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Open AccessInterstellar Map** and Acceleration Probe (IMAP): A New NASA Mission
The Interstellar Map** and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is a revolutionary mission that simultaneously investigates two of the most important overarching issues in Heliophysics today: the acceleration of energe...
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Nationwide surveillance of bacterial respiratory pathogens conducted by the Japanese Society of Chemotherapy in 2007: general view of the pathogens’ antibacterial susceptibility
For the purpose of a nationwide surveillance of the antimicrobial susceptibility of bacterial respiratory pathogens in patients in Japan, the Japanese Society of Chemotherapy conducted their second year survey...
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The first nationwide surveillance of bacterial respiratory pathogens conducted by the Japanese Society of Chemotherapy. Part 1: a general view of antibacterial susceptibility
The Japanese Society of Chemotherapy (JSC) conducted the first nationwide surveillance of bacterial respiratory pathogens during the period from January to August 2006. With the cooperation of 32 medical insti...
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Open AccessRocket observation of energetic electrons in the low-altitude auroral ionosphere during the DELTA campaign
This paper reports on properties of energetic electrons observed by the Auroral Particle Detector (APD) on board the sounding rocket S-310-35, which was launched from And/0ya Rocket Range, Norway, at 0033:00 U...
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Fully relativistic calculations of the L2,3-edge XANES spectra for vanadium oxides
Fully relativistic multielectron method based on the numerical solution of the Dirac equation was used to calculate the L2,3-edge X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectra of VO2, V2O3, and V2O5 cr...
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Interplay of YBCO and Embedded 211 Particles in Melt-Textured YBCO Superconductors
Local orientations of superconducting YBa2Cu3O x (123) and embedded Y2BaCuO5 (211) particles within bulk, melt-textured 123 samples are studied on a local scale by means of elec...
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Brain PET and technetium-99m-ECD SPECT imaging in Lhermitte-Duclos disease
Two patients with Lhermitte-Duclos disease were evaluated by brain positron emission tomography (PET) and technetium-99m-ethyl cysteinate dimer (99mTc-ECD) single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). In t...
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Significant MLR but not CTL responses against recipient antigens generated in T cells from bone marrow chimeras recovered from acute GVHD
Lethally irradiated AKR mice received BMT from H-2D and minor lymphocyte stimulatory (Mls)-1 disparate B10.A mice. No GVHD signs were detected in AKR recipients of T cell-depleted BM cells (1 × 107) alone ([B10.A...
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First-Principles Calculation of Optical Spectra for Transition-Metal Impurities Doped in ZnO and ZnS
The multiplet structures of Co2+ doped in ZnO, Co2+ doped in ZnS and Ni2+ doped in ZnS are calculated from first principles using the recently developed discrete variational-multielectron (DV-ME) method, in which...
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Effects of non-major histocompatibility antigens on acute graft-versus-host reaction after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation
In the present study using an experimental BMT system we analyzed the effects of disparity at non-MHC Ag including minor lymphocyte stimulatory-1a (Mls-1a) Ag on the acute GVH reaction (GVHR) induced by MHC class...
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Electrical conductivity of tear fluid in healthy persons and keratoconjunctivitis sicca patients measured by a flexible conductimetric sensor
• Background: It is known that the osmolarity of tears increases in keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS) patients and therefore could be a sensitive and specific indicator for the diagnosis of KCS. However, owing ...
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Primary Processes in Sensory Rhodopsin and Retinochrome
Photochemistry of two chromoproteins with retinal have been studied. One is a photoreceptor for the phototaxis of Halobacterium halobium and the other is a photosensitive pigment contained in cephalopod visual ce...
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Development of a Multi Modeller
This paper describes a Multi Modeller which represents a new approach to three dimensional modelling technique. This modeller has several useful features. The first is an automatic mutual conversion among thre...
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Aqueous solutions of syndiotacticity-rich poly(vinyl alcohol) (s-PVA) form gels easily. The optimum condition of growth of the calcium tartrate crystal formed by diffusing calcium chloride into hydrogels containi...
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Experimental study on the reversibility of cerebral ischemia
The flow threshold and time threshold for reversibility of cerebral ischemia were studied using a canine model of cerebral ischemia regulated by controlled perfusion of cerebral blood flow (CBF). CBF was conti...
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The identification of inhibitors in bromelin one-stage irregular antibody screening techniques
Human sera contain bromelin inhibitors in irregular antibody screening techniques. In order to identify and purify these inhibitors, pooled human sera were precipitated with ammonium sulfate, followed by DEAE-...
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Photochemistry of Retinochrome Studied by Nanosecond and Picosecond Spectroscopy
The cephalopod retina contains two photosensitive chromoproteins, rhodopsin and retinochrome. The various properties of retinochrome have been studied by HARA and HARA [1–9], HARA et al. [10], OZAKI et al. [11...
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Molecular and Functional Analysis of Class II Molecules Characteristic to HLA-Dw2 and Dw12
HLA-D specificities determined by mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR) correlate to the serologically determined HLA-DR specificities. However, it was noticed that there are several different HLA-D specificities sh...
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Effects of Anti-DQ (MB) and Anti-DR Monoclonal Antibodies on In Vitro Immune Responses
Recent studies at both the protein and DNA levels suggest that human DQ antigens are homologues of murine I-A antigens. In mice, the functional significance of I-A antigens in immune responsiveness is well est...
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Two-dimensional Gel Analyses of DR2 and DQw1 Molecules Isolated from Dw2 and Dw12 Homozygous Cell Lines
DR2 and DQw1 (DC1) antigens were isolated from a panel of cell lines homozygous for DR2, Dw2, DQw1, or DR2, Dwl2, DQw1 and were compared by two-dimensional (2-D) gel electrophoresis.
