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Wakayama University
Education•Wakayama, Japan•
About: Wakayama University is a education organization based out in Wakayama, Japan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Digital holography & Holography. The organization has 1478 authors who have published 2946 publications receiving 40199 citations. The organization is also known as: Wakayama Daigaku.
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TL;DR: It is inferred that molecular defects in prohormone conversion may represent a generic mechanism for obesity, common to humans and rodents.
Abstract: Human obesity has an inherited component, but in contrast to rodent obesity, precise genetic defects have yet to be defined. A mutation of carboxypeptidase E (CPE), an enzyme active in the processing and sorting of prohormones, causes obesity in the fat/fat mouse. We have previously described a women with extreme childhood obesity (Fig. 1), abnormal glucose homeostasis, hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism, hypocortisolism and elevated plasma proinsulin and pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) concentrations but a very low insulin level, suggestive of a defective prohormone processing by the endopeptidase, prohormone convertase 1 (PC1; ref. 4). We now report this proband to be a compound heterozygote for mutations in PC1. Gly-->Arg483 prevents processing of proPC1 and leads to its retention in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). A-->C+4 of the intro-5 donor splice site causes skipping of exon 5 leading to loss of 26 residues, a frameshift and creation of a premature stop codon within the catalytic domain. PC1 acts proximally to CPE in the pathway of post-translational processing of prohormones and neuropeptides. In view of the similarity between the proband and the fat/fat mouse phenotype, we infer that molecular defects in prohormone conversion may represent a generic mechanism for obesity, common to humans and rodents.
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TL;DR: The confirmation of chronic hyperglycemia is a prerequisite for the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus, and the state of glycemia may be classified within three categories, diabetic type; borderline type; and normal type.
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TL;DR: A class of switching laws is proposed so that the entire switched system is exponentially stable with a desired stability margin and it is shown quantitatively that, when norms of the perturbations are small, the solutions of the switched systems converge to the origin exponentially under the same switching laws.
Abstract: We study the stability properties of switched systems consisting of both Hurwitz stable and unstable linear time-invariant subsystems using an average dwell time approach. We propose a class of switching laws so that the entire switched system is exponentially stable with a desired stability margin. In the switching laws, the average dwell time is required to be sufficiently large, and the total activation time ratio between Hurwitz stable subsystems and unstable subsystems is required to be no less than a specified constant. We also apply the result to perturbed switched systems where nonlinear vanishing or non-vanishing norm-bounded perturbations exist in the subsystems, and we show quantitatively that, when norms of the perturbations are small, the solutions of the switched systems converge to the origin exponentially under the same switching laws.
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TL;DR: This paper investigates the disturbance attenuation properties of time-controlled switched systems consisting of several linear time-invariant subsystems by using an average dwell time approach incorporated with a piecewise Lyapunov function and shows that if the total activation time of unstable subsystems is relatively small compared with that of the Hurwitz stable subsystems, then a reasonable weighted disturbance attenuations level is guaranteed.
Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the disturbance attenuation properties of time-controlled switched systems consisting of several linear time-invariant subsystems by using an average dwell time approach incorporated with a piecewise Lyapunov function. First, we show that when all subsystems are Hurwitz stable and achieve a disturbance attenuation level smaller than a positive scalar γ0, the switched system under an average dwell time scheme achieves a weighted disturbance attenuation level γ0, and the weighted disturbance attenuation approaches normal disturbance attenuation if the average dwell time is chosen sufficiently large. We extend this result to the case where not all subsystems are Hurwitz stable, by showing that in addition to the average dwell time scheme, if the total activation time of unstable subsystems is relatively small compared with that of the Hurwitz stable subsystems, then a reasonable weighted disturbance attenuation level is guaranteed. Finally, a discussion is made on the case for which nonlinear norm-bounded perturbations exist in the subsystems.
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TL;DR: An information security method that uses a digital holographic technique that provides secure storage and data transmission and can be electrically decrypted by use of the digital hologram of the key.
Abstract: An information security method that uses a digital holographic technique is presented. An encrypted image is stored as a digital hologram. The decryption key is also stored as a digital hologram. The encrypted image can be electrically decrypted by use of the digital hologram of the key. This security technique provides secure storage and data transmission. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the proposed method.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Hiroshi Ishiguro | 74 | 881 | 21326 |
Takayuki Kanda | 67 | 410 | 14825 |
Toshio Goto | 57 | 712 | 17917 |
Noriko Yoshimura | 54 | 204 | 10791 |
Masaru Hori | 51 | 666 | 11821 |
Masaki Azuma | 49 | 377 | 10579 |
Ryuichi Arakawa | 47 | 254 | 7723 |
Brent W. Ritchie | 46 | 164 | 7388 |
Fukumi Furukawa | 41 | 394 | 7415 |
Keiichi Kimura | 38 | 336 | 5036 |
Akiko Shiotani | 36 | 207 | 3888 |
Kennichi Kakudo | 35 | 87 | 5118 |
Mehmet Gunduz | 35 | 255 | 6096 |
Guisheng Zhai | 34 | 270 | 5559 |
Kenichi Matsumoto | 34 | 388 | 5494 |