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The UN System, COVID-19 Responses, and Building Back Better: Toward an Inclusive, Accessible and Sustainable World
At the time of the great disruption for the world due to the COVID-19 crisis, the situation of those with vulnerabilities, including women, persons with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups, is compound...
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The Ambiguity of ‘Us’ Between Reality and Educational Policy in Japan
Japanese society has been diversifying in terms of linguistically and culturally diverse students gradually and steadily since the 1990s. Along with this, interest in intercultural education is increasing in J...
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The Psychosocial Consequences of the Fukushima Disaster: What Are We Suffering From?
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident caused enormous damage in terms of not only the mental status of affected people, but also the cohesiveness of entire communities in Fukushima Prefecture. Reg...
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Cellular and subcellular localization of ADP-ribosylation factor 6 in mouse peripheral tissues
ADP-ribosylation factor 6 (Arf6) is a small GTPase that regulates endosomal trafficking and actin cytoskeleton remodeling. In the present study, we comprehensively examined the cellular and subcellular localiz...
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Erratum to: Epigenetic regulation of MdMYB1 is associated with paper bagging-induced red pigmentation of apples
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Epigenetic regulation of MdMYB1 is associated with paper bagging-induced red pigmentation of apples
Paper-bagging treatment can transform non-transcribed MdMYB1 - 2 and MdMYB1 - ...
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Open AccessSmall RNA and PARE sequencing in flower bud reveal the involvement of sRNAs in endodormancy release of Japanese pear (Pyrus pyrifolia 'Kosui')
In woody perennial plants, including deciduous fruit trees, such as pear, endodormancy is a strategy for surviving the cold winter. A better understanding of the mechanism underlying the endodormancy phase tra...
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Notes on the divisibility of the class numbers of imaginary quadratic fields \(\mathbb {Q}(\sqrt{3^{2e} - 4k^n})\)
Let \(n\) n be ...
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An apple B-box protein, MdCOL11, is involved in UV-B- and temperature-induced anthocyanin biosynthesis
Our studies showed that an apple B-box protein, MdCOL11, the homolog of AtBBX22, is involved in UV-B- and temperature-induced anthocyanin biosynthesis in apple peel.
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Adventitious shoot regeneration in cotyledons from Japanese pear and related species
An efficient method for the generation of adventitious shoots from the cotyledons of Japanese pear and related species was developed. Cotyledons from seeds of the Japanese pear “Okusankichi” and the Asian pea ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
How Electricity Energizes the Body: Electrotherapeutics and its Analogy of Life in the Japanese Medical Context
Electricity is life – we are in the grip of the network of this invisible power. Appearing in many guises such as lights, the telegraph, motors, and more recently as electronics and computers, electrical techn...
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The Surgical Strategy and the Molecular Analysis of Patients with Parathyroid Cancer
Parathyroid cancer is a rare endocrine tumor, and the prognostic factors for this cancer remain unclear. The standard therapy is en bloc resection of the primary tumor at the time of the initial operation. How...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Searching for Effectors of Magnaporthe oryzae: A Multi-Faceted Genomics Approach
In 2005, a draft sequence of Magnaporthe oryzae isolate 70–15 genome was published (Dean et al. 2005). Complete rice genome sequence was also published in the same year (International Rice Genome Sequencing Proje...
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NbLRK1, a lectin-like receptor kinase protein of Nicotiana benthamiana, interacts with Phytophthora infestans INF1 elicitin and mediates INF1-induced cell death
Phytophthora infestans INF1 elicitin causes the hypersensitive response (HR) in Nicotiana benthamiana (Kamoun et al. in Plant Cell 10:1413–1425, 1998). To identify N. benthamiana proteins...
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Virus-induced gene silencing of 14-3-3 genes abrogates dark repression of nitrate reductase activity in Nicotiana benthamiana
In order to study the effect of repression of 14-3-3 genes on actual activity of the nitrate reductase (NR) in Nicotiana benthamiana leaves, Nb14-3-3a gene was silenced by virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) meth...
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Large-scale DNA polymorphism study of Oryza sativa and O. rufipogon reveals the origin and divergence of Asian rice
Polymorphism over ∼26 kb of DNA sequence spanning 22 loci and one region distributed on chromosomes 1, 2, 3 and 4 was studied in 30 accessions of cultivated rice, Oryza sativa, and its wild relatives. Phylogeneti...
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SuperSAGE array: the direct use of 26-base-pair transcript tags in oligonucleotide arrays
We developed a new platform for genome-wide gene expression analysis in any eukaryotic organism, which we called SuperSAGE array. The SuperSAGE array is a microarray onto which 26-bp oligonucleotides correspon...
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Genetic analysis of novel intra-species unilateral incompatibility in Brassica rapa (syn. campestris) L.
Plants have evolved many systems to prevent inappropriate fertilization. Among them, incompatibility is a well-organized system in which pollen germination or pollen-tube growth is inhibited in pistils. Self-i...
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Evaluation of Accumulated Mucopolysaccharides in the Brain of Patients with Mucopolysaccharidoses by 1H-Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy before and after Bone Marrow Transplantation
In seven patients with mucopolysaccharidoses (1 Hurler, 1 Hurler-Scheie, 4 Hunter, 1 Sly), cranial 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy was performed to evaluate the accumulation of mucopolysaccharides and biochemi...
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Plasma-Grafting of Polymers with Pendant Oligo(oxyethylene) Chains onto the Surface of a Polyaniline Electrode
This paper reports experiments on forming a layer composed of graft polymers with pendant oligo(oxyethylene) chains directly onto the surface of a polyaniline film by plasma-graft polymerization. The graft pol...
