Yōkai is an elusive category in Japanese history, folklore, and popular culture. It consists of mysterious phenomena that can exercise extraordinary agency their interactions with humans. Attempting to grapple this amorphous category, folklore studies has defined yōkai as malevolent supernatural beings. However, a survey these reveals most instances do not fit definition. This article discusses...

To identify selective steps in metastasis, those that eliminate nonmetastatic tumor cells more efficiently than metastatic cells, we have eval uated the sequential dissemination of tumor cells from a mammary fatpad, using both metastatic (4T1 and 66cl4) and nonmetastatic (67NR, 168FARN, and 4TO7) subpopulations of a single mouse mammary tumor. Each of these variant subpopulations is resistant t...

In this study, idealized simulations of squall line traversing a bell-shape mountain in a three-dimensional framework are conducted using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, version 3.2.0, with 2-km horizontal grid size and 60 vertically stretched layers. Water vapor and condensate budgets are examined, and the temporal variations of four microphysics ratios, including precipitati...

To identify selective steps in metastasis, those that eliminate nonmetastatic tumor cells more efficiently than metastatic cells, we have evaluated the sequential dissemination of tumor cells from a mammary fatpad, using both metastatic (4T1 and 66cl4) and nonmetastatic (67NR, 168FARN, and 4TO7) subpopulations of a single mouse mammary tumor. Each of these variant subpopulations is resistant to...