This article reviews the media studies section at the European Association of Japanese Studies conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia in July 2014. The conference marked the introduction of a separate media studies section at the EAJS, and the review comments favorably on the initiative as well as the overall outcome of the presentations and discussions in the section.

The author generalizes the solution of the independent boson model to take the finite lifetime of the core hole into account. The generalized solution is compared to the conventional convolution of the infinite lifetime spectral function with a Lorentzian lifetime broadening function. The generalized solution reduces to the conventional convolution in two limits. However, the new solution predicts

A certain formalization of Analogical Morphology is shown to be undecidable by reduction of Post's Correspondence Problem.

Bone metastasis is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in prostate cancer (PCa). While cancer stem-like cells have been implicated as a cell of origin for PCa metastases, the pathways which enable metastatic development at distal sites remain largely unknown. In this study, we illuminate pathways relevant to bone metastasis in this disease. We observed that cyclin A1 (CCNA1) protein express

FK506 binding protein 65 (FKBP65) belongs to a group of proteins termed immunophilins that have a high binding affinity to immunosuppressant drugs as FK506 (tacrolimus) and rapamycin (sirolimus). Treatment of female premenopausal women with tacrolimus, which binds to FKBP65, has been reported to be followed by a strongly increased risk of ovarian cysts. We performed the present study to reveal how

We identified several compounds, by gas chromatographic–electroantennographic detection (GC–EAD), that were antennally active in the bark beetle Ips typographus and also abundant in beetle-attacked spruce trees. One of them, 1,8-cineole (Ci), strongly inhibited the attraction to pheromone in the field. Single-sensillum recordings (SSRs) previously showed olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) on I. typ

The increasing rate of caesarean delivery is a worldwide concern. A major contributor to this evolution has been a concomitantly decline in vaginal birth after caesarean, because of the risk of intrapartum uterine rupture, which is a rare but potentially catastrophic complication of a trial of labour after caesarean (TOLAC). On the other hand, elective repeat caesarean is associated with surgical

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