A System for Generating Musical Score Indicating the Hitting Hand for Drum Performance

On playing drums, it is important to master the correct stroking order. Drummers are required to learn the drum rudiment to play drums efficiently. Generally, musical scores for drums do not have the annotation that indicates which hand drummers use to stroke each drum, left or right. Although drum teachers handwrite such annotation on the musical score, there is not the system that generates the musical score indicating the hitting hand on playing drums automatically. In this research, we proposed the system that generates the musical score that indicates the hitting hand to stroke each drum. The proposed system recognizes the hitting hand on the basis of the data of a gyro sensor that are embedded in the drum sticks and MIDI message from an electronic drum. We constructed the prototype system and evaluated its effectiveness

A method to control LED blinking for position detection of devices on conductive clothes

Various wearable computing devices face problems with their power supplies, communication channels, and placement. Conductive clothes can resolve these problems, but it is still difficult to know the positions of devices on the conductive fabric. Therefore, we have devised a method to detect the positions of such devices by using a camera. To detect the positions our method blinks the LEDs on the devices according to their ID. Additionally, we propose several methods to shorten the time for detection. An experimental evaluation confirmed that compared with conventional method our methods reduce the time to detect the positions of the devices. © 2011 ACM

Aktivitas Antiproliferatif Ekstrak Wasbensin Daun Eupatorium Riparium Reg. : Studi in Vitro Pada HeLa Cell Lin

Eupatorium riparium Reg. adalah tumbuhan obat penting asli dari Mexico dan India Barat, yang masuk ke tanah Jawa sejak tahun 1800. Tumbuhan ini mempunyai catatan sejarah digunakan untuk obat tradisional dalam berbagai kultur budaya bangsa secara luas di seluruh dunia dan biasa digunakan untuk obat hipertensi, gagal jantung, diuretik, antikanker, antifungi, dan penyakit yang disebabkan oleh bakteri. Studi pada HeLa cell line ini dilakukan selama satu bulan. Selanjutnya, studi ini bertujuan meneliti aktivitas antiproliferatif ekstrak wasbensin daun E. riparium terhadap kanker servik manusia Hela cell line. Aktivitas antiproliferatif diuji menggunakan reagen proliferatif sel WST-1 dengan waktu 1, 2, dan 4 jam setelah diinkubasi selama 72 jam pada suhu 37oC dan 5%CO2. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ekstrak wasbensin daun E. riparium mempunyai aktivitas proliferatif yang potensial terhadap HeLa cell line dengan nilai IC50 berikut 102.69 ðœ‡g/ml (1 jam), 198.67 ðœ‡g/ml (2 jam). Saran selanjutnya, penelitian lanjutan perlu dilakukan untuk mengetahui mekanisme antikanker HeLa cell line

Surgical resection combined with perioperative chemotherapy for a patient with locally recurrent, previously stage IV thymic small-cell carcinoma : A case report

An 83-year-old Japanese man visited our hospital with dyspnea and general fatigue. Computed tomography (CT) revealed a tumor in the anterior mediastinum, bilateral pleural effusion, pericardial fluid, and multiple liver nodules. We performed a CT-guided tumor biopsy, and the patient was diagnosed with thymic small-cell carcinoma, Masaoka–Koga stage classification IVb. The patient received four cycles of carboplatin and etoposide, and all lesions disappeared on CT. However, after 6 months, CT revealed a recurrent tumor in the anterior mediastinum. After one cycle of rechallenge chemotherapy, we performed extended total thymectomy followed by another three cycles of chemotherapy. More than 2.5 years after the last chemotherapy session, the patient’s carcinoma did not recur. Thus, this case suggests that salvage surgery may be a treatment option for local recurrence of thymic carcinoma after complete remission with chemotherapy, even in patients with stage IV cancer

HASC2011corpus: Towards the Common Ground of Human Activity Recognition

UbiComp '11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing, September 17-21, 2011, Beijing, ChinaHuman activity recognition through the wearable sensor will enable a next-generation human-oriented biquitous computing. However, most of research on human activity recognition so far is based on small number of subjects, and non-public data. To overcome the situation, we have gathered 4897 accelerometer data with 116 subjects and compose them as HASC2011corpus. In the field of pattern recognition, it is very important to evaluate and to improve the recognition methods by using the same dataset as a common ground. We make the HASC2011corpus into public for the research community to use it as a common ground of the Human Activity Recognition. We also show several facts and results of obtained from the corpus

Aktivitas Antiproliferatif Ekstrak Wasbensin Daun Eupatorium riparium Reg. : Studi In Vitro Pada HeLa Cell lin

Eupatorium riparium Reg. adalah tumbuhan obat penting asli dari Mexico dan India Barat, yang masuk ke tanah Jawa sejak tahun 1800. Tumbuhan ini mempunyai catatan sejarah digunakan untuk obat tradisional dalam berbagai kultur budaya bangsa secara luas di seluruh dunia dan biasa digunakan untuk obat hipertensi, gagal jantung, diuretik, antikanker, antifungi, dan penyakit yang disebabkan oleh bakteri. Studi pada HeLa cell line ini dilakukan selama satu bulan. Selanjutnya, studi ini bertujuan meneliti aktivitas antiproliferatif ekstrak wasbensin daun E. riparium terhadap kanker servik manusia Hela cell line. Aktivitas antiproliferatif diuji menggunakan reagen proliferatif sel WST-1 dengan waktu 1, 2, dan 4 jam setelah diinkubasi selama 72 jam pada suhu 37oC dan 5%CO2. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ekstrak wasbensin daun E. riparium mempunyai aktivitas proliferatif yang potensial terhadap HeLa cell line dengan nilai IC50 berikut 102.69 ðœ‡g/ml (1 jam), 198.67 ðœ‡g/ml (2 jam). Saran selanjutnya, penelitian lanjutan perlu dilakukan untuk mengetahui mekanisme antikanker HeLa cell line.Kata kunci: Eupatorium riparium Reg, antiproliferatif, HeLa, WST-

Young-Onset Dementia with Lewy Bodies

Young-onset (< 65 years) dementia is a challenging clinical problem. A 61-year-old man visited our clinic because of a 2-year history of mild cognitive impairment of the executive disorder type. He was initially suspected of having young-onset Alzheimer’s disease due to the lack of motor signs or hippocampal atrophy by conventional brain MRI. However, he proved to have anosmia, erectile dysfunction, hypersexuality, constipation, REM sleep behavior disorder, and emotional lability; imaging findings included positive brain perfusion SPECT, nigrosome MRI, DAT scan, and MIBG myocardial scintigraphy. All these clinical imaging features led to the correct diagnosis of young-onset dementia with Lewy bodies (YOD-DLB). It is hoped that this case report will help facilitate a future prospective study to diagnose and follow YOD-DLB patients with the aim of determining appropriate management and care

HASC2011corpus: Towards the Common Ground of Human Activity Recognition

Human activity recognition through the wearable sensor will enable a next-generation human-oriented biquitous computing. However, most of research on human activity recognition so far is based on small number of subjects, and non-public data. To overcome the situation, we have gathered 4897 accelerometer data with 116 subjects and compose them as HASC2011corpus. In the field of pattern recognition, it is very important to evaluate and to improve the recognition methods by using the same dataset as a common ground. We make the HASC2011corpus into public for the research community to use it as a common ground of the Human Activity Recognition. We also show several facts and results of obtained from the corpus.UbiComp \u2711 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing, September 17-21, 2011, Beijing, Chin