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Investigators Shingo Kazama, Ph.D. Group Leader, Chief Researcher, Chemical Research Group, RITE Katsunori Yogo, Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Chemical Research Group, RITE Teruhiko Kai, Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Chemical Research Group, RITE Ikuo Taniguchi, Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Chemical Research Group, RITE Kazuya Goto, Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Chemical Research Group, RITE Shuhong Duan, Ph.D. R...

Investigators Yuichi Fujioka, Ph.D. Counselor, RITE Shingo Kazama, Ph.D. Group Leader, Chief Researcher, Chemical Research Group, RITE Katsunori Yogo, Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Chemical Research Group, RITE Teruhiko Kai, Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Chemical Research Group, RITE Kazuya Goto, Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Chemical Research Group, RITE Ikuo Taniguchi, Ph.D. Senior Researcher, Chemical Rese...

This essay argues that the semi-biographical film 8 Mile represents Eminem as being both racially distinctive and as possessing universal commercial appeal. 8 Mile accomplishes this paradoxical construction by portraying ‘‘Rabbit’’ as ‘‘white trash,’’ a discursively ‘‘dark’’ (white) object, and as an American mythological white subject. The film makes whiteness hyper-visible by subjecting it to...

Teenagers cruising up and down the main boulevard looking for fun and romance is nothing new. Started in the 1950s, cruising has since become entrenched in American society, where fancy cars are a status symbol. Glamorized by Hollywood in movies such as "American Graffiti, cruising has become a rite of passage for todays youths. Though enjoyable for teens, cruising has always been a problem for...

Abstract Several recent studies have examined religious biographies, i.e. individual trajectories. However, little research has been conducted on the relevance of single life events in such as rites passage. One rite passage, confirmation training, preserved its popularity Finland despite declining church membership. The aim this study, therefore, was to examine Finnish training biographies. da...

This paper is an account of an emotional journey that took place alongside an ethnographic study of the contemporary cemetery landscape. It seeks to highlight the importance of conducting empirical research as a ‘rite of passage’, leading to the role of a researcher, by examining the connection between data, the human researcher, and the analysis. Furthermore, this paper argues that the emotion...