We quantify the 'permanent' socio-economic impacts of the Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake in 1995 by employing a large-scale panel dataset of 1,719 cities, towns, and wards from Japan over three decades. In order to estimate the counterfactual--i.e., the Kobe economy without the earthquake--we use the synthetic control method. Three important empirical patterns emerge: First, the populati...

Endothelial Progenitor Cells and Osteoblasts +Fukui, T; Ii, M; Shoji, T; Matsumoto, T; Mifune, Y; Kawakami, Y; Kuroda, T; Akimaru, H; Kawamoto, A; Saito, T; Jo, J; Tabata, Y; Kurosaka, M; Kuroda, R; Asahara, T +Group of Vascular Regeneration Research, Institute of Biomedical Research and Innovation, Kobe, Japan, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kob...

Authors/Affiliations: Fumi Shima , Yuichi Ijiri , Shin Muraoka 4, , Jingling Liao , Min Ye, Mitsugu Araki, Kousuke Matsumoto, Naoki Yamamoto, Takeshi Sugimoto, Yoko Yoshikawa, Takashi Kumasaka, Masaki Yamamoto, Atsuo Tamura and Tohru Kataoka 6 Division of Molecular Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-1 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku...

The Sirri jacket offshore platform was designed and installed in Persian gulf of Iran in 1975 and has been in service since that time. The importance of offshore structure's stability and the failure of this kind of structure during an earthquake in different active zones revealed that earthquake loading has to be considered. In this paper, Magnetorheological (MR) fluid dampers have been propos...

Kobe Steel's history of pelletizing plants began when the company built a plant at its Kobe Works in 1966. This paper introduces the history of pelletizing plants, including process outlines and the latest achievements in the construction of plants overseas. In the past, plant owners had focused mainly on the quality of the product pellets and plant equipment, as well as the cost of the plants....

The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship between residential area and “Kobe Chinatown” surrounding areas overseas Chinese in Kobe since opening Japan business area, clarify how get involved with that led current Chinatown”. As for living Kobe, we revealed range today's Chinatown Chinese-related building use, distribution gates temple, location environment from map. In additio...

Author details Department of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences for Research, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama-shi, Toyama 930-0194, Japan. Department of Radiology, Hyogo Ion Beam Medical Center, 1-2-1 Koto, Shingu-cho, Tatsuno-shi, Hyogo Japan. Department of Radiation Oncology, Kobe Minimally Invasive Cancer Center, Kobe University Hospital ...

Estimation of flooded area in the Bahr El-Jebel basin using remote sensing techniques M. A. H. Shamseddin, T. Hata, A. Tada, M. A. Bashir, and T. Tanakamaru Water Management and irrigation institute, University of Gezira, P.O. Box 20, Wad Medani, Sudan Dept. of Food Systems and Field Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Nada, Kobe 657-8501, Japan Faculty of Agri...

The isolation rate of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 2 from clinical samples is low. In 2007, we encountered the second case known to occur in Japan. As the L. pneumophila serogroup 2 type strain, the Kobe strain isolated in 1988, and the Okinawa strain isolated from the present patient could not be differentiated using the usual biochemical and serological tests, we tried to achieve differen...

A novel colorimetric method to quantify tannase activity of viable tannase-producing bacterial strains was developed through application of a visual reading method that was to detect the activity qualitatively. The novel method was sensitive enough to quantify the marginal tannase activity of strains that could not be otherwise measured by conventional spectrophotometric or colorimetric methods.