543 research outputs found
A sharable merged dataset on Japanese children’s vocabulary measures
No full textHiromichi Hagihara, Monica Barbir, Mikako Ishibashi, Yasuhiro Kanakogi, Masaharu Kato, Irena Lovcevic, Youtao Lu, Yasuyo Minagawa, Yusuke Moriguchi, Masa-aki Sakagami, Yuta Shinya, Hiroki Yamamoto, & Sho Tsuji (2023). A sharable merged dataset on Japanese children’s vocabulary measures using the Japanese MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventory. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/S5YD
How ICTs Raise Manufacturing Performance: Firm-level Evidence in Southeast Asia.
No full textThis paper examines the effects of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on business performance, using firm-level data obtained through a questionnaire survey in four ASEAN countries (Indonesia, The Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam). Sources of information and new technologies exchanged via ICTs by firms are also explored to investigate the mechanism behind ICT adoption. Empirical results verify that the introduction of ICT to reorganize business processes is significantly correlated with business performance, in particular the development of export markets and improvement of production management. ICTs facilitate access to information and technologies accumulated in in-house departments and joint-venture (JV) affiliates of the respondent firms. There are considerable differences between multinational companies (MNCs)/JVs and local firms. MNCs/JVs make use of information and technologies obtainable via ICTs from their own R&D departments, JVs established with local partners and foreign-owned suppliers/customers to improve factory management, mostly for product quality improvement and production cost reduction. In contrast, local firms interconnect their own R&D departments via ICTs to enhance their business performance in broader areas than MNCs/JVs, including the development of export markets.
Supplemental Material, 20200902_Supplementary_Figure - Clinical Effects of Anterior Cervical Spondylolisthesis on Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy After Posterior Decompression Surgery: A Retrospective Multicenter Study of 732 Cases
No full textSupplemental Material, 20200902_Supplementary_Figure for Clinical Effects of Anterior Cervical Spondylolisthesis on Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy After Posterior Decompression Surgery: A Retrospective Multicenter Study of 732 Cases by Ken Ninomiya, Junichi Yamane, Ryoma Aoyama, Satoshi Suzuki, Yuta Shiono, Yuichiro Takahashi, Nobuyuki Fujita, Eijirou Okada, Osahiko Tsuji, Mitsuru Yagi, Kota Watanabe, Takahito Iga, Masaya Nakamura, Morio Matsumoto, Ken Ishii and Narihito Nagoshi in Global Spine Journal</p
Characteristics of overlap region in high-Reynolds number turbulent channel flow
No full textDirect numerical simulation of the fully developed turbulent channel flows have been carried out at the Reynolds number based on the friction velocity and the channel half width, 2000, 4000 and 8000. A hybrid 10th order accurate finite difference scheme in the stream and spanwise directions, and a second-order scheme in the wall-normal direction is adapted as the spatial discretization method. We observed the plateau profiles in the indicator function corresponded to the von Karman constant. Furthermore, second peak of streamwise pre-multiplied spectra were appeared in the same wall normal height, 300 < y+ < 600, in case of Re = 4000. Nevertheless, the effects of the lager than the channel half height scale on the streamwise turbulent intensity are fixed contributions without dependence on Reynolds number. These results suggested that the new streamwise vortexes are formed between buffer layer and outer layer with increasing of Reynolds number
sj-docx-1-ijl-10.1177_15347346211039588 - Supplemental material for Effect of Early Rehabilitation on Gait, Wound and Home Discharge in Lower Extremity Chronic Wound Patients: A Japanese Multicenter Retrospective Study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-ijl-10.1177_15347346211039588 for Effect of Early Rehabilitation on Gait, Wound and Home Discharge in Lower Extremity Chronic Wound Patients: A Japanese Multicenter Retrospective Study by Noriaki Maeshige, Ph, Hisae Hayashi, PhD, Hiroto Terashi, PhD, MD, Miki Fujii, PhD, MD, Tetsuya Iwamoto, PhD, Yu Watanabe, MSc, Shinsuke Imaoka, MSc, Junichi Matsumoto, MSc, Mayo Nishikawa, BSc, Naoto Takeda, BSc, Ryuzo Mikawa, BSc, Yoriko Tsuji, PhD, MD, Ryuji Higashita, PhD, MD, Shinobu Ayabe, MD, Yuta Terabe, MD, Masahide Furukawa, MD, Junko Tanaka, PhD, MD, Takehiko Ohura, PhD, MD, Nobuhide Kawabe and PhD in The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds</p
Mechanistic Investigations into the Palladium-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Allylic Alkylation of Ketone Enolates Using the PHOX Ligand Architecture
No full textPalladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylation has become a large and important field for chemical synthesis. Many methodologies in this field offer mild conditions under which challenging and important molecular features can be reliably synthesized, including chiral all-carbon quaternary stereocenters. As a result, palladium- catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylation has found significant use in total synthesis, and growing use in industry. While the general process of palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylation has been studied for decades, there have been a number of recent modifications and developments, such as asymmetric versions of decarboxylative allylic alkylation procedures that are not yet well understood. The development of future implementations and improvements to palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylation and related methodologies is expected to be facilitated by a better understanding of these more recent developments, and thus further mechanistic investigation is warranted.
Reported herein is a set of investigations into the palladium-catalyzed decarboxylative asymmetric allylic alkylation of ketone enolates using the PHOX ligand architecture. By monitoring the reaction via 31P NMR, a series of previously unidentified key intermediates is discovered. Two representatives of these key intermediates are isolated and characterized. The solution behavior of these species under reaction-like conditions is studied along with a few novel and related complexes. The role of these intermediates and their impact on the behavior of the reaction and product formation is discussed. Previously confounding experimentally observed behavior for this methodology is rationalized via the properties elucidated for these discovered intermediates.</p
Skin friction factor and mean velocity profile measured in high-reynolds-number turbulent pipe flow
No full textA friction factor in a fully developed pipe flow is measured very accurately over wide range Reynolds number from 103 to 107 at the high Reynolds number facility in AIST,NMIJ. Also a velocity profile is measured by using a LDV up to 106. From the comparison between a velocity profile and the friction factor, we found that a log-law profile is well observed and Kármán constant is estimated to be 0.385. Based on the measurements, we present a new functional form of the friction factor which is consistent with mean velocity profile
Effects of Participatory and Physical Life Goals in a Preventive Care Program for Frail Community-Dwelling Older People: A Retrospective Cohort Study
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/31/2017
Life goals related to activities and participation had a more positive effect on frail older people’s health and quality of life than did life goals related to physical function and structure. The setting of meaningful goals may help to improve the effectiveness of preventive care programs.
Primary Author and Speaker: Yoshimi Yuri
Additional Authors and Speakers: Shinichi Takabatake, Yoko Tsuji, Yuri Fujii, Toshikatsu Kaneda, Yasuhiro Higashi, Hiroko Hashimoto, Kazuyo Nakaoka, Mari Oka</jats:p
Malignant Central Nervous System Lymphoma after Radical Total Cystectomy : A Diagnostic Challenge
No full textWe report a case of primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) in an 81-year-old man who had undergone radical cystectomy with an ileal conduit urostomy due to a diagnosis of muscle-invasive bladder cancer. The postoperative diagnosis was invasive urothelial carcinoma (pT2bN1M0, stage IV). Gemcitabine-cisplatin therapy was provided as adjuvant chemotherapy, and there was no recurrence during follow-up. Four years after surgery, he visited the emergency department because of weakness of the lower extremities and stuttering. He was found to have a parietal lobe mass on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and hospitalized with suspicion of brain metastasis. Despite examination by a neurosurgeon, it was not possible to make a clinical diagnosis, and the patient gradually deteriorated and died 21 days later. The pathology results were diagnostic of PCNSL
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