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This study aimed to examine whether the decrease in muscular echo-intensity of the quadriceps by ultrasound in older inpatients is related to the improvement of gait independence than the increase of muscle th...
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This study aimed to examine the relationship between muscle mass, intramuscular adipose tissue, and body mass index (BMI) in older inpatients.
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The preoperative opacification of acrylic intraocular lenses (IOLs) was investigated in order to determine its cause. Opacified IOLs were examined by energy dispersive X-ray (EDX), the buffer solutions were an...
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We report our studies on a fiber-optic soliton compressor for generation of sub-100 femtosecond (fs) optical pulses out of picosecond (ps) diode laser pulses. The soliton compressor is rather simple and compos...
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Experimental investigation on carrier dynamics in SCH-MQW waveguide saturable absorber of passively mode-locked monolithic laser diode
Decay process of photo-generated carrier density in a saturable absorber (SA) section made of a separate confinement hetrostructure (SCH) waveguide with multiple quantum wells for passively mode-locked monolit...
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Magnetic and Magneto-Optical Properties of Al Substituted Bi-RIG Particles Dispersed in a Plastic Binder
Nano-size R2BiAlxFe5-xO12 (R: Dy, Gd, Th) particles were prepared with a coprecipitation and annealing method. The coating films of the particles were prepared with a coating technique. The magnetic and magneto-o...
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Human immunodeficiency virus type 1vif, vpr, andvpu mutants can produce persistently infected cells
A series of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) mutants invif, vpr, vpu, andnef were constructed from an infectious plasmid (pNL 432) containing the full-length HIV-1 DNA by frameshift mutations. The capa...
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On The Shape Optimization of Truss Structure Based on Reliability Concept
This paper is concerned with the shape optimization problems of truss structures based on the element and system reliabilities. The algorithmic procedure is proposed for determining the optimum configuration a...
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Computed tomography and angiography in MELAS (mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes); report of 3 cases
Among mitochondrial encephalomyopathies, MELAS (mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes, Pavlakis et al. 1983) is recognized as a distinct syndrome characterized by gen...
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Probabilistically optimum design of frame structure
An optimum design problem is treated to determine a frame structure minimizing the structural cost or weight under the constraints on the allowable failure probabilities of critical sections specified in the s...
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A new method of growing gallium phosphide on a silicon substrate is presented. The method includes an extra but simple process of depositing a thin phosphorus layer on a silicon substrate prior to the growth o...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Quelques remarques sur l'existence de resolvantes
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Chapter and Conference Paper
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