• Selective induction of targeted cell death and elimination by near-infrared femtosecond laser ablation 

  Okano, Kazunori; Wang, Chung-Han; Hong, Zhen-Yi; Hosokawa, Yoichiroh; Liau, Ian (Elsevier, 2020-12)

  The techniques for inducing the death of specific cells in tissue has attracted attention as new methodologies for studying cell function and tissue regeneration. In this study, we show that a sequential process of targeted ...
• Super-resolution for a dispersive spectrometer using a tilted area sensor and spectrally varying blur kernel interpolation 

  KITANO, KAZUYA; FUNATOMI, TAKUYA; YASUKUNI, RYOHEI; TANAKA, KENICHIRO; KUBO, HIROYUKI; HOSOKAWA, YOICHIROH; MUKAIGAWA, YASUHIRO (Optical Society of America, 2021-01-15)

  The grating, lens, and linear sensor determine a spectrometer’s wavelength resolution and measurement range. While conventional methods have tried to improve the optical design to obtain a better resolution, they have a ...
• Establishment of a heart-on-a-chip microdevice based on human iPS cells for the evaluation of human heart tissue function 

  Abulaiti, Mosha; Yalikun, Yaxiaer; Murata, Kozue; Sato, Asako; Sami, Mustafa M.; Sasaki, Yuko; Fujiwara, Yasue; Minatoya, Kenji; Shiba, Yuji; Tanaka, Yo; Masumoto, Hidetoshi (nature, 2020-11-05)

  Human iPS cell (iPSC)-derived cardiomyocytes (CMs) hold promise for drug discovery for heart diseases and cardiac toxicity tests. To utilize human iPSC-derived CMs, the establishment of three-dimensional (3D) heart tissues ...
• Hydrodynamic particle focusing enhanced by femtosecond laser deep grooving at low Reynolds numbers 

  Zhang, Tianlong; Namoto, Misuzu; Okano, Kazunori; Akita, Eri; Teranishi, Norihiro; Tang, Tao; Anggraini, Dian; Hao, Yansheng; Tanaka, Yo; Inglis, David; Yalikun, Yaxiaer; Li, Ming; Hosokawa, Yoichiroh (Nature Research, 2021-01-18)

  Microfluidic focusing of particles (both synthetic and biological), which enables precise control over the positions of particles in a tightly focused stream, is a prerequisite step for the downstream processing, such as ...
• 類似ソースコード片検索結果に対するクラスタリング技術を用いたフィルタリング手法 

  嶋利, 一真; 石尾, 隆; 井上, 克郎 (電子情報通信学, 2020-06-22)

  We propose a clustering-based filtering method for a similar source code fragment search. This method groups code fragments by clustering and excludes codes with a low probability of correct answers from the output. We ...
• Impact of facial contour compensation on self-recognition in face-swapping technology 

  Matsumura, Haruka; Taketomi, Takafumi; Kato, Hirokazu (Springer, 2020-10-30)

  Experts in sports science anticipate substantial training gains that can result from elevated cerebral activity when face-swapping technology is used in videos of athletes to facilitate their motor imagery (Matsumura et ...
• Positive Emotion Amplification by Representing Excitement Scene with TV Chat Agents 

  Nishimura, Shogo; Kimata, Daiki; Sato, Wataru; Kanbara, Masayuki; Fujimoto, Yuichiro; Kato, Hirokazu; Hagita, Norihiro (MDPI, 2020-12-21)

  This paper proposes emotion amplification for TV chat agents allowing users to get more excited in TV sports programs, and a model that estimates the excitement level of TV programs based on the number of social comment ...
• Tackling Perception Bias in Unsupervised Phoneme Discovery Using DPGMM-RNN Hybrid Model and Functional Load 

  Wu, Bin; Sakti, Sakriani; Zhang, Jinsong; Nakamura, Satoshi (IEEE, 2020-12-02)

  The human perception of phonemes is biased against speech sounds. The lack of correspondence between perceputal phonemes and acoustic signals forms a big challenge in designing unsupervised algorithms to distinguish phonemes ...
• The Psychological Impact of 'Mild Lockdown' in Japan during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Nationwide Survey under a Declared State of Emergency. 

  Yamamoto, Tetsuya; Uchiumi, Chigusa; Suzuki, Naho; Yoshimoto, Junichiro; Murillo-Rodriguez, Eric (MDPI, 2020-12-15)

  This study examined the psychological distress caused by non-coercive lockdown (mild lockdown) in Japan. An online survey was conducted with 11,333 people (52.4% females; mean age = 46.3 ± 14.6 years, range = 18–89 years) ...
• Robust Stochastic Gradient Descent with Student-t Distribution based First-order Momentum 

  Ilboudo, Wendyam Eric Lionel; Kobayashi, Taisuke; Sugimoto, Kenji (IEEE, 2020-12-16)

  Remarkable achievements by deep neural networks stand on the development of excellent stochastic gradient descent methods. Deep-learning-based machine learning algorithms, however, have to find patterns between observations ...
• q-VAE for Disentangled Representation Learning and Latent Dynamical Systems 

  Kobayashi, Taisuke (IEEE, 2020-07-17)

  A variational autoencoder (VAE) derived from Tsallis statistics called q-VAE is proposed. In the proposed method, a standard VAE is employed to statistically extract latent space hidden in sampled data, and this latent ...
• Large Gel Two-Dimensional Electrophoresis: Improving Recovery of 

  Inagaki, Naoyuki; Katsuta, Kazuhiro (Bentham Science Publishers, 2004)

  One of the goals of expression proteomics is to display and analyze all the proteins in a particular proteome. Cells are thought to comprise tens of thousands of proteins expressed in a dynamic range of 1-105 or 106. Low ...
• Neural induction: Historical views and application to pluripotent stem cells 

  Sasai, Noriaki; Kadoya, Minori; Chen, Agnes Ong Lee (Wiley, 2020-12-02)

  Embryonic stem (ES) cells are a useful experimental material to recapitulate the differentiation steps of early embryos, which are usually invisible and inaccessible from outside of the body, especially in mammals. ES cells ...
• Identification of Adverse Drug Event–Related Japanese Articles: Natural Language Processing Analysis 

  Ujiie, Shogo; Yada, Shuntaro; Wakamiya, Shoko; Aramaki, Eiji (JMIR Publicatoins, 2020-11-27)

  Background: Medical articles covering adverse drug events (ADEs) are systematically reported by pharmaceutical companies for drug safety information purposes. Although policies governing reporting to regulatory bodies vary ...
• Timeliness-Aware On-Site Planning Method for Tour Navigation 

  Isoda, Shogo; Hidaka, Masato; Matsuda, Yuki; Suwa, Hirohiko; Yasumoto, Keiichi (MDPI, 2020-10-30)

  In recent years, there has been a growing interest in travel applications that provide on-site personalized tourist spot recommendations. While generally helpful, most available options offer choices based solely on static ...
• Embedding of Molecular Structure Using Molecular Hypergraph Variational Autoencoder with Metric Learning 

  Koge, Daiki; Ono, Naoaki; Huang, Ming; Altaf‐Ul‐Amin, Md.; Kanaya, Shigehiko (Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2020-11-08)

  Deep learning approaches are widely used to search molecular structures for a candidate drug/material. The basic approach in drug/material candidate structure discovery is to embed a relationship that holds between a ...
• 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 ...

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