Development and validation of a clinical prediction rule for hospitalization due to pneumonia or influenza or death during influenza epidemics among community-dwelling elderly persons. J Infect Dis 2004; 189: 450–458. 4 Lim WS, van der Eerden MM, Laing R, et al. Defining community acquired pneumonia severity on presentation to hospital: an international derivation and validation study. Thorax 2...

The hydrodynamics of a dispersed air-water system within a spouted column with a concentric draft tube and a conical base is simulated using CFD based on a two–fluid Euler–Euler (E-E) modeling framework and k-ε two-equation turbulence closures. The interaction between the dispersed gas phase and the continuous liquid phase is characterized by bubble–liquid interphase forces (drag, turbulent dis...

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Submitted for the MAR10 Meeting of The American Physical Society Half-metallic Armchair Graphene Nanoribbon FUMIYUKI ISHII, KEISUKE SAWADA, MINEO SAITO, Kanazawa University — Among a variety of applications of graphenes, spintronics applications are considered to be hopeful. For an example, spin transport has been experimentally observed by using graphene layers [1]. There are two types of shap...

Post-weaning mice fed exclusively milk display low-frequency exploratory behavior [Ishii, T., Itou, T., and Nishimura, M. (2005) Life Sci. 78, 174-179] compared to mice fed a food pellet diet. This low-frequency exploratory behavior switched to high-frequency exploration after a switch from exclusively milk formula to a food pellet diet. Acquisition of the high-frequency exploratory behavior wa...

It is recognized that tangible user interfaces (TUIs), defined and scoped by Ishii, provide more intuitive experience for manipulating and reviewing 3D digital information than conventional graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Although current TUIs for CAD enable users to intuitively manipulate and directly perceive 3D digital information via physical objects, they limit users to obtain only exter...

Occlusion Aware Bayesian Tracker Kourosh MESHGI Shin-ichi MAEDA Shigeyuki OBA and Shin ISHII †Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji-shi, Kyoto, 611-0011 Japan E-mail: †{meshgi-k,ichi,oba,ishii}@sys.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Abstract Object tracking has attracted considerable attention recently because of high demands for its everyday-life applications. Appearance-based trackers h...

The specifications of Motion JPEG 2000 (MJ2) and related documents in the JPEG 2000 family are analyzed, to identify and assess the multiple mechanisms available for storing metadata within a MJ2 file and the types of metadata that can be so accommodated. Adequate mechanisms seem to exist for associating metadata with the production as a whole, individual tracks, and individual frames. In those...