Japan's Enigmatic Election of 1928

1977 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R. H. Havens
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
High Water ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
National Population ◽  
High Water Mark ◽  
Universal Suffrage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Voting Requirements

When universal manhood suffrage was promulgated, with much eclat, on 5 May 1925, its friends and its enemies both agreed that this act was a new high-water mark in the thirty-five year history of Japanese parliamentarianism. Of a national population of nearly 40 million in 1890, the first electorate had been carefully confined to 400,000 adult males who met a stiff property test. By the early 1920s inflation, population growth, and eased voting requirements had gradually spread the franchise to some 3 million persons, still a mere fraction of the populace. Then, at a stroke, the universal suffrage law of 1925 gave the vote to males aged twenty-five and older, swelling the pool of electors four-fold to more than 13 million.

scholarly journals The Pelagic Phase in the Life History of the Amphipod Genus Bathyporeia

1939 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 467-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Emrys Watkin
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Full Moon ◽  
High Water ◽  
Vertical Movement ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Adult Females ◽  
High Water Mark ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Moon ◽  
Tidal Waters

The zonation of four species of the genus Bathyporeia, from high-water mark to low-water mark, in Kames Bay, Millport is given. B. pilosa occurs above the high-water mark of neap tides, B. pelagica is a mid-tidal form and B. elegans a low-water form. The latter, together with B. guilliamsoniana, extend beyond low-water mark. Of the population, as it occurs in the sand, 15 % are adult males, 26 % adult females, giving a proportion of adult to immature forms of 4 1 : 59.The analysis of forty-five tow-net samples taken across the bay at night shows that the same zonation of the species is maintained; the proportion of adults to immature forms in these samples, however, is as 57: 43, and of the 57 % of adults, 42 % are adult males, 15 % adult females.When the samples are related to the day of the lunar month it is shown that the numbers increase in the tidal waters in the periods immediately preceding the full moon and preceding and partly overlapping the new moon. A nocturnal vertical movement appears to be a marked feature of a few benthic amphipdd families, but the factors which cause this migration are problematical and require much further investigation.

High Water: The Pre-1914 Period

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.G. Sturmey
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
World Trade ◽  
High Water ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
British Trade ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Navigation Acts

This chapter provides a history of the pre-1914 period in British shipping. It determines and summarises the four factors that led to British domination of the ocean as the extent of their colonial activity; the speed of industrialisation; population growth; and the advantages of establishing trade routes, posts, and ports earlier than other nations. It then explores the extent of the British dominance in relation to the rest of the world; world trade in relation to British trade; national shipping policies; navigation laws; and the response of the rest of the world to the Navigation Acts. It concludes that Britain retained dominance in this period but saw an increase in world competition, particularly from Germany and Japan, and that British trade grew at a slower pace than world trade, which meant shipowners needed to keep their vessels larger and faster than those of upcoming rivals.

King Alfonso VIII of Castile

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Critical Period ◽  
High Water ◽  
The Political ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
High Water Mark ◽  
History Of

This book brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work concerns the reign of Alfonso VIII (1158–1215). This was a critical period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula, when the conflict between the Christian north and the Moroccan empire of the Almohads was at its most intense, while the political divisions between the five Christian kingdoms reached their high-water mark. From his troubled ascension as a child to his victory at Las Navas de Tolosa near the end of his fifty-seven-year reign, Alfonso VIII and his kingdom were at the epicenter of many of the most dramatic events of the era.

The Westminster Standards

2020 ◽  
pp. 250-265
Author(s):  
Chad Van Dixhoorn
Keyword(s):  
High Water ◽  
High Water Mark ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Theology ◽  
Westminster Assembly

The Westminster Standards were penned at the end of England’s second Reformation, and symbolized the high-water mark of Protestant scholasticism. The cluster of 1640s texts both codified prior developments in Reformed doctrine and standardized theological vocabulary, with the result that they have played an enduring role in the history of theology. This chapter addresses the unique contributions of the Larger and Shorter Catechisms and the flow and coherence of the Westminster Confession of Faith. Doctrinal topics, and the manner in which the Westminster assembly linked these loci, are discussed, and themes which find their place throughout the Standards are given particular emphasis. Since soteriological concerns dominate the Standards, they are given special attention in this précis. Select revisions of the Standards are also discussed.

The ultrastructure of the abdominal musculature of an orchestid amphipod

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 464-465
Author(s):  
Martin A. Levin ◽  
Lisa L. Cale ◽  
Valerie Lynch-Holm
Keyword(s):  
Intertidal Zone ◽  
High Water ◽  
Abdominal Muscles ◽  
Abdominal Musculature ◽  
Dorsal Muscle ◽  
High Water Mark ◽  
Thoracic Legs ◽  
Orchestia Cavimana

Orchestia is a genus of amphipod in the crustacean class Malacostraca. The order Amphipoda contains over 6000 species commonly called side swimmers, scuds and beach fleas(1). Most are marine bottom-dwellers utilizing their thoracic legs and posterior abdominal uropods for walking, crawling and swimming. However, some, like those in the genera Orchestia and Hyale are semiterrestrial. These amphipods, commonly referred to as “beach fleas,' “beach hoppers” or “sand fleas” can hop vigorously for great distances (up to 50 times their length) by extending their abdomens and telsons against the sand(2).In our study, the ultrastructure of the dorsal muscle cord of Orchestia grillus was examined. Vogel(3) described the abdominal muscles of Orchestia cavimana as consisting of two groups of muscles: a strong, complex, dorsal muscle cord used mainly for hopping and a group of weaker, ventral, longitudinal and oblique muscles.The specimens were collected in clumps of decaying seaweed and other detritus from the intertidal zone near the high water mark at Avery Point Beach, Connecticut.

Integrated Emergency Construction and Engineering Response to 2013 Colorado Storm Damage

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Caleb Douglas ◽  
Tyrel G. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Best Management Practices ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
High Water ◽  
Storm Event ◽  
Army Corps ◽  
Storm Damage ◽  
Pressure Setting ◽  
High Water Mark ◽  
Global Commerce

Union Pacific Railroad’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision, west of Denver, Colorado, was significantly impacted by an approximately 500 to 1,000 year storm event that occurred between September 9, 2013 and September 13, 2013. As a result of this historic event, washouts, earth slides, and debris flows severely impacted track infrastructure by eroding track embankments, destabilizing surrounding native slopes, and overwhelming stormwater infrastructure. Emergency response activities performed to restore track operations at Milepost (MP) 25.65 and MP 22.86 required the integration of civil, hydraulic, environmental and geotechnical engineering disciplines into emergency response and construction management efforts. Additionally, support from UPRR’s Real Estate Division was required when addressing private ownership and site access issues. The following text summarizes how coordinated efforts between various groups worked together in a pressure setting to restore rail service. The most significant damage occurred at MP 25.65 in a mountainous slot canyon between two tunnels accessible only by rail and consisted of a washout, approximately 200 feet (61 m) in length with a depth of 100 feet (30 m). MP 22.86 experienced slides on both sides of the track resulting in an unstable and near vertical track embankment which required significant fill and rock armoring. In addition to the embankment failures at MP 22.86, flood flows scoured around the underlying creek culvert, further threatening the geotechnical stability of the track embankment. The storm event highlighted the vulnerability of fill sections, where original construction used trestles. The repair plan engineered for MP 25.65 was developed to restore the lost embankment fill to near pre-flood conditions while limiting environmental impacts in order to minimize regulatory permitting requirements. Fill replacement performed during the initial emergency response was completed within 22 days, notwithstanding site remoteness and difficult access. Repair of the embankment required the placement of approximately 90,000 cubic yards (68,800 cubic meters) of fill and installation of four 48-inch (122-cm) culverts. Repair of embankment sloughing and scour damage at MP 22.86 was accomplished without the need for environmental permits by working from above the ordinary high water mark, using a “one track in – one track out” approach while restoring infrastructure to pre-flood conditions. A new headwall to address flow around the culvert inlet received expedited permit authorization from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers by limiting the construction footprint through implementation of best management practices and minimizing placement of fill below the ordinary high water mark. Service interruptions, such as those at MP 22.86 and MP 25.65, require sound engineering practices that can be quickly and efficiently implemented during emergency response situations that often occur in less than ideal working environments. Track outages not only impact the efficiency of a railroad’s operating network, but also impact interstate and global commerce as transportation of goods are hindered. The need to have a team of experienced engineering and construction professionals responding to natural disasters was demonstrated by this storm event.

An Implicit Theology of Mad Men

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-430
Author(s):  
Scott Hubbard
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
High Water ◽  
Symbolic Representation ◽  
Narrative Fiction ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Religious Symbols ◽  
Religious Symbolism ◽  
Mad Men ◽  
Secular World ◽  
High Water Mark

Abstract One of the most striking sites of secular-religious encounter in narrative fiction of the decade has been the baptismal imagery of the television serial drama Mad Men. Set in an era which may be said to be the high-water mark of the secularization of American culture, Mad Men’s encoding of meaning in symbolic representation in effect re-sacralizes the secular world into which those symbols are transplanted. The symbolism’s divergences from Christian doctrine and ritual that give Mad Men its distinct theological significance. This paper will explore the literary implications of Paul Ricoeur’s theory of religious symbolism. This paper conducts several close readings of key moments in the show’s use of baptismal symbolism, and offers thoughts about how Mad Men’s constellation of originally religious symbols to convey narrative significance empowers the show to perform a religious function for its audience.

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