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ベトナムにおける航空政策の展開と市場の変化
東京海洋大学修士学位論文 2022年度(2022年9月) 海運ロジスティクス 修士 第3880号指導教員: 遠藤伸明全文公表年月日: 2022-12-22東京海洋大学202
Forest Decline Under Progress in the Urban Forest of Seoul, Central Korea
Vegetation in the urban area showed not only a difference in species composition but also lower diversity compared with that of the natural area. Successional trend was normal in natural area, but that in urban areas showed a retrogressive pattern. Korean mountain ash (Sorbus alnifolia (Siebold & Zucc.) K.Koch), a shade intolerant species, dominated such a retrogressive succession. The vegetation decline is due to changes of mesoclimate and soil properties that imbalanced distribution of green space induced as the result of urbanization. In recent years, new environmental stress due to climate change is imposed additively to this forest decline. Drought is the very environmental stress. Drought-induced plant damage started from withering of leaves of plants introduced for landscaping in the urban area. Over time, branches died and death of the whole plant body followed. In particular, damage of Korean mountain ash, the product of retrogressive succession, was remarkable. As retrogressive succession has already progressed much, thus such phenomenon could be recognized as crisis of urban forest
Facile synthesis of metal-free organic dyes featuring a thienylethynyl spacer for dye sensitized solar cells
In this article, we report the facile synthesis of metal-free dyes 6 and 7, their solution-based optical and redox properties and their use as sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Our studies indicate that the addition of the second thiophene unit in dye 7, decreases the oxidation and reduction potential and consequently the band gap of the molecule compared to 6. Furthermore, increasing the length of the conjugated spacer also affects on the properties of the DSSCs, with dye 7 providing a higher power conversion efficiency compared to 6 (η = 4.49 versus 3.23%)
Perturbation: the Catastrophe Causer in Scale-Free Networks
A new model about cascading occurrences caused by perturbation is established
to search after the mechanism because of which catastrophes in networks occur.
We investigate the avalanche dynamics of our model on 2-dimension Euclidean
lattices and scale-free networks and find out the avalanche dynamic behaviors
is very sensitive to the topological structure of networks. The experiments
show that the catastrophes occur much more frequently in scale-free networks
than in Euclidean lattices and the greatest catastrophe in scale-free networks
is much more serious than that in Euclidean lattices. Further more, we have
studied how to reduce the catastrophes' degree, and have schemed out an
effective strategy, called targeted safeguard-strategy for scale-free networks.Comment: 4 pages, 6 eps figure
Commensurate lock-in and incommensurate supersolid phases of hardcore bosons on anisotropic triangular lattices
We investigate the interplay between commensurate lock-in and incommensurate
supersolid phases of the hardcore bosons at half-filling with anisotropic
nearest-neighbor hopping and repulsive interactions on triangular lattice. We
use numerical quantum and variational Monte Carlo as well as analytical
Schwinger boson mean-field analysis to establish the ground states and phase
diagram. It is shown that, for finite size systems, there exist a series of
jumps between different supersolid phases as the anisotropy parameter is
changed. The density ordering wavevectors are locked to commensurate values and
jump between adjacent supersolids. In the thermodynamic limit, however, the
magnitude of these jumps vanishes leading to a continuous set of novel
incommensurate supersoild phases.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, added new results, changed title and conclusio
Early Outcome of Posterior Cervical Endoscopic Discectomy: An Alternative Treatment Choice for Physically/Socially Active Patients
Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is currently the standard treatment for cervical disc disease. Some patients wish to be treated with a less invasive method, because of their social/physical situations. Here we present one method of treatments for socially/physically active patients. Three patients had triceps weakness and mild posterior neck pain. The offending lesions were at the C6-7 level. All were middle-aged soldiers with families. If conventional ACDF were performed, they would have to retire from the military according to the regulation. They had to be able to perform military drills after the treatment if they were going to be able to keep their jobs. Because of their social/physical situations, all wanted to choose method with that they could treat the disease and keep their jobs. For these reasons, the posterior cervical endoscopic discectomies were performed. Ruptured fragments were successfully removed in all. The arm pain improved by more than 90% in two patients by 7 days and in the other patient by 2 months, respectively (excellent outcome by Macnab's criteria). None of the operations caused instability. All of the patients are currently able to successfully perform their military drills without difficulty. The posterior cervical endoscopic discectomy may be a promising alternative for the physically/socially active patients
Absence of the Septum Pellucidum Associated with a Midline Fornical Nodule and Ventriculomegaly: A Report of Two Cases
We report two autopsy cases that revealed the partial absence of the septum pellucidum with ventriculomegaly. In each case, the brain showed mild dilatation of both frontal horns of the lateral ventricles, normal third and fourth ventricles and no aqueductal stenosis. The posterior portion of the septum pellucidum was absent and the fornices were fused in a single midline nodule, abnormally displaced to a caudal position and lodged in the foramina of Monro. The brain base showed no apparent abnormalities; the optic nerves were well developed. We conclude that the caudally displaced fornix in the absence of the septum pellucidum may have intermittently obstructed the foramina of Monro and induced mild ventriculomegaly
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