Although , a legendary musician, died 21 years ago, his music continues to influence people help solve many mental problems, including domestic violence, suicide menopausal symptoms.We conducted a test to verify the effect of his music on heart rate autonomic nerves, the result of which was revealed at this meeting.

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This paper presents a novel method for robust object tracking in video sequences using a hybrid feature-based observation model in a particle filtering framework. An ideal observation model should have both high ability to accurately distinguish objects from the background high reliability to identify the detected objects. Traditional features are better at solving the former problem but weak in solving the latter one. To overcome that, we adopt a robust dynamic feature called Grayscale Arranging Pairs (GAP), which has high discriminative ability even under conditions of severe illumination variation dynamic background elements. Together with the GAP feature, we also adopt the color histogram feature in order to take advantage of traditional features in resolving the first problem. At the same time, an efficient simple integration method is used to combine the GAP feature with color information. Comparative experiments demonstrate that object tracking with our integrated features performs well even when objects go across complex backgrounds.

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Since there is in sufficient evidence on patients with coronary artery disease in Japan, the Japanese Coronary Artery Disease (JCAD) Study, in which 217 institutions participate, was designed to collect basic data based on evidence-based medicine (EBM). In this study, cardiac catheterization is performed on all cases to select study subjects confirmed as having CAD diagnosed based on the criteria that he or she has stenosis in at least one branch of a coronary artery to the extent of 75% or higher according to the AHA classification. Data including background information, risk factors, clinical management, medication are to be collected over the web. The follow-up arm of the study consists of following each subject for three years to obtain data on the long-term prognosis of patients with CAD while the other arm is for enrolling new subjects every six months who will be followed for six months only for the purpose of determining the latest trend in patients. The two arms of the study have been ongoing since April 2000. As of September 30, 2003, 15,506 subjects have been enrolled in the follow-up arm the follow-up data have been entered in the database. The authors plan to report data showing any correlation between incidence rate, focusing mainly on cerebrocardiovascular events, other factors such as the management of risk factors, type dosage of medications obtained in the largest cohort ever studied in Japan of patients with a coronary artery lesion confirmed by cardiac catheterization.

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BitTorrent is one of the most popular P2P file sharing applications worldwide. Each BitTorrent network is called a swarm, millions of peers may join multiple swarms. However, there are many unreachable peers (NATed (network address translated), firewalled, or inactive at the time of measurement) in each swarm; hence, existing techniques can only measure a part of all the peers in a swarm. In this paper, we propose an improved measurement method for BitTorrent swarms that include many unreachable peers. In essence, NATed peers those behind firewalls are found by allowing them to connect to our crawlers by actively advertising our crawlers' addresses. Evaluation results show that the proposed method increases the number of unique contacted peers by 112% compared to the conventional method. Moreover, the proposed method increases the total volume of downloaded pieces by 66%. We investigate the sampling bias among the proposed conventional methods, we find that different measurement methods yield significantly different results.

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  REBa₂Cu₃O_y (REBCO) film is required for high-critical current (I_c) at 77 K, when using in power applications such as superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) nuclear fusion. Generally, critical current density (J_c) of REBCO thick film decreases with increasing thickness of superconductor, because the amount of dead layer such as a-axis oriented phase increases with increasing the thickness. We speculated that the formation of a-axis oriented phase in REBCO thick films is owing to reduction of surface temperature. In this study, we fabricated low temperature growth (LTG)-multi Sm_1.04Ba_1.96Cu₃O_y (SmBCO) thick films using a (Sm_1.04Ba_1.96Cu₃O_y/Sm-rich layer)×N (N=1, 2…) multilayer system, to suppress the formation of a-axis oriented phases. The LTG-multi thick films retained a large terrace, as a result, supressing the reduction of surface temperature, even if the thickness of the films becomes thick. Therefore, LTG-multi thick films suppressed the formation of a-axis oriented phases the films showed I_c=630 A/cm-width with a thickness of 1.35 μm at 77 K. From these results, we suggest that LTG-multilayer system is an effective technique for improving the critical current of coated conductor.

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  In BaZrO₃(BZO) doped REBa₂Cu₃O_y(REBCO) films deposited by pulsed laser deposition, BZO nanorods grow almost parallel to c-axis in REBCO films. In this study, in order to understand the mechanism for the formation of BZO nanorods, we investigated the influence of the substrate temperature of the upper layer (T_s^upper) in the low temperature growth (LTG) technique on the growth of BZO nanorods in SmBa₂Cu₃O_y(SmBCO) films. Furthermore, we discussed the diffusion process on BZO estimated the activation energy for surface diffusion of constituent atoms in BZO. With decreasing T_s^upper, the diameter of BZO nanorods was decreased the number density was increased. In addition, the angle of inclination of BZO nanords with respect to c-axis in SmBCO became larger with decreasing T_s^upper. It is found that the diffusion process could be dominant in the nucleation of BZO. We attributed self-organized growth of BZO nanorods to the diffusion process as well as the strain energy resulting from a lattice mismatch between SmBCO BZO.

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The management of subscriptions events is an important task in the content-based publish/subscribe system. A good management mechanism can not only produce lower matching costs to speed up the delivery of matched events to the interested subscribers but can also induce good load balancing for subscription storage. In this paper, we consider the construction of this kind of system over a peer-to-peer overlay network propose two message-to-node mapping schemes for system management. We both analyze simulate the performance of the proposed schemes. The simulation results show the superiority of our schemes over existing ones.

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　症例は53歳の男性で，2009年3月貧血の精査目的で下部消化管内視鏡検査を施行し，上行結腸に腫瘤を指摘された．内視鏡下生検の結果，gastrointestinal stromal tumor（以下，GISTと略記）が疑われた．腹部造影CTにて肝尾状葉に孤立性の腫瘤を認めており，大腸GISTおよび肝転移の術前診断で，4月に回盲部切除術，Spiegel葉切除術を施行した．摘出標本の病理組織学的検査，免疫組織化学染色および遺伝子解析にて，大腸平滑筋肉腫とその肝転移と診断した．近年GISTの疾患概念は大きく変化し，かつて消化管平滑筋肉腫と報告されてきた腫瘍の大部分はGISTに分類されるようになり，真の消化管平滑筋肉腫は大変まれとなった．本症例は，GISTとの鑑別診断，さらには治療方針決定のため，遺伝子解析が有用であった．

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Federated identity access management (FIAM) systems enable a user to access services provided by various organizations seamlessly. In FIAM systems, service providers normally stipulate that their users show assertions issued by allied parties to use their services as well as determine user privileges based on attributes in the assertions. However, the integrity of the attributes is important under certain circumstances. In such a circumstance, all released assertions should reflect modifications made to user attributes. Despite the ability to adopt conventional certification revocation technologies, including CRL or OCSP, to revoke an assertion request the corresponding user to obtain a new assertion, re-issuing an entirely new assertion if only one attribute, such as user location or other environmental information, is changed would be inefficient. Therefore, this work presents a self-adaptive framework to achieve consistency in federated identity access management systems (SAFIAM). In SAFIAM, an identity provider (IdP), which authenticates users provides user attributes, should monitor access probabilities according to user attributes. The IdP can then adopt the most efficient means of ensuring data integrity of attributes based on related access probabilities. While Internet-based services emerge daily that have various access probabilities with respect to their user attributes, the proposed self-adaptive framework significantly contributes to efforts to streamline the use of FIAM systems.

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Studies on the initial stage of Al–Si eutectic solidification were carried out by thermal analysis. It was found that in the Al–Si system, silicon crystals are usually nucleated on the surface of aluminium crystal by small undercooling, whereas aluminium crystals are not easily nucleated on the surface of silicon crystals. This finding can be explained in terms of relative interfacial energies for boundaries of liquid-primary, liquid-secondary primary-secondary phases.

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同層産軟体動物化石の19種を識別し, そのうち, 腹足綱3種, 掘足綱1種および斧綱15種(うち1新種を含む)の記載を行った。解析の結果, 構成種はすべて暖海生種であること, neritic生息種とouter neritic生息種の混合によってこの化石群が構成されていること, また, 特徴種からこの群集は中新世後期のものであることを明らかにした。

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Myxofibrosarcoma is a soft tissue sarcoma that occurs in elderly patients. Primary myxofibrosarcoma rarely arises in the mesentery; this is the fourth known case of myxofibrosarcoma presenting as a mesenteric tumor. A 62-year-old male with a mesenteric myxofibrosarcoma presented with an abdominal mass; his symptoms were frequent urination

a sense of abdominal pressure. He was admitted for further examination. Computed tomography (CT) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a mesenteric lesion. The preoperative diagnosis was a suspected malignant myxoid tumor. We performed a curative resection with wide margins. The histopathological immunohistochemical findings confirmed that the tumor was mesenteric myxofibrosarcoma. The postoperative course was uneventful, there have been no signs of relapse for three years to date after surgery. It is difficult to make a definitive diagnosis of mesenteric myxofibrosarcoma using only CT or MRI. However, when the preoperative findings suggest a malignant mesenteric tumor, then the best practice is resection with sufficient margins.

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Hybrid FEC/ARQ, which is a mixture of forward error correction (FEC) automatic repeat request (ARQ), is a well-known technique aiming for packet-loss recovery to guarantee quality of service (QoS) for real-time communications. In this paper, focusing on layered video transmission over wireless network environment, we propose a proactive retransmission scheme for hybrid FEC/ARQ. In the proposed scheme, a receiver host periodically sends probe packets to a sender host in order to check wireless channel state. If the sender host does not receive any probe packet during a pre-specified interval, it regards the wireless channel as being in burst loss state, it proactively retransmits packets expected to be lost during the burst loss period. The buffer management associated with layered video coding is also taken into consideration. The performance of the proposed scheme is investigated by simulation. Numerical examples show that the proposed scheme transmits packets of the base layer more successfully than the conventional FEC/ARQ.

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We developed a new information management system, Protein Experimental Information Management System (PREIMS), which has the ontology-based functions for quality control, validation, scalability, information sharing. Its contents are mainly experimental protocols for the analyses of protein structures functions, their results. They are stored separately in the PREIMS database (DB), as the ontology based protocol data the result data. The synchrotron experimental information was stored as the latter result data in Extensible Markup Language (XML). Furthermore we converted those protocols in the format of Resource Description Framework (RDF) for integration with other biological information resources.

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