<p>Drilling fluid infiltration during well drilling may induce pore pressure and strain perturbations in neighbored reservoir formations. In this study, we report that such small strain changes (<span class="inline-formula">∼20</span> <span class="inline-formula">µ<i>ε<...

<jats:p>This chapter reviews fundamental U.S. constitutional law in relation to privacy; the various United States federal privacy laws in relation to government surveillance of online communications by private citizens; cases related to these issues, recent amendments ...

IT IS of interest to know what is occurring in the dermatology societies of other countries. Allow me to introduce the Japanese Dermatological Association (JDA) and its annual meetings. The total number of JDA members is 7720, including 3892 specialists in dermatology w...

<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title> <jats:p>The Diamond Princess cruise ship has been anchored at the Yokohama port in Japan since February 3, 2020. A total of 691 cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection had been confirmed as of February 23. The governm...

Abstract Strontium, oxygen, and carbon isotopes were measured in human tooth enamel from 66 burials in 9L-22 and 9L-23 residential groups at the Classic Maya site of Copan in western Honduras. These results are discussed in relation to earlier studies at Copan and basel...

Abstract As part of the Mapping Asia Plants (MAP) project, floristic works for Northeast Asia (i.e., China, Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and Mongolia) have been surveyed and compared. From the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century, most floristic research in...

<jats:p>Abstract. This paper provides the first chronology for the deep ice core from the East Greenland Ice-core Project (EGRIP) over the Holocene and the late last glacial period. We rely mainly on volcanic events and common peak patterns recorded by dielectric profil...

<p>Palaeoclimate simulations improve our understanding of the climate, inform us about the performance of climate models in a different climate scenario, and help to identify robust features of the climate system. Here, we analyse Arctic warming in an ensemble of 16 sim...

The fi rst report of ossifi cation of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) is credited to Key [1], who described it during the mid-nineteenth century. Oppenheimer [2] later reported 18 cases with calcifi cation or ossifi cation of the anterior and posterior ligame...