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The Japan Institute of Metals
This study was performed to investigate the influence of fuel/oxygen ratio (F/O = 3.2, 3.0, 2.8) on the characteristics of the HVOF sprayed Cr3C2 (7 mass%NiCr) coatings after heat treatment up to 1000°C. Decomposition and oxidation of the Cr3C2 occurred during spraying. The degree of decomposition from Cr3C2 to Cr7C3 was increased with decreasing the F/O ratio. The micro-structural differences of the as-sprayed coatings with F/O ratio cannot be distinguished. However, large pores were...
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Visualization Society of Japan
It was recently found that mud flocculates, or flocs, coexist with methane hydrate within turbidite layers. Flocs may be susceptible to the flow of pure water originated form the dissociation of methane hydrate and can cause problems, such as well plugging or stratum deformation, in the case of long-term gas production. However, there is little information about flocs. We designed an observation apparatus which is capable of holding a grain of floc and obtained stereo-vision images. We...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Institute Electrical Engineers Japan
In order to convey to the world new technical information, and creative / original theories in the fields of electrical and Electronics Industry Applications, IEEJ started publishing "IEEJ Journal of Industry Applications"
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Sep 29, 2018
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THE MICHEL HENRY SOCIETY OF JAPAN
This paper analyzes quotations from the four Gospels that were used by Michel Henry to develop his philosophy of Christianism, clarifying three characteristics of his book – Words of Christ. First, Words of Christ includes more quotations from the synoptic Gospels than his other books, I Am the Truth and Incarnation. These quotations are not solely used to try to overturn human nature; they are also meant to illustrate the theories Henry presents in I Am the Truth and provide a way to...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Illuminating Engineering Society of Japan
Landscape Design Standards for Lighting Established by Landscape Plans Prescribed in the Landscape Act
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Sep 29, 2018
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Anthropological Society of Nippon
Our understanding of the evolution of human speech has been expanded by an increased knowledge of vocal anatomy and physiology in non-human primates. Comparative approaches provide evidence supporting the primate origins of many speech faculties. The descent of the larynx enables the two-tube configuration of the supralaryngeal vocal tract (SVT) in humans; however, this configuration is also found in chimpanzees and macaques. The acoustic properties of voices produced in helium gas support the...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japanese Electrophoresis Society
The SAINOME-plate consists of a 384-well plate and a cover that contains a cutter, which can cut a polyacrylamide gel into approximately 4.5-mm square pieces following electrophoresis. In this study, we applied SDS-PAGE and the SAINOME-plate to fractionation of protein mixtures from cell extracts or serum for proteomic approaches. Compared with gel-fractionation using a cutter or a scalpel, SAINOME-plate gel-fractionation is simpler and higher-throughput. In terms of reproducibility of...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japan Society on Water Environment
This study uses stable isotope ratios to investigate the influences of terrestrial inputs of organic matter on the water properties and bottom sediments of coastal seas. The carbon stable isotope ratio (δ13C) of particulate organic carbon (POC) and the C/N ratio of particulate organic matter (POM) were obtained following a flood event in 2004, and under normal weather conditions in 2005, from the Seto Inland Sea, Japan. The δ13C of the bottom sediments was also measured in 2005. Under normal...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences
Organic minerals are natural organic compounds with both well-defined chemical composition and crystallographic properties; their occurrences show traces of the high concentration of certain organic compounds in natural environments. Thus the origin and formation process of organic minerals will lead us to understand the fate and behavior of the organic molecules in the lithosphere. All of each organic mineral can be classified into the one of following two groups: ionic organic minerals in...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japanese Physical Therapy Association
Physical Therapy Research (PTR) is an official journal of the Japanese Physical Therapy Association. This peer-reviewed international journal focus on research in physical therapy and related fields (previously Journal of the Japanese Physical Therapy Association (JJPTA)). Article types accepted are: Scientific Research Articles (Original Article), Case studies, Brief reports, and other articles and reports deemed appropriate for publication by the Editorial Board, such as systematic reviews,...
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Sep 29, 2018
09/18
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National Institute of Industrial Health
Investigation of the key determinants of Asian nurses’ quality of life
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Sep 29, 2018
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Information Processing Society of Japan
Our goal is the production of formally-verified pieces of low-level code. Low-level code is typically written in C, so as to enable efficient manipulation of data at the bit-level and easy access to built-in features of CPUs. Proof-assistants arguably provide the most rigorous approach to formal verification of computer programs. Unfortunately, they only allow for extraction of runnable code in high-level languages such as ML. Of course it is possible to embed C snippets into ML programs, but...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japanese Society for Root Research
Legumes are very important plants both ecologically and agriculturally because they are able to interact symbiotically with rhizobia for biological nitrogen fixation and soil fertilization. Medicago truncatula Gaertn. is an important model legume rich in protein. Salinity represents, today, the major cause of land degradation and crop productivity limitation around the world and affects physiology and metabolism in legumes
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Society of Chemical Engineers Japan
On the Agitation Characteristic Curve of Medium Light Particles in a Stirred Tank Based on CFD Simulation
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Sep 29, 2018
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Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology
The predecessor organization of The Japan Society for Science Policy and Research Management has been renamed in 2015 as The Japan Society for Research Policy and Innovation Management in order to aim to move forward innovation more interdisciplinarily. This article describes a brief overview of main activities of the society and their recent attentions for “Society5.0”, that have been appeared as the relevant keywords, in their activities after the renewal.
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Japanese Pharmacological Society
Possible Involvement of Suppression of Th2 Differentiation in the Anti-allergic Effect of Sho-seiryu-to in Mice
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Japanese Society for Pediatric Endocrinology
Does growth-hormone treatment affect patients with and without a mitochondrial disorder differentially?
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences
Facility backpressure effect remains to be an important unsolved problem for Hall thruster development making it difficult to predict the thruster on-orbit operation precisely. Measurements in previous research shows the backpressure effects can cause unexpectedly-high thrust and discharge current increment in comparison with the theory. In this study, backpressure effects were investigated by sensitivity analysis using Particle-In-Cell plasma simulation. Not only static pressure but also...
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine
Objective: The intensity of pain after surgical treatment of hip fracture has a negative effect on functional recovery. However, the effects of acute postoperative pain on the recovery of walking ability after the surgery remain unclear. This study aimed to investigate the association between acute postoperative pain and the recovery of functional gait among patients who had independent walking ability prior to hip fracture. Methods: This was an observational study that included 41 patients...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japanese Society of Veterinary Science
An underweight 10-month-old Holstein heifer presented with anorexia and ananastasia and was euthanized. Postmortem examination revealed extensive ulceration in the esophagus, tongue, and omasum. Histopathological examination revealed severe necrotic esophagitis, glossitis, and omasitis. Many Gram-negative bacilli were detected throughout the necrotic area in the digestive tract; these were identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa on the basis of isolation tests, molecular examinations, and...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Biomedical Fuzzy Systems Association
In previous studies, we proposed a system for classifying gait based on step length and foot-ground clearance using arm acceleration. In the present study, we evaluated the application of machine learning to gait classification. The method was tested empirically on the classification of three gait patterns performed by 10 young and healthy participants. The three gait patterns were normal step, high step, and long step. Using measures of accuracy, precision, recall, and F-measure, we compared...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Meteorological Society of Japan
SOLA is a web based research letter, which rapidly distribute scientific discoveries, new findings and advances of understanding in the atmospheric and related sciences especially in the interdisciplinary areas. The name of this research letter, SOLA, is taken from acronym of "Science Online Letters on the Atmosphere." The pronunciation of "SOLA" sounds similar to "sora" of a Japanese language, which means the atmosphere
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Japanese Pharmacological Society
Chemistry Biology, Life Sciences and Basic Medicine Agriculture and Food Sciences General Medicine, Social Medicine, and Nursing Sciences Dentistry Pharmaceutical Sciences Engineering in General Nanosciences and Materials Sciences Information Sciences Interdisciplinary Sciences
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Sep 29, 2018
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Acoustical Society of Japan
Boundary surface control (BoSC) is a useful method of reproducing the sound field physically. However, it is challenging in the case of real-time operation. This is mainly due to the calculation cost of a lot of inverse filter convolutions to obtain reproduction signals. This paper proposes a method for reducing of number of inverse filters and implements it in 24-channel narrow directivity (shotgun) microphone array and 24-channel circularly arranged loudspeaker array. Moreover, it provides an...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japan Society of Circulation Control in Medicine
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) plays an important role for coronary revascularization in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Coronary stents is indispensable to prevent acute closure of coronary artery treated by PCI. Among PCI patients, dual antiplatelet therapy is an essential treatment for these patients to prevent both acute and late stent thrombosis, as well as cardiovascular events in chronic phase. The development of new generation thienopyridine derivatives also...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Elsevier
Hypophosphatasia is a rare inherited disorder characterized by defective bone mineralization and deficiency of tissue non-specific alkaline phosphatase (TNSALP) activity. The disease is caused by mutations in the liver/bone/kidney alkaline phosphatase gene (ALPL) encoding TNSALP. As for dental manifestations, premature loss of deciduous teeth due to disturbed cementum formation is well known. However, few reports of multiple cases have been presented. The oral manifestations of patients...
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The Japanese Society for Plant Systematics
Acta Phytotaxonomica et Geobotanica (APG) is an international peer-reviewed journal published three times a year by the Japanese Society for Plant Systematics. It is the continuation of the journal Societas Phytogeographica Kyoto, Japan. APG publishes research manuscripts in the fields of taxonomy, phylogeny, evolution, conservation, biogeography of plants (including algae and fungi) and related disciplines. Contributions devoted to new taxa, nomenclature, monographs, floristic studies and...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japanese Association of Occupational Therapists
Objective: Despite the considerable importance of maintaining support for instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) for patients with dementia living at home, there have been no formal investigations of what factors influence IADLs
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Japan Fluid Power System Society
The main source of vibration and noise in hydraulic systems is the flow ripple at the pump output which interacts with the downstream components and generates pressure ripple in the current, structureborne noise in mechanical parts and airborne noise in the environment. The present research was suggested by the observation that some peaks in the airborne noise spectrum of a specific pump family were within a frequency range far from those typically related with the fl uidborne or structureborne...
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Japanese Society for Horticultural Science
The Horticulture Journal (Hort. J.), which has been renamed from the Journal of the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science (JJSHS) since 2015, has been published with the primary objective of enhancing access to research information offered by the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science, which was founded for the purpose of advancing research and technology related to the production, distribution, and processing of horticultural crops. Since the first issue of JJSHS in 1925, Hort....
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology
Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology is an English journal published by the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (formerly the Japanese Society of Ethnology). JRCA was launched in 1998 as an independent occasional publication, with the aim of introducing anthropological research in Japan to our international colleagues in the form of review articles. Since 2001, the Society has changed the status of JRCA to that of a supplementary volume to Bunkajinruigaku (Japanese Journal of Cultural...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Biomedical Research Press
Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is secreted from hypothalamic neurons (GnRH neurons) and stimulates anterior pituitary gonadotrophs to synthesize and secrete gonadotropins. In addition to gonadotrophs, GnRH neurons also express GnRH receptors, and the autocrine action of GnRH is reportedly involved in the regulation of functions of GnRH neurons. There is accumulating evidence that extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK), one of mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs), is activated...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Springer-Verlag
We report the results of a randomized experiment conducted in Japan as part of a mail survey of voters. In this experiment, we examined whether or not inserting a pen in the questionnaire would improve the response rate. We employed a two-by-two treatment in which we varied the price of the pen (high-priced or low-priced) and whether or not the pen was inserted in a paper-made box. We found that providing a pen increased the response rate by more than nine percentage points. We also found that...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Pesticide Science Society of Japan
In our research, a series of 8-substituted coumarin derivatives were synthesized, and their structures were confirmed by FT-IR, 1H-NMR, and MS (or HRMS). In activity screening, the synthesized compounds exhibited potent antifungal activity against 4 phytopathogenic fungi: Botrytis cinerea, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, Fusarium oxysporum, and Valsa mali. Notably, 8-chloro coumarin and ethyl 8-chloro-coumarin-3-carboxylate showed the strongest fungus inhibition with EC50of 0.085 and 0.078...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Biophysical Society of Japan
Photosystems are natural energy conversion systems evolved for over 2,700 million years. Among the photosystems, photosystem II (PSII) catalyzes the light-driven water decomposition reaction with the production of O2, protons and electrons to reduce plastoquinone. The reaction is important not only for understanding natural photosynthesis but also for creating efficient artificial photosynthesis. In this review, PSII catalytic intermediate states and their reaction mechanisms elucidated by...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Nature Publishing Group
To assess the relationship between home blood pressure and left ventricular mass, we evaluated cardiac echocardiography in 297 hypertensive subjects (188 men and 109 women; mean age, 62.8±10.3 years) who were treated with amlodipine monotherapy over 1 year (mean dose, 5.5±2.3 mg/day). The morning hypertension group (n =57; 19.2%), who had a morning home systolic blood pressure (HSBP) ≥135 mmHg and an evening HSBP
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Sep 29, 2018
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BioOne (Mammalogical Society of Japan)
Shipley et al. (1994) theoretically and empirically demonstrated that the maximum feeding rate of mammalian herbivores (mainly ungulates) is largely determined by morphological factors and ultimately by body mass. By using values from the published literature, I conducted the scaling of 2 indices of feeding rate with body mass in wild primates: (1) the maximum and (2) the mean of dry weight intake rate (g/min) of different food items. The maximum feeding rate scaled with body weight to the...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Chem-Bio Informatics Society
In the cyclohexane derivatives, the equatorial conformer, having less steric repulsion of hydrogen atoms adjacent to substituent, is dominant over the axial conformer. This is a normal stereochemical requirement. In hexose, containing oxygen atoms in the ring, however, α-anomer (with axial substituent) is more stable than β-anomer (with equatorial substituent) and it is called the anomeric effect. Why does this phenomenon, which is not compatible with the stereochemical intuition (but still...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University
We consider random Schrödinger operators with Dirichlet boundary conditions outside lattice approximations of a smooth Euclidean domain and study the behavior of its lowest-lying eigenvalues in the limit when the lattice spacing tends to zero. Under a suitable moment assumption on the random potential and regularity of the spatial dependence of its mean, we prove that the eigenvalues of the random operator converge to those of a deterministic Schrödinger operator. Assuming also regularity of...
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
As a kind of efficient and rapid developed surface processing technique, polishing technology is widely used to improve the surface quality in the precision manufacturing of aero-engine blisk blades. Since blisk blade polishing is a metal removal process which aims to produce smooth surfaces with very low surface roughness, it is difficult to achieve the optimum balance between high material removal rate and low surface roughness. To solve this problem, this study investigates the process...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Shikoku Dental Society
A sports-related dental injury is defined as injuries to the oral and maxillofacial regions associated with sports activities, and involves tooth fracture and luxation, facial bone and temporomandibular fractures, and soft tissue injury. Participants in sports activities are always at risk for traumatic injury, with the oral and maxillofacial region often affected. Dental injuries also have a high rate of occurrence among sports-related injuries received during school physical education classes...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japan Society of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry
Raman scattering of a cell conveys the intrinsic information inherent to chemical structures of biomolecules. The spectroscopy of Raman scattering, or Raman spectroscopy, allows label-free and quantitative molecular sensing of a biological sample in situ without disruption. For the last five decades Raman spectroscopy has been widely utilized in biological research fields.
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Japan Endocrine Society
Our official Japanese journal "Naibunpigaku Zasshi" was first issued in 1925 and renamed as "Nihon Naibunpigaku-kai Zasshi" in 1927. In 1954 the first issue of English official journal "Endocrinologia Japonica" was published continuing to Volume 39 in 1992 and then renamed as the present "Endocrine Journal" from Volume 40 in 1993
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Sep 29, 2018
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Anthropological Society of Nippon
Electroglottography (EGG) is a low-cost, non-invasive method for documenting laryngeal sound production during vocalization. The EGG signal represents relative vocal fold contact area and thus delivers physiological evidence of vocal fold vibration. While the method has received much attention in human voice research over the last five decades, it has seen very little application in other mammals. Here, we give a concise overview of mammalian vocal production principles. We explain how...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine is an English-language online journal published bi-weekly (the 1st and the 15th of each month) by the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine. The Journal's aim is to provide useful knowledge in clinical practice and valuable information for medical education, and to contribute to the development of the internal medicine and enrichment of physicians' resources.
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences
Prosopite is an alumino–fluoride of calcium mineral. The chemical compositions of prosopite samples obtained from Zacatecas (Mexico), Ivigtut (Greenland), and Katugin deposit (Eastern Siberia, Russia) were determined using scanning electron microscopy and energy–dispersive X–ray spectroscopy. The fluorine content (in apfu) was between 4 and 5, and those less than 4 were not observed. The empirical formula derived as a mean of chemical compositions of multiple grains from Ivigtut is...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japan Poultry Science Association
Japanese Poultry Science published papers in English and Japanese from vol. 1 to 38 (1964-2001). Then the journal was separated into the Journal of Poultry Science publishing papers in English and Japanese Journal of Poultry Science publishing papers in Japanese
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japanese Society for Lymphoreticular Tissue Research
In 2017, the revised World Health Organization was published. Regarding myeloproliferative neoplasms, histological findings of bone marrow biopsy is becoming more important for diagnosis. This article highlights particularly the morphology of megakaryocytes and evaluation of myelofibrosis for pathological diagnosis, and immunohistochemistry which can detect somatic mutation.
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
In 2015, Gower and Richtárik presented a unifying framework for a variety of randomized iterative algorithms for consistent linear systems. The framework includes the randomized Kaczmarz method that exponentially converges in the mean square whenever the system is consistent. For noisy linear systems corresponding to inconsistent systems, the randomized Kaczmarz method computes an approximate solution within a fixed distance depending on the norm of the noise vector. We extend this error...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Biophysical Society of Japan
Biophysics and Physicobiology (BPPB) is the official on-line journal of the Biophysical Society of Japan (BSJ). Biophysics has long been developed in a field of physics using physical methods and theories to study the structures and functions of biological systems. Biophysics now spans all scales of biological organization, from the molecular scale to whole organisms and ecosystems, and hence biophysical research demonstrates significant overlaps with biochemistry, physiology, cell biology,...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Illuminating Engineering Society of Japan
“Journal of Science and Technology in Lighting” is an English-language publication of the Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan that is issued with the aim of introducing advances international studies and the technology of lighting engineering to a wide audience, and in addition to presenting articles on lighting fundamentals and applications, also includes papers, letters, and research notes the like in a wide range of fields, such as the generation and application of light, vision...
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Sep 29, 2018
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University of Tokushima Faculty of Medicine
Robot‐assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALRP) is commonly performed in the surgical treatment of prostate cancer. However, the steep Trendelenburg position (25) and pneumoperitoneum required for this procedure can sometimes cause hemodynamic changes. Although blood pressure is traditionally monitored invasively during RALRP, the ClearSight system (BMEYE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) enables a totally noninvasive and simple continuous blood pressure and cardiac output monitoring...
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Japanese Society of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine
Biology, Life Sciences and Basic Medicine Agriculture and Food Sciences General Medicine, Social Medicine, and Nursing Sciences Clinical Medicine Interdisciplinary Sciences Humanities and Social Sciences
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japan Institute of Navigation
Human factors are a major cause of accidents in every industry. Thus, several studies focused on reducing the number of accidents. However, marine accident data from the European Maritime Safety Agency, Transportation Safety Board (TSB) of Canada, and Japan Transport Safety Board indicate that the number of marine accidents continue to increase without any signs of reduction. Therefore, it is necessary to develop alternatives and solutions to reduce the number of marine accidents.
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Japan Society of Civil Engineers
The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake with a surface wave magnitude of 8.0 induced numerous landslides along the Longmen Mt. zone in Sichuan Province of China. The authors investigated into various influential factors on the slope stability of 119 landslides in Wenchuan prefecture, such as horizontal peak ground acceleration, slope angle, slope height, rock materials and geological structures. The authors developed hanging wall and footwall's acceleration attenuation formulae from 115 seismic stations...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Railway Technical Research Institute
Engineering in General Nanosciences and Materials Sciences Architecture and Civil Engineering Mechanical Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering information Sciences Interdisciplinary Sciences
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japanese Society of Toxicology
The Journal of Toxicological Sciences (J. Toxicol. Sci.) is a scientific journal that publishes research about the mechanisms and significance of the toxicity of substances, such as drugs, food additives, food contaminants and environmental pollutants.
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japanese Society of Radiological Technology
A high-resolution display panel comes to practical use, but the resolution of the indicated contents does not change. The up-sampling processing is applied to indication of the low-resolution contents. In the up-sampling process, the super resolution enables an up-sampling process which estimates information of high frequency components lost by sampling while analyzing input images is noticed. In this paper, we aimed at reconstructing an image of normal resolution in which the influence of...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry
In this work, we applied post-column reaction gas chromatography (GC) using a flame ionization detector (FID) system to study nitrogen-containing organic compounds (NOCs). The results were subsequently validated. After separation by column, the target components were converted to carbon dioxide using an oxidizing catalyst and then reduced to methane, followed by detection using an FID. SI-traceable testing mixtures containing NOCs (isoprocarb, napropamide, and pendimethalin) were prepared by...
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Acarological Society of Japan
Acarinaria and mite associates of the large carpenter bee Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) ruficeps (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from Taiwan
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Sep 29, 2018
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BioOne (Ornithological Society of Japan)
Morphological differentiation of island-dwelling organisms provides model systems for studying evolution. Computed tomography (CT) scanning is an entirely non-destructive technique that provides detailed three-dimensional (3D) images of physical structures. Geometric morphometrics has been increasingly used in avian morphology studies by analyzing 3D data obtained from CT scans. We used geometric morphometrics to evaluate the morphological details of the skulls of three, genetically distinct,...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japan Atherosclerosis Society
Aim: The Friedewald equation is the standard method for estimating low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels [LDL-C(F)] and fixes the ratio of triglyceride (TG) to very LDL-C at 5. However, this has been reported to underestimate LDL-C, particularly in patients with LDL-C ＜70 mg/dL. A novel method for LDL-C estimation [LDL-C(M)] using an adjustable factor instead of a fixed value of 5 has recently been proposed. The purpose of this study was to validate LDL-C(M) in Japanese patients...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
Polycyclic aromatic compounds are ubiquitous atmospheric pollutants with toxic, mutagenic, and carcinogenic properties. They are produced from chemical reactions of their parent compounds in the atmosphere as well as from a wide variety of anthropogenic sources such as fuel combustions. The present review is mainly concerned with several reaction pathways regarding secondary formation of atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) derivatives, i.e., formation of mutagenic nitrated PAHs,...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Elsevier
Nitrilase, which is found in plants and many types of bacteria, is known as the enzyme that catalyzes hydrolysis of a wide variety of nitrile compounds. While human nitrilase-like protein (NIT), which is a member of the nitrilase superfamily, has two distinct isozymes, NIT1 and NIT2, their function has not been well understood. In this study, we investigated whether human NIT1 and NIT2 are involved in the hydrolysis of drugs using vildagliptin as a substrate. We performed Western blot analysis...
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Genetics Society of Japan
Microsatellite markers were developed for the endangered orchid Calanthe izu-insularis (Orchidaceae). This species is unique to the Izu Islands in Japan. Unfortunately, its population size has decreased because of excessive collection for horticultural purposes. In addition, although natural hybridization between C. izu-insularis and C. discolor var. discolor has been reported, morphological differences between C. izu-insularis and the hybridized individuals remain unclear. Using...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japan Brain Science society
Individual Schema Therapy for high-functioning autism spectrum disorder with comorbid psychiatric conditions in Young Adults: Results of a Naturalistic Multiple Case Study
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Sep 29, 2018
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Nihon University School of Dentistry
The Journal of Oral Science (J Oral Sci) is published quarterly by Nihon University School of Dentistry for the purpose of publishing original articles, invited reviews, and case reports pertinent to dentistry and related fields.
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Sep 29, 2018
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Society of Fiber Science & Technology Japan
Approximately three grams of black colored air-stabilized polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fiber, namely PYROMEX (PYR), containing nitrogen element was activated by steam at 800̊C to develop porosity and thermally treated at 900-1000̊C in helium to convert a part of nitrogen species to quaternary nitrogen (N-Q) using various combinations of the steam and thermal treatments in a 25 φinner diameter quartz tube, and adsorption capacity of nitrate anion from aqueous solution was measured. Steam...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Carcinological Society of Japan
A new species of Palaemon is described from Cần Giớ District, Vietnam. This species has previously been reported from Vietnam as a colour morph of Palaemon sewelli (Kemp, 1925), to which it is clearly morphologically very closely related. However, the new species can be separated from P. sewelli through the position of the branchiostegal tooth relative to the branchiostegal groove, the shape of the suborbital lobe, a hirsute carapace and abdomen and the colour pattern of living individuals....
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japan Institute of Light Metals
KEIKINZOKU is a Japanese monthly journal published by The Japan Institute of Light Metals, JILM. Since 1951, this journal has original regular articles, reviews and technical reports, etc on current technology of light metals.
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japan Neurosurgical Society
Histone H3 mutations are frequently found in diffuse midline gliomas (DMGs), which include diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas and thalamic gliomas. These tumors have dismal prognoses. Recent evidence suggests that one reason for the poor prognoses is that O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) promoter frequently lacks methylation in DMGs. This review compares the epigenetic changes brought about by histone mutations to those by isocitrate dehydrogenase-mutant gliomas, which frequently...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Illuminating Engineering Society of Japan
We propose a light-emitting diode (LED) flat lighting panel that is capable of seamless connection by optimizing the shape of the optical elements, as well as the concentration of the scattering particles used in the diffuser material. The LED flat lighting panels that we develop can be connected to other panels while maintaining a uniformity of 90% throughout the entire surface. The results of subjective experiments reveal that the seams between the connected LED flat panels are virtually...
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Ceramic Society of Japan
Indium nitride (InN) films were grown on the c-face of zinc oxide (ZnO) single crystals by molecular beam epitaxy, and their interfacial structure and crystalline polarity were examined. The c-parameter and the crystallinity of the films strongly depended on the substrate polarity and growth temperature. In particular, the low-temperature-grown films on the oxygen terminated c(−)-face of ZnO (c(−)-ZnO) were single crystalline films with a shorter c-axis than that of bulk InN, while the...
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Society of Physical Therapy Science
[Purpose] The objective of this cross sectional study was to investigate the validity of Functional Ambulation Category in evaluating functional balance and identifying the relationship between balance impairment and functional ambulation in individuals with chronic stroke. [Participants and Methods] A total of 31 chronic stroke patients with first ever ischemic middle cerebral artery strokes, with no cognitive deficits were recruited. Participants had a mean age of 54.84 (SD=7.05) years and a...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japanese Society of Animal Reproduction
This study examined the concentration of cell-free mitochondrial DNA (cf-mtDNA) in porcine follicular fluid (FF) and explored whether the cfDNA level in the culture medium could reflect mitochondrial dysfunction in cumulus cell-oocyte complexes (COCs). cfDNA concentration was higher in the fluid of small-sized follicles, compared to that in larger follicles. The length of cfDNA ranged from short (152 bp) to long (1,914 bp) mtDNA in FF, detected by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). cfDNA...
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan
The nitrogen solubility in cast iron melt containing carbon, silicon and manganese was measured by the gas-liquid metal equilibration technique in the temperature range from 1573 to 1873 K. The nitrogen solubility in carbon saturated liquid iron decreased with increasing temperature due to the effect of carbon content increasing with temperature. The simultaneous effect of carbon, silicon and manganese on nitrogen was also measured to determine the second-order cross-product parameters of those...
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Japanese Circulation Society
From July, 2016 a new Editorial team will take responsibility for managing the Circulation Journal, an official scientific journal of the Japanese Circulation Society. After the extraordinary effort of the immediate-past Editorial team lead by Professor Hiroaki Shimokawa, the Circulation Journal has become one of the world-renown cardiovascular journals. Its impact factor rose from 2.4 to 4.1 during the past 8 years. Meanwhile, the Circulation Journal has become much tougher on manuscript...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japan Society of Equine Science
Anthelmintics are used as anti-worming agents. Although known to affect their target organisms, nothing has been published regarding their effect on other digestive tract organisms or on metabolites produced by them. The current work investigated effects of fenbendazole, a benzimidazole anthelmintic, on bacteria and ciliates in the equine digestive tract and on and their major metabolites. Animals receiving anthelmintic treatment had high faecal egg counts relative to controls. Analysis was...
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Although word embeddings are powerful, weakness on rare words, unknown words and issues of large vocabulary motivated people to explore alternative representations. While the character embeddings have been successful for alphabetical languages, Japanese is difficult to be processed at the character level as well because of the large vocabulary of kanji, written in the Chinese characters. In order to achieve fewer parameters and better generalization on infrequent words and characters, we...
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Sep 29, 2018
09/18
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Horiba
READOUT is a technical journal issued by HORIBA. The name "READOUT" represents our sincere desire - helping readers understand the company's proprietary products and technologies by offering information about them. Since its first issue in July 1990, the journal has been published biannually.
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Japan Society of English Language Education
Second language (L2) speaking assessment can be affected by raters as well as tasks and other factors. High-stakes speaking tests require that high rater reliability be assured and that such information be reported to the public. In Japan, investigations into rater reliability and the use of multifaceted Rasch analysis have been limited for L2 speaking assessment in both high-stakes contexts and classroom situations. To fill this gap, this study examines the rater reliability of the Speaking...
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Sep 29, 2018
09/18
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International Heart Journal Association
Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxygluose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) is a useful tool for evaluating disease activity in sarcoidosis including cardiac involvement. A 67-year-old patient who developed atrioventricular block requiring permanent pacemaker implantation was diagnosed with cardiac sarcoidosis. The patient did not undergo steroid or immunosuppressive therapy but underwent serial 18F-FDG PET examination, which showed spontaneous reduction in the myocardial FDG uptake, indicating...
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Sep 29, 2018
09/18
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Japanese Society for Complementary & Alternative Medicine
In food science, natural ingredients that can inhibit dipeptidyl peptidase IV ( DPP IV ) may be useful for preventing diabetes mellitus. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of bonito dashi having a high DPP IV inhibitory activity (IC50 ; 3049 µg/ ml) on the postprandial increase in blood glucose levels in 14 subjects. Bonito dashi (5 g) was subsequently subjected to oral glucose tolerance tests
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Sep 29, 2018
09/18
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The Japan Institute of Metals
Thermodynamic Properties of Metal-Hydrogen Systems at Infinite Dilution Limit Measured by EMF Methods
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Sep 29, 2018
09/18
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Tohoku University Medical Press
Biology, Life Sciences and Basic Medicine Agriculture and Food Sciences General Medicine, Social Medicine, and Nursing Sciences Clinical Medicine Dentistry Pharmaceutical Sciences Nanosciences and Materials Sciences Information Sciences Interdisciplinary Sciences Humanities and Social Sciences
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Sep 29, 2018
09/18
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Japanese Society of Biometeorology
In this paper, outline the meteorological observation situation by public institutions in Japan and clarified the meteorological observation situation in case of Hinohara village in Tokyo. Meteorological observations in Japan are carried out not only by Japan Meteorological Agency but also by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and Japan Coast Guard, Ministry of the Environment, prefectures, fire departments, etc. However, because of different observation purpose, the data...
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Sep 29, 2018
09/18
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Springer-Verlag
Background. Myocardial fibrosis occurs in the subepicardial myocardium of the left ventricular posterior wall in patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). The aim of this study was to clarify how these regional myocardial lesions might influence the focal cardiac movement using two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography and to investigate whether this new method is useful for the early detection of cardiac involvement in DMD patients.
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Geological Society of Japan
Geology of the Nishinoomote Formation, Kumage Group, in the northern part of Tanegashima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, SW Japan
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japan Society of Cell Biology
The Golgi apparatus is a central station for protein trafficking in eukaryotic cells. A widely accepted model of protein transport within the Golgi apparatus is cisternal maturation. Each cisterna has specific resident proteins, which are thought to be maintained by COPI-mediated transport. However, the mechanisms underlying specific sorting of these Golgi-resident proteins remain elusive. To obtain a clue to understand the selective sorting of vesicles between the Golgi cisterenae, we...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japan Society for Clinical Immunology
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease involving multiple lesions that cause inflammation and the production of autoantibodies. Lupus nephritis (LN) and neuropsychiatric SLE (NPSLE) are common organ-threatening manifestations of SLE and result in significant morbidity and mortality. In the last 30 years, steroids and immunosuppressive drugs have improved the prognosis of patients with SLE, and today the 5-year survival rate exceeds 90%. However, the treatment of SLE still...
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Sep 29, 2018
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The Surface Science Society of Japan
This paper modestly expands an invited talk at ISSS-8 with the same title. After reviewing the relevant interactions between adsorbates on substrates with metallic surface states [especially Cu(111)], it focuses on organic adsorbates. Of particular interest are those which form honeycomb lattices with pores of various sizes. The nature of the confined states derived from the surface-state electrons is discussed as their effect on admolecules inside the pores.
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japan Society for Occupational Health
The Journal of Occupational Health (JOH) is an international journal published by the Japan Society for Occupational Health (JSOH) and the journal published original and other contributions relevant to occupational and environmental health, including fundamental toxicological studies of industrial chemicals and other related studies.
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japanese Society for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology
Artemisinin, a sesquiterpene lactone exhibiting effective antimalarial activity, is produced by only Artemisia annua plant. A key step in artemisinin biosynthesis is the cyclization of farnesyl pyrophosphate (FPP) to amorpha-4,11-diene catalyzed by amorpha-4,11-diene synthase (AaADS). Intriguingly, several non-artemisinin-producing Artemisia plants also express genes highly homologous to AaADS. Our previous functional analysis of these homologous enzymes revealed that they catalyzed the...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Faculty of Mathematics, Kyushu University
Chambers cut out by six (seven hyper-) planes in general position in the real projective 3-space (4-space) are studied.
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japanese Society of Breeding
Genomic selection is attracting attention in the field of crop breeding. To apply genomic selection effectively for autogamous (self-pollinating) crops, an efficient outcross system is desired. Since dominant male sterility is a powerful tool for easy and successive outcross of autogamous crops, we developed transgenic dominant male sterile rice (Oryza sativa L.) using the barnase gene that is expressed by the tapetum-specific promoter BoA9. Barnase-induced male sterile rice No. 10 (BMS10) was...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Yamashina Institute for Ornithology
From April to June 1993, Large-billed Crow Corvus macrorhynchos eggs at Ueno Zoological Gardens and Ueno Park were measured. During the breeding season, 68 eggs from 18 of the 43 incubated nests were measured. The range and mean dimensions of the 68 eggs measured were 39.4–54.7 mm, 45.2±2.8 mm (mean±SD) in length and 28.4–33.1 mm, 30.5±0.9 mm in breadth. The 67 eggs weighed ranged from 16.6–25.4 g, with a mean of 21.7±1.7 g SD
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japan Society of Personality Psychology
This study investigates whether monologue-like tweets are monologues. A questionnaire targeting undergraduate students was conducted three times (in December 2012 (n=240), February–April 2015 (n=92), and January 2016 (n=134) ). As a result, the frequency of monologue-like tweets was related to private speech tendency in the sample from 2012 and social speech tendency in the sample from 2016. Furthermore, with every year, the number of people who answered “taking notes” as a substitute for...
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Sep 29, 2018
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Japanese Society for the Science of Design
This study investigated user task performance according to gender, interface design (linear or mixed type), and task complexity (easy, medium, or difficult). In total, 48 participants (24 females, 24 males; mean age = 64.4 years, SD = 3.04) were recruited. Task performance was indexed by the time taken to complete a task. It was noted that the main effects of gender and mode on task performance were not significant, and neither were the gender interaction effects with all other factors. It was...
