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Deflection Measurement of Bridge Using Images Captured Under the Bridge by Sampling Moiré Method
Measuring the deflection of bridges in service is crucial for monitoring their structural health conditions. Recently, the image measurement method has been developed to measure the bridge deflection, wherein ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Analysis of a Coastal Structure Damaged Due to Compound Effect of Earthquake and Tsunami
This paper analyzes the cause of damage to the Yoshihama river dike located in Ofunato city of Iwate prefecture, which were damaged due to strong shaking of the 2011 off the pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake ...
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Density and Thermal Conductivity Measurements for Silicon Melt by Electromagnetic Levitation under a Static Magnetic Field
The density and thermal conductivity of a high-purity silicon melt were measured over a wide temperature range including the undercooled regime by non-contact techniques accompanied with electromagnetic levita...
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Measurements of interdiffusion coefficients in metallic melts at high temperature under horizontal static magnetic field
Application of a uniform magnetic field is expected to be a promising substitute for utilization of the microgravity environment from the view point of dam** of convection in electrically conductive fluid. M...
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Fragmentation of faceted dendrite in solidification of undercooled B-doped Si melts
The fragmentation of the faceted dendrite of B-doped Si solidified from the undercooled melt was investigated using an electromagnetic levitator. The 〈110〉 dendrites, which grew at ΔT <∼100 K, never fragmented be...
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Microstructure and magnetic properties of rare earth Nd-Fe system alloys produced by containerless processing
NdxFe100−1.5xB0.5x alloys (x=10, 11.8, and 14) were solidified from the undercooled melts by drop tube processing. The samples contained a large amount of the metastable phase with the composition near to their b...
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Phase selection in containerless solidification of FeSi2 during free fall in drop tube
The melts of the Fe-66.7%Si alloy ejected into a drop tube was solidified during its free fall. The spherical samples collected at the bottom of the drop tube were classified into several groups according to t...
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Autoimmune hemolytic anemia as a first manifestation of primary effusion lymphoma
A 55-year-old man develo** transfusion-dependant anemia was diagnosed with autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA). Although he received prednisolone (PSL) (daily 60 mg), his hemoglobin level continued to decreas...
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Successful treatment of advanced peripheral T-cell lymphoma with an angiocentric growth pattern complicated with hemophagocytic syndrome by high-dose chemotherapy and autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
Peripheral T-cell lymphomas (PTCL) account for about 10% of all lymphomas in Western countries, respond poorly to therapy, and have short survival with no sustained remission. Furthermore, the complication of...
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Microstructure of Y3Al5O12 garnet solidified from the melt undercooled beyond the hypercooling limit
The microstructural evolution of Y3Al5O12 garnet (YAG) in a wide undercooling range beyond the hypercooling limit (ΔT hyp) was investigated by containerless solidification processing. The ...
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HER2 peptide-specific CD8+ T cells are proportionally detectable long after multiple DNA vaccinations
We prepared a plasmid encoding 147 amino acid residues from the N terminus of c-erbB-2/HER2/neu (HER2), which included both a cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) epitope (HER2p63) and a helper epitope (HER2p1), using...
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Formation of NdBa2Cu3O7−δ amorphous phase by combining aero-acoustic levitation and splat quenching
Small spherical samples (diameter approximately 2 mm) of NdBa2Cu3O7−δ (Nd123) were fully melted in Ar gas flow in an aero-acoustic levitation device and subsequently rapidly cooled by splat quenching. For samples...
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Anti-metastatic gene therapy utilizing subcutaneous inoculation of EC-SOD gene transduced autologous fibroblast suppressed lung metastasis of Meth-A cells and 3LL cells in mice
We have previously reported that superoxide stimulates the motility of tumor cells and the administration of Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD) significantly suppresses metastasis. However, ideally, anti-metasta...
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Low temperature synthesis of silver-palladium alloy powders internal electrodes for multilayer ceramic devices
Physical and electrical properties of three types of Ag-Pd pastes, which consist of different metal fine powders, i.e., a coprecipitated powder, an agglomerated alloy powder made by heat treatment and a pulver...
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Effects of Crystallographic Texture on Internal Stress Superplasticity Induced by Anisotropic Thermal Expansion
Polycrystalline materials having crystallographic anisotropy show internal stress superplasticity under thermal cycling conditions. The deformation mechanism is analyzed using a theoretical model based on cont...
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Authors’ reply: “Emissivity change and adiabatically solidified structure during rapid solidification in semiconductor”
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Effect of small amount of alumina do** on superplastic behavior of tetragonal zirconia
The effect of Al2O3 do** of around 0.1 wt % on superplastic behavior was studied in 3 mol % yttria-stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystal (TZP) which was free from SiO2 contamination and had a grain size of...
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Electrochemical interfacial phenomena under microgravity: Part 2. Numerical analysis of the rate of ionic mass transfer accompanying anodic copper dissolution
The anodic dissolution phenomena of copper, under microgravity in a drop shaft, was compared to that in terrestrial experiments. A 0.1 M CuSO4-1 M H2SO4 solution layer was confined to a shallow (200-μm-thick) and...
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Electrochemical interfacial phenomena under microgravity: Part I. Anodic dissolution of copper in drop shaft
As part of a series of physical modeling studies on the electrochemical etching of a printed wiring board, copper foil was anodically dissolved in a small cavity. Coupling of the ionic mass transfer rate with ...
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Microgravity conditions and electrical resistivity of liquid alloys with critical mixing
The phenomena of two-liquid phase separations are significantly influenced by the gravity on the ground because of the difference in the densities of the constituent components, particularly, in the case of li...
