Genetic heterogeneity within an electrophoretic phenotype of phosphoglucose isomerase in a Japanese population

During the almost 50 years since Streptococcus mutans was first suggested as a factor in the etiology of dental caries, a multitude of studies have confirmed the cariogenic potential of this organism. Streptococci have been isolated from human and animal caries on numerous occasions and, with few exceptions, they are not typable by the Lancefield technique but are relatively homogeneous in their biochemical reactions. An analysis of the guanine-cytosine (G-C) composition of the DNA from strains K-1-R, NCTC 10449, and FA-1 by one of us (ALC) revealed significant differences and DNA-DNA reassociation experiments indicated that genetic heterogeneity existed among the three strains. The present electron microscopic study had as its objective the elucidation of any distinguishing morphological characteristics which might further characterize the respective strains.

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The Relationship Between Texture Responses on the Rorschach and Adult Attachment

Rorschachiana Journal of the International Society for the Rorschach ◽

10.1027/1192-5604/a000002 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 4-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Kazunori Iwasa ◽

Toshiki Ogawa

Keyword(s):

Graduate Students ◽

Adult Attachment ◽

Japanese Population ◽

Attachment Anxiety ◽

Anxiety Scale ◽

Self Report ◽

Comprehensive System ◽

Attachment Avoidance ◽

Sensitive Measure ◽

The Relationship

We examined the relationship between texture responses (T) on the Rorschach and adult attachment in the Japanese population. 47 Japanese undergraduate and graduate students (mean age = 20.16, SD = 1.87) completed a self-report adult attachment scale as well as the Rorschach. An ANOVA revealed that T = 1 participants were attached more securely than were other groups. T > 1 participants were more preoccupied with attachment and scored higher on an attachment anxiety scale than the T = 1 group. Although these results were consistent with the interpretation of the texture response according to the Comprehensive System (CS), the results obtained for T = 0 participants were inconsistent with hypotheses derived from the CS. T = 0 participants were high on preoccupied and attachment anxiety scores, although they were theoretically expected to be high on dismissing or attachment avoidance. These results indicated that – at least in Japan – T should be regarded as a sensitive measure of attachment anxiety.

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Buddhism in Crisis? Institutional Decline in Modern Japan

Buddhist Studies Review ◽

10.1558/bsrv.v28i2.233 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 233-263 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Ian Reader

Keyword(s):

Rural Areas ◽

Japanese Population ◽

Public Perceptions ◽

Japanese People ◽

Death Rituals ◽

Modern Times ◽

The Past ◽

Modern Cities ◽

Modern Japan ◽

Institutional Decline

Concerns that established temple Buddhism in Japan is in a state of crisis have been voiced by priests in various sectarian organizations in recent years. This article shows that there is a very real crisis facing Buddhism in modern Japan, with temples closing because of a lack of support and of priests to run them, and with a general turn away from Buddhism among the Japanese population. In rural areas falling populations have led to many temple closures, while in the modern cities people are increasingly turning away from the prime area in which Japanese people have traditionally engaged with Buddhist temples — the processes of death and their aftermath. Partly this is due to competition from new secular funeral industries, but partly also it is because public perceptions of Buddhism — which has become over-reliant on death rituals in Japan — have become highly negative in modern times. Even practices which have often been seen as areas in which Buddhist temples have been able to attract people — such as pilgrimages — are proving less successful than in the past, contributing further to a sense of crisis that threatens to undermine Buddhism’s roots in Japan.

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