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Anomalously porous boulders on (162173) Ryugu as primordial materials from its parent body
Planetesimals—the initial stage of the planetary formation process—are considered to be initially very porous aggregates of dusts1,2, and subsequent thermal and compaction processes reduce their porosity3. The Ha...
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Transformation of Radiocesium Speciation in Ponds at the Vicinity of Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant and Dynamics of Its Distribution in Sediment–Water System
The paper is concerned with the results of 137Cs monitoring in the irrigation ponds of the Okuma town in the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) exclusion zone. The 137Cs activity concentrations in the...
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Rainfall Triggered Landslide Early Warning System Based on Soil Water Index
Fourteen districts were identified as landslide prone in Sri Lanka. These districts fall in the wet and intermediate climatological zones where annual rainfall is over 2000 mm. Short term heavy rainfall and lo...
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Study on Landslide Early Warning by Using Rainfall Indices in Sri Lanka
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and National Building Research Organisation (NBRO) have been conducting projects to prevent and minimize landslide damages. Landslide early warning is one of the t...
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Increased Survival Benefit of Adjuvant Intra-arterial Infusion Chemotherapy in HCC Patients with Portal Vein Infiltration after Hepatectomy
The role of adjuvant hepatic intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAI) is considered to be a promising option.
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Open AccessRelationship between environmental radiation and radioactivity and childhood thyroid cancer found in Fukushima health management survey
Environmental radioactive contamination caused by the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident has aroused great concern regarding a possible increase in the incidence of childhood thyroid cancer. The u...
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A kilometre-sized Kuiper belt object discovered by stellar occultation using amateur telescopes
Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) are thought to be remnants of the early Solar System, and their size distribution provides an opportunity to explore the formation and evolution of the outer Solar System1–5. In particu...
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Radiocesium in Ponds in the Near Zone of Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP
The article presents the results of studying radiocesium concentration and distribution between dissolved and particulate forms in ponds in the near zone of Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP NPP after the 2011 accident. ...
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Development of Superconducting Tunnel Junction Photon Detectors with Cryogenic Preamplifier for COBAND Experiment
We present the status of the development of Superconducting Tunnel Junction (STJ) detector with the cryogenic preamplifier as far-infrared single photon detector for the COsmic BAckground Neutrino Decay search...
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Down-regulation of the two-component system and cell-wall biosynthesis-related genes was associated with the reversion to daptomycin susceptibility in daptomycin non-susceptible methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Daptomycin (DAP) is widely used in the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. The emergence of DAP non-susceptible MRSA strains during therapy is a major concern in clinical se...
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Open AccessESICM LIVES 2016: part three
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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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Development for Germanium Blocked Impurity Band Far-Infrared Image Sensors with Fully-Depleted Silicon-On-Insulator CMOS Readout Integrated Circuit
We are develo** far-infrared (FIR) imaging sensors for low-background and high-sensitivity applications such as infrared astronomy. Previous FIR monolithic imaging sensors, such as an extrinsic germanium pho...
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Development of Blocked-Impurity-Band-Type Ge Detectors Fabricated with the Surface-Activated Wafer Bonding Method for Far-Infrared Astronomy
We report the current status of the development of our new detectors for far-infrared (FIR) astronomy. We develop Blocked-Impurity-Band (BIB)-type Ge detectors to realize large-format compact arrays covering a...
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Open AccessTi–Ag–Pd alloy with good mechanical properties and high potential for biological applications
Ti-based alloys containing Ag were produced by tilt-casting method and their properties were studied. Even in its as-cast state, Ti94Ag3Pd3 showed relatively high tensile properties, good electrochemical behavior...
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Mission Design of LiteBIRD
LiteBIRD is a next-generation satellite mission to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. On large angular scales the B-mode polarization of the CMB carries the imprint of...
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Open AccessProteasome inhibitors exert cytotoxicity and increase chemosensitivity via transcriptional repression of Notch1 in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
The Notch signaling pathway has been recognized as a key factor for the pathogenesis of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), because of the high incidence of activating mutations of Notch1. Notch inhib...
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Performance analysis of mini centrifugal pump with splitter blades
Design method for a mini centrifugal pump is not established because the internal flow condition for these small-sized fluid machines is not clarified and conventional theory is not suitable for small-sized pu...
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Open AccessAlkylating agents induce histone H3K18 hyperacetylation and potentiate HDAC inhibitor-mediated global histone acetylation and cytotoxicity in mantle cell lymphoma
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Proton beam therapy for malignancy in Bloom syndrome
Bloom syndrome is a DNA repair disorder that is hypersensitive to radiotherapy. We describe the first case in which proton beam therapy (PBT) was used in a patient with Bloom syndrome to treat oropharyngeal ca...
