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Catalyst Development for High Pressure Oxo Process
Catalyst recovery and recycling in homogeneously catalyzed oxo processes are of the utmost importance from an industrial point of view, and there have been many reports concerning the Separation of the cobalt ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Electron Correlation Energies and Metal-Insulator Transition of Vo2
Changes of band structures and correlation energies of VO2 on the metal to insulator (M-I) phase transition at T = 34.0°K are investigated by measurements of vacuum ultraviolet reflectance and photoemission spect...
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Specific radioimmunoassay of glucitol-lysine — application to lens proteins in streptozotocin-diabetic rats
A radioimmunoassay using antibody against glucitol-lysine was developed to quantitate glycated proteins in the lens of diabetic rats. The amount of glycated protein was expressed as molar equivalents of reduce...
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Application of resonant X-ray emissions for molecular/electronic structure analysis of boron nitrides
–B1s-1 transitions were observed in w-BN composed of four-fold boron atoms and in h-BN composed of three-fold boron atoms, when the photon energy of the incident undulator beams coincided with the B1s–B2pπ* absor...
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Superparamagnetic behavior of iron oxides supported on porous silica gels
Spinel iron oxide (Fe3O4-γ-Fe2O3) particles were supported on microbeads of silica gel by the calcination of the silica gel base adsorbing citric acid and Fe3+ ions. The X-ray diffraction patterns and the57Fe Mös...
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Revascularization and new bone formation in heat-treated bone grafts
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is one of the possible serious complications associated with bone allografts. In order to prevent infection, grafted bone is sterilized by various treatments. Heat...
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Involvement of phospholipase A2 activation in anthrax lethal toxin-induced cytotoxicity
The molecular mechanism of cytotoxic effect exerted by the lethal toxin (LeTx) of Bacillus anthracis is not well understood. In the present study, using primary culture of mouse peritoneal macrophages, we have...
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Intelligence based on adaptive control
This paper considers the problem of intelligence in control from the viewpoint of adaptive control theory. First, intelligence in control is treated here as the inverse problem. There are two ways to solve the...
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Intracellular calcium antagonist protects cultured peritoneal macrophages against anthrax lethal toxin-induced cytotoxicity
The lethal toxin ofBacillus anthracis is central to the pathogenesis of anthrax. Using primary cultures of mouse peritoneal macrophages, we have demonstrated that intracellular calcium release inhibitors protect ...
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Dehydroepiandrosterone and melatonin prevent Bacillus anthracis lethal toxin-induced TNF production in macrophages
The lethal toxin of Bacillus anthracis, which is composed of two separate proteinaceous exotoxins, namely protective antigen and lethal factor, is central to the pathogenesis of anthrax. Low levels of this toxin ...
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Incidence of intrauterine complications in monoamniotic twin gestation
We compared the incidence of intrauterine complications, such as twin-twin transfusion syndrome, between monochorionic-monoamniotic (MM) and monochorionic-diamniotic (MD) twin gestations. We retrospectively ev...
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Observation of fluorapatite formation under hydrolysis of tetracalcium phosphate in the presence of KF by means of soft X-ray emission and absorption spectroscopy
The effect of fluoride on the hydrolysis of tetracalcium phosphate (TTCP; Ca4(PO4)2O) in 0.1 mol/l KH2PO4 containing 62–83 mmol/l KF was studied with the help of X-ray fluorescence measurements. Fluorine X-ray em...
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Biomechanical properties of heat-treated bone grafts
A possible critical complication associated with banking bone is human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Recently, since the report of HIV infection in bone allografts from an HIV-seronegative donor, a m...
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Iron nanoparticles in amorphous SiO2: X-ray emission and absorption spectra
The local structure of the chemical bond of iron ions implanted into SiO2 glasses (implantation energy, 100 keV; fluence, 1 × 1016 cm−2) is investigated using x-ray emission and absorption spectroscopy. The Fe L ...
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Chapter
Integration of Photogrammetric and LIDAR Data in a Multi-Primitive Triangulation Environment
Photogrammetric map** procedures have gone through major developments as a result of the significant improvements in its underlying technologies. For example, the continuous development of digital imaging sy...
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Auger spectroscopy and properties of Ir(Pt)/PZT(PZT/PT)/Ir nanosized thin-film structures
Studies of the elemental distribution profiles through the thickness of thin-film ferroelectric capacitor structures using Auger spectroscopy made it possible to establish the relation between the elemental an...
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A method of determining the charge trapped at the interfaces of a metal/ferroelectric/metal thin-film structure
A method is developed for determining the trap density at the metal/ferroelectric interfaces in a completely depleted ferroelectric film with two Schottky barriers. The method is based on the recharging of tra...
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Therapeutic use of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor could conceal residual malignant cells in patients with AML1/ETO+ acute myelogenous leukemia
We have experienced a number of cases of AML1/ETO+ acute myelogenous leukemia that showed remission based on bone marrow (BM) morphological criteria, but that revealed clonal abnormalities in most cells by fluore...
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Reliabilities and inter-relationships of various step** tests and evaluation parameters for the elderly
The reliability, inter-relationship, and utility of step** tests for dynamic balance evaluation in the elderly were examined. Seventy-seven women of mean age 75.4 years performed in-place, back/forth, up/dow...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The quenching of nucleon yields in the nonmesonic weak decay of Λ-hypernuclei and the three-body weak decay process
Recent exclusive coincidence measurements of non-mesonic weak decays (NMWD) reported for the ratio of the partial decay width of neutron-induced-to-proton-induced NMWD, Γ n/Γ ...
