In the 2004-2005 season, there was a large epidemic of the influenza B virus Yamagata group in Kobe, Japan. In hemagglutination inhibition tests, most of the clinical isolates from Kobe showed antigenicities similar to those of previous isolates (the vaccine-type virus). Only a few antigenic variants were isolated around the peak of the epidemic; however, Kobe residents developed antibodies aga...

This paper describes our method developed for TRECVID 2012 Semantic INdexing (SIN) Task. Our main research purpose is the development of a fast method, which can work on a single processor with no performance degradation. To this end, computationally expensive processes are re-formulated based on matrix operation. We re-formulate the Euclidian distance computation for the kernel value computati...

This paper discusses the critical role of transportation systems in disaster recovery and the development of any long-term economic effects from earthquakes, based on insights from the Kobe earthquake and other disasters. The occurrence of long-term effects on regional economies has been controversial in the disaster literature and are for the most part ignored in earthquake loss estimation mod...

Accelerate non-Union Fracture Healing + 1, 2 Y.Kawakami; 1 M. Ii; 2 T.Matsumoto; 1 A.Kawamoto; 1, 2 T.Shoji; 1, 2 Y.Mifune; 1, 2 T.Fukui; 2 R.Kuroda; 2 M.Kurosaka; 1 T.Asahara + 1 Group of Vascular Regeneration Research, Institute of Biomedical Research and Innovation, Kobe, Japan. + 2 Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan. yohei_kawakami@hot...

typically, two configurations are used for energy harvesting, with different advantages: piezoelastic and piezomagnetoelastic. best performance of piezoelastic configuration is limited to its narrow bandwidth around the resonance frequency. if the excitation frequency slightly deviates from the resonance frequency, the power-out is severely reduced. to overcome this, the piezomagnetoelastic has...

prediction using pure standards is expected to be biased whenever the slope of the calibration is affected by the presence of sample matrix. moreover, in the presence of unknown spectral interferents, first-order algorithms like partial least squares cannot be used. in this study, a method for determination of carvedilol (car) in tablet and urine samples is proposed by excitation-emission fluor...

Recent molecular studies have shown that in a patient with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) Kobe, the size of exon 19 of the dystrophin gene was reduced to 36 bp due to the deletion of 52 bp out of 88 bp of the exon. The consensus sequences at the 5' and 3' splice sites of exon 19 were unaltered (Matsuo, M., et al. 1990. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 170:963-967). To further elucidate the mol...