著者
寺床 幸雄 梶田 真
出版者
公益社団法人 東京地学協会
雑誌
地学雑誌 (ISSN:0022135X)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.125, no.4, pp.607-626, 2016-08-25 (Released:2016-09-12)
参考文献数
21
被引用文献数
3 2

Minamata city is well known as the company town of Chisso Corporation, as the site of Minamata disease and, in recent times, as a city with environmentally friendly policies. The postwar experiences of Minamata city are often compared to a microcosm of Japanese modernization. A few decades earlier, the city faced and tackled several problems that most non-metropolitan cities currently face, such as an aging population and economic decline. There are meaningful lessons and suggestions we can adopt from Minamata city for sustainable development policies suited to non-metropolitan cities. This paper focuses on the economic history of Minamata (which includes not only Chisso but also other manufacturing companies and industries) and the dynamic relations between its local economy and politics. In Minamata, social tensions, such as those between the perpetrators and the victims of Minamata disease and between Chisso's labor and management, gradually disappeared due to reconciliation efforts and generational change. Minamata city office changed its vision of future development from being an industrial city to an environmentally friendly one, bearing in mind not only the experiences of Minamata disease victims but also the city's varied environmental resources. The residents of Minamata offered their support for these policies in recent mayor elections. Nevertheless, new problems began to emerge in the city. Jobs for the young had been limited for a long time, especially for men and those who were highly educated. One of the reasons for this is that Chisso prioritized retaining employees and restricted new hiring. Besides, the economic dominance of Chisso prevented local leaders and enterprises from growing. As a result, although Minamata's town planning, with its emphasis on environmentally friendly policies, received much attention and support, those policies could not be effectively implemented due to a lack of local human and institutional resources. Recently, however, young residents have begun to construct new social networks. It is worth noting that they share environmentally friendly visions. We can regard these kinds of movement as the results of continued efforts by Minamata city office and citizens. The economic and social dynamics of Minamata and the problems mentioned here are likely to be common to many non-metropolitan cities. Those cities must not be nearsighted about depopulation problems, but should investigate and try to maintain the conditions needed for long-term social and economic sustainability.
著者
小西 史子 舘岡 良枝 村上 知子 香西 みどり
出版者
一般社団法人 日本家政学会
雑誌
日本家政学会誌 (ISSN:09135227)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.63, no.6, pp.301-307, 2012-06-15 (Released:2013-10-10)
参考文献数
20
被引用文献数
1

We compared the antioxidative activity of roasted Adzuki bean flour and traditional boiled Adzuki beans, and evaluated the palatability of the roasted flour. The antioxidative activity of boiled Adzuki beans was significantly higher than that of the uncooked beans when determined by an ORAC assay, although itwas unchanged by a DPPH assay. More than 90% of the original antioxidative activity was retained in the roasted Adzuki bean flour when determined by both the DPPH and ORAC assays. Sixty-two elementary school pupils made roasted Adzuki bean flour and ate with rice cakes in a home economics class. Seventy nine percent of the pupils liked the roasted flour, and 87.1% showed their willingness to cook it again in their homes. These results indicate that roasted Adzuki bean flour could be quickly prepared without losing its antioxidative activity and that this flour was considered to be a favorable food among the pupils.
著者
田中 克 堺 俊克 岡本 信治 清水 康夫
出版者
一般社団法人 映像情報メディア学会
雑誌
映像情報メディア学会年次大会講演予稿集 2010 (ISSN:13431846)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.6-11-1-_6-11-2_, 2010-08-31 (Released:2017-05-24)

We have developed the compact high resolution CRT for HDTV viewfinder. By using phosphor thin-films, the horizontal resolution of 900 TV lines was obtained by optimizing the device structure of CRTs and the growth condition of phosphor thin-films.
著者
大村 拓也
出版者
日経BP社
雑誌
日経コンストラクション (ISSN:09153470)
巻号頁・発行日
no.469, pp.6-11, 2009-04-10

沖縄県で建設中のワルミ大橋は、不安定な状態での台風直撃を避けるために、4カ月で仮設の鋼管アーチを架設できる合成鋼管巻き立て工法を採用した。台風以外にも、亜熱帯特有の気象条件に気を付けながら施工している。(大村 拓也=フリーライター)急激な気象の変化も想定した施工計画に ワルミ大橋は、沖縄県今帰仁村と名護市の屋我地島を結ぶ。
著者
峯木 眞知子 渡邊 康一
出版者
一般社団法人 日本調理科学会
雑誌
日本調理科学会誌 (ISSN:13411535)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.38, no.2, pp.155-162, 2005-04-20 (Released:2013-04-26)
参考文献数
25

Ostrich and hen eggs were subjected to a microstructural comparison of the shell and shell membrane in the raw condition and of the albumen and yolk in the hard-boiled condition. The observation methods used were optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and low-vacuum scanning electron microscopy. The ostrich eggshell had a finely crackled surface. The structural components of the transverse section of the ostrich eggshell were similar to those of the hen eggshell. The shell and its vertical crystal layer of the ostrich egg were approximately five times thicker than those of the hen egg, and the spongy matrix region occupied three-quarters of the thickness of the ostrich eggshell. The results suggest that these factors were involved in the hardness of the ostrich eggshell. The ostrich eggshell membrane was two-to three-fold the thickness of the hen eggshell membrane, being composed of thick twisted fibers. The intermediate layer of the ostrich albumen showed a fine-layered structure, which seemed to be composed of thick albumen. The inner layer of the ostrich albumen comprised about 40% of the whole thickness, although its structure was indeterminate. The intensity of staining of the inner and outer layers of the ostrich albumen by the PAS reaction was stronger than that for the hen egg albumen. The ostrich yolk was packed with polyhedral yolk spheres, these yolk spheres having a similar shape and size to those of the hen yolk.

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著者
小宮豊隆 著
出版者
小山書店
巻号頁・発行日
1935
出版者
日経BP社
雑誌
日経ビジネス (ISSN:00290491)
巻号頁・発行日
no.1367, pp.58-62, 2006-11-20

「ライバルである米アドバンスト・マイクロ・デバイス(AMD)と、その競争力をどう評価するのか」。本誌との単独インタビューで、米インテルのポール・オッテリーニ社長兼CEO(最高経営責任者)にこう問いかけたところ、予想外の反応が返ってきたからだ。 「その質問には答えたくない」。オッテリーニCEOは表情を一変させ、厳しい口調でこう語った。
著者
大谷 壽一 竹田 正幸 今田 結城 澤田 康文
出版者
公益社団法人 日本薬学会
雑誌
YAKUGAKU ZASSHI (ISSN:00316903)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.126, no.5, pp.349-356, 2006 (Released:2006-05-01)
参考文献数
8
被引用文献数
7 8

Brand name confusion is one of the most common causes of drug-related errors. The aim of this study was to develop quantitative measures of similarity among brand names of drugs. We modified the fragmentary pattern-based measure, a measure of similarity for character strings based on the string resemblance system, to develop three novel measures of similarity, i.e., the head and tail-weighted fragmentary pattern-based measure (htfrag), visually weighted htfrag (vwhtfrag), and auditorily weighted htfrag (awhtfrag). The 227 pairs of brand names for which confusion errors have been reported were used as a positive control group. Ten sets of 2270 random pairs of brand names were generated as negative controls. Then we evaluated the measures developed by using the geometric mean of sensitivity and selectivity as an objective function, in comparison with two conventional measures of similarity based on the vector space model (cos1 and htco). The measures developed, htfrag, vwhtfrag, and awhtfrag, provided better discrimination with mean objective function values of 0.953, 0.962, and 0.940, respectively, which were higher than those for the conventional measures cos1 and htco (0.922 and 0.892, respectively). The rates of false-positives and false-negatives were 3.3—10.7% and 5.3—11.9% for cos1, respectively, while the rates for vwhtfrag were 4.8—5.9% and 2.2%, respectively. The measures of similarity developed may provide significant information to avoid drug-related errors associated with brand name confusion.