There were 18 invited talks, 16 oral presentations and 100 posters. A total of 183 delegates from 8 countries participated in the conference. The field of quantum design has developed rapidly in the past few years and this conference provides an international forum for experimental and theoretical researchers to exchange ideas. This includes methods beyond the local density approximation of density functional theory (LDA), order-N methods, methods dealing with excitations and reactions, and so on, as well as the application of these methods to the design of new materials and devices. A central interest is, therefore, the development of new methods of quantum simulation and quantum design. For this to be successful, the quantum simulation should be highly reliable and be applicable to systems of realistic size. The basic ingredient is the use of quantum simulations to design a material that meets a given specification of properties and functionalities. This conference was organized under the auspices of the Development of New Quantum Simulators and Quantum Design Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT), and Hiroshima University Quantum design is a computational approach to the development of new materials with specified properties and functionalities. This special issue of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter comprises selected papers from the 1st International Conference on Quantum Simulators and Design (QSD2006) held in Hiroshima, Japan, 3-6 December 2006. PREFACE: International Conference on Quantum Simulators and Design, Hiroshima, Japan, 3 6 December 2006 Suggests that students keep journals throughout the unit. Summarizes a unit of study in which students learn about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki through reading about the survivors of the atomic bomb explosions and reflecting on the debate surrounding the 50th anniversary commemorations in Hiroshima ( Japan) and the United States. This research aims to extend the historical perspective concerning the atomic bomb in Japan, and offers another way of looking at this both historical and contemporary issue. This special issue deals with the comparison among different countries, but the purpose of my paper is to deepen this subject by illustrating the differences within a single country in different periods. This paper examines how this image was created. During the war, the discourses on atomic weapons were not limited to the military or scientific communities, but included the general public, thus facilitating the creation of a shared image of the atomic bomb as an ultimate weapon. Japan is a country that suffered an atomic attack and, at the same time, one of the countries that was engaged in atomic weapons research during the Second World War. This paper traces the roots of the image of the atomic bomb in Japan by investigating the various discourses on atomic energy and atomic weapons in Japanese literature prior to the bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945. The image of the atomic bomb in Japan before Hiroshima. Issues presented in the story are: (1) immediate survival in the face of…
This document presents results of a survey studying the Japanese picture book, " Hiroshima No Pika." The story aptly captures how a family of three find their lives shattered in a matter of seconds when the atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima ( Japan) in World War II.
? by the Palaeontological Society of Japan.Ĭritical Analysis of a Social and Scientific Moral Dilemma: Fifth Graders and Veterans Respond to " Hiroshima No Pika."ĮRIC Educational Resources Information Center The sea-level curve for Hiroshima Bay is similar to curves for tectonically stable areas of Japan (e.g., Osaka Bay). The peak in relative sea level occurred at ca.
5800 cal yr BP, after which it gradually fell (about 5 m) to its present level. In Hiroshima Bay, relative sea level rose rapidly (about 25 m) between ca. Holocene relative sea-level changes in Hiroshima Bay were reconstructed from fossil ostracodes from a core, using a semi-quantitative method. Holocene relative sea-level change in Hiroshima Bay, Japan: A semi-quantitative reconstruction based on ostracodes