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Nov 25, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Adam M Beitz |Conrad G. Oakes |Christopher Johnstone |Joji Teves
AbstractWhile transcription factors (TFs) provide essential cues for directing and redirecting cell fate, TFs alone are insufficient to drive cells to adopt alternative fates. Rather, transcription factors rely on receptive cell states to induce novel identities. Cell state emerges from and is shaped by cellular history and the activity of diverse processes.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
dx.doi.org | Minna Saaristo |Christopher Johnstone |Phoebe Lewis |Simon sharp
IntroductionClick to copy section linkSection link copied!Anthropogenic climate change is increasing the frequency, duration and severity of extreme weather events, (1−4) prompting global concerns about flood-borne contaminant risks. (5,6) During 13–14 October 2022, up to 300 mm of rain fell in parts of Victoria, Australia (Figure 1). Due to prevailing wet conditions, rivers and catchments had limited capacity to absorb additional rainfall.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
csis.org | Christopher Johnstone |Nicholas Szechenyi |Japan Chair
The U.S.-Japan security alliance is on a roll—and has been for several years across multiple administrations. Although strong during the Obama administration, the alliance deepened significantly under President Trump. In a rapidly deteriorating regional security environment, hardening U.S. policy toward China brought Washington into tighter alignment with Tokyo on the need to address Chinese revisionist behavior and strengthen deterrence.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
csis.org | Charles Edel |Christopher Johnstone
China’s aggressive actions toward Taiwan, including military posturing, economic pressure, and coercive rhetoric, have heightened tensions and sparked global concern. Much more needs to be done through the trilateral relationship among the United States, Japan, and Australia to maintain stability in the Taiwan Strait.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
csis.org | Christopher Johnstone |Nicholas Szechenyi |Yuko Nakano |Japan Chair
In a move that stunned Japan’s political world, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio announced on August 14 that he would not seek reelection as leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in September—a decision that effectively ends his tenure as prime minister. Kishida will leave behind a legacy of historic change in Japan’s defense and national security policies that won respect from the Biden administration.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
csis.org | Christopher Johnstone |Cynthia Cook |Audrey Aldisert |Leah Klaas
Japan has a long history of restrictions on defense spending and arms exports. These factors, coupled with its “exclusive self-defense” (senshu bouei) policies, have impeded the development of a competitive and strong defense industrial base. Japan’s 2022 National Defense Strategy placed a high priority on strengthening the defense industry, and since then it has taken steps to loosen the restrictions on defense equipment exports to expand opportunities for cooperation.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
rand.org | Ken Jimbo |Christopher Johnstone |Emily Cloke |Francis Maynard S
RAND, Japan House Los Angeles, and Japan's Consulate General of Los Angeles hosted an event to explore such questions as "How do American and Japanese experts assess their countries' free and open Indo-Pacific strategies?" "How are regional states pursuing their own strategic engagement?" and "How might the situation evolve moving forward?" This conference gathered U.S. and Japanese specialists along with representatives of other countries.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
csis.org | Christopher Johnstone |Gregory Poling |Japan Chair
This week U.S. secretary of state Antony Blinken and U.S. secretary of defense Lloyd Austin visited Tokyo and Manila to meet with their counterparts in Japan and the Philippines—a rare sequence of “2+2” engagements on the ground in Asia. Both stops featured significant outcomes that signaled a period of historic strength among advanced alliances amid deep concern in Tokyo and Manila about a darkening regional security environment.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
inria.hal.science | Yannick Poirier |Christopher Johnstone |N. Patrik Brodin |Akbar Anvari
Article Dans Une Revue Medical Physics Année : 2020 A failure modes and effects analysis quality management framework for image‐guided small animal irradiators: A change in paradigm for radiation biology Fichier principal Medical Physics - 2020 - Poirier - A failure modes and effects analysis quality management framework for image‐guided small (1).pdf (221.64 Ko) Télécharger le fichier Origine Fichiers éditeurs autorisés sur une archive ouverte irsn-04666477 , version 1 (01-08-2024) HAL Id :...
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
features.csis.org | Christopher Johnstone |Nicholas Szechenyi |Leah Klaas
By Christopher Johnstone, Nicholas Szechenyi, and Leah Klaas | July 11, 2024 In the last few years, Japan has taken historic steps to strengthen its defense posture and in turn the U.S.-Japan alliance, which has entered a period of unprecedented integration. This is a far cry from the time of the alliance’s origins in 1951.
