ATLANTOAXIAL subluxation (AAS) is found in 11– 46% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid patients with AAS may be at risk of life-threatening neurologic injury caused by exacerbation of the subluxation in the head and neck position during airway maneuver; therefore, appropriate management of the cervical spine is essential. Tokunaga et al. have recommended the protrusion position, w...

V. Kocsis,1,2 Y. Tokunaga,2,3 S. Bordács,4,5 M. Kriener,2 A. Puri,6 U. Zeitler,6 Y. Taguchi,2 Y. Tokura,2,5,7 and I. Kézsmárki4 1MTA-BME Condensed Matter Research Group, Budafoki ut 8, 1111 Budapest, Hungary 2RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan 3Department of Advanced Materials Science, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8561, Japan 4Department of Physic...

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are attractive tools to survey earth science and oceanography, however, there exists a lot of problems to be solved such as motion control, acquisition of sensor data, decisionmaking, navigation without collision, self-localization and so on. In order to realize useful and practical robots, underwater vehicles should take their action by judging the changin...

Background] Medical staff have many occasions to be exposed to anticancer drugs (ACDs) in the process of performing cancer chemotherapy. Although guidelines for the safe handling of ACDs have been published, actual measures against exposure to ACDs differ between hospitals, and no surveillance data regarding the conditions of each hospital in relation to performing cheHow to cite this paper: Sh...

Kiaki Matsumoto Koji Nakada Kazuya Azuma Hiroshi Hatakeyama Tatsuya Tokunaga Kazunori Takahashi OVERVIEW: Advances in ICT and display panels in recent years have led to on-board passenger information displays becoming commonplace on commuter trains. Hitachi commenced serious development in 2006 with the development of an on-board passenger information display based on the concept of experience ...