The Great East Japan Earthquake, GEJE, and subsequent Fukushima nuclear disaster forced 150,000 citizens to evacuate from radioactive contaminated area after March, 2011. Although 80% of the evacuees did not have accurate information and most of them thought the evacuation would last only for several days, more than 60,000 residents are still in evacuation status. The authors performed the mult...

Watching stereoscopic HDTV sometimes causes visual discomfort or fatigue. In this paper, we report two results of recent research on the relationship between visual comfort and parallax on stereoscopic HDTV. One is the relationship between visual comfort and parallax distribution in a frame, and the other is the dependence of visual comfort on the magnitude of parallax and motions in some scene...

Louis (Lou) J. Guillette, Jr., one of the most influential research scientists in the field of environmental health, died 6 August 2015 at the age of 60. Lou had been battling non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma for almost a decade, but his passing, caused by bacterial pneumonia, came as a shock to everyone who knew him. He was an extremely energetic man with a passion for the natural environ ment. He revel...

VRK (vaccinia-related kinase) is a group of three proteins in the human kinome. These proteins, mainly VRK1 and VRK2, have been studied in the context of their substrates and interacting proteins in order to identify and characterize their signaling pathway, as well as their effect on other signaling pathways. VRK1 is mostly a nuclear kinase that specifically phosphorylates p53, c-Jun, ATF2, CR...

Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB) is a blistering skin disease caused by mutations in the gene COL7A1 encoding collagen VII. DEB can be inherited as recessive (RDEB) or dominant (DDEB) and associated with high wound burden. Perpetual cycles of wounding healing drive fibrosis DDEB RDEB, well formation tumor-permissive microenvironment. Prolonging wound-free episodes improving quality would ...

Stereoscopic 3D viewing techniques are almost as old as their 2D counterparts: experimental stereoscopic 3DTV immediately followed the invention of TV. Holography is a newer technology compared to stereoscopy, and there are indicators that satisfactory holographic 3DTV may be feasible. Another candidate technology for 3DTV is integral imaging. Holography and integral imaging provide true full p...

Plasma membrane of the keratinocyte is organized in a domain structure comprising the nanoscale areas of the lipid in the liquid ordered state (comparable to lipid rafts) surrounded by the liquid-disordered lipid fraction. In this review we summarize the current state of knowledge on the microdomain organization of the keratinocytes plasma membrane. Application of the fluorescent derivative of ...

In this paper we analyse the existence of asymptotic expansions of the error of Galerkin methods with splines of arbitrary degree for the approximate solution of integral equations with logarithmic kernels. These expansions are obtained in terms of an interpolation operator and are useful for the application of Richardson extrapolation and for the obtention of sharper error bounds Integral repr...