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Paracladius akansextus Sasa et Kamimura
No full textParacladius akansextus Sasa et Kamimura (Figs 1–4) Paracladius akansextus Sasa et Kamimura, 1987: 31. Paracladius akansextus Sasa et Kamimura; Yamamoto (2004: 63). Material examined. JAPAN: Hokkaido, Kushiro, Lake Kussharo, holotype male, 26.ix. 1998, H. Suzuki (No. 101: 56). CHINA: Hebei Province, Weichang County, Qipan Town, 42 ° 10 'N, 117 ° 57 'E, 1.800 m a.s.l., 2 males, 16–17.vii. 2001, light trap, Yuhong Guo (BDN No. 23357, 23399); Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Tacheng City, Yemenle Town, 46 ° 44 'N, 82 ° 58 'E, 1.550 m a.s.l., 1 male, 25.vii. 2002, light trap, Hongqu Tang (BDN No. 21257). Emended description. Male (n = 4). Total length 3.20–3.80, 3.40 mm. Wing length 1.80–2.30, 2.00 mm. Total length / wing length 1.70–1.80. Wing length / length of profemur 2.30–2.80, 2.50. Tentorium 135–165, 155 µm long; 35 –50, 45 µm wide. Clypeus with 10 –13, 11 setae. Palpomeres length (in µm): 30 –35, 32; 45 –55, 50; 90–120, 110; 75–110, 100; 113–170, 155. Palpomere 5 / 3: 1.3–1.5, 1.4. Costal extension 30 –50, 42 µm long. R with 6 setae. Squama with 11 –15, 13 setae. Spur of fore tibia 53 –58, 55 µm long; spurs of mid tibia 23 –28, 25 µm and 20 –25, 23 µm long; spurs of hind tibia 58 µm and 23 –25, 24 µm long. Hind tibial comb with 10 setae. Width at apex of fore tibia 43 –48, 46 µm; of mid tibia 45 µm; of hind tibia 45 –55, 50 µm. Sensilla chaetica 6–8 on ta 1 of hind leg. Lengths and proportions of legs as in Table 1. Anal point 30 –35, 32 µm long; with 6 lateral setae. Tergite IX with 14 additional setae; laterosternite IX with 6–8 setae. Transverse sternapodeme 128–140, 132 µm long. Gonocoxite 220–270, 255 µm long. Gonostylus 90 –100, 94 µm long, with broadly rounded to triangular crista dorsalis; megaseta 10 –15, 13 µm long. HR 2.4–2.8, 2.6; HV 3.6–3.8, 3.7. The wing and hypopygium of a Chinese specimen is shown in Figures 1–4. Remarks. Most measurements of the Chinese specimens are within the same range as the holotype. However, the Chinese specimens have an AR of 1.35–1.66 while the Japanese holotype has an AR of 1.26. Distribution. The species is distributed in Japan and Palaearctic China.Published as part of Fu, Yue, Wang, Xinhua & Andersen, Trond, 2010, Chinese Paracladius Hirvenoja, with the description of P. ovatus sp. n. (Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae), pp. 62-68 in Zootaxa 2453 on page 63, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19523
Adequate nutrition status important for bone mineral density improvement in a patient with anorexia nervosa
No full textYukio Nakamura,1,2 Mikio Kamimura,3 Hidefumi Koiwai,4 Hiroyuki Kato1 1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan; 2Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Showa-Inan General Hospital, Komagane, Japan; 3Center of Osteoporosis and Spinal Disorders, Kamimura Orthopedic Clinic, Matsumoto, Japan; 4Koiwai Orthopedic Clinic, Komoro, Japan Abstract: Low bone mineral density (BMD) is one of the most frequent complications of anorexia nervosa (AN). We report the clinical outcomes of a female patient with severe AN, whose chest had become deformed due to thoracic fracture. Lumbar BMD was 0.358 g/cm2 (T-score = −6.3), and total hip BMD was 0.411 g/cm2 (T-score = −4.4). Active vitamin D increased these parameters by 81.0% and 57.4%, respectively, but a drop in her nutrition status afterward resulted in a sharp decrease in BMD values. These findings suggest that adequate nutrient intake is essential for effective osteoporosis treatment in patients with AN. Keywords: anorexia nervosa, bone mineral density, daily teriparatide, osteoporosi
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Studies on H-reflex of Spinal Motoneuron of The Human Subject. Part Ⅰ. A Study on Facilitation and Recovery Process of H-reflex.
No full textSerial records of H-reflex of splnal motoneuron were obtained by the recording of action potential of soleus muscle, triggered by conditioning and testing electrical shocks on the posterior tibial nerve. The fascilitation and recovery process of the spinal motoneuron was studied by the serial records of the H-reflex. The clinical material was 30 cases including normal subjects, patients with pyramidal lesion, and patients in acute stage of cerebrel
intervantion. In commonly, the H-reflex triggered by test shock (H) was not observed by the test shock which was given within 3 millisecond (ms') following conditioning shock, but start to appeared at 4ms appeared in peak amplitude (maximal deflection) at 6ms., and disappeared by 9 to 13ms. Later than 9 to 13ms., H-reflex falled in a silent period. However, the detail of the abovementioned characteristics of the H-reflex appeared in some difference, i.e. on the patient with pyramidal lesion H-reflex continued to appear until 18ms. with maximal deflection of 150% of the H-reflex, on the normal subject those were 10ms. and on the patient in acute stadium of cerebral surgical intervention those were 9ms. and 50% . The author intended to describe the complate disappearance of H-reflex within 3ms. following conditioning shock as the first silent period, and presumed that the first silent
period would be the result of combination of refractory period of Group Ia fiber and inhibition of Group Ib fiber. The auther also would suppose the detailed characteristics of the H-reflex at the period of 4 to 10ms. following conditioning shock was caused by the afterhyperexcitability of the motoneuron by the conditioning shock as well as summation of the test shock, but the IPSP of Group Ib efferent impulses and influence of Renshow cell were other important mechanisms. The author intended to call abovementioned brocess the fascillitatry of human H-reflex
New horizons in low-dimensional electron systems a Festschrift in honour of Professor H. Kamimura
No full textAppropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Ultrasound neuromodulation: mechanisms and the potential of multimodal stimulation for neuronal function assessment
No full textFocused ultrasound (FUS) neuromodulation has shown that mechanical waves can interact with cell membranes and mechanosensitive ion channels, causing changes in neuronal activity. However, the thorough understanding of the mechanisms involved in these interactions are hindered by different experimental conditions for a variety of animal scales and models. While the lack of complete understanding of FUS neuromodulation mechanisms does not impede benefiting from the current known advantages and potential of this technique, a precise characterization of its mechanisms of action and their dependence on experimental setup (e.g., tuning acoustic parameters and characterizing safety ranges) has the potential to exponentially improve its efficacy as well as spatial and functional selectivity. This could potentially reach the cell type specificity typical of other, more invasive techniques, e.g., opto- and chemogenetics or at least orientation-specific selectivity afforded by transcranial magnetic stimulation. Here, the mechanisms and their potential overlap are reviewed along with discussions on the potential insights into mechanisms that magnetic resonance imaging sequences along with amultimodal stimulation approach involving electrical, magnetic, chemical, light, and mechanical stimuli can provide
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