Sarcopenia affects conservative treatment of osteoporotic vertebral fracture

Hiroki Iida,Yoshihito Sakai,Tsuyoshi Watanabe,Hiroki Matsui,Marie Takemura,Yasumoto Matsui,Yasumoto Matsui,Tetsuro Hida,Kenyu Ito,Sadayuki Ito 대한골다공증학회 2018 Osteoporosis and Sarcopenia Vol.4 No.3

Objectives: Sarcopenia and osteoporosis affects activities of daily living and quality of elderly people. However, little is known about its impact on elderly locomotor diseases, such as osteoporotic vertebral fracture (OVF). There is no report investigating the influence of both sarcopenia and osteoporosis on outcomes of OVF. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical outcomes of OVF in elderly patients from sarcopenic perspectives. Methods: This prospective study was conducted with 396 patients, aged 65 years or more, hospitalized for the treatment of OVF (mean age, 81.9 ± 7.1 years; 111 males, 285 females). The primary outcome was the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) score for lumbar disease (at first visit, hospital discharge, and 1 year after treatment) and Barthel index (at the same time and before hospitalization). The second outcome was living place after discharge. Susceptibility to sarcopenia and osteoporosis were evaluated and clinical results of conservative treatment were compared. Results: Sarcopenia significantly affected Barthel index at first visit and discharge. Sarcopenia patients had significantly higher rate for discharge to nursing home and living in nursing home after 1 year than patients without sarcopenia. Osteoporosis significantly affected the JOA score at the first visit and the Barthel index before hospitalization, at the first visit, discharge, and after 1 year. Osteoporosis did not affect the living place at discharge and after 1 year. Conclusions: Sarcopenia and osteoporosis affected outcomes of conservative treatment for OVF; moreover, sarcopenia affected the living place of OVF patients at discharge and after 1 year

Parameter Identification of Elastic Multilayered System in Consideration of Measurement Accuracy

Matsui, Kunihito,KIKITA, Yukio,ABE, Yoshihisa,Watanabe, Noriaki 대한기계학회 1996 International Sessions in Celebration of the 50th Vol.1 No.1

A method to estimate layer moduli of an elastic multi-layer system from impulsive force on the surface of the system and the corresponding surface deflections is presented. Large degrees of freedom required to describe the system by FEM are drastically reduced by employing Ritz vectors. Scaling of a normal matrix is introduced to decrease a condition number of the matrix. The normal equation is solved by singular value decomposition considering a possible reduction of the normal matrix based on the criterion that reflects the accuracy of the measurement data and the precision of the floating-point arithmetic being used.

THE EFFECT OF A SYNTHETIC ANALOGUE OF PYROPHOSPHATE ON CALCIUM, MAGNESIUM AND PHOSPHORUS HOMEOSTASIS IN SHEEP

Matsui, T.,Kawabata, T.,Harumoto, T.,Yano, H. Asian Australasian Association of Animal Productio 1992 Animal Bioscience Vol.5 No.2

Three female sheep were daily administered a pyrophosphate analogue, disodium 1-hydroxyethylidene-1, 1-bisphosphonate (HEBP) at the level of 4 mg/kg body weight. HEBP largely suppressed bone resorption, which was indicated by the reduction in plasma free hydroxyproline concentration and in calcium mobilization rate during the intravenous infusion of disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA). Contrary to the suppression of bone resorption, plasma total-calcium, magnesium and phosphorus concentrations were not changed by HEBP administration. These results suggest that bone mineral crystals play a meaningless role on calcium, magnesium and phosphorus homeostasis in ruminants if they are fed adequate amounts of these minerals. Plasma magnesium and phosphorus concentrations were not significantly changed after feeding. However, plasma total-calcium was decreased after feeding in both periods and the reduction seemed to be remarkable in the HEBP-treated period. Infusion of EDTA more remarkably reduced plasma ionized calcium concentration in the HEBP-treated that in the untreated period and the recovery of ionized calcium was retarded by HEBP administration. These results suggest that calcium release from bone is necessary for maintenance of plasma calcium when animals rapidly lose calcium.

Education of Power Electronics in Japan

Matsui, Mikihiko,Ueda, Akiteru,Oguch, Kuniomi The Korean Institute of Power Electronics 2002 JOURNAL OF POWER ELECTRONICS Vol.2 No.4

Power electronics is an interdisciplinary area that is interstitial to all of the major disciplines of electrical engineering including power, electronics and control. Today, the covering field of power electronics has more widely spread out with the help of ever evolving microelectronics and computer science. Whereas, in Japan the tendency is becoming remarkable nowadays that science, especially "mathematics" and "hardware work", are falling into disfavor with the young people. For these reasons, it has become a very important problem to find out "what are the truest essentials of power electronics\ulcorner" and "How to give students incentives to learn power electronics\ulcorner " from an educational point of view In under-graduate and graduate courses in universities. On the other hand, the power electronics engineers in companies are always required to comply with the ever changing trend of global and open market. However, it takes long time to cultivate their skills. Against the background, "The Cooperative Research Committee on Education of Power Electronics" was established in the IEEJ Industry Applications Society during 2000-2001. The present status of the power electronics education in Japan is surveyed in this paper, and some problems with remedy are pointed out based on the discussions performed in the committee.sed on the discussions performed in the committee.

Effect of Dietary Concentrate on Fungal Zoosporogenesis in Sheep Rumen

Matsui, H.,Ushida, K.,Kojima, Y. Asian Australasian Association of Animal Productio 1997 Animal Bioscience Vol.10 No.6

Fluctuation of fungal zoospores on agar strips were observed in the rumen of sheep fed three different levels of dietary concentrate, timothy hay: concentrate = 3:0 (AF diet), timothy hay: concentrate = 2:1 (MC diet), timothy hay : concentrate = 1:2 (HC diet) respectively. The number of zoospores on the strip was drastically decreased after morning feed with AF diet. The number was the highest at 0 h ($1.34{\times}10^2/cm^2$), then declined to $2.0{\times}10^3/cm^2$ at 9 h after feeding. In the rumen of animals fed MC diet, the number of zoospores decreased with time after feeding, although the decrement was slower than that with AF diet. During 0-3 h after feeding, number of zoospores was $1.6{\times}10^4/cm^2$. Although the number slightly decreased at 6 and 9 h, relatively high levels were maintained. It seems that the inducers for zoospore-release were maintained at relatively high concentration throughout incubation period. The fluctuation pattern of number of germinated zoospores was different in the rumen of animals fed HC diet from those of AF and MC diets. The number of zoospores was constantly maintained at lower level ($1.0{\times}10^3/cm^2$) than the other diets. For MC diet, continuous high number of germinated zoospores may be due to the continuous release of zoospores by hemes in timothy hay and concentrate feed, and by unknown mechanisms. Unlike AF diet which promoted relatively rapid decline of zoosporogenesis, supplementation of concentrate feed to the timothy hay did not promote such rapid decline of zoosporogenesis. It was suggested that release of inducers for zoosporogenesis from concentrate feed persisted longer time than from timothy hay. HC diet promoted the lowest zoospore production, suggested the lowest fungal population size in this experiment. These results show that an appropriate amount of concentrate may support fungal growth and stimulate zoosporogenesis in the rumen.

GENERALIZED SELF-INVERSIVE BICOMPLEX POLYNOMIALS WITH RESPECT TO THE j-CONJUGATION

Matsui, Yutaka,Sato, Yuhei Korean Mathematical Society 2021 대한수학회보 Vol.58 No.4

In this paper, we study a kind of self-inversive polynomials in bicomplex algebra. For a bicomplex polynomial, this is the study of a relation between a kind of symmetry of its coefficients and a kind of symmetry of zeros. For our deep study, we define several new levels of self-inversivity. We prove some functional equations for standard ones, a decomposition theorem for generalized ones and a comparison theorem. Although we focus the j-conjugation in our study, our argument can be applied for other conjugations.

Symbolic Cluster Analysis for Distribution Valued Dissimilarity

Matsui, Yusuke,Minami, Hiroyuki,Misuta, Masahiro The Korean Statistical Society 2014 Communications for statistical applications and me Vol.21 No.3

We propose a novel hierarchical clustering for distribution valued dissimilarities. Analysis of large and complex data has attracted significant interest. Symbolic Data Analysis (SDA) was proposed by Diday in 1980's, which provides a new framework for statistical analysis. In SDA, we analyze an object with internal variation, including an interval, a histogram and a distribution, called a symbolic object. In the study, we focus on a cluster analysis for distribution valued dissimilarities, one of the symbolic objects. A hierarchical clustering has two steps in general: find out step and update step. In the find out step, we find the nearest pair of clusters. We extend it for distribution valued dissimilarities, introducing a measure on their order relations. In the update step, dissimilarities between clusters are redefined by mixture of distributions with a mixing ratio. We show an actual example of the proposed method and a simulation study.

Potential impact of climate change on canopy tree species composition of cool‐temperate forests in Japan using a multivariate classification tree model

Matsui, Tetsuya,Nakao, Katsuhiro,Higa, Motoki,Tsuyama, Ikutaro,Kominami, Yuji,Yagihashi, Tsutomu,Koide, Dai,Tanaka, Nobuyuki Springer Japan 2018 Ecological research Vol.33 No.2

<P><B>Abstract</B></P><P>Climate change will likely change the species composition or abundance of plant communities, and it is important to anticipate these changes to develop climate change adaptation policies. We chose beech (<I>Fagus crenata</I> Blume) and its competitive tree species as target species to evaluate potential turnover in forest types under climate change using a multivariate classification tree model. To construct the model, geographical presence/absence data for nine target species were used as multivariate response variables, with five climatic factors were used as predictor variables. Current and future distribution probabilities for the target species were calculated, and the 15 dominant forest types were subjectively classified in approximately 1‐km<SUP>2</SUP> grid cells within the area of the current beech forest distribution. All 16,398 grid cells of the beech‐dominant forest type (FCR‐QCR) were projected to be replaced in the future by five <I>Quercus crispula</I>‐dominant types (59% of FCR‐QCR grid cells), four <I>Q. serrata</I> types (22%), two <I>Q. salicina</I> types (8%), or two <I>Abies firma</I> types (0.1%). The FCR‐QCR type remained unchanged (stable) in only 11.4% of grid cells; these were mainly distributed at high elevations in snowy areas on the Sea of Japan side of the country. In contrast, vulnerable habitats (future probability of beech occurrence less than 1.0%) were found at low elevations on both the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean sides. Northwards or upwards range expansions or increases of <I>Quercus</I> spp., in particular, need to be carefully monitored.</P>

Toxicity of Poly(I:C) against Japanese Flounder Paralichthys olivaceus

Matsui, T.,Oh, M.-J.,Nishizawa, T. JAPANESE SOCIETY OF FISH PATHOLOGY 2012 Fish pathology Vol.47 No.3

Air Quality Changes in a Museum Damaged by a Tsunami ‐ Whale and Sea Museum, Iwate, Japan ‐

MATSUI Toshiya,KAWASAKI Emi,Imme Hüttmann 한국문화재보존과학회 2019 보존과학회지 Vol.35 No.1

This paper provides quantitative data that describes the evolution of the air quality in the Whale and Sea Museum, located in the Iwate prefecture, collected after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. The museum was damaged significantly by the disaster, and restoration works continued for over six years. The air quality in the temporary storage facility and museum was monitored during the rehabilitation process. Evaluation of air quality is carried out by gas chromatography- mass spectrometry, ion chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography. The results showed that the characteristics of the chemical components differed depending on the measurement locations inside the building. The museum atmosphere tended to be alkaline as the airtightness increased because of the maintenance works at the entrance. It was also determined that it was necessary to study the intake/exhaust routes and to clean them according to the contamination degree. In Japan, there are recommended museum air quality standards for acetic acid, formic acid, alkali, and aldehydes. The results indicated that these standards should not be used as a reference for damaged museums. Furthermore, at the temporary storage facilities for to store the collections during the rehabilitation of the museum, solvents such as ethyl benzene, toluene, and xylene are initially abundant, although they can be reduced by ventilation, while other components such as 2E1H was confirmed in this case are likely to remain.