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Evaluation of Sentinel-1 GRD Data with GEE for Floods Map** in Rubkona, South Sudan
This study explores the integration of Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery and Google Earth Engine (GEE) for processing for flood map**
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Derivation of Evacuation Routes to Avoid Narrow Road Adopting Physarum Solver
Japan is a country where disasters occur frequently. When disasters ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Location Information for Disaster Management and Infectious Disease Control Focusing on Japan
The utilization range of location information is expanding and it is expected that its usefulness of application may similarly expand. In Japan, location information was utilized after the Great East Japan Ear...
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Article
Open AccessReorganization of the ancestral sex-determining regions during the evolution of trioecy in Pleodorina starrii
The coexistence of three sexual phenotypes (male, female and bisexual) in a single species, ‘trioecy’, is rarely found in diploid organisms such as flowering plants and invertebrates. However, trioecy in haplo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Promoting Sustainable Travel Through a Web-Based Tourism Support System
In is recently promoted in order to prevent both the problems associated and the spread of . The present study developed (SNS). The system has two unique key functions (the functions display a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Flood Disaster Management System for Situation Awareness and Response Using Twitter Data
Social media has increasingly become a convenient tool for sharing and consuming information during emergencies and disasters such as floods. The annual floods of the River Nile in South Sudan devastates lives...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Flood Disaster Mitigation System Adopting Meteorological Data and Geographic Information Systems
Recently climate change causes greater disaster than before, and the conventional measures especially against flood disaster are not enough at present. Integrated measures of facilities and Information systems...
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Article
Open AccessGenome sequencing of the multicellular alga Astrephomene provides insights into convergent evolution of germ-soma differentiation
Germ-soma differentiation evolved independently in many eukaryotic lineages and contributed to complex multicellular organizations. However, the molecular genetic bases of such convergent evolution remain unre...
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Comparative evaluation of microbial profiles of oral samples obtained at different collection time points and using different methods
Recently, the oral microbiome has been found to be associated with oral and general health status. Although various oral sample collection protocols are available, the potential differences between the results...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Web Portal to Support Remote Island for Sightseeing and Disaster Management
The present study designed, developed and operated a web portal to support remote island for sightseeing and disaster management. The web portal is developed adopting web-geographic information systems (Web-GI...
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Chapter
Sightseeing Support System with Augmented Reality and No Language Barriers
Though tourists can search for necessary information on the internet while sightseeing, it is inconvenient to obtain available information concerning specific sightseeing spots among the large amount of inform...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Issues in the Use of the Recovery Watcher for Situation Awareness in Disaster and Inclusive Communications
Since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011, we have been working on how possibly IT could be used for disaster response and recovery in Japan. From this perspective, we implemented a system, Rec...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Research on Disaster Communications
From our experience the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011 to help out the people in the affected area in terms of IT support such as internetworking and providing PCs, we came across an interesting iss...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Recovery Watcher: A Disaster Communication System for Situation Awareness and Its Use for Barrier-Free Information Provision
Since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995 as well as the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, we have been aware of the needs for information processing for disaster response and recovery in Japan. Thi...
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Method to Evaluate the Location of Aged Care Facilities in Urban Areas Using Median Share Ratio
The study aims to develop and test a method to evaluate the location of aged care facilities from the viewpoint of whether they are equitably located for users, using the improved . By evaluating the current ...
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Spatiotemporal Information System Using Mixed Reality for Area-Based Learning and Sightseeing
The study aims to develop a system that visualizes in both real and spaces, integrating SNS, , and the gallery system as well as Wikitude, and connecting external . Using these systems and technologies...
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A Dynamic Real-Time Navigation System for Urban Tourists
The present study aimed to design, develop, operate and evaluate a system that considers dynamic situations to provide effective support for tourist activities both in normal conditions and in the event of d...
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An Evaluation of Measures for the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Automobile Traffic in Central Tokyo
This study aims to evaluate measures for the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from automobile traffic in the 23-ward district of Tokyo (central Tokyo), Japan, using the methods of spatial analysis by G...
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Chapter
Development and Operation of Social Media GIS for Disaster Risk Management in Japan
Since natural disasters frequently happen all over the world, we must make effective preparations for such disasters. As the implementation of sophisticated computerization expands, the society now benefits fr...
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Article
Mutations within the S Gene of Hepatitis B Virus Transmitted from Mothers to Babies Immunized with Hepatitis B Immune Globulin and Vaccine
ABSTRACT: A variant of hepatitis B virus (HBV) having a specific mutation within the S gene has been found to infect vaccinees. To know whether similar variants were involved in Japan, we analyzed two cases of...
