Murata S, Koike Y, Kasukawa Saito K, Okada Kudo D, Shimada Miyakoshi N. Contralaterally controlled functional electrical stimulation immediately improves hand function. Jpn J Compr Rehabil Sci 2022; 13: 26-30.

The holonomic rank of the hypergeometric system MA(β) equals the simplicial volume of A ⊆ Z for generic parameters β ∈ C; in general, this is only a lower bound. To the toric ring SA we attach the ranking arrangement RA(SA), and use this algebraic invariant along with the exceptional arrangement EA(SA) = {β ∈ C d | rank MA(β) > vol(A)} to construct a combinatorial formula for the rank jump jA(S...

A new enhanced Itakura (E-Itakura) speech distortion measure is proposed in this paper. It incorporates masking properties of the human auditory system into the original Itakura measure. Inaudible noise components masked by speech signals are excluded from the calculation of the E-Itakura measure, while the intrinsic advantage of the Itakura measure is retained. The proposed new measure has bee...

Hayasaka, T., S. Saito and D.G. Rogers, Further results on irregular, critical perfect systems of difference sets II: systems without splits, Discrete Mathematics 110 (1992) 135-154. An (m, n; u, v; c)-system is a collection of components, m of valency u 1 and n of valency u 1, whose difference sets form a perfect system with threshold c. If there is an (m, n; 3, 6; c)-system, then m 22~ 1; and...

In this paper we consider level stripping for genus 2 cuspidal Siegel eigenforms. In particular, we show that it is possible to strip primes from the level of Saito-Kurokawa lifts that arise as theta lifts and weak endoscopic lifts with a mild condition on the associated character. The main ingredients into our results are a level stripping result for elliptic modular forms and the explicit nat...

A. In a recent paper, M. Green and P. Griffiths used R. Thomas’ work on nodal hypersurfaces to sketch a proof of the equivalence of the Hodge conjecture and the existence of certain singular admissible normal functions. Inspired by their work, we study normal functions using Morihiko Saito’s mixed Hodge modules and prove that the existence of singularities of the type considered by Griff...

We read with great interest the article by Saito et al. w1x, and we absolutely agree with their findings; in particular, the importance of using a local risk stratification system for preoperative assessment of cardiac surgical patients. In Argentina, as well as in other countries, the ageing population is indeed an issue for several reasons. For instance, as physicians we face an increasing nu...

Human selenoprotein P (SeP), a selenium-rich plasma glycoprotein, is presumed to contain ten selenocysteine residues; one of which is located at the 40th residue in the N-terminal region and the remaining nine localized in the C-terminal third part. We have shown that SeP not only catalyses the reduction of phosphatidylcholine hydroperoxide by glutathione [Saito, Hayashi, Tanaka, Watanabe, Suzu...