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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Ishii"”.
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General Ishii Shiro: His Legacy is That of Genius and Madman
… of the chemical weapons division founded by Ishii Shiro, and discusses the horrible experimentation that was done by the Japanese. These experiments have been a source of controversy. The Chinese feel the Japanese should acknowledge these as war crimes. When the Japanese left Manchuria, they …
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American-Japanese Relations Regarding the Intervention in Siberia
… the different interpretations of the Lansing-Ishii Agreement to serve as a background to show that the Siberian intervention was one more step in Japan’s policy to extend her political and economic influence over Asia and one more attempt of the United States to prevent this aggression. |The …
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Transfer of the knowledge of Chinese characters to Japanese
… learning kanji to achieve functional literacy (Ishii, 1967). Since kanji are used for content words in Japanese, many researchers and educators believe that knowing more kanji entails better comprehension, and that the native speakers of Chinese should be able to read Japanese better than those …
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Experiments on a mealybug infesting apple and a mealybug infesting catalpa
… both hosts. 4. The parasites, Clausenua purpurea Ishii, from the mealybugs from catalpa parasitized the mealybugs from apply failed to parasitize mealybugs from catalpa. 5. Some female mealybugs may overwinter in the adult form if fully protected from the weather and if the temperature does not …
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Simulating transparency and cutaway to visualize 3D internal information for tangible Uls
… user interfaces (TUIs), defined and scoped by Ishii, provide more intuitive experience for manipulating and reviewing 3D digital information than conventional graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Although current TUIs for CAD enable users to intuitively manipulate and directly perceive 3D digital …
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Phygital Transformation: Adding Physical Devices to Digital Products to Improve the User Experience
… rectangles everywhere. Or, as Professor Hiroshi Ishii from the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab describes it, the “Pixel Empire.” Over the two decades, digital screens have taken the front stage in our lives, especially after the advent of the smartphone. While this has enabled …
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The reform of insurance supervisory systems for economies in transition with particular reference to Poland
… (Dr R. Pecchioli, Mr. A. Laboul, Mr. H. Ishii, Ms. C. Vignial), KPMG (Warsaw, London, Prague, Budapest), Cameron McKenna (Warsaw), Allen & Overy (Warsaw, London), and participants of the conference and meetings, for their valuable comments and suggestions. The author had been seconded to …
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Essays in Corporate Governance: Issues and Evidence from Equity Carve-Outs
… during the period 1983-2004. Using the Gompers, Ishii, and Metrick (2003) index and Bebchuk, Cohen, and Ferrell (2004) entrenchment index, as proxies for the quality of shareholder-rights protection, I provide evidence that firms with better shareholder rights protection outperform those with …
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The effects of a dairy cow body condition scoring system on selected production and metabolic parameters
… (tailhead), tuber sacrale (hooks), and tuber ishii (pin bones). All factors in the body condition scoring system must be considered while appraising each cow. Each cow was scored on a 1 to 5 scale with 1 indicating severe undercondition and 5 indicating severe overcondition. During an 18-month …
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Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s "art as a mode of research": Applications in feminist research methods and feminist rhetoric
My dissertation explores how Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s theories of creativity inform social-justice efforts, contribute to feminist research in feminist rhetoric, and operate as a tool to analyze her sketches. Despite Anzaldúa’s visual art training and prevalent use of images in her writing, few …
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Life Without GPR7, the Neuropeptide W1 Receptor: Regulation of Energy Homeostasis by GPR7 and its Endogenous Neuropeptide Ligands
<p>Classic lesion experiments from the 1940s have established the hypothalamus as playing an essential role in controlling energy homeostasis. Gold-thioglucose (GTG) induces lesions in the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus (VMH) resulting in hyperphagia and obesity. To identify genes …
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Composing electroacoustic music relating to traditional Japanese music
Throughout the history of Japanese contemporary music composers have been exploring ways to merge Western-style art music and their original, traditional Japanese music. Although in the past compositions which applied expressions of traditional Japanese music to Western-style music were partly …
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Color and Structural Modifications of Alkaline Extracted Sunflower Protein Concentrates and Isolates Using L-Cysteine and Glutathione
<p>Sunflower protein can be extracted at alkaline pH with sulfites or organic solvent de-phenolization of sunflower seed meals if greening is unwanted. This greening is promoted at alkaline pH when chlorogenic acid (CGA) oxidizes and reacts with free amine groups from amino acids, such as lysine. …
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Using Pitch Tipping for Baseball Pitch Prediction
<p>Data Analytics and technology have changed baseball as we know it. From the increase in defensive shifts to teams using cameras in the outfield to steal signs, teams will try anything to win. One way to gain an edge in baseball is to figure out what pitches a pitcher will pitch. Pitch prediction …
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Convergence of Open Mappings of Locally Compact Spaces
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T21:49:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0005977.pdf: 2218909 bytes, checksum: ef827292b9a7f583202fae2ac39892af (MD5) Previous issue date: 1953
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Joint development at downtown retail stations in the U.S. and Japan
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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The oil film in the short journal bearing
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1960
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Managing technological innovation and sustaining competitive advantage in the digital imaging industry
The emergence and adoption of a disruptive technology that replaces an existing industry platform not only has enormous implications to incumbent firms, but also creates business opportunities that is enabled by the newly adopted technology. Firms competing in such an evolving and dynamic industry …
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