3,860 Result(s)
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Time-Series Estimation of the Best Time to View Seasonal Organisms Using Geotagged Tweets and Co-occurring Words
The meteorological agency has reduced the scale of its biological seasonal observations because of requirements for maintaining observation targets and securing personnel. A low-cost, nationally applicable est...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Parallel and Distributed MOEA/D with Virtual Overlap** Zone and Exclusively Evaluated Mating
We've introduced a technique that establishes a virtual Overlap** zone between partitions. This method facilitates a new way for individuals to both mating and migration by assessing individual populations w...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Study on Strength Properties of Fiber-Cement-Stabilized Soil Using Waste Gypsum Board Paper
A new recycling method for high water content sludge called “Fiber-cement-stabilized soil” has been developed. In this method, crushed old newspaper (fragments of old newspaper) and cement are mixed with the s...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Stiffness of Welded T-joints Between SHS Profiles and Through Plates
The exploitation of tubular sections as columns in Moment Resisting Frames (MRFs) provides advantageous solutions to the global structural behaviour. However, the employment of hollow profiled columns is restr...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Molecular Dynamics Simulation on the Initiation of Plastic Deformation by Nanoindentation
The mechanical properties of materials are fundamentally derived from the microscopic structures and their behavior, and nanoindentation testing is widely used in fundamental studies of microscopic plasticity ...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Centroid Tuplet Loss for Person Re-Identification
Person Re-Identification (Person Re-ID) is an important computer vision task in area surveillance, in which the goal is to match a person’s identity across different cameras or locations in videos or image seq...
-
Chapter
Introduction
This introductory chapter discusses the integration of computational social science (CSS) with sociology. CSS, comprising agent-based modeling and big data analysis, has revolutionized social scientific studie...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
A Smart Glasses-Based Real-Time Micro-expressions Recognition System via Deep Neural Network
The rapid development of new communication technologies such as social software and email has brought convenience, but it has also increased the distance between people. This research aims to capture micro-exp...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Design Consideration for LC Analog Filters: Inductor ESR Compensation, Mutual Inductance Effect and Variable Center Frequency
This paper presents several considerations of LC analog filter design. First, we propose an inductor equivalent series resistance (ESR) compensation technique for LC analog band-pass filters (BPFs) and band-el...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Characteristics of Word-of-Mouth (WOM) by the Interaction Between Feedback Willingness and Incentivized WOM Willingness
When designing products/services based on the knowledge obtained by analyzing word-of-mouth (WOM), it is important to remove excessive assertions, both positive and negative. Strong emotions such as affection ...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
A Cloud-Based Sign Language Translation System via CNN with Smart Glasses
In situations where ordinary people and the hearing-impaired person need to communicate, it is possible that the average person does not know sign language and thus communication may be impaired, which means t...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Fault Mitigation and Fault Tolerant Humanoid System Against Contact Impact
Humanoid robots are expected to expand their activity locations to narrow or uneven environments. When robots operate in a narrow space or on uneven terrain, they receive unplanned contact impacts, resulting i...
-
Chapter
Introduction
This chapter depicts the background and concepts of a platform designed to evaluate global systems. Sustainability is a crucial concern within our socioeconomic-environmental systems and is formalized as multi...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Utilization of AI-Based Diagnostic Imaging for Advanced and Efficient Tunnel Maintenance
In tunnel inspection, close visual inspection and hammering sound test are usually carried out to check the deformation and deterioration of lining concrete. These inspections are carried out using elevated wo...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Strength Development Characteristics of Concrete Using Coal Gasification Slag Fine Aggregate
Coal gasification slag (CGS) fine aggregate is a byproduct of integrated coal gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants. In Japan, the Japanese Industrial Standard JIS A 5011–5:2020 [3] was established in 2...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Attosecond Core-Exciton Dynamics in Wide-Gap Insulators
An option to overcome the limits of electronics are excitons, quasi-particles generated by the electron-hole Coulomb interaction. A fundamental prerequisite is the possibility to control their properties with ...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Design of Walking Rehabilitation Device Using Planar Link Mechanism and Pneumatic Rubber Artificial Muscle
Kee** a walking ability is very important to improve the QOL, for feasible self-reliance in life and livelihoods. Rehabilitation of medical and welfare services are required to solve this problem, but it wil...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Swelling and Impervious Performance of Bentonite Mixed Soil Using Dehydrated Cake
In Japan, the function of embankment bodies has been impaired in the aging of small earth dams because of the pi** phenomenon of the small earth dams’ bodies caused by torrential rain and cracking caused by ...
-
Chapter
How to Construct Data Infrastructure Based on Grid Square Statistics
Grid square statistics—a kind of spatial statistics—is useful as a tool for analyzing, comparing and synthesizing statistics regarding anonymization. This chapter proposes how a data cube (linked open data) of...
-
Chapter and Conference Paper
Effect of Water Sprinkling Curing of Mortar with Different Binder Materials and Different Pre-curing Times
Precast concrete is often manufactured using steam curing, but it has been found that the performance of precast concrete after steam curing is lower than that of concrete cured in the atmosphere. In contrast,...
