136 research outputs found
Post-narratology through computational and cognitive approaches/ Takashi Ogata and Taisuke Akimoto, editors.
No full text"This book discusses issues of narrative-related information and communication technologies, cognitive mechanism and analyses, and theoretical perspectives on narratives and the story generation process. Focusing on emerging research as well as applications in a variety of fields including marketing, philosophy, psychology, art, and literature"--1 online resource
sj-docx-1-ine-10.1177_15910199231185637 - Supplemental material for Efficacy and safety of thrombectomy for acute ischaemic stroke in patients with pre-stroke mRS scores of 2–3: Real-world evaluation from an open-label, prospective, multicentre, observational study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-ine-10.1177_15910199231185637 for Efficacy and safety of thrombectomy for acute ischaemic stroke in patients with pre-stroke mRS scores of 2–3: Real-world evaluation from an open-label, prospective, multicentre, observational study by Shigeta Miyake, Taisuke Akimoto, Yasunobu Nakai, Yu Amano, Ryoo Yamamoto, Kazumitsu Amari, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Masataka Takeuchi, Masafumi Morimoto, Yoshifumi Tsuboi, Shogo Kaku, Junichi Ayabe, Takekazu Akiyama, Daisuke Yamamoto, Hidemichi Ito, Hidetaka Onodera, Satoshi Takaishi, Yasuhiro Hasegawa and Toshihiro Ueda in Interventional Neuroradiology</p
sj-docx-1-ine-10.1177_15910199231205050 - Supplemental material for Increased door-to-puncture time during off-duty hours results in poor treatment outcomes for acute ischemic stroke: A subanalysis of the K-NET registry
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-ine-10.1177_15910199231205050 for Increased door-to-puncture time during off-duty hours results in poor treatment outcomes for acute ischemic stroke: A subanalysis of the K-NET registry by Shun Ishikawa, Shigeta Miyake, Taisuke Akimoto, Yasunobu Nakai, Yu Amano, Ryoo Yamamoto, Kazumitsu Amari, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Masataka Takeuchi, Masafumi Morimoto, Yoshifumi Tsuboi, Shogo Kaku, Junichi Ayabe, Takekazu Akiyama, Daisuke Yamamoto, Hidemichi Ito, Hidetaka Onodera, Yuta Hagiwara, Satoshi Takaishi, Yasuhiro Hasegawa, Toshihiro Ueda and K-NET Registry Investigators in Interventional Neuroradiology</p
Narratives of an Artificial Agent
No full textIn this chapter, the author develops a computational model of the narrative ability for artificial agents. To illustrate an overview of this study, the author addresses an architectural and conceptual systematization of the narrative ability. The proposed model consists of two essential elements: the “mental world” as the internal representation of the world that is formed from many stories, and the mechanism of “narrating” as the act of expressing part of the mental world. In this chapter, the basic concepts and system frameworks of the narrative ability, mental world, and narrating are presented. </jats:p
The Spirit to “Survive” the War – a Play by Akimoto Matsuyo, Hitachibō Kaison (Kaison, the Priest of Hitachi)
No full textAkimoto Matsuyo (1911–2001) is one of the few female playwrights of the Shōwa Period. Her master was Miyoshi Jūrō, a renowned figure of the proletarian theater. He taught Akimoto the art of detailed realism. Akimoto’s great fascination with folklore, an obvious influence of Yanagida Kunio, drove her meticulous fieldwork. In places forgotten and irrelevant to the main course of history, she explored the sensitivity of those in deep connection with local traditions and used this research in her plays. Her play Hitachibō Kaison (Kaison, the Priest of Hitachi) is based on a legend that featured Yoshitsune. Kaison first betrays his lord, later changes his life completely – goes about retelling his sins, and in the end refuses to eat and becomes a virtuous living incarnation of Buddha (ikibotoke). The story opens with the scene of Tokyo children being evacuated at the end of the Pacific War. The children unexpectedly become absorbed into the world of Kaison’s legend. The comeback of the folk magic theme, posing a contrast with postwar Japan’s modern rationalization, is a unique phenomenon in the literature of the late 1950’s. It also somehow relates to the interest in Japanese folklore and sensuality present in the works of the playwrights of the 1960’s, like Tarayama Shūji or Kara Jūrō. Akimoto, however, does not see Japanese folklore only in contrast to modernity. In her play Muraoka Iheijiden (The Life of Muraoka Iheiji, 1960) she describes a simple man from the countryside, Muraoka, who initially dedicates himself to helping women sold abroad to China and South-East Asia, but later, due to misguided patriotism, changes his approach and by the end abandons all the “deceived” women. In the play Kasabuta Shikibukō (Meditation on Our Lady of Scabs, 1969) Akimoto deals with the pain and suffering of the common people. Basing her story on folk beliefs glorifying the figure of Izumi Shikibu, Akimoto shows the suffering of a mother and a wife that both long for the recovery of a mentally handicapped man who lost his faculties due to a coal-mining accident. Although not explicitly, the play addresses the topic of the psychological construct of selfish patriotism that throughout the 20th century allowed Japan to slip further and further into military conflict starting with the Russo-Japanese War. After the wars were over it still brought suffering to people, who now became victims of a quasi-war, that is, the rapid economic development. In Muraoka Iheijiden the sincere, whole-hearted modern day love of the common countryside people towards their home areas, the neighborly love, all become abused by the power of the state. In Kasabuta Shikibukō, the anti-modern world of myth and folktale – with all its relations, including male-female relationships, eventually ends up twisted by the greed for power that comes with economic development (the national system). Both on the surface and in the inner depths of society, salvation (meaning to live like a human being) becomes an empty slogan (symbol), repeated by simple people devoid of any escape, whose only rescue is in the faith that salvation will come. The author shows it most vividly in one of the scenes from Hitachibō Kaison. The children who are beingevacuated from Tokyo start evoking the name of “Lord Kaison” (Kaison-sama) unaware of the meaning behind those words. In the article I would like to examine how theater plays portray the similarities between the belief in kishuryūritan tales glorifying the defeated, and the imperial system that supported Japanese wars during the era of militarism
Measurements of Surface Temperature and Emissivity by Two-dimensional Four-color Thermometry with Narrow Bandwidth
No full textAbstract To study characteristics of heated material surface over 600 K, non-contact measurements of two-dimensional (2D) distributions of temperature and emissivity are very useful for process monitoring in engineerings, because of remote sensing in short time. The 2D temperature distributions enable us to monitor the surface temperature quantitatively with high spatial resolution. The 2D emissivity distributions give us a capability to judge thermal degradations or defects of surfaces. In our previous studies, 2D distributions of temperature and emissivity determined by two-color method with a CCD camera and two optical filters have been reported. In this study, a four-color method is proposed to improve accuracy and precision in measurements of the 2D distributions. Four optical filters with narrow bandpass of 10 nm were used for our measurements, because the thermometry with them is advantageous over that with wide ones in terms of *Corresponding author, phone: +81-52-789-5982, fax: +81-52-789-2919. E-mail: [email protected] (Fumie Akimoto) accuracy in temperature determination. As the wavelengths of these narrow bandpass filters are selected to be free from atmospheric absorption, it gives negligibly small errors in the temperature measurement. Distributions of temperature and emissivity determined by two-color method are also discussed for comparison. The results obtained by the four-color method have high accuracy and precision and the resultant 2D emissivity distribution indicates that several conditions of surfaces are clearly illustrated
Emergentist View on Generative Narrative Cognition: Considering Principles of the Self-Organization of Mental Stories
No full textWe consider the essence of human intelligence to be the ability to mentally (internally) construct a world in the form of stories through interactions with external environments. Understanding the principles of this mechanism is vital for realizing a human-like and autonomous artificial intelligence, but there are extremely complex problems involved. From this perspective, we propose a conceptual-level theory for the computational modeling of generative narrative cognition. Our basic idea can be described as follows: stories are representational elements forming an agent’s mental world and are also living objects that have the power of self-organization. In this study, we develop this idea by discussing the complexities of the internal structure of a story and the organizational structure of a mental world. In particular, we classify the principles of the self-organization of a mental world into five types of generative actions, i.e., connective, hierarchical, contextual, gathering, and adaptive. An integrative cognition is explained with these generative actions in the form of a distributed multiagent system of stories
Safety of coil embolisation in small (smaller than 5 mm) unruptured intracranial aneurysms: A retrospective multicentre analysis
No full textSafety of coil embolisation in small (smaller than 5 mm) unruptured intracranial aneurysms: A retrospective multicentre analysis
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