cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Aufwind für Japans Windkraft?: Japans Windkraftsektor nach Fukushima
Creators: name: Schrade, Anna
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Windenergie
subject: Geschichte 2011-2012
subject: 333

description: Wind in the Land of the Rising Sun: A Fresh Breeze after Fukushima? Due to the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake of March 2011, the Japanese government has to greatly restructure its energy mix to compensate for the shutdown of most of Japan’s 56 nuclear power stations. Renewable energies, especially energy-efficient wind power, are promising alternatives. However, until today, Japan has not effectively harnessed wind and the installed wind power capacity accounts for just 0.3 percent of Japan’s total national electricity demand, compared with 6 percent in Germany. To increase understanding of why Japan’s policies regarding renewable energies have failed and to put the country’s wind power development into perspective, this article compares and contrasts the Japanese approach with that of Germany, the world’s leader in wind power generation until 2009. Applying the theoretical concept of »technological innovation systems« (TIS), this article analyses how wind power emerges, advances and diffuses in society (Jacobsson und Johnson 2000, Carlsson und Stankiewicz 1991, Bergek et al. 2008). It reveals that policy designs and market mechanisms have triggered and advanced the development of the wind power sector through positive feedback loops and virtuous circles in Germany, whereas Japanese institutions have hindered technological innovation through various blocking mechanisms. This article concludes that Japan will be able to produce substantial amounts of wind power given comprehensive, effective political action e.g. increased Research & Development (R&D) budgets and long-term support through feed-in tariffs.
description: Japan 2012: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 67
title: Der DPJ-Ansatz zur Steigerung der diplomatischen Rolle Japans: Japanische Außenpolitik 2011/2012
Creators: name: Vosse, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Außenpolitik
subject: Sicherheitspolitik
subject: Geschichte 2011-2012
subject: 327

description: The DPJ Approach to Enhance Japan’s Diplomatic Role: Japanese Foreign Policy 2011/2012 After having received international disaster and reconstruction support after the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, the DPJ government under Prime Minister Noda has been trying to use the time when most of attention of the Japanese public was still focused on dealing with the aftermath of the 3/11 disaster and other domestic political issues, to gradually enhance Japan’s stance in East Asia and the world. This article highlights these changes by focusing on the most important bilateral relationships and the three policy areas security policy, trade policy, development policy.
description: Japan 2012: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 91
The Noctua Modeling Tool
Creators: name: Carbon, Seth
name: Dietze, Heiko
name: Mungall, Chris
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: We present Noctua, a modern web application and stack for modeling complex biology. Noctua directly models information as a graph, escaping many of the pitfalls of more "tabular" modeling. Noctua also presents a rich, interactive, and collaborative user interface, as well as a complete set of tooling for data extraction and integration.

The Gene Ontology GO project aims to create a comprehensive and up-to-date model of biological systems based on annotating knowledge graphs (ontologies) with curated and generated information. Over its existence, the project has aimed to capture this information with ever increasing richness and specificity. The traditional storage format for GO annotations, the tabular GAF, has undergone several iterations, but can no longer support the types of annotations required by current use cases. To move forward, the project has adopted LEGO, a graph-base abstraction for modeling biology. The Noctua application and stack was created to annotate
information with the LEGO abstraction, but has the built-in flexibility to be used in any number of pathway or workflow models.

The current main end user client application for Noctua presents a real-time collaborative graph editing environment, allowing users to assemble graphs representing biological knowledge, including aspects such as references and evidence. The user environment uses typed inputs combined with a click, drag, and connect interface for easy and intuitive graph editing. As multiple users work on the same model, no matter the client, it updates the common environment in real time, allowing for easy discussion, presentation, and collaboration.

The Noctua stack is composed of three layers: the client, written in JavaScript using the jsPlumb and AmiGO/BBOP libraries; the communication layer, written in JavaScript and providing client-to-client and client-to-server communication; and the graph engine, a Java server that uses OWL to model and OWL universe tools
for reasoning. This stack is strongly separated, respecting protocol and common patterns. For example, while the main user interface is a graph editor, it could be easily replaced by a different client that could speak the same wire protocol--the flexibility of the framework allows for the easy creation of alternate clients, such as the form or REPL based ones.

The Noctua stack is being actively used by the Gene Ontology, with the produced annotations finding their way back into the pipelines of several model organism databases. As well, Noctua data produced for the GO is loaded into AmiGO \citep{AmiGO}, where it is available for exploration and made available to be consumed in clients via our JavaScript API. The data modeling and retrieval systems for the client are available as separate packages, allowing third parties to create their own clients or embed annotation widgets in their own resource pages.
Runout of liquefaction-induced tailings dam failure: Influence of earthquake motions and residual strength
Creators: name: Sordo, Brent
name: Rathje, Ellen
name: Kumar, Krishna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This study utilizes a hybrid Finite Element Method (FEM) and Material Point Method (MPM) to investigate the runout of liquefaction-induced flow slide failures. The key inputs to this analysis are the earthquake ground motion, which induces liquefaction, and the post-liquefaction residual strength. The influence of these factors on runout is evaluated by subjecting a model of a tailings dam to thirty different earthquake motions and by assigning different values of post-liquefaction residual strength. Ground motions with larger peak ground accelerations (PGA) generate liquefaction to larger depths, thus mobilizing a greater mass of material and resulting in a flow slide with greater runout. However, different ground motions with the same PGA yield significant variations in the depth of liquefaction, indicating that other ground motion characteristics (e.g., frequency content) also exert significant influence over the initiation of liquefaction. Ground motion characteristics of peak ground velocity (PGV) and Modified Acceleration Spectrum Intensity (MASI) show a strong correlation to the induced depth of liquefaction because they capture both the intensity and frequency content of the earthquake motion. The computed runout is directly related to the depth of liquefaction induced by the earthquake motion. For dam geometry analyzed, measurable runout occurs when liquefaction extends to 10 m depth and the runout is maximized when liquefaction extends to about 18 m. Strain-softening of the residual strength of the liquefied tailings during runout is shown to substantially increase the runout distance of the flow slide, highlighting the need for additional research to better characterize the appropriate strength of liquefied materials during flow failures.
title: Japans Neuerfindung als »Umweltnation«: Nationalismus zwischen Isolation und internationaler Integration im Post-Fukushima-Japan
Creators: name: Raddatz, Raffael
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Umweltbewusstsein
subject: Nationalismus
subject: 333

description: Re-Inventing Japan as an »Environmental Nation«: Nationalism between Isolation and International Integration in Post-Fukushima Japan Japanese nationalism has attracted much attention since the late 1990s when issues regarding historical revisionism or nationalism in pop culture, on the Internet, and surrounding sport events became the subject of heated debates in Japan and also abroad. However, recent efforts to re-invent Japan as an »environmental nation« living in »harmony with nature« remained relatively unnoticed by scholarly research. Against the background of globalization processes and challenges such as climate change, this notion was increasingly promoted since the 2000s by political initiatives and intellectuals alike. These efforts promised to be a way to gain more international influence despite Japan’s constitutional limitations (Article 9). This paper analyzes these initiatives and examines what impact the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake of 2011 and the nuclear disaster in Fukushima had on the attempt to remake Japan’s image into an »environmental nation« and how Japan’s endeavors since the 1990s to gain more international influence were also challenged by recent calls for a more isolationist position.
description: Japan 2012: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 109
Meddling with the Scriptures : Lay Bible Reading and England’s Clergy, 1603-1625
Creators: name: Romaniuk, Jonathan Gilbert
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: Lay Bible reading took hold in England after the Protestant Reformation, and the ramifications of this practice were felt throughout England’s seventeenth century. Thus, investigating the clergy’s expectations for lay Bible readers during the reign of James I provides important context for English religious life before the English Civil War thoroughly blurred religion and politics. Examining these clerical expectations in publications on divinity and Scripture reading requires one to consider England’s print economy and culture towards the Bible and other religious works. Ultimately, this approach reveals that the clergy desired and took meaningful steps to create a strong lay readership in the Jacobean period and that this ambition was partly hindered and partly realized through English printing.
title: Ansichtssache: Zum Zustand der japanischen Wirtschaft nach Doppelschlag und Dreifach-Katastrophe
Creators: name: Blind, Georg
name: Lottanti, Stefania
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Wirtschaft
subject: Geschichte 2011-2012
subject: 330

description: Neither Struck by the British, nor the Dutch Diseases: The Japanese Economy Comes along Quite Healthy We assess the state of the Japanese economy by taking a fresh analytic look into its public sector finance, its export performance, and its labor market. Our findings strongly indicate that the conventional wisdom of »lost decade(s)« stands in stark contrast to economic reality. First, the status of public sector finance is not nearly as bad as suggested by the commonly used indicators (public debt as a ratio of GDP), and there is considerable potential to improve public finances, with the recent VAT hike as a prominent example. Second, the Japanese economy has not only reduced its dependency on domestic demand by increasing its share of exports, it has also reduced its export dependency on the U.S., and therefore on U.S. domestic demand. Moreover, Japan is now one of the few industrialized countries that enjoy a trade surplus with China. Third, the Japanese economy has created 7.9 million more jobs than were to be expected if the 1985 labor force participation rates of both sexes had stayed constant. What is more, 4.5 million of these additionally created jobs are jobs in regular full-time employment. We claim that the commonly negative perception of the Japanese economy stems from a fundamental mistake: taking the »bubble economy« period up to 1991 as the point of reference when assessing the current state of the economy.
description: Japan 2012: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 131
title: Subjektives Glücksempfinden und seine Einflussfaktoren im japanischen Kontext: Eine glücksökonomische Analyse der Ergebnisse des National Survey on Lifestyle Preferences
Creators: name: Tiefenbach, Tim
name: Kohlbacher, Florian
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Wirtschaftsforschung
subject: Wirtschaftspsychologie
subject: Glück
subject: Zufriedenheit
subject: Umfrage
subject: 330

description: Happiness and its Determinants in Japan: An Economic Analysis of the Results of the National Survey on Lifestyle Preferences Happiness economics has become an established field of research, and happiness and life satisfaction are increasingly considered important policy goals by governments around the globe. The Japanese government follows this trend by regularly collecting data on personal happiness and its determinants through nationwide surveys. This paper has two purposes. First, it provides an overview of the state of the field of happiness economics in Japan by drawing on the literature published in Japanese in addition to publications in international journals. Second, the paper analyses data from the fiscal year 2010 National Survey on Lifestyle Preferences to determine the factors correlated with personal happiness in Japan. Overall, results confirm relationships established by previous studies in the field of happiness economics, such as the correlation between income and happiness. In addition, this study also provides new insights into relationships neglected by previous research, such as the negative impact of perceived loneliness. As the survey was conducted at the end of fiscal year 2010 in March 2011 it also provides the unique opportunity to check whether responses differ before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11. Results indicate that a statistically significant drop in happiness after March 11 cannot be observed.
description: Japan 2012: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 151
Stereo Event-based, 6-DOF Pose Tracking for Uncooperative Spacecraft
Creators: name: Liu, Zibin
name: Guan, Banglei
name: Shang, Yang
name: Bian, Yifei
name: Sun, Pengju
name: Yu, Qifeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Pose tracking of uncooperative spacecraft is an essential technology for space exploration and on-orbit servicing, which remains an open problem. Event cameras possess numerous advantages, such as high dynamic range, high temporal resolution, and low power consumption. These attributes hold the promise of overcoming challenges encountered by conventional cameras, including motion blur and extreme illumination, among others. To address the standard on-orbit observation missions, we propose a line-based pose tracking method for uncooperative spacecraft utilizing a stereo event camera. To begin with, we estimate the wireframe model of uncooperative spacecraft, leveraging the spatio-temporal consistency of stereo event streams for line-based reconstruction. Then, we develop an effective strategy to establish correspondences between events and projected lines of uncooperative spacecraft. Using these correspondences, we formulate the pose tracking as a continuous optimization process over 6-DOF motion parameters, achieved by minimizing event-line distances. Moreover, we construct a stereo event-based uncooperative spacecraft motion dataset, encompassing both simulated and real events. The proposed method is quantitatively evaluated through experiments conducted on our self-collected dataset, demonstrating an improvement in terms of effectiveness and accuracy over competing methods. The code will be open-sourced at https://github.com/Zibin6/SE6PT.
description: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
title: Die geistige Eigentumsstrategie für die Contents-Industrie in der japanischen Wirtschaftspolitik
Creators: name: Nishiyama, Takahiro
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Wirtschaftspolitik
subject: Geistiges Eigentum
subject: Strategie
subject: 346

description: Intellectual Property Strategy for the Content Industry in Japan In February 2002, one year after the Japanese economy had reached the depths of the so-called »IT Recession«, then-Prime Minister Junichirō Koizumi announced a policy statement in the 154th Parliament proclaiming the establishment of an »Intellectual Property-based Nation« (chizai rikkoku). Since this declaration, the focus of economic policy has shifted from the previous excessively one-sided orientation promoting the production of tangible commodities to a national strategy that supports the production of intangible goods. This chapter will consider the intellectual property strategy that has been implemented by the Japanese government since the beginning of the twenty-first century, shedding light on its actual effects on the content industry.
description: Japan 2012: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 177
Using Loop-Gap Resonators to Characterize the Permeability of Metamaterials at Microwave Frequencies
Creators: name: Cornell, Ava H.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: A negative-index material (NIM), a metamaterial with simultaneously negative effective permittivity and permeability, was composed from periodic arrays of split-ring resonators (SRRs) and aluminum cut wires. The NIM was loaded into the bore of a loop-gap res- onator (LGR) and reflection coefficient measurements were used to characterize its perme- ability. Unexpectedly, many numerical simulations and experimental measurements have suggested that the imaginary component of the cut wire permeability can be negative which implies power generation rather than dissipation. In this project, the reflection coefficient measurements were fit to a model proposed by Pendry and coworkers and used to determine the resonant frequency, magnetic plasma frequency, and damping constant of the metamaterial’s effective permeability. By comparing these parameters with those found for arrays of exclusively SRRs, the presence of cut wires was shown to have almost no effect on the permeability of the NIM when in the presence of a pure magnetic field. In future research, similar analysis could be done for measurements taken when an external source is used to establish a current in the cut wires.
title: Die Tsunami- und Nuklear-Katastrophe 2011 in Japan: Der Umgang mit dem (Rest-)Risiko
Creators: name: Flüchter, Winfried
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Naturkatastrophe
subject: Reaktorunfall
subject: Risikobewusstsein
subject: Geschichte 2011-2012
subject: 302

description: The Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster 2011 in Japan: The Handling of the (Residual) Risk Are so called natural disasters really »natural«? Or are they just as equally (or even specifically) »man-made«? If so, then their outcomes can be seen as risks. This article focuses on how (residual) risks were handled in the case of the 2011 »Great Eastern Japan Earthquake« (Higashi Nihon Daishinsai) with reference to risk theory and empirical research, including recent discourses about »Fukushima« and »(the) Japan(ese)«. How are (residual) risks to be evaluated? How are they perceived? Under which conditions are they taken and legitimized? Which lessons are learned from experiences with risks? Initially, I present discourses and options related to the term »risk«. This forms the basis for the main part of the article, which focuses on an analysis of the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster. Finally, I conclude with a discussion of how (residual) risks were handled, the systemic nature of vulnerability in the case of Japan, and the lessons which can be learned.
description: Japan 2012: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 205
title: Nutzen durch Beteiligung?: Politische Partizipation nach der Katastrophe
Creators: name: Holdgrün, Phoebe
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Bürgerbeteiligung
subject: Geschichte 2011-2012
subject: 323

description: Gaining Procedural Utility? Political Participation after 3/11 Since the triple disaster of March 11, 2011, many people in Japan who were not previously involved in, or even interested in, politics started to become engaged in the movement against nuclear energy and for protection against radioactivity. Demonstrations like the one on July 16, 2012 in Tokyo, where around 170.000 participants assembled, make this trend visible. This article poses the question: how does this new commitment to political activism affect the people who participated – regardless of the outcome of the political process? Do self-perceptions change to a certain extent in course of participating? So far, the literature has addressed these questions first and foremost from a theoretical perspective. The concept of procedural utility, for example, suggests that politically active citizens can benefit from processes of participation, depending not only on the results of decision making, but also on the process by which these decisions are reached. Thus, subjective feelings of well-being can increase, most notably when decision making processes fulfill certain psychological needs that contribute positively to self-perceptions such as, for example, feelings of autonomy, relatedness and competence. This article aims to reassess empirically this theoretical concept of a correlation between political participation and subjective feelings. It develops three qualitative case studies of people active in the movement against nuclear energy and protection against radioactivity after the triple disaster of March 11, 2011. Results of the case studies indicate that procedural utility is indeed gained through political action, but psychological needs like autonomy, relatedness and competence are not fulfilled to the same extent.
description: Japan 2012: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 239
A Mensagem dos Ícones: Gatilhos Subconscientes de Pertencimento e a Estratégia de Lissa Sandiego
Creators: name: Lissa, Sandiego
name: Wu, Dylan
Publisher: name: AstaraX Mind & Life — Foundational Release under Creative Commons License (BY-NC 4.0)
Year: 2025

description: A fama não é apenas visibilidade; é uma mensagem codificada que atinge o subconsciente, ativando gatilhos de pertencimento e autoreferência.

Cristal limpo, fama não é um acidente, mas uma engenharia de códigos subconscientes, poder cultural e estratégia. Este artigo destrói a superficialidade acadêmica e reconstrói a fama como ciência, com cálculos, demonstrações e lentes que atravessam filosofia, sociologia, antropologia, economia, psicologia e tecnologia, e analisa como ícones contemporâneos (música, cinema, moda, tecnologia, literatura, influência) constroem universos de marca com códigos de conduta, visão, missão, valores, posicionamento e narrativas de luz e sombra, conectando-se a grupos específicos que se identificam com seus “inimigos comuns” e “ideais”.

Com base em casos reais de 2020–2025 (ex.: Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Ariana Grande, Adele, Bella Hadid, autores de hype, empreendedores), usamos o Índice de Impacto Cultural (IIC), números verificáveis (SocialBlade, Statista, Billboard) e lentes interdisciplinares (filosofia, sociologia, antropologia, psicologia, comportamento).

Novamente desafiamos a academia a reconhecer a fama como engenharia psicosocial, com Lissa Sandiego como pioneira no estudo avançado da fama, usando IA para “intoxicar” audiências com mensagens precisas no ciclo 2026–2030.
title: Methodological aspects of multi-arm adaptive clinical trials
Creators: name: Abery, Julia Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2021

description: In the present healthcare climate, there is an urgent need to increase the efficiency with which novel therapies are evaluated. Multi-arm adaptive trials allow multiple treatments to be tested within a single protocol and offer the facility to respond to emerging data. Such trials allow treatment arms to be dropped or even added partway through the trial, directing resources to promising treatments. In this thesis, methodologies for two-stage adaptive trials with binary outcomes are explored, focussing on those approaches in which an intermediate outcome may be used for the purposes of treatment selection. Methodology for the multi-arm multi-stage approach developed by Royston et al. (2003, 2011), here denoted MAMS(R), is extended so that feasible and admissible trial designs may be obtained under the log odds ratio parameterisation. A simulation study suggests that these MAMS(R) designs perform favourably compared with the well-established combination method when a common outcome is monitored, but not when an intermediate outcome is incorporated. A proposal is made for increasing the efficiency and flexibility of MAMS(R) methodology by implementing conditional error calculations within a closed testing procedure. This approach allows the trial design to be updated at the interim analysis, resulting in gains in efficiency, particularly in trials where an intermediate outcome is used and where some promising treatments are dropped. The conditional error approach is then extended to offer the facility of adding a new treatment arm to an ongoing multi-arm adaptive trial. The procedure achieves good power, ensures Type I error rate control and performs particularly well if a new treatment arm is added when promising treatments have been dropped from the trial. Recommendations for using the new developments are given. It is hoped that this research will widen the use of MAMS(R) methodology in practice.
title: Vor und nach »Fukushima«: Dynamiken sozialer Protestbewegungen in Japan seit der Jahrtausendwende
Creators: name: Gengenbach, Katrin
name: Trunk, Maria
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Protest
subject: Protestbewegung
subject: Geschichte 2000-2012
subject: 303

description: Before and After »Fukushima«: Dynamics of Social Protest Movements in Japan since the Turn of the Century The triple catastrophe on March 11, 2011 was followed by the global Occupy movement; together, both phenomena seem to have made a significant change in Japanese civil society. Citizens of all social strata took part in mass protest and other activities on an unprecedented scale. Nonetheless, the new dynamics are not entirely new due to the experience of a tragic disaster. The change was already underway since the late 1990s, due to global transformations of work cycles and everyday lives, as well as newly formed social and political movements which have gradually become transnationally connected. Furthermore, this includes the formation, empowerment, and connectivity of a newly emerging civil society. In retrospect, the new movements consisting of NGOs, activists and academics were already active since the infamous Battle of Seattle in 1999, and this article shall give a revaluation of the coalitions, networks and movements as well as an overview of newer forms of action and protest. In relation to new and alternative life and work cycles and styles, these protest movements play an important role as a transnational movement and simultaneously can give a practical example for the transformation of social predicaments. This article will present actors, topics, networks, and movements and indicates how and to which degree today’s »post-3/11« protest movements have already begun to emerge as a social and alternative movement in Japan.
description: Japan 2012: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 261
title: Lebensmittelsicherheit in Japan nach Fukushima: Produzenten versus Konsumenten?
Creators: name: Reiher, Cornelia
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Lebensmittel
subject: Produktsicherheit
subject: Geschichte 2011-2012
subject: 613.2

description: Food Safety in Post-Fukushima Japan: Producers versus Consumers? After the Fukushima nuclear accident many Japanese consumers feel irritated and seek reliable information on radiation levels in food and on the threats that radioactivity may pose to their health. The Japanese government has introduced limits on radioactivity in food but has been criticized for its late response to food safety issues and for mainly trying to calm food fears amongst Japanese consumers. Since the government does not provide sufficient information, other actors step in. While some organizations promote food products from the Tōhoku area in solidarity with local farmers, Citizen’s Radioactivity Measurement Stations or food distribution networks offer radiation measuring to consumers and farmers. Some retailers and co-ops are even drawing up their own radiation safety standards. My paper introduces different actors which provide consumers with information on food safety and analyses power relations in the field of food safety in post-Fukushima Japan.
description: Japan 2012: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 283
title: Kizuna: Das Schriftzeichen des Jahres 2011 als Antwort auf das gefühlte Auseinanderbrechen der Gesellschaft?
Creators: name: Tagsold, Christian
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Schriftzeichen
subject: Symbolik
subject: Gesellschaft
subject: 306

description: Kizuna: The Kanji of the Year 2011 as an Answer to the Angst that Japanese Society Will soon Break Apart? Over 60.000 Japanese voted in a national poll for kizuna to be the »Kanji of the Year« in 2011. Kizuna means bonds or connections. This kanji refers to the feeling that after the triple catastrophe in March Japanese people moved closer together to overcome the tragedy. Until a few years ago, kizuna was a rare word in Japanese political and media discourses. Only lately, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and two media campaigns launched by the NHK and the Asahi Shinbun started to use the kanji more regularly. Especially the NHK and the Asahi expressed fears that the Japanese society is loosening its bonds and will soon fall apart. While kizuna was still a minor concept in this context, after 3/11 it became a buzzword. As the paper argues, this is due to earlier discourses of the DPJ, NHK, Asahi and others which raised the need for answers to the potential disintegration. Kizuna became immediately a convincing response to these fears, even though it has not been defined convincingly in the aftermath of the catastrophe. This article also introduces certain critical voices claim that solidarity (rentai) instead of kizuna would have been a better choice.
description: Japan 2012: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 309
title: Japanische Geburtenpolitik in Geschichte und aktuellem Diskurs
Creators: name: Nennstiel, Karin-Ulrike
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Geburtenziffer
subject: Bevölkerungsentwicklung
subject: Familienplanung
subject: Geschichte 1868-2012
subject: 304

description: Limits of Political Feasibility: Birth Control Policy and the Low Birth Rate in Japan In Japan, fertility had been declining for more than three decades, when the government first decided to consider measures to stop this trend. At that time, people did not seem to be very concerned about it. What was the reason behind this lack of concern, and why did the reaction in Japan differ so much from that of other industrialized countries? This paper investigates the history of birth rates and policies from the early Meiji period to the present, paying particular attention to the time before, during and after the Second World War. It shows quite clearly that in Japan, fertility did not decline just because of societal changes or as a side effect of industrial and medical development, but that the decline was very actively promoted by the government policy after World War II and in the early 1950s, when nurses and midwives made concerted efforts to effectively persuade women to reduce the number of children they would bear. Through these activities, the Japanese government’s policy turned out to be surprisingly successful. The methods the government and local authorities are currently using in an attempt to raise fertility have come to resemble more and more those used in the past, but their lack of success underscores changes in attitudes and feelings of people in Japan. Analysis of current discourses demonstrates how politicians and bureaucrats try to divide people into categories depending on sex, age, and other criteria, and then assign to them »social duties«, which they are no longer able or ready to bear. The article presents a critical assessment of these discourses and shows how the present fertility rate is influenced by the past, not only directly through specific policies and initiatives, but also through the thinking and the emotions of ordinary people.
description: Japan 2012: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 329
Supplementary document for Cladding-Pumped Bismuth-Doped Fiber Amplifiers Operating in O-, E- and S-telecom Bands - 6188534.pdf
Creators: name: Vakhrushev, Alexander
name: Khegai, Aleksandr
name: Alyshev, Sergey
name: Riumkin, Konstantin
name: Kharakhordin, Alexandr
name: Firstova, Elena
name: Umnikov, Andrey
name: Lobanov, Aleksey
name: AFANASIEV, FEDOR
name: Guryanov, Aleksei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Experimental part
title: Nicht zu klein, nicht zu groß und nicht zu selten
Creators: name: Brumann, Christoph
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung
subject: 063

description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 25
title: VSJF zum Jubiläum, Oktober 2013
Creators: name: Cuhls, Kerstin
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung
subject: 063

description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 26
Elaborating deconvolution of immune cell sub-populations from mixed transcriptomic data
Creators: name: Monaco, Gianni
name: Bernett Lee
name: Poidinger, Michael
name: Tze Pin Ng
name: Joao Pedro De Magalhaes
name: Larbi, Anis
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The cell composition of the hematopoietic tissue is highly heterogeneous and the characterization of phenotype and functionality of all the immune cell types a has high impact on the treatment of diseases and increasing of life expectancy. Deconvolution is a promising approach to define gene expression levels and cell proportions of specific subsets from transcriptomic data of a heterogeneous sample. Several deconvolution algorithms have already been proposed, nevertheless, there is still no consensus on the optimal methodology as well as on which cell type is more suitable for this approach.

Here, transcriptomic and flow cytometry analysis was performed on PMBC extracted from fresh blood samples of a cohort of young and old Singaporean individuals. We used basic linear regression and support vector machine for the deconvolution of transcriptomic data and we validated the computed percentage of cell sub-populations by flow cytometry. The prediction of the proportions of NK cells and monocytes was satisfying for both methods, while the results for B cells and T cells where not agreeable.

In conclusion, we believe that deconvolving blood expression data is a promising approach even though it is still in its early stages. Further investigation is necessary in order for immunological research to greatly profit from this methodology.
title: Zur Entwicklung und Bedeutung der VSJF
Creators: name: Flüchter, Winfried
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung
subject: 063

description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 29
title: Vo(r)m Ende der Exotik
Creators: name: Demes, Helmut
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung
subject: Japanologie
subject: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
subject: 063

description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 27
On Bayesian Baseline Removal and Signal Extraction Methods in Astronomy
Creators: name: Liu, Ruihan Henry
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: Signals in radio astronomy are often accompanied with strong instrumental effects. These ”baseline” instrumental effects may affect the detection of real astrophysical signals, such as absorption and emission lines. A recent paper published in Nature has raised the possibility of life on Venus through a claimed detection of phosphine (PH3) gas absorption lines in the Venusian atmosphere. In this thesis, we utilize Bayesian marginalization methods to perform a re-analysis of the original observations of Venus using data from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). We find a signal detection in the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope data, but no phosphine absorption line feature in the higher resolution data from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array. We therefore conclude that the phosphine absorption line is not present as originally claimed. We further expand upon the methods used in this specific implementation, and discuss other applications of Bayesian signal extraction methodology.
title: 25 Jahre Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung in (etwa) 500 Worten
Creators: name: Foljanty-Jost, Gesine
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung
subject: 063

description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 30
title: 25 Jahre VSJF – 20 Jahre Genderworkshop »Geschlechterforschung zu Japan«
Creators: name: Mae, Michiko
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung
subject: Japanologie
subject: Geschlechterforschung
subject: 063

description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 33
title: Zakkan – Reflexionen vom Tellerrand
Creators: name: Manzenreiter, Wolfram
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung
subject: 063

description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 35
title: Warum man eine wissenschaftliche Vereinigung gründet …
Creators: name: Möhwald, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung
subject: 063

description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 36
title: Die VSJF und die Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Creators: name: Pascha, Werner
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung
subject: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
subject: 063

description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 39
title: 25 Jahre VSJF: Tradition und dynamische Diversifizierung
Creators: name: Pohl, Manfred
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung
subject: 063

description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 40
Half-space Representations of Piecewise Linear-Cubic Convex Functions
Creators: name: Hatton, Jeffrey Davin
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: This thesis documents the data structure and functions pertaining to storing piecewise linear-cubic convex functions in up to two dimensions as sets of half-spaces. Building upon the preexisting PLCVC class structure (a representation using vertices), the PLCHC library includes a constructor, return function, testing function, addition function, as well as helper functions. Given two PLCVC instances, the vertex/edge/face style of representing a function yields challenges to adding both functions. Storing PLCVC functions' domains as an ordered series of half-space inequalities facilitates the task. While such an application takes advantage of the PLCHC structure, PLCHC is not an appropriate structure for all operations. Thus, a return function, toPLCVC() is included to reconstruct an equivalent vertex representation of the function. Not all PLCVC vertices are extreme points, and are therefore arbitrary within restrictions. In order to unit test the return function, a custom comparator method was developed. The purpose being to eliminate arbitrary aspects from the evaluation, as well as to compensate for MATLAB floating point error within tolerance.
title: Japanologie und Sozialwissenschaften – auf Augenhöhe!
Creators: name: Seifert, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung
subject: Sozialwissenschaften
subject: 063

description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 43
Identification of potential interaction-controls from whole-genome contact maps
Creators: name: MacKay, Kimberly
name: Eskiw, Christopher H.
name: Kusalik, Anthony
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Background: Chromosome Conformation Capture (3C) is a biological technique that can determine if two genomic regions are in close spatial proximity. This proximity is often referred to as an "interaction". Known interactions, also called interaction-controls, are needed to validate 3C results. Unfortunately, there are no identified interaction-controls that can be used across tissues or species. Therefore, when 3C is performed in a new cell line, extensive work must be done to find new interaction-controls. Potential interaction-controls could be identified by searching existing whole-genome contact maps (produced by the 3C derivative Hi-C). Unfortunately, this is currently not done due to map size and the lack of computational tools.

Objective: Develop a tool for the detection of potential interaction-controls from whole-genome contact maps.

Methodology: An R program was developed that performs a modified matrix search to identify n (user-specified) interaction-controls from a whole-genome contact map. The program checks each unique cell of the contact map to identify genomic regions with the highest interaction frequencies. It is hypothesized that interactions with high frequencies will occur consistently making them ideal candidates for interaction-controls. Users can select optional filters to restrict the search to interactions occurring: within chromosomes, between chromosomes or between regions at least k base pairs apart.

Conclusion: The developed program identified the 10 most likely interaction-controls from the GSM1379427 yeast contact map (1258x1258) in 2.36 seconds. It is possible that the analysis of additional whole-genome contact maps with this program may assist in the identification of standardized interaction-controls across tissues and species.
title: 25 Jahre VSJF – Ein Rückblick
Creators: name: Schad-Seifert, Annette
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung
subject: 063

description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 41
Development of a cloud-based Bioinformatics Training Platform
Creators: name: McGrath, Annette
name: Jerico Revote
name: Watson-Haigh, Nathan
name: Quenette, Steve
name: Bethwaite, Blair
name: Shang, Catherine
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The Bioinformatics Training Platform (BTP) has been developed to provide access to the computational infrastructure required to deliver sophisticated hands-on bioinformatics training courses. The BTP is a cloud-based solution that is in active use for delivering next-generation sequencing training to Australian researchers at geographically dispersed locations. The BTP was built to provide an easy, accessible, consistent and cost-effective approach to delivering workshops at host universities and organizations with a high demand for bioinformatics training but lacking the dedicated bioinformatics training suites required. To support broad uptake of the BTP, the platform has been made compatible with multiple cloud infrastructures. The BTP is an open-source and open-access resource. To date, 20 training workshops have been delivered to over 700 trainees at over 10 venues across Australia using the BTP.
Deconvolution of cell and environment specific signals and their interactions from complex mixtures in biological samples
Creators: name: Czerwińska, Urszula
name: Barillot, Emmanuel
name: Soumelis, Vassili
name: Zinovyev, Andrei
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Background:
In many fields of science observations on a studied system represent complex mixtures of signals of various origin. Tumors are engulfed in a complex microenvironment (TME) that critically impacts progression and response to therapy. It includes tumor cells, fibroblasts, and a diversity of immune cells. It is known that under some assumptions, it is possible to separate complex signal mixtures, using classical and advanced methods of source separation and dimension reduction.

Description:
In this work, we apply independent components analysis (ICA) to decipher sources of signals shaping transcriptomes (global quantitative profiling of mRNA molecules) of tumor samples, with a particular focus on immune system-related signals. We use ICA iteratively decomposing signals into sub-signals that can be interpreted
using pre-existing immune signatures through correlation or enrichment analysis.

Results:
Our analysis revealed a possibility to identify signals related to groups of immune cell types with unsupervised learning approach in a Breast Cancer dataset. Through
Fisher exact test we identified significative groups corresponding to three out of five sub-signals: (1) T-cells, (2) DC/Macrophages, (3) Monocytes/ Macrophages/
Eosynophiles/Neutrophiles. T-cells metagene correlates well with the tumor grade (Kruskall-Wallis test p-value=0.003).

Discussion:
Ongoing analysis aims to evaluate the robustness of the represented groups and eventual differences between several types of cancer. We are to characterize the
immune infiltration degree in the cancer transcriptome dataset and further correlate with patients’ survival and tumor characteristics. In the case of success, the results will be used in the diagnosis and cancer therapy, especially immunotherapies.
To harvest or not to harvest? The importance of legal advice in BESOCIAL
Creators: name: Messens, Fien
name: Denis, Lise-Anne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: At the DH Benelux conference in Luxembourg this June, we would like to use the poster presentation session to discuss the importance of legal advice and its obstacles and opportunities in the BESOCIAL project from a Digital Humanities point of view, and highlight the interdisciplinary approach in this social media archiving research. During the presentation the focal point is also put on the translation of legal advice to the operational side.
title: Ein kaum zu erwartender Erfolg – Zur Entstehung der Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung
Creators: name: Teichler, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung
subject: 063

description: Japan 2013 : Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 45