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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Study on Applicability of Ensemble Kalman Filter for Wave Prediction Model
The Routes of ships are mainly determined based on their speed and roll angles. The routes are also determined based on the estimated weather and wave situation predicted using numerical simulation, economic a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Review on Film Cooling in High-Speed Flows
This review presents the state of the art in film cooling applied to high-speed flows. Film cooling is a promising technique to reduce heat transfer and shield a surface that is exposed to high-temperature cor...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Apparatus producing a wide variety of electrolyzed water for home care
Strongly acidic electrolyzed water SAcEW is readily prepared from water containing NaCl by direct current electrolysis. SAcEW has an instantaneous strong bactericidal activity due to the available chlorine (AC...
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Growth of High-Quality Polycrystalline Si Ingot with Same Grain Orientation by Using Dendritic Casting Method
We succeeded in the development of a new technique to grow a high-quality polycrystalline Si ingot for solar cells named as “Dendritic casting method,” which utilizes the dendrite growth along the bottom of th...
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High-Quality Si Multicrystals with Same Grain Orientation and Large Grain Size by the Newly Developed Dendritic Casting Method for High-Efficiency Solar Cell Applications
Si multicrystals have many grains with different orientations and sizes, resulting in many grain boundaries with different characteristics. To obtain the high conversion efficiency of the solar cells prepared ...
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Floating Cast Method as a New Growth Method of Silicon Bulk Multicrystals for Solar Cells
We propose a new growth method named as floating cast method to realize high-quality Si bulk multicrystals for solar cells. The fundamental concept of floating cast method is to perform crystal growth from the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Numerical and Experimental Creep Bending Behavior of Polyethylene Beams
The monotonic compressive loading tests previously performed for high-density solid polymers including polyethylene (PE) revealed that the inelastic deformation behavior of these engineering plastics is remark...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
3-D Magnetic Field Analysis of a Magnetically Shielded Room for Biomagnetic Measurements
As magnetic fields generated by the human brain are extremely weak, a magnetically shielded room (MSR) is required which can reduce magnetic noise near the brain in the range of 0.1 Hz to radio frequency. As a...
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MHV-Induced Fatal Peritonitis in Mice Lacking IFN-γ
IFN-γ gene was disrupted by homologous recombination in A3-1 embryonic stem cells. Germinally transmitted chimeric mice were successfully obtained and backcrossed with C57BL/6 (B6) mice 5 or 6 times. Deficienc...
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Recent Advances in Environment Control in Micropropagation
Micropropagation has been an important method for producing a great number of nursery plantlets/transplants used in agriculture, forestry, and horticulture. Recent research has shown that controlling environme...
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Lipoylation of E2 component
Lipoic acid is a prosthetic group of the acyltransferase (E2) components of the pyruvate, (α-ketoglutarate, and branched chain α-keto acid dehydrogenase complexes, X component (the dihydrolipoamide dehydrogena...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Numerical Study of Explosive-Driven Cylindrical Imploding Shocks in Solids
A one-dimensional Random Choice code has been developed for a medium of layered structure including solids and gases, and applied to the numerical simulation of explosive-driven cylindrical imploding shocks in...
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3-D Magnetic Field Analysis of Epstein Frame for Measuring Magnetic Characteristics
The effective magnetic path length L m of the Epstein frame is specified as 94cm by the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) standard.1 In order to measure...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
New Methods for Generating Cylindrical Imploding Shocks
The imploding shock generated by the explosion of explosives has been investigated to produce extreme conditions. The conventional method is the simultaneous explosion of an annular explosive shell which is in...
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Environmental Control for Large Scale Production of In Vitro Plantlets
Chlorophyllous cultures have high photosynthetic ability. In many cases, they grow faster under photoautotrophic (sugar-free medium) conditions than under heterotrophic and photomixotrophic culture conditions ...
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Environmental measurement and control systems
Environmental measurement and control systems related to transpiration and photosynthesis of chlorophyllous cultures and methods for estimating transpiration and net CO2 exchange (net photosynthetic/dark respirat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
NMR Study of High-T c Superconductors
Results of our NMR measurements on (La,Sr)2CuO4 and Tl2Ba2CuO6+y system are discussed together with other high Tc materials.
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The In Vitro Environment and its Control in Micropropagation
The reasons for high production costs of micropropagated plantlets are analyzed. Problems requiring solutions by proper control of the in vitro environment for improving shoot/plantlet quality and cost effectiven...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A multi-grain parallelizing compilation scheme for OSCAR (optimally scheduled advanced multiprocessor)
This paper proposes a multi-grain parallelizing compilation scheme for Fortran programs. The scheme hierarchically exploits parallelism among coarse grain tasks, such as, loops, subroutines or basic blocks, am...
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Mechanism of the Cytotoxic Interaction between ET-18-OMe and Heat
Ether lipid analogues of platelet-activating factor have been shown to kill cancer cells either alone or in combination with other cancer chemotherapeutic agents (1–3). Recently, we have shown that one of the ...
