State Shintoism and Buddhist Persecution. THAT THE MEI]I RESTORATION \'\'AS BROUGHT ABOUT BY A COMbination of forces (such as the development of commerce, industry and capitalism) which were united under the slogan of the Restoration of· Imperial Rule which, in turn, was concocted bv the students of the Hirata School of Shintoism under the impending atmosphere of \'V'estern encroachment to the ...

We experimentally investigate the effect of imperfect separation of groups (population viscosity) on group selection and cooperation in a standard prisoner’s dilemma environment. Subjects can repeatedly choose between two groups, that differ in the defector gain in the associated prisoner’s dilemma. Choosing into the group with the smaller defector-gain can signal one’s willingness to cooperate...

Using data from the 2001-2005 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, and taking account of existing estimates of ability bias and social returns to schooling, I estimate the economic return to various levels of education. Raising high school attainment appears to yield the highest annual benefits, with per-year gains as high as 30 percent (depending on the adjus...

We report a portable 6-DOF (six degrees of freedom) motion tracking system which uses high-accuracy AR markers. It enables easy measurement of 6-DOF motion of multiple tracking points by a single camera. We examined the measurement accuracy of the motion tracker by comparing with an ordinary motioncapture system. The pose estimation errors are about 5 [mm] in location (depth) and about 2 [deg] ...

This paper describes the structure of three ~pes of parallel robots and compares their performances in the sense of size and static forces. The motivation for this investigation is to construct a robot that best ~ts a given medical application. The requirements are to cover a given work volume with a given orientation and to maintain the robot within the smallest cube possible. Among the struct...