A new species of Paratachardina Balachowsky (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Kerriidae) related to the lobate lac scale, P. pseudolobata Kondo & Gullan

Takumasa Kondo,Penny J. Gullan,Robert W. Pemberton 한국응용곤충학회 2011 Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology Vol.14 No.1

A new species of lac insect, Paratachardina javanensis Kondo and Gullan, sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Coccoidea:Kerriidae), is described and illustrated from a collection on Myrica rubra Siebold and Zucc. (also called Morella rubra Lour., Myricaceae) in West Java, Indonesia. This lac insect species is most similar morphologically to the pestiferous lobate lac scale, Paratachardina pseudolobata Kondo and Gullan. A comparison of the two species and an updated taxonomic key to all named Paratachardina species are provided.

Three-dimensional medical image recognition of the heart by revised GMDH-type neural network algorithm

Chihiro Kondo,Tadashi Kondo 제어로봇시스템학회 2009 제어로봇시스템학회 국제학술대회 논문집 Vol.2009 No.8

A revised Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH)-type neural network algorithm for medical image recognition is proposed and is applied to 3-dimensional medical image analysis of the heart. The revised GMDH-type neural network algorithm has a feedback loop and can identify the characteristics of the medical images accurately using feedback loop calculations. In this algorithm, the polynomial type and the radial basis function (RBF) type neurons are used for organizing the neural network architecture. The optimum neural network architecture fitting the complexity of the medical images is automatically organized so as to minimize the prediction error criterion defined as Prediction Sumof Squares (PSS).

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE JAPANESE TYPE OF OMNI CHANNEL RETAILING

Kimihiko Kondo 글로벌지식마케팅경영학회 2016 Global Marketing Conference Vol.2016 No.7

It was Macy’s (a department store in the U.S.) which introduced the concept of ‘omnichannel’ in 2010 for the first time, and, at present, representative U.S. retailers have also adopted the approach. In Japan, the effort to interlock real and Internet stores started around the same time. Big retailers have promoted its omnichannel strategies by providing services in which customers can order merchandise on the Internet and receive it in a store. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the characteristics of the Japanese type of omnichannel by comparing it to the U.S. type. Rigby (2011) defines omnichannel as “an integrated sales experience that melds the advantages of physical stores with the information-rich experience of online shopping.” Lazaris & Vrechopoulos (2014) refer to it as “the use of both physical and online channels combined with the delivery of seamless shopping experiences.” Kondo (2015) understands it as “a marketing approach that integrates all (omni) channels and provides consumers with a seamless shopping experience.”

Revised RBF network algorithm and its application to the interactive art system

Chihiro Kondo,Tadashi Kondo 제어로봇시스템학회 2009 제어로봇시스템학회 국제학술대회 논문집 Vol.2009 No.8

In this study, a revised radial basis function (RBF) network is proposed and applied to the identification problems of the nonlinear system and the interactive art system. In the revised RBF network, the structural parameters such as means and variances of the radial basis functions in the neurons are determined automatically and so revised RBF network can be easily applied to the practical complex problems such as the interactive art system. The interactiveart system outputs the art expressions such as the sound and graphics using the artificial sensibility curves that are identified using the revised RBF network.

Effects of Heat Treatment on Magnetic Susceptibility and Mechanical Properties of Zr-3Mo Alloy That Prevents the MRI Artifacts

Suyalatu, Kondo R,Kondo R,Tsutsumi Y,Doi H,Nomura N,Hanawa T 대한치과재료학회 2011 대한치과기재학회 학술대회 Vol.2011 No.5

3-Party 2-Language Model of Interpreting Revisited

( Kondo Masaomi ) 한국통역번역학회 2003 FORUM Vol.1 No.1

Dans cet article l`auteur reprend le modele d`interpretation a 3 parties et 2 langues (propose par Kirchhof en 1976) pour focaliser les points suivants a base d`une version adaptee du modele. Il est intrinsequement impossible d`encoder la totalite d`un concept (idees et sentiments) que souhaite transmettre l`emetteur de message (necessite donc de tenir compte des elements implicites du message). On peut d`autre part exprimer le meme concept sous differentes manieres (ce qui offre une possibilite d`economiser le nombre de mots). Pour l`interprete il est essentiel et inevitable d` ? interpreter ? le message pour assurer sa mission et se donner tous les moyens dont il dispose: il mobilise non seulement toutes ses connaissances relatives au sujet mais aussi doit se referer obligatoirement a ses propres valeurs si l`on raisonne au sens strict du terme. Toutefois, il peut rendre son interpretation plus objective au moyen de ? geler ? temporairement ses valeurs personnelles. Interpreter dans une combinaison anglais-japonais represente un parcours plus important que la combinaison anglais-francais, ce qui ne signifie pas toujours une tache plus facile. Enfin, l`auteur observe le besoin et la pratique ainsi que les interets de plus en plus croissants d`interpretation envers la langue B surtout dans le contexte d`elargissement de l`Union Europeenne.

Interpreting into B: The Japanese Experience

KONDO Masaomi 한국통역번역학회 2005 통역과 번역 Vol.7 No.2

This study conducted a questionnaire survey in an attempt to find out how interpreters evaluate their interpretation when interpreting to their ‘B’ language, particularly to English. In order to compare the similar situations of Korea and Japan, the same questionnaire employed by Professor Lim in her study was used in this study. Majority of respondents (more than 80% of the participants have experience of interpreting more than 1,000 times) answered that 30-50% of their job assignments are to interpret from Japanese to English. Only 19% of the interpreters in the survey responded that the interpretation into English is easier to perform and 54% said that the interpretation from Japanese into English does not pose any relative difficulty. The study found the following points of interest: 1) 35% of the participants answered that it is difficult to interpret Japanese into English because of the ambiguities of Japanese original text. 2) 14% of the respondents said that the syntactic differences between Japanese and English pose difficulty in the case of simultaneous interpretation. 3) Four participants argued that interpretation training into the English language should be reinforced. 4) Many interpreters mentioned that they perform their interpretation work with anxiety because there are not any clear-cut solutions to the situations described in this study.

UV Effect on Plant Growth

Kondo, Noriaki,Tou, Seiji,Takahashi, Shinya,Nakajima, Nobuyoshi Korean Society of Photoscience 2002 Journal of Photosciences Vol.9 No.2

UV-B radiation gives harmful effects on plants, such as production of several types of DNA lesions, and growth inhibition. On the other hand, plants have some protective mechanisms, including filtering effect due to accumulation of phenolic compounds in epidermal cells and reactivation of DNA lesions, which are enhanced by UV-B irradiation. We have investigated the mechanism of UV-B effects on plants using cucumber seedlings as plant materials. Cucumber plants were cultivated in an artificially lit growth chamber. Supplemental UV-B irradiation, of which intensity was almost equal to the level of natural sunlight, retarded the growth of first leaves. The growth retardation must result trom the inhibition of cell division and/or cell growth. Microscopical observation of leaf epidermis suggested that the growth retardation might be mainly caused by cell growth inhibition. The retardation was, however, restored within 2 or 3 days after the termination of UV-B irradiation. It is known that UV-B irradiation lowers the activity of photo system II (PS II). In the present experimental conditions, however, UV-B irradiation has little effect on PS II activity as estimated by chlorophyll fluorescence. The stomatal conductance, a major factor determining photosynthetic rate, of first leaves increased during the growth. The increase of stomatal conductance was suppressed by UV-B irradiation and restored by termination of the irradiation. It has not been clear, however, what mechanisms are involved in the suppression of increase of stomatal conductance.

MODELING OF THE ZODIACAL EMISSION FOR THE<i>AKARI</i>/IRC MID-INFRARED ALL-SKY DIFFUSE MAPS

Kondo, Toru,Ishihara, Daisuke,Kaneda, Hidehiro,Nakamichi, Keichiro,Takaba, Sachi,Kobayashi, Hiroshi,Ootsubo, Takafumi,Pyo, Jeonghyun,Onaka, Takashi American Astronomical Society 2016 The Astronomical journal Vol.151 No.3

<P>The zodiacal emission, which is the thermal infrared (IR) emission from the interplanetary dust (IPD) in our solar system, has been studied for a long time. Nevertheless, accurate modeling of the zodiacal emission has not been successful to reproduce the all-sky spatial distribution of the zodiacal emission, especially in the mid-IR where the zodiacal emission peaks. Therefore, we aim to improve the IPD cloud model based on Kelsall et al., using the AKARI 9 and 18 mu m all-sky diffuse maps. By adopting a new fitting method based on the total brightness, we have succeeded in reducing the residual levels after subtraction of the zodiacal emission from the AKARI data and thus in improving the modeling of the zodiacal emission. Comparing the AKARI and the COBE data, we confirm that the changes from the previous model to our new model are mostly due to model improvements, but not temporal variations between the AKARI and the COBE epoch, except for the position of the Earth-trailing blob. Our results suggest that the size of the smooth cloud, a dominant component in the model, is about 10% more compact than previously thought, and that the dust sizes are not large enough to emit blackbody radiation in the mid-IR. Furthermore, we detect a significant isotropically distributed IPD component, owing to an accurate baseline measurement with AKARI.</P>

Actionspectra for Circadian Melatonin Rhythms in the Avian Pineal In Vitro

Kondo, Chieko,Haldar, Chandana,Tamotsu, Satoshi,Oishi, Tadashi Korean Society of Photoscience 2002 Journal of Photosciences Vol.9 No.2

The avian pineal as well as the retina has been known to contain several types of photoreceptors with different visual pigments such as rhodopsin, iodopsin and the pineal specific opsin, pinopsin. These organs are also known to have circadian clock to regulate melatonin production. Exposure of animals to light causes a decline of the melatonin level and the phase shifts of melatonin rhythms in the pineal and retina. Therefore, the circadian clock system of these organs seem to consist of three elements, i.e., light input, oscillator and melatonin output systems. In birds, it was suggested that rhodopsin might be involved in the entrainment of pineal melatonin rhythms from the action spectrum experiment for controlling NAT activity rhythms. However, there are much more pinopsin-immunoreactive (Pino-IR) cells than rhodopsin (Rho-IR) and iodopsin (Iodo-IR) cells in the avian pineal. We found that Pino-IR cells appeared earlier embryonic stages than Rho-IR and Iodo-IR cells. So, we tried to identify the visual pigments involved in the circadian melatonin rhythms in the pineal and retina. Organ cultured pineals were exposed to monochromatic light to find out which opsin participates in regulation of melatonin rhythms. The action spectra showed a peak at 475nm, suggesting that pinopsin is the major photopigment to regulate melatonin production in birds.