Notes on Recent Large-Scale Urban Maps in Japan

Developing a New Method in Object Based Classification to Updating Large Scale Maps with Emphasis on Building Feature

According to the cities expansion, updating urban maps for urban planning is important and its effectiveness is depend on the information extraction / change detection accuracy. Information extraction methods are divided into two groups, including Pixel-Based (PB) and Object-Based (OB). OB analysis has overcome the limitations of PB analysis (producing salt-pepper results and features with hole...

Large-scale biological monitoring in Japan.

Data from the large-scale biological monitoring program in Japan were assembled and analyzed and the following results were obtained. All workers handling lead and eight kinds of major organic solvents received physical examinations and biological monitoring at the same time. Therefore, the number of workers handling industrial chemicals and that received physical examinations and the number of...

Large-scale broadband simulation of strong ground motions from recent and historical damaging Earthquakes in Japan

A recent development of the Earth Simulator super parallel computer has made it possible to realized realistic 3-D simulations of high-frequency seismic wave propagations on a regional scale. Paralleling this development, the deployment of dense networks of strong ground motion instruments in Japan (K-NET and KiK-net) has now made it possible to directly visualize regional seismic wave propagat...

Notes on Recent Legislation

Three Bills, all with important mental health aspects and all giving opportunities for the development of mental health service to the community, are now before Parliament, viz. the National Assistance Bill, the Children's Bill and the Criminal Justice Bill. The two former link up at several points with each other and preceding legislation, particularly the National Health Service Act, the Disa...

Lecture Notes on Solving Large Scale Eigenvalue Problems