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Open AccessEffect of wine pomace extract on dechlorination of chloroethenes in soil suspension
Chloroethenes are widely used as solvent in the metal industry and the dry cleaning industry, but their spillage into soil and groundwater due to improper handling has negatively impacted human health. Bioreme...
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Bottom-up multi-agent reinforcement learning by reward sha** for cooperative-competitive tasks
A multi-agent system (MAS) is expected to be applied to various real-world problems where a single agent cannot accomplish given tasks. Due to the inherent complexity in the real-world MAS, however, manual des...
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Open AccessEnvironment-adaptive interaction primitives through visual context for human–robot motor skill learning
In situations where robots need to closely co-operate with human partners, consideration of the task combined with partner observation maintains robustness when partner behavior is erratic or ambiguous. This p...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Integrated Support System for Disaster Prevention Map-Making Using Town-Walk Information Gathering
Throughout Japan, numerous disaster prevention maps have been made over time using the method of town-walk. This method will assist in disaster prevention and enable a greater understanding of the disaster pre...
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Open AccessCoexistence between Zostera marina and Zostera japonica in seagrass beds of the Seto Inland Sea, Japan
There have been many studies on the growth conditions of Zostera marina and Zostera japonica, but few studies have examined how spatial and temporal factors affect growth in established seagrass beds or the distr...
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In vitro and in vivo antiherpetic effects of (1R,2R)-1-(5′-methylful-3′-yl)propane-1,2,3-triol
In this study, we demonstrated the in vitro and in vivo antiherpetic activities of a stable furan derivative, (1R,2R)-1-(5′-methylful-3′-yl)propane-1,2,3-triol (MFPT), which had originally been isolated from Stre...
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Significance of prevention and early treatment of a postoperative twisted neck: atlantoaxial rotatory subluxation after head and neck surgery
Atlantoaxial rotatory subluxation (AARS) is an infrequent condition that occurs most commonly in children for unknown reasons. Pediatric surgery, otopharyngeal inflammation, general anesthesia, and extreme rot...
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Random scheduling based on transmission delay and buffer size for hop-based burst-cluster transmission in OBS networks
Hop-based burst-cluster transmission improves fairness significantly in OBS ring networks. However, in mesh networks, the overall burst loss probability increases using the method because the transmission of a...
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Blind Identification of Polynomial Matrix Fraction with Applications
Fractional representation by polynomial matrices is a tool for describing linear dynamical systems, often providing a unique insight into the systems. It has turned out that the coefficient matrices in this re...
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Imaging of Mitotic Cell Division and Apoptotic Intra-Nuclear Processes in Multicolor
To follow the cell division cycle in the living state, certain biological activity or morphological changes must be monitored kee** the cells intact. Mitotic events from prophase to telophase are well define...
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Modeling changes in paddy rice sown areas in Asia
Paddy rice fields in Asia account for over 90% of global total rice cultivation area, and the major rice-producing countries of Asia account for over one-half of the world’s population. Monitoring and understa...
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Map** the global supply and demand structure of rice
Rice plays a major role in the global supply and demand for sustainable food production. The constraints of maintaining sustainable rice production are closely linked to the relationship between the distributi...
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Comparison of the effects of omeprazole and famotidine in treatment of upper abdominal symptoms in patients with reflux esophagitis
The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of proton pump inhibitor (PPI) with H2 receptor antagonist (H2RA) in treatment of upper abdominal symptoms.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Blind Estimation of Row Relative Degree Via Constrained Mutual Information Minimization
This paper studies a method for blind (input signals being unknown) estimation of the row relative degrees of a system non invertible at infinity. The proposed method uses a blind signal deconvolution scheme: ...
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Aurora-B associated protein phosphatases as negative regulators of kinase activation
The human serine/threonine kinase Aurora-B is structurally related to the protein kinase Ipl1p from S cerevisiae and aurora from Drosophila melanogaster, which are key regulators of mitosis. The present study sho...
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Visualization of Prekinetochore Locus on the Centromeric Region of Highly Extended Chromatin Fibers: Does Kinetochore Autoantigen CENP-C Constitute a Kinetochore Organizing Center?
Kinetochore is morphologically defined as a trilaminated, highly differentiated structure at the primary constriction of mitotic chromosomes. This subcellular organella is assumed to be composed of DNA and pro...
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Nucleotide specificity at the boundary and size requirement of the target sites recognized by human centromere protein B (CENP-B) in vitro
Human centromere protein B (CENP-B) has a sequence-specific DNA binding activity. We previously reported several CENP-B binding motifs by analysing synthetic oligonucleotides as well as alphoid DNA isolated fr...
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Physical Cleaning
In general, wet cleaning is widely used for the cleaning of silicon wafers, because dry cleaning technology is at the present stage still under development, and uncertainty remains concerning its adoption as a...
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The distribution of binding sites for centromere protein B (CENP-B) is partly conserved among diverged higher order repeating units of human chromosome 6-specific alphoid DNA
We previously reported the isolation of alphoid satellite clones from a human genomic library using a DNA immunoprecipitation with centromere protein B (CENP-B). Here, we have characterized the distribution of...
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Characterization of internal DNA-binding and C-terminal dimerization domains of human centromere/kinetochore autoantigen CENP-C in vitro: role of DNA-binding and self-associating activities in kinetochore organization
Human centromere protein C (CENP-C), a chromosomal component of the inner plate of kinetochores, was originally identified as one of the centromere auto-antigens. In a previous study, we showed that it possess...
