RECENT WORKS IN JAPAN ON SILO LOADS

Recent Works on Tourism In

Holiday in Mexico: Critical Refl ections on Tourism and Tourist Encounters. Edited by Dina Berger and Andrew Grant Wood. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. Pp. xv + 393. $24.95 paper. $89.95 cloth. Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. By Amalia L. Cabezas. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 218. $24.95 paper. Negotiating Paradise: U....

Silo: Exploiting JavaScript and DOM Storage for Faster Page Loads

A modern web page contains many objects, and fetching these objects requires many network round trips— establishing each HTTP connection requires a TCP handshake, and each HTTP request/response pair requires at least one round trip. To decrease a page’s load time, designers try to minimize the number of HTTP requests needed to fetch the constituent objects. A common strategy is to inline the pa...

Recent progress in Japan

It is hoped that the area entitled "Recent Progress in Japan" will provide the audience with a better understanding of computer technology in Japan. The primary objective is to overview the present status and the future prospects of both semiconductor and computer technologies from viewpoints of recent activities in the field of research and development, and to present some main research effort...

Remarks on Optimization in SILO

Japan Turns Pro-Life: Recent Change in Reproductive Health Policy and Controversies over Prenatal Screening

Japan, known as a pro-choice country in terms of abortion, is currently facing the increase of “selective abortions” thanks to new prenatal screening. Efforts to restrict proliferation of new technology has not been successful and it is likely that Japan will turn pro-life by strictly enforcing the Maternity Protection Act (MPA), which prohibits abortions due to “fetal cause”.