This article attends to the relationship between minor and major assemblies as prescribed by foundational principles of Reformed church polity proposed Mary-Anne Plaatjies-Van Huffel. It reviews limited autonomy local congregations authority broader in Church Order Dordrecht (1618/19), touchstone Dutch polity. considers challenge historic posed ecclesiology Doleantie, a secession from Nederland...

_____________________________ *This article is based on the authors’ article “Nicchu Anime Sangyo No Shijo-Soudatsu ~ Kokusan Anime Shinkou Wo Hakaru Chugoku To Dou Mukiaunoka~” [Market Competition in the Animation Industry Between Japan and China ~How to Face China’s Rising Interest in Promoting Domestically-Produced Animation~], originally published in the April 2012 issue of “Hoso Kenkyu to ...

An isomer-divergent synthesis of naturally occurring pericosines A and B is described starting from a known D-ribose derived ene-diol in 35% and 41% overall yields respectively of which the latter is the best synthetic method reported for pericosine B. The key features of this synthesis include the stereoselective NHK vinylation of the terminal aldehyde to the versatile diolefinic chiral interm...

There is a great need for more TV programs to be subtitled to help hearing impaired and elderly people to watch TV. NHK has researched automatic speech recognition for subtitling live TV programs in real time efficiently. Our speech recognition system learns frequent words and expressions expected in the program beforehand and also learns characteristics of announcers’ voices in order to reduce...

Two different approaches to the eleven-membered biaryl ether lactones of the aspercyclide family are disclosed. The core regions of these highly strained targets, which are able to interfere with the binding of immunoglobulin E to its high affinity receptor, can either be forged by ring-closing olefin metathesis (RCM) or by a highly diastereoselective chromium-mediated Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi (NHK)...

The epidermal differentiation complex (EDC), located on chromosomal band 1q21, consists of at least 43 genes that are expressed during keratinocyte differentiation. Indicative of a role for chromatin structure in tissue specificity of EDC gene expression, we identified an inverse correlation between expression and DNA methylation for two EDC genes (S100A2 and S00A6) in human keratinocytes and f...