E. Blaufuss, G. Guillian , Y. Fukuda , S. Fukuda , M. Ishitsuka , Y. Itow , T. Kajita , J. Kameda , K. Kaneyuki , K. Kobayashi , Y. Kobayashi , Y. Koshio , M. Miura , S. Moriyama , M. Nakahata , S. Nakayama , Y. Obayashi , A. Okada , K. Okumura , N. Sakurai , M. Shiozawa , Y. Suzuki , H. Takeuchi , Y. Takeuchi , T. Toshito , Y. Totsuka , S. Yamada , M. Earl , A. Habig , E. Kearns , M.D. Messier...

We aimed to record and visualize the investigation activities of search and rescue dogs. The dog’s trajectory is required to create this visualization, and the dog’s velocity needs to be determined to estimate its trajectory. In this study, we examined a method for velocity estimation that uses a dog’s gait. We measured a Labrador dog’s gaits (walk and trot) and analyzed the gait data. From the...

Nonaka and Takeuchi’s highly influential account of tacit–explicit knowledgeconversion in Japan’s knowledge-creating companies has been instrumental in Knowledge Management’s institutionalisation of Michael Polanyi’s distinction between ‘tacit knowledge’ and ‘explicit knowledge’. But tacit knowledge has been misunderstood and what Nonaka and Takeuchi claim in the name of explicit knowledge does...

During the past half century, there have been many examples of Buddhist-Christian dialogues in Japan. This article analyzes the dialogue between members of the Risshō Kōsei-kai association and the Focolare Movement, a dialogue that is based on a friendship and a deep spiritual unity that comes from living radically according to one’s own religion and being attentive and open to the other’s. Fro...

A mouse melanoma cDNA clone was isolated by virtue of its reactivity with two antisera raised against tyrosinase (EC 1.14.18.1) from two species, hamster and mouse. The cDNA (5A) cross-hybridizes with another, pMT4 [Shibahara, S., Tomita, V., Sakakura, T., Nager, C., Bhabatosh, C. & Muller, R. (1986) Nucleic Acids Res. 14, 2413-2427], previously thought to encode mouse tyrosinase. Two other cDN...

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Biotic systems have a high degree of freedom subject to evolution, but also have constraints and semi-invariant structure (e.g. RNA/protein folding is not random). A common approach to model biological evolution is to construct a " biologically " pre-structured system with a few mutable parameters—i.e. a small degree of freedom—and to study the strengthening/weakening of the prede-fined structu...