A report on the digital terrestrial television broadcasting system (ISDB-T: Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial) was presented to the Minister of Post and Telecommunication by the Telecommunications Technology Council (TTC) in May 1999 after the largescale field trials conducted by the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB). At the ITU-R Study Group 11 Meeting in...

In this talk we address the issue of indexing compressed data both from the theoretical and the practical point of view. We start by introducing the FM-index data structure [2] that supports substring searches and occupies a space which is a function of the entropy of the indexed data. The key feature of the FM-index is that it encapsulates the indexed data (self-index) and achieves the space r...

Editorial This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) License. Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.-Aristotle If the government cannot create happiness for its people , then there is no purpose for government to exist.-Legal code of Bhutan (1729) Gro...

It is common today to see digital content made by nonprofessionals. This is particularly true on the Internet where numerous armature movies can be found in blogs and Social Network Systems such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. and in movie sharing services such as YouTube. However, TV-program-like film clips with high production value are found less frequently. There is still a considerable barrier ...

Back Issues and Publication Schedule: When Early Modern Japan resumed publication last year, two issues arose that we did not fully anticipate. The first was a large number of requests for back issues. As editors we were very pleased with the level of interest in EMJ that these requests revealed. At the moment, however, we have very few copies of back issues left. Other than file copies, most a...

The aim of this study was to investigate the sedative and antinociceptive effects of three dopaminergic blockers often used in veterinary medicine. The study was conducted on 10 Thoroughbred mares. Sedation was evaluated by determining the spontaneous locomotor activity (SLA) in automated individual behavior stalls and by measuring head ptosis (HP). The intravenous injection of acepromazine (0....

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease ceptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors failed to block cAMP(ADPKD) is a multisystem disease characterized by the mediated proliferation of tubular cells from ADPKD progressive development of numerous fluid-filled cysts patients. These studies indicate that cAMP agonists stimin the kidney, leading to chronic renal failure. Predomiulate PKA-mediated activat...

The BALB/c 3T3 NRU test is probably the cytotoxicity test that has been used most frequently in formal validation programs, all of which were aimed at evaluation of cytotoxicity in predicting eye irritancy. Large-scale studies to be mentioned here are Phases I, II, and III of the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association (CTFA) validation program (Gettings et al., 1991, 1992, 1994a, 1994b);...

Virtual studios are now used for various programs such as news, weather forecasts, and educational programs. However, the performers in a virtual studio cannot directly see the surrounding virtual background or their virtual co-performers (i.e., virtual subjects). Therefore, performers must check the position of virtual subjects by watching a monitor, causing them to look away from the virtual ...

In the current study, we investigated the effects of p63 modulation in epithelial plasticity in human keratinocytes. p63 isoforms ΔNp63α, ΔNp63β, and ΔNp63γ were ectopically expressed in normal human epidermal keratinocytes (NHEK). Epithelial or mesenchymal state was determined by morphological changes and altered expression of various markers, e.g., fibronectin (FN), ECadherin (E-Cad), and ker...