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Asumi Yamazaki, Akane Koshida, Toshimitsu Tanaka, Masashi Seki and Takayuki Ishida
Recently, some facilities have utilized the dual-energy subtraction (DES) technique for chest radiography to increase pulmonary lesion detectability. However, the availability of the technique is limited to certain facilities, in addition to other limita...
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Masashi Hayakawa, Yuriy P. Galuk and Alexander P. Nickolaenko
This paper addresses the accuracy of estimates for the contemporary level of global thunderstorm activity found from the synchronous records of integrated Schumann resonance (SR) intensity at two high-latitude observatories in the Northern and Southern h...
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Panayiotis A. Varotsos, Nicholas V. Sarlis, Efthimios S. Skordas, Toshiyasu Nagao, Masashi Kamogawa, E. Leticia Flores-Márquez, Alejandro Ramírez-Rojas and Jennifer Perez-Oregon
This article is focused on a new procedure concerning a more accurate identification of the occurrence time of an impending major earthquake (EQ). Specifically, we first recapitulate that, as was recently shown [P. Varotsos et al., Communications in Nonl...
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Hiroyuki Miura, Masashi Matsuoka, Juan C. Reyes, Nelson Pulido, Mitsufumi Hashimoto, Andrea C. Riaño, Alvaro Hurtado, Raul Rincon, Helber García and Carlos Lozano
Early disaster responses in damaged areas after a large earthquake are indispensable for stakeholders to assess and grasp the impacts such as building and infrastructure damage and disrupted community functionality as soon as possible. This study introdu...
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Kasumi Morita, Masashi Mouri, Riccardo Fincato and Seiichiro Tsutsumi
This paper investigates the fatigue cyclic deformation behavior of mid-carbon steel. Uniaxial tensile loading tests and fatigue tests under constant and multi-step amplitude loading steps are performed to characterize the influence of loading history. Th...
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Thai Duong Nguyen, Masashi Kashitani, Masato Taguchi and Kazuhiro Kusunose
In this study, the low-speed performances of the Busemann biplane were clarified, focusing on the relative contributions of the upper and lower elements to the total aerodynamic characteristics of the biplane. Also, the effects of the staggered biplane, ...
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Masashi Hayakawa, Jun Izutsu, Alexander Schekotov, Shih-Sian Yang, Maria Solovieva and Ekaterina Budilova
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the lithosphere?atmosphere?ionosphere coupling (LAIC) effects with the use of multiparameter precursor observations for two successive Japanese earthquakes (EQs) (with a magnitude of around 7) in February and March...
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Mohammad Ghasemi, Sadra Karimzadeh, Masashi Matsuoka and Bakhtiar Feizizadeh
Tabriz is located in the northwest of Iran. Two huge earthquakes with magnitudes of 7.4 and 7.3 occurred there in 1780 and 1721. These earthquakes caused considerable damage and casualties in Tabriz. Using the method of scenario building, we aim to inves...
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Joaquim Carreras, Yara Yukie Kikuti, Masashi Miyaoka, Shinichiro Hiraiwa, Sakura Tomita, Haruka Ikoma, Yusuke Kondo, Atsushi Ito, Naoya Nakamura and Rifat Hamoudi
The prognosis of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is heterogeneous. Therefore, we aimed to highlight predictive biomarkers. First, artificial intelligence was applied into a discovery series of gene expression of 414 patients (GSE10846). A dimension...
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Takashi Noda and Masashi Ohira
To elucidate how the population dynamics of the acorn barnacle Balanus glandula transitioned after its invasion in 2000 along the Pacific coast of Japan, a population census was conducted from 2004 to 2014 at five shores along 49 km of coastline 144?193 ...
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