Colony Composition of Two Malaysian Ponerine Ants, Platythyrea Tricuspidata and P. Quadridenta: Sexual Reproduction by Workers and Production of Queens (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Fuminori Ito

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Representing Images' Meanings by Associative Values with Given Lexicons Considering the Semantic Tolerance Relation by Ying Dai

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Pathophysiological Roles of Cytokine-Chemokine Immune Network by Jong-Young Kwak, Mizuko Mamura, Jana Barlic-Dicen, Evelin Grage-Griebenow

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Convergence Theorems for a Maximal Monotone Operator and a 𝑉-Strongly Nonexpansive Mapping in a Banach Space by Hiroko Manaka

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La Vénus Jōmon, grande oubliée du panthéon des arts japonais ? by Chloé-Alizée Clément

“…The Jōmon Venus (3500–2400 BCE), a dogū (anthropomorphic clay figurine), is an emblematic work from the Jōmon period (14,000–1st millennium BCE) discovered not far from Nagano in central Japan less than forty years ago. Since then, its significance has changed dramatically: sometimes adored and celebrated, sometimes neglected and forgotten, the Jōmon Venus has had a huge impact in the context of the rise of the Nihonjinron historical school. …”
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Problèmes de structure dans les Andes. De la parenté, de la polygynie et des moitiés à Cuzco by R. Tom Zuidema

“…He takes as a first example of analysis the Heian court in Japan of the eleventh century. A comparable example had been given by van Wouden in 1956 from the landscape of Kodi on the island of Sumba, Indonesia, and Lévi-Strauss (1958 [1956]) himself had referred before to that of the Bororo, South America. …”
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Competing in the Global LED Industry: The Case of Taiwan by Yu-Shan Su

“…The revenue of the Taiwan LED components industry is ranked top one in the world, followed by that of Japan and South Korea. Based on the advantage of their electronics industry, Taiwanese LED companies create a unique model to compete with the international firms. …”
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Convergence and Stability of the Split-Step θ-Milstein Method for Stochastic Delay Hopfield Neural Networks by Qian Guo, Wenwen Xie, Taketomo Mitsui

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Theoretical Basis for Classifying Hyperuniform States of Two-Component Systems by Hiroshi Frusawa

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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MOTIVATIONAL COMPONENT OF THE INDUSTRY-OUTPUT TARIFF AGREEMENTS IN THE INDUSTRIES OF FUEL & ENERGY COMPLEX by A. V. Akopyan, N. G. Lubimova

“…World experience of the labor motivation in the fuel and energy industries, such as in the USA, Japan and in Europe has been examined in comparison with domestic practice in these sectors.…”
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Finite rank intermediate Hankel operators and the big Hankel operator by Tomoko Osawa

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Properties of some weak forms of continuity by Takashi Noiri

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The possibility of using foreign experience in the development of the Moscow transport complex by V. E. Komov, A. E. Sibiryaev

“…Successful foreign experience of the European Union, Japan, New Zealand, China, Singapore, the USA and others megacities in the context of its application in large cities of Russia has been examined.…”
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Fixed Point Theorems for an Elastic Nonlinear Mapping in Banach Spaces by Hiroko Manaka

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Question de la taille des arbres dans des jardins japonais de France : rencontres et réflexions entre jardiniers français et japonais by Yoko Mizuma

“…In France, where the historical background in the development of pruning techniques as well as the climatic conditions differ from those in Japan, pruning is one of the key aspects affecting the form of Japanese gardens. …”
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Effects of information on consumer attitudes towards gene-edited foods: a comparison between livestock and vegetables by Naoko Kato-Nitta, Yusuke Inagaki, Tadahiko Maeda, Masashi Tachikawa

“…Due to the strict regulations regarding genetically modified (GM) food, GM crops are not commercially cultivated in Japan. Consumers worldwide have concerns about application of this technology to food. …”
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Inflammation and Immune Escape in Ovarian Cancer: Pathways and Therapeutic Opportunities by Liu C, Yin Q, Wu Z, Li W, Huang J, Chen B, Yang Y, Zheng X, Zeng L, Wang J

“…Chunyan Liu,1,* Qinan Yin,2,3,* Zhaoying Wu,1 Wenhui Li,1 Jun Huang,1 Bo Chen,1 Yanjun Yang,1 Xuewei Zheng,3 Li Zeng,3 Jingjing Wang3 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Radiation Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital, College of Clinical Medicine, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, People’s Republic of China; 3Precision Medicine Laboratory, School of Medical Technology and Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Chunyan Liu, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, No. 2 Yinghua Dongjie, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029, People’s Republic of China, Email juneliu2022@126.comAbstract: Ovarian cancer (OC) remains one of the most lethal gynecological malignancies, largely due to its late-stage diagnosis and high recurrence rates. …”
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A Parallel Image Denoising Network Based on Nonparametric Attention and Multiscale Feature Fusion by Jing Mao, Lianming Sun, Jie Chen, Shunyuan Yu

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Development of cohort definitions and algorithms to identify patients with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome or Dravet syndrome from real-world administrative healthcare databases by Drishti Shah, Victoria Divino, Justin Chen, Arturo Benitez, Jeannine Roth, J. Scott Andrews

“…Objective: To develop cohort definitions and algorithms that can be applied to a range of real-world retrospective data sources in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, China, and Japan to identify patients with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) or Dravet syndrome (DS) to aid future research. …”
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The People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs (NKID) of the USSR in the City of Kuibyshev (1941-1943) by S. I. Chernyavsky

“…Due to the opposition of the Western powers, domestic diplomacy failed to create a collective security system to prevent the aggression of Germany, Italy and Japan. Negotiations with representatives of Great Britain and France, which were conducted in 1939, were interrupted and relations with these countries were virtually frozen.Some important strategic tasks were set before Soviet diplomacy. …”
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