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Practical Development of Accident Tolerant Fecral-Ods Fuel Claddings for BWRs in Japan
An oxide-dispersion-strengthened FeCrAl (FeCrAl-ODS) has been continuously developed in Japan as a promising candidate alloy for the accident tolerant fuel cladding of BWRs (boiling water reactors). This paper...
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Methane with Abnormally High δ13C and δD Values from the Coastal Hot Springs in Lake Baikal
We studied the composition and isotopic characteristics (δ13C and δD) of hydrocarbon gases from the Kotelnikovsky, Zmeiny, and Goryachnisky hot springs located in the coastal zone of Lake Baikal. Of greatest inte...
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Childhood leukemia in Ukraine after the Chornobyl accident
This population-based ecological study analyzes the prevalence of childhood leukemia in Ukraine before and after the Chornobyl nuclear power plant accident, based on the contamination status of the territory, ...
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Structural Studies of Lake Baikal Natural Gas Hydrates
The structure of near-bottom gas hydrate samples obtained in Lake Baikal during the expeditions in 2005–2018 are reported. The hydrates contain mainly methane and ethane. More than 85% of the samples contain h...
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Improvement of Impact Resistance of Ceramics by Using Resin-Based Materials
Since ceramics are lightweight and have a sufficient strength, they have the potential to be used as a shield material. However, their low fracture toughness and low shape imparting inhibit their actual applic...
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Fermi surface in the absence of a Fermi liquid in the Kondo insulator SmB6
The search for a Fermi surface in the absence of a conventional Fermi liquid has thus far yielded very few potential candidates. Among promising materials are spin-frustrated Mott insulators near the insulator...
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FOXO3 is essential for CD44 expression in pancreatic cancer cells
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most fatal types of cancer and the 5-year survival rate is only 5%. Several studies have suggested that cancer stem cells (CSCs) are thought to be involved...
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Rate of Organ Space Infection Is Reduced with the Use of an Air Leak Test During Major Hepatectomies
Organ/space surgical site infections (OSIs) constitute an important postoperative metric. We sought to assess the impact of a previously described air leak test (ALT) on the incidence of OSI following major he...
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Open AccessArea/latency optimized early output asynchronous full adders and relative-timed ripple carry adders
This article presents two area/latency optimized gate level asynchronous full adder designs which correspond to early output logic. The proposed full adders are constructed using the delay-insensitive dual-rai...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Quantification of Hand Tissues to Dose Optimization Procedures in Computed Radiology
This study presents the development of a homog-enous hand patient equivalent phantom (hPEP) to be used in an optimization process in computed radiography systems. Lucite and aluminum plates were used for hPEP ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Real-Time Observation of Laser Heated Metals with High Brightness Monochromatic X-Ray Techniques at Present and Their Future Prospects
We present the x-ray techniques for characterizing laser heated metals for welding and cutting techniques. At present, with an undulator (70 keV) as well as bending magnet (30 keV) sources at SPring-8 as a pro...
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Open AccessThe MEG detector for μ +→e+ γ decay search
The MEG (Mu to Electron Gamma) experiment has been running at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Switzerland since 2008 to search for the decay μ +→e+ γ by using one of the most int...
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Open AccessMigraine days and body mass index (BMI) in a series of Japanese migraineurs
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Use of Algorithms for Semi-Automatic Quantification of Pulmonary Fibrosis and Emphysema
Obtaining a semi-automatic quantification of pathologies found in the lung, through images of high resolution computed tomography (HRCT), is of great importance to aid in medical diagnosis. Paraccocidioidomyco...
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Inflammation-induced repression of tumor suppressor miR-7 in gastric tumor cells
Inflammation has an important role in cancer development through various mechanisms. It has been shown that dysregulation of microRNAs (miRNAs) that function as oncogenes or tumor suppressors contributes to tu...
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Open AccessSearch for charged Higgs bosons in e+e− collisions at \(\sqrt{s}=189\mbox{--}209\ \mbox{GeV}\)
A search is made for charged Higgs bosons predicted by Two-Higgs-Doublet extensions of the Standard Model (2HDM) using electron-positron collision data collected by the OPAL experiment at
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Early-stage formation of an epigenetic field defect in a mouse colitis model, and non-essential roles of T- and B-cells in DNA methylation induction
Epigenetic fields for cancerization are involved in development of human cancers, especially those associated with inflammation and multiple occurrences. However, it is still unclear when such field defects ar...
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Open AccessDetermination of α S using OPAL hadronic event shapes at \(\sqrt{s} = 91\mbox{--}209~\mathrm{GeV}\) and resummed NNLO calculations
Hadronic event shape distributions from e+e− annihilation measured by the OPAL experiment at centre-of-mass energies between 91 GeV and 209 GeV are used to determine the strong coupling α
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Thyroid cancer incidence in Ukraine: trends with reference to the Chernobyl accident
For the first time, a comparative analysis of thyroid cancer incidence in Ukraine after the Chernobyl accident was done in a cohort that is almost as large as the general population. On the basis of thyroid do...
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Effect of Minor Alloying Element on Dispersing Nano-Particles in ODS Steel
A nano-characterization analysis was performed to clarify the mechanism of fine distribution growth and oxide formation in ODS steels, and furthermore, various minor elements were added to find out their capab...
