The biomechanical benefits (e.g., muscular activity) of slanted ergonomic mice have been comprehensively identified; however, their effects on task performance and subjective responses have not been fully investigated. The present study examined the effects of two slanted mice (slant angle = 30° and 50°) in comparison with a conventional mouse (slant angle = 0°) in terms of task performance (ta...

Hayato Fujii*, Hiroshi Takahashi, Takaaki Ohyama, Kinuyo Hattori and Shigeto Suzuki Field Epidemiology Training Program and Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama 1-23-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8640, Tokyo Metropolitan Research Laboratory and Public Health, Hyakunin-cho 3-24-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-1173, Reimeikai-Minamidai Hospital, Ogawa-ma...

Shin-ichi Takeda. MD, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurobe City Hospital, 1108-1 Mikkaichi, Kurobe, Toyama 938 (Japan) S uj E § Fig. 1. The levels of serum albumin, Ca, phosphorus and PTH before and after ethanol injection. showed hyperplasia. After the excision, serum PTH-c, Ca and ALP transiently decreased to 2.4 ng/ml, 5.0mEq/l and 237 IU/l, respectively, but showed subsequent increases. ...

In this paper, we propose a procedure of discordance detection in an actual legal code, that is the regional ordinance of Toyama Prefecture, Japan. In this study, we expand the notion of inconsistency to the discordance including antonyms based on an ontology, and precluded the conventional negative connective. We have implemented the system that converts XML logical formats to Prolog, and has ...

The vast majority of development projects, and in particular Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) projects, fail to reach their objectives and only a small number of projects effect change that lasts (Heeks, 2002;Toyama, 2010). The sustainability of a project is an important but ill-defined concept. Sustainability has been defined from various perspectives, but many...

In this paper, we propose a procedure of discordance detection in an actual legal code, that is the regional ordinance of Toyama Prefecture, Japan. In this study, we expand the notion of inconsistency to the discordance including antonyms based on an ontology, and precluded the conventional negative connective. We have implemented the system that converts XML logical formats to Prolog, and has ...