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Open AccessA case study on severe damage at a tunnel in serpentinite rock mass
Face squeezing, floor heave, and buckling of invert were found after a 10-day holiday in 2014 around the serpentinite face of a tunnel in Hokkaido, Japan. The damage continued for over 2 months, extending 400 ...
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Open AccessMeasurement of the principal quantum number distribution in a beam of antihydrogen atoms
The ASACUSA (Atomic Spectroscopy And Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons) collaboration plans to measure the ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen in a beam at the CERN Antiproton Decelerator with ini...
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Open AccessHyperfine spectroscopy of hydrogen and antihydrogen in ASACUSA
The ASACUSA collaboration at the Antiproton Decelerator of CERN aims at a precise measurement of the antihydrogen ground-state hyperfine structure as a test of the fundamental CPT symmetry. A beam of antihydro...
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The ASACUSA CUSP: an antihydrogen experiment
In order to test CPT symmetry between antihydrogen and its counterpart hydrogen, the ASACUSA collaboration plans to perform high precision microwave spectroscopy of ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydroge...
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Antihydrogen synthesis in a double-CUSP trap towards test of the CPT-symmetry
The aim of the ASACUSA-CUSP experiment at CERN is to produce a cold, polarised antihydrogen beam and perform a high precision measurement of the ground-state hyperfine transition frequency of the antihydrogen ...
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Towards measuring the ground state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen – a progress report
We report the successful commissioning and testing of a dedicated field-ioniser chamber for measuring principal quantum number distributions in antihydrogen as part of the ASACUSA hyperfine spectroscopy appara...
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Open AccessMieap-regulated mitochondrial quality control is frequently inactivated in human colorectal cancer
Mieap, a p53-inducible protein, controls mitochondrial quality by repairing or eliminating unhealthy mitochondria. BNIP3 and NIX are critical mediators for the Mieap-regulated mitochondrial quality control. Mi...
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Open AccessErratum: Cooper pair splitting in parallel quantum dot Josephson junctions
Nature Communications 6: Article Number: 7446 (2015); Published 1 July 2015; Updated 14 December 2015 The financial support for this Article was not fully acknowledged. The Acknowledgements should have include...
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The ASACUSA CUSP: an antihydrogen experiment
In order to test CPT symmetry between antihydrogen and its counterpart hydrogen, the ASACUSA collaboration plans to perform high precision microwave spectroscopy of ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydroge...
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Open AccessCooper pair splitting in parallel quantum dot Josephson junctions
Devices to generate on-demand non-local spin entangled electron pairs have potential application as solid-state analogues of the entangled photon sources used in quantum optics. Recently, Andreev entanglers th...
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Open AccessFrequent MED12 mutations in phyllodes tumours of the breast
Phyllodes tumours are rare fibroepithelial tumours of the breast, that include benign, borderline, and malignant lesions. Although the molecular basis of phyllodes tumours largely remains unknown, a recent exo...
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Open AccessIntratumoral tertiary lymphoid organ is a favourable prognosticator in patients with pancreatic cancer
Host immunity has critical roles in tumour surveillance. Tertiary lymphoid organs (TLOs) are induced in various inflamed tissues. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinicopathological and pathobiolo...
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Open AccessActivating GNAS and KRAS mutations in gastric foveolar metaplasia, gastric heterotopia, and adenocarcinoma of the duodenum
Heterotopic gastric-type epithelium, including gastric foveolar metaplasia (GFM) and gastric heterotopia (GH), is a common finding in duodenal biopsy specimens; however, there is still controversy regarding th...
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Geochemical behavior and activity ratios of Fukushima-derived radionuclides in aerosols at the Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba, Japan
Aerosols from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident were collected at the Geological Survey of Japan. The temporal patterns of the 134Cs/137Cs, 136Cs/137Cs, and 132Te/137Cs activity ratios were cons...
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Towards a spin polarized antihydrogen beam
The ASACUSA collaboration has developed a cusp trap scheme to realize an in-flight high precision microwave spectroscopy of ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen ( H̄) for a stringent test of CPT symme...
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Open AccessPrognostic significance of amino-acid transporter expression (LAT1, ASCT2, and xCT) in surgically resected tongue cancer
Amino-acid transporters are necessary for the tumour cell growth and survival, and have a crucial role in the development and invasiveness of cancer cells. But, it remains unclear about the prognostic signific...
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Open AccessBiological significance of fluorine-18-α-methyltyrosine (FAMT) uptake on PET in patients with oesophageal cancer
18F-FAMT as an amino-acid tracer for positron emission tomography (PET) is useful for detecting human neoplasms. 18F-FAMT is accumulated in tumour cells solely via L-type amino-acid transporter 1 (LAT1). This stu...
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Open AccessASC amino-acid transporter 2 (ASCT2) as a novel prognostic marker in non-small cell lung cancer
ASC amino-acid transporter 2 (ASCT2) is a major glutamine transporter that has an essential role in tumour growth and progression. Although ASCT2 is highly expressed in various cancer cells, the clinicopatholo...
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Open AccessA source of antihydrogen for in-flight hyperfine spectroscopy
Antihydrogen, a positron bound to an antiproton, is the simplest antiatom. Its counterpart—hydrogen—is one of the most precisely investigated and best understood systems in physics research. High-resolution co...
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Open AccessFrequent GNAS mutations in low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasms
The molecular basis for the development of appendiceal mucinous tumours, which can be a cause of pseudomyxoma peritonei, remains largely unknown.
