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Comparative study on legal solutions for possible risks to be incurred by the dual class share structure used by listed companies.
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Solar-wind derived light noble gases in micrometeorites collected at the Dome Fuji Station: Characterization by stepped pyrolysis
Noble gases in micrometeorite-bearing particles were characterized by the total-melting and stepped-heating analyses, in order to determine average compositions of light noble gases of micrometeorites collected at the Dome Fuji Station. He and Ne are dominated by solar-wind derived noble gases and the concentrations are comparable to the highest ones detected so far in carbonaceous chondrites. Cosmogenic gases are a very minor component in micrometeorites, suggesting short exposure to solar and galactic cosmic rays. The high ratio of solar to cosmogenic gases suggests that the micrometeorites had been small particles in the interplanetary space to have large surface areas to be exposed to solar winds. The micrometeorites are supposed to have fallen on Antarctica in the recent fifty years with snow around the Dome Fuji Station (T. Nakamura et al., Antarct. Meteorite Res., 12,183,1999a), and hence they are particles generated in the modern solar system and came to the Earth after short periods of exposure to solar winds and galactic cosmic rays
Predictability of conversation partners
Recent developments in sensing technologies have enabled us to examine the
nature of human social behavior in greater detail. By applying an information
theoretic method to the spatiotemporal data of cell-phone locations, [C. Song
et al. Science 327, 1018 (2010)] found that human mobility patterns are
remarkably predictable. Inspired by their work, we address a similar
predictability question in a different kind of human social activity:
conversation events. The predictability in the sequence of one's conversation
partners is defined as the degree to which one's next conversation partner can
be predicted given the current partner. We quantify this predictability by
using the mutual information. We examine the predictability of conversation
events for each individual using the longitudinal data of face-to-face
interactions collected from two company offices in Japan. Each subject wears a
name tag equipped with an infrared sensor node, and conversation events are
marked when signals are exchanged between sensor nodes in close proximity. We
find that the conversation events are predictable to some extent; knowing the
current partner decreases the uncertainty about the next partner by 28.4% on
average. Much of the predictability is explained by long-tailed distributions
of interevent intervals. However, a predictability also exists in the data,
apart from the contribution of their long-tailed nature. In addition, an
individual's predictability is correlated with the position in the static
social network derived from the data. Individuals confined in a community - in
the sense of an abundance of surrounding triangles - tend to have low
predictability, and those bridging different communities tend to have high
predictability.Comment: 38 pages, 19 figure
Precise Orbit Determination for ALOS
The Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) has been developed to contribute to the fields of mapping, precise regional land coverage observation, disaster monitoring, and resource surveying. Because the mounted sensors need high geometrical accuracy, precise orbit determination for ALOS is essential for satisfying the mission objectives. So ALOS mounts a GPS receiver and a Laser Reflector (LR) for Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR). This paper deals with the precise orbit determination experiments for ALOS using Global and High Accuracy Trajectory determination System (GUTS) and the evaluation of the orbit determination accuracy by SLR data. The results show that, even though the GPS receiver loses lock of GPS signals more frequently than expected, GPS-based orbit is consistent with SLR-based orbit. And considering the 1 sigma error, orbit determination accuracy of a few decimeters (peak-to-peak) was achieved
On the Origin of the Colour-Magnitude Relation in the Virgo Cluster
We explore the origin of the colour-magnitude relation (CMR) of early type
galaxies in the Virgo cluster using spectra of very high S/N ratio for six
elliptical galaxies selected along the CMR. The data are analysed using a new
evolutionary stellar population synthesis model to generate galaxy spectra at
the resolution given by their velocity dispersions. In particular we use a new
age indicator that is virtually free of the effects of metallicity. We find
that the luminosity weighted mean ages of Virgo ellipticals are greater than ~8
Gyr, and show no clear trend with galaxy luminosity. We also find a positive
correlation of metallicity with luminosity, colour and velocity dispersion. We
conclude that the CMR is driven primarily by a luminosity-metallicity
correlation. However, not all elements increase equally with the total
metallicity and we speculate that the CMR may be driven by both a total
metallicity increase and by a systematic departure from solar abundance ratios
of some elements along the CMR. A full understanding of the role played by the
total metallicity, abundance ratios and age in generating the CMR requires the
analysis of spectra of very high quality, such as those reported here, for a
larger number of galaxies in Virgo and other clusters.Comment: To appear in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2001 April 20 (551,
number 2). 5 pages and 4 figure
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