An Information Loss Restoration Technique for Block-Based Image Coding Systems (2008)
N. T. Thao, K. Asai, M. Vetterli, Zhou Wang, Yinglin Yu, David Zhang
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Identifying unstable rock blocks by measuring micro-tremors and vibration on cliffs (2008)
Tanaka, H., Fujisawa, K., Asai, K.
It is important to identify unstable rock blocks and take countermeasures to prevent sudden rock fall disasters. However, identifying such blocks visually is extremely difficult, so an identification...
Identifying unstable rock blocks by measuring micro-tremors and vibration on cliffs (2008)
Tanaka, H., Fujisawa, K., Asai, K.
It is important to identify unstable rock blocks and take countermeasures to prevent sudden rock fall disasters. However, identifying such blocks visually is extremely difficult, so an identification...
Identifying unstable rock blocks by measuring micro-tremors and vibration on cliffs (2008)
H. Tanaka, K. Fujisawa, K. Asai
It is important to identify unstable rock blocks and take countermeasures to prevent sudden rock fall disasters. However, identifying such blocks visually is extremely difficult, so an identification...
Identifying unstable rock blocks by measuring micro-tremors and vibration on cliffs (2008)
Tanaka, H., Fujisawa, K., Asai, K.
It is important to identify unstable rock blocks and take countermeasures to prevent sudden rock fall disasters. However, identifying such blocks visually is extremely difficult, so an identification...
Identifying unstable rock blocks by measuring micro-tremors and vibration on cliffs (2008)
Tanaka, H., Fujisawa, K., Asai, K.
It is important to identify unstable rock blocks and take countermeasures to prevent sudden rock fall disasters. However, identifying such blocks visually is extremely difficult, so an identification...
Use of modified U1 snRNAs to inhibit HIV-1 replication (2007)
Sajic, R., Lee, K., Asai, K., Sakac, D., Branch, D. R., Upton, C., ...
Control of RNA processing plays a central role in regulating the replication of HIV-1, in particular the 3′ polyadenylation of viral RNA. Based on the demonstration that polyadenylation of mRNAs...
Naoi, N., Asai, K., Iguchi, T., Watanabe, K., Kawarabayashi, J., Nishitani, T.
For ion temperature measurement in the ITER high power operation phase, we propose a promising high-energy-resolution neutron spectrometer based on the associated particle detection using a proton...
Asai, K., Naoi, N., Iguchi, T., Watanabe, K., Kawarabayashi, J., Nishitani, T.
A time-of-flight (TOF) neutron spectrometer is a candidate for the measurement of the D/T burning ratio in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). In ITER high-power experiments,...
Tabei, Y., Tsuda, K., Kin, T., Asai, K.
The functions of non-coding RNAs are strongly related to their secondary structures, but it is known that a secondary structure prediction of a single sequence is not reliable. Therefore, we have to...
Network-based de-noising improves prediction from microarray data (2006)
Kato, T., Murata, Y., Miura, K., Asai, K., Horton, P.B., Tsuda, K., ...
Prediction of human cell response to anti-cancer drugs (compounds) from microarray data is a challenging problem, due to the noise properties of microarrays as well as the high variance of living...
Mining frequent stem patterns from unaligned RNA sequences (2006)
Hamada, M., Tsuda, K., Kudo, T., Kin, T., Asai, K.
Motivation: In detection of non-coding RNAs, it is often necessary to identify the secondary structure motifs from a set of putative RNA sequences. Most of the existing algorithms aim to provide the...
Effect of carbon dioxide cofeed on decomposition of methane over Ni catalysts (2006)
Nagayasu, Y, Asai, K, Nakayama, A, Iwamoto, S, Yagasaki, E, Inoue, M
Use of modified U1 snRNAs to inhibit HIV-1 replication (2006)
Sajic, R., Lee, K., Asai, K., Sakac, D., Branch, D. R., Upton, C., ...
Control of RNA processing plays a central role in regulating the replication of HIV-1, in particular the 3′ polyadenylation of viral RNA. Based on the demonstration that polyadenylation of mRNAs...
Use of modified U1 snRNAs to inhibit HIV-1 replication (2006)
Sajic, R., Lee, K., Asai, K., Sakac, D., Branch, D. R., Upton, C., ...
Control of RNA processing plays a central role in regulating the replication of HIV-1, in particular the 3′ polyadenylation of viral RNA. Based on the demonstration that polyadenylation of mRNAs...
Inelastic neutron scattering study of phonons and magnetic excitations in LaCoO$_{3}$ (2005)
Kobayashi, Y., Naing, Thant Sin, Suzuki, M., Akimitsu, M., Asai, K., Yamada, K., ...
We have investigated the phonon and the magnetic excitations in LaCoO3 by inelastic neutron scattering measurements. The acoustic phonon dispersions show some characteristic features of the folded...
Inelastic neutron scattering study of phonons and magnetic excitations in LaCoO3 (2005)
Kobayashi, Y, Naing, T S, Suzuki, M, Akimitsu, M, Asai, K, Yamada, K, ...
We have investigated the phonon and the magnetic excitations in LaCoO3 by inelastic neutron scattering measurements. The acoustic phonon dispersions show some characteristic features of the folded...
Sequencing of Aspergillus nidulans and comparative analysis with A-fumigatus and A-oryzae (2005)
Galagan, J. E., Calvo, S. E., Cuomo, C., Ma, L. J., Wortman, J. R., Batzoglou, S., ...
Genomic sequence of the pathogenic and allergenic filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus (2005)
Nierman, W. C., Pain, A., Anderson, M. J., Wortman, J. R., Kim, H. S., Arroyo, J., ...
Minimizing the Cross Validation Error to Mix Kernel Matrices of Heterogeneous Biological Data (2004)
A New Variational Framework for Rigid-Body Alignment (2004)
Kato, T., Tsuda, K., Tomii, K., Asai, K., Fred, A., Caelli, T., ...
Minimizing the Cross Validation Error to Mix Kernel Matrices of Heterogeneous Biological Data (2004)
Optimization of Temperature-Sensitive Paint Formulation (2003)
Iijima, Y., Egami, Yasuhiro, Nishizawa, A., Asai, K., Fey, Uwe, Engler, Rolf H.
In this paper, a new Temperature-Sensitive Paint (TSP) technique for boundary-layer transition detection in a production-type large cryogenic wind tunnel is presented. The formulation of Ru(trpy)...
Fey, Uwe, Egami, Yasuhiro, Iijima, Y., Asai, K., Jansen, U., Quest, Jürgen
The identification of laminar-turbulent boundary layer transition on wind tunnel models provides essential data for modern wing design. However, simulating true flight Reynolds numbers with scaled...
Search for millisecond periodicities in type I X-ray bursts of the Rapid Burster (2001)
Fox, D.W., Lewin, W.H.G., Rutledge, R.E., Morgan, E.H., Guerriero, R., Bildsten, L., ...
Ebisawa, K., Mukai, K., Kotani, T., Asai, K., Dotani, T., Nagase, F., ...
We report observation results of the super-soft X-ray sources (SSS) CAL87 and RXJ0925.7-4758 with the X-ray CCD cameras (Solid-state Imaging Spectrometer; SIS) on-board the ASCA satellite. We have...
Search for Millisecond Periodicities in Type I X-ray Bursts of the Rapid Burster (2000)
Fox, D. W., Lewin, W. H. G., Rutledge, R. E., Morgan, E. H., Guerriero, R., Bildsten, L., ...
We have searched the rising portion of type I X-ray bursts observed from the Rapid Burster with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer for the presence of periodicities. The 95 per cent confidence upper...
Resonance photoemission of LaCoO3(111) and La0.9Sr0.1CoO3(111) (2000)
Thomas, AG, Flavell, WR, Dunwoody, PM, Mitchell, CEJ, Warren, S, Grice, SC, ...
Detection of 3.3 and 6.5 millisecond pulsations from type I x-ray bursts of the rapid burster (1999)
Fox, D.W., Rutledge, R.E., Lewin, W.H.G., Morgan, E.H., Guerriero, R., Klis, M. Van Der, ...
Muro, H., Waguri-Nagaya, Y., Mukofujiwara, Y., Iwahashi, T., Otsuka, T., Matsui, N., ...
Objective. The purpose of this study was to examine how gliostatin/platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor (GLS/PD-ECGF) is involved in the molecular mechanism of cartilage degradation in...
ASCA Observations of GRO J1744-28 (1998)
Nishiuchi, M., Koyama, K., Maeda, Y., Asai, K., Dotani, T., Inoue, H., ...
We report the ASCA results of the bursting X-ray pulsar \gro, which was observed in February 1996 and March 1997. The source flux in the 2--10 keV band was $2.0\times10^{-8}$ erg/sec/cm$^2$ in 1996...
Progressive Covering of the ADC during Dipping in the LMXB XBT 0748-676 (1998)
Church, M. J., Balucinska-Church, M., Dotani, T., Asai, K.
We report results of analysis of the ASCA observation of 1993, May 7th of the dipping LMXB source XBT 0748-676, and propose a new explanation of the spectral evolution in dipping in this source. We...
Ginga observations of Cygnus X-2 (1997)
Wijnands, R. A. D., Van Der Klis, M., Kuulkers, E., Asai, K., Hasinger, G.
We analysed all X-ray data on the low-mass X-ray binary Cygnus X-2 obtained with Ginga. The analysis of the spectral and fast timing behaviour of these 4 years of data provides new insights in the...
Ginga observations of Cygnus X-2 (1997)
Wijnands, R.A.D., Klis, M. Van Der, Kuulkers, E., Asai, K., Hasinger, G.
Waguri, Y, Otsuka, T, Sugimura, I, Matsui, N, Asai, K, Moriyama, A, ...
ASCA Observations of the super-soft sources CAL87 and RXJ0925.7-475 (1996)
Ebisawa, K., Mukai, K., Smale, A.P., Asai, K., Dotani, T., Nagase, F., ...
Spectral and correlated timing behaviour: erratum (1995)
Kuulkers, E., Klis, M. Van Der, Oosterbroek, T., Asai, K., Dotani, T., Paradijs, J. Van, ...
Discovery of X-ray bursts from GX 13+1 (4U 1811-17) (1995)
Matsuba, E., Dotani, T., Mitsuda, K., Asai, K., Lewin, W.H.G., Paradijs, J.A. Van, ...
Spectral variations along the branches in GX 5-1 (1994)
Asai, K., Dotani, T., Mitsuda, K., Nagase, F., Kamado, Y., Kuulkers, E., ...
Spectral and correlated timing behaviour of GX 5-1 (1994)
Kuulkers, E., Klis, M. Van Der, Oosterbroek, T., Asai, K., Dotani, T., Paradijs, J.A. Van, ...
Lidar Network for Observation of Asian Dust (Kosa) in Japan
Murayama, T., Sugimoto, N., Matsui, I., Arao, K., Sakai, T., Kwon, S-A, ...
研究概要:We have organized a lidar network for the observation of Asian dust in the spring, March to May, of 1997 in Japan. Owing to the communication through the internet e-mail we effectively...
Lidar Network for Observation of Asian Dust (Kosa) in Japan
Murayama, T., Sugimoto, N., Matsui, I., Arao, K., Sakai, T., Kwon, S-A, ...
研究概要:We have organized a lidar network for the observation of Asian dust in the spring, March to May, of 1997 in Japan. Owing to the communication through the internet e-mail we effectively...
Essential Bacillus subtilis genes
Kobayashi, K., Ehrlich, S. D., Albertini, A., Amati, G., Andersen, K. K., Arnaud, M., ...
To estimate the minimal gene set required to sustain bacterial life in nutritious conditions, we carried out a systematic inactivation of Bacillus subtilis genes. Among ≈4,100 genes of the...
Chibazakura, T, Kawamura, F, Asai, K, Takahashi, H
Transcriptional analyses of the Bacillus subtilis sporulation initiator gene spo0A revealed that promoter switching from the vegetative (Pv) to the sporulation-specific (Ps) promoter did not occur in...
Expression of kinA and accumulation of sigma H at the onset of sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.
Asai, K, Kawamura, F, Yoshikawa, H, Takahashi, H
Induction of the Bacillus subtilis kinA gene, which codes for a major kinase of the phosphorelay pathway, required the spo0H gene, coding for the sigma H protein, but not the genes spo0A, spo0B, and...
Asai, K, Kawamura, F, Sadaie, Y, Takahashi, H
A Bacillus subtilis secA mutant, secA12, which is blocked at an early stage of sporulation, is able to grow as well as the wild-type strain at all temperatures tested. Experiments with lacZ fusion...
Vatner, D E, Asai, K, Iwase, M, Ishikawa, Y, Wagner, T E, Shannon, R P, ...
Inotropic and chronotropic responses to catecholamines in young adult transgenic mice overexpressing myocardial Gsalpha are enhanced. One might predict that over the life of the animal, this...
Essential Bacillus subtilis genes
Kobayashi, K., Ehrlich, S. D., Albertini, A., Amati, G., Andersen, K. K., Arnaud, M., ...
To estimate the minimal gene set required to sustain bacterial life in nutritious conditions, we carried out a systematic inactivation of Bacillus subtilis genes. Among ≈4,100 genes of the...
Chibazakura, T, Kawamura, F, Asai, K, Takahashi, H
Transcriptional analyses of the Bacillus subtilis sporulation initiator gene spo0A revealed that promoter switching from the vegetative (Pv) to the sporulation-specific (Ps) promoter did not occur in...
Expression of kinA and accumulation of sigma H at the onset of sporulation in Bacillus subtilis.
Asai, K, Kawamura, F, Yoshikawa, H, Takahashi, H
Induction of the Bacillus subtilis kinA gene, which codes for a major kinase of the phosphorelay pathway, required the spo0H gene, coding for the sigma H protein, but not the genes spo0A, spo0B, and...
Asai, K, Kawamura, F, Sadaie, Y, Takahashi, H
A Bacillus subtilis secA mutant, secA12, which is blocked at an early stage of sporulation, is able to grow as well as the wild-type strain at all temperatures tested. Experiments with lacZ fusion...
Vatner, D E, Asai, K, Iwase, M, Ishikawa, Y, Wagner, T E, Shannon, R P, ...
Inotropic and chronotropic responses to catecholamines in young adult transgenic mice overexpressing myocardial Gsalpha are enhanced. One might predict that over the life of the animal, this...
Lidar Network for Observation of Asian Dust (Kosa) in Japan
Murayama, T., Sugimoto, N., Matsui, I., Arao, K., Sakai, T., Kwon, S-A, ...
研究概要:We have organized a lidar network for the observation of Asian dust in the spring, March to May, of 1997 in Japan. Owing to the communication through the internet e-mail we effectively...
Use of modified U1 snRNAs to inhibit HIV-1 replication
Sajic, R., Lee, K., Asai, K., Sakac, D., Branch, D. R., Upton, C., ...
Control of RNA processing plays a central role in regulating the replication of HIV-1, in particular the 3′ polyadenylation of viral RNA. Based on the demonstration that polyadenylation of mRNAs...
Corticotropin releasing hormone in colonic mucosa in patients with ulcerative colitis.
Kawahito, Y, Sano, H, Mukai, S, Asai, K, Kimura, S, Yamamura, Y, ...
Corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) is a key hormone in integrated response to stress, acting as the major regulator of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. Recently, local production of CRH...