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Roles of Synaptic Plasticity in Functional Recovery After Brain Injury
Patients with brain injury or stroke suffer from sensory-motor disorder caused by the loss of function of damaged brain tissues. The goal of is to facilitate the recovery of the impaired sensory-motor functi...
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The Secret of the Brain and the Mind: Responding to My Colleague Ueda Shizuteru
With great interest, I have had the honor to read what my fellow member Ueda Shizuteru 上田閑照 discusses under the title “The Depth of the Heart” in Directions of Science (Vol. 1 No. 2 May 1996). The article is a su...
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Consideration of the Relationship Between Autonomous Vehicles and Ethics
In recent years, discussions on ethics have progressed. This is related to the use of AI. Autonomous vehicles are also likely to use AI, and ethical considerations are needed. In this paper, we first consider ...
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Supporting Process Design in the Autonomous Era with New Standards and Guidelines
It isn’t easy to define a general and clear process in a new system such as an autonomous vehicle. The new technology is complex and lacks experience. In this paper, we reconsider the process used for system d...
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The Uncertainty that the Autonomous Car Faces and Predictability Analysis for Evaluation
It is hard to keep the autonomous car safe because the environment in which the car runs has vast diversity and is quickly changing. As for system safety in the automobile field, ISO 26262 is one of the essent...
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Method of Evaluating the Influence Factor of Safety in the Automated Driving System: The Chasm Between SAE Level 2 and Level 3
Recently vehicle control system becomes have the automated feature. In this situation, the analysis based on malfunction of a system is not enough. We have to consider other hazard types such as the hazard ori...
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HMI Requirements Creation, as the Collaboration Work of Human and Machine in the Safety-Critical System
In the safety-critical system, the Human-Machine Interface (HMI) is tightly coupled with system requirements; the functional requirements and the non-functional requirements. As the human has some limitations ...
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Roles of Synaptic Plasticity in Functional Recovery After Brain Injury
Patients with brain injury or stroke suffer from sensory-motor disorder caused by the loss of function of damaged brain tissues. The goal of is to facilitate the recovery of the impaired sensory-motor functi...
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Cardion.spec: An Approach to Improve the Requirements Specification Written in the Natural Language Through the Formal Method
As the reliability and safety of a system become more important, we need the requirement specification that is clear to read and has no error. So far several approaches have been proposed; the formal modelling...
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Controllability in ISO 26262 and Driver Model
The standard, ISO 26262[1], aims for functional safety of automobile E/E systems, and it provides “a framework within which safety-related systems based on other technologies can be considered.” We focus on the h...
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Finding Threats with Hazards in the Concept Phase of Product Development
In this paper, we present an approach to find threats together with hazards. We’ve already presented the hazard identification approach in [1]. In this paper, it is elaborated and extended to identify threats ...
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Historical Overview: The Search for inhibitory neurons and their function
Even though inhibition had long been recognized as a distinct process in the nervous system (see Sherrington1), the discovery of inhibitory synapses had to wait until the middle of the 20th century. In mammalian ...
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Corticotropin-Releasing Factor (CRF) and its Role in the Central Nervous System
Corticotropin-releasing factor, commonly termed CRF, was originally described as a neurohumoral factor in the hypothalamus-pituitary system that regulates the synthesis and secretion of adrenocorticotropic hor...
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Physiology of the Cerebellum
Voluminous data of classical studies performed in the last century through the early years of this century have been compiled in the monograph of Dow and Moruzzi [1]. In brief, Rolando (1809) disclosed the inv...
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Functional Principles Implied in Neurological Symptoms
Characteristic symptoms of a neurological disease should reflect a specific mechanism with which brain tissues normally operate. One may hope that a rigorous analysis of such symptoms will easily reveal mechan...
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Introduction
In this session, we go beyond molecular and cellular levels to neural levels of the brain. Neural tissues of the brain are essentially highly complex neuronal networks containing an enormous number of neurons ...
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Einleitung
In dieser Sitzung begeben wir uns von der molekularen und zellulären Ebene auf die neurale Ebene des Gehirns. Neurale Hirngewebe sind im wesentlichen hochkomplexe neuronale Netze, die eine riesige Zahl von Neu...
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Oculomotor System, Mechanisms
The oculomotor system consists of extraocular muscles attached to the eye ball, motoneurons in the IIIrd (oculomotor), IVth (trochlear), and VIth (abducens) cranial nerve nuclei, and premotor systems. Three pa...
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Measurement of “Free Thyroxine” in Dried Blood Samples on Filter Paper by Radio- and Enzyme-Immunoassay for Monitoring Thyroid Function
Mass screening for congenital hypothyroidism in newborns has been developed because the irreversible mental retardation caused by this disorder can be prevented by early treatment. These programs include measu...
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How Can the Cerebellar Neuronal Network Mediate a Classically Conditioned Reflex?
In view of the remarkable possibility that the cerebellum is the site of the classically conditioned eyelid eye blink reflex, it would be interesting to speculate about how the currently known mechanisms of th...
