Linear Microbundles

We extend calculus from smooth manifolds to topological manifolds making use of a theory of generalized functions developed for this aim. Actually such extension fits into a boarder context: the universal construction of a site containing all continuous maps between topological spaces and whose arrows are smooth in the generalized sense. As an application we prove the existence of non singular generalized tangent vector fields on spheres of any dimension, showing how this result is coherent with the non existence of smooth vector fields on spheres of even dimension. Many other applications are outlined or suggested, some of which are under development by the author.Comment: 233 pages, 0 figures, 5 diagram

『マルチ言語版絵巻物による日本常民生活絵引』の編纂共同研究 『絵引』からPictopediaへ －次の三年間－

個別共同研

11 Compilation and Joint Research on the Multilingual Version of Pictopedia of Everyday Life in Medieval Japan

個別共同研究1『マルチ言語版絵巻物による日本常民生活絵引』の編纂共同研

Joint Research and Compilation Project on “Multilingual Version of Pictopedia of Everyday Life in Medieval Japan”

第三期共同研究活動報

A Tale of Two Cities: The Exploration of the Trieste Public Psychiatry Model in San Francisco

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the “Trieste model” of public psychiatry is one of the most progressive in the world. It was in Trieste, Italy, in the 1970s that the radical psychiatrist, Franco Basaglia, implemented his vision of anti-institutional, democratic psychiatry. The Trieste model put the suffering person—not his or her disorders—at the center of the health care system. The model, revolutionary in its time, began with the “negation” and “destruction” of the traditional mental asylum (‘manicomio’). A novel community mental health system replaced the mental institution. To achieve this, the Trieste model promoted the social inclusion and full citizenship of users of mental health services. Trieste has been a collaborating center of the WHO for four decades with a goal of disseminating its practices across the world. This paper illustrates a recent attempt to determine whether the Trieste model could be translated to the city of San Francisco, California. This process revealed a number of obstacles to such a translation. Our hope is that a review of Basaglia’s ideas, along with a discussion of the obstacles to their implementation, will facilitate efforts to foster the social integration of persons with mental disorders across the world