We investigate the quasiparticle excitation by an electromagnetic field in a small tunnel junction and its effect on the damping rate of Josephson plasmons. By the time-dependent path integral method, we formulate the ...

Pathogens infect a host by suppressing defense responses induced upon recognition of microbe‐associated molecular patterns (MAMPs). Despite this suppression, MAMP receptors mediate basal resistance to limit host susceptibility, ...

Gut microbiota is known to change with aging; however, the underlying mechanisms have not been well elucidated. Immunoglobulin A (IgA) is the dominant class of antibody secreted by the intestinal mucosa, and are thought ...

Packet delay control in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) is critical to support delay-sensitive applications in such networks. By combining erasure coding and packet redundancy techniques, this paper proposes a general ...

Alveolar macrophages (AMs) are specialized tissue‐resident macrophages that orchestrate the immune responses to inhaled pathogens and maintain organ homeostasis of the lung. Dysregulation of AMs is associated with allergic ...

This paper presents a time-of-flight (ToF) measurement method for use in foggy weather. The depth measured by a ToF camera is greatly distorted in fog because the light scattered in the fog reaches the camera much faster ...

Future networks everywhere will be connected to innumerable Internet-ready home appliances. A device accepting connections over a network must be able to verify the identity of a connecting device in order to prevent device ...

Noncovalent weak interactions [hydrophobic interaction and hydrogen (H)-bond] play crucial roles in controlling the functions of biomolecules, and thus have been used to design artificial metalloproteins/metalloenzymes ...

This research aims to construct a high-quality Japanese TTS (Text-to-Speech) system that has high flexibility in treating prosody. Many TTS systems have implemented a prosody control system but such systems have been ...

Some respondents make careless responses due to the “satisficing,” which is an attempt to complete a questionnaire as quickly and easily as possible. To obtain results that reflect a fact, detecting satisficing and excluding ...