A personal perspective on literature searches in remote areas

The article is focused on the author's personal perspective on literature searches in remote areas. Topics covered are: literature searching; collection of key articles; catalog local fisheries library holdings; budgets; documentation of research results; and the author's thought for the future

ダイキボ ケツゴウ ハッシンキ ニヨル シャカイ ネットワーク ノ モデリング

In this study, we propose modeling method for social networks by using coupled chaotic circuits. First, clustering phenomena in coupled chaotic circuits networks are investigated. A coupling strength between the circuits is set to depend on the distance. We confirm that the coupled chaotic circuits network are formed several clusters which are defined by using chaos synchronization. Finally, we apply this proposed chaotic network for modeling of social networks

Toward a business history of the string quartet: How the string quartet became a career path in the United States

At their origins, American string quartets achieved a high standard of performance through full-time commitments made financially possible through individual patrons. As the American music scene matured through the twentieth century, the string quartet profession integrated performance and education in both work values and financial support. In the late twentieth-century, a clear quartet “career path” emerged which was supported by a variety of resources from graduate degrees in string quartet, which were created specifically to develop student string quartets into professional ensembles, to competitions and governmental financial support of specific programming. As quartets continued to flourish in the US during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, some groups chose to break from the model and self-sustain as a community-based nonprofit organization outside (or in addition to) educational residencies

Chaos glial network connected to Multi-Layer Perceptron for Solving Two-Spiral Problem

Abstract — Some methods using artificial neural network were proposed for solving to the Two-Spiral Problem (TSP). TSP is a problem which classifies two spirals drawn on the plane, and it is famous as the high nonlinear problem. In this paper, we propose a chaos glial network which connected to Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP). The chaos glial network is inspired by astrocyte which is glial cell in the brain. By computer simulations for solving TSP, we confirmed that the proposed chaos glial network connected to MLP gains better performance than the conventional MLP. I

Performance of Chaos and Burst Noises Injected to the Hopfield NN for Quadratic Assignment Problems

In this paper, performance of chaos and burst noises injected to the Hopfield Neural Network for quadratic assignment problems is investigated. For the evaluation of the noises, two methods to appreciate finding a lot of nearly optimal solutions are proposed. By computer simulations, it is confirmed that the burst noise generated by the Gilbert model with a laminar part and a burst part achieved the good performance as the intermittency chaos noise near the three-periodic window

Synchronization phenomena in van der Pol oscillators coupled by a time-varying resistor

Abstract-In this study, synchronization phenomena observed in van der Pol oscillators coupled by a fifth-power nonlinear resistor are investigated. By carrying out computer simulations, interesting synchronization phenomena can be confirmed to be generated in this system. Namely, the synchronization states change according to the coupling strength and nonlinearity of the coupling resistor