Department of Environmental Life Sciences, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980–8577, Japan (M.I., J.H.); Department of Applied Plant Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai 981–8555, Japan (A.M, H.I.); and Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo...

Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan, Nursing Care Division, Juntendo Geriatric Koto Medical Center, Koto-ku, Tokyo 136-0076 Japan Health Science Division, ELSEVIER, JAPAN 1-9-15 Higashi-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 106-0044, Japan Division of Health Care Economics, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo113-8549, Japan E-mail: e-mail: [email protected]...

Some cognitive processes are suppressed during saccadic eye movements, whereas others are not. In two experiments, we investigated the locus of this interference effect. In one experiment, subjects decided whether pictured items were objects or nonobjects while making saccades of different lengths. Saccade distance had no effect on response time, indicating that saccades do not interfere with o...

  The study seeks to address the importance of urban stream ecosystems from the perspective of urban ecology, human health and social well-being in the context of urban planning. The case study area is Paveh stream in the City of Paveh. The data from the case study area were gathered from questionnaire, existing scientific and library studies and by conducting interviews with residents and auth...

Kenta Takata,1,2,3,* Alireza Marandi,1,2,4 and Yoshihisa Yamamoto1,2,4 1ImPACT, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Gobancho 7, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0076, Japan 2National Institute of Informatics, Hitotsubashi 2-1-2, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8403, Japan 3Department of Information and Communication Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan 4E. L. Ginzton ...

Forested mountain watersheds provide essential resources and services (e.g., water supply) to downstream ecosystems and human communities. Fast-growing mountainside residential development not only modifies the terrestrial system but also aquatic systems by changing the nutrient input from the terrestrial to aquatic. However, the impacts of mountainside residential development on stream ecosyst...

The subjective temporal distance of a past event-how close or far away it feels-is influenced by numerous factors apart from actual time. The current studies extend research on subjective distance by exploring the experience of remembering autobiographical events as part of a stream of related events. The temporal direction in which events are recalled was proposed as a key determinant of subje...

Incorporating spatial covariance into clustering has previously been considered for functional data to identify groups of functions which are similar across space. However, in the majority of situations that have been considered until now the most appropriate metric has been Euclidean distance. Directed networks present additional challenges in terms of estimating spatial covariance due to thei...