Nissin Kogyo (Japan)

Ekoeleştiri, 1970’li yıllardan itibaren disiplinlerarası bir çevresel eleştiri hareketi olarak ortaya çıkmış ve çevre aktivizmi ile ilişkilendirilmiştir. Zamanla edebiyat alanında da doğa ile kurulan ilişkiler bağlamında önemli bir tartışma ekseni hâline gelen bu yaklaşım, özellikle ekolojik temaların edebî metinlerde nasıl temsil edildiğini incelemektedir. Elif Şafak’ın Kayıp Ağaçlar Adası adlı romanı, postmodern anlatı teknikleriyle kurgulanmış bir iklimkurgu (climate fiction) örneği olarak ekolojik meseleleri merkeze almaktadır. Bu çalışmada, öncelikle 1974’te meydana gelen iç çatışmanın Kıbrıs Adası’nda yalnızca insan toplulukları üzerindeki değil, diğer canlı türleri ve romanın anlatıcısı konumundaki İncir Ağacı üzerindeki etkileri analiz edilecektir. Ardından romanın başat karakterlerinden Defne’nin ölümüyle şekillenen ekolojik keder ve yas kavramları ele alınacaktır. Son olarak yazarın kurguladığı çevreci estetik dil çerçevesinde, hipernesne (hyperobject) kavramı bağlamında iklim değişikliği ve ekolojik belirsizlik sorunsallaştırılacaktır.

This study aims to investigate the rail resistance characteristics of Shinkansen slab tracks and the failure behavior of track components when subjected to large lateral forces caused by vehicles during earthquakes. To this end, a lateral loading test was carried out on a full-scale Shinkansen slab track. Using the test results, a mechanical model of rail support springs was developed for use in seismic vehicle behavior simulations, and the effect of this model on the results of vehicle behavior simulations was confirmed. In the lateral loading test, it was found that rail tilting is dominant in rail deformation. Therefore, this study proposes a rail support spring model which combines a rotational spring to represent rail tilting and a lateral spring to represent baseplate sliding. A seismic vehicle behavior analysis was carried out using both the proposed model and the conventional model with only a horizontal spring. The results showed that the effect of modeling the rail support springs was small under the conditions of this study.

This paper describes NIO system for audio-visual diarization and recognition in the Multimodal Information Based Speech Processing (MISP) Challenge 2022. In our system, we proposed combining end-to-end audio-visual neural speaker diarization model and Channel-wise Av-fusion encoder with speaker signature for multi-channel audio-visual speech diarization and recognition. Our system reduces the concatenated minimum permutation character error rate(cpCER) by 34.36% absolute compared to the baseline in track 2.

The purpose of this study was to clarify the psychophysiological effects of second flush Darjeeling tea aroma. First, the preference for second flush Darjeeling tea aroma and the impressions of the aroma were evaluated. Next, an integrative physiological evaluation of autonomic and central nervous system activities was performed along with psychological evaluation. Inhalation of second flush Darjeeling tea aroma significantly reduced “subjective stress,” “depression/anxiety,” and “hostility.” “Invigoration” and “inactivity” increased significantly, suggesting a sedative effect on psychology. Physiologically, the miosis rate and peripheral skin temperature increased significantly after inhalation of second flush Darjeeling tea aroma, suggesting that sympathetic nerve activity was suppressed and parasympathetic nerve activity became dominant. Furthermore, a significant decrease in blood flow was observed in the prefrontal area of the brain, suggesting a sedative effect on central nervous system activity. While second flush Darjeeling tea aroma had a sedative effect on the psychophysiological level, the physiological effects on the autonomic nervous system activity was not correlated with the preference of the aroma or its psychological effects.

We investigated electron transport properties of an argon ion (Ar+) implanted a-IGZO film on glass by Hall measurement combined with wet etching. As a result, we obtained concentration and mobility of electron as a function of depth in the a-IGZO from the surface, and high concentration area in depth distributed deeper compared with one of the argon plasma treated a-IGZO. In addition, we estimated the implanted Ar atom and oxygen vacancy depth-profiles in the a-IGZO. We confirmed Ar stopping powers of a-IGZO and the donor level of 0.05-0.1 eV below bottom of conduction band energy, which can be applied to resistance control technique for a-IGZO device processes.

Using a slot-type atmospheric-pressure O2 microwave plasma produced by a travelling microwave and a slot on the waveguide, novolak polymer resist ashing was investigated. An increase of the gas flow speed drastically enhanced the resist ashing rate and a 3 μm min−1 ashing rate was obtained. The ashing temperature was measured and a low sample temperature of less than 400 K was confirmed. The result suggests the capability of producing very high ashing speeds under atmospheric pressure and low substrate temperatures using atmospheric pressure microwave O2 plasma.