cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Grundzüge und Tendenzen der japanischen Außenpolitik: Internationale Profilierung durch globale Herausforderungen
Creators: name: Vosse, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Außenpolitik
subject: Sicherheitspolitik
subject: Geschichte 2007-2008
subject: 327

description: Recent Developments and Trends in Japanese Foreign Policy. Enhancing its International Profile by Addressing Global Challenges This article provides an overview of recent developments in Japanese foreign and defense policy. It focuses on Japan’s continued attempts to increase and improve its international role and reputation, the influence of the change of the premiership. Secondly, the article takes a closer look at Japan’s bilateral relations with its Asian neighbors as well as its major allies in Europe and the United States. And thirdly, it documents and analyzes three major foreign policy areas, namely security policy, development policy, and international environmental policy. Finally, it attempts to assess the implications of these changes for the foreseeable future. The article argues that Prime Minister Abe had been reasonably successful in repairing Japan’s relations with the PRC and the ROK. Since his inauguration in September 2007, Prime Minister Fukuda developed these ties even further, despite the ongoing territorial disputes in the East China Sea. Just like Koizumi and Abe, Fukuda continued and further strengthened Japan’s military cooperation with the United States, while deepening its defense cooperation with Australia. Japan increased its development cooperation with African states, and focused on African development and global warming when it hosted the G8 summit in Toyako, Hokkaidō. Overall, Japan’s international role has enhanced this year, and will most likely increase even further in the coming years.
description: Japan 2008: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 99
title: Japans Entwicklungspolitik auf dem Prüfstand: Wegmarkierungen und Weichenstellungen
Creators: name: Kevenhörster, Paul
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Entwicklungshilfe
subject: Entwicklungspolitik
subject: 338

description: Japans Development Policy at the Crossroads Japan’s development policy has for several years been under strong pressure to demonstrate its effectiveness, its long-term impact, and its transparency. This pressure has led to a considerable decline of the ODA-budget during recent years. Furthermore the OECD has critizised the not yet sufficient orientation of Japanese Official Development Assistance at the prevailing principle of poverty reduction in particular, and at the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in general. The global orientation of Japan’s development policy is, in addition, weaker than its function as a policy instrument for Japanese foreign policy. The concept of human security, however, makes an instrumentalisation of ODA by security policy impossible. Against this background the consistency of development policy will be considerably strengthened by the integration of financial and technical assistance, even in institutional terms. This could be a first step towards improving the coherence of Japanese North-South-policy and towards sharpening the profile of Japanese development policy in the future.
description: Japan 2008: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 125
Supplementary document for Hardware-algorithm collaborative computing with photonic spiking neuron chip based on integrated Fabry–Pérot laser with saturable absorber - 6187518.pdf
Creators: name: Xiang, Shuiying
name: Shi, Yuechun
name: Guo, Xingxing
name: ZHANG, YAHUI
name: Wang, Hongji
name: ZHENG, DIAN ZHUANG
name: Song, Ziwei
name: Han, Yanan
name: Gao, Shuang
name: Zhao, ShiHao
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Lasers and Quantum Electronics

description: Supplemental Document
INNOVATIVE METHODS OF TEACHING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN MODERN CONDITIONS
Creators: name: Yakubova Fotima Ayubkhon kizi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This article focuses on analyzing current trends in the methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language. It examines key innovative methods that contribute to enhancing the effectiveness and practical relevance of learning, as well as developing learners' communicative competence
The Deers’ cave- a hidden treasure chest of historical biodiversity
Creators: name: Gaglioti, Martina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Paleontology
subject: 50202 Conservation and Biodiversity
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology

description: This contribution is based on field observation conducted in the MPA of Capo Caccia-Isola Piana. The Deers' Cave is a marine cave located in the nearby of Punta Giglio (Sardinia, Central Tyrrhenian Sea). This contribution is based on descriptions made on the basis of some field observations occurred both during leisure and work time. Hope enjoyable!
title: Finanzmarktturbulenzen bremsen Japans Wirtschaftswachstum
Creators: name: Robaschik, Frank
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Wirtschaft
subject: Geschichte 2007-2008
subject: 330

description: Market Turbulences Curb Japans Economic Growth Financial turbulences worldwide, most importantly in the United States, curb Japan’s economic growth. Japanese exports to the United States decreased significantly in the first half of 2008. So far, Japan has been able to maintain export growth in total by increasing its shipments to other regions. China became the most important buyer of goods made in Japan in July 2008. Altogether, however, exports and private investment, which have been the driving forces of economic growth in Japan in recent years, have been growing slower in 2008. This is problematic, as stagnating incomes and a huge fiscal deficit lead to a situation where private consumption cannot provide strong impulses for growth. On top of this consumer prices are rising. On the other hand, private enterprises are rather well positioned and expenditures for research and development are high. Neither firms nor private households are excessively indebted. Financial institutions are also in a relatively good shape. The largest risks are the very high levels of outstanding government debt and the potential effects of the financial turbulences worldwide. The latter can have negative effects on the Japanese economy be it through financial markets or – where they are already having an impact – indirectly over reducing exports. However, Japanese companies are very competitive in international markets. Slow growth perspectives at home further increase their efforts for expansion abroad. The long-term focus on neighboring fast-growing markets in Asia without neglecting other regions such as the United States and Europe should continue to pay off.
description: Japan 2008: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 141
title: Charles Taylor. O reconhecimento como mediação e subsunção de conflitos políticos
Creators: name: Lóia, Luís
Publisher: name: UCP Press
Year: 2020

description: "Luís Lóia's research, pursued with analytical rigour through all the relevant writings of the author, is articulated according to three nuclear points: the conceptual treatment of the concepts in question - identity, conflictual diversity, resolving mediation - Taylor's critique of liberalism, in a political sense, not an economic one, for its insufficiency and its propensity to daring, since the principle of neutralization of differences and the atomistic conception of citizenship that sustains it threatens the legitimacy of state power in establishing the common good, concluding with a reconsideration of recognition as a reconfiguration of personal, group and societal identity through the resolving recomposition of major tensions, sustained in their disintegrating potential." (From the prologue - Manuel J. do Carmo Ferreira)
title: Auswirkungen von Zersiedlung auf Infrastrukturausgaben in Nagoya und München – eine Vergleichsstudie
Creators: name: Klug, Stefan
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Deutschland
subject: Nagoya
subject: München
subject: Infrastrukturpolitik
subject: 338

description: Impact of Urban Sprawl on Public Cost for Infrastructure in Nagoya and Munich – a Comparative Study When addressing sustainable urban development, the issue of social costs has recently attracted attention, due to socio-economic development in many societies. Thus, public costs of utility and infrastructure provision and fiscal impacts of population and urban development have been discussed on the regional and local level. Many German and Japanese cities are facing growing investment needs and rising maintenance costs for existing infrastructure. A multilevel comparative analysis, carried out for the growing regions of Munich and Nagoya, results in the confirmation of the hypothesis, that sprawled communities have to bear higher public costs per capita. However a clearly different level of investment- and maintenance costs has been found. The findings imply that major infrastructure investment should be undertaken with careful consideration of follow-up costs, and still-existing growing forces should be used to guide urban development in a more compact way.
description: Japan 2008: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 153
BUSINESS DISCOURSE IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Creators: name: Rakhmatov, Islombek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The article compares how business discourse is realised in contemporary English language and Uzbek language print publications. Using a corpus of forty articles (twenty from leading British and U S business newspapers and magazines, twenty from major Uzbek newspapers and periodicals, all 2023–2024), the study undertakes (i) a qualitative discourse pragmatic reading of genre, stance and interpersonal positioning, and (ii) a quantitative mapping of key business terms, loan word density and metadiscoursal markers. Results indicate that English texts display a condensed, data driven argumentative style reliant on acronyms and nominal groups, whereas Uzbek texts mix formal register with persuasive rhetoric and a markedly higher proportion of unassimilated English loanwords. Sociolinguistically, loans are linked to prestige and global orientation, yet they co-exist with indigenous neologisms promoted by language policy initiatives. Findings contribute to cross linguistic business communication studies and have implications for translators and journalism educators.
The Amphitheatre That Isn’t : Insight Into the Mechanisms and Effects of Diasporic Guilt in Asian Canadians
Creators: name: Babu, Sahana
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: In this qualitative study, Babu explores a topic that isn’t often studied, but certainly has pervasive impact on the lives of the diaspora – diasporic guilt. When bad things happen “back home,” diasporic communities invariable feel helpless, not knowing what to do or how to help make things better. How do we support our people when we’re so far away? We have privilege in being able to be away from all the bad things; but how should we use it? Babu interviews several individuals to get their thoughts on their respective experiences with things happening “back home.” With increased migration over time, such questions will only become even more important predictors of diasporic wellbeing. Where do diaspora find support, and how do we assuage such helplessness when turmoil hits home?
A lucky encounter in the blue: a Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) visiting the Pontine Archipelago (Central Tyrrhenian Sea)
Creators: name: Gaglioti, Martina
name: Mazzella, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 60201 Behavioural Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A brief contribution based on the sighting of a Balenottera physalus specimen occurred in October 2020 in the Pontine Island Archipelago (Ponza east coast).
Racial Identity and the Healthy Immigrant Effect : Does Racial Background Affect Mental Health Among Immigrants in Canada?
Creators: name: Liu, Kyara Jia Yen
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: The concept of the “Healthy Immigrant Effect” emerged through findings suggesting that immigrants are healthier than the native-born population due to a selection process favouring immigrants of better health and higher education, but that their health diminishes over time due to the unique challenges they encounter in their new nation of residence. The purpose of this study is to identify the role of racial identity in shaping immigrant mental health in Canada. In this study, I implemented ordered logistic regression using a hybrid variable consisting of racial identity and length of time since migration in order to investigate social determinants of immigrant mental health. The findings of my study suggest that both White and visible minority immigrants residing in Canada for 10 to 20 years had worse mental health than immigrants who immigrated less than 10 years ago, with implications varying depending on gender. Further research should look to the gendered processes shaping immigrant distress as well as the effects of rising xenophobia as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
title: Zur Entwicklung einer partizipatorischen Zivilgesellschaft in Japan
Creators: name: Mae, Michiko
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Zivilgesellschaft
subject: 320

description: The Development of a Participatorial Society in Japan A critical look at the current political, societal and cultural debates in Japan shows that Japanese society is confronted nowadays by a double set of tensions between globalisation vs. renationalisation on the one hand, and individualisation vs. commonality on the other. There is hardly a process that evinces this position of Japan more distinctly and more instructively than the origin and the implementation of the 1999 law for creating a »framework for the establishment of a society with equal participation for women and men« (danjo kyōdō sankaku shakai kihonhō, in the following: »participation law«; the local English technical term is »The Basic Law for a Gender-Equal Society«). It is a salient feature of the process initiated by this movement that it is characterised by the intimate connection of democratisation and the women’s movement with a global human rights and anti-discrimination movements. At the same time, it causes insecurity and anxiety on the side of conservative critics, who see the strong links between the Japanese nation state and a societal structure deeply influenced by nationally oriented cultural, gender and family ideals imperilled. The violent debates surrounding the participation law therefore point to the confrontation of two tendencies characterising present Japanese society: the development of Japan towards a globally oriented, transcultural, and participatory civil society, geared towards a gender-free orientation, is pitched against a counter movement towards the restitution and strengthening of the nation-based state. The latter wants to prevent what they see as the »destruction of Japanese culture«, aiming at re-establishing traditional gender and family structure. It is in this fundamental debate that the future development of Japanese society will be decided.
description: Japan 2008: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 217
Brown seaweeds and sand-dwellers in the Northern Sea low tide scene of Büsum shores
Creators: name: Gaglioti, Martina
name: Signore, Monia
name: Quattrocchi, Silvia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Marine Biology

description: A field observation along the German coasts (Büsum, German North Sea)
Grasping Partially Occluded Objects Using Autoencoder-Based Point Cloud Inpainting
Creators: name: Koebler, Alexander
name: Gross, Ralf
name: Buettner, Florian
name: Thon, Ingo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Flexible industrial production systems will play a central role in the future of manufacturing due to higher product individualization and customization. A key component in such systems is the robotic grasping of known or unknown objects in random positions. Real-world applications often come with challenges that might not be considered in grasping solutions tested in simulation or lab settings. Partial occlusion of the target object is the most prominent. Examples of occlusion can be supporting structures in the camera's field of view, sensor imprecision, or parts occluding each other due to the production process. In all these cases, the resulting lack of information leads to shortcomings in calculating grasping points. In this paper, we present an algorithm to reconstruct the missing information. Our inpainting solution facilitates the real-world utilization of robust object matching approaches for grasping point calculation. We demonstrate the benefit of our solution by enabling an existing grasping system embedded in a real-world industrial application to handle occlusions in the input. With our solution, we drastically decrease the number of objects discarded by the process.
description: Published at ECML PKDD 2022
title: Partner oder Gegner?: Begegnungen mit China, Taiwan und Hongkong in Kinofilm und Fernsehdrama in Japan
Creators: name: Kirsch, Griseldis
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Film
subject: Fernsehspiel
subject: Fernsehserie
subject: China
subject: Taiwan
subject: Hongkong
subject: 791

description: Partners or Opponents? Representations of China, Taiwan and Hongkong in Cinema and TV Drama in Japan Since the end of the 1980s, Japan’s interest in its Asian neighbours has grown visibly. Although the political relations are not untroubled, the economical ties between Japan and its neighbouring countries grow closer each year. Even in the cultural sphere, the interest in Asia has increased, which could not only be observed in the rising number of travellers to other Asian countries, but also in an ›Asia boom‹ in the popular genres of cinema and TV drama. This Asia boom brought more characters from another Asian country to the big and small screens in Japan than ever before. Due to the fact that the mass media in general, and the fictional media in particular, reach a wide audience, and in light of the Asia boom, it is necessary to look at the representations of other countries constructed in these genres. These representations always yield a great deal of information about the circumstances of the society they are produced and located in. Thus, as Japan’s Asian neighbours, but mainly the region of Greater China (The People’s Republic of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong), have gained importance, it is especially vital to look at how this region is (re)presented in the Japanese media. Therefore, this paper deals with the representations of Greater China in cinema and TV drama in Japan, aiming to work out how Greater China is perceived in the Japanese visual media whilst taking social and political conditions at the time of production into account.
description: Japan 2008: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 241
Coupled fermion-antifermion pairs within a traversable wormhole
Creators: name: Guvendi, Abdullah
name: Dogan, Semra Gurtas
name: Mustafa, Omar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This study investigates the dynamics of fermion-antifermion pairs within a traversable wormhole spacetime by solving the two-body covariant Dirac equation with a position-dependent mass.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
title: Not in Education, Employment or Training: Das "NEET-Problem" : Ansichten eines Gesellschaftsphänomens
Creators: name: Werth, Silke
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Erwachsener <18-40 Jahre>
subject: Jugend <16-25 Jahre>
subject: Lebensproblem
subject: Soziale Situation
subject: Prekariat
subject: 305

description: Not in Education, Employment or Training: Japan’s »NEET-Question« Views of a social phenomenon Nowadays, the prolonged and challenging period of adolescence is often perceived as a problem. In Japan, a country previously known for it’s smooth transitions from school to work, the introduction of the term »NEET« caused massive discussions leading to a sense of crisis. NEET, a term with origins in Great Britain, stands for young people at the age of 15 to 34 who are »Not in Education, Employment or Training« and thus are not directly integrated into the working or academic world. In this paper, Japanese NEET are characterized using respective statistics and an analysis of the »risk-groups« in terms of age, education and family background. The problem hereby is the lack of a clear differentiation between NEET and other social phenomena like Parasite Single or hikikomori and the absence of a standard definition. The analysis of the outcome of similar youth related discussions questioning the »truth” of the problem, as well as the impressions of NEET from Japanese students further underline that youth are more than just »NEET-Reservists.« The paper shows that in 2002 there was indeed a NEET increase, but their share never passed over two percent of the respective age groups. A decline in the number of NEET in 2006 further reveals that there is no real statistical proof for the overblown awareness of their existence. Thus, it seems necessary to lift the discussion from an emotional to a more scientific base, in order to allow a smoother integration of youth into today’s society.
description: Japan 2008: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 267
The ghost cave- a white challenge for skilled divers
Creators: name: Gaglioti, Martina
name: Pili, Raimondo
name: Sechi, Maria Giovanna
name: Pischedda, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Marine Biology

description: This contribution is based on descriptions made on the basis of some field observations occurred both during leisure and work time. Hope enjoyable!
Role of AMBRA1 in mitophagy regulation: emerging evidence in aging-related diseases.
Creators: name: Di Rienzo, Martina
name: Romagnoli, Alessandra
name: Refolo, Giulia
name: Vescovo, Tiziana
name: Ciccosanti, Fabiola
name: Zuchegna, Candida
name: Lozzi, Francesca
name: Occhigrossi, Luca
name: Piacentini, Mauro
name: Fimia, Gian Maria
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Aging is a gradual and irreversible physiological process that significantly increases the risks of developing a variety of pathologies, including neurodegenerative, cardiovascular, metabolic, musculoskeletal, and immune system diseases. Mitochondria are the energy-producing organelles, and their proper functioning is crucial for overall cellular health. Over time, mitochondrial function declines causing an increased release of harmful reactive oxygen species (ROS) and DNA, which leads to oxidative stress, inflammation and cellular damage, common features associated with various age-related pathologies. The impairment of mitophagy, the selective removal of damaged or dysfunctional mitochondria by autophagy, is relevant to the development and progression of age-related diseases. The molecular mechanisms that regulates mitophagy levels in aging remain largely uncharacterized. AMBRA1 is an intrinsically disordered scaffold protein with a unique property of regulating the activity of both proliferation and autophagy core machineries. While the role of AMBRA1 during embryonic development and neoplastic transformation has been extensively investigated, its functions in post-mitotic cells of adult tissues have been limited due to the embryonic lethality caused by AMBRA1 deficiency. Recently, a key role of AMBRA1 in selectively regulating mitophagy in post-mitotic cells has emerged. Here we summarize and discuss these results with the aim of providing a comprehensive view of the mitochondrial roles of AMBRA1, and how defective activity of AMBRA1 has been functionally linked to mitophagy alterations observed in age-related degenerative disorders, including muscular dystrophy/sarcopenia, Parkinson diseases, Alzheimer diseases and age-related macular degeneration.
Towards a Tight Asymptotic Bound For One-Dimensional Stochastic Gradient Descent
Creators: name: Lu, William
name: Harvey, Nicholas J. A.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: Supervised machine learning algorithms work by optimizing model parameters to minimize a loss (objective) function. For many classes of models, such as robust regression and logistic regression, there is no closed form solution for the minimizers. Therefore, iterative optimization algorithms play a key role in training machine learning models. The stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm requires very few assumptions on the objective function and is therefore one of the most frequently used optimizers in practice. When training on large datasets, it is useful to know how fast an iterative optimizer converges to the solution. A common quantification of convergence rate is the expected suboptimality at the final iterate, denoted E [f(~xT )] − f ∗ . Prior work has established an upper bound of O ln √ T T and a lower bound of Ω √ 1 T on the expected suboptimality of SGD. In this thesis, we conjecture that the upper bound on the expected suboptimality of SGD can be improved to O √ 1 T when the objective function is one-dimensional. We prove this conjecture under a restricted setting. Our analysis frames this problem through the lens of stochastic processes and random walks. To investigate the limiting behaviour of biased random walks, we utilize techniques from generating functions and combinatorics. We make standard assumptions of convexity and Lipschitz continuity on the objective function. For simplicity, we assume a constant step size ηt = Θ √ 1 T .
title: Japanische Innenpolitik: Schwerpunkte und Tendenzen
Creators: name: Pohl, Manfred
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Innenpolitik
subject: Parteiensystem
subject: Geschichte 2008-2009
subject: 320

description: Japanese Domestic Policy 2008/09: Highlights and Tendencies Domestic policy in 2008 and the first half of 2009 was once again characterized by traditional as well as recent shortcomings of political culture in Japan. That is why this chapter has to discuss the desperate fight of the Asô government for political survival under the system. The growing rift in the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and the New Kōmeitō is described as a clear signal of beginning decline of the half-century of nearly unbroken rule by the LDP. Electoral behavior of Kōmeitō (or rather Sōka gakkai) followers and electoral maneuvering of conservative stalwarts is discussed, as are relations between the LDP and the opposition party with the ministerial bureaucracy, which was deeply troubled in 2008 by plans both of the LDP and the DPJ to curb its predominant role. Regional and gubernatorial elections in 2008 are outlined as possible early indicators for the disastrous election defeat of both the LDP and the Kōmeitō. The chapter finally seeks to evaluate the guiding role of the imperial family in Japanese society by reflecting upon the golden anniversary of the marriage of the imperial couple.
description: Japan 2009: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 23
title: Die Unterhauswahl 2009: Als der Wandel nach Japan kam!?
Creators: name: Winkler, Christian
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Zweite Kammer
subject: Parlamentswahl
subject: Geschichte 2009
subject: 324

description: The Lower House election 2009: When change came to Japan!? This article analyses the results of the Lower House election of August 2009. It argues that with this election and the resulting formation of a new DPJ-led government change has indeed come to Japan. For the first time, the voter’s decision and not defections by LDP members have paved the way for what has become the alternative to the long-ruling LDP. The latter suffered its worst loss in national elections and finds itself in the middle of its most serious crisis. Whether the system of two dominant parties and alternations in power is here to stay will in no small part depend on the LDP’s ability to master this crisis and the DPJ’s performance as the new governing party.
description: Japan 2009: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 47
title: Bestimmt der Staat, was auf den Tisch kommt?: Die Umsetzung des Rahmengesetzes zur Ernährungserziehung im ländlichen Japan
Creators: name: Reiher, Cornelia
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Ernährungspolitik
subject: 363

description: Can the State Define What the Japanese Should Eat? The Implementation of the Basic Law on Food Education in Rural Japan Against the background of various concerns related to food and nutrition such as food safety, an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related diseases and the loss of traditional food culture, the Basic Law on Food Education (Shokuiku kihonhō) was enacted in June 2005. It defines food education (shokuiku) as acquisition of knowledge about food and of the ability to make appropriate food choices. The aim of this article is to analyse how the contents of the law and the associated Basic Plan for the Promotion of Food Education were realized in the individual plans for the promotion of food education enacted by the Japanese prefectures and municipalities, as well as in actual shokuiku activities on the local level. Drawing on the example of Aritachō, a municipality in Saga prefecture, it becomes clear that local shokuiku combines both measures based on the interpretation of shokuiku according to the Basic Law on Food Education, and on the other hand emphasize local uniqueness. Local shokuiku measures are also closely linked to rural revitalization and community planning. In the case of Arita, shokuiku emphasizes a unique food culture that unites local food and porcelain products. At the same time that shokuiku is integrated into the local infrastructure of revitalization and community planning, the additional focus on local uniqueness does not question the basic assumptions about food and food education of the Basic Law.
description: Japan 2009: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 63
title: Grundzüge und Tendenzen der japanischen Außenpolitik 2008/2009: Zwischen Weltwirtschaftskrise und nuklearer Bedrohung
Creators: name: Vosse, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Außenpolitik
subject: Sicherheitspolitik
subject: Geschichte 2008-2009
subject: 327

description: Recent Developments and Trends in Japanese Foreign Policy: Between Global Economic Crisis and Nuclear Threat For Japan, the years 2008 and 2009 are dominated by two challenges, namely the increased threat posed by North Korea and its missile and nuclear tests, as well as the global financial crisis, which severely threatened Japanese export markets. This article documents and analyses these threats and the Japanese reaction to them by looking at the development and current state of Japan’s bilateral and multilateral relations as well as its security policy, international trade, international environmental, and development policy. It argues that Japan is increasingly focusing on its national interests and national security, while gradually decreasing its engagement for international missions, which had been the biggest change of the last decade.
description: Japan 2009: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 89
Processing phenotype data using the Phenopackets-API and PXFTools
Creators: name: Mungall, Chris
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: While great strides have been made in exchange formats for genomic sequence and variation data (e.g. Variant Call Format; VCF), the same is not true for phenotypic features. Similarly, bioinformatics software libraries such as BioPython and BioPerl have rich object models for genomic or phylogenetic datatypes, but lack a uniform phenotype representation. This is due in part to the diversity of phenotypic descriptions, from clinical observations through QTLs and newer high-throughput phenopype measurements. As a result, phenotypes are represented differently in different databases, making it harder to exchange, aggregate and operate over phenotypic data.

We have designed a datamodel and exchange format standard for flexible, extensible and expressive representation of a broad range of phenotypes in humans or any other species. The Phenotype eXchange Format (PXF) works hand-in-hand with phenotype ontology such as the Human Phenotype Ontology or the Ontology of Biological Attributes, but allows for representation of other fields such as quantitative measurements, environments and evidence. PXF can be serialized as either JSON or YAML, and we provide JSON schema for validation. We also provide a JSON-LD context for use within semantic web and OWL stacks.

For software developers we provide the Phenopacket Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs) in Java, Python and Javascript. We have implemented bindings for Neo4J via SciGraph (https://github.com/SciGraph/SciGraph), but the model is storage-layer independent and can potentially be used in conjunction with GMOD databases such as Chado. We are also prototyping a language-independent ProtoBuf-API to facilitate interoperability with the Global Alliance for Genomes and Health (GA4GH) stack.

As a demonstration of purpose, we have implemented a command line tool library called pxftools, analogous to the popular vcftools used for operating over variant files.

The video for this presentation at BOSC 2016 can be viewed here.
Multilingual Speech Processing in Simulated Online Learning Conditions
Creators: name: Freiwirth, Galia
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: The COVID-19 pandemic required that students and instructors make a shift in their routines, from attending lectures in person to attending online. A vast number of studies show that when listening to speech in quiet conditions, bilinguals are just as successful at perceiving the speech signal as monolinguals, but when listening to speech in noise, the perceptual abilities of bilinguals decrease considerably. Additionally, research on vocabulary size indicates that a larger vocabulary size can be beneficial when listening to speech in adverse conditions. Nonetheless, only few studies have analyzed the abilities of listeners with knowledge of more than two languages on speech perception tasks, and to our knowledge, the relationship between vocabulary size and speech-perception-in-noise (SPIN) tasks has yet to be studied. This study aimed to address the gap by assessing the performance of multilinguals in adverse listening conditions, quantifying multilingualism with a language entropy measure while also considering English vocabulary size. Students at the University of British Columbia were recruited to participate in a SPIN task, auditory vocabulary assessment, and multilingualism questionnaire. Speech processing challenges were present for all participants in the adverse conditions, but even more so for participants with lower vocabulary assessment scores. There was no effect of entropy on SPIN performance. The results replicate previous SPIN task findings, extend the findings to multilinguals, and suggest that there may be an added layer of difficulty for individuals with smaller vocabulary sizes in online environments.
Teaching Electromagnetism in elementary physics or upper high school courses
Creators: name: Buonaura, Biagio
name: Giuliani, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Traditionally, Electromagnetism is taught following the chronological development of the matter. The final product of this path is a presentation of Electromagnetism realized by adding one layer over another with the risk of transferring concepts and formulae from Electrostatics to Electrodynamics. In this paper, we suggest a new approach based on the idea that the matter should be presented within the conceptual framework of Maxwell-Lorentz-Einstein Electromagnetism. This approach is founded on the concept of a field as a primary theoretical entity and on the statement that a point charge produces, in general, an electric and a magnetic field and that the force exerted by these fields on a point charge is the Lorentz's force. Developing this idea, one finds that macroscopic laws corroborated by experiments have a microscopic origin. It also follows that the electromotive force induced in a closed conducting circuit must be defined as the line integral of Lorentz's force on a unit positive charge. This definition leads to a local law of electromagnetic induction, Lorentz's invariant for rigid and filiform circuits. This law contrasts with what Feynman labeled as the "flux rule" - generally taught in textbooks and teaching practices - downgrading it from the status of physical law. Particular attention is given to the teaching dilemma of Maxwell's equations: ignore them, write them in integral form, or speak of them, focusing on their conceptual and physical meaning.
description: 29 pages, two figures
Progressive Limb-Aware Virtual Try-On
Creators: name: Han, Xiaoyu
name: Zhang, Shengping
name: Liu, Qinglin
name: Li, Zonglin
name: Wang, Chenyang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Existing image-based virtual try-on methods directly transfer specific clothing to a human image without utilizing clothing attributes to refine the transferred clothing geometry and textures, which causes incomplete and blurred clothing appearances. In addition, these methods usually mask the limb textures of the input for the clothing-agnostic person representation, which results in inaccurate predictions for human limb regions (i.e., the exposed arm skin), especially when transforming between long-sleeved and short-sleeved garments. To address these problems, we present a progressive virtual try-on framework, named PL-VTON, which performs pixel-level clothing warping based on multiple attributes of clothing and embeds explicit limb-aware features to generate photo-realistic try-on results. Specifically, we design a Multi-attribute Clothing Warping (MCW) module that adopts a two-stage alignment strategy based on multiple attributes to progressively estimate pixel-level clothing displacements. A Human Parsing Estimator (HPE) is then introduced to semantically divide the person into various regions, which provides structural constraints on the human body and therefore alleviates texture bleeding between clothing and limb regions. Finally, we propose a Limb-aware Texture Fusion (LTF) module to estimate high-quality details in limb regions by fusing textures of the clothing and the human body with the guidance of explicit limb-aware features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art virtual try-on methods both qualitatively and quantitatively. The code is available at https://github.com/xyhanHIT/PL-VTON.
description: Accepted by ACM MM 2022. The code is available at https://github.com/xyhanHIT/PL-VTON
title: Terra marique: Die Rückkehr des Raumes in der völkerrechtlichen Debatte Japans, 1989–2009
Creators: name: Zachmann, Urs
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Völkerrecht
subject: Raum
subject: Geschichte 1989–2009
subject: 341

description: Terra marique: The Return of Space in the International Legal Discourse of Japan, 1989–2009 Since the end of the Cold War, the dominating paradigm in international legal discourse has been that of a gradual, but inexorable dissolution of national sovereignty in the rapid torrents of globalization, and the rise of semi-autonomous legal regimes that threaten to undermine the unity of international order instead. However, a closer look at legal discourse casts considerable doubts on the validity of this paradigm. International legal discourse in Japan offers a good example of a reverse tendency as it indicates a new awareness and assertion of Japan’s »space« in international legal discourse. Thus, while the dissolution paradigm may have some currency in abstract reflections on sovereignty in international law, on a more concrete level we can observe a reassertion of Japan’s boundaries in all dimensions of its territory and the cautious, but noticeable projection of its power and influence beyond those limitations. On the other hand, Japan’s Constitution as well as historical experience and the resulting political situation in East Asia check those tendencies and ensure that the »spatial turn« in the international legal discourse in Japan fundamentally differs from the expansive »regionalism« of prewar times.
description: Japan 2009: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 113
Collaborative software development: lessons from open source
Creators: name: Mayes, Abigail Cabunoc
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Since the Mozilla Science Lab launched three years ago, we’ve tested ways to help the research community work together to build new tools for science. Through our open source projects and code sprints, we’ve seen that despite the interest in scientific software development, that sustaining development and doing so collaboratively remain a challenge.

Pulling from the open source community, we’ve developed trainings and mentorship programs to bring some of those lessons and values to the scientific software community. The materials in our Working Open Workshop take the norms and protocols for open source community organization and development and unpack tips to facilitate collaborative learning and contributorship. We are investing in leaders and facilitators who can help the research community learn to build software together.

The Working Open Workshop followed by one-on-one mentorship focuses on a few practical ways to get started in open source, such as roadmapping, identifying pathways for new participants, engaging with contributors, open licensing and software citation.

By working openly, a project lead demonstrates and encourages learning and participation. While mentorship and community engagement are vital throughout the life of a project, a few key steps can help jumpstart community involvement. This talk will outline a few ways to help elevate contributors to work more collaboratively and sustainably in the open.

The video for this presentation at BOSC 2016 can be viewed here.
title: Japans konjunktureller Einbruch in der globalen Finanz- und Wirtschaftkrise
Creators: name: Hilpert, Hanns
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Wirtschaft
subject: Geschichte 2008-2009
subject: 330

description: Japan in Deep Recession Hit hard by the global financial crisis and especially the sharp drop in export demand which followed, the Japanese economy is running through its deepest recession in postwar history. Once again export dependency turned out to be the weak point in Japan’s economy. But also a sharp appreciation of the yen and heavy balance sheet losses of Japan’s banks aggravated the recessionary fall. Extraordinary expansionary fiscal and monetary policy has been applied to stimulate aggregate demand. This paper argues that these measures will not be sufficient to kickstart the economy. First, fiscal policy without consideration of Japan’s increasingly high budget deficit and spiraling government debts is lacking credibility in the eyes of the private consumer and investor. Second, monetary policy has fallen back in a liquidity trap and faces entrenched deflationary tendencies. Therefore Japan’s economic outlook remains dim, as long as no strong export demand is in sight. In this situation, the new Hatoyama government’s options to improve Japan’s economic condition remain limited. Because of high government debt there is hardly any fiscal scope to further stimulate consumer demand. And the bad legacy of Koizumi’s reform policy within the Japanese public makes a resolute structural reform policy politically impossible.
description: Japan 2009: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 135
Public 's Multi-dimensional Response to Different Acoustic Types of Birdsong in Urban Parks Based on Auditory: A Case Study of Kunming, China
Creators: name: Yi, Kaiyuan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: These mp3 files support the auditory perception of birdsong in the manuscript "Public ‘s Multi-dimensional Response to Different Acoustic Types of Birdsong in Urban Parks Based on Auditory: A Case Study of Kunming, China".
title: Erfolgsfaktoren und Herausforderungen der Nachfolge in japanischen Familienunternehmen am Beispiel der Möbelindustrie
Creators: name: Goydke, Tim
name: Smailus, Henrik
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Japan
subject: Familienbetrieb
subject: Nachfolge
subject: Möbelindustrie
subject: 338

description: Success Factors and Challenges in Management Succession in Japanese Family Firms: The Case of the Furniture Industry Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) form the backbone of the post-war Japanese economy. The majority of SMEs can be regarded as family firms as they are still in the hand of the founder. However, management succession is becoming a crucial issue for Japanese family firms especially as the »baby boomer generation« has already started to retire. On the basis of interviews conducted among founders and successors in the furniture industry in Japan we try to shed some light on the question of how succession is organised. Based on this we discuss possible success factors for the succession process in family businesses.
description: Japan 2009: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 149
title: Vorwärts in die Vergangenheit?: Für und Wider der Bewerbung Tōkyōs um die Olympischen Spiele 2016 in der politischen Diskussion
Creators: name: Tagsold, Christian
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Tokyo
subject: Olympische Spiele 2016
subject: Bewerbung
subject: 324

description: Ahead to the Past: The Political Discussion on Tōkyō’s Bid for the Summer Olympics 2016 Tōkyō has submitted a bid to host the Olympics in 2016. The IOC will decide in October 2009 whether Tōkyō or other competitors such as Chicago or Madrid will stage the games. Tōkyō’s actual chances are hard to assess, but have increased due to a favorable technical report by the IOC. Yet severe political problems affect the bid. The cities ultraconservative mayor Shintarô Ishihara too often has voiced opinions that conflict with lofty Olympic ideals. Also many citizens doubt that hosting the games would solve issues of city development as promised by the bid’s boosters. Therefore anti-Olympic protest has become noticeable. The paper analyses political promises, strategies of boosters and criticism of the bid. Ishihara has invoked Tōkyō’s history as the Olympic city of 1964 strongly to legitimate the bid. Though this is problematic, the critical voices fall severely short in targeting the romantic interpretation of the past as well as establishing more general arguments and thereby restrict themselves.
description: Japan 2009: Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, p. 195