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Kazuhei AOYAGI, Eiichi ISHII, Tsuyoshi ISHIDA • Journal of MMIJ
(2017)
In the construction of a deep underground facility, the hydromechanical properties of the rock mass around an underground opening are changed significantly due to stress redistribution. This zone is called an excavation damaged zone (EDZ). ...
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DOI: 10.2473/journalofmmij.133.25
Hiroshi KIYOMATSU • Gwagyeong Ilboneo Munhak Yeongu
(2018)
Saburo Ikeda was a cartoonist who played an active role in pre-war Japan. He preferred a manga manbun style, which combines cartoon with prose, and his many works reference both financial circles and the literary world. In 1939, he travelle...
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DOI: 10.22628/bcjjl.2018.6.1.165
Sayaka Tada, Kazunori Ikebe, Kei Kamide, Yasuyuki Gondo et al. • PLoS ONE
(2017)
Whereas most of studies investigating relationship between oral health and atherosclerosis have focused on periodontitis, very few of them were examined about occlusal status of natural teeth which possibly influence dietary habit. The prim...
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182563
Aki Sugano, Yutaka Takaoka, Haruyuki Kataguchi, Mika Ohta et al. • Microorganisms
(2022)
Previously, we developed a mathematical model via molecular simulation analysis to predict the infectivity of six SARS-CoV-2 variants. In this report, we aimed to predict the relative risk of the recent new variants of SARS-CoV-2 based on o...
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DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10102090
Nguyen Dinh-Hung, Samuel Mwakisha Mwamburi, Ha Thanh Dong, Channarong Rodkhum et al. • Animals
(2024)
This study aims to genomically elucidate six isolates of rapidly growing non-tuberculous mycobacteria (RGM) derived from Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens). These isolates had previously undergone phenotypic and biochemical characteriz...
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DOI: 10.3390/ani14192833
Shashank Keshavmurthy, Pei-Jie Meng, Jih-Terng Wang, Chao-Yang Kuo et al. • PeerJ
(2014)
Climate change has led to a decline in the health of corals and coral reefs around the world. Studies have shown that, while some corals can cope with natural and anthropogenic stressors either through resistance mechanisms of coral hosts o...
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DOI: 10.7717/peerj.327
H.-C. Jung, B.-K. Moon, J. Wie, H.-S. Park et al. • Geoscientific Model Development
(2019)
Recently, Earth system models (ESMs) have begun to
consider the marine ecosystem to reduce errors in climate simulations.
However, many models are unable to fully represent the ocean-biology-induced
climate feedback, which is due in part to...
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DOI: 10.5194/gmd-12-699-2019
Hameed Byju, Hegde Maitreyi, Raveendran Natarajan, Reshmi Vijayan et al. • PeerJ
(2025)
Background Wetlands, globally, face significant threats from human activities, and waterbirds, as key indicators of wetland health, are essential to maintaining ecological balance. Any long-term conservation measures should prioritize coord...
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DOI: 10.7717/peerj.18899
Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Lebrun, Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Lebrun, Maria P. Dias, Maria P. Dias et al. • Frontiers in Marine Science
(2021)
Every year, billions of birds undertake extensive migrations between breeding and non-breeding areas, facing challenges that require behavioural adjustments, particularly to flight timing and duration. Such adjustments in daily activity pat...
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DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.683071
Masato Eto, Mikio Hayashi, Daisuke Son, Hirotaka Onishi • BMJ Open
(2019)
Objectives Globalisation has increased the opportunities for health professionals working in developed countries to provide clinical and educational support in developing countries. However, how these experiences contribute to the leadershi...
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DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027969
Soon-Hock Kang Phd, Vanessa Yong PhD, Angelique Chan PhD, Yasuhiko Saito PhD • Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
(2016)
Singapore’s life expectancy at birth and at age 65 continues to improve. Although this is a positive development, it is necessary to understand how much of this increased life expectancy is spent with and without mobility limitations. This ...
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DOI: 10.1177/2333721416645034
Nobuhiro Watanabe, Mathieu Piché, Harumi Hotta • Molecular Pain
(2015)
Background In anesthetized rats and conscious humans, a gentle touch using a soft disc covered with microcones (with a texture similar to that of a finger), but not with a flat disc, inhibits nociceptive somatocardiac reflexes. Such an inhi...
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DOI: 10.1186/s12990-015-0001-x
Emi Miki, Risa Kawabata • Cadernos Brasileiros de Terapia Ocupacional
(2020)
This study aimed to investigate the associations between occupational performance and quality of life, well-being, and instrumental activities of daily living in older Japanese adults by examining the correlations between the Canadian Occup...
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DOI: 10.4322/2526-8910.ctoAO2096
M. Nosé, A. Matsuoka, S. Kasahara, S. Yokota et al. • Geophysical Research Letters
(2018)
Abstract The Arase satellite observed clear dipolarization signatures at r~4.3–4.6 RE, GMLAT~16°–18°, and MLT~5.5–5.7 hr around 15:00 UT on 27 March 2017 when Dst~−70 nT. Strong magnetic field fluctuations were embedded and their characteri...
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DOI: 10.1029/2018GL078825
Yuzo Ishikawa, Ling Bai • Earthquake Research Advances
(2024)
On January 1, 2024 at 16:10:09 JST, an Mj 7.6 earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in the southern part of the Sea of Japan. This location has been experiencing an earthquake swarm for more than three years. Here, we provide an overview of...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eqrea.2024.100292
Masanobu Kogure, Nobuhisa Kanahara, Atsuhiro Miyazawa, Atsuhiro Miyazawa et al. • Frontiers in Psychiatry
(2024)
BackgroundMost genetic analyses that have attempted to identify a locus or loci that can distinguish patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS) from those who respond to treatment (non-TRS) have failed. However, evidence from mul...
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1334335
Shiro Okumura, Hironori Koga, Kuniyo Inouye, Eiichi Mizuki • Toxins
(2014)
Parasporin-4 (PS4) is an aerolysin-type β-pore-forming toxin produced by Bacillus thuringiensis strain A1470. It exhibits specific cytotoxicity against human cancer cell lines; therefore, it is expected to be useful for the diagnosis and tr...
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DOI: 10.3390/toxins6072115
Tsuyoshi Akiyama, Y. Inoue, M. Shibayama, Y. Awaya et al. • Agricultural and Food Science
(1996)
LANDSAT/TM data, which are characterized by high spectral/spatial resolutions, are able to contribute to practical agricultural management. In the first part of the paper, the authors review some recent applications of satellite remote sens...
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Thao Nguyen, Toshiaki Yoshikawa, Yusuke Ito, Hitomi Kasuya et al. • STAR Protocols
(2024)
Summary: Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy often causes serious toxicities, such as cytokine release syndrome (CRS), mainly due to interleukin-6 (IL-6) secreted by monocyte lineage cells. Here, we describe a protocol to generat...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2024.103423
K. Kurosawa, K. Kurosawa, S. Kotsuki, S. Kotsuki et al. • Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
(2023)
This study explores coupled land–atmosphere data assimilation (DA) for improving weather and hydrological forecasts by assimilating soil moisture (SM) data. This study integrates a land DA component into a global atmospheric DA system of th...
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DOI: 10.5194/npg-30-457-2023