-up« of the global sushi economy are ignoring that the two different types cannot be judged by the same standard, because they follow different rules and patterns of consumption and thereby serve different functions.
description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 275
title: Compartiendo nuestras ideas
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1987
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Educational Methods

description: Estimados Compañeros: Por este medio tenemos el gusto de brindarles este pequeño folleto, fruto de una labor colectiva por parte del grupo de participantes y capacitadores del Programa de Capacitación para Maestros de Educación Primaria. Esperamos que los materiales incluidos aquí les sean de utilidad en su trabajo docente, y que al mismo tiempo el folleto les sirva como un recuerdo cariñoso de esta convivencia única que pudimos compartir. La oportunidad de intercambiar las ideas y experiencas de todos ha sido la base para lograr un aprendizaje mútuo e inolvidable. Queremos agradecerles a todos por su participación en el programa y en la producción de este folleto. Nuestros mejores deseos de exitos en la vida les acompañaran siempre...
Research 101 : A process for developing local guidelines for ethical research in heavily researched communities : [infographic]
Creators: name: Bailey, Alexandra
name: Felekan, Cristina
name: Salas, Sophie
name: Warnes, Janet
name: Ayala, Samantha
name: Brudar, Tara
name: Highley, Lola
name: Rees, Julia
name: Wu, Leean
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: This infographic is based on the following article : Neufeld, S. D., Chapman, J., Crier, N., Marsh, S., McLeod, J., & Deane, L. A. (2019). Research 101: A process for developing local guidelines for ethical research in heavily researched communities. Harm Reduction Journal,16(1).
TeSS – Training Portal
Creators: name: Beard, Niall
name: Attwood, Teresa
name: Nenadic, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: TeSS (life sciences training portal, https://tess.elixir-uk.org) aggregates links to disparate training events and materials, scattered across ELIXIR Nodes and other training portals, and makes them centrally discoverable.

Aggregation is effected automatically, via custom-built scripts that scrape training metadata descriptors (title, description, prerequisites, goals, categories, keywords, contributors, audience, etc.) from participating websites. This task is made difficult by the lack of consistency in training pages’ structures and lack of agreement on training metadata descriptors.

In the past year, we helped initiate the BioSchemas Working Group, which aims to reach consensus among life-science communities in defining metadata standards for describing training resources. BioSchemas are extending specifications from Schema.org, reusing existing metadata standards. This is in line with Google and other major search engines, which already utilise Schema.org’s schemas for search optimisation.

We have also started to actively promote the use of ‘bioschemas’ among content providers. A first follower was GOBLET, whose training portal has embedded the new BioSchemas-proposed mark-up within their training pages. Ultimately, our goal is for all content providers to adhere to the agreed schemas, making the job of search engines more efficient, and scrapers redundant.

Our next immediate task is to increase the content from ELIXIR Nodes, and to further promote take-up of the evolving ‘bioschemas’. At the same time, to make further efficiency gains and broaden the scope of the resource, we are partnering with the emerging US BD2K’s Training Coordination Centre, which has a similar remit to that of TeSS, sharing expertise, training resources and technical know-how.
title: Innenpolitik Japans 2013/14
Creators: name: Pohl, Manfred
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Innenpolitik
subject: Parteiensystem
subject: Geschichte 2013-2014
subject: 320

description: Japan’s Domestic Politics 2013/14 Backed by a solid majority in both Houses of Parliament, Prime Minister Shinzō Abe in 2013/14 set forth to tackle two of the most pressing problems: Fighting persistent deflationary tendencies, while at the same time avoiding fiscal and financial risks. »Abenomics« have produced some encouraging results, warning signs however still remain, as shown e. g. by the sharp drop in private consumption following the tax increase of April 2014. In the governing coalition some indicators of a gradually widening rift became visible: Only reluctantly New Kōmeitō accepted some compromise solutions in government politics, e. g. with regard to tax increases, reactivating nuclear energy and reinterpretation of the constitution. Bowing to Abe’s pressure, the junior partner took the risk to alienate itself from its »mother organization«, i. e. the Sōka Gakkai. During all of 2013/14 Prime Minister Abe has shown a markedly sharp rightwing turn in his political principles: Opting for an active Japanese participation in collective self-defense by reinterpreting the constitution through cabinet decision, rather than parliamentary vote; allowing Shinto religion to increasingly influence political decision making and rewriting history can all be regarded as sure signs indicating such a turn. This new Japanese nationalism has antagonized Japan’s neighbors, raising tensions over territorial disputes and bearing the latent risk of estrangement with Washington. Opposition parties on the other hand continued dismembering themselves: While the Democratic Party of Japan is sliding into nonexistence, all attempts at forming a united opposition party out of several tiny political groups have miserably failed. All hopes that rested upon Ōsaka’s Hashimoto to build a feasible alternative to the LDP-dominated ruling system vanished, after the Ōsaka hopeful came out with some irresponsible remarks concerning the Pacific War, showing him to be an ultra-conservative in disguise. Opposition against Abe’s politics became manifest however, when in some regional (gubernatorial) elections of 2013/14 hardcore opponents won; so the regular combined communal und regional elections of 2015 will be a major challenge to Abe. He plans to fight the elections with a reshuffled cabinet and an LDP under new leadership aimed especially at the female electorate.
description: Japan 2014: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 25
An evaluation of Innovation Unlocked – Cell furniture to improvesafer custody and to catalyse innovation in prison industries project
Creators: name: Caulfield, Laura
name: Chopra, Isha
Publisher: name: University of the Arts London
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330313
subject: Social design
classificationCode: 330309
subject: Industrial and product design
classificationCode: 440204
subject: Crime and social justice

description: DACRC delivered a participatory design approach, involving prisoners, prison staff, ex-offenders,experts and specialists from HMPPS Prison Industries, specialist designers and design researchersand Central Saint Martins (CSM) graduate designers and students. This process ultimately produceda range of product outputs, material recommendations, design resources and a digital researcharchive.Research was concurrently conducted by the Institute for Community Research and Development. Evaluation report 1 (Caulfield & Jolly, March 2020) presented detailed findings about the processand impact of taking part in a collaborative design approach, for both prisoners and prison staff andprovided evidence about the successes and challenges of embarking on such an approach within theprison system. This current report provides a template for future data collection and recommends that this beimplemented alongside the introduction of the new furniture designs in order to understand theireffectiveness and impact, linked to the furniture’s contribution to improving safety, security andwellbeing. It is vital that HMPPS collect evidence to show whether the designs are viable, feasible,and desirable in social, economic, and environmental terms.
Hypena tamsi Filipjev 1927
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 tamsi

description: Hypena tamsi Filipjev, 1927
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Choi, Sei-Woong; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; disposition: Mokpo National University; occurrenceID: 0C4858A0-A84B-5673-8B99-F9DD9691FB77; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena tamsi; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: JB; county: Sunchang; locality: Jiseon-ri, Bohheung-myon; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 5/5/2013; Record Level: modified: 3 / 30 / 2025; language: en; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Distribution
Korea, Russian Far East.
Notes
This is the first record for the Korean fauna. The DNA barcode of Hypena tamsi was first registered in this study (GenBank accession No. PV 274484) and the p-distance with H. pulverulenta was 10.25 %, while the lowest genetic distance of 0.15 % was observed with H. proboscidalis (Figs 2 b, 7 e, f).
Diagnosis
Wingspan 35 mm. Antennae filiform with cilia; vertex anFd frons covered with long greyish-brown scales, distal tip ochreous; labial palpi long, covered with greyish-brown scales, second segment straight, more than three times longer than the third segment, third segment with ochreous distal end. Thorax greyish-brown; tegula consisting of long scales and hair-like scales. Forewing greyish-brown with numerous short dark brownish lines; antemedial line dark brown, undulating; postmedial line distinct, dark brownish, slightly curved at costal 2 / 3; subterminal line weakly undulating. Hindwing paler than forewing, greyish-brown. Abdomen greyish-brown. Male genitalia. Uncus long, weakly hooked, apex sharply pointed. Tegumen hood-shaped; tuba analis long; juxta broad, thick hexagon-shape on its side; saccus shallow, semi-rounded. Valva simple, stout, weakly sclerotised; costal margin almost flat, outer 1 / 4 weakly swollen; sacculus ventral margin medially weakly invaginated; basally a slender division of clavus with a minute process. Aedeagus rod-shaped, anteriorly with dense spicules; vesica large sac-shaped, cornuti a mass of large 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