The 21-GHz satellite broadcasting enables to transmit high-capacity information such as ultrahigh-definition TV, 3D-TV and so on. However, the 21.4 to 22.0-GHz band suffers from considerable rain attenuation. In order to compensate it, the studies about a rain fade mitigation techniques have been done. One of the techniques proposed by NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories is an adapt...

Viable articulated computer-graphic representations of the human figure have recently been developed by O'Rourke, Zeltzer, and others. In this work, a figure implemented by Maxwell provides the starting point for the development of tools for controlling the movement and action of figures in a simulated threedimensional environment. The figure's representational quality is improved for the purpo...

Seventy-eight atomic bomb survivors were examined for biological dosimetry using chromosome abnormality. They had been exposed within 500 meters from the hypocenter in heavily shielded conditions and were found from NHK-RIRBM joint study carried out from 1966 to 1971. Estimation of the exposure doses for these survivors was made under the following steps; 1) calculation by DS86 system (physical...

Endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation (ERAD) is an important function for cellular homeostasis. The mechanism of how picornavirus infection interferes with ERAD remains unclear. In this study, we demonstrated that enterovirus 71 (EV71) infection significantly inhibits cellular ERAD by targeting multiple key ERAD molecules with its proteases 2Apro and 3Cpro using different mechanisms. Ubc...

Defensins and cathelicidins (LL-37) are major antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) of the innate immune system of the human skin. In normal non-inflamed skin these peptides are negligible, but their expression can be markedly increased in inflammatory skin disease such as psoriasis. We designed this study to identify the expressions of LL-37 in normal human keratinocyte (NHK) and HaCaT cells after exp...

The application of ICT1 in the classroom training process allows us to compare two basic stages – a computer based training and e-learning (Stoyanov, 2005a; Stoyanovich, 2001). These two concepts are similar but there are some differences between them. The computer based training (CBT) is an attempt to automate education, replace an educator, and develop self-paced learning. It is place-, timea...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the antinociceptive and sedative effects of midazolam and diazepam in 10 Thoroughbred mares. The sedative effects of midazolam (0.05, 0.1 and 0.15 mg/kg iv) and diazepam (0.05, 0.15 and 0.25mg/kg iv) were investigated by determination of the spontaneous locomotor activity (SLA) in automated behavior stalls and by measuring the head ptosis (HP). The antinoci...

We define and design succinct indexes for several abstract data types (ADTs). The concept is to design auxiliary data structures that ideally occupy asymptotically less space than the information-theoretic lower bound on the space required to encode the given data, and support an extended set of operations using the basic operators defined in the ADT. The main advantage of succinct indexes as o...