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Hiroshi Furukawa
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Study on the Impact of Learning About Information Security Measures on Mental Models: Applying Cybersecurity Frameworks to Self-learning Materials
The shortage of information-security workers is a problem. Appropriate mental models are considered important to encourage learners to appropriately plan, understand, and act on security measures. We aim to cr...
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Wireless Backhaul Technology in Wireless Sensor Networks: Basic Framework and Applications
Setting up a wireless sensor network (WSN) requires installing multiple sensor nodes and gateways. Installation costs of existing WSNs tend to be high when the sensing areas become wide, because all of the sen...
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A Route Evaluation Method Considering the Subjective Evaluation on Walkability, Safety, and Pleasantness by Elderly Pedestrians
To improve the quality of life (QOL) of elderly people, we propose a route planning method considering the subjective evaluation on walkability, safety, and pleasantness of the users. By using this method, it ...
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A Qualitative Model to Estimate Users’ Fear of Environmental Conditions for Evacuation Route Guidance
Fear has a great impact on a decision-making phase of evacuees in hazardous situations. Even if it is a safe route, evacuees may find difficulty in passing there. The aim of this study is to clarify physical c...
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Network-Based Pedestrian Tracking System with Densely Placed Wireless Access Points
Demand for care services, especially for children and the elderly, has been increasing. Several GPS-based pedestrian tracking systems have been researched and developed, but GPS cannot provide accurate positio...
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Some Investigations of Fukushima Dai-ichi Accidents from the Viewpoints of Human Factors
Many problems were posed in the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPS accident, including recognizing the situation in the plant, information sharing in/out of the power station, decision making, emergency response, educatio...
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A Pedestrian Navigation Method for User’s Safe and Easy Wayfinding
In recent years, most of mobile phones have a function of pedestrian navigation guidance. It was reported that users sometimes feel anxiety because of low accuracy of the position estimation especially in urba...
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Automatic Transmission Period Setting for Intermittent Periodic Transmission in Wireless Backhaul
Intermittent Periodic Transmission (IPT forwarding) has been proposed as an efficient packet relay method for wireless backhaul. In the IPT forwarding, a source node sends packets to a destination node with a ...
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Decision Directed Channel Tracking for MIMO-Constant Envelope Modulation
The authors have proposed Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO)-Constant Envelope Modulation, MIMO-CEM, as power and complexity efficient alternative to MIMO-OFDM, suitable for wireless backhaul networks. Because MI...
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Optimization of Task Allocation through Human Cognitive Simulation: Levels of Automation and Human Behaviors
Proper task allocation between humans and machines is one of the design requirements to optimize the advantages of automation, such as extraordinary precision, higher processing capabilities, and extension of ...
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Harvesting Techniques for Several Composite Tissues
This chapter gives the current concept of skin flaps, with regard to their blood supply pattern and method of transfer.
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Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy with Mitomycin C or Cisplatin
Intraperitoneal dissemination is a frequently observed form of recurrence after gastric cancer surgery. It has been reported that positivity of a cytological examination of free cancer cells in the peritoneal ...
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Adjuvant Chemotherapy of Gastric Cancer: JCOG Experience
Results of treatment for gastric cancer in Japan have much improved over the last 20 years. The main reasons could be early detection of cancer and improvement in extended lymph node dissection. Multimodal the...
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Extended Pancreatoduodenectomy for Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreatic Head
This chapter reviews the role of extended pancreatectomy in resection of adenocarcinoma of the pancreatic head. Because cancer cells are likely to spread into the lymph nodes and neighboring connective tissues...
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The Elevated Type Early Gastric Cancer as the Subject of the Endoscopic Resection or the Conservative Surgical Operation
We tried to decide on a new rule which would allow endoscopic resection or the conservative small surgery from a total of 1667 early gastric cancers which underwent common surgery with R2 lymph node dissection...
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Model of utterance and its use in cooperative response generation
A cooperative response model is proposed for interactive intelligent systems that recognizes user intentions and makes cooperative responses. Though many models developed so far have shown that they can achiev...
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Sialyl Lewis-X Antigen Expression in Human Colorectal Carcinomas: Relationship Between Expression Level and Prognosis
Levels of sialyl Lewis-X antigen (SLX) in 132 human colorectal carcinomas were immuno-histochemically examined. The positive SLX staining for the primary tumors was significantly correlated with the depth of t...
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Adjuvant Intraperitoneal High-Dose Chemotherpay with Mitomycin C in Patients with Primary Advanced Gastric Cancer
Gastric cancer patients (n=53) with peritoneal dissemination defined macroscopically or microscopically underwent resection of the stomach (n=29) or resection plus intraperitoneal chemotherapy using mitomycin ...
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Some Problems Related to Scaling in Systems Undergoing Phase Separations
We consider the dynamics of phase separation where coarsening of droplets or domains proceeds continously [1–3]. We omit the nucleation and growth. In the late stage, however, no clear distinction exists betwe...
