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Complete positivity of map** valued linear maps
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Clinical application of a newin vitro bleeding time device on surgical patients
A newin vitro bleeding time (BT) device was applied to various surgical patients. After setting the optimal assay condition, the normalin vitro bleeding time (T2) and volume (V2) were obtained from healthy volunt...
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Speckle Noise Reduction Using PM Pulses
The ultrasonic diagnostic equipment using the pulse echo method has recently come into wide use, and it is used at most hospitals now. It has such advantages as (l)involving no fear of being exposed to X-ray, ...
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Detection of benzodiazepine receptor occupancy in the human brain by positron emission tomography
Benzodiazepine receptor occupancy in the brain following oral administration of clonazepam (CZP) with a dose of 30 μg/kg in six healthy young men and a further dose of 50 μg/kg in one of the subjects was estim...
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Pendulum swing artificial heart
An artificial heart was assembled with a pendulum swing driver and lenticular blood chambers, with the aim of completely implantable use. The pusher of this artificial heart was put into pendulum swing motion ...
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Optical Properties of Random Multilayers of Amorphous A-Si:H/A-Si3N4+x:H and the Classical Localization
In the optical reflectance spectrum of the random multilayers of a-Si:H/a-Si3N4+x:H, it is observed an anomalous peak which is explained by the classical localization of light propagation. The following two subje...
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The Viscoelastic Properties of Aqueous Poly(methacrylic acid) Solutions and Their Relations to Thermoreversible Gelation
Influence of the gelation of concentrated aqueous poly(methacrylic acid) (PMA) solutions on the dynamic viscoelastic behavior was investigated. Dynamic shear moduli for aqueous PMA solutions (7.00–8.33 wt%) we...
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Properties of Fullerenes as Intercalated Materials
Gas effusion spectra, the resistivity, constant photocurrent spectra and photothermal deflection spectroscopy for the fullerene are used to study properties of fullerenes which could be understood as intercala...
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Electrogastrographic power ratio in humans is not related to changes in antrum-skin distance but to antral motility
It is not clear whether the power increase in electrogastrography (EGG) after meal or water ingestion reflects increases in gastric motility or gastric distension bringing the stomach closer to the electrodes...
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Compound Muscle Action Potentials Under Dynamic Stress in Lumbar Spinal Canal Stenosis
Intermittent claudication is one of the characteristic symptoms in lumbar spinal canal stenosis. We recorded compound muscle action potentials (CMAPs) from the extensor digiti brevi (EDB) and the abductor hall...
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Selective deposition of Sn on the Pt surface of Pt/ZnAl2O4 catalyst and addition effect on isobutane dehydrogenation
Pt−Sn bimetallic catalysts were prepared by a CVD technique in which Sn was added by passing volatile organometallic compounds over Pt/ZnAl2O4 in a H2 flow. Mixed Pt−Sn sites improve the activity of isobutane deh...
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High-Speed voltammetry of Mn-doped LiCoO2 using a microelectrode technique
The microelectrode technique was applied to investigate the electrochemical properties of LiCo1- x Mn x O2 (x=0, 0.01, 0.05, 0.2, or 0.5) synt...
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Increase of Hydrogen-Radical Density and Improvement of The Crystalline Volume Fraction of Microcrystalline Silicon Films Prepared by Hot-Wire Assisted PECVD Method
Higher crystalline Si volume fractions in hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon ( µc-Si:H) films have been achieved by the hot-wire assisted plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (HWA-PECVD) method compare...
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Effect of Hydrogen Radical on Properties of Hydrogen in Hydrogenated Microcrystalline Silicon
Hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si:H) films are prepared by hot-wire assisted plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, which controls the hydrogen radical density by filament temperatures, Tf, with...
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Phylum Al. Crenarchaeota phy. nov.
The phylum consists of a single class, the Thermoprotei, which is well supported by 16S rDNA sequence data. It is subdivided into three orders: the Thermoproteales, the Desulfurococcales, and the Sulfolobales. Mo...
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Different sensitivities to competitive inhibition of benzodiazepine receptor binding of11C-iomazenil and11C-flumazenil in rhesus monkey brain
Thein vivo binding kineties of11C-iomazenil were compared with those of11C-flumazenll binding in rhesus monkey brain. The monkey was anesthetized with ketamine and intravenously injected with either11C-iomazenil ...
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In situ SERS spectroscopy of Ag-modified pyrolytic graphite in organic electrolytes
Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has been applied to study the lithium intercalation/deintercalation process at the interface of a pyrolytic graphite electrode with propylene and ethylene carbonate con...
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Metallosphaera sedula TA-2, a calditoglycerocaldarchaeol deletion strain of a thermoacidophilic archaeon
A spherical thermoacidophilic archaeon, strain TA-2, was obtained from acidic hot springs located in Ohwaku Valley, Hakone, Japan. This isolate is an obligate aerobic chemoorganoheterotroph that grows optimal...
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Explicit study on the oxidation mechanism of nickel in molten Li2CO3-K2CO3
The oxidation behavior of nickel in Li+K carbonate melt is followed by measuring the open-circuit potential and by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy under an O2+CO2 gas mixture in the ratio 90/10 at a total...
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Rapid evaluation of charge/discharge properties for lithium manganese oxide particles at elevated temperatures
A microelectrode technique was applied to investigate the electrochemical properties of LiMn2O4 particles at elevated temperatures. Cyclic voltammograms of LiMn2O4 were measured after the particles were exposed ...
