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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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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Chapter
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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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Article
Consensus Paper: The Cerebellum's Role in Movement and Cognition
While the cerebellum's role in motor function is well recognized, the nature of its concurrent role in cognitive function remains considerably less clear. The current consensus paper gathers diverse views on a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
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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Article
Open AccessEvolutionarily conserved bias of amino-acid usage refines the definition of PDZ-binding motif
The interactions between PDZ (PSD-95, Dlg, ZO-1) domains and PDZ-binding motifs play central roles in signal transductions within cells. Proteins with PDZ domains bind to PDZ-binding motifs almost exclusively ...
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Article
Control of mental activities by internal models in the cerebellum
In recent years the role of the cerebellum in the control of non-motor functions has been acknowledged. Here, Ito elaborates on his hypothesis of internal-model control of mental functions and describes recent...
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Cerebellar classics I
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Cultural differences reduce Japanese researchers' visibility on the Web
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Specific differential expression of phospholipase A2 subtypes in rat cerebellum
Phospholipase A2 (PLA2) is a family of enzymes playing diverse roles in lipid signaling in neurons and glia cells. In this study, we examined the expression of subtypes of PLA2 in the cerebellum using immunolabel...
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Chapter
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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Article
The molecular organization of cerebellar long-term depression
The elements of complex signal-transduction processes that underlie long-term depression (LTD) — a unique form of synaptic plasticity displayed by cerebellar ...
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