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Open AccessEffect of low vacuum medium temperature drying on reduction of residual stress and correction of warp of Japanese cedar timber
Cryptomeria japonica (Japanese cedar) in Japan plantations are aging, and the main supply of timber in the market is shifting from small- and medium-diameter to large-diameter logs. The effective utilization of t...
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Quantitative evaluation of endometrium-expressed mRNAs for the purpose of discriminating between menstruation and traumatic vaginal injury in sexual assault cases
In sexual assault cases, it is crucial to discriminate between peripheral blood and menstrual blood to provide evidence for vaginal intercourse with traumatic injury. In this study, the menstrual blood mRNA ma...
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A case of novel NFKB2 variant with hypertensive emergency and nephrotic syndrome leading to CKD 5D
Nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) family plays a central role in the human immune system. Heterozygous variants in NFKB2 typically cause immunodeficiency with various degrees of central adrenal insufficiency, autoim...
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Retrospective case–control study examining the relationship between recurrence-free survival and changes in pre- and post-radioiodine therapy serum thyroglobulin levels in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer
Thyroglobulin assay is important to assess the residual or recurrence of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). Patients with positive serum thyroglobulin levels after radioactive iodine (RAI) adjuvant therapy c...
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Flood Discharge Measurement by STIV Coupled with Maximum Entropy Method Using Parameter Estimation by Numerical Analysis
The coupling of surface velocity measurement by image analysis and the maximum entropy method (MEM) is a non-contact measurement technique to estimate river discharge during flood with high accuracy. The MEM c...
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Open AccessThe HLA-DRB1*09:01-DQB1*03:03 haplotype is associated with the risk for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease in APOE \({{\varepsilon }}\) 4–negative Japanese adults
Late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (LOAD) is the most common cause of dementia among those older than 65 years. The onset of LOAD is influenced by neuroinflammation. The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system is inv...
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POSTER: Using Verifiable Credentials for Authentication of UAVs in Logistics
Verifiable Credentials (VCs) have been widely adopted as a format for asserting information through use of digital signature technique, and offer versatile usages. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has stand...
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Open AccessClinical characteristics of geriatric patients with non-specific chronic low back pain
A comprehensive analysis of clinical information in patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) was performed to clarify the clinical characteristics of geriatric LBP from the perspective of body composition, s...
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Open AccessRole of collagen degradation pathway in sphingomyelin synthase 2-deficient mouse skin
Sphingomyelin synthase (SMS) is the only enzyme that synthesizes sphingomyelin from ceramide. The role of sphingomyelin synthase in epidermis is being understood, but there is no report on its role in the derm...
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Impact of Pd nanoparticle loading method on SnO2 surface for natural gas detection in humid atmosphere
To improve the sensor response to low concentrations of methane (CH4) at low operating temperatures in humid atmospheres, we prepared Pd-loaded SnO2 (Pd-SnO2) nanoparticles via two different Pd-loading processes:...
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Open AccessEffects of once-yearly zoledronic acid on bone density and incident vertebral fractures in nonmetastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer patients with osteoporosis
Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is the effective treating prostate cancer but is often accompanied by cancer treatment-induced bone loss (CTIBL), which impairs the patient’s quality of life. In patients wit...
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A case of ruptured right gastroepiploic aneurysm treated by transcatheter arterial embolization avoiding emergency surgery
Gastroepiploic aneurysms are rare. We report the case of a 74-year-old man who presented with temporary loss of consciousness and abdominal pain. Computed tomography revealed a ruptured right gastroepiploic ar...
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Impact of pre-operative coronary artery disease on the clinical outcomes of patients with aortic aneurysms
Aortic aneurysm is an increasingly important public health problem with high morbidity and mortality. It is associated with coronary artery disease (CAD), which is a comorbidity of high incidence that is repor...
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Open AccessBeta-hydroxybutyrate, an endogenous NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitor, attenuates anxiety-related behavior in a rodent post-traumatic stress disorder model
Accumulating evidence suggests that elevated inflammation contributes to the pathophysiology of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and that anti-inflammatory drugs might be a new treatment strategy for PTSD...
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Relapse-free survival after adjuvant radioactive iodine therapy in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma with a microscopically positive tumor margin
In patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) with a microscopically positive tumor margin, the optimal first dose of I-131 during adjuvant radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy to improve relapse-free su...
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Open AccessGrowth Factor Midkine Aggravates Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension via Surface Nucleolin
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive fatal disease caused by pulmonary arterial remodeling. Midkine regulates cell proliferation and migration, and it is induced by hypoxia, but its roles in ...
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The Evaluation of Fetal Cardiac Remote Screening in the Second Trimester of Pregnancy Using the Spatio-Temporal Image Correlation Method
We prospectively performed remote fetal cardiac screening using the spatio-temporal image correlation (STIC), and examined the usefulness and problems of remote screening. We performed heart screening for all pre...
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Development and testing of a surface roughness measurement device based on aerial ultrasonic reflections
Repairs of concrete irrigation channels in Japan are guided to a large extent by the degree to which their walls have degraded over decades of use. Current methods of estimating Manning roughness coefficients ...
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Open AccessDeficiency of sphingomyelin synthase 1 but not sphingomyelin synthase 2 reduces bone formation due to impaired osteoblast differentiation
There are two isoforms of sphingomyelin synthase (SMS): SMS1 and SMS2. SMS1 is located in the Golgi apparatus only while SMS2 is located in both the plasma membrane and the Golgi apparatus. SMS1 and SMS2 act s...
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Open AccessQuantitative evaluation of digital-image enhancement during heads-up surgery
Image-processing is an advantage of heads-up surgery and expected to facilitate ophthalmic surgeries. To evaluate image-processing quantitatively, we analyzed the surgical images of twenty eyes that underwent ...
