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Chapter and Conference Paper
Mechanical Characterization of the Adobe Material of the Archaeological Site of Chellah
Monuments and historical remains built of raw earth show that this material can persist for centuries. As with the cultural and historical heritage of the city of Rabat (Morocco), Chellah is one of the most h...
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Open AccessAntimicrobial stewardship program in a pediatric intensive care unit of a tertiary care children’s hospital in Saudi Arabia – a pilot study
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Loosening xyloglucan prevents tensile stress in tree stem bending but accelerates the enzymatic degradation of cellulose
In response to environmental variation, xyloglucan could fix the microfibrils to the inner surface of the wall to withstand the tensile stress generated within the G-layer. This would explain why the basal reg...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Distributed e-Science Application for Computational Speech Science
The computational speech science portal is a highly intensive data sharing and remote visualization environment that uses e-Science technologies to support scientists in accessing distributed databases and vis...
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Misreporting of dietary energy, protein, potassium and sodium in relation to body mass index in young Japanese women
Although under-reporting of dietary intake is more common in persons with a high body mass index (BMI), it is not well known whether or not misreporting is selective for different foods (and hence energy and n...
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Poster abstracts
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A novel DISC1-interacting partner DISC1-Binding Zinc-finger protein: implication in the modulation of DISC1-dependent neurite outgrowth
Disrupted-in-schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) is a gene disrupted by a (1;11) (q42.1;q14.3) translocation that segregates with major psychiatric disorders in a Scottish family. To investigate how DISC1 confers susceptibil...
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Open AccessA phase II study of single-agent gefitinib as first-line therapy in patients with stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer
The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of gefitinib (‘IRESSA’) in Japanese patients with previously untreated stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This was a multi-institut...
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Chapter
Imaging of Tissue/Organs with Ultrasound
By definition, ultrasound is sound with a frequency greater than 20000 cycles per second; that is, the sound is above the audible range. The principal advantages of high-frequency sound or ultrasound as a medi...
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Prevalence of Group B Streptococcal Type VI Capsular IgG Antibodies in Japan
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Disrupted-In-Schizophrenia 1, a candidate gene for schizophrenia, participates in neurite outgrowth
Disrupted-In-Schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) was identified as a novel gene disrupted by a (1;11)(q42.1;q14.3) translocation that segregated with schizophrenia in a Scottish family. Predicted DISC1 product has no signifi...
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MRI of cortical dysplasia – correlation with pathological findings
Cortical dysplasia (CD) is the most epileptogenic structural lesion associated with epilepsy and patients with intractable seizures caused by this condition are good surgical candidates. MRI plays an importan...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Immunization of the elderly to boost immunity against varicella-zoster virus (VZV) as assessed by VZV skin test reaction
The utility of the VZV skin test in detecting individual susceptibility to varicella and zoster was determined. Its specificity particularly with regard to herpes simplex was also established.
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Genotypes of TT virus (TTV) compared between liver disease patients and healthy individuals using a new PCR system capable of differentiating 1a and 1b types from others*
TT virus (TTV) lacks obvious pathogenicity; almost all of the infected hosts are symptom-free. A possibility remains, however, that certain strains can cause liver disease while most others are non-pathogenic...
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Wear of alumina ceramics prosthesis
To investigate the process of wear in the total knee prosthesis consisting of alumina ceramics (Al-ceramics) and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWP) in vivo, we observed the fine structures of th...
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Severe aplastic anemia associated with human parvovirus B19 infection in a patient without underlying disease
Human parvovirus B19 (B19 virus) infection is known to induce aplastic crisis in patients with hemolytic anemia. In healthy subjects, B19 infection may sometimes cause mild pancytopenia, but these changes are...
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Obui-Himo syndrome
Normal variants of the venous system are relatively common and rarely cause severe symptoms. We report the case of a 5-month-old baby who displayed cyanotic color and swelling of arms whenever she was carried...
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Hepatitis C virus infection and mutations of mannose-binding lectin gene MBL
We assessed the genetic polymorphism of mannose-binding lectin (MBL) in 93 patients with chronic hepatitis C (45 responders and 48 nonresponders to interferon) and 218 healthy controls. Mutant allele was ident...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Over 500 Days’ Survival of a Goat with a Total Artificial Heart with 1/R Control
The 1/R control was developed to provide control over the output of a total artificial heart (TAH) by the central nervous system by using the peripheral vascular conductance (1/R) the vasodilatation in for the...
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Clinical significance of tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase expression in gastric carcinoma
Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase (TIMP) has been reported to inhibit tumour invasion through an inactivation of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) both in vitro and in vivo. Among the TIMP family, TIMP-1 poss...
