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Open AccessPostloading insulinemia is independently associated with arterial stiffness in young Japanese persons
Associations of arterial stiffness with glucose, insulin, and proinsulin dynamics during the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) remain under debate. The aim of this study was to investigate whether plasma gluc...
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Open AccessComparison of dimension reduction methods on fatty acids food source study
Serum fatty acids (FAs) exist in the four lipid fractions of triglycerides (TGs), phospholipids (PLs), cholesteryl esters (CEs) and free fatty acids (FFAs). Total fatty acids (TFAs) indicate the sum of FAs in ...
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Principal Component Clustered Factors for Determining Study Performance in Computer Programming Class
Studying computer programming requires not only an understanding of theories and concepts, but also coding pragmatism. Success in studying or conducting such a course is definitely a challenge. This paper prop...
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Factors involved in body weight loss and its maintenance in morbidly obese inpatients
Body weight loss in patients with obesity improves abnormal glucose tolerance, dyslipidemia and hypertension; however, it is difficult to maintain this loss of body weight. The objective of this study was to e...
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Determination of Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D3 by LC/MS/MS and Its Monthly Variation in Sapporo Indoor Workers
25-Hydroxyvitamin D3 (25(OH)D3) as the metabolite of vitamin D, is connected with various of diseases, and important to people with limited sunshine. Thus, the investigation of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and its v...
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Open AccessA resected case of two branch duct-type intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms showing different clinical courses after a two-year follow-up
The patient was a 60-year-old man without any particular complaints, but he underwent abdominal computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) due to a fatty liver, which revea...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Online EM for the Normalized Gaussian Network with Weight-Time-Dependent Updates
In this paper, we propose a weight-time-dependent (WTD) update approach for an online EM algorithm applied to the Normalized Gaussian network (NGnet). WTD aims to improve a recently proposed weight-dependent (...
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Reducing Redundancy with Unit Merging for Self-constructive Normalized Gaussian Networks
In this paper, a Normalized Gaussian Network (NGnet) is introduced for online sequential learning that uses unit manipulation mechanisms to build the network model self-constructively. Several unit manipulatio...
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Analyses on Generalization Error of Ensemble Kernel Regressors
Kernel-based learning is widely known as a powerful tool for various fields of information science such as pattern recognition and regression estimation. For the last few decades, a combination of different le...
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Genetically structured population and demographic history of the goldlined spinefoot Siganus guttatus in the northwestern Pacific
Sequence variation of the mitochondrial DNA was analyzed to examine the genetic structure and demographic history of the goldlined spinefoot Siganus guttatus in the northwestern Pacific. In total, 451 nucleotide ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Extended Analyses for an Optimal Kernel in a Class of Kernels with an Invariant Metric
Learning based on kernel machines is widely known as a powerful tool for various fields of information science such as pattern recognition and regression estimation. An appropriate model selection is required ...
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Biological traits of naturally induced hybrid individuals of two gizzard shads, Nematalosa come and N. japonica, in coastal waters around Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Archipelago, southwestern Japan
The age, growth, reproductive condition, and occurrence of natural hybrids of two Nematalosa species around Okinawa Island were examined using 128 specimens obtained from April 2003 to June 2004. Standard length ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Observation Research of Consumer Behavior for Marketing Decision Support
The purpose of this paper is to reveal a complaint and needs, insight from a practical way of observation such as brushing teeth. In our observation treated extreme users who will be likely to have the power o...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On a Fuzzy Weights Representation for Inner Dependence AHP
The AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) has been widely used in decision making. Inner dependence method AHP is one technique for the case in which criteria do not have enough independency. However using original...
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Age and growth of two gizzard shads, Nematalosa come and N. japonica, in coastal waters around Okinawa Island, southwestern Japan
The age and growth of two Nematalosa species around Okinawa Island were examined using sectioned otoliths collected from September 2003 to April 2006. Monthly changes in the frequency of the appearance of a trans...
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Genetic and morphological evidence of hybridization between Nematalosa japonica and N. come (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae) off Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan
Two morphologically similar species of gizzard shad, Nematalosa japonica Regan and N. come (Richardson), sympatrically distributed off Okinawa Island, Japan, were examined using an allozyme locus (SOD*) and two n...
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Molecular ecological study of Siganus spinus and S. guttatus from Okinawan waters based on mitochondrial DNA control region sequences
The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region was sequenced to examine the genetic variability and gene flow of juvenile Siganus spinus and S. guttatus. In total, 461 nucleotide sequences were obtained from 69 spe...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Fast Nearest Neighbor Method Using Empirical Marginal Distribution
Unfortunately there is no essentially faster algorithm than the brute-force algorithm for the nearest neighbor searching in high-dimensional space. The most promising way is to find an approximate nearest neig...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Effects of Kurtosis for the Error Rate Estimators Using Resampling Methods in Two Class Discrimination
In preceding studies, error rate estimators have been compared under various conditions and in most cases the population distribution was assumed to be normal. Effects of non-normality of the population have t...
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Low genetic variability in an endangered population of fiddler crab Uca arcuata on Okinawajima Island: analysis of mitochondrial DNA
Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis was performed on polymerase chain reaction-amplified DNA fragments containing the D-loop, ND2, and CO I genes of fiddler crab Uca arcuata mitochondrial DNA. In to...
