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Advanced Ceramics Sintering Using High-Power Millimeter-Wave Radiation
The results of ceramics sintering experiments using high-power millimeter-wave radiation are reported. Sintering of silicon nitride with 5%Al2O3 and 5%Y2O3 was performed in a multi-mode applicator using a 10-kW 2...
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Microwave Induced Plasma (MIP) Brazing of Silicon Nitride to Stainless Steel
In an attempt to accelerate the process of joining of metals to ceramics, a new rapid brazing technology has been developed. In this process, referred to as Microwave Induced Plasma (MIP) brazing, a microwave ...
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Friction and wear of synthetic diamond with and without N+ implantation and CVD diamond coating in air, water and methanol
The friction and wear of synthetic diamond with and without N+ implantation and CVD diamond coatings were studied in air, water and methanol. It was shown that water effectively reduced the friction of the synthe...
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Preparation of highly oriented thin film exhibiting transparent conduction by the sol-gel process
Highly oriented thin films exhibiting transparent conduction aluminium-doped ZnO (AZO), were prepared by a spin-coating method. The effects of the solvents on the preparation and electrical properties of the t...
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Lymphocyte subsets in hemodialysis patients treated with recombinant human erythropoietin
We investigated whether recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) therapy affected the lymphocyte subsets in patients on long-term maintenance hemodialysis (HD) with severe anemia. Before treatment, the numbers...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Regulatory Mechanisms of Thrombomodulin Expression in the Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells
Thrombomodulin (TM) is a cell surface glycoprotein that plays an important role in inhibition of intravascular coagulation as a cofactor for the thrombin-catalyzed activation of protein C.1 It contributes to thro...
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Production of infectious particles from defective human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-producing cell clones by superinfection with infectious HIV-1
A total of 81 cell clones persistently infected with the LAV-1 or HTLV-IIIB strain of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) was isolated from cells which were obtained by serial passage of some prolifera...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Integral Equation Method for Geometrically Nonlinear Bending Problem of Elastic Circular Arch
Integral equation method for geometrically nonlinear bending problem of elastic arches is presented from the two viewpoints. The first nonlinear problem is based on the theory in which axial displacement due t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Bifurcation Analysis of Elastic Shallow Arch by the Boundary-Domain Element Method
The nonlinear bifurcation analysis of an elastic shallow circular arch subjected to three kinds of loading is presented by using the boundary-domain element approach in the nonlinear integral equation of the p...
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Stress fracture of the body of pubis in a pregnant woman
A case with stress fracture of the body of the pubic bone which occurred in a 35-year-old pregnant woman is described. No underlying pathologic process was found and it would seem that the mechanical load acti...
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Effects of hypoglycaemia on early embryogenesis in rat embryo organ culture
As congenital malformations may be caused by perturbations of glycolytic flux on early embryogenesis [16], effects of hypoglycaemia were investigated by using rat embryo organ culture. Nine and one-half day ol...
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Structure and Activity-Regulation of Chimeric Proteins a Case Study of Calcium-Activated Neutral Protease
The amino acid sequences of many proteins have revealed totally unexpected similarities between proteins with quite different functions or that apparently have nothing to do with each other (1). Present-day pr...
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A new method of detection of islet cell antibodies (ICA) using peroxidase-labeled protein A, and incidence of ICA in Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes
We have developed a new method of detecting islet cell antibodies using peroxidase-labeled protein A, and have determined the incidence of ICA in Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes in Japan. In our method, fr...
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Results from the KGF proton decay experiment
The data from the KGF experiment at the depth of 2.3 km underground are used to search for GUT signals in the form of nucleon decay $$...
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Are Down syndrome patients predisposed to Moyamoya disease?
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Geometrically Nonlinear Analysis of Shallow Spherical Shell Using an Integral Equation Method
Recently, numerical solution techniques have been developed and widely used in various fields of natural science and engineering.
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High-performance thin-layer chromatography of etioporphyrin and its vanadium (IV), nickel (II) and coper (II) complexes
The RF values were obtained for etioporphyrin I (H2Etio) and its vanadyl, nickel and copper complexes on cellulose, silica gel, and octyl-bonded silica HPTLC plates, with various organic solvents. The mobility of...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Diagnosis Related Cost Analysis in Japanese Hospital Care
In Japan, national medical costs have been increasing continuously, and accounted for 5.1% of the GNP in 1981. For several years, the increasing rate of medical expenditure has been higher than that of the GNP...
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Chapter
The K.G.F. Nucleon Decay Experiment
A 140 ton nucleon decay detector is in operation in the Kolar Gold Mines in India at a depth of 2300 metres since November 1980. The experimental details, the method of analysis and the results obtained after ...
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Neutrino backgrounds in the Kolar Gold Field nucleon decay experiment
The neutrino events recorded in the Kolar Gold Field Nucleon Decay detector are analysed here. It is shown that there is good agreement between the observations and the estimates based on the intensities of at...
