1 Sustainability Governance Project, Creative Research Initiative, Hokkaido University, N9W8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0809, Japan 2 Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, N10W5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan 3 Frontier Research System for Global Change, 3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-0001, Japan Received: 13 November 20...

Department of Ophthalmology, Teine Keijinkai Hospital, Sapporo 006-0811, Japan Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan Department of Surgical Pathology, Teine Keijinkai Hospital, Sapporo 006-0811, Japan Correspondence to: Satoru Kase. Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Med...

Hepatitis C Virus NS5A Protein Interacts with Phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase Type III and Regulates Viral Propagation Yun-Sook Lim and Soon B. Hwang* From the National Research Laboratory of Hepatitis C Virus, Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University, Anyang, 431-060, Korea Running head: HCV NS5A modulates PI4KIII * Address correspondence to: Soon B. Hwang, Ph.D. Ilsong Institute o...

This paper examines nonmarket interactions among migrants from same origins in the urban labor market of Bangkok, Thailand. We test whether the labor-market performance of previous migrants has externalities to that of new migrants who moved from the same province of origin. Our empirical results, which control origin fixed effects, time-fixed effects, and origin/year-specific correlated shocks...

This paper presents a novel image retargeting approach for ranging cameras. The proposed approach first extracts three feature maps: depth map, saliency map, and gradient map. Then, the depth map and the saliency map are used to separate the main contents and the background and thus compute a map of saliency objects. After that, the proposed approach constructs an importance map which combines ...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of saffron as a natural sunscreen and moisturizer. The pollens of the saffron were dried and powdered in a grinder. The experimental formulations included a homosalate (8%) lotion reference, lotions with 2, 4 and 8% of grinded saffron, and the control lotion base without saffron. The lotions containing saffron were prepared like homosal...

Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060, Japan, School of Chemistry, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-75, Hobart 7001, Australia, Division of Material Science, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060, Japan, National Industrial Research Institute of Nagoya, 1-1 Hirate-cho, Kita-ku, Nagoya 462-8510, Japan, Au...