• First-principles study on the stability of (R, Zr)(Fe, Co, Ti)12 against 2-17 and unary phases (R = Y, Nd, Sm) 

  Fukazawa, Taro; Harashima, Yosuke; Miyake, Takashi (American Physical Society, 2022-05-09)

  The stability of (R, Zr)(Fe, Co, Ti)12 with a ThMn12 structure is investigated using first-principles calculations. We consider energetic competition with multiple phases that have the Th2Zn17 structure and the unary phases ...
• Interaction of Proteins with Biomembranes 

  Senju, Yosuke; Suetsugu, Shiro (MDPI, 2022-02-02)

  Many proteins interact with cell and subcellular membranes. The plasma and intracellular membranes are characterized by their different lipid compositions that enable membrane-binding proteins to localize to distinct ...
• Super-resolution analysis of PACSIN2 and EHD2 at caveolae 

  Nishimura, Tamako; Suetsugu, Shiro (Public Library of Science, 2022-07-14)

  Caveolae are plasma membrane invaginations that play important roles in both endocytosis and membrane tension buffering. Typical caveolae have invaginated structures with a high-density caveolin assembly. Membrane sculpting ...
• PACSIN1 is indispensable for amphisome-lysosome fusion during basal autophagy and subsets of selective autophagy 

  Oe, Yukako; Kakuda, Keita; Yoshimura, Shin-ichiro; Hara, Naohiro; Hasegawa, Junya; Terawaki, Seigo; Kimura, Yasuyoshi; Ikenaka, Kensuke; Suetsugu, Shiro; Mochizuki, Hideki; Yoshimori, Tamotsu; Nakamura, Shuhei (Public Library of Science, 2022-06-30)

  Autophagy is an indispensable process that degrades cytoplasmic materials to maintain cellular homeostasis. During autophagy, double-membrane autophagosomes surround cytoplasmic materials and either fuse with endosomes ...
• Two Kinesin-14A Motors Oligomerize to Drive Poleward Microtubule Convergence for Acentrosomal Spindle Morphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana 

  Hotta, Takashi; Lee, Yuh-Ru Julie; Higaki, Takumi; Hashimoto, Takashi; Liu, Bo (Frontiers Media, 2022-07-22)

  Plant cells form acentrosomal spindles with microtubules (MTs) converged toward two structurally undefined poles by employing MT minus end-directed Kinesin-14 motors. To date, it is unclear whether the convergent bipolar ...
• 「なでながら話す」マルチモーダルインタラクティブエージェントのVR外見の変化と心地良さの印象評価 

  澤邊, 太志; 山内, 翔太郎; 神原, 誠之; 藤本, 雄一郎; 加藤, 博一 (一般社団法人電子情報通信学会, 2022-06-24)

  本研究では，心地良いマルチモーダルインタラクティブエージェント実現のため， バーチャルリアリティ（VR）技術による，なでながら話すロボットの外見を仮想的に変化させ， その変化による心地良さの印象評価を行う． VRとAR（拡張現実感）によるなでながら話すロボットの外見の違いが与える影響について， 従来研究よりVR技術による外見の方が，没入感が高く心地良いという結果から， 本実験でもVR技術を利用した外見の変化を行う． なでる動作を行うため ...
• 自動走行車両搭乗者の予備動作喚起を目的とした映像生成 

  島田, 和輝; 澤邊, 太志; 宍戸, 英彦; 神原, 誠之; 北原, 格 (一般社団法人電子情報通信学会, 2022-06-24)

  自動走行時は自分自身で運転しておらず道路状況を注視する機会も減少するため，車両の挙動変化による加速度刺激の予測が行われづらくなり乗り物酔いを発症しやすくなることが懸念されている．本稿では、身体にかかる加速感刺激を低減させることを目的として，車両の挙動変化を前もって搭乗者に知覚させ，予備動作を喚起する映像の生成と提示方法の検討を行った．実験は，加速度に応じて投影面形状を変形させた全方位映像を電動車椅子搭乗者にHMDを用いて提示するという方 ...
• Histone Demethylases JMJ30 and JMJ32 Modulate the Speed of Vernalization Through the Activation of FLOWERING LOCUS C in Arabidopsis thaliana 

  Maruoka, Takashi; Gan, Eng-Seng; Otsuka, Nana; Shirakawa, Makoto; Ito, Toshiro (Frontiers Media, 2022-07-01)

  Vernalization is the promotion of flowering after prolonged exposure to cold. In Arabidopsis thaliana, vernalization induces epigenetic silencing of the floral repressor gene FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC). Among the repressive ...
• オンラインアンケートにおける不適切回答自動検出に向けた回答操作ログの統計分析 

  後上, 正樹; 松田, 裕貴; 荒川, 豊; 安本, 慶一 (日本データベース学会, 2022-03)

  オンラインアンケートにおいて，なるべく楽に早くアンケートタスクを完了しようとする「Satisficing（努力の最小限化）」という態度が調査結果の信頼性を低下させる問題がある．この問題に対し，回答時間が明らかに短い回答を除外するなどの措置が考案されてきたが，回答時間だけでは完全に除外することができない．そこで我々は，回答時間だけでなく，回答中の画面操作を観測することで，より高精度にSatisficingが検出可能になるのではないかという ...
• The Rx transcription factor is required for determination of the retinal lineage and regulates the timing of neuronal differentiation 

  Yamamoto, Maho; Ong Lee Chen, Agnes; Shinozuka, Takuma; Sasai, Noriaki (Wiley, 2022-06-14)

  Understanding the molecular mechanisms leading to retinal development is of great interest for both basic scientific and clinical applications. Several signaling molecules and transcription factors involved in retinal ...
• Knowledge Distillation for Translating Erroneous Speech Transcriptions 

  Fukuda, Ryo; Sudoh, Katsuhito; Nakamura, Satoshi (The Association for Natural Language Processing, 2022-06-15)

  Recent studies consider knowledge distillation as a promising method for speech translation (ST) using end-to-end models. However, its usefulness in cascade ST with automatic speech recognition (ASR) and machine translation ...
• Personalized values in life as point of interaction with the world: Developmental/neurobehavioral basis and implications for psychiatry 

  Kasai, Kiyoto; Yagishita, Sho; Tanaka, Saori C.; Koike, Shinsuke; Murai, Toshiya; Nishida, Atsushi; Yamasaki, Syudo; Ando, Shuntaro; Kawakami, Norito; Kanehara, Akiko; Morita, Kentaro; Kumakura, Yousuke; Takahashi, Yusuke; Sawai, Yutaka; Uno, Akito; Sakakibara, Eisuke; Okada, Naohiro; Okamoto, Yasumasa; Nochi, Masahiro; Kumagaya, Shin-ichiro; Fukuda, Masato (Wiley, 2022-06-08)

  Behavioral neuroscience has dealt with short-term decision making but has not defined either daily or longer-term life actions. The individual brain interacts with the society/world, but where that point of action is and ...
• Defecation Prediction System Using Bowl Sound 

  MARUMOTO, SOKI; KUBO, TAKATOMI; TADA, MAKOTO; IKEDA, KAZUSHI (Information Processing Society of Japan, 2022-03-03)

  Fecal incontinence is a serious but popular problem for elderly people since it not only degrades their quality of physical and mental life but also increases the work of care givers. One promising tool to solve this problem ...
• Applying Meta-Learning and Iso Principle for Development of EEG-Based Emotion Induction System 

  Miyamoto, Kana; Tanaka, Hiroki; Nakamura, Satoshi (Frontiers Media, 2022-06-06)

  Music is often used for emotion induction. ince the emotions felt when listening to it vary from person to person, customized music is required. Our previous work designed a music generation system that created personalized ...
• Diversification of Chemical Structures of Methoxylated Flavonoids and Genes Encoding Flavonoid-O-Methyltransferases 

  Liu, Yuting; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Tohge, Takayuki (MDPI, 2022-02-21)

  The O-methylation of specialized metabolites in plants is a unique decoration that provides structural and functional diversity of the metabolites with changes in chemical properties and intracellular localizations. The ...
• Newcomer OSS-Candidates: Characterizing Contributions of Novice Developers to GitHub 

  Rehman, Ifraz; Wang, Dong; Kula, Raula Gaikovina; Ishio, Takashi; Matsumoto, Kenichi (Springer, 2022-05-30)

  The ability of an Open Source Software (OSS) project to attract, onboard, and retain any newcomer is vital to its livelihood. Although, evidence suggests an upsurge in novice developers joining social coding platforms (such ...
• Overexpression of AHL9 accelerates leaf senescence in Arabidopsis thaliana 

  Zhou, Yusen; Zhang, Xiaomin; Chen, Jing; Guo, Xiaopeng; Wang, Hongyan; Zhen, Weibo; Zhang, Junli; Hu, Zhubing; Zhang, Xuebing; Botella, José Ramón; Ito, Toshiro; Guo, Siyi (BMC, 2022-05-19)

  Background: Leaf senescence, the fnal stage of leaf growth and development, is regulated by numerous internal factors and environmental cues. Ethylene is one of the key senescence related hormones, but the underlying ...
• Protein Phosphorylation Dynamics Under Carbon/Nitrogen-Nutrient Stress and Identification of a Cell Death-Related Receptor-Like Kinase in Arabidopsis 

  Li, Xingwen; Sanagi, Miho; Lu, Yu; Nomura, Yuko; Stolze, Sara Christina; Yasuda, Shigetaka; Saijo, Yusuke; Schulze, Waltraud X.; Feil, Regina; Stitt, Mark; Lunn, John E.; Nakagami, Hirofumi; Sato, Takeo; Yamaguchi, Junji (Frontiers Media, 2020-04-03)

  Nutrient availability, in particular the availability of sugar [carbon (C)] and nitrogen (N), is important for the regulation of plant metabolism and development. In addition to independent utilization of C and N nutrients, ...
• Promotion and Upregulation of a Plasma Membrane Proton-ATPase Strategy: Principles and Applications 

  Ren, Zirong; Suolang, Bazhen; Fujiwara, Tadashi; Yang, Dan; Saijo, Yusuke; Kinoshita, Toshinori; Wang, Yin (Frontiers Media, 2021-12-22)

  Plasma membrane proton-ATPase (PM H+-ATPase) is a primary H+ transporter that consumes ATP in vivo and is a limiting factor in the blue light-induced stomatal opening signaling pathway. It was recently reported that ...
• 運行情報と気象情報の畳み込みによるバス到着時刻予測手法 

  石長, 篤人; 新井, イスマイル; 垣内, 正年; 藤川, 和利 (情報処理学会, 2021-02-25)

  公共交通機関における利便性は利用者の利用意欲に直接的な影響を与えている．利便性を向上させる方法の1つとして，利用者への到着時刻予測の提供が挙げられる．特に路線バスにおいては，天候，乗降者数，交通状況など様々な要素が複雑に関係しており，正確な予測を行うことは難しい．路線バスにおける到着時刻予測の既存研究の中で，現状，Convolutional LSTMをベースにバス路線の過去の運行データを特徴量として用いた手法が最も有効である．しかしなが ...

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