Search Results - "Shigeru Masuyama"

Measuring the impact of age, gender and dementia on communication‐robot interventions in residential care homes by Obayashi, Kazuko, Kodate, Naonori, Masuyama, Shigeru

“…Aim The primary aim of this study was to examine the impact of age, gender and the stage of dementia on the results of an assistive technology intervention…”
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Can connected technologies improve sleep quality and safety of older adults and care-givers? An evaluation study of sleep monitors and communicative robots at a residential care home in Japan by Obayashi, Kazuko, Kodate, Naonori, Masuyama, Shigeru

“…A sheet-shaped body vibrometer (SBV) is a type of assistive technology which offers a constant and noninvasive method of recording and monitoring the physical…”
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Assessing the Impact of an Original Soft Communicative Robot in a Nursing Home in Japan: Will Softness or Conversations Bring more Smiles to Older People? by Obayashi, Kazuko, Kodate, Naonori, Masuyama, Shigeru

“…It has been reported that robotics-aided care can contribute to enhancing older people’s social participation and quality of life in nursing homes, while…”
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Enhancing risk analysis with GNN: Edge classification in risk causality from securities reports by Hajime Sasaki, Motomasa Fujii, Hiroki Sakaji, Shigeru Masuyama

“…In the evolving business landscape, the scope of risk factors is extremely wide, making it impossible for all business-related risks to be captured within…”
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Extraction and classification of risk-related sentences from securities reports by Fujii, Motomasa, Sakaji, Hiroki, Masuyama, Shigeru, Sasaki, Hajime

“…With the drastically changing business environment, it is difficult even for experts to properly extract and classify risk statements from securities reports,…”
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The COVID‐19 pandemic and organizational resilience as unanticipated outcome of introducing socially assistive robots in nursing homes by Obayashi, Kazuko, Kodate, Naonori, Kondo, Hiromasa, Okamoto, Yoshimi, Ishii, Yoko, Nonoda, Takahiro, Masuyama, Shigeru

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Preventive Effect of Dynamic Stabilization Against Adjacent Segment Degeneration After Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion by Tachibana, Naohiro, Kawamura, Naohiro, Kobayashi, Daiki, Shimizu, Takaki, Sasagawa, Takeshi, Masuyama, Shigeru, Hirao, Yujiro, Kunogi, Junichi

“…STUDY DESIGN.Retrospective cohort study. OBJECTIVE.To investigate the effects of dynamic stabilization with sublaminar taping (ST) on the upper segment…”
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Pilot and Feasibility Study on Elderly Support Services Using Communicative Robots and Monitoring Sensors Integrated With Cloud Robotics by Obayashi, Kazuko, Masuyama, Shigeru

“…This pilot before-after study investigated the possible effects of communicative robots, used with a sensing system supported by cloud robotics, in caring for…”
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Automatic Construction of Train Arrival and Departure Schedules at Terminal Stations by Ken WAKISAKA, Shigeru MASUYAMA

“…Recently, attention to the railway transportation has been revived from the viewpoint of alleviating environmental problems such as reduction of CO2 emission…”
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Erratum and addendum to “A linear time algorithm for finding all hinge vertices of a permutation graph” [Information Processing Letters 59 (2) (1996) 103–107] by Honma, Hirotoshi, Abe, Kodai, Masuyama, Shigeru

“…This note points out and corrects an error in the algorithm proposed in [Ting-Yem Ho, Yue-Li Wang and Ming-Tsan Juan, A linear time algorithm for finding all…”
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The clinical utility of a one-shot energy subtraction method for thoracic spine radiography by Sasagawa, Takeshi, Kunogi, Junichi, Masuyama, Shigeru, Ogihara, Satoshi, Takeuchi, Yosuke, Takeshita, Yujiro, Fukushima, Masayoshi, Kamiya, Naokazu, Murakami, Hideki, Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki

“…The interpretation of thoracic spine X-rays is difficult because these images cannot clearly visualize the thoracic spine because of the overlap with soft…”
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A polynomial time algorithm for obtaining minimum edge ranking on two-connected outerplanar graphs by Nakayama, Shin-ichi, Masuyama, Shigeru

“…An edge ranking of a graph G is a labeling r of its edges with positive integers such that every path between two different edges e u , e v with the same rank…”
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Agenda Extraction from Assembly Minutes by exploiting Relation between Questions and Answers by Ohsugi, Ryoto, Akiba, Tomoyosi, Masuyama, Shigeru

“…Obtaining agenda discussed in assembly minutes is useful for grasping their structure. In this paper, we propose a method to automatically extract a list of…”
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Enhancing older people's activity and participation with socially assistive robots: a multicentre quasi-experimental study using the ICF framework by Obayashi, Kazuko, Kodate, Naonori, Masuyama, Shigeru

“…Socially assistive robots (SARs) are seen as part of a pragmatic solution to addressing the increasing demands, shortage of care workers and to realizing the…”
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Can Avatar Robots Assist Older People and Care Professionals? Evaluation of an Intervention Study in Eight Nursing Homes in Tokyo by Obayashi, Kazuko, Kodate, Naonori, Ishii, Yoko, Okamoto, Yoshimi, Kondo, Hiromasa, Kurishima, Sae, Masuyama, Shigeru

“…Abstract Background Securing human resources to meet increasing demand for older people's care is challenging, particularly in Japan, where the pace of ageing…”
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Assistive technologies and aging in place for people with dementia and disabilities: a proof-of-concept study with in-home passive remote monitoring with interactive communication functions by Obayashi, Kazuko, Kodate, Naonori, Ishii, Yoko, Masuyama, Shigeru

“…Can assistive technologies (ATs) support aging in place for people with dementia and disability? In seeking to go beyond the persistent institutional care…”
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14; Do Age, Gender and Stage of Dementia Matter in the Intervention Study of Communicative Robots? An Assessment of their Impact by Obayashi, Kazuko, Kodate, Naonori, Masuyama, Shigeru

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14Do Age, Gender and Stage of Dementia Matter in the Intervention Study of Communicative Robots? An Assessment of their Impact by Obayashi, Kazuko, Kodate, Naonori, Masuyama, Shigeru

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Socially Assistive Robots and Their Potential in Enhancing Older People's Activity and Social Participation by Obayashi, Kazuko, Kodate, Naonori, Masuyama, Shigeru

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Manifestation of pulmonary hypertension during REM sleep in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome by NIIJIMA, M, KIMURA, H, EDO, H, SHINOZAKI, T, JIAN KANG, MASUYAMA, S, TATSUMI, K, KURIYAMA, T

“…The effect of sleep stage change on pulmonary circulation has not been well documented in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). We…”
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