| Author | Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University| |
|---|---|
| Published Date | 2004-03 |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Volume | volume38 |
| Issue | issue1-2 |
| Content Type | Others |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46956 |
|---|---|
| FullText URL | mfe_38_1-2_097_100.pdf |
| Author | Yamagiwa, Masashi| Hirao, Taichi| Kiyomi, Masaaki| Akao, Tetsuyuki| Mizuki, Eiichi| Ohba, Michio| Sakai, Hiroshi| |
| Abstract | Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. coreanensis A2316 is a newly isolated strain from Yonakunijima Island in Japan. It produces the proteinaceous inclusion body (crystal) which has no insecticidal and hemolytic activities. When the crystal proteins were digested by proteinase K, they exhibited the strong cytotoxicity against human leukemic T cell, MOLT-4. The proteinase K-digested A2316 crystal proteins have little damage upon the cell membrane of MOLT-4, suggesting that the cell death of MOLT-4 was induced through a mechanism other than the colloid-osmotic swelling and cell lysis as caused by hitherto known B. thuringiensis crystal proteins. The 29-kDa polypeptide proved to be an active component of the proteinase K-digested A2316 crystal proteins. EC(50) of the purified 29-kDa polypeptide was 0.0579 μg/ml. The N-terminal amino acid sequence of the 29-kDa polypeptide was identical with that of p29 produced by B. thuringiensis A1519 strain and shared no significant homology with all the known proteins, suggesting that this polypeptide belong to a new family of B. thuringiensis crystal proteins. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2004-03 |
| Volume | volume38 |
| Issue | issue1-2 |
| Start Page | 97 |
| End Page | 100 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80017001823 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46955 |
|---|---|
| FullText URL | mfe_38_1-2_091_096.pdf |
| Author | Kanayama, Naoki| Yamakoshi, Kimi| Kiyomi, Masaaki| Magari, Masaki| Ohmori, Hitoshi| |
| Abstract | Generally, IgM antibodies (Abs) produced in a primary immune response show lower affinity for an inducing antigen (Ag) compared with the corresponding IgG Abs that are major switched isotypes formed in the secondary response. An IgM molecule is a pentamer with 10 Ag-binding sites that will contribute to an increase of avidity for an Ag. To estimate the contribution of the pentameric structure to the avidity of an IgM Ab, we generated IgM and IgG1 monoclonal Abs (mAbs) with identical V regions that are specific for 4-hydroxy-3-nitrophenylacetyl (NP) by in vitro class switching of B cells followed by the cell fusion with a mouse myeloma cell line. Compared with an anti-NP IgG1 mAb, the corresponding IgM mAb showed much higher avidity for NP-conjugated bovine serum albumin, which was drastically reduced after being dissociated into monomers. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2004-03 |
| Volume | volume38 |
| Issue | issue1-2 |
| Start Page | 91 |
| End Page | 96 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80017001822 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46954 |
|---|---|
| FullText URL | mfe_38_1-2_073_089.pdf |
| Author | Kenmochi, Yukiko| Imiya, Atsushi| |
| Abstract | Boundary tracking and surface generation are ones of main topological topics for three-dimensional digital image analysis. However, there is no adequate theory to make relations between these different topological properties in a completely discrete way. In this paper, we present a new boundary tracking algorithm which gives not only a set of border points but also the surface structures by using the concepts of combinatorial/algebraic topologies. We also show that our boundary becomes a triangulation of border points (in the sense of general topology), that is, we clarify relations between border points and their surface structures. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2004-03 |
| Volume | volume38 |
| Issue | issue1-2 |
| Start Page | 73 |
| End Page | 89 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80016889444 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46953 |
|---|---|
| FullText URL | mfe_38_1-2_061_071.pdf |
| Author | Kanatani, Kenichi| Sugaya, Yasuyuki| |
| Abstract | The Tomasi-Kanade factorization for reconstructing the 3-D shape of the feature points tracked through a video stream is widely regarded as based on factorization of a matrix by SVD (singular value decomposition). This paper points out that the core principle is the affine camera approximation to the imaging geometry and that SVD is merely one means of numerical computation. We first describe the geometric structure of the problem and then give a complete programming scheme for 3-D reconstruction. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2004-03 |
| Volume | volume38 |
| Issue | issue1-2 |
| Start Page | 61 |
| End Page | 71 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80016889443 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46952 |
|---|---|
| FullText URL | mfe_38_1-2_039_059.pdf |
| Author | Kanatani, Kenichi| |
| Abstract | We investigate the meaning of "statistical methods" for geometric inference based on image feature points. Tracing back the origin of feature uncertainty to image processing operations, we discuss the implications of asymptotic analysis in reference to "geometric fitting" and "geometric model selection", We point out that a correspondence exists between the standard statistical analysis and the geometric inference problem. We also compare the capability of the "geometric AIC" and the "geometric MDL' in detecting degeneracy. Next, we review recent progress in geometric fitting techniques for linear constraints, describing the "FNS method", the "HEIV method", the "renormalization method", and other related techniques. Finally, we discuss the "Neyman-Scott problem" and "semiparametric models" in relation to geometric inference. We conclude that applications of statistical methods requires careful considerations about the nature of the problem in question. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2004-03 |
| Volume | volume38 |
| Issue | issue1-2 |
| Start Page | 39 |
| End Page | 59 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80016889442 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46950 |
|---|---|
| FullText URL | mfe_38_1-2_033_037.pdf |
| Author | Liman, M. Sanusi| Totsuji, Chieko| Tsuruta, Kenji| Totsuji, Hiroo| |
| Abstract | The dynamic structure factor and the spectrum of the momentum-density fluctuations of 2D Yukawa liquids are analyzed in the domain of weak and intermediate coupling and screenlng parameters. The dispersion relations of the longitudinal and transverse collective excitations are obtained and compared with the random phase approximation (RPA) and harmonic approximation for triangular lattice. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2004-03 |
| Volume | volume38 |
| Issue | issue1-2 |
| Start Page | 33 |
| End Page | 37 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80016863329 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46949 |
|---|---|
| FullText URL | mfe_38_1-2_029_032.pdf |
| Author | Totsuji, Hiroo| Totsuji, Chieko| Ogawa, Takafumi| Tsuruta, Kenji| |
| Abstract | The structure of dust particles in dusty plasmas under microgravity has been analyzed by molecular dynamics simulation. The charge neutrality condition satisfied by the system composed of dust particles and ambient plasma is properly taken into account. It is shown that dust particles form shell structures at low temperatures and the number of shells are obtained as a phase diagram in the plane of two parameters characterizing the system: the number of particles and the strength of screening. It is also shown that these structures are almost independent of the strength of screening. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2004-03 |
| Volume | volume38 |
| Issue | issue1-2 |
| Start Page | 29 |
| End Page | 32 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80016863328 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46948 |
|---|---|
| FullText URL | mfe_38_1-2_015_027.pdf |
| Author | Torigoe, Takashi| Konishi, Masami| Imai, Jun| Nishi, Tatsushi| |
| Abstract | In these days, mechanical systems are becoming more complex and highly automated. So, there exist wide variety of demands for reliable diagnostic technology. A reliable data analysis and quantitative diagnosis method of mechanical system is necessary for the purpose. In this paper a quantitative diagnosis method for looper height control system has been developed based on neural network technologies. The wavelet transformation is used for pre-processing to analyze characteristics of looper height control system. And, self organizing map neural network is used for the purpose of classification based on the pre-processed data. After that, the classified results are used for quantitative diagnosis in hierarchical neural network. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2004-03 |
| Volume | volume38 |
| Issue | issue1-2 |
| Start Page | 15 |
| End Page | 27 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80016785934 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46947 |
|---|---|
| FullText URL | mfe_38_1-2_005_014.pdf |
| Author | Ishimaru, Kazuhito| Konishi, Masami| Imai, Jun| Nishi, Tatsushi| |
| Abstract | Temperature distribution in the reactor furnace is mainly operated by gas blowing from multiple tuyeres and material charge distribution. The objective of our research is obtain the optimal profile of gas flow to control temperature distribution in the reactor furnace in the shortest possible time. We formulated the optimization problem to reduce deviation of temperature distribution from its desired one in the reactor furnace. Based on the formulation, gas blow conditions are optimized by a sequential quadratic programming method to realize the desired temperature distribution. The validity of the method was checked through numerical experiments. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2004-03 |
| Volume | volume38 |
| Issue | issue1-2 |
| Start Page | 5 |
| End Page | 14 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80016785933 |
| JaLCDOI | 10.18926/46946 |
|---|---|
| FullText URL | mfe_38_1-2_001_004.pdf |
| Author | Sakakibara, Akira| Kanadani, Teruto| |
| Abstract | The relationship between occurrence of serration and reversion heat treatment was studied by tensile test on Al-10mass%Zn alloy. Serration was observed for the furnace cooled specimen, but not for the as-quenched one and the shortly aged one, which result is difficult to be interpreted by the Cottrell theory. The stress amplitude in the serration increased with increasing the time of annealing for reversion up to 10ks and then stayed at a constant value which might be interpreted by the Cottrell theory. The stress amplitude in the serration decreased with increasing the annealing temperature, which is contrary to the prediction by the Cottrell theory. The specimen directly annealed without aging and the one annealed after aging agreed well with each other in the tensile strength and the stress amplitude in the serration, which suggests solute clusters as the cause of serration. |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Published Date | 2004-03 |
| Volume | volume38 |
| Issue | issue1-2 |
| Start Page | 1 |
| End Page | 4 |
| ISSN | 0475-0071 |
| language | English |
| File Version | publisher |
| NAID | 80016785932 |
| Author | Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University| |
|---|---|
| Published Date | 2004-03 |
| Publication Title | Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University |
| Volume | volume38 |
| Issue | issue1-2 |
| Content Type | Others |
