In the present effort, we present a knowledge tier platform to collect information from cities in a form of graphs. This platform enables people to share the information of the area where they live allowing them to inform about pollution, crime levels, traffic jams, streets topology, commerces, markets, etc. The main objective is to provide information, stored in Elastic about a city to find sp...

Molecular motors are involved in key transport processes inside actin-based cellular protrusions. The motors carry cargo proteins to the protrusion tip which participate in regulating the actin polymerization and play a key role in facilitating the growth and formation of such protrusions. It is observed that the motors accumulate at the tips of cellular protrusions and form aggregates that are...

The mitigation of traffic congestion is a growing problem globally. We test whether there is a relationship between rail provision and road performance in Japan, using aggregate level data. Our motivation for examining Japan is the comparatively high level of rail provision in Japan. A regression analysis of prefectural data from 2010 finds that the length of rail has a significant effect on av...

During prolonged stimulation, fusion of thousands of synaptic vesicles poses a challenge for the temporal and spatial coordination of exocytosis and endocytosis. In this issue of Neuron, Hosoi and colleagues reveal that [Ca2+](i)-microdomains trigger compensatory endocytosis. Block of endocytosis enhances short-term depression by delaying vesicle recruitment to docking sites on active zones.

Targeted design and placement of natural flood management leaky barriers, or engineered logjams, accurate representation logjams in hydraulic models across different scales is necessary to generate desired water storage peak attenuation for effective river restoration projects. We systematically assess the effect varying logjam spacing, extent logjam-generated change surface profile, vertical h...

The possibility of controlling traffic dynamics by applying high-frequency time modulation of traffic flow parameters is studied. It is shown that the region of the car density where the uniform (free) flow is unstable changes in the presence of time modulation compared with the unmodulated case. This region shrinks when the speed-up of cars does not exceed some critical value and expands in th...

This study proposes a process simulation-based approach to traffic jam issues in toll plaza with ETC gates in expressways. Describing overview of ETC system around the world as well as in Japan, the paper clarifies the issue of traffic jams, which occurs in toll plaza of expressways in Japan. Two kinds of solution to traffic jam issues are studied in this research. One is to determine the appro...

The concept of 21st-century skills refers to the knowledge, skills, and emotions that are critical successfully navigating today’s world. Game jams can act as spaces develop these thus boost cooperative learning, problem-based or co-creation. Additionally, game offer opportunities improve collaboration creativity among others. This paper summarizes three years activities designing studying focu...