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Inventory Survey of Slope Failures in Sri Lanka
The most common type of landslides in Sri Lanka is shallow, rapid-moving slope failures, particularly in response to an intense, short-duration storm. Different from reactivated landslides, the slope failures ...
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The impact of indocyanine-green fluorescence imaging on intraluminal perfusion of a J-pouch
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3D printed model-based simulation of laparoscopic surgery for descending colon cancer with a concomitant abdominal aortic aneurysm
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Open AccessThe identification of the cylindrical defect position and size by measuring the radiated sound pressure on the plane
It is important to measure the defect of objects. The radiated sound from the impacted body has many types of information, and it also has the information of the defect. Therefore, in this study, we propose a ...
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Modeling of Ablation of the Target Material for the Plasma for Coherent and Incoherent EUV Sources
Particles are sometimes emitted during the ablation of the metal targets used for laser pumped coherent and incoherent light sources. These particles have a significant effect on the absorption efficiency of t...
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Laparoscopic Deloyers procedure to facilitate primary anastomosis after extended resection for synchronous cancers of transverse colon and rectum: easy to preform with good functional outcome
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Open AccessUltralow-phase-noise millimetre-wave signal generator assisted with an electro-optics-modulator-based optical frequency comb
Low-noise millimetre-wave signals are valuable for digital sampling systems, arbitrary waveform generation for ultra-wideband communications and coherent radar systems. However, the phase noise of widely used ...
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Fatigue Damage of a Diagonal Member in a Steel Truss Bridge Due to Wind-Induced Vibration
Ikitsuki bridge is a three span continuous steel truss bridge completed in July, 1991. Approximately 18 years after the completion, a crack was found in a diagonal member in the vicinity of an intermediate sup...
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Open AccessReduced cortical expression of a newly identified splicing variant of the DLG1 gene in patients with early-onset schizophrenia
The human discs, large homolog 1 gene (DLG1) is mapped to the schizophrenia-susceptibility locus 3q29, and it encodes a scaffold protein that interacts with the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor presumably dysregulat...
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Successful treatment with plasma exchange for disseminated cidofovir-resistant adenovirus disease in a pediatric SCT recipient
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Pathways of spread of the introduced ascidian Styela clava (Tunicata) in Northern Europe, as revealed by microsatellite markers
Styela clava, a solitary ascidian native to the NW Pacific, has become a conspicuous member of fouling communities in NW European waters. As its natural dispersal appears to be limited, the wide distribution of S...
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Unexpectedly high AUC levels in a child who received intravenous busulfan before stem cell transplantation
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Bound kaon approach for the ppK − system in the Skyrme model
The lightest nuclear \(\overline K\) bound state, ppK −, is investigated in the Skyrme model. We descri...
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Cold shock domain protein A represses angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis via inhibition of serum response element
Dual-targeted therapy for antiangiogenesis and antilymphangiogenesis represents a potentially effective strategy for the treatment of various malignancies. Therefore, the goal of the present study was to ident...
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Open AccessPrognostic significance of microvessel density and other variables in Japanese and British patients with primary invasive breast cancer
The purpose of this study is to investigate the associations of microvessel density (MVD) and other pathological variables with survival, and whether they accounted for survival differences between Japanese an...
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Open AccessGemcitabine chemoresistance and molecular markers associated with gemcitabine transport and metabolism in human pancreatic cancer cells
To identify predictive molecular markers for gemcitabine resistance, we investigated changes in the expression of four genes associated with gemcitabine transport and metabolism during the development of acqui...
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Evidence for involvement of glial cell activity in the control of extracellular D-serine contents in the rat brain
The continuous intra-cortical infusion of a glia toxin, fluorocitrate, at the concentration of 1 mM caused a decrease in the cortical extracellular contents of an intrinsic coagonist for the N-methyl-D-asparta...
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Hidden ancient diversification in the circumtropical lancelet Asymmetron lucayanum complex
The tropical lancelet Asymmetron lucayanum (= Epigonichthys lucayanus) is distributed from the western Indian Ocean to the central Pacific Ocean, and the western Atlantic Ocean. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of...
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mda-7 gene transfer sensitizes breast carcinoma cells to chemotherapy, biologic therapies and radiotherapy: correlation with expression of bcl-2 family members
Current therapies used in the treatment of breast cancer are limited by systemic toxicity, rapid drug metabolism and intrinsic and acquired drug resistance. We have previously shown that adenoviral-mediated tr...
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Control of Thin Film Transistor Operations with Polar Self-Assembled Monolayers
From the view point of materials sciences, one of the central issues in organic thin film transistors (TFTs) is the interface between different materials inherent in the device structure. For example, the inte...
