Background: Healthcare professionals must make decisions for patients based on ethical considerations. However, they rely on clinical ethics consultations (CEC) to review ethical justifications of their decisions. CEC consultants support the cases reviewed and guide medical care. When both healthcare professionals and CEC consultants face ethical problems in medical care, how is their judgment ...

cis ,c is-Muconate cycloisomerase (MC) was purif ied to homogenei ty from benzamide-assimilat ing Arthrobacter sp. BA-5-17. The purif ied enzyme showed high act ivi t ies for cis ,c is-muconate and 3-methyl-cis ,c is-muconate, and preferred the 3-subst i tuted derivat ives over the derivat ives with the same subst i tuent a t the 2 posi t ion as a substrate . A gene encoding MC of s t rain BA-5...

In this paper we discuss sparse least squares support vector regressors (sparse LS SVRs) defined in the reduced empirical feature space, which is a subspace of mapped training data. Namely, we define an LS SVR in the primal form in the empirical feature space, which results in solving a set of linear equations. The independent components in the empirical feature space are obtained by deleting d...

1Division of Cell Biology and Neurophysiology, Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0017, Japan, 2Department of Physiology, Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma 371-8511, Japan, 3Department of Applied Biology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan, 4Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and...

and Phase Transition of 4-Chlorobenzyl Alcohol * Haruo Niki a , Kikuhiro K a n o b , and Masao Hashimoto 0 a Department of Physics, Division of General Education, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa 903-01, Japan b Department of Physics, College of Science, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa 903-01, Japan c Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kobe University, Nadak...

Tadashi Nakamura1, Yoshihiro Murata1, Masashi Mashiko2, Keiko Okano1, Hiromasa Satoh1, Mamiko Ozaki3 and Taisaku Amakawa4 1Department of Applied Physics and Chemistry, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan, 2Department of Information Network Science, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan, 3Department of Applied Biology, Faculty o...

1 Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku Univ. 6-6-01 Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai Japan [email protected] 2 Graduate school of Science and Technology, Kobe Univ. 1-1 Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe 657-8501 Japan k [email protected] 3 Dept. Opto-Mechatoronics, Wakayama Univ. 930 Sakaedani, Wakayama-city 640-8510 Japan [email protected] 4 Graduate School of Information...

The Metropolis-Hastings algorithm has been important in the recent development of Bayes methods. This algorithm generates random draws from a target distribution utilizing a sampling (or proposal) distribution. This article compares the properties of three sampling distributions—the independence chain, the random walk chain, and the Taylored chain suggested by Geweke and Tanizaki (Geweke, J., T...

1Department of Information Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan 2Department of Information and Media Studies, Nagoya Bunri University, 365 Maeda, Inazawa-cho, Inazawa, Aichi 492-8520, Japan 3Graduate School of Engineering Human and Artificial Intelligent Systems, University of Fukui, 3-9-1 Bunkyo, Fukui 910-8507, Japan 4Facility of Home Ergonomics, Kobe W...

1) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., 1-1 Shinhama, 2-chome, Arai-cho, Takasago City, Hyogo, 676-8686 Japan. 2) Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-8531 Japan. 3) Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi, 464-8603 Japan. 4) Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University, 4-101 Koy...