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Challenges of Application of ICT in Cattle Management: Remote Management System for Cattle Grazing in Mountainous Areas of Japan Using a Smartphone
We created an information and communication technology system to monitor the feeding of grazing cattle, comprising the following elements: (1) actuators, including an audio player, feeder, and stanchion (an eq...
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The outcome of Japanese anorexia nervosa patients treated with an inpatient therapy in an internal medicine unit
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the outcome of Japanese anorexia nervosa (AN) patients who were treated with the standard Japanese inpatient therapy. METHOD: Of the 88 female AN patients treate...
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Factors related to renal dysfunction in patients with anorexia nervosa
OBJECTIVE: Anorexia nervosa (AN) patients were surveyed to determine which disease factors were related to AN influenced renal dysfunction. METHODS: Data were from forty-five AN patients hospital...
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Probing Electron Transfer in DNA – New Life Science with Muons
Using the method of labelled electrons with muons which was first applied to conducting polymers and recently extended to representative electron-transfer proteins, electron transfer phenomena in DNA were succ...
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Effect of filler content and size to properties of composite resins on microwave curing
The effect of filler content and size to property of composite resin using high purity spherical silica particles on microwave curing was examined by mechanical means and electron microscope observation to dev...
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Adherent bacteria cells in five dental materials: sonication effect
Adherent bacterial cells on the surfaces of two dental porcelain ceramics, three composite resins and human enamel were examined using four types of bacteria strains. Their adherent cells were counted on saliv...
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Adhesion of streptococci to saliva-coated and uncoated composite-based resins
This study was designed to evaluate the bacterial adhesion to five types of experimental composite-based resins and a commercial composite resin used as a control. Physicochemical surface characteristics of co...
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Effect of TEGDMA content on staining of experimental bis-GMA-based resins
This study was to examine water uptake, contact angle and colour change vector in relation to the staining on the optically smooth surface in five experimental visible light-cured (VLC) bis-GMA-based resins. T...
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Mechanical strength of urethane-based visible-light-cured resins
In experimental urethane-based visible-light-cured(VLC) resins containing a diluent monomer, a lower value of activation energy for polymerization than in bis-GMA-based VLC resin was obtained. A greater increased...
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Cure performance of multifunctional monomers to photo-initiators: a thermoanalytical study onbis-GMA-based resins
In order to assess cure performance in experimental monomer systems containingbis-GMA and 3G, differential scanning calorimetry was used to obtain heat for curing, and residual monomers present within the resin s...
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Application of multifunctional base monomer to dental composite resins
Experimental composite resin systems were prepared with visible-light-cured multifunctional matrices to which various amounts of organic composite filler were added. In comparison with the unfilled resins, the...
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Optical and thermal properties in experimental Bis-GMA-based resins influenced by filler characteristics
The optical and thermal properties were examined in experimental 2,2-Bis-[4-(3-methacryloxy-2-hydroxypropoxy)phenel]propane (Bis-GMA)-based composite resin systems, each of which contained silica, silica-alumi...
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Hair, Nail Disorders — Experimental Results
We have devised a new aparatus (scalp-tension-relaxer, STR) which has been found to be efficient to encourage regrowth of hair in male-pattern baldness patients.
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Pediatric Dermatology
In respiratory nasal and ophthalmic allergy the role of the house dust mite P1 antigen, house dust mite and house dust along with pollens and other airborne allergens is well accepted and control or desensitiz...
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Skin Tumours, Immunocytochemistry, Experimental Results
The so-called Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare tumor of the skin first described by Toker in 1972. As the cell of origin an epithelial precursor with neuroendocrine function is discussed.
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Structure Change of Bacteriorhodopsin and the Mechanism of Proton Pump
Bacteriorhodopsin(bR) is a transmembrane protein in the purple membrane of Ha1obacterium halobium. It pumps protons across the membrane using light energy absorbed by retinal in it. Although the mechanism of t...
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Detoxification of Ammonia by Immobilized Urea Cycle Enzymes
The immobilization and characterization of urea cycle enzymes have been studied (1,2) because it may be possible to use them as an extracorporeal subunit of liver. The important points for an application of im...
