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Takashi Itoh
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Halophilic Microorganisms from Man-Made and Natural Hypersaline Environments: Physiology, Ecology, and Biotechnological Potential
Halophilic prokaryotes are of increasing interest for a wide range of biotechnological applications. This chapter provides an overview of their classification and taxonomy; describes their ecology and characte...
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Energy Storage in Batteries and Fuel Cells
and (FCs) are the two major types of solar energy storage devices currently in use. Secondary batteries reversibly convert stored chemical energy (e.g., from solar power devices) into electrical energy. F...
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Phylogeny and Biological Features of Thermophiles
Thermophilic prokaryotes constitute a quite large group among the currently known prokaryotic species. At present, more than 220 genera and 580 species of the thermophiles have been isolated from various therm...
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Halophilic microorganisms from man-made and natural hypersaline environments: Physiology, ecology, and biotechnological potential
What are hypersaline environments? Geologists or geochemists define saline lakes sensu lato as bodies of water with salinity more than 3 g/l (0.3%), while those sensu stricto (hypersaline) are bodies of water tha...
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Accessibility Evaluation for Multimedia Content
Practices supporting Web accessibility are spread out all over the world. However, the accessibility of multimedia content and rich Internet applications has been little discussed. These types of content are u...
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Comparative Studies in Key Disagreement Correction Process on Wireless Key Agreement System
This paper describes the comparison of the error-correcting codes that is adopted by the key disagreement correction process about wireless key agreement system called ESPARSKEY that is expected to achieve inf...
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Cellular Characterization of Taurine Transporter in Cultured Cardiac Myocytes and Nonmyocytes
Taurine is by far the most abundant free amino acid in the mammalian heart, comprising in excess of 50% of the total free amino acid pool1,2. Although its physiological function remains undefined, taurine exhibit...
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Taurine Transporter in Cultured Neonatal Cardiomyocytes:
Hemodynamic overload results in cardiac hypertrophy, and may ultimately lead to congestive heart failure. Two factors are thought to contribute to the development of cardiac hypertrophy, mechanical stress and ...
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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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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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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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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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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, ...
