Preliminary analysis based on an aggregate model of global carbon emissions suggests that constraining emissions to the levels that would be imposed by compliance with the results of the Kyoto negotiations can increase the discounted cost of ultimately limiting atmospheric concentrations. Kyoto targets can be either too restrictive or too permissive depending upon the (currently unknown) trajec...

Ocean iron fertilization is currently discussed as a potential measure to mitigate climate change by enhancing oceanic CO2 uptake. Its mitigation potential is not yet well explored, and carbon offsets generated through iron fertilization activities could currently not be traded on regulated carbon markets. Still, commercial interests in ocean iron fertilization already exist, which underlines t...

Tadashi Ogawa 1, 2 and Hidehiko Komatsu 2 5 6 Department of Integrative Brain Science 7 Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University 8 Sakyo-ku 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan 9 10 Division of Sensory and Cognitive Information 11 National Institute for Physiological Sciences 12 Okazaki 444-8585, Aichi, Japan 13 14 Abbreviated title: Temporal storage in visual and visual-motor areas 15 16 Corresponding ...

Katsutsugu Umeda,1,3 Hirotsugu Oda,2 Qing Yan,1,4 Nadine Matthias,1 Jiangang Zhao,1,5 Brian R. Davis,1 and Naoki Nakayama1,* 1Institute of Molecular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School, Houston, TX 77030, USA 2Department of Pediatrics, Kyoto University School of Medicine, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan 3Present address: Department of Pediatrics, Kyoto Univer...

3 Masaki Kimata, Satoaki Matoba, Eri Iwai-Kanai, Hideo Nakamura, 4 Atsushi Hoshino, Mikihiko Nakaoka, Maki Katamura, Yoshifumi Okawa, Yuichiro Mita, 5 Mitsuhiko Okigaki, Koji Ikeda, Tetsuya Tatsumi, Hiroaki Matsubara 6 7 8 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University School of Medicine, 9 Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-8566 10 Word count 5626 (Abstract 240) 1...

The marriage model due to Gale and Shapley and the assignment model due to Shapley and Shubik are standard in the theory of two-sided matching markets. We give a common generalization of these models by utilizing discrete concave functions and considering bounded side payments. We show the existence of a pairwise stable outcome in our model. Our present model is a further natural extension of t...

H. Idei, N. Takeuchi, S. Kubo, A. Fukuyama, H. Nuga, M. Sakaguchi, N. Nakamura, K. Hanada, H. Zushi, K. N. Sato, M. Sakamoto, M. Hasegawa, Y. Takase, O. Mitarai, T. Maekawa and Y. Kishimoto Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Kasuga 816–8580, Japan Ariake National College of Technology, Ohmuta 836–8585, Japan National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki 509–5292, Japan D...

Since more electronic records are now used at medical scenes, the importance of technical development for analyzing such electronically provided information has been increasing significantly. This NTCIR-11 MedNLP-2 Task is designed to meet this situation. This task is a shared task that evaluates natural language processing technologies especially on Japanese medical texts. The task has three s...

D ow nladed f Carvedilol selectively inhibits oscillatory intracellular calcium changes evoked by human a1Dand a1B-adrenergic receptors Taka-aki Koshimizu*, Gozoh Tsujimoto, Akira Hirasawa, Yoko Kitagawa, Akito Tanoue Department of Molecular Pharmacology, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, 3-35-31, Taishido, Setagaya, Tokyo 154-8567, Japan Department of Genomic Drug D...