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Akihiro Shima

Akihiro Shima

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D-Index
47
Citations
9154
World Ranking
4118
National Ranking
181

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Akihiro Shima is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research spans multiple fields, including physics and astronomy, environmental science, and earth and planetary sciences. They have a specialized focus on subfields such as statistical and nonlinear physics, environmental engineering, and geophysics.

The main topics of Akihiro Shima's research cover areas integral to modeling and analysis in geosciences and engineering. These include model reduction and neural networks, groundwater flow and contamination studies, and seismic imaging and inversion techniques.

One recent publication authored by Akihiro Shima is titled Modeling unobserved geothermal structures using a physics-informed neural network with transfer learning of prior knowledge, published in 2024 in the journal Geothermal Energy. This work is part of their contribution to advancing methods in geothermal energy research.

Their frequent collaborators include the following researchers:

  • Kazuya Ishitsuka
  • Weiren Lin
  • Elvar K. Bjarkason
  • Anna Suzuki

Akihiro Shima has published mainly in the venue Geothermal Energy, contributing to the body of knowledge in geothermal and environmental research.

In recognition of their contributions to the engineering and scientific community, Akihiro Shima was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1996.

Best Publications

  • A duplicated copy of DMRT1 in the sex-determining region of the Y chromosome of the medaka, Oryzias latipes

    Indrajit Nanda;Mariko Kondo;Ute Hornung;Shuichi Asakawa

  • Medaka — a model organism from the far east

    Joachim Wittbrodt;Akihiro Shima;Manfred Schartl

  • Identification of a functional transposase of the Tol2 element, an Ac-like element from the Japanese medaka fish, and its transposition in the zebrafish germ lineage

    Koichi Kawakami;Akihiro Shima;Noriko Kawakami

  • A detailed linkage map of medaka, Oryzias latipes: comparative genomics and genome evolution.

    Kiyoshi Naruse;Shoji Fukamachi;Hiroshi Mitani;Mariko Kondo

  • A Medaka Gene Map: The Trace of Ancestral Vertebrate Proto-Chromosomes Revealed by Comparative Gene Mapping

    Kiyoshi Naruse;Minoru Tanaka;Kazuei Mita;Akihiro Shima

  • Mutations in the gene encoding B, a novel transporter protein, reduce melanin content in medaka

    Shoji Fukamachi;Atsuko Shimada;Akihiro Shima

  • Medaka as a research organism: past, present and future.

    Akihiro Shima;Hiroshi Mitani

  • Excision of the tol2 transposable element of the medaka fish, Oryzias latipes, in zebrafish, Danio rerio.

    Koichi Kawakami;Akihiko Koga;Hiroshi Hori;Akihiro Shima

  • Genomic organization and expression of the doublesex-related gene cluster in vertebrates and detection of putative regulatory regions for DMRT1.

    Bodo Brunner;Ute Hornung;Zihong Shan;Indrajit Nanda

  • Absence of the candidate male sex-determining gene dmrt1b(Y) of medaka from other fish species.

    Mariko Kondo;Indrajit Nanda;Ute Hornung;Shuichi Asakawa

  • Identification of the Tol2 transposase of the medaka fish Oryzias latipes that catalyzes excision of a nonautonomous Tol2 element in zebrafish Danio rerio.

    Koichi Kawakami;Akihiro Shima

  • The production of cloned fish in the medaka (Oryzias latipes)

    K. Naruse;K. Ijiri;A. Shima;N. Egami

  • The medaka rs-3 locus required for scale development encodes ectodysplasin-A receptor

    Shu Kondo;Yoshikazu Kuwahara;Mariko Kondo;Kiyoshi Naruse

  • Molecular cloning and linkage analysis of complement C3 and C4 genes of the Japanese medaka fish.

    N. Kuroda;K. Naruse;A. Shima;M. Nonaka

  • Molecular cloning and characterization of DMRT genes from the medaka Oryzias latipes and the platyfish Xiphophorus maculatus.

    Mariko Kondo;Alexander Froschauer;Akiko Kitano;Indrajit Nanda

  • Developmentally regulated and non-sex-specific expression of autosomal dmrt genes in embryos of the Medaka fish (Oryzias latipes)

    Christoph Winkler;Ute Hornung;Mariko Kondo;Cordula Neuner

  • Somatolactin selectively regulates proliferation and morphogenesis of neural-crest derived pigment cells in medaka

    Shoji Fukamachi;Masazumi Sugimoto;Hiroshi Mitani;Akihiro Shima

  • Differences in recombination frequencies during female and male meioses of the sex chromosomes of the medaka, Oryzias latipes.

    Mariko Kondo;Eriko Nagao;Hiroshi Mitani;Akihiro Shima

  • Identification and Characterization of Two Distinct GnRH Receptor Subtypes in a Teleost, the Medaka Oryzias latipes

    Kataaki Okubo;Shinji Nagata;Rinkei Ko;Hiroshi Kataoka

  • Development of a possible nonmammalian test system for radiation-induced germ-cell mutagenesis using a fish, the Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes).

    Akihiro Shima;Atsuko Shimada

Frequent Co-Authors

Kiyoshi Naruse
Kiyoshi Naruse National Institute for Basic Biology
Nobuyoshi Shimizu
Nobuyoshi Shimizu Keio University
Masaru Nonaka
Masaru Nonaka University of Tokyo
Manfred Schartl
Manfred Schartl University of Würzburg
Shuichi Asakawa
Shuichi Asakawa University of Tokyo
Indrajit Nanda
Indrajit Nanda University of Würzburg
Hiroyuki Takeda
Hiroyuki Takeda University of Tokyo
Hisato Kondoh
Hisato Kondoh Kyoto Sangyo University
Takeshi Todo
Takeshi Todo Osaka University

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