AIST:AIST Today 2012-3 No.45

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The 7th AIST Advisory Board Meeting

The 7th AIST Advisory Board Meeting

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What Can Be Predicted from Records of Past Great Earthquakes?

Lessons of the 2011 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake
Evidence of Past Crustal Movements and Tsunamis Recorded in Geological Deposits
Shedding Light on the History of Past Great Subduction Earthquakes
– Decreasing "Unexpectedness" through the study of Coastal Paleoseismology –
Integrated Groundwater Observation Stations for Forecasting the Tokai, Tonankai, and Nankai Earthquakes
Evidence of Inland Large Earthquakes Remaining in Geomorphic and Geological Features
– Investigation of Timing and Displacements due to Past Earthquakes –
Physical Model of Earthquake Generation Processes for Forecasting Inland Large Earthquakes
Toward the Evaluation and Forecasting of Ground Surface Deformation Caused by a Fault Movement
– Closing in on Future Disasters via Field Surveys and Numerical Calculations –

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Research Hotline

UPDATE FROM THE CUTTING EDGE (April−June 2012) The abstracts of the recent research information appearing in Vol.12 No.4-6 of "AIST TODAY" are introduced here, classified by research area. For inquiry about the full article, please contact the author via e-mail.
An oxygen gas barrier film that self-repairs minor damages [ PDF:433KB ] - Development of a food packaging film using clay -	Environment and Energy
Discovery of non-translational role in the ribosome [ PDF:433KB ] - Specific inhibition of Ribonuclease T2 by helix41 of 16S rRNA -	Life Science and Biotechnology
Transforming service fields into laboratories [ PDF:482KB ] - Virtualization of indoor environments and behavior of customers and employees -	Information Technology and Electronics
Flexible, film-like thermoelectric devices fabricated through printing processes [ PDF:482KB ] - Improvement in the usability of thermoelectric devices making possible the application to energy harvesting field -
High-quality 64 kb ferroelectric NAND flash memory array [ PDF:521KB ] - Towards the industrial production of the next-generation nonvolatile semiconductor memory -
PodCastle: a spoken content retrieval service based on speech transcriptions [ PDF:521KB ] - Improving speech recognition performance through cooperation from many users -
Development of a copper paste for crystalline silicon solar cells [ PDF:406KB ] - Replaces silver pastes and accelerates the reduction in the cost of high-efficiency solar cells -
Electrically induced giant magneto-resistance from nonmagnetic phase-change memory [ PDF:406KB ] - Magneto-resistance ratio of over 2,000 % at room temperature -
High-performance isotropic sintered magnets without addition of dysprosium [ PDF:514KB ] - Contribution to resolution of resource problem in high-performance magnets by advanced sintering technique -	Nanotechnology, Materials and Manufacturing
Compact inspection apparatus for nonuniformity in the luster of gold plating [ PDF:514KB ] - Digitization of nonuniformity in the luster of gold plating and automatic acceptance recognition based on objective criteria -	Metrology and Measurement Science
Technology for measuring static electricity using sound waves [ PDF:558KB ] - Visualization of static electricity distribution on flat surfaces by scanning focused sound waves -	Metrology and Measurement Science
Influence of 2011 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake on sea floor environments [ PDF:558KB ] - Wide distribution of sea floor disturbance around the earthquake source area -	Geological Survey and Applied Geoscience

In Brief

Re-extension of Memorandum of Understanding on Comprehensive Research Cooperation with CSIRO of Australia and Workshop
Conclusion of Memoranda of Understanding on Comprehensive Research Cooperation with Chinese Academy of Sciences and with Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Back Cover

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