Taxonomic Review of the Genus Ancistrocerus Wesmael (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae) from the Far East, with a Description of a New Species from Korea

김정규,Seiki Yamane 한국통합생물학회 2009 Animal cells and systems Vol.13 No.1

Twelve Far Eastern species of the genus Ancistrocerus Wesmael are taxonomically reviewed. Among them, Ancistrocerus coreanus Kim and Yamane is new to science. A. japonicus, A. parietum and A. scoticus are newly recorded from Korea. In comparison to A. melanocerus, our opinion on the identity of A. densepilosellus is presented: it is more supportive that the Far Eastern population is the latter. Revised key, description, recognition characteristics and digital images for all the treated species are provided. Twelve Far Eastern species of the genus Ancistrocerus Wesmael are taxonomically reviewed. Among them, Ancistrocerus coreanus Kim and Yamane is new to science. A. japonicus, A. parietum and A. scoticus are newly recorded from Korea. In comparison to A. melanocerus, our opinion on the identity of A. densepilosellus is presented: it is more supportive that the Far Eastern population is the latter. Revised key, description, recognition characteristics and digital images for all the treated species are provided.

A coupled yeast signal sequence trap and transient plant expression strategy to identify genes encoding secreted proteins from peach pistils

Yamane, Hisayo,Lee, Sang-Jik,Kim, Byung-Dong,Tao, Ryutaro,Rose, Jocelyn K. C. Oxford University Press 2005 Journal of experimental botany Vol.56 No.418

<P>Many developmental processes and induced plant responses have been identified that are directly or indirectly influenced by wall-localized, or apoplastic, molecular interactions and signalling pathways. The yeast-based signal sequence trap (YSST) is a potentially valuable experimental tool to characterize the proteome of the wall and apoplast, or ‘secretome’, although few studies have been performed with plants and to date this strategy has not been coupled with a subsequent analysis to confirm extracellular localization of candidate proteins <I>in planta</I>. This current report describes the use of the YSST, together with transient expression of a selection of identified proteins as fusions with the reporter GFP, focusing on the complex extracellular interactions between peach (<I>Prunus persica</I>) pollen and pistil tissues. The coupled YSST and GFP localization assay was also used to confirm the extracellular localization of a recently identified pistil-specific basic RNase protein (PA1), as has been observed with S-RNases that are involved in self-incompatibility. This pilot YSST screen of pollinated and unpollinated pistil cDNAs revealed a diverse set of predicted cell wall-localized or plasma membrane-bound proteins, several of which have not previously been described. Transient GFP-fusion assays and RNA gel blot analyses were used to confirm their subcellular localization and to provide further insights into their expression or regulation, respectively. These results demonstrated that the YSST strategy represents an effective means either to confirm the extracellular localization of a specific candidate secreted protein, as demonstrated here with PA1, or to conduct a screen for new extracellular proteins.</P>

20 years of LDLT: Lessons learned

Yaman TOKAT 한국간담췌외과학회 2021 Annals of hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery Vol.25 No.-

The Concepts and Methods of Entrepreneurship Education in the Social Studies and the Period for Integrated Study in Japan

Yamane, Eiji 한국경제교육학회 2002 경제교육연구 Vol.9 No.1

Entrepreneurship education becomes a very important educational area at schools in Jhpan. A new ctlrriculum area named the "Period for Integrated Study" (PIS) started from April 2002 at elementary schools and lower secondary schools in Japan. The author believes entrepreneurship education is very suitable to the PIS. This paper reports the characteristics of the PIS, the meaning of entrepreneurship, and the present situation of entrepreneurship education at elementary schools and junior high schoals, in Japan. Entrepreneurship education becomes a very important educational area at schools in Japan. Based on the last curriculum revision in 1998, a new curriculum area named the Period for Integrated Study (PIS) started from April 2002 at elementary schools and lower secondary schools in Japan. The Ministry of Education described the aims and the characteristics of the PIS: The PIS aims at helping children develop the capability and ability to discover problems by themselves and solve those problems properly; Interdisciplinary and comprehensive studies, which reflect each individual school's efforts, and studies based upon children's own interests will help achieve this goal; It also aims at helping children discover how to learn and reason, develop a mind independently and creatively cope with problem-solving activities and/or inquiring activities, and deepen their understanding of their own way of life; It is assumed that children s knowledge and skills acquired in individual classes will be related with each other and deepened through the activities in the PIS and then they will work comprehensively for children. After the year of 1991, when the so-called Bubble Economy (enthusiastic economic boom) in Japan burst and the Soviet Union was collapsed, many people, particularly leaders in business world, economists and bureaucrats in the MITI(Ministry of International Trade and Industries) have been advocating the importance of entrepreneurship for recovering Japan's economy. The author thinks that entrepreneurship education in the schools should be populated in the PIS. There are some types of entrepreneurship education and enterprise education in the PIS. In the elementary schools, the popular work related activities are: First; growing and cultivating rice, some kind of vegetables particularly by the environmentally friendly method; no chemical, using organic fertilizer. Second; making some traditional processed foods like Tofu, Miso (paste made from soybeans, using for soup), Japanese sweets or cake, and Japanese noodles. Third; making some traditional products like cloth, string, pottery, and Japanese paper, in some cases getting materials of the products; growing cotton, rearing silkworms and so on. In the lower secondary schools, students' work experience is popular especially in the 8th grade. In many cases, students have a work experience for 2 or 3 days, at most for a week, at a farm or fishery, at a manufacturing factory, at a service shop like a flower shop, at a kindergarten or a nursery, and at a social welfare facility in the community. In many cases, a student can select where he/she works and seems to have a delightful work experience. With many schools adopting such work related activities and work experience in the PIS, I think it is a good chance for the entrepreneurship education to grow in Japan. Traditionally in Japan, particularly in an elementary school and a lower secondary school, the link between a school and community business has been very rare. Because, most parents and teachers have the idea that pupils should not be taught how to make money in a school. Introducing the PIS into the school curriculum may improve the atmosphere that makes parents and teachers agree to accept the children's work related activities and work experience in the school and the link between school and community business.

Post Occupancy Evaluation Model for Sustainable Neighborhood Development

Yaman, Rostam,Thadaniti, Suwattana,Dahiya, Bharat,Abdullah, Jamalunlaili,Ahmad, Noraini 한국생태환경건축학회 2017 한국생태환경건축학회 학술발표대회 논문집 Vol.17 No.2

Urban green rating system in the ASEAN region is rather new. Even though certain Green Building Institutes/Green Building Councils (GBIs/GBCs) in the ASEAN region have its Green Township Assessment Criteria (GTAC) been developed and implemented but there is no post-occupancy evaluation being conducted in assessing the effectiveness and sustainability level of the certified township? Thus, embark the research problem whether urban neighborhood assessment criteria and project fulfilled the effectiveness and sustainability concept according to sustainability dimension pillars (SDP). The research aim and objectives is to identify and formulate Post-Occupancy Evaluation Model (POEM) based on SDP towards sustainable neighborhood development for ASEAN region. The study scope focused on Green Building Index (GBI-TAC Malaysia) certified neighborhood project and Green Urban Village Development in Thailand which was occupied for more than one year. The stakeholder-inclusion approached is used in this research in order to gather end-users experiences regarding the proposed POEM for sustainable neighborhood development. The findings suggested there is an adaptation gap of SDP in current GTAC and also significant differences between pre-occupancy and post-occupancy theory and variables, hence lead to further review and refinement towards sustainable neighborhood development in the ASEAN region.

Web Catchphrase Improve System Employing Onomatopoeia and Large-Scale N-gram Corpus

Yamane, Hiroaki,Hagiwara, Masafumi Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems 2012 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL of FUZZY LOGIC and INTELLIGE Vol.12 No.1

In this paper, we propose a system which improves text catchphrases on the web using onomatopoeia and the Japanese Google N-grams. Onomatopoeia is regarded as a fundamental tool in daily communication for people. The proposed system inserts an onomatopoetic word into plain text catchphrases. Being based on a large catchphrase encyclopedia, the proposed system evaluates each catchphrase's candidates considering the words, structure and usage of onomatopoeia. That is, candidates are selected whether they contain onomatopoeia and they use specific catchphrase grammatical structures. Subjective experiments show that inserted onomatopoeia is effective for making attractive catchphrases.

Quantifying the Technology Level of Production System for Technology Transfer

Yamane, Yasuo,Takahashi, Katsuhiko,Hamada, Kunihiro,Morikawa, Katsumi,Bahagia, Senator Nur,Diawati, Lucia,Cakravastia, Andi Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers 2011 Industrial Engineeering & Management Systems Vol.10 No.2

This paper develops a technology level quantification (TLQ) model by utilizing a learning curve. Original learning curve shows the relationship between cumulative number of units and the required time for the unit. On the other hand, in our developed model, the technology level, such as speed of production and quality of the produced items, is expressed as a function of not cumulative number of units but time, for increasing generality. Furthermore, for expressing each learning that consists of conceptual learning and operational learning, S-curve is utilized in our developed model. By fitting the S-curve and/or decomposing into some activities, our TQL model can be applied to approximate organizational and complicated process. Some variations in time and levels, parameters of our developed model are shown. By using the parameters, the procedure to identify our developed model is proposed. Also, the influential factors for the parameters of our developed model are discussed with classifying the factors into technoware, infoware, humanware, and orgaware. The expected technology level is utilized for expecting the capacity of production system, and the expected capacity can be utilized in predicting various changes in the organization and deciding managerial decision about TT. A case study in manufacturing industry shows the effectiveness of the developed model.

Visualization of Artificially Deposited Submicron-sized Aerosol Particles on the Surfaces of Leaves and Needles in Trees

Yamane, Kenichi,Nakaba, Satoshi,Yamaguchi, Masahiro,Kuroda, Katsushi,Sano, Yuzou,Lenggoro, I. Wuled,Izuta, Takeshi,Funada, Ryo Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment 2012 Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment (AJAE) Vol.6 No.4

To understand the effect of aerosols on the growth and physiological conditions of trees in forests, it is important to know the state of aerosols that are deposited on the surface of the leaves or needles. In this study, we developed methods of visualization of submicron-sized aerosols that were artificially deposited from the gas-phase or liquid phase onto tree leaves or needles in trees. Firstly, we used field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) to observe black carbon (BC) particles that were artificially sprayed onto the leaves or needles. The distribution of BC particles deposited on the leaves and needles were distinguished based on the size and morphological features of the particles. The distribution and agglomerates size of BC particles differed between two spraying methods of BC particles employed. Secondly, we tried to visualize gold (Au) particles that were artificially sprayed onto the leaves using energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDX) coupled to FE-SEM. We detected the Au particles based on the characteristic X-ray spectrum, which was secondarily generated from the Au particles. In contrast to the case of BC particles, the Au particles did not form agglomerates and were uniformly distributed on the leaf surfaces. The present results show that our methods provide useful information of adsorption and/or behavior of fine particles at the submicron level on the surface of the leaves.

Finite element vibration and damping analysis of a partially covered cantilever beam

Yaman, Mustafa Techno-Press 2005 Structural Engineering and Mechanics, An Int'l Jou Vol.19 No.2

There are several ways of decreasing the vibration energy of structures. One of which is special damping layers made of various viscoelastic materials are widely applied in structures subjected to dynamic loading. In this study, a cantilever beam, partially covered by damping a constraining layers, is investigated by using Finite Element method (FEM). The frequency and system loss factor are evaluated. The effects of different physical and geometrical parameters on the natural frequency and system loss factors are discussed.

고압력하에서의 재료(2), 고압력하의 고체중의확산

Yamane, Toshimi 한국재료학회 1993 한국재료학회지 Vol.3 No.4