478 research outputs found
Interview with Masato Sugihara
No full textA client of the old Palama Settlement describes growing up in the Aala area; childhood activities; organized and unorganized football and swimming; schooling at UH; teaching agricultural classes in the public schools; military and National Guard duty; and experiences as a parliamentarian.teacher, training officer; Japanese; maleInterview conducted in English.State, Federal, Privat
Low energy indium or gallium ion implantations to SiO2 thin films for development of novel catalysts
No full textSatoru Yoshimura, Masato Kiuchi, Yoshihiro Nishimoto, Makoto Yasuda, Akio Baba, Satoshi Hamaguchi, Low Energy Indium or Gallium Ion Implantations to SiO2 Thin Films for Development of Novel Catalysts, e-Journal of Surface Science and Nanotechnology, 2014, Volume 12, Pages 197-202, Released April 26, 2014, Online ISSN 1348-0391, https://doi.org/10.1380/ejssnt.2014.197, https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ejssnt/12/0/12_197/_article/-char/enIt has been demonstrated that indium (In) implanted silicon dioxide (SiO thin films catalyze a reaction of benzhydrol with acetylacetone. In this study, it is found that the threshold In ion incident energy for manifestation of the catalytic effect exists between 400 and 470 eV. Furthermore, a technique to implant gallium (Ga) to SiOfilms has been developed with highly controlled doses and injection energies for the formation of thin films that promote Ga catalysts. The efficiency of catalytic reactions by Ga implanted SiOthin films is yet to be improved. Unlike In implanted SiO2, the reason why no significant reaction was observed in the case of Ga implanted SiOfilms examined in this study seems that the Ga ion energy was so low that deposited surface Ga atoms should lack interactions with Si atoms for the manifestation of catalytic reaction. © 2014 The Surface Science Society of Japan
思いやりコミュニケーションのための呼吸変動情報伝達
No full text呼吸の変化は，心理状態の変化を反映する．そこで遠隔地間コミュニケーションにおいて，相手の日常における心理状態を思いやったコミュニケーションを可能とするために，相手の呼吸の変動を一目で見て取れる形で伝達提示する，日常状況伝達メディア HAAHAA を提案する．本稿では HAAHAA のシステム構成について述べるとともに，2 組の被験者によるユーザスタディによって，提案手法の有効性と問題点を検討する． : Variation of breath reflects mental states. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a novel communication medium named “HAAHAA,” which transmits accumulated variation data of breath and shows it in an at-a-glance-able manner. As a result, HAAHAA conveys usual mental states, which allows users to have considerate communications. This paper describes the setup of HAAHAA, illustrates user studies with using two subject couples, and discusses its effectiveness and problems
呼吸変動情報を用いた心理状態アウェアネス伝達の試み
No full text本稿では，呼吸情報を用いて，パートナーの心理状態アウェアネス情報を伝達することを試みた．このため，自作の呼吸センサを利用して呼吸情報を取得し，得られたデータを基に，呼吸を9つの領域に分類し，各種状態での結果と基準状態とを比較することで，パートナーの心理状態を一目で推測可能となることが示唆された
Interview with Robert Hirayama
No full textInterview conducted in English.Interview conducted at Wahiawā, Oʻahu.Robert Masato Hirayama, Jr., the oldest of four siblings, was born in 1939 in Lānaʻi City, Lānaʻi. His father, Robert Masato Hirayama, Sr. and mother, Sadako Hanamoto Hirayama, settled on Lānaʻi after living on Hawaiʻi Island, where Robert, Sr. was a carpenter on a sugar plantation at Pāʻauhau. Robert, Sr. worked in a similar capacity on Lānaʻi as carpenter for Hawaiian Pineapple Company. The Hirayama family lived in Lānaʻi City, Block 17, House 19. Robert Hirayama, Jr. attended Lānaʻi High and Elementary School, graduating in 1957. With an aspiration to be a high school shop teacher, he attended and graduated from The Stout Institute in Menomonie, Wisconsin. In 1961, he taught one semester at Kailua High School before beginning his forty-year career as a shop teacher at Leilehua High School on Oʻahu from 1962 to 2002. A longtime Wahiawā,Oʻahu, resident, he often returns to Lānaʻi to hunt and fish. He still owns and maintains the family home in Lānaʻi City
有限要素法による声道伝達特性推定の有効性に関する検討
No full text有限要素法と声道等価回路モデルの声道伝達特性の推定精度の調査を行うため,MR計測から得られた声道モデルより推定された伝達特性のピークと実音声のホルマントの比較を行った。その結果,健常な被験者では両推定法とも精度良く推定された。一方,複雑で左右非対称な声道形状の被験者では,有限要素法を用いれば音声ホルマントの個数が同じであり,ホルマント周波数と伝達特性のピーク周波数に大きな差がなかったが,等価回路モデルでは伝達特性のピークの数と音声ホルマントの数が一致しなかった。複雑で左右非対称な声道の伝達特性推定には,等価回路モデルは不適切であり,有限要素法が有効であることが示された
Correction to: Comparison of glycyrrhizin content in 25 major kinds of Kampo extracts containing Glycyrrhizae Radix used clinically in Japan
No full textThe article Comparison of glycyrrhizin content in 25 major kinds of Kampo extracts containing Glycyrrhizae Radix used clinically in Japan, written by Mitsuhiko Nose, Momoka Tada, Rika Kojima, Kumiko Nagata, Shinsuke Hisaka, Sayaka Masada, Masato Homma and Takashi Hakamatsuka, was originally published Online First without open access. After publication in volume 71, issue 4, page 711–722 the author decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an open access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed to © The Author(s) 2018 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.</jats:p
“Masato de Yuca” and “Chicha de Siete Semillas” Two Traditional Vegetable Fermented Beverages from Peru as Source for the Isolation of Potential Probiotic Bacteria
No full textOpen Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. This research was funded by the Ibero-American Programme on Science and Technology for Development (CYTED), grant number 917PTE0537. The Spanish team was funded by the “Agencia Estatal de Investigación” and the “Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional” (AEI/FEDER, UE), grant number PCIN2017-075″. The Peruvian team was funded by the National Council of Science and Technology and Innovation of Peru through its execution unit National Fund for Scientific, Technological and Technological Innovation (CONCYTEC/FONDECYT), grant No. 001–2017.In this work, two Peruvian beverages “Masato de Yuca,” typical of the Amazonian communities made from cassava (Manihot esculenta), and “Chicha de Siete Semillas,” made from different cereal, pseudo-cereal, and legume flours, were explored for the isolation of lactic acid bacteria after obtaining the permission of local authorities following Nagoya protocol. From an initial number of 33 isolates, 16 strains with different RAPD- and REP-PCR genetic profiles were obtained. In Chicha, all strains were Lactiplantibacillus plantarum (formerly Lactobacillus plantarum), whereas in Masato, in addition to this species, Limosilactobacillus fermentum (formerly Lactobacillus fermentum), Pediococcus acidilactici, and Weissella confusa were also identified. Correlation analysis carried out with their carbohydrate fermentation patterns and enzymatic profiles allowed a clustering of the lactobacilli separated from the other genera. Finally, the 16 strains were submitted to a static in vitro digestion (INFOGEST model) that simulated the gastrointestinal transit. Besides, their ability to adhere to the human epithelial intestinal cell line HT29 was also determined. Following both procedures, the best probiotic candidate was Lac. plantarum Ch13, a robust strain able to better face the challenging conditions of the gastrointestinal tract and showing higher adhesion ability to the intestinal epithelium in comparison with the commercial probiotic strain 299v. In order to characterize its benefit for human health, this Ch13 strain will be deeply studied in further works. © 2021, The Author(s).Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica - Concyte
Financing small and medium sized enterprises for sustainable development : a view from the Asia-Pacific region
No full textMacroeconomic Policy and Development Division, working paper series.This discussion paper was prepared for ESCAP by Nick Freeman, Independent Economic Development Consultant.
The author gratefully acknowledges the contributions made by Masato Abe, Sailendra Narain, Michael Troilo and J. S. Juneja
Minimization problem on the Hardy-Sobolev inequality and on the Sobolev embedding for Lebesgue space with variable exponent
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