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Effects of Model Shape of Hemispheric-Head Cyclone Separator on Collection Performance
The hemispheric head cyclone separator has considerably higher collection efficiency (separation performance) than a conventional cyclone separator with a flat head. In our previous study, we investigated nume...
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ESRGAN-based visualization for large-scale volume data
In the scientific visualization and data analysis workflow, data transmission bandwidth and memory resources have become the main bottlenecks when handling large-scale volume data. As a direct and effective sc...
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Open AccessEfficient compressed database of equilibrated configurations of ring-linear polymer blends for MD simulations
To effectively archive configuration data during molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of polymer systems, we present an efficient compression method with good numerical accuracy that preserves the topology of r...
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Soil hardness regulates the root penetration by trees planted on anthropogenic growing bases in coastal forests in Japan: new endeavors to reforest the coastal disaster prevention forests with high resilience for tsunami
To restore the disaster resilience of coastal forests in tsunami-prone areas, growing bases have been artificially constructed with embanking before afforestation to increase the effective soil depth and allow...
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Soil carbon stock changes due to afforestation in Japan by the paired sampling method on an equivalent mass basis
To identify the soil carbon stock changes from croplands/grasslands to forestlands in Japan, we compared the soil carbon stock of a cropland/grassland with that of an adjacent forestland at 22 different sites....
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Open AccessA case of pleuroperitoneal communication in which establishing a laparoscopic pneumoperitoneum was useful for the detection of a fistula
Pleuroperitoneal communication (PPC) is rarely observed, accounting for 1.6% of all patients who undergo continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). Although there have been several reports concerning th...
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Open AccessUnusual giant multilocular mesothelial cyst of mediastinum
Intrathoracic mesothelial cysts are congenital lesions induced by the abnormal development of the pericardial coelom. There have been a few reports of giant mesothelial cyst of the superior mediastinum, but th...
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Open AccessMultifocal cholesterol granulomas of the anterior mediastinum
Cholesterol granuloma in the mediastinum is rarely observed, accounting for 1% of all mediastinum tumors. There have been only a few reports of multifocal cholesterol granulomas of the thymus. We herein report...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Flexible Fiber Surfaces: A Reeb-Free Approach
The fiber surface generalizes the popular isosurface to multi-fields, so that pre-images can be visualized as surfaces. As with the isosurface, however, the fiber surface suffers from visual occlusion. We propose...
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Open AccessTwo extremely rare cases of extrapleural hematoma
Extrapleural hematoma is uncommon. However, according to the size of hematoma and/or the progression of anemia, surgical treatment to control bleeding might be necessary because a huge hematoma can cause venti...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Conflict Model of Evacuees and Vehicles on Pedestrian Crossing in the Aftermath of Disaster
Simulation which focuses on conflict between pedestrians and vehicles is important to assess evacuation safety of the pedestrians and drivers of the vehicles at a disaster. Although there were many researches ...
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Frankia communities at revegetating sites in Mt. Ontake, Japan
In 1984 at Mt. Ontake in Japan, an earthquake caused a devastating landslide, and as a result, the vegetation on the south slope of the mountain was completely eliminated. In higher elevation (2000 m) areas, r...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Effective Pre-processing of Genetic Programming for Solving Symbolic Regression in Equation Extraction
Estimating a form of equation that explains data is very useful to understand various physical, chemical, social, and biological phenomena
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Infilling of Swamplands Behind Coastal Sand Dunes to Mitigate Coastal Disasters
Japanese black pines in the coastal forests of Kujukuri and Futtsu-Misaki in the Chiba Prefecture have often withered under water-logged conditions due to impediment of gas exchange through tree roots. Such da...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Showing Ultra-High-Resolution Images in VDA-Based Scalable Displays
For web-browser-based scalable display systems, we recently presented the Virtual Display Area (VDA) [1] concept, which unifies different display resolutions and tiling by abstracting the physical pixel spaces in...
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Soils on Newly-Constructed Coastal Berms for Reforestation of Coastal Forests Damaged by the 2011 Mega-Tsunami
The mega-tsunami following the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake of March 2011 greatly damaged coastal forests along the Pacific Ocean coastline from the Aomori to Chiba Prefectures. According to reports on tsuna...
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Influence of the phase accuracy of the coarse solver calculation on the convergence of the parareal method iteration for hyperbolic PDEs
Gander and Petcu (ESAIM Proc 25:114–129, 2008) reported that, theoretically, the convergence of the parareal method iteration for hyperbolic PDEs is strongly influenced by the phase (frequency) accuracy of the co...
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Open AccessHigh-density lipoprotein suppresses tumor necrosis factor alpha production by mycobacteria-infected human macrophages
Immune responses to parasitic pathogens are affected by the host physiological condition. High-density lipoprotein (HDL) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) are transporters of lipids between the liver and perip...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
ChOWDER: An Adaptive Tiled Display Wall Driver for Dynamic Remote Collaboration
Herein, we propose a web-based tiled display wall (TDW) system that is capable of supporting collaborative activities among multiple remote sites. Known as the Cooperative Workspace Driver (ChOWDER), this system ...
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LC-MS/MS imaging with thermal film-based laser microdissection
Mass spectrometry (MS) imaging is a useful tool for direct and simultaneous visualization of specific molecules. Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) is used to evaluate the abundance of m...
