Trans-Pacific Minor Visions in Japanese Diasporic Art

VISIONS: the art of science.

VISIONS: the art of science.

Genes involved in the echinoderm block to polyspermy are synthesized primarily in the oocyte. Their expression begins early in oogenesis and continues until germinal vesicle breakdown, when the transcript is rapidly turned over, leaving only traces of the active transcript. These oocyte-specifi c genes encode proteins in the egg extracellular matrix and the cortical granules, secretory vesicles...

Trans‐Pacific whole mantle structure

[1] Recent reports on modeling USArray data reveal mostly vertical microplates with little resemblance to preliminary reference Earth model (PREM). Such complexity at plate boundaries makes it difficult to form reliable images of ocean basins using global paths. Here, we report on modeling stacked seismograms obtained from the first broadband array (TriNet) situated on the edge of the Pacific P...

Trans-Pacific Transport of Mercury

We examine the trans-Pacific transport of mercury using a global chemical transport model. Using existing anthropogenic inventories, the model reproduces the observed Hg/CO ratio in Asian long-range transport events observed at a surface site in Okinawa, Japan and Mount Bachelor, Oregon, with an underestimate of 18-26% in the ratio. This is in contrast with previous studies that inferred a fact...

The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Should We “Fear the Fear”?; Comment on “The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Is It Everything We Feared for Health?”

RLabonté et al entitle their paper in this issue of the International Journal of Health Policy and Management “The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Is It Everything We Feared for Health?” Tantalisingly, they do not directly answer the question they pose, and in this commentary, we suggest that it is the wrong question; we should not ‘fear’ the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) at all, rather we should ...