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LiteBIRD: A Satellite for the Studies of B-Mode Polarization and Inflation from Cosmic Background Radiation Detection
LiteBIRD is a candidate satellite for a strategic large mission of JAXA. With its expected launch in the middle of the 2020s with a H3 rocket, LiteBIRD plans to map the polarization of the cosmic microwave bac...
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Prospects for Strongly Lensed Supernovae Behind Hubble Frontier Fields Galaxy Clusters with the James Webb Space Telescope
Measuring time delays from strongly lensed supernovae (SNe) is emerging as a novel and independent tool for estimating the Hubble constant (H0). This is very important given the recent discord in the value of H0)...
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Concept Study of Optical Configurations for High-Frequency Telescope for LiteBIRD
The high-frequency telescope for LiteBIRD is designed with refractive and reflective optics. In order to improve sensitivity, this paper suggests the new optical configurations of the HFT which have approximat...
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The LiteBIRD Satellite Mission: Sub-Kelvin Instrument
Inflation is the leading theory of the first instant of the universe. Inflation, which postulates that the universe underwent a period of rapid expansion an instant after its birth, provides convincing explana...
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Casual serum triglyceride as a predictor of premature type 2 diabetes mellitus: an 8-year cohort study of middle-aged Japanese workers
The utility of casual serum triglyceride (TG) as a predictor of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is unclear, especially during the most productive years.
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LiteBIRD: Mission Overview and Focal Plane Layout
LiteBIRD is a proposed CMB polarization satellite project to probe the inflationary B-mode signal. The satellite is designed to measure the tensor-to-scalar ratio with a 68 % confidence level uncertainty of ...
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The associations of C-reactive protein with serum levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids and trans fatty acids among middle-aged men from three populations
C-reactive protein (CRP) and many fatty acids (FAs) have been linked to cardiovascular disease. Associations of serum CRP with FAs in different populations have not been established.
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Serum polyunsaturated fatty acid composition and serum high-sensitivity C-reactive protein levels in healthy Japanese residents: The KOBE study
Serum polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) composition reflects dietary intake and is related to risks for cardiovascular diseases. We hypothesized that serum n-3 PUFA composition, especially including long-chain...
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Fruit and vegetable intake and mortality from cardiovascular disease in Japan: a 24-year follow-up of the NIPPON DATA80 Study
There have been few studies on the association of fruit and vegetable (FV) intake with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in Asian populations where both dietary habits and disease structure are different from ...
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The POLARBEAR-2 Experiment
We present an overview of the design and development of the POLARBEAR-2 experiment. The POLARBEAR-2 experiment is a cosmic microwave background polarimetry experiment, which aims to characterize the small angu...
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Open AccessLong interspersed element-1 is differentially regulated by food-borne carcinogens via the aryl hydrocarbon receptor
A single human cell contains more than 5.0 × 105 copies of long interspersed element-1 (L1), 80–100 of which are competent for retrotransposition (L1-RTP). Recent observations have revealed the presence of de nov...
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Erratum: Japanese men have larger areas of visceral adipose tissue than Caucasian men in the same levels of waist circumference in a population-based study
Correction to: International Journal of Obesity (2006) 30, 1163–1165; doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803248; published online 31 January 2006 Since the publication of this paper it has been noticed that there is an error...
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Excellent outcome of allogeneic hematopoietic SCT with reduced-intensity conditioning for the treatment of chronic active EBV infection
Since we reported the first successful case of allogeneic hematopoietic SCT (allo-HSCT), we have performed allo-HSCT for 29 patients with chronic active EBV infection (CAEBV), using either myeloablative condit...
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High blood pressure in middle age is associated with a future decline in activities of daily living. NIPPON DATA80
Although several studies have reported on the relation between high blood pressure (BP) and impaired activities of daily living (ADL), only a few studies have reported on the relation of high BP in middle-aged...
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Relationship of elevated casual blood glucose level with coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in a representative sample of the Japanese population. NIPPON DATA80
High fasting blood glucose is one of the well-known risk factors for CHD. However, in certain settings, patients cannot always be expected to fast. For example, community screenings for cardiovascular disease ...
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Normal fasting plasma glucose levels and type 2 diabetes: the high-risk and population strategy for occupational health promotion (HIPOP-OHP) study
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Normal fasting plasma glucose levels and type 2 diabetes: the high-risk and population strategy for occupational health promotion (HIPOP-CHP) study
The objective of this study is to ascertain if higher normal fasting glucose levels are also an independent risk of develo** diabetes in an Asian population, and we thus analysed data from a cohort of health...
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Both angiotensinogen M235T and α-adducin G460W polymorphisms are associated with hypertension in the Japanese population
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Japanese men have larger areas of visceral adipose tissue than Caucasian men in the same levels of waist circumference in a population-based study
Visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is an independent risk factor for metabolic and cardiovascular disorders. There has been no study that demonstrated different abdominal fat distribution between Asian and Caucasia...
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DHMEQ, a new NF-κB inhibitor, induces apoptosis and enhances fludarabine effects on chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a low-grade lymphoid malignancy incurable with conventional modalities of chemotherapy. Strong and constitutive nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) activation is a characteristic ...
