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Listing of Tangible Cultural Properties: Expanded Recognition for Historic Buildings in Japan

Since the late 19th century, Japan has enacted a series of measures to protect its cultural heritage, most importantly the 1950 Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties. With subsequent amendments, the law today provides for the protection of both individual and groups of historical structures, landscapes, traditional crafts and skills, as well as national treasures. While these laws have saved many of the nation\u27s foremost cultural resources, a substantial number of important historic structures, especially from the Meiji Period (1868) onward, have fallen through this legal safety net. This Article summarizes the evolution of Japan\u27s cultural properties protection legislation, and details some of the recent losses of important properties and challenges facing the current legal protection system. It then examines the 1996 amendment to the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties, which authorized the registration of tangible cultural properties. This new initiative is intended as a fast-track means of providing recognition and limited protection to a greater number of historic structures. The Article ends by acknowledging the benefits and critiquing the weaknesses of the current state of legal protection for cultural properties in Japan, due to a lack of coordination among governmental agencies with conflicting interests

Alien Registration- Culbertson, H. Chester (Fairfield, Somerset County)

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Nature of white light

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Physics, 1923

Surface coatings and catalyst production by electrodeposition

Electrodeposition and electrocodeposition in low gravity are discussed. The goal is to provide a better understanding of the role of convection and buoyancy in the mechanisms of formation of some electrodeposited surfaces, fluid flow in the vicinity of electrodepositing surfaces, the influence of a moving medium upon codeposition, the effect of gravity upon the dispersion (coagulation) of neutral particles that are desired for codeposition and preparation of improved surface coatings and metal catalysts

Analysis of broadband metamaterial shielding for counter-directed energy weapons

Since the dawn of warfare, arms and armor have been locked in a never-ending struggle fordominance. A new development in that struggle is the advent of high-power microwave (HPM) directed-energy weapons (DEWs), which can disrupt electronics remotely with great accuracy without the need to inflict kinetic damage. Given the importance of electronics in modern warfare, the ability to rapidly develop a counter to such weapons will be essential to sustaining military operations. This thesis investigates the use of microwave-absorbent metamaterials for protection against DEWs and proposes a method for the rapid analysis and design of metamaterial structures. The proposed method uses a parameter retrieval algorithm to characterize a complex metamaterial as a simple, homogenized structure. The retrieved parameters can then be applied to a smooth, homogenized layer in a finite element model, which closely approximates the performance of the original metamaterial analyzed. The homogenized layer model requires far less time and effort to simulate than a complex metamaterial unit cell. The retrieved parameters are applicable to simulated scale models as well, thus reducing the need for physical, scale-model prototypes and accelerating the design process to keep pace with rapidly emerging threats.Lieutenant, United States NavyApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited