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Open AccessA future scenario earthquake and ground motion hazards for Kathmandu, Nepal
Since Nepal is an earthquake-prone country due to the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates, it is crucial for its capital of Kathmandu to evaluate ground motion hazards from a future large earthquake. F...
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Open AccessInvestigation of the subsurface structure at the target site in Kumamoto, Japan, and the distributed data of the blind prediction exercise: report for the experiments for the 6th international symposium on effects of surface geology on seismic motion
This technical report explains details on the results of the investigation to build a subsurface structural model and a selection of earthquake data at the target site of the blind prediction exercise for “The...
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Open AccessThree-dimensional velocity structure models in and around the Kathmandu Valley, Central Nepal
We analyzed observations of microtremors and seismic ground motion to determine the depths of sedimentary interfaces and basement surface in the Kathmandu Valley. The results of these analyses and a reflection...
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TCR affinity for thymoproteasome-dependent positively selecting peptides conditions antigen responsiveness in CD8+ T cells
In the thymus, low-affinity T cell antigen receptor (TCR) engagement facilitates positive selection of the T cell repertoire. Takahama and colleagues now show TCR responsiveness of mature CD8+ T cells is fine-tun...
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Autophagic activity in thymus and liver during aging
Impaired or deficient autophagy is believed to cause or contribute to aging, as well as several age-related pathologies. Thymic epithelial cells had a high constitutive level of autophagy. The autophagic proce...
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GADD34 suppresses wound healing by upregulating expression of myosin IIA
Wound healing consists of sequential steps of tissue repair, and cell migration is particularly important. In order to analyze the potential function of growth arrest and DNA damage inducible protein 34 (GADD3...
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Low Temperature X-ray Diffraction Study of ZnCr2O4 and Ni0.5Zn0.5Cr2O4
Results of x-ray diffraction measurements are presented for ZnCr2O4 and Ni0.5Zn0.5Cr2O4. Splits of the x-ray diffraction spectrum are observed in ZnCr2O4 at 12 K. In Ni0.5Zn0.5Cr2O4 no clear split is observed, bu...
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Possible Sound Mode Conversion in “Superfluid 4He-97% Open Aerogel” System
We have studied the acoustic properties of liquid helium filled in various aerogels. The longitudinal ultrasound velocity and attenuation were measured at the frequency of 10 MHz with aerogels that had porosi...
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X-Ray Diffraction Study of Correlated Electron System at Low Temperatures
By using an ultra-low temperature X-ray diffractometer, we studied low temperature phase transitions of several materials. These phase transitions are classified into a ferro quadrupole ordered phase, that is,...
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Nuclear spin-lattice relaxation in finely dispersed carbonizate powders
Finely dispersed carbonizate powders were studied with the aim of revealing their suitability for producing hyperpolarized noble gases. In the temperature and frequency dependences obtained over a wide range o...
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Magnetic Susceptibilities of MgCu2O3 and Doped MgCu2O3 with Zn and Co
The magnetic susceptibility of MgCu 2 O 3 powder was measured between 0.2 K and 800 K. The results above TN can be fitted by a Curie–Weiss law plus a one-dimensional (1 — d) antiferromagnetic susceptibility and ...
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Linkage between melanocytic tumor development and early burst of Ret protein expression for tolerance induction in metallothionein-I/ret transgenic mouse lines
We examined the basis of the all or none difference in inducing melanocytic tumor development among three transgenic mouse lines (304, 192 and 242) to which the same promoter-enhancer (metallothionein-I) and o...
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Magnetization Measurements of CeRu2Si2 at Millikelvin Temperatures
We have measured the magnetization of the heavy fermion compound CeRu 2 Si 2 at temperatures down to 300 μK. We observed that the d...
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Transgenic mouse model for skin malignant melanoma
We report here on a novel metallothionein-I (MT)/ret transgenic mouse line in which skin melanosis, benign melanocytic tumor and malignant melanoma metastasizing to distant organs develop stepwise. The process of...
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FMRF amide-like-immunoreactive primary sensory neurons in the olfactory system of the terrestrial mollusc, Limax marginatus
The distribution of FMRF amide-like immunoreactivity was investigated in the olfactory organs in the tentacle tip of the terrestrial slug, Limax marginatus. Approximately 0.7% of the neurons in the lobules of th...
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Magnetic susceptibility of Sc single crystal
The temperature dependencies of the magnetic susceptibility of Sc metal were measured between 0.1 mK and 10 mK parallel to the c-axis of single crystal in various small magnetic fields. From the magnetic field...
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Search for CDW in alkali metal
The fundamental question of whether the ground state of the alkali metals is a charge-density-wave (CDW) or not has remained unsolved for over 30 years. We have reported our x-ray measurement for a K, metal si...
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Magnetic susceptibility of nonmagnetic heavy electron compound CeRu2Si2 below 1 mK
A nonmagnetic heavy electron compound CeRu2Si2 shows a metamagnetic transition from the itinerant paramagnetic state to the spin polarized state at about 8T. To investigate the electronic ground state of CeRu2Si2
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Nuclear spin order of scandium
Nuclear spin ordering of Sc metal was observed by magnetic susceptiblity and magnetization measurement following a demagnetization cooling. The magnetic susceptibilities measured just after demagnetized coolin...
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Ferromagnetic nuclear spin order of scandium
