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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Tohoku"”.
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Anytime, Anyplace, Anybody: Lifelong Learning in a Tohoku Town
The way in which shogai gakushu policy is handled by Towa-cho bureaucrats is of concern to scholars in a variety of fields interested in the multidimensional dynamics of life at the local level. Japan specialists, cultural and applied anthropologists, political scientists, and educators alike will …
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Tohoku Topo-Urbanism : oblique community form in post-Tsunami Japan
Tohoku Topo-Urbanism explores the potential inhabitation of the oblique as an alternative model of community form and resilient reconstruction in Post-Tsunami Japan. In its wake, the 2011 Tsunami left a redefined landscape and enormous questions about the future of people and place. Since then, the …
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Optimization of the seismic early warning system for the Tohoku Shinkansen
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1995.
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Women's experiences of recovery from alcohol dependency in Tohoku region, Japan: their views of needs for recovery
… to understand Japanese women, living in Tohoku region, Japan, who have the experience of alcohol dependency and recovery. Moreover, the purpose of the study was to understand what would be the most effective ways if supporting women in rural communities. Six women were interviewed to …
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Social vulnerability, resilience and capital in disasters: Immigrants, refugees and linguistic minorities in the 2010-2011 Canterbury and Tohoku disasters
… experienced the 2010-2011 Canterbury and Tohoku disasters. This includes their perceived social vulnerabilities and resilience to disasters. Sociological research has found that disasters affect individuals, families and communities differently. Damage and recovery are usually uneven due …
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Sediment Provenance of Tsunami Deposits: Implications for Assessing the Relative Intensity of Paleotsunamis from the Sendai Coastline of Japan
<p>The 2011 Tohoku tsunami impacted the northeastern coast of Japan and caused unexpected damages due to the underestimation of this type of hazard. Of particular importance is the fact that geologic evidence for a predecessor event, the Jogan tsunami (CE 869), could have forecasted the severity of …
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Fault damage zones and friction: insights from shallow Japan Trench drill core
… properties of faults. The March 11, 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake resulted in an unprecedented coseismic slip of >50 m in the shallow portion of the Japan Trench subduction zone. This thesis presents analysis of drill core recovered during Integrated Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition …
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Influence of intense ground motion on p-delta effect amplification
… for historical large earthquakes (Kocaeli and Tohoku), a sinusoidal curve, and a simulated ground motion based on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. These ground motions are applied to material elastic and material plastic version of two benchmark structures developed for the Los Angeles region …
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Plane wave parameter estimation using gps estimates of total electron content in a neural network
… to GPS data captured during the 11 March 2011 Tohoku tsunami.
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Tsunami monitoring using airglow imaging systems
… The methodology is applied to the 11 March 2011 Tohoku and 16 September 2015 Chile tsunamis as case studies. A previously developed geometric model that takes into account the assumed posture of tsunami-induced IGWs in the geomagnetic field and the observation geometry is shown to predict the …
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Investigations in Enzyme Stereospecificity: I. The Stereochemistry of Cis-Double Bond Formation in Dolichol and Natural Rubber Biosynthesis. II. The Stereochemistry of Carbon-Sulfur 4ond Reduction by Methyl Coenzyme Reductase
… (4-$\sp3$H$\sb1$) IPP by Dr. Hiroshi Sagami at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. The configuration of the tritium label located at the newly generated allylic position in the biosynthesized rubber and dehydrodolichol chains was determined in three of the four products. Elucidation of the …
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Regional seismic risk of railway system including derailment consequences
… previously. Through an application to the Tohoku Shinkansen line, we illustrate how the system is in many ways an improvement over the current JR East system.
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Improvement of aftershock models based on Coulomb stress changes and rate-and-state dependent friction
… from different tectonic settings: the Mw 9.0 Tohoku megathrust and the Mw 6.0 Parkfield strike slip earthquake. I study aleatoric uncertainties using a Monte Carlo method. I find that the existence of multiple receiver faults is the most important source of intrinsic stress heterogeneity, and …
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SPH Modeling of Solitary Waves and Resulting Hydrodynamic Forces on Vertical and Sloping Walls
… Hurricane Katrina and most recently, the 2011 Tohoku Japan Tsunami. As a result, more advanced research is needed to estimate the magnitude of forces exerted on structures by such bores. This research presents results of a numerical model based on the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) …
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Locating and Protecting Facilities Subject to Random Disruptions and Attacks
<p>Recent events such as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan have revealed the vulnerability of networks such as supply chains to disruptive events. In particular, it has become apparent that the failure of a few elements of an infrastructure system can cause a system-wide disruption. …
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Nonlinear Acoustic Waves Generated by Surface Disturbances and Their Effect on Lower Thermospheric Composition
… to thermosphere, such as following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and rocket launches. The limits of applicability are investigated for vertically propagating acoustic waves near the cut-off frequency, and for simulations of steepening waves at finite spatial resolution. The addition of a mass …
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Tsunami Excitation Estimation from Real-time GNSS
… GNSS time series and surveyed runup heights, Tohoku, Japan 2011. This system has been implemented in the CWU Geodesy Lab for the Cascadia subduction zone and will be expanded to the circum-Pacific as real-time processing of international GNSS data streams become available.
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Bōsai, Tsunami
… The Great East Japan Earthquake that hit the Tohoku region in 2011 exposed disaster planning challenges and a looming demographic crisis in Japanese coastal towns. Despite the elaborate network of tsunami barriers constructed by the government to protect the coasts, many coastal settlements …
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Machine Learning for Improvement of Ocean Data Resolution for Weather Forecasting and Climatological Research
… sea surface temperature (SST) prediction in the Tohoku region with very low errors ranging from 0.35°C to 0.75°C and the root-mean-square error increases from 0.27°C to 0.53°C over the over the China seas respectively. The approach we have developed remains unparalleled in its domain as of this …
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