In this letter, we present a passive spine gripper that can hold rough rocky surfaces of
boulders on cliff walls, and we discuss its application to a four-limbed robot for free-climbing in …

Background and purpose Metabolome analyses have shown that plasma amino acid profiles
reflect various pathological conditions, such as cancer and diabetes mellitus. It remains …

Interspecific relationships in density among a whale community in Antarctic feeding grounds
were examined using the sightings data derived from the systematic surveys conducted …

The IWC Southern Hemisphere minke whale assessment cruises (IDCR and SOWER) have
been conducted since 1978/79 in the Antarctic regions of all six IWC management Areas for …

MATERIALS AND METHODS Materials. L-Ascrobic acid was the produce of Kanto Chemical
Co., Inc. p-Coumaric acid (I), ferulic acid (II), caffeic acid (III), cMorogenic acid (IV), and trons…

An assessment of the abundances and their trends is urgently needed for the conservation
and management of fishery-targeted and rarely seen cetacean species (FTCS and RSCS, …

… Numbers of Antarctic minke whales in the research area were estimated independently by
the standard distance line transect sampling method (T. Hakamada, unpublished paper) and …

… 363 000 t (range: 146 000–1 208 000 t), respectively. The largest consumer of both copepods
and euphausiids were sei whales, although the higher end of the range of euphausiid …

… that took the model error into consideration (Hakamada and Matsuoka, 2014a). Sensitivity
… Bando, T. and Hakamada, T. 2014. Yearly trend in the proportion of pregnant animals …

… Welch's t-test was used to compare data between two groups (GraphPad Prism ver. 6.07;
GraphPad Software, La Jolla, CA, USA). Categorical data were analyzed using Fisher's exact …