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Demonstrating the feasibility of using Wi-Fi sensors for dynamic bus-stop queue length estimation

We demonstrate that a Wi-Fi sensor located at a bus stop can be used to estimate the current queue length of passengers waiting for the bus. These crowdsourced data are hence a cost-effective source to obtain ...

Hyungsub Jee, Wenzhe Sun, Jan-Dirk Schmöcker, Toshiyuki Nakamura in Public Transport (2023)

Chapter and Conference Paper

A Method for Supporting Customer Model Construction: Using a Topic Model for Public Service Design

For the design of public services, it is important to clarify service customers. For this purpose, various methods of customer modeling were proposed. Before constructing customer models, it is required to gro...

Satoshi Mizoguchi, Takatoshi Ishii, Yutaro Nemoto… in Serviceology for Smart Service System (2017)

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Examination of the Applicability of Probe Car Data to Assessment of the Effects of Road-Safety Projects

To achieve “the safest roads in the world”, the government of Japan has been addressing projects aimed at reducing annual traffic fatalities to below 5,000 by 2012, working hand-in-hand with the private sector...

Yuichi Kinuta, Seishu Kitamura… in International Journal of Intelligent Trans… (2010)

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Erectile dysfunction in patients with chronic viral liver disease: its relevance to protein malnutrition

In patients with chronic liver disease (CLD), quality of life is generally accepted as poor, especially for physical function. However, sufficient data regarding erectile function has not been shown in patient...

Katsuhisa Toda, Yoshiyuki Miwa, Shoko Kuriyama… in Journal of Gastroenterology (2005)

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Escherichia coli O157 infection mimicking acute appendicitis: usefulness of computed tomography for differential diagnosis

A 19-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with acute abdominal pain in the right lower quadrant. He had had mild diarrhea, of 1 day’s duration, 2 days before admission. Although physical findings were con...

Yoichiro Ito, Katsuhisa Toda, Hiroo Hatakeyama… in Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy (2005)

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Fatal Complications After Self-Expandable Metallic Stent Placement for Inferior Vena Cava Syndrome

We present the case of a 71-year-old man with inferior vena cava syndrome due to metastatic lymph nodes from hepatocellular carcinoma with serious complications that were strongly suspected to result from rapi...

Takuji Yamagami, Toshiyuki Nakamura… in CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology (2003)

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Hilar cholangiocarcinoma associated with sarcoid reaction in the regional lymph nodes

A 74-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with a 2-week history of jaundice. Percutaneous transhepatic cholangioscopy revealed a nodular tumor originating in the upper part of the common hepatic duct, w...

Atsuyoshi Onitsuka, Yoshifumi Katagiri… in Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surge… (2003)

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Basaloid-Squamous Carcinoma of the Esophagus Treated by Preoperative Chemotherapy: Report of Two Cases

Basaloid squamous carcinoma (BSC) of the esophagus has been associated with a poor outcome after surgery. We herein report two patients with esophageal BSC treated by preoperative chemotherapy. Patient 1 was a...

Naohiko Koide, Kyo Kishimoto, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Jun Igarashi… in Surgery Today (2003)

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Technical developments: use of targeting guide wire in left subclavian puncture during percutaneous implantation of port-catheter systems using the catheter tip fixation method

Our objective was to evaluate the feasibility and safety of a new method in approaching the access route percutaneously for the implantable port-catheter system for repeated hepatic arterial infusion chemothe...

Takuji Yamagami, Takeharu Kato, Toshiyuki Nakamura, Shigeharu Iida… in European Radiology (2003)

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Small Cell Carcinoma of the Esophagus with Reference to Alternating Multiagent Chemotherapy: Report of Two Cases

Naohiko Koide, Manabu Hiraguri, Kyou Kishimoto, Toshiyuki Nakamura… in Surgery Today (2003)

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Staphylococcal scalded-skin syndrome in an adult due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

We report a case of a 71-year-old man with staphylococcal scalded-skin syndrome (SSSS). The patient, with a chronic history of diabetes mellitus, was admitted to our hospital with lumbago, and a diagnosis of r...

Yoichiro Ito, Miyuki Funabashi Yoh, Katsuhisa Toda… in Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy (2002)

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Hepatic Encephalopathy Secondary to Intrahepatic Portosystemic Venous Shunt: Balloon-Occluded Retrograde Transvenous Embolization with n-Butyl Cyanoacrylate and Microcoils

We report a 70-year-old woman with hepatic encephalopathy due to an intrahepatic portosystemic venous shunt that was successfully occluded by percutaneous transcatheter embolization with n-butyl cyanoacrylate...

Takuji Yamagami, Toshiyuki Nakamura… in CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology (2002)

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Re: Congenital Arteriovenous Malformation in the Neck Successfully Treated by Direct Puncture and Embolization with n-Butyl Cyanoacrylate and a Microcoil

Takuji Yamagami, Hiroyuki Morishita… in CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology (2002)

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Bifidobacterium longum as a delivery system for gene therapy of chemically induced rat mammary tumors

A fundamental obstacle in cancer gene therapy is the specific targeting of therapy directly to a solid tumor, and no systemic delivery system yet exists. A strain of domestic bacteria, Bifidobacteriumlongum, whic...

Kazuyuki Yazawa, Minoru Fujimori… in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment (2001)

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Portal Hypertension Secondary to Spontaneous Arterio-Portal Venous Fistulas: Transcatheter Arterial Embolization with n-Butyl Cyanoacrylate and Microcoils

We report a 73-year-old man with recurrent variceal bleeding due to portal hypertension caused by multiple intrahepatic arterio-portal venous fistulas, which were successfully occluded by embolization with n-buty...

Takuji Yamagami, Toshiyuki Nakamura… in CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology (2000)