President Ernest B. Price, Herbert M. Bratter, Kumao Mino, Keizaburo Hashimoto, Kuo Min,
... Aviation, The Kanose Hydro-Electric Development on the Agano River, Japan, Mining of Alluvial Deposits by Dredging ...
1930 - Gale Group | NCCO AsiaWest
... the long‐term effects of the 1998 N agano W inter O lympic G ames on various economic and labor market outcomes in N agano P refecture. One‐shot and large‐size events, ... various economic and labor market outcomes for N agano P refecture, and then compare these outcomes with ... local economic and labor market outcomes in N agano P refecture would have been different had the ...
Tópico(s): Sports Analytics and Performance
2016 - Wiley | Asian Economic Policy Review
Sakiko Yoshizawa Morikawa, Kazuya Fujihara, Mariko Hatta, TAEKO OSAWA, Masahiro Ishizawa, Masahiko Yamamoto, Kazuo Furukawa, Hajime Ishiguro, Satoshi Matsunaga, Yohei Ogawa, Hitoshi Shimano, Hirohito Sone,
To examine the independent and combined associations of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and muscular fitness (MF) with cardiometabolic risk factors in Japanese adolescents.A cross-sectional study including 993 Japanese adolescents (aged 13-14 years) was undertaken. Height, body mass, blood pressure, lipid profile (non-fasting), and HbA1c were measured. The physical fitness (PF) test included measurements of CRF (20 m multistage shuttle run test), upper limb strength (hand grip strength), lower limb strength ( ...
Tópico(s): Physical Activity and Health
2017 - Wiley | Pediatric Diabetes
Xieyao Ma, Takao Yoshikane, 政之 原, Yasutaka Wakazuki, Hiroshi G. Takahashi, Fujio Kimura,
... Japan, a hydrological simulation was made in the Agano River basin by using a regional climate model’ ...
Tópico(s): Flood Risk Assessment and Management
2010 - | Hydrological Research Letters
... to the volcanic origin of the material. The Agano River is assumed to be the main source ... from at least four different volcanic sources around Agano River. One of them is the Numazawa volcano, ...
Tópico(s): Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
2004 - Elsevier BV | Quaternary Science Reviews
Paddy soils collected near Agano River, Niigata Prefecture in Japan. Agano River is located on an attack area of Niigata-Minamata disease. Soil samples were ...
Tópico(s): Mercury impact and mitigation studies
1998 - Elsevier BV | Chemosphere
... obtained from all residents, who lived in the Agano river villages where Minamata disease occurred as of ...
Tópico(s): Radioactive contamination and transfer
1996 - The Japanese Society for Hygiene | Nippon Eiseigaku Zasshi (Japanese Journal of Hygiene)
Masaki TATEYAMA, Tatsuhiko UCHIDA, Shoji FUKUOKA, Nariyuki TANABE,
In the Agano River estuary flowing into Japan Sea, bars at the mouth are developed from both river banks. The bar ...
Tópico(s): Earthquake and Tsunami Effects
2013 - | Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers Ser B1 (Hydraulic Engineering)
Shunji Ishikura, Chieko Shibuya,
... poisoned patients caused by organic mercury around the Agano river. The mercury content was estimated photometrically from ...
Tópico(s): Mercury impact and mitigation studies
1968 - Pharmaceutical Society of Japan | Eisei kagaku
Tokuzo HOSOYAMADA, Masashige Tayasu, Takaaki YASUTA,
Sandbars in the Agano river have seasonal change, such as decay in summer and regrowth in winter basically. In this study, regrowth of ... condition. Terrain model was obtained by convert of Agano river mouth bathymetric image to DEM(Digital Elevation ... well with airborne image of terrain of the Agano river-mouth, especially in the left bank of ...
Tópico(s): Geological formations and processes
2011 - | Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers Ser B2 (Coastal Engineering)
Norio Imai, Takuya Yoda, Yoji Horigome, Reiko Murakami, Masashi Wakasugi, Toshihide Fujii, Masayuki Ohashi, Hiroyuki Kawashima,
A significant increase in the older adult population in Japan will significantly increase healthcare costs. This study aimed to examine the risk factors contributing to robustness transitioning to frailty in older residents.Participants were aged 70 in 2016 and 76 in 2022. Participants were evaluated using the Kihon Checklist (KCL).Participants for this longitudinal study included 444 older persons who completed the KCL surveys in 2016 and 2022. The follow-up rate was 80.6%; therefore, 358 participants ...
Tópico(s): Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
2023 - BioMed Central | BMC Geriatrics
Christina Balle, Blair Armistead, Agano Kiravu, Xiaochang Song, Anna‐Ursula Happel, Angela A. Hoffmann, Sami B. Kanaan, J. Lee Nelson, Clive M. Gray, Heather B. Jaspan, Whitney E. Harrington,
Determinants of the acquisition and maintenance of maternal microchimerism (MMc) during infancy and the impact of MMc on infant immune responses are unknown. We examined factors that influence MMc detection and level across infancy and the effect of MMc on T cell responses to bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination in a cohort of HIV-exposed, uninfected and HIV-unexposed infants in South Africa. MMc was measured in whole blood from 58 infants using a panel of quantitative PCR assays at day 1, and ...
Tópico(s): Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
2022 - American Society for Clinical Investigation | Journal of Clinical Investigation
Hisashi Saitō, Tomoko Sekikawa, Jun Taguchi, Tetsu Shozawa, Yasuko Kinoshita, Kouko Matsumura, Kiyoko Yanagihara, Kazue Nikaido, S Urasaki, Haruyuki Imaizumi, Hideto Hatano,
... 40ppm. In Niigata the pollution was on the Agano River and there were over 2000 commercial fishermen ...
Tópico(s): Air Quality and Health Impacts
2020 - Elsevier BV | NeuroToxicology
Yunhao Zhu, Laura A. Johnson, Jonathan M. Rubin, Henry D. Appelman, Linyu Ni, Jie Yuan, Xueding Wang, Peter Higgins, Guan Xu,
... We also thank Drs Sato Naoto and Toshitaka Agano with PreXion and Cyberdyne for providing the light- ...
Tópico(s): Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography
2019 - Elsevier BV | Gastroenterology
Agano Kiravu, Sophia Osawe, Anna‐Ursula Happel, Trishana Nundalall, Jerome Wendoh, Sophie Beer, Nobomi Dontsa, Olatogni Berenice Alinde, Sikiratu Mohammed, Pam Datong, D. William Cameron, Kenneth L. Rosenthal, Alash’le Abimiku, Heather B. Jaspan, Clive M. Gray,
Differences in Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) immunogenicity and efficacy have been reported, but various strains of BCG are administered worldwide. Since BCG immunization may also provide protection against off-target antigens, we sought to identify the impact of different BCG strains on the ontogeny of vaccine-specific and heterologous vaccine immunogenicity in the first 9 months of life, utilizing two African birth cohorts. A total of 270 infants were studied: 84 from Jos, Nigeria (vaccinated with ...
Tópico(s): Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders
2019 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Immunology
Christophe Toukam Tchakoute, Kristin L. Sainani, Sophia Osawe, Pam Datong, Agano Kiravu, Kenneth L. Rosenthal, Clive M. Gray, D. William Cameron, Alash’le Abimiku, Heather B. Jaspan,
The effects of in-utero HIV-exposure on infectious morbidity and mortality in settings with universal maternal treatment and high breastfeeding rates are unclear. Further, the benefits of exclusive feeding options have not been assessed in the Option B+ era. We investigated these in two African settings with high breastfeeding uptake and good HIV treatment infrastructure during the first year of life.Cox regression with time-changing variables in a birth cohort of 749 HIV-exposed uninfected and ...
Tópico(s): Global Maternal and Child Health
2018 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | AIDS
Wenfeng Xia, Mithun Kuniyil Ajith Singh, Efthymios Maneas, Naoto Sato, Yusuke Shigeta, Toshitaka Agano, Sébastien Ourselin, Simeon J. West, Adrien E. Desjardins,
Ultrasound imaging is widely used to guide minimally invasive procedures, but the visualization of the invasive medical device and the procedure’s target is often challenging. Photoacoustic imaging has shown great promise for guiding minimally invasive procedures, but clinical translation of this technology has often been limited by bulky and expensive excitation sources. In this work, we demonstrate the feasibility of guiding minimally invasive procedures using a dual-mode photoacoustic and ultrasound ...
Tópico(s): Thermography and Photoacoustic Techniques
2018 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Sensors
Yunhao Zhu, Guan Xu, Jie Yuan, Janggun Jo, Gandikota Girish, Hakan Demirci, Toshitaka Agano, Naoto Sato, Yusuke Shigeta, Xueding Wang,
Abstract Using low cost and small size light emitting diodes (LED) as the alternative illumination source for photoacoustic (PA) imaging has many advantages, and can largely benefit the clinical translation of the emerging PA imaging technology. Here, we present our development of LED-based PA imaging integrated with B-mode ultrasound. To overcome the challenge of achieving sufficient signal-to-noise ratio by the LED light that is orders of magnitude weaker than lasers, extensive signal averaging ...
Tópico(s): Thermography and Photoacoustic Techniques
2018 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Agano J. Makori, Paul O. Abuom, Raphael Kapiyo, Douglas N. Anyona, Gabriel O. Dida,
Small-scale fish farmers in developing countries are faced with challenges owing to their limited information on aquaculture management. Nile tilapia farmers in Teso North Sub-County recorded lower yields than expected in 2009 despite having been provided with required inputs. Water quality was suspected to be the key factor responsible for the low yields. This study sought to assess the effects of earthen pond water physico-chemical parameters on the growth of Nile tilapia in six earthen fish ponds ...
Tópico(s): Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
2017 - Springer Science+Business Media | Fisheries and aquatic sciences
Rubina Bunjun, Catherine Riou, Andreia Soares, Narjis Thawer, Tracey L. Müller, Agano Kiravu, Zekarias Ginbot, Tolu Oni, René Goliath, Barbara Kalsdorf, Florian von Groote-Bidlingmaier, Willem A. Hanekom, Gerhard Walzl, Robert J. Wilkinson, Wendy A. Burgers,
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV) infection substantially increases the risk of developing tuberculosis. There is extensive depletion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis–specific CD4+ T cells in blood during early HIV infection, but little is known about responses in the lungs at this stage. Given that mucosal organs are a principal target for HIV-mediated CD4+ T-cell destruction, we investigated M. tuberculosis–specific responses in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) from persons with latent M. tuberculosis ...
Tópico(s): Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
2017 - Oxford University Press | The Journal of Infectious Diseases
Tomoki Ushiyama, Takahiro Sayama, Yoichi Iwami,
Recent advances of regional ensemble weather predictions have increasingly improved predictability of rainfall forecasts, which would be useful for streamflow forecasts. We have developed an ensemble flood forecasting system, composed of an ensemble Kalman filter and regional model WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting) in atmospheric part, and Rainfall-Runoff-Inundation (RRI) model in hydrological part. We examined feasibility of the flood forecasting system on the Niigata-Fukushima torrential rainfall ...
Tópico(s): Climate variability and models
2016 - | Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers Ser B1 (Hydraulic Engineering)
Catherine Riou, Rubina Bunjun, Tracey L. Müller, Agano Kiravu, Zekarias Ginbot, Tolu Oni, René Goliath, Robert J. Wilkinson, Wendy A. Burgers,
HIV-1 is recognized to increase the risk for tuberculosis even before CD4+ T cell deficiency is profound. To better understand how HIV-1 alters immunity to latent tuberculosis, we compared the magnitude and functional profile of mycobacteria-specific CD4+ T cells between HIV-uninfected and HIV-infected individuals, using flow cytometry. In HIV-1 infection, IFN-γ single positive mycobacteria-specific CD4+ T cells were decreased, while the frequency of polyfunctional cells (IFN-γ+IL-2+TNF-α+) remained ...
Tópico(s): HIV Research and Treatment
2016 - Elsevier BV | Tuberculosis
Yaeko Kataoka, Mikiko Imazeki, Eriko Shinohara,
... at a hospital's outpatient clinic in N agano, J apan, during O ctober through D ecember ...
Tópico(s): Child Abuse and Trauma
2015 - Wiley | Japan Journal of Nursing Science
Catherine Riou, Clive M. Gray, Masixole Y. Lugongolo, Thabisile Gwala, Agano Kiravu, Pamela Deniso, Lynsey Stewart‐Isherwood, Shaheed Vally Omar, Martin P. Grobusch, Gerrit Coetzee, Francesca Conradie, Nazir Ismail, Gilla Kaplan, Dorothy Fallows,
We investigated 18 HIV-negative patients with MDR-TB for M. tuberculosis (Mtb)- and PPD-specific CD4 T cell responses and followed them over 6 months of drug therapy. Twelve of these patients were sputum culture (SC) positive and six patients were SC negative upon enrollment. Our aim was to identify a subset of mycobacteria-specific CD4 T cells that would predict time to culture conversion. The total frequency of mycobacteria-specific CD4 T cells at baseline could not distinguish patients showing ...
Tópico(s): Immune Cell Function and Interaction
2014 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Wendy A. Burgers, Zekarias Ginbot, Yen-Ju Shen, Gerald K. Chege, Andreia Soares, Tracey L. Müller, Rubina Bunjun, Agano Kiravu, Henry Munyanduki, Nicola Douglass, Anna‐Lise Williamson,
Poxvirus vectors represent promising human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) vaccine candidates and were a component of the only successful HIV vaccine efficacy trial to date. We tested the immunogenicity of a novel recombinant capripoxvirus vector, lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV), in combination with modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA), both expressing genes from HIV-1. Here, we demonstrated that the combination regimen was immunogenic in rhesus macaques, inducing high-magnitude, broad and balanced CD4(+) and ...
Tópico(s): Virus-based gene therapy research
2014 - Microbiology Society | Journal of General Virology
Gerald K. Chege, Wendy A. Burgers, Helen Stutz, Ann E. Meyers, Rosamund Chapman, Agano Kiravu, Rubina Bunjun, Enid Shephard, William R. Jacobs, Edward P. Rybicki, Anna‐Lise Williamson,
ABSTRACT We previously reported that a recombinant pantothenate auxotroph of Mycobacterium bovis BCG expressing human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) subtype C Gag (rBCGpan-Gag) efficiently primes the mouse immune system for a boost with a recombinant modified vaccinia virus Ankara (rMVA) vaccine. In this study, we further evaluated the immunogenicity of rBCGpan-Gag in a nonhuman primate model. Two groups of chacma baboons were primed or mock primed twice with either rBCGpan-Gag or a control ...
Tópico(s): Immune Cell Function and Interaction
2013 - American Society for Microbiology | Journal of Virology
Hisanao Habuki, Hisanobu ISHIYAMA, Tota YOKO, Takashi ONO, Aya Abe, Osamu Komata, Fumiyuki MARUTA,
福島第一原子力発電所事故により放出された放射性セシウム(134Cs，137Cs)について，阿賀野川上流域からの砂泥等流入による下流域への移行状況を把握するため，2011年8月から2012年5月の間，同河川及び沖合海底土等の放射能濃度を調査した。河川水から人工放射性物質は検出されなかったものの，河川底質や河岸堆積物，沖合海底土からは放射性セシウムが合計で6.9～3.1×102Bq/kg乾(2012年5月現在)の範囲で検出され，事故以降の時間経過とともに，これら核種が次第に下流・沖合へ移動していることが示唆された。また，粒径の小さな土壌粒子が多いほど，放射性セシウムの濃度が高いことがわかった。さらに，室温で2時間の条件下での塩酸溶液による河川底質及び海底土からの放射性セシウムの溶出割合を調べたところ，0.1～0.5Mの濃度では抽出されないことがわかった。
Tópico(s): Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies
2013 - Japan Radioisotope Association | RADIOISOTOPES
... from the plant. Bioaccumulation is observed in the Agano river basin in Aizu sub-region, 70–150 ...
Tópico(s): Radioactive element chemistry and processing
2013 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Kaku Irisawa, K. Yamane, Shinya Imai, M. Ogawa, Takayuki SHOUJI, Toshitaka Agano, Yoshio Hosoi, T. Hayakawa,
A novel mammography detector with dual amorphous-Selenium (α-Se) layer has been developed that employs photoinduced discharge in its readout procedure. The detector consists of a bias electrode, a thick α-Se layer for x-ray-to-electron conversion, an electron-trapping layer (ETL), a thin α-Se layer for the photoinduced discharge, alternately arranged transparent and opaque stripe electrodes, and a linear optical source for readout. The detector directly converts x-rays into electrons to accumulate ...
Tópico(s): CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors
2009 - SPIE | Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
地すべり地形をなす斜面の抽出と抽出された箇所を構成する微地形の特徴から, AHP (階層構造分析法) を用いて地すべり地形の再活動危険度を評価するシステムを開発した。このシステムは, 空中写真判読による地すべり危険度の判定で着目される地形的要因の階層構造化と, それらの要因の中で見られる現象のいろいろなケースを選択項目とし, それを重み値として表現することで, 地すべり危険度評価を定量化しようとするものである。要因と項目は, 地形判読と地すべり調査の経験のある専門家間でのブレーンストーミングで決められた。その結果, 1) 主滑落崖の明瞭さ, 2) 移動体の表面形状, 3) 地すべり移動体の斜面上での位置, 4) 移動体における亀裂の位置, 5) 移動体末端部の状況, の5つの要因が選択された。要因5) は, 移動体末端部の侵食されやすさ, 移動体末端部の形状からみた不安定さからなる。危険度評価の点数は, AHP各階層を構成する要因の中で選択された項目の重みの積として得られる。危険度レベルは危険, やや危険, やや安全, 安全の4つに分けられる。抽出されたすべての地すべり斜面に対するAHP評点を階級別に累積頻度分布として表し, ...
Tópico(s): Geotechnical Engineering and Analysis
2009 - | Journal of the Japan Landslide Society