Variations in the efficiency of albuterol delivery and intrapulmonary effects with differential parameter settings on intrapulmonary percussive ventilation

T Karashima, Y Mimura-Kimura, K Miyakawa… - Respiratory …, 2019 - rc.rcjournal.com
BACKGROUND: Intrapulmonary percussive ventilation (IPV) is used for airway clearance and
delivery of aerosol medications, including bronchodilators. Despite the common use of IPV …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular classification and diagnostics of upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma

…, MM Nakagawa, Y Nannya, H Makishima, J Miyakawa… - Cancer Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) is one of the common urothelial cancers. Its
molecular pathogenesis, however, is poorly understood, with no useful biomarkers …

[HTML][HTML] Reduced Tyk2 gene expression in β-cells due to natural mutation determines susceptibility to virus-induced diabetes

…, Y Kai, T Kurafuji, K Hirakawa, D Miyakawa… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Accumulating evidence suggests that viruses play an important role in the development of
diabetes. Although the diabetogenic encephalomyocarditis strain D virus induces diabetes in …

Involuntary-blink detection method robust against dynamically change of frame rate

T Miyakawa, K Tsuruoka, T Toda - The 6th 2013 Biomedical …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a robust method to detect involuntary blinks for visual display terminal (VDT)
users using Web camera, even if the Web-camera's frame rate dynamically changes …

Robust Blink Detection Method For Low Frame Rates

T Toda, K Tsuruoka, T Miyakawa, X Liu - IEEJ Journal of Industry …, 2014 - jstage.jst.go.jp
In recent times, personal mobile devices have become an integral part of daily life. However,
since these devices typically demand prolonged durations of focus, they adversely affect a …

Survival from an acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis with or without direct hemoperfusion with a polymyxin B-immobilized fiber column: a retrospective …

K Oishi, K Aoe, Y Mimura, Y Murata, K Sakamoto… - Internal …, 2016 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Objective Acute exacerbations of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (AE-IPF) are fatal episodes
of acute respiratory worsening of unknown etiology. Previous studies on acute respiratory …

Visualization by P-flow: gradient-and feature-based optical flow and vector fields extracted from image analysis

W Suzuki, A Hiyama, N Ichinohe, W Yamashita, T Seno… - JOSA A, 2020 - opg.optica.org
… Lucas–Kanade method [3] and the Horn–Schunck method [4]. The Lucas–Kanade method is
… Both the Lucas–Kanade and the Horn–Schunck methods are classified as gradient-based (…

[HTML][HTML] Isolation of Artemisia capillaris membrane-bound di-prenyltransferase for phenylpropanoids and redesign of artepillin C in yeast

R Munakata, T Takemura, K Tatsumi… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
Plants produce various prenylated phenolic metabolites, including flavonoids, phloroglucinols,
and coumarins, many of which have multiple prenyl moieties and display various …

Mucosal damage in pancreaticobiliary maljunction is stronger in the gallbladder than in the bile duct

M Kamakura, T Uehara, T Muraki, M Iwaya… - … -Research and Practice, 2024 - Elsevier
Background The frequency of gallbladder carcinoma is high in pancreaticobiliary maljunction
(PBM), and the mechanism of carcinogenesis is not well understood. Methods The …

Improvements for atmospheric motion vectors algorithm using first guess by optical flow method

Y Oh, H Park, JH Kim, S Kim - Korean Journal of Remote Sensing, 2020 - koreascience.kr
… In this study, we propose the AMVs derivation from Lucas and Kanade optical flow method
and then using it as the first guess. To retrieve AMVs, Himawari-8/AHI geostationary satellite …