TAKAHITO KONDO, First Department of Internal Medicine, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo 060 Japan NAOYUKI TANIGUCHI, Department of Environmental Medicine, the Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060 Japan KAZUYA TANIGUCHI, Department of Pharmacology, School of Dentistry, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060 Japan ICHIRO MATSUDA, Department of Pediat...

Evolutionary optimization of sensorimotor control has lead to matched lter neurons in the visual system of ies that are specialized to certain visual motion patterns. We apply the technique of genetic algorithms in order to model parts of the sensor system and behavior of an arti cial agent. The agents are rather simple systems with only four sensors. We will show how genetic algorithms can be ...

From the Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan 1 , the Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan 2 , the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, Yamanashi University, Chuoh, 409-3898, Japan 3 , the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 0...

Naoki Miyagawa1,2 Hiroshi Teramoto1,3 Chun-Biu Li1,2,4 Tamiki Komatsuzaki1,3,4 1Research Institute for Electronic Science Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001-0020, Japan 2Department of Mathematics Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan 3Graduate School of Life Science Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan 4Research Center for Integrative Mathematics Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-08...

1Center for Infectious Diseases Control, Hokkaido Institute of Public Health, Sapporo 060-0819; 2Hokkaido Government Shiribeshi General Subprefectural Bureau, Kutchan 044-8588; 3Hokkaido Government Tokachi General Subprefectural Bureau, Obihiro 080-8588; 4Hokkaido Government Ishikari General Subprefectural Bureau, Sapporo 060-8558; and 5Department of Health and Welfare, Hokkaido Government, Sap...

Yasuaki Kobayashi, ∗ Yusuke Yasugahira, Hiroyuki Kitahata, Mika Watanabe, Ken Natsuga, and Masaharu Nagayama † Center for Simulation Sciences, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo 112-8620, Japan Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan Department of Physics, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8502, Japan Department of Dermatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido Universi...

1Laboratory of Aquatic Ecosystem Conservation, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita 9 Nishi 9, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0809, Japan 2Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Kita 10 Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan 3Laboratory of Aquatic Ecosystem Conservation, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere...

The aim of this work was to evaluate the immunogenicity and neutralizing activity of sheep pox virus (SPPV; genus Capripoxvirus, family Poxviridae) structural proteins as candidate subunit vaccines to control sheep pox disease. SPPV structural proteins were identified by sequence homology with proteins of vaccinia virus (VACV) strain Copenhagen. Four SPPV proteins (SPPV-ORF 060, SPPV-ORF 095, S...

Environmental Science Research Laboratory, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, 1646 Abiko, Abiko, Chiba 270-1194, Japan Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University and CREST-JST, North 10 West 5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, North 10 West 5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan ...