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Microstructures and Thermoelectric Properties of Sintered Misfit-Layered Cobalt Oxide
Misfit-layered cobalt oxide Ca3Co4O9 is considered to be a prospective material for thermoelectric conversion. The thermoelectric properties are anisotropic owing to its anisotropic crystal structure. The crystal...
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Sugar Binding Effects on the Enzymatic Reaction and Conformation Near the Active Site of Pokeweed Antiviral Protein Revealed by Fluorescence Spectroscopy
In various trials for elucidating the physiological function of pokeweed antiviral protein (PAP), studies on the interaction with sugar are essential. The fluorescence titration curves showed that PAP retained...
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Microstructures and Thermoelectric Properties of Melt-Spun Zn x Sb3 Ribbons
Melt-spun Zn x Sb3 ribbons were fabricated with weight compositions of x = 3.6, 3.9, and 4.2 through a single-wheel process and were annealed for 2 h at 673 K. The microstructure...
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Structural Characteristic of Folding/Unfolding Intermediate of Pokeweed Anti-viral Protein Revealed by Time-resolved Fluorescence
The structural feature of unfolding intermediate of pokeweed anti-viral protein (PAP) was characterized using time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopic methods to elucidate protein folding/unfolding process. CD...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Adaptive User-Centered Design for Safety and Comfort of Physical Human Nursing – Care Robot Interaction
Nowadays serving robots are more and more popular in human society. However, most of them are designed for the special people or for the special scenario. There is little robot designed to apply appropriate in...
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Microstructures and Thermoelectric Properties of Sintered Ca3Co4O9-Based Oxide
Zn- and Ti-doped thermoelectric misfit cobalt oxides Ca3Co4−x−y Zn x Ti y O9 (x = 0 to 0.5, y = 0 to 0.5) were prepared by solid...
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Microstructures of Annealed TiNiSn-Based Alloy Ribbons
The thermoelectric half-Heusler compounds Ti x NiSn0.998Sb0.002 (x = 1.0 to 1.2) and Ti y Zr0.25Hf0.25NiSn0.998Sb0.002 (y = 0.5 to 0.65) with no...
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Thermoelectric Properties of Ti x (Hf y Zr1−y )1−x NiSn0.998Sb0.002 Half-Heusler Ribbons
Ribbons of Ti x (Hf y Zr1−y )1−x NiSn1−z Sb z ...
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Microstructures and Thermoelectric Properties of an Annealed Ti0.5(Hf0.5Zr0.5)0.5NiSn0.998Sb0.002 Ribbon
The thermoelectric half-Heusler compound Ti0.5(Hf0.5Zr0.5)0.5NiSn0.998Sb0.002 was fabricated by spin-casting and subsequent annealing. ZT at room temperature increased with annealing time through an increase in a...
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Characterization of neuronal damage by iomazenil binding and cerebral blood flow in an ischemic rat model
I-123-iomazenil is a SPECT probe for central benzodiazepine receptors (BZR) which may reflect intact cortical neuron density after ischemic insults. We evaluated whether neuronal damage in rats could be charac...