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This study aimed to investigate sensory hypersensitivity among university students. A 27-item questionnaire contained statements of modality-specific sensitivity (visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory, and tactile). A total of 65 Japanese undergraduate students and 31 Chinese master's students majoring in design were enrolled in the study. The results showed that (i) Design major students in the two countries reported a similar tendency of modality-specific sensitivity, and they all mostly involved visual hypersensitivity. (ii) Chinese students reported sensory hypersensitivity problems more frequently than Japanese students in all five domains. (iii) More Chinese students preferred coping with the sensory hypersensitivity by avoidance than Japanese students, whereas more Japanese students preferred coping with it by bearing. Our study suggests that the prevalence of and coping strategies for sensory hypersensitivity differs between the countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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To study new natural products, we used ODS (YMC, Kyoto, Japan) and silica gel column chromatography to separate compounds in Cercis chinensis Bunge (Leguminosae). A new stilbene, trans-3, 5, 3′, 4′-tetrahydroxy-4-methylstilbene ( 1), along with 10 known compounds, namely piceatannol ( 2), dihydromyricetin ( 3), catechin ( 4), dihydrorobinetin ( 5), menisdaurin ( 6), lithospermoside ( 7), teatannin ( 8), dasycarponin ( 9), β-sitosterol ( 10), and daucosterin ( 11), was isolated from C. chinensis. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic evidence. Compounds 2–6 and 9 were isolated from the genus Cercis Linn. for the first time. (Managing editor: Wei) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An underground investigation has been performed in a subbituminous coal seam exhibiting a particular cleat pattern in the Kushiro coalfield, Japan. The coal cleat pattern shows some analogy to isolated straight joints, and is believed to have been formed during the late Tertiary period by a compressive tectonic stress, roughly in the east-west direction. Three cylindrical coal specimens representing the three orthogonal axes of the coal seam with respect to the bedding plane and its associated cleat were cored from a large block of coal. Gas permeabilities of the three coal specimens were measured under the same hydrostatic pressure conditions. Results clearly revealed anisotropy in permeability of the coal seam under relatively low confining pressures of less than about 12 MPa. The specimen cored parallel to both the bedding plane and cleat strike showed the highest permeability, even though the cleats were partly filled with calcite and clay minerals. The permeability in this direction was 2.5 times higher than perpendicular to the bedding plane, and 3 times higher than in the direction parallel to the bedding plane but perpendicular to the cleat strike. This suggests that the cleats play a greater role than bedding planes in controlling fluid flow in the coal seam. The permeability in the three orientations, however, converged to the same value at confining pressures above about 16 MPa. This may suggest that both cleats and bedding planes in a coal seam can close due to earth pressure if the coal seam is located below a certain depth. It further indicates that the traditional view that gas permeability is always greater parallel to the coal bedding than perpendicular to it should be reconsidered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the U.S.-China-Japan triangle. This triangle has been formed from behavioral pattern and bilateral relations of these countries. The triangular relationships will possibly lead to more transparency and cooperative dealings, hostile relationships and loosening into multilateral and complex framework. The perceptions of the U.S. regarding these crucial factor is within the emerging of China as the world power, as well as the belief that the strong triad of the U.S.-China-Japan can create a more stable relations in Asia-Pacific.

Sequencing amplification fragments produced using simple-sequence repeat (SSR) primer pairs pchgms2 and UDP96008 in 'Dayezhugan' japanese apricot showed that SSRs obtained included a microsatellite locus originally identified in peach. The microsatellite sequence homogeneity between UDP96008 in japanese apricot in this study and UDP96008 in the peach in GenBank was 98%. Twenty-four japanese apricot genotypes originating in diverse geographic areas had been identified with 14 SSR primer pairs developed in different species of Prunus. In total, 129 alleles were obtained and per primer pairs detected 2.5 alleles on the average. The results from cluster analysis showed that the genetic distance between 'Nanhong' and 'Zhonghong' was the closest, and cultivars from China and from Japan could not be separated completely. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]