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Open AccessWorldwide practices on flexible endoscope reprocessing
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Erratum to: Seasonal trend and clinical presentation of Bacillus cereus bloodstream infection: association with summer and indwelling catheter
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Seasonal trend and clinical presentation of Bacillus cereus bloodstream infection: association with summer and indwelling catheter
Bacillus cereus, an opportunistic pathogen, can cause fatal infection. However, B. cereus bloodstream infections (BSIs) have not been well characterised. From 2008 to 2013, B. cereus isol...
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To predict the community structure in response to changing environmental conditions, it is necessary to know the species-specific reaction and relative impact strength of each disturbance. We investigated the ...
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We investigated the performance of cefotaxime for the detection of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) or plasmid-mediated AmpC β-lactamase (pAmpC) and the clinical characteristics of cefotaxime-non-susceptible
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The purpose of this investigation was to control the post-outbreak prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in the affected Kyoto region. The study period was from 2005 to 2010. Faecal samples were...
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Although high or low (no) meat consumption was associated with elevated or reduced mortality from cardiovascular disease, respectively, few studies have investigated the association between moderate meat consu...
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Surface Modification of Si Field Emitter Arrays for Vacuum Sealing
Vacuum packaging is a very important issue for vacuum microelectronics devices, especially for field emission displays. Emission current from the field emitter array (FEA), however, is known to decrease signif...
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Surface Modification of Si Field Emitter Arrays for Vacuum Sealing
Vacuum packaging is a very important issue for vacuum microelectronics devices, especially for field emission displays. Emission current from the field emitter array (FEA), however, is known to decrease signif...
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Bending modulus of lipid bilayers in a liquid-crystalline phase including an anomalous swelling regime estimated by neutron spin echo experiments
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Hyperfine interaction of 25Al in α-Al2O3 and its quadrupole moment
The electric quadrupole (Q) moment of short-lived nucleus 25Al (I π =5/2+, T 1/2=7.18 s) has been measured for the first time, by means of ...
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Polarization of 23Ne, 24m,25Al and 28P produced through single nucleon pickup and charge-exchange reactions at 100 AMeV
We measured the polarization of the β-emitting 23Ne (I π =5/2+, T 1/2=37.24 s) and 25Al(I π ...
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Long- and short-term freezing induce different types of injury in Arabidopsis thaliana leaf cells
In nature, intact plant cells are subjected to freezing and can remain frozen for prolonged periods. We assayed the survival of Arabidopsis thaliana leaf cells following freezing and found that short- and long-te...
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Hyperfine interaction of 25Al in α-Al2O3 and its quadrupole moment
The electric quadrupole (Q) moment of short-lived nucleus 25Al \((I^{\pi} = 5/2^{+}, T_{1/2} = 7.18~{\rm s})\) has been...
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Polarization of 23Ne, 24m,25Al and 28P produced through single nucleon pickup and charge-exchange reactions at 100 AMeV
We measured the polarization of the \(\upbeta \) -emitting 23Ne (I π ...
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The recent discovery that heavily boron-doped diamond is a superconductor with a transition temperature of 7.4 K raises the prospect of superconducting devices with the unique properties of diamond. A study of...