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In this study, a multi-step phase transition hybrid composed of (Pr-dabco)2Ag4I6 clusters (Pr-dabco+ = 1-propyl-1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octan-1-ium) has been prepared and characterized by microanalysis, IR and UV-vis spectroscopy, TG and DSC techniques, etc. This hybrid is thermally stable up to ∼486 K with five phases in the temperature region below 486 K. The phase transition shows symmetry breaking (SB) character between phases II (space group P21/c) and III (space group Pa3[combining macron]), while inverse symmetry breaking (ISB) between phases II and I (space group Pbca), and it is rather exceptional for matter to exhibit simultaneously SB and ISB nature in two successive phase transitions. Most importantly, each phase transition is associated with a dielectric anomaly, and phase V appears to be a plastic crystal with extra high ac conductivity (>10-2 S cm-1). Our work opens up new avenues to find a multi-phase transition material in silver halide hybrids.

From the perspective of the proton conduction mechanism, there is a general notion that effective hydrogen bonding plays a key role in the high conductivity of crystalline proton conductive materials. In order to create more effective hydrogen bond networks resulting in high proton conduction, two hydrogen-bonded supramolecular lanthanide complexes based on imidazole dicarboxylate, {[Ln(m-FPhH2IDC)2(H2O)6]·(m-FPhH2IDC)·xH2O}n (x = 6, Ln = Eu (1); x = 13, Ln = Dy (2)) (m-FPhH3IDC = 2-(m-fluoro)phenyl-4,5-imidazole dicarboxylic acid), have been synthesized. AC impedance analysis shows that the optimized proton conductivity of 1 can reach up to 1.34 × 10−4 S cm−1 at 100 °C and 98% relative humidity (RH), which is 17 times higher than that of 2 (7.82 × 10−6 S cm−1). The proton conducting mechanisms have been investigated using structural analysis and Ea values. This comparative study of proton conduction between the two lanthanide complexes provides new insight for better understanding the design and development of new proton conductive metal–organic complexes with high proton conductivity.

This chapter studies the education for academic research that was institutionalized in colonial Taiwan and the informal training that was available to junior scholars. It first briefly contextualizes the founding of the only university in the colony in 1928, then examines the fields of Southeast Asian history and ethnology, in which the colonial government of Taiwan invested heavily, and draws a pattern from the careers of the faculty. This is followed by an analysis of the four modes of research training available at the time: undergraduate education, apprenticeship at the university, self-training outside the university, and advanced study abroad. At the end of the survey is a description of the foundational education that the remaining Japanese faculty provided to the first generation of Taiwanese academics in archaeology and anthropology after World War II.

PrefaceIntroduction: Japan's Wartime Empire: Problems and IssuesCh. 1Total War, Industrialization, and Social Change in Late Colonial Korea3Ch. 2The Kominka Movement in Taiwan and Korea: Comparisons and Interpretations40Ch. 3Imagined Empire: The Cultural Construction of Manchukuo71Ch. 4Managing Occupied Manchuria, 1931-193497Ch. 5Creating a Modern Enclave Economy: The Economic Integration of Japan, Manchuria, and North China, 1932-1945136Ch. 6The Yen Bloc, 1931-1941171Ch. 7Nanshin: The "Southward Advance," 1931-1941, as a Prelude to the Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia189Ch. 8Anomaly or Model? Independent Thailand's Role in Japan's Asian Strategy, 1941-1943243Ch. 9Cooperation, Submission, and Resistance of Indigenous Elites of Southeast Asia in the Wartime Empire274Ch. 10The "Comfort Women"305Ch. 11The Postwar Economic Legacy of Japan's Wartime Empire324Ch. 12Reflections on the Japanese and German Empires of World War II335Contributors363Index367

C20H14N6NiS4, triclinic, P 1 ‾ $P\overline{1}$ (no. 2), a = 8.519(3) Å, b = 8.5956(16) Å, c = 8.6531(17) Å, α = 116.404(3)°, β = 94.574(4)°, γ = 103.031(4)°, V = 541.0(2) Å3, Z = 1, R gt (F) = 0.0445, wR ref(F 2) = 0.1147, T = 296.15 K.

Background: Hymenoptera stings are one of the common causes of anaphylaxis. The prevalence of systemic allergic reactions seems to be higher in highly exposed populations such as beekeepers and individuals receiving live bee acupuncture (LBA). However, there are a very few of studies on venom allergy in these populations. We performed two observational studies to describe the characteristics and risk factors of venom allergy in beekeepers and the LBA population.Methods: A total of 99 beekeepers and 127 individuals receiving live bee acupuncture were interviewed. Skin prick tests were performed on subjects with suspected bee venom allergy.Results: The prevalence of bee venom allergy was 34.3% among beekeepers and 29.0% in the LBA population. Systemic reactions occurred in 11.3% of the LBA population, and 28.3% of beekeepers. For beekeepers with exposure to 2-4 stings per year and ≥5 stings per year, the risk for developing venom allergy increased to 6.745-fold (95% CI 2.139-21.266) and 42.297-fold (95% CI 7.060-253.399) respectively, compared to the ≤1 sting per year group. Conversely, in the LBA population, compared to frequency ≤2 LBA stings per week, the adjusted OR of venom allergy was 0.281 (95% CI 0.075-1.047) and 0.166 (95% CI 0.045-0.612) for frequency 3-6 LBA stings per week and ≥7 stings per week respectively. The knowledge of adrenaline and venom immunotherapy was limited in both beekeepers and traditional doctors.Conclusion: The frequency of stings with high risk for bee venom allergy was >4/year in beekeepers and

Few-shot table-to-text generation is a task of composing fluent and faithful sentences to convey table content using limited data. Despite many efforts having been made towards generating impressive fluent sentences by fine-tuning powerful pre-trained language models, the faithfulness of generated content still needs to be improved. To this end, this paper proposes a novel approach Attend, Memorize and Generate (called AMG), inspired by the text generation process of humans. In particular, AMG (1) attends over the multi-granularity of context using a novel strategy based on table slot level and traditional token-by-token level attention to exploit both the table structure and natural linguistic information; (2) dynamically memorizes the table slot allocation states; and (3) generates faithful sentences according to both the context and memory allocation states. Comprehensive experiments with human evaluation on three domains (i.e., humans, songs, and books) of the Wiki dataset show that our model can generate higher qualified texts when compared with several state-of-the-art baselines, in both fluency and faithfulness.

The zero/negative thermal expansion (ZTE/NTE), which is an intriguing physical property of solids, has been observed in a few families of materials. ZTE materials possess practical applications in specific circumstances such as space-related applications, engineering structures and precision instrument. Generally, NTE materials are used as additives to form a composite of the ZTE material with positive thermal expansion material. It is still a tremendous challenge to design new families of ZTE/NTE materials. Herein, we presented a temperature-dependent single crystal structure analysis in 110-300 K for a layered (NH4)2V3O8, which crystallizes in a tetragonal space group P4bm and comprises mixed valence [V3O82-]∞ monolayers and NH4+ residual in the interlayer spaces. Along the c-axis, (NH4)2V3O8 demonstrated uniaxial expansion behaviors, i.e., ZTE with αc = -1.10 × 10-6 K-1 in 110-170 K and NTE with αc = -16.25 × 10-6 K-1 in 170-220 K. Along the a-axis, (NH4)2V3O8 exhibited ZTE with αa = + 2.06 × 10-6 K-1 in 240-300 K. The mechanisms of ZTE and NTE were explored using structural analysis. The conduction of NH4+ ions in the interlayer space was studied, indicating that the conductivity rapidly rises with the expansion of interlayer space at temperatures of293 K. This study discloses that layered vanadates are promising ZTE/NTE materials.

The emerging organic ion plastic crystals (OIPCs) are the most promising candidates used as solid-state electrolytes in a range of ionic devices. To endow an OIPC with additional functionality may create a new type of material for multifunctional devices. Herein, we present an ion plastic crystal, [EMIm]­[Ni­(mnt)2] (1; [EMIm]+ = 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium and mnt2– = maleonitriledithiolate), and its crystal consists of twin dimeric chains of [Ni­(mnt)2]− anions, embraced by [EMIm]+ cations. A crystal-to-plastic crystal transformation with a large latent heat that occurred at ∼367/337 K on heating/cooling is confirmed by the differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) technique. The plastic crystal phase in 1, characterized by variable temperature powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) and optical microscopy images, spans a broad temperature range with ΔT ∼123/153 K on heating/cooling (DSC measurement), and the wide ΔT is relevant to an extra stable anion chain owing to the strong antiferromagnetic (AFM) interactions protecting the chain from collapse in the plastic crystal state. 1 is a single-component ion plastic crystal with a record high ion conductivity, 0.21 S·cm–1, at 453 K. The crystal-to-plastic crystal transformation in 1 is coupled to a bistable magnetic transition to give a multi-in-one multifunctional material. This study provides a creative thought for the design of OIPCs with striking thermal, electrical, and magnetic multifunctionality.

In this study, a multi-step phase transition hybrid composed of (Pr-dabco)2Ag4I6 clusters (Pr-dabco+ = 1-propyl-1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octan-1-ium) has been prepared and characterized by microanalysis, IR and UV-vis spectroscopy, TG and DSC techniques, etc. This hybrid is thermally stable up to ∼486 K with five phases in the temperature region below 486 K. The phase transition shows symmetry breaking (SB) character between phases II (space group P21/c) and III (space group Pa3[combining macron]), while inverse symmetry breaking (ISB) between phases II and I (space group Pbca), and it is rather exceptional for matter to exhibit simultaneously SB and ISB nature in two successive phase transitions. Most importantly, each phase transition is associated with a dielectric anomaly, and phase V appears to be a plastic crystal with extra high ac conductivity (10-2 S cm-1). Our work opens up new avenues to find a multi-phase transition material in silver halide hybrids.