The basaltic ring structure (BRS) is a class of peculiar features only reported in the Channeled Scabland of eastern Washington State. They have been suggested to be good analogs, however, for some ...circular features on Mars. BRSs are found where Pleistocene floods scoured the Columbia River Basin, stripping off the uppermost part of the Miocene Columbia River Basalt Group and exposing structures that were previously embedded in the lava. The “Odessa Craters,” near Odessa, WA, are 50–500-m-wide BRSs that are comprised of discontinuous, concentric outcrops of subvertically-jointed basalt and autointrusive dikes. Detailed field investigation of the Odessa Craters in planform and a cross-sectional exposure of a similar structure above Banks Lake, WA, lead us to propose that BRSs formed by concurrent phreatovolcanism and lava flow inflation. In this model, phreatovolcanic (a.k.a., “rootless”) cones formed on a relatively thin, active lava flow; the lava flow inflated around the cones, locally inverting topography; tensile stresses caused concentric fracturing of the lava crust; lava from within the molten interior of the flow exploited the fractures and buried the phreatovolcanic cones; and subsequent erosive floods excavated the structures. Another population of BRSs near Tokio Station, WA, consists of single-ringed, raised-rimmed structures that are smaller and more randomly distributed than the Odessa Craters. We find evidence for a phreatovolcanic component to the origin as well, and hypothesize that they are either flood-eroded phreatovolcanic cones or Odessa Crater-like BRSs. This work indicates that BRSs are not good analogs to the features on Mars because the martian features are found on the uneroded surfaces. Despite this, the now superseded concepts for BRS formation are useful for understanding the formation of the martian features.
•Basaltic ring structures formed as lava inflated around phreatovolcanic cones.•Basaltic ring structures are not analogs for features in Athabasca Valles, Mars.•Now superseded models for the formation of basaltic ring structures apply to Mars.
Murakami Haruki y España Naoka, Mori
Kokoro: Revista para la difusión de la cultura japonesa,
2014
16
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
Today, Haruki Murakami is one of the most distinguished writers of Japanese Literature
in foreign countries, and so is in Spain. However, the process of reception of his works in
Spain had a very ...different output than in other Western countries. This work aims to trace
the reception of Murakami in Spain compared to the cases of other countries, and also tries
to analyze the reasons for its success by focusing on Tokyo Blues ("Norwegian Wood").
This study examines the effect of improvement in public transportation on population and employment distribution in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Using an instrumental variable, my analysis reveals ...two noteworthy features, as follows: (1) capacity expansion by duplex line cause suburbanization of both population and employment, contrarily, new line by construction of train station have only negative effect on both population and employment distribution in suburb area, and no effect on ether population and employment in central city and subcenter. (2) in the central city, employment in insurance and real estate is decreasing, while it is increasing in sales because of capacity expansion.
It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan’s emergence as a modern nation-state. Less commonly recognized is the role played by ...the distinctly hybrid institution—at once museum, laboratory, and prison—of the zoological garden. In this eye-opening study of Japan’s first modern zoo, Tokyo’s Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, Ian Jared Miller offers a refreshingly unconventional narrative of Japan’s rapid modernization and changing relationship with the natural world. As the first zoological garden in the world not built under the sway of a Western imperial regime, the Ueno Zoo served not only as a staple attraction in the nation’s capital—an institutional marker of national accomplishment—but also as a site for the propagation of a new “natural” order that was scientifically verifiable and evolutionarily foreordained. As the Japanese empire grew, Ueno became one of the primary sites of imperialist spectacle, a microcosm of the empire that could be traveled in the course of a single day. The meaning of the zoo would change over the course of Imperial Japan’s unraveling and subsequent Allied occupation. Today it remains one of Japan’s most frequently visited places. But instead of empire in its classic political sense, it now bespeaks the ambivalent dominion of the human species over the natural environment, harkening back to its imperial roots even as it asks us to question our exploitation of the planet’s resources.
Purpose
Using brand netnography (analyzing consumers' first‐person on‐line stories that include discussions of their product and brand use), this article aims to probe how visitors interpret the ...places, people, and situations that they experience while traveling in Japan.
Design/methodology/approach
Through analysis of online consumer stories about their trip experiences, Heider's balance theory is applied to visitors' trip experiences. Follow‐up contact with the consumers allows application of autodriving methodology to gather additional post‐trip insights.
Findings
The results show immediate and downstream positive and negative associations of concepts, events, and outcomes in visitors' stories. Maps of consumer stories identify kernel concepts and include descriptions of how visitors live a specific destination's unique promises (e.g. distinct cultural history). Using the kernel concepts as a basis, Holt's five‐step strategy for building icons is applied to the travel destination to show how a destination can create a brand identity.
Research limitations/implications
Bloggers reporting their travel experience may not be representative of the population of travelers. On the other hand, travel blogs potentially can influence trip planning by other visitors collecting travel information.
Practical implications
Blog reports represent an unobtrusive method of collecting emic interpretive information from consumers. Emic reporting provides deep insights about consumers' trip interpretations. Tourism and hospitality managers can use this information to improve service experiences and design communication strategies to strengthen positive iconic imagery reported by consumers.
Originality/value
Emic and etic interpretations of travel experiences create a bricolage of the travelers' experiences. Autodriving methodology is extended to tourism research to gather additional insights and to better clarify informants' interpretations. This article also expands on a revisionist proposal to Holt's five‐step strategy for building destinations as iconic brands and suggestions for tourism management.
Since the explosion of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in March 2011, public anxiety surrounding the radioactive contamination of food and the environment has become widespread. This ...article examines how vegetable prices in the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market were affected in the wake of the nuclear accident. This study exploits the quasi-experimental condition generated by this accident to test market price changes using monthly panel data on the price of six types of fresh vegetables from each of the 47 prefectures in Japan. Our estimation results show that the prices of vegetables grown in Fukushima Prefecture decreased by 10–36% after the disaster compared with the counter-factual estimates in the absence of a perceived radiation risk. This effect has persisted even after radioactive detection tests showed negative results in subsequent years. The consumer behavior of avoiding vegetables from Fukushima and instead buying vegetables grown in other areas may explain the price gap.
•This study tests the impacts of radiation risk on the market price of six vegetables.•We rely on a quasi-experiment to observe price changes due to the Fukushima disaster.•Vegetables grown in Fukushima Prefecture were discounted by 10–36%.
París, Praga, Washington, Madrid, etc. El
tramo final de la década de los 60
se caracteriza por ser una época convulsa, donde ideales revolucionarios fueron
enarbolados por jóvenes estudiantes, que ...ansiaban un cambio en el orden existente.
Tokio fue escenario de una ola de movilizaciones que sacudieron las sobrias estructuras
establecidas tras la II Guerra Mundial sobre las que se elevaba el milagro económico
japonés. Aún hoy, resuenan los ecos de unas movilizaciones que,
si bien no lograron
un
drástico cambio de rumbo en el país
, demostraron la fuerza de una generación de
jóvenes
que lucharon por cambiar
el panorama socio
-
cultural de su época.
Paris, Prague, Wa
shington, Madrid, etc. The final part of the 60's is
characterized as being a turbulent period where revolutionary ideals were peaked by
students, who craved a change in the existing order.
Tokyo was the scene of a wave of protests that rocked the staid structures established
after World War II and where the Japanese economic miracle was rising. Even today,
resound the echoes of a mobilization that, while not achieving a drastic change of
dir
ection in the country, demonstrated the strength of a young generation who fought to
change the socio
-
cultural scene at the time.
This study proposes a method to economically evaluate environmental quality using property auction data. Our approach is consistent with microeconomic auction theory and can directly estimate the ...value function from the data, a task that is often difficult when using conventional revealed preference methods such as the hedonic approach. We use a method of simulated moments to estimate the value function, which in turn is used to calculate the economic value of environmental quality changes. We apply this method to data on foreclosure property auctions in Tokyo in order to economically evaluate hypothetical improvements in neighborhood fire risks.
We adopt a multistage search model, in which the home seller's reservation price is determined by her or his opportunity cost, search cost, discount rate and additional market parameters. The model ...indicates that a greater dispersion in offer prices leads to higher reservation and optimal asking prices. A unique dataset from the Tokyo condominium resale market enables us to test those modeled hypotheses. Empirical results indicate that a one percentage point increase in the standard deviation of submarket transaction prices results in a two‐tenths of a percent increase in the initial asking price and in the final transaction price. Increases in the dispersion of market prices enhance the probabilities of a successful transaction and/or an accelerated sale.
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