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Correction: Corrigendum: The CUL3-SPOP-DAXX axis is a novel regulator of VEGFR2 expression in vascular endothelial cells
No full textScientific Reports 7: Article number: 42845; published online: 20 February 2017; updated: 22 December 2017. The original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the author Yuuki Imai, which was incorrectly given as Yu-ki Imai. This error has now been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article, and in the accompanying Supplementary Information.</jats:p
A Case of Renal Hematuria Successfully Treated with Methylpredonisolon (Medrol)
Get PDFA 38-year-old male was admitted because of gross h e maturia, and routine urological examination failed to discolose the cause. He was then diagnosed as having essential hematuria for which various kinds of treatments described in the literatures were attempted without improvement. Finally, methylpredonisolon (Medrol) was successfully administered eliminating his renal bleeding. In clinical and laboratory examinations, intradermal staphylococcus vaccine reaction was positive and there was prolonged plasma clotting time under the addition of calcium chloride. Therefore, allergic mechanism can be presumed in this disease as one of the etiologic factors. Changes in clotting time of blood plasma containing calcium chloride were studied in immediate allergy sensitized with eggalbumin as well as in delayed allergy sensitized with BCG, however, no definite tendency was recognized in any case. The mechanism of renal hematuria might be interpreted as any of vasodilatation, increased capillary permeability and coagulation capacity being abnormal alone or together
ポリエチレンテレフタレートの結晶化の誘導期間における構造形成過程(基研モレキュール型研究会「凝縮系物理学における遅い動的過程」,研究会報告)
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Minedition
No full textThis is a lovely book I happened to find when I was trying to spend down the little money left on my Eurocheck debit card in the late days of my stay in Mannheim. The book is unusual in opening not from right to left but from down to up; that is, one needs to hold it sideways and lift the cover. The cover picture shows the half-painted jackdaw as he returns after opening his craw and being recognized by the doves whose food he was eating. Why does his fellow jackdaw have various colored feathers protruding from his black body and even one such feather in his beak? The pearl that the rooster finds in CJ is part of a ring. The little goat dancing for the wolf uses a hula-hoop! The expanding frog in OF is about to reach the ceiling of a modernistic garden-house! He is elevated off the floor like a helium-filled balloon. The one illustration for FS includes both the plate for the stork and the vase for the fox. In fact, the wall behind the stork features several plates and the floor behind the fox shows three large vases with steam bubbles emerging from them. The resting hare in TH has a hammock slung across the trail. The dropped meat bubbles through the text, dividing its lines in DS. The grapes break down through the ceiling of the fox's room in FG as clouds blow through the windows. The city mouse is fishing in the soup at the city meal in TMCM! A highway--or a racetrack?--winds among cheese wedges and salt and pepper shakers in this fable's tailpiece. The rack of the stag in the pool reaches out like a tree and even includes a birdhouse! What lovely imaginative work! The book is, as regularly with Neugebauer, beautifully produced.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: GermanNacherzählt von Renate Raeck
伝統的建造物群保存地区におけるイベント型観光の可能性 －橿原市今井町の事例－
No full textMany important preservation districts of groups of historic buildings have developed as tourist destinations in Japan. But Imai-cho in the City of Kashihara - one of the most famous historical districts in Japan - is situated as residential zone in Kasihara city planning and previous studies said that residents in Imai-cho did not want to develop their district as a normal tourist destination. Therefore, this article aims to examine the possibility of developing an event tourism in the Imai-cho. Events opened on each Saturday and Sunday in November in 2009. Many events, such as concerts, lectures, bar and so forth opened from Saturday afternoon to Sunday afternoon. In these events, some tourists stayed at historical buildings. The author examines the assessments of these events by the questionnaire to tourists and residents in the Imai-cho. There are many tourist attractions such as public open spaces, museums and important cultural properties in the Imai-cho. But souvenir shops and eating and drinking places are not plenty for tourists and there is no main shopping street in the Imai-cho. Most of tourists lived within Kinki region. They usually went to other destinations after they stayed in the Imai-cho during only few hours. They hoped the Imai-cho will develop as historical tourist destination. But some tourists and residents hoped the Imai-cho not to develop as a normal tourist destination. They hoped to develop the event tourism in the Imai-cho in order to preserve life of residents.departmental bulletin pape
Voucher privatization with investment funds : an institutional analysis
Get PDFCommon wisdom among post-socialist reformers has beento use voucher investment funds to provide the corporate governance needed to restructure newly privatized enterprises after mass privatization efforts. The idea has been that mass privatization would spread the ownership too wide and make corporate governance difficult. The author examines the likely institutional behavior of voucher funds and the possible effects of their development on a transition economy. Since most policy advice has been in favor of voucher privatization with investment funds, the author can be seen as playing the devil's advocate, but his argument is institutional, not statistical. Policymaking requires insight and foresight into how institutions will tend to function. He concludes that voucher funds will introduce a bias in the economy away from the real industrial sector toward an ersatz"financial sector"that will have little if any positive financial role but will be well-protected by friendly regulators. One long-term consequence of voucher privatization with investment funds, according to this view, is a de facto"industrial policy"of real sector decapitalization in favor of short-term rent-seeking by fund managers through board sinecures and lucrative side deals with portfolio companies and through financial market manipulation and paper entrepreneurship in the"financial sector."Without strong corporate governance from the funds and without stable ownership of their own, many enterprise managers will exploit the post-socialist version of the"separation of ownership and control"to grab what they can in the form of salaries, bonuses, perquisites, and side deals. The most likely results of the strategy of voucher privatization with investment funds may be a two-sided grab fest by fund managers and enterprise managers -- together with the accompanying drift, stagnation, and decapitalization of the privatized industrial sector.Economic Adjustment and Lending,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Economic Theory&Research,Banks&Banking Reform,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Adjustment and Lending,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research
P083 Reduction of Radiated Sound from Duct End Using Piezoelectric Sound Absorbing Panel
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Axisymmetric polydimethysiloxane microchannels for in vitro hemodynamic studies
No full textThe current microdevices used for biomedical research are often manufactured using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology. Although it is possible to fabricate precise and reproducible rectangular microchannels using soft lithography techniques, this kind of geometry may not reflect the actual physiology of the microcirculation. Here, we present a simple method to fabricate circular polydimethysiloxane (PDMS) microchannels aiming to mimic an in vivo microvascular environment and suitable for state-of-the-art microscale flow visualization techniques, such as confocal µPIV/PTV. By using a confocal µPTV system individual red blood cells (RBCs) were successfully tracked trough a 75 µm circular PDMS microchannel. The results show that RBC lateral dispersion increases with the volume fraction of RBCs in the solution, i.e. with the hematocrit
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