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Regeneration Traits of Four Dominant Species in a Cool Temperate Conifer Hardwood Mixed Forest, Northern Japan
... This study was conducted in a cool-temperate conifer-hardwood mixed forest in Hokkaido, northern Japan (43˚1'N, 143˚38'E, 200 m above sea level). Annual precipitation, recorded at Honbetsu Weather Station ...
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Along trench structural variation and seismic coupling in the northern Japan subduction zone
... repeatedly in the northern Japan subduction zone. The spatial distribution of large interplate earthquakes shows distinct along-trench variations, implying regional variations in interplate coupling. We ...
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Late Miocene ostracods from the Fujikotogawa Formation, northern Japan with reference to cold water species involved with trans-Arctic interchange
... On the other hand, in northern Japan many cold water ostracod species have been reported by many workers from Plio-Pleistocene formations yielding the Omma-Manganji [r] ...
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Gravity changes associated with variations in local land water distributions: Observations and hydrological modeling at Isawa Fan, northern Japan
... Gravity changes associated with variations in local land-water distributions have been observed at Isawa Fan in northern Japan, and modeled by hydrological equations. We solve the Richards equation ...
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Electrical resistivity modeling around the Hidaka collision zone, northern Japan: regional structural background of the 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake (Mw 6 6)
... caused devastating damage and 41 fatalities. The esti- mated hypocentral depth of 37 km is anomalously deep because it significantly exceeds the depth of the brittle–ductile boundary (e.g., Scholz 2002). Although the ...
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Paleo-tsunami history along the northern Japan Trench: evidence from Noda Village, northern Sanriku coast, Japan
... region, Japan, which faces the Japan ...the northern Sanriku coast, we found at least four distinct gravelly sand layers based on correlation and chronological ...possible northern extent of ...
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Characteristics of postseismic deformation following the 2003 Tokachi oki earthquake and estimation of the viscoelastic structure in Hokkaido, northern Japan
... of Japan and the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention in Japan, ...the Japan Meteorological Agency to plot the epicenters of ...the Japan Society of the ...
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Physical activity changes in the winter in older persons living in northern Japan: a prospective study
... reliability of this index have been verified previously, and this index has been widely used in Japan as a tool to as- sess functional capacity [18]. Exercise habits were assessed according to the stages of change ...
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The seismic velocity structure of the Wadati-Benioff Zone – insights from guided waves
... It is widely proposed that the oceanic mantle is hydrated by outer-rise normal faults, and carries large amounts of water to the deep mantle. The extent of oceanic mantle hydration is however poorly constrained by ...
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Molecular identification and transmission studies of X cell parasites from Atlantic cod Gadus morhua (Gadiformes: Gadidae) and the northern black flounder Pseudopleuronectes obscurus (Pleuronectiformes: Pleuronectidae)
... from northern Japan, have been shown, using small subunit ribosomal DNA (SSU rDNA) sequence data, to be related protozoan parasites that have an unresolved taxonomic identity ...
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Heterogeneous crustal deformation along the central northern Itoigawa Shizuoka Tectonic Line Fault system, Central Japan
... Figure 1 shows displacement rate vectors at all the ana- lyzed sites. More than 10 mm/yr shortening evidently oc- curs along the Omachi Linear Array. On the other hand, the central part around the Gofukuji Fault does not ...
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Paleoceanographic history of the Japan Sea over the last 9.5 million years inferred from radiolarian assemblages (IODP Expedition 346 Sites U1425 and U1430)
... central Japan Sea (Kamikuri and Motoyama 2007) and thus support our findings that the Japan Sea was in- fluenced by warm water of the North Pacific between ...ernmost, northern, eastern, and central ...
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On the radial-growth variations of Japanese beech (Fagus crenata) on the northernmost part of Honshu Island, Japan
... We investigated the radial-growth variations of Japanese beech on the northernmost part of Honshu Island, Japan. The tree-ring width chronologies were developed at two forest sites, spanning 1853–1994 at OKC and ...
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Late Holocene uplift of the Izu Islands on the northern Zenisu Ridge off Central Japan
... Fukutomi (1935, 1938) discovered emerged sessile as- semblages on Shikinejima and Jinaijima within the Izu Islands and in southern Izu Peninsula, Central Japan (Figs. 1 and 2). He suggested that these assemblages ...
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Fine fault structure of a moderate earthquake in the 2007 earthquake sequence of Northern Mie, Japan
... the Japan Meteorological Agency, Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo, and Dis- aster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University for allow- ing us to use their waveform ...
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Three dimensional distribution of S wave reflectors in the northern Kinki district, southwestern Japan
... By using waveforms from a dense seismic network, we estimated the distribution of the zones of high reflec- tion strengths (S wave reflectors) at depths of 25–30 km in the northern Kinki district. We found a zone ...
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Asia Physical Geography Notes.ppt
... Mountains in Northern China and empties into the Sea of Japan.. This river is also a border between China and Russia...[r] ...
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Nineteen Cases of Buruli Ulcer Diagnosed in Japan from 1980 to 2010
... It is noteworthy that M. ulcerans subsp. shinshuense was identified in all of the isolates from Japanese patients diag- nosed with BU. M. ulcerans subsp. shinshuense, not M. ulcerans, could be the primary etiological ...
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Basement involved tectonics in North Fossa Magna, central Japan: The significance of the northern Itoigawa Shizuoka Tectonic Line
... ness variation in the sedimentary sequences of each block. It is well known that almost all major active faults in Japan are not newly formed but reactivated pre-existing structures. The seismogenic fault for ...
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Formulating competitive strategy in the UK housebuilding industry : executive summary
... 2.1 The UK Housebuilding Industry 2.2 International Comparisons 2.2.1 Northern Europe 2.2.2 North America 2.2.3 Japan 2.3 Learning from Manufacturing Industry 2.4 Lessonsfor the UK House[r] ...
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