a begomovirus, tentatively named tobacco leaf curl japan virus-jpu (tblcjv-jpu), was isolated from lonicera japonica (honeysuckle) plants grown in utsunomiya showing veinal chlorosis symptoms. the tblcjv-jpu genome with 2,761 nt showed a highest identity with tblcjv-jp3 and was also close to tblcjv and as well to tblcjv-jp2. the overall nt identity with tblcjv-jp3 amounted to 92.94%, while the ...

A variety of user-friendly spreadsheet templates have been developed for geoscience studies. However, the use of the built-in matrix functions within spreadsheet programs, such as Excel, is not particularly straightforward, lowering the value of spreadsheet programs for matrix-based computations, such as multiple regression analyses. Therefore, this study first developed two applications for Ex...

Department of Biological Physics, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, Department of Mathematics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, Department of Genetics, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, Adaptive Dynamics Network, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, Section Theoretical Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences (EEW),...

On March 11, 2011 an unusually strong earthquake, now called the Tohoku earthquake, occurred off the north-eastern coast of Japan's main island, Honshu. While the earthquake caused some destruction, the ensuing tsunami about three quarters of an hour later largely destroyed numbers of towns and devasted cities such as Sendai. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/poster/2011/2011031...

Nutrients can determine the outcome of the competition between different floating plant species. The response of floating plants to current phosphorus levels may be affected by previously experienced phosphorus concentrations because some species have the ability to store excess phosphorus for later use. This might have an impact on their competition. Here, we investigate the effect of previous...

two physicians, both grown up in west europe, educated also in this area (supplemented by many visits of the united states), travelled 20 years ago to japan for scientific reasons and they changed thereafter in their mental sight of the world. in a first part, the neurophysiologic basis of sensation from the sensory receptor up to the cerebral cortex (“bottom up”), the mechanisms of building me...

In the frame of the SISPyr project the feasibility of an Earthquake Early Warning system (EEW) covering Pyrenees is being studied. First of all, the analysis of the existing seismic stations shows that the SISPyr realtime network may be used as a base of a Pyrenean EEW despite that some difficulties exist to its implementation that should be solved. The exploration of an important Pyrenean wave...

what counts as global health? there has been limited discourse to date on the ways in which country-level contexts may shape positioning in global health agendas. by reviewing japan’s response to the refugee crisis, we demonstrate a clash between rhetoric and action on global responsibility, and suggest that cultural and historical factors may be related to the ways of perceiving and acting upo...

This study aims at comparing the economic relations of Japan with Iran and with Saudi Arabia. The comparison of these two relations is important as Iran and Saudi Arabia are leading exporters and Japan is a large importer of crude oil in the world. After a brief overview of the history of these two relations, the criteria of trade complementarity, i.e. Trade Potential Naive Assessment, Cosine M...