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Thermodynamic evidence for a field-angle-dependent Majorana gap in a Kitaev spin liquid
The exactly solvable Kitaev model of two-dimensional honeycomb magnets has a quantum spin liquid phase characterized by the emergence of fractionalized Majorana fermion excitations. In the paramagnetic state o...
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A dusty compact object bridging galaxies and quasars at cosmic dawn
Understanding how super-massive black holes form and grow in the early Universe has become a major challenge1,2 since it was discovered that luminous quasars existed only 700 million years after the Big Bang3,4. ...
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Hopelessness and Depression Predict Sarcopenia in Advanced CKD and Dialysis: A Multicenter Cohort Study
Depression and hopelessness are frequently experienced in chronic kidney disease (CKD) and are generally associated with lessened physical activity. The aim of this study was to quantify the associations betwe...
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Open AccessReproductive interference in live-bearing fish: the male guppy is a potential biological agent for eradicating invasive mosquitofish
The eradication of invasive exotic species is desirable but often infeasible. Here, we show that male guppies are a potential biological agent for eradicating invasive mosquitofish through the mechanism of rep...
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Multi-scale analysis on wake structures of asymmetric cylinders with different aspect ratios
The wake flow originated by three-dimensional bluff bodies having the different aspect ratio is experimentally studied in this paper. The turbulent wakes generated by asymmetric- and semi-cylinders were first ...
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Colossal thermomagnetic response in the exotic superconductor URu2Si2
The Nernst coefficient is a measure of the transverse thermoelectric effect in a conductor. Superconducting fluctuations magnify this effect but in URu2Si2, the million-fold enhancement suggests that the fluctuat...
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Orthogonal Wavelet Analysis of Flow Structures in Asymmetric Wakes
The turbulent wake structures of various scales generated by an asymmetric bluff body have been experimentally investigated in this paper. Firstly, the instantaneous velocity and vorticity of turbulent wake we...
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Microscopic Theory of Pairing Mechanisms
This chapter deals with the microscopic theory of pairing mechanisms for noncentrosymmetric superconductors. One of curious questions is how to understand microscopically the parity mixing arising from the int...
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Aspects of Spintronics
In this chapter, transport properties raised by antisymmetric spin-orbit interactions in noncentrosymmetric systems are discussed. We consider magnetoelectric effects, the anomalous Hall effect, the spin Hall ...
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Metformin suppresses hepatic gluconeogenesis and lowers fasting blood glucose levels through reactive nitrogen species in mice
Metformin, the major target of which is liver, is commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes. Although metformin activates AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) in hepatocytes, the mechanism of activation is still n...
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Src activation generates reactive oxygen species and impairs metabolism–secretion coupling in diabetic Goto–Kakizaki and ouabain-treated rat pancreatic islets
Na+/K+-ATPase inhibition by ouabain suppresses ATP production by generating reactive oxygen species (ROS) and impairs glucose-induced insulin secretion from pancreatic islets. To clarify the signal-transducing fu...
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Synergistic effects of injection of bone marrow cells into both portal vein and bone marrow on tolerance induction in transplantation of allogeneic pancreatic islets
We have established a new method for allogeneic pancreatic islet (PI) transplantation: relatively low doses of irradiation followed by simultaneous transplantation of PIs and bone marrow cells (BMCs) via the p...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Prediction of cerebral blood flow restoration after extracranial-intracranial bypass surgery using superficial temporal artery duplex ultrasonography (STDU)
We investigated the availability of superficial temporal artery (STA) duplex ultrasonography (STDU) for evaluating the improvement of cerebral hemodynamics after extracranial-intracranial (EC-IC) bypass. This ...
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40th EASD Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes
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Open AccessPromising survival for patients with glioblastoma multiforme treated with individualised chemotherapy based on in vitro drug sensitivity testing
We retrospectively investigated the efficacy and feasibility of individualised chemotherapy based on in vitro drug sensitivity testing (DST) for patients with glioblastoma multiforme. A total of 40 consecutive pa...
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Cytoreductive surgery combined with organ resection for advanced ovarian carcinoma
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Open AccessFrequent expression of new cancer/testis gene D40/AF15q14 in lung cancers of smokers
We found a significant correlation between lung cancer in smokers and the expression of a human gene, D40, predominantly expressed in testis and cancers. In an attempt to clone a novel human gene, we screened ...
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Development of a 5 to 20 W at 80 K GM Pulse Tube Cryocooler
In order to select the most suitable phase shifting mechanism for the GM pulse tube coolers applied to cryoelectronic devices, we evaluated the performance of both double-inlet and four-valve type phase shifti...
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New Regenerator Material for Sub-4 K Cryocoolers
A new magnetic regenerator material for sub-4 K cryocoolers has been studied. Some rare-earth oxide magnetic materials have the potential to provide a high heat capacity below 4 K. From surveying the garnets a...
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Experimental Study of a 4 K Pulse Tube Cryocooler
A prototype two-stage pulse tube cryocooler was previously developed that uses a double-inlet configuration. When the second-stage regenerator was filled with conventional magnetic regenerator materials, Er ...
