• Nonmagnetic Layer Thickness Dependence of Exchange Bias and Coercive Fields in NiFe/NM/FeMn (NM = Cu, Ru) Trilayers with Long-Range Exchange Bias Effect 

  Yoshida, Akihiro; Konishi, Taku; Hosoito, Nobuyoshi (Physical Society of Japan, 2020-08-27)

  Trilayer films consisting of ferromagnetic NiFe, nonmagnetic Cu or Ru, and antiferromagnetic FeMn layers were prepared by sputtering technique. The long-range exchange bias properties were investigated with magnetization ...
• Pneumatically Actuated Thin Glass Microlens for On-Chip Multi-Magnification Observations 

  Aishan, Yusufu; Yalikun, Yaxiaer; Tanaka, Yo (MDPI, 2020-08-23)

  This paper presents a self-contained micro-optical system that is magnification-controlled by adjusting the positions of the microlens in the device via pneumatic air pressure. Unlike conventional dynamic microlenses made ...
• Area cooling enables thermal positioning and manipulation of single cellls 

  Shen, Yigang; Yalikun, Yaxiaer; Aishan, Yusufu; Tanaka, Nobuyuki; Sato, Asako; Tanaka, Yo (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020-10-01)

  Contactless particle manipulation based on a thermal field has shown great potential for biological, medical, and materials science applications. However, thermal diffusion from a high-temperature area causes thermal damage ...
• Method to Grasp a Feeling of Being There by Turning a Head Forcibly while Watching a Tourism Video using a VR Headset 

  Isoyama, Naoya; Terada, Tsutomu; Tsukamoto, Masahiko (MDPI, 2020-09-09)

  In virtual reality (VR) tourism, when watching a video of a tourist location, the feeling of presence improves the experience. Furthermore, it is desirable to be able to give a feeling of having been there before to the ...
• Entrainable Neural Conversation Model Based on Reinforcement Learning 

  KAWANO, SEIYA; MIZUKAMI, MASAHIRO; YOSHINO, KOICHIRO; NAKAMURA, SATOSHI (IEEE, 2020-10-08)

  The synchronization of words in conversation, called entrainment, is generally observed in human-human conversations. Entrainment has a high correlation with dialogue success, naturalness, and engagement. In this ...
• Instance-level Heterogeneous Domain Adaptation for Limited-labeled Sketch-to-Photo Retrieval 

  Yang, Fan; Wu, Yang; Wang, Zheng; Li, Xiang; Sakti, Sakriani; Nakamura, Satoshi (IEEE, 2020-07-15)

  Although sketch-to-photo retrieval has a wide range of applications, it is costly to obtain paired and rich-labeled ground truth. Differently, photo retrieval data is easier to acquire. Therefore, previous works pre-train ...
• Fabrication of Hollow Structures in Photodegradable Hydrogels Using a Multi-Photon Excitation Process for Blood Vessel Tissue Engineering 

  Watanabe, Uran; Sugiura, Shinji; Kakehata, Masayuki; Yanagawa, Fumiki; Takagi, Toshiyuki; Sumaru, Kimio; Satoh, Taku; Tamura, Masato; Hosokawa, Yoichiroh; Torizuka, Kenji; Kanamori, Toshiyuki (MDPI, 2020-07-13)

  Engineered blood vessels generally recapitulate vascular function in vitro and can be utilized in drug discovery as a novel microphysiological system. Recently, various methods to fabricate vascular models in hydrogels ...
• Surveillance of early stage COVID-19 clusters using search query logs and mobile device-based location information 

  Hisada, Shohei; Murayama, Taichi; Tsubouchi, Kota; Fujita, Sumio; Yada, Shuntaro; Wakamiya, Shoko; Aramaki, Eiji (Nature Research, 2020-10-29)

  Two clusters of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were confirmed in Hokkaido, Japan, in February 2020. To identify these clusters, this study employed web search query logs of multiple devices and user location ...
• Beyond the Shortest Route: A Survey on Quality-Aware Route Navigation for Pedestrians 

  Siriaraya, Panote; Wang, Yuanyuan; Zhang, Yihong; Wakamiya, Shoko; Jeszens, Péter; Jatowt, Adam; Kawai, Yukiko (IEEE, 2020-07-27)

  Navigation systems often aid users when traveling in unfamiliar locations. Current navigation systems tend to focus on identifying the shortest or fastest routes between two points. However, path cost expressed in terms ...
• Robust two-stage influenza prediction model considering regular and irregular trends 

  Murayama, Taichi; Shimizu, Nobuyuki; Wakamiya, Shoko; Aramaki, Eiji (Public Library of Science, 2020-05-21)

  Influenza causes numerous deaths worldwide every year. Predicting the number of influenza patients is an important task for medical institutions. Two types of data regarding influenza-like illnesses (ILIs) are often used ...
• Morphological and Physiological Framework Underlying Plant Longevity in Arabidopsis thaliana 

  Wang, Yukun; Kumaishi, Kie; Suzuki, Takamasa; Ichihashi, Yasunori; Yamaguchi, Nobutoshi; Shirakawa, Makoto; Ito, Toshiro (Frontiers Media, 2020-11-05)

  Monocarpic plants have a single reproductive phase, in which their longevity is developmentally programmed by molecular networks. In the reproductive phase of Arabidopsis thaliana, the inflorescence meristem (IM) maintains ...
• TERMINAL FLOWER 1-FD complex target genes and competition with FLOWERING LOCUS T 

  Zhu, Yang; Klasfeld, Samantha; Jeong, Cheol Woong; Jin, Run; Goto, Koji; Yamaguchi, Nobutoshi; Wagner, Doris (Nature Research, 2020-10-12)

  Plants monitor seasonal cues to optimize reproductive success by tuning onset of reproduction and inflorescence architecture. TERMINAL FLOWER 1 (TFL1) and FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) and their orthologs antagonistically regulate ...
• Celf1 is required for formation of endoderm-derived organs in zebrafish 

  Tahara, Naoyuki; Bessho, Yasumasa; Matsui, Takaaki (MDPI, 2013-09-03)

  We recently reported that an RNA binding protein called Cugbp Elav-like family member 1 (Celf1) regulates somite symmetry and left-right patterning in zebrafish. In this report, we show additional roles of Celf1 in zebrafish ...
• Editorial: Cell Adhesion and Migration in the Development of Multicellular Organisms 

  Matsui, Takaaki (Frontiers Media, 2018-10-22)
• ERK Activity Dynamics during Zebrafish Embryonic Development 

  Wong, Kah-Loon; Akiyama, Ryutaro; Bessho, Yasumasa; Matsui, Takaaki (MDPI, 2018-12-28)

  During vertebrate development, extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) is activated by growth factors such as fibroblast growth factor (FGF), and it regulates the formation of tissues/organs including eyes, brains, ...
• Noise-resistant developmental reproducibility in vertebrate somite formation 

  Honda, Naoki; Akiyama, Ryutaro; Sari, Dini Wahyu Kartika; Ishii, Shin; Bessho, Yasumasa; Matsui, Takaaki (Public Library of Science, 2020-02-04)

  The reproducibility of embryonic development is remarkable, although molecular processes are intrinsically stochastic at the single-cell level. How the multicellular system resists the inevitable noise to acquire developmental ...
• Time-lapse observation of stepwise regression of Erk activity in zebrafish presomitic mesoderm 

  Sari, Dini Wahyu Kartika; Akiyama, Ryutaro; Honda, Naoki; Ishijima, Hannosuke; Bessho, Yasumasa; Matsui, Takaaki (Nature Research, 2018-03-12)

  During somite segmentation, clock genes oscillate within the posterior presomitic mesoderm (PSM). The temporal information ties up with the posteriorly moving FGF gradient, leading to the formation of a presumptive somite ...
• Creation and Evaluation of Atomically Ordered Side- and Facet-Surface Structures of Three-Dimensional Silicon Nano-Architectures 

  Hattori, Azusa N.; Hattori, Ken (IntechOpen, 2020-06-23)

  The realization of three-dimensional (3D)-architected nanostructures, that is, the transformation from novel two-dimensional (2D) film-based devices to 3D complex nanodevices, is of crucial importance with the progress of ...
• Genetic Manipulation of Transcriptional Regulators Alters Nicotine Biosynthesis in Tobacco 

  Hayashi, Shunya; Watanabe, Mutsumi; Kobayashi, Makoto; Tohge, Takayuki; Hashimoto, Takashi; Shoji, Tsubasa (Oxford University Press, 2020-06)

  The toxic alkaloid nicotine is produced in the roots of Nicotiana species and primarily accumulates in leaves as a specialized metabolite. A series of metabolic and transport genes involved in the nicotine pathway are ...
• Functional Analysis of the Plant Chromosomal Passenger Complex 

  Komaki, Shinichiro; Takeuchi, Hidenori; Hamamura, Yuki; Heese, Maren; Hashimoto, Takashi; Schnittger, Arp (American Society of Plant Biologists, 2020-08)

  The Aurora B kinase, encoded by the AURORA 3 (AUR3) gene in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), is a key regulator of cell division in all eukaryotes. Aurora B has at least two central functions during cell division; it ...

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