On the Historical Process of the Institutionalizing Technical Education: The Case of Weaving Districts in the Meiji Japan

This paper explores the process of the institutionalizing technical education in modern Japan. In particular, this research attempts to elucidate why people in local weaving districts needed such educational institutions and how it is related with the introduction of western technology. This process is found to be much different from the government-led introduction of modern industries through establishment of technical high schools and universities to nurture engineers. In the case of traditional Japanese weaving districts, it was trade associations that voluntarily and actively established institutes for training, which were later supported by prefectural governments and the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce and finally institutionalized as public technical schools by the Ministry of Education.

From Smithian Growth to Schumpeterian Development: An Inquiry into the Development of the Kiryu Weaving District in the Early 20th Century Japan

This study finds that the process of evolutionary development of the Kiryu weaving district in Japan from 1895 to 1930 can be divided into the two phases, i.e., Smithian growth based on the inter-firm division of labor using hand looms and Schumpeterian development based on factory system using power looms. Weaving manufacturers-cum-contractors led Smithian growth by organizing sub-contracts with out-weavers in rural villages among others, thereby contributing to the steady growth in production. Newly emerged joint stock firms played a role of genuine entrepreneurs by realizing significant scale economies and transforming the traditional weaving district into a cluster of large modern factories.industrial district, Smithian growth, Schumpeterian development, weaving industry, 20th century Japan

Gravitational Waves from Phase Transitions in Models with Charged Singlets

We investigate the effect of extra singlets on the electroweak phase transition (EWPT) strength and the spectrum of the corresponding gravitational waves (GWs). We consider here the standard model (SM) extended with a singlet scalar with multiplicity N coupled to the SM Higgs doublet. After imposing all the theoretical and experimental constraints and defining the region where the EWPT is strongly first order, we obtain the region in which the GWs spectrum can be reached by different future experiments such as LISA and DECIGO.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, published version matche

Fingerprinting models of first-order phase transitions by the synergy between collider and gravitational-wave experiments

We investigate the sensitivity of future space-based interferometers such as LISA and DECIGO to the parameters of new particle physics models which drive a first-order phase transition in the early Universe. We first perform a Fisher matrix analysis on the quantities characterizing the gravitational wave spectrum resulting from the phase transition, such as the peak frequency and amplitude. We next perform a Fisher analysis for the quantities which determine the properties of the phase transition, such as the latent heat and the time dependence of the bubble nucleation rate. Since these quantities are determined by the model parameters of the new physics, we can estimate the expected sensitivities to such parameters. We illustrate this point by taking three new physics models for example: (1) models with additional isospin singlet scalars (2) a model with an extra real Higgs singlet, and (3) a classically conformal $B-L$ model. We find that future gravitational wave observations play complementary roles to future collider experiments in pinning down the parameters of new physics models driving a first-order phase transition.Comment: 64 pages, 35 figure

Wilkie Collins ノ Basil ニ オケル sensation オ メグッテ 1850ネンダイ ニ オケル センセーション ショウセツ ノ ホウガ

本論は、1860年代初頭のイギリスにおいて「センセーション小説」と呼ばれる小説の新たなジャンルの一大流行を引き起こした作品である The Woman in White(1859-60)の著者、Wilkie Collins の初期の作品 Basil(1852)に見られる「センセーション小説」的要素を考察するものである。Basil の作品中に sensation という言葉が多用されていることに着目し、当時の生理学的文献における sensation の意味合いを参考にしながら、1850年代の小説の流れにおける Basil の特異性を明らかにし、「センセーション小説」の先駆的作品として位置づけられている The Woman in White だけでなく、Basil にも「センセーション小説」の要素が見られることを検証していくことが本論の目的である

ニ ミル 1850ネンダイ ノ : ノ カラ ヘ

センセーション小説は1860年代初頭のヴィクトリア朝イギリスにおいてにわかに流行し、その流行は当時の多くの雑誌記事において大いに議論され批判された。"sensation novel(fiction)"という用語自体は1860年頃から雑誌記事に見受けられるようになるのだが、1850年代の雑誌記事に目を向けると、"sensation"という言葉がすでにトピカルな言葉として扱われていたことが見えてくる。E. S. Dallas は、センセーション小説の流行を引き起こした Wilkie Collins の TheWoman in White(1859-1860) が連載されるよりも半年ほど前に、Blackwood\u27s Edinburgh Magazine の記事において"we should fly thought, we should cultivate sensation"と述べている。また、1855年、Margaret Oliphant は同誌において Collins の初期の代表作 Basil に触れて、"The `sensation\u27which it is the design of Mr Wilkie Collins […]"と引用符を用いて使用している。本論は、主として Blackwood\u27s Edinburgh Magazine の1850年代の記事を通して、"sensation"という言葉が1860年代初頭のセンセーション小説の流行のはるか前から様々な領域においていかに社会的に注目されていたかを検証していく