Visions for Japanese Society: An Examination of Japanese Postwar Occupation Period Film

By following the films of directors Akira Kurosawa ( 黒澤明), Yasujiro Ozu ( 小津安二郎), Masaki Kobayashi (小林正樹), and Shohei Imamura (今村昌平) around occupation period Japan, unified visions for Japanese society are formed as it transitions from wartime into the postwar era. Each of these films conveys a sense of rapid change in society, external pressures and foreign influence, a daily struggle, and immediate postwar suffering. Not only can these films be seen across a wide variety of styles, but they also each approach these issues with immediacy and show tentative outlooks for how Japan functioned and felt for most people in the postwar period. This difference in style can be contributed to the director’s diverse backgrounds and what they were influenced by in the time that began making films, which further complicate our understanding of Japanese society as it transitioned into the postwar era

Marshall University Music Department Presents a Senior Recital, Kaitlin DeSpain, soprano, Mark Smith, piano

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Trustworthy Quantum Computation through Quantum Physical Unclonable Functions

Quantum computing is under rapid development, and today there are several cloud-based, quantum computers (QCs) of modest size (>100s of physical qubits). Although these QCs, along with their highly-specialized classical support infrastructure, are in limited supply, they are readily available for remote access and programming. This work shows the viability of using intrinsic quantum hardware properties for fingerprinting cloud-based QCs that exist today. We demonstrate the reliability of intrinsic fingerprinting with real QC characterization data, as well as simulated QC data, and we detail a quantum physically unclonable function (Q-PUF) scheme for secure key generation using unique fingerprint data combined with fuzzy extraction. We use fixed-frequency transmon qubits for prototyping our methods

Lupus with Grave's disease : overlap disease vs drug induced lupus : a case report

Poster presented at the 5th Annual James and Nancy Cassidy Rheumatology Symposium, September 22, 2017, Columbia, Missouri.Background: Graves’ disease is one of the T-Cell mediated organ-specific autoimmune thyroid diseases, while SLE is mainly a B-Cell mediated autoantibody regulated systemic autoimmune disease. There is a well-established association of hypothyroidism, autoimmune thyroiditis, and thyroid cancer to systemic lupus erythematosus in age and sex matched controls in diverse populations across the world. The association of SLE and Graves’ disease is extremely rare in adults and has never been reported in the pediatric population. This case report suggests that pediatric patients with thyroid disease or systemic lupus erythematous should be evaluated for one another on the presentation of either.Includes bibliographical references

Show me the face you had before your parents were born : African-American New Thought ministers and \u27The Black interior\u27

This theoretical research critically explores the phenomenon of contemporary African Americans seeking to cultivate individual identities that are not bound by the external demands inherent in a black racial identity. It examines the work and ideas of three African-American New thought ministers who articulate a vision of liberation that is predicated on the cultivation of an interior spiritual identity beyond the social world. This research employs two theoretical frameworks that may help to shed light on the reasons for and implications of contemporary African Americans constructing their identities in this manner. The first of these theoretical frameworks is sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva\u27s (2013) notion of color-blind racism which asserts that in the aftermath of Jim Crow racism, elusive forms of racism have emerged, couched in the rhetoric of post-racial color-blindness. The second theoretical framework is the concept of the post-civil rights condition, and related formulations, summarized by philosopher Paul Taylor (2007). This discourse posits that the political imperatives that previously pre-figured black identity and life trajectories have loosened, resulting in a level of social differentiation within the black community that was not socially permissible during a previous era. Together, these theoretical frameworks help to illuminate the extent to which the views of the African-American New Thought ministers may paradoxically advance contemporary denial of racism and also signal black individuals\u27 capacities to adapt and redefine themselves under changing social conditions. This research may challenge assumptions reflected in existing black identity development models, such as the Black Identity Development model advanced by Bailey Jackson (2012), by illustrating the growing diversity of black self-definition not reflected in existing models. Given the reliance on social identity development models within the field of clinical social work, this research may have significant implications for clinical work with black client populations

Can human xylosyltransferase-1 serve as a biomarker and therapeutic target for corneal fibrosis?

Tested was the hypothesis that XYLT1 plays an important role in corneal wound healing and scarring and may allow development of newer strategies for curing corneal fibrosis. The specific aims were: 1) to characterize XYLT1 expression in normal and wounded human and rabbit corneas, 2) investigate its role in corneal wound healing, and 2) determine whether XYLT1 can serve as a biomarker for corneal fibrosis

Best (but oft-forgotten) practices:the design, analysis, and interpretation of Mendelian randomization studies

Mendelian randomization (MR) is an increasingly important tool for appraising causality in observational epidemiology. The technique exploits the principle that genotypes are not generally susceptible to reverse causation bias and confounding, reflecting their fixed nature and Mendel’s first and second laws of inheritance. The approach is, however, subject to important limitations and assumptions that, if unaddressed or compounded by poor study design, can lead to erroneous conclusions. Nevertheless, the advent of 2-sample approaches (in which exposure and outcome are measured in separate samples) and the increasing availability of open-access data from large consortia of genome-wide association studies and population biobanks mean that the approach is likely to become routine practice in evidence synthesis and causal inference research. In this article we provide an overview of the design, analysis, and interpretation of MR studies, with a special emphasis on assumptions and limitations. We also consider different analytic strategies for strengthening causal inference. Although impossible to prove causality with any single approach, MR is a highly cost-effective strategy for prioritizing intervention targets for disease prevention and for strengthening the evidence base for public health policy