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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Two-Step Approach for Interactive Animatable Avatars
We propose a two-step human body animation technique that generates pose-dependent detailed deformations in real-time on standard animation pipeline. In order to accomplish real-time animation, we utilize the ...
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Permian and Triassic Microfossils from Chert Pebbles Within the Lower Cretaceous Choshi Group in the Choshi Geopark, Central Japan: Extending the Age Range of Fossil in Geoparks
The Lower Cretaceous Choshi Group in the Choshi Geopark, a member of the Japanese Geoparks Network, includes conglomerate layers with chert gravels. We extracted Cisuralian (early Permian) and Early–Middle Tri...
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PTPN3 inhibition contributes to the activation of the dendritic cell function to be a promising new immunotherapy target
In a previous study, protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type (PTPN) 3 was identified as an immune checkpoint molecule in lymphocytes, and its potential as a novel target for cancer immunotherapy was ant...
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Positive bag lavage cytology during thoracoscopic surgery for lung cancer is a significant predictor of locoregional recurrence
Advances in thoracoscopic surgery have made skin incisions smaller, but there are concerns about cancer cell contamination during sample extraction. We performed retrieval bag lavage cytology (BLC) during thor...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
BEAT: A Large-Scale Semantic and Emotional Multi-modal Dataset for Conversational Gestures Synthesis
Achieving realistic, vivid, and human-like synthesized conversational gestures conditioned on multi-modal data is still an unsolved problem due to the lack of available datasets, models and standard evaluation...
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Open AccessAn extremely rare case of rapidly growing mediastinal well-differentiated liposarcoma with a sclerosing variant: a case report
Liposarcoma arising from the mediastinum is rare, accounting for less than 1% of mediastinal tumors. Furthermore, a rapidly growing well-differentiated liposarcoma is extremely rare. A well-differentiated lipo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
DanceDJ: A 3D Dance Animation Authoring System for Live Performance
Dance is an important component of live performance for expressing emotion and presenting visual context. Human dance performances typically require expert knowledge of dance choreography and professional rehe...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Development History of Landslide-Related Sagging Geomorphology in Orogenic Belts: Examples in Central Japan
Small-scale geomorphic features of sagging have been known to occur in mountainous areas in Japan by the analyses of high resolution map images made from the LiDAR data. Development histories of the sagging la...
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Reconstruction of millennial-scale variations in the East Asian summer monsoon over the past 300 ka based on the total carbon content of sediment from Lake Biwa, Japan
The total carbon content analysis for Takashima-oki core extracted from Lake Biwa with time resolutions of approximately 150 years was used to reconstruct millennial-scale climate change in the East Asian mons...
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Seafloor environmental changes resulting from nineteenth century reclamation in Mishou Bay, Bungo Channel, Southwest Japan
This study reconstructed environmental changes to the seafloor associated with reclamation in Mishou Bay, Bungo Channel, Japan, based on measurements of sediment grain size, organic matter and sulfur contents ...
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Plasma-Grafting of Polymers with Pendant Oligo(oxyethylene) Chains onto the Surface of a Polyaniline Electrode
This paper reports experiments on forming a layer composed of graft polymers with pendant oligo(oxyethylene) chains directly onto the surface of a polyaniline film by plasma-graft polymerization. The graft pol...