Wet plume atop of the flattening slab: Insight into intraplate volcanism in East Asia

Professor Takeshi Kohno, from Toyo Eiwa University in Japan, has a particular interest in how an idea of Salafism can travel to South East Asia and become an important part of lives of people far from its origin. Kohno is leading a project that seeks to analyse how Salafism turns into social movement and how this social movement is institutionalised in education institutions. In particular, he along with the team of researchers in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines are analysing the dissemination processes of Salafism into school system in these countries. By identifying transformational agents such as the state and its bureaucrats as well as religious teachers, Kohno and his colleagues hope to gain insight into this religious school of thought and how it has become established in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.

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COVID-19 & Anti-Mask Movement: How Jingoism is Bringing the United States Down

Journal of Student Research ◽

10.47611/jsrhs.v10i3.1751 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Colin Kim ◽

Brian Oh

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

East Asia ◽

Control Variable ◽

Confirmation Bias ◽

Motivated Reasoning ◽

The United States ◽

Qualitative Research Design ◽

Personal Rights ◽

The Government ◽

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The objective of this study was to provide insight into the anti-mask phenomenon that has been occurring throughout the world. Widely broadcasted through different forms of media, these anti-mask movements are a growing concern to the scientific community, as such exposure will only deter the progress towards ending the pandemic. In order to understand the psychological motivations behind the anti-mask sentiment, the present studies 29 videos, over 120 minutes of content covering anti-mask protests in Canada, Europe, and the United States. I also used East Asia as a control variable, as I reviewed 5 videos, around 35 minutes of footage to understand the psychology that makes East Asia more receptive towards mask use. By implementing a qualitative research design, I looked for key language themes (interviews, chants, signs) in order to apply thematic analysis to connect their negative sentiments that are associated with confirmation bias and motivated reasoning. Findings regarding confirmation bias and motivated reasoning have been linked to concerns regarding personal rights and distrust with the government, media, and science communities. In particular, the United States has an issue regarding national pride in connection to individuals’ personal rights. The goal is to give insight into ways the United States can improve mask adherence for future potential pandemics.

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Nāgārjuna (c. AD 150–200)

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy ◽

10.4324/9780415249126-f029-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Mark Siderits

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

South India ◽

Sense Of Self ◽

Ultimate Truth ◽

Profound Influence ◽

Inherent Nature ◽

Further Development ◽

In Virtue Of ◽

Ultimate Nature ◽

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Nāgārjuna was the first Buddhist philosopher to articulate and seek to defend the claim that all things are empty, that is, devoid of their own essential nature. A native of South India, as the founder of the Madhyamaka school of Mahāyāna Buddhism he exerted a profound influence on the further development of Buddhist thought in South and East Asia. When he claimed that all things are empty, he denied that anything exists solely in virtue of its own inherent nature. If, as all Buddhists hold, existents only arise in dependence on other existents, then nothing may be said to have a determinate nature apart from its relations to other things. Yet prior developments in Buddhist philosophy had presumably shown that anything lacking an independent nature is a conceptual fiction and not ultimately real. Thus if all things are empty, nothing is ultimately real. Still Nāgārjuna claimed not to be a nihilist. Emptiness is rather the defeat of all metaphysical theories, all attempts at grasping the ultimate nature of reality – including nihilism. Insight into emptiness is said to free us from our tendency conceptually to construct an ultimate truth, a tendency that bolsters our sense of self. Thus realization of emptiness is, Nāgārjuna held, required in order to attain full liberation from the suffering caused by clinging.

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PandSwave tomography and anisotropy in Northwest Pacific and East Asia: Constraints on stagnant slab and intraplate volcanism

Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ◽

10.1002/2014jb011254 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 120 (3) ◽

pp. 1642-1666 ◽

Cited By ~ 63

Author(s):

Wei Wei ◽

Dapeng Zhao ◽

Jiandong Xu ◽

Feixiang Wei ◽

Guoming Liu

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Northwest Pacific ◽

Intraplate Volcanism ◽

Stagnant Slab

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To Catch a Tiger by Its Toe

Journal of American-East Asian Relations ◽

10.1163/18765610-02302007 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 144-169

Author(s):

Chelsea Szendi Schieder

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Cold War ◽

East Asia ◽

Historical Context ◽

The United States ◽

Political Autonomy ◽

Japanese Politics ◽

Spiritual Movement ◽

Klein’S Model ◽

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This article discusses a global theatrical spectacle that Moral Re-Armament (mra), a spiritual movement originating in the United States, produced in 1961. mra used contemporary protests in Japan, and actors ostensibly involved in them, as a strategy to bolster its authority in the context of U.S. Cold War policy in East Asia. How it claimed to represent Japan to the world and attempted to transform itself into the spokesman for the “Free World” offers insight into the symbolic position of East Asia in the United States and the areas it sought to influence during the early 1960s, a key moment in the intensifying U.S. involvement in East Asia, and offers a case through which to explore Christina Klein's model of “Cold War Orientalism.” mra tapped into this more inclusive discourse and also exploited ignorance in the United States about Japan to bolster widespread misconceptions about demonstrations in Tokyo. While introducing mra’s history, this essay teases out a gap between the reality and representation of Japanese politics and protest in the case of The Tiger, which reflects the historical context in which popular culture excluded real knowledge about how U.S. foreign policy affected, and often threatened, local political autonomy.

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Oldest Leaf-Mine Trace Fossil from East Asia and Stoichiometric Footprint: Insight Into Ancient Nutritional Flow in a Plant–Herbivore Interaction

10.21203/rs.3.rs-993678/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Yume Imada ◽

Nozomu Oyama ◽

Kenji Shinoda ◽

Fumio Takahashi ◽

Hirokazu Yukawa

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Feeding Strategy ◽

Late Triassic ◽

Physiological Processes ◽

Leaf Mining ◽

Elemental Analyses ◽

Plant Herbivore Interaction ◽

Plant Herbivore ◽

Herbivore Interaction ◽

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Abstract The Late Triassic saw a flourish of plant–arthropod interactions. By the Late Triassic, insects had developed all distinct strategies of herbivory, notably including some of the earliest occurrences of leaf-mining. Herein we describe exceptionally well-preserved leaf-mine trace fossils on a Cladophlebis fern pinnule from the Momonoki Formation, Mine Group, Japan (Middle Carnian), representing the oldest unequivocal leaf-mines from East Asia. The mines all display a distinctive frass trail – a continuous meandering line, which later becomes a broad blotch containing spheroidal particles – demonstrating larval development. The shapes of these mines generally resemble those of nepticuloid moths, although they are absent from extant fern-mining assemblages. Furthermore, elemental analyses by X-ray fluorescence (XRF) reveals that the frass trail comprises phosphate coprolites. The quantitative variations in P, S, and Si between coprolites and leaf veins may reflect physiological processes (consumption, absorption, and excretion) mediated by plant chemicals. Our findings reinforce the idea that leaf-mining had become a pervasive feeding strategy of herbivorous insects by the Late Triassic.

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USING GENETIC DIVERSITY FROM EAST ASIA TO IMPROVE THE BIOLOGICAL INSIGHT INTO SCHIZOPHRENIA

European Neuropsychopharmacology ◽

10.1016/j.euroneuro.2017.08.002 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 29 ◽

pp. S780

Author(s):

Hailiang Huang ◽

Max Lam ◽

Chia-Yen Chen ◽

Alicia Martin ◽

Zhiqiang Li ◽

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Keyword(s):

Genetic Diversity ◽

East Asia ◽

Biological Insight ◽

Insight Into

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Insight into global trends in aerosol composition from 2005 to 2015 inferred from the OMI Ultraviolet Aerosol Index

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ◽

10.5194/acp-18-8097-2018 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 18 (11) ◽

pp. 8097-8112 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Melanie S. Hammer ◽

Randall V. Martin ◽

Chi Li ◽

Omar Torres ◽

Max Manning ◽

...

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

East Asia ◽

North Africa ◽

Aral Sea ◽

Eastern United States ◽

Aerosol Composition ◽

Global Trends ◽

Inorganic Aerosol ◽

Aerosol Index ◽

Insight Into

Abstract. Observations of aerosol scattering and absorption offer valuable information about aerosol composition. We apply a simulation of the Ultraviolet Aerosol Index (UVAI), a method of detecting aerosol absorption from satellite observations, to interpret UVAI values observed by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) from 2005 to 2015 to understand global trends in aerosol composition. We conduct our simulation using the vector radiative transfer model VLIDORT with aerosol fields from the global chemical transport model GEOS-Chem. We examine the 2005–2015 trends in individual aerosol species from GEOS-Chem and apply these trends to the UVAI simulation to calculate the change in simulated UVAI due to the trends in individual aerosol species. We find that global trends in the UVAI are largely explained by trends in absorption by mineral dust, absorption by brown carbon, and scattering by secondary inorganic aerosol. Trends in absorption by mineral dust dominate the simulated UVAI trends over North Africa, the Middle East, East Asia, and Australia. The UVAI simulation resolves observed negative UVAI trends well over Australia, but underestimates positive UVAI trends over North Africa and Central Asia near the Aral Sea and underestimates negative UVAI trends over East Asia. We find evidence of an increasing dust source from the desiccating Aral Sea that may not be well represented by the current generation of models. Trends in absorption by brown carbon dominate the simulated UVAI trends over biomass burning regions. The UVAI simulation reproduces observed negative trends over central South America and West Africa, but underestimates observed UVAI trends over boreal forests. Trends in scattering by secondary inorganic aerosol dominate the simulated UVAI trends over the eastern United States and eastern India. The UVAI simulation slightly overestimates the observed positive UVAI trends over the eastern United States and underestimates the observed negative UVAI trends over India. Quantitative simulation of the OMI UVAI offers new insight into global trends in aerosol composition.

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