K. Nakamura

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1975 - 9999

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609

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High Heat Flux Experiment on B4C-Overlaid C/C Composites for Plasma Facing Materials of JT-60U. (9999)

Nakamura, K., Akiba, M., Suzuki, S., Yokoyama, K., Dairaku, M.

High heat flux experiments (5-40MW/sq meter, 5 s and 550MW/sq meter, 5-10 ms) in the JAERI electron beam irradiation stand (JEBIS) have been carried out on the three kinds (conversion, CVD and LLPS)...

The case for a directional dark matter detector and the status of current experimental efforts (2009)

Ahlen, S., Afshordi, N., Battat, J. B. R., Billard, J., Bozorgnia, N., Burgos, S., ...

We present the case for a dark matter detector with directional sensitivity. This document was developed at the 2009 CYGNUS workshop on directional dark matter detection, and contains contributions...

Quantum Transport in Ladder-Type Networks: Role of nonlinearity, topology and spin (2009)

Nakamura, K., Matrasulov, D., Milibaeva, G., Yusupov, J., Salomov, U., Ohta, T., ...

We investigate quantum transport of electrons, phase solitons, etc. through mesoscopic networks of zero-dimensional quantum dots. Straight and circular ladders are chosen as networks with each...

PCR-based DGGE and FISH analysis of methanogens in an anaerobic closed digester tank for treating palm oil mill effluent (2009)

Tabatabaei, M., Zakaria, M.R., Rahim, R.A., Wright, A.-D.G., Yoshihito, S., Abdullah, N., ...

16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA)-targeted fluorescent in situ hybridization combined with polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-cloning, light microscopy using Gram stains, scanning electron microscopy and...

Cosmic Ray Tests of the Prototype TPC for the ILC Experiment (2009)

Ackermann, K., Arai, S., Arogancia, D. C., Bacala, A. M., Ball, M., Behnke, T., ...

A time projection chamber (TPC) is a strong candidate for the central tracker of the international linear collider (ILC) experiment and we have been conducting a series of cosmic ray experiments...

The KamLAND full-volume calibration system (2009)

Berger, B. E., Busenitz, J., Classen, T., Decowski, M. P., Dwyer, D. A., Elor, G., ...

We have successfully built and operated a source deployment system for the KamLAND detector. This system was used to position radioactive sources throughout the delicate 1-kton liquid scintillator...

Students' Perceptions Of Ethnicity and Learning: A case study of the United States International University (USIU) (2009)

Nakamura, K

Kenya is an ethnically diverse country comprising over forty ethnic groups. While the diversity should make up the richness of culture and ways of life, the ‘tribe' mentality is the root cause of...

H_2O maser and a plasma obscuring torus in the radio galaxy NGC 1052 (2009)

Sawada-Satoh, S., Kameno, S., Nakamura, K., Namikawa, D., Shibata, K. M., Inoue, M.

We present multi-frequency simultaneous VLBA observations at 15, 22 and 43 GHz towards the nucleus of the nearby radio galaxy NGC 1052. These three continuum images reveal a double-sided jet...

Multiple regimes of diffusion (2009)

Mehlig, B., Wilkinson, M., Bezuglyy, V., Gustavsson, K., Nakamura, K.

We consider the diffusion of independent particles experiencing random accelerations by a space- and time-dependent force as well as viscous damping. This model can exhibit several asymptotic...

Hepatocyte growth factor activator inhibitor-2 (HAI-2) is a favorable prognosis marker and inhibits cell growth through the apoptotic pathway in cervical cancer (2009)

Nakamura, K., Abarzua, F., Hongo, A., Kodama, J., Nasu, Y., Kumon, H., ...

Background: In light of the poor prognosis for cervical cancer, research continues into the development of innovative and efficacious treatment modalities for this disease. We investigated the role...

ABSTRACTS (2009)

Abdelwahab, A., Gardner, M., Parkash, R., Basta, M., Sapp, J., Veltmann, C., ...

Introduction: Scar-related ventricular tachycardia (VT) is often unmappable. Data regarding the outcomes of ablation for mappable vs unmappable VT are lacking. Methods: Catheter ablation of...

Antigenic characterization of the nucleoprotein and matrix protein of influenza C virus with monoclonal antibodies (2008)

K. Sugawara, H. Nishimura, S. Hongo, F. Kitame, K. Nakamura

Monoclonal antibodies against the nucleoprotein (NP) and matrix (M) protein of influenza C virus were prepared and characterized. At least two non-overlap-ping or partially overlapping antigenic...

Coherence of single spins coupled to a nuclear spin bath of varying density (2008)

Mizuochi, N., Neumann, P., Rempp, F., Beck, J., Jacques, V., Siyushev, P., ...

The dynamics of single electron and nuclear spins in a diamond lattice with different 13C nuclear spin concentration is investigated. Coherent control of up to three individual nuclei in a dense...

Modification of Angular Velocity by Inhomogeneous MRI Growth in Protoplanetary Disks (2008)

Kato, M. T., Nakamura, K., Tandokoro, R., Fujimoto, M., Ida, S.

We have investigated evolution of magneto-rotational instability (MRI) in protoplanetary disks that have radially non-uniform magnetic field such that stable and unstable regions coexist initially,...

Study on the Indirect Electrochemical Detection of Ammonium Ion with In Situ Electrogenerated Hypobromous Acid (2008)

Takahashi, M, Nakamura, K, Jin, J

This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article:ELECTROANALYSIS. 20(20):2205-2211 (2008), which has been published in final form at doi:10.1002/elan.200804311

Broadband Single-Shot Electron Spectrometer for GeV-Class Laser Plasma Based Accelerators (2008)

Nakamura, K.

Laser-plasma-based accelerators can provide electrons over a broad energy range and/or with large momentum spread. The electron beam energy distribution can be controlled via accurate control of...

Hydrothermal activity on the southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge: Tectonically- and volcanically-controlled venting at 4–5°S (2008)

German, C.R., Bennett, S.A., Connelly, D.P., Evans, A.J., Murton, B.J., Parson, L.M., ...

We report results from an investigation of the geologic processes controlling hydrothermal activity along the previously-unstudied southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (3–7°S). Our study employed the NOC...

Solar neutrino measurements in Super-Kamiokande-II (2008)

Cravens, J. P., Abe, K., Iida, T., Ishihara, K., Kameda, J., Koshio, Y., ...

The results of the second phase of the Super-Kamiokande solar neutrino measurement are presented and compared to the first phase. The solar neutrino flux spectrum and time variation as well as...

High Quality Electron Bunches up to 1 GeV from Laser Wakefield Acceleration at LBNL (2008)

Esarey, E., Nagler, B., Gonsalves, A.J., Toth, Cs., Nakamura, K., Geddes, C.G.R., ...

Experiments at the LOASIS laboratory of LBNL have demonstrated production of 100 MeV to 1 GeV electron bunches with low energy spread and low divergence from laser wakefield acceleration. The...

GeV electron beams from cm-scale channel guided laser wakefield accelerator (2008)

Nakamura, K., Nagler, B., Toth, Cs., Geddes, C.G.R., Schroeder, C., Esarey, E., ...

Laser-wakefield accelerators (LWFA) can produce electric fields of order 10-100 GV/m suitable for acceleration of electrons to relativistic energies. The wakefields are excited by a relativistically...

Precision measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters with KamLAND (2008)

Abe, S., Ebihara, T., Enomoto, S., Furuno, K., Gando, Y., Ichimura, K., ...

The KamLAND experiment has determined a precise value for the neutrino oscillation parameter Δm2 21 and stringent constraints on θ12. The exposure to nuclear reactor antineutrinos is increased...

Low energy spread 100 MeV-1 GeV electron bunches from laser wakefiel d acceleration at LOASIS (2008)

Geddes, C.G.R., Esarey, E., Michel, P., Nagler, B., Nakamura, K., Plateau, G.R., ...

Experiments at the LOASIS laboratory of LBNL recently demonstrated production of 100 MeV electron beams with low energy spread and low divergence from laser wakefield acceleration. The radiation...

Evidence for D0-D-bar0 Mixing using the CDF II Detector (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., G. Albrow, M., Álvarez González, B., Amerio, S., ...

We measure the time dependence of the ratio of decay rates for the rare decay D0 --> K+ pi+- to the Cabibbo-favored decay D0 --> K- pi++. We use a signal of 12.7 x 103 D0 --> K+ pi+- decays with...

Evidence for D0-D-bar0 Mixing using the CDF II Detector (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., G. Albrow, M., Álvarez González, B., Amerio, S., ...

We measure the time dependence of the ratio of decay rates for the rare decay D0 --> K+ pi+- to the Cabibbo-favored decay D0 --> K- pi++. We use a signal of 12.7 x 103 D0 --> K+ pi+- decays with...

Stable Electron Beams With Low Absolute Energy Spread From a Laser Wakefield Accelerator With Plasma Density Ramp Controlled Injection (2008)

Geddes, Cameron G.R., Cormier-Michel, E., Esarey, E., Leemans, W.P., Nakamura, K., Panasenko, D., ...

Laser wakefield accelerators produce accelerating gradients up to hundreds of GeV/m, and recently demonstrated 1-10 MeV energy spread at energies up to 1 GeV using electrons self-trapped from the...

Alignment of the Pixel and SCT Modules for the 2004 ATLAS Combined Test Beam (2008)

Ahmad, A., Andreazza, A., Atkinson, T., Baines, J., Barr, A. J., Beccherle, R., ...

A small set of final prototypes of the ATLAS Inner Detector silicon tracker (Pixel and SCT) were used to take data during the 2004 Combined Test Beam. Data were collected from runs with beams of...

GeV electron beams from a laser-plasma accelerator (2008)

Schroeder, C.B., Toth, Cs., Nagler, B., Gonsalves, A.J., Nakamura, K., Geddes, C.G.R., ...

High-quality electron beams with up to 1 GeV energy have been generated by a laser-driven plasma-based accelerator by guiding a 40 TW peak power laser pulse in a 3.3 cm long gas-filled capillary...

GeV electron beams from a centimeter-scale laser-driven plasma accelerator (2008)

Gonsalves, A., Nakamura, K., Panasenko, D., Toth, Cs., Esarey, E., ...

esults are presented on the generation of quasi-monoenergeticelectron beams with energy up to 1GeV using a 40TW laser and a 3.3 cm-long hydrogen-filled capillary discharge waveguide. Electron beams...

Search for matter-dependent atmospheric neutrino oscillations in Super-Kamiokande (2008)

Abe, K., Hayato, Y., Iida, T., Ikeda, M., Kameda, J., Koshio, Y., ...

We consider ν_μ→ν_τ oscillations in the context of the mass varying neutrino (MaVaN) model, where the neutrino mass can vary depending on the electron density along the flight path of the...

Search for third generation vector leptoquarks in p(p)over-barcollisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

We search for a third generation vector leptoquark (VLQ3) that decays to a b quark and tau lepton using the CDF II detector and 320 pb(-1) of integrated luminosity from the Fermilab Tevatron....

Measurement of correlated b(b)over-bar production in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1960 GeV (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

We present a measurement of the correlated b (b) over bar production cross section. The data used in this analysis were taken with the upgraded CDF detector (CDF II) at the Fermilab Tevatron...

First run II measurement of the W boson mass at the Fermilab Tevatron (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., ...

We describe a measurement of the W boson mass m(W) using 200 pb(-1) of root s=1.96 TeV p (p) over bar collision data taken with the CDF II detector. With a sample of 63 964 W -> e nu candidates and...

Measurement of the cross section for W-boson production in association with jets in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B., Amerio, S., ...

We present a measurement of the cross section for W-boson production in association with jets in p (p) over bar collisions at root s =1.96 TeV. The analysis uses a data sample corresponding to an...

Two-particle momentum correlations in jets produced in p(p)over-barcollisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., Amerio, S., ...

We present the first measurement of two-particle momentum correlations in jets produced in p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV. Results are obtained for charged particles within a...

Measurement of ratios of fragmentation fractions for bottom hadrons in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., Amerio, S., ...

This paper describes the first measurement of b-quark fragmentation fractions into bottom hadrons in Run II of the Tevatron Collider at Fermilab. The result is based on a 360 pb(-1) sample of data...

Limits on the production of narrow t(t)over-bar resonances in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., Amerio, S., ...

We search for evidence of resonant top quark pair production in 955 pb(-1) of p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1: 96 TeV recorded with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. For fully...

Search for chargino-neutralino production in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV with high-p(T) leptons (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., Amerio, S., ...

We present a search for the associated production of charginos and neutralinos in p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV. The data were collected at the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF II)...

Observation of exclusive dijet production at the Fermilab Tevatron (p)over-bar-p collider (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., Amerio, S., ...

We present the first observation and cross section measurement of exclusive dijet production in (p) over barp interactions, (p) over barp -> (p) over bar + dijet + p. Using a data sample of 310...

Observation of orbitally excited B-s mesons (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, Ba, ...

We report the observation of two narrow resonances consistent with states of orbitally excited (L=1) B-s mesons using 1 fb(-1) of p (p) over bar collisions at root s =1.96 TeV collected with the...

Search for resonant t(t)over-bar production in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., ...

We report on a search for narrow-width particles decaying to a top and antitop quark pair. The data set used in the analysis corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 680 pb(-1) collected with the...

Measurement of lifetime and decay-width difference in B-S(0)-> J/psi phi decays (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., ...

We measure the mean lifetime tau=2/(Gamma(L)+Gamma(H)) and the decay-width difference Delta Gamma=Gamma(L)-Gamma(H) of the light and heavy mass eigenstates of the B-s(0) meson, B-sL(0) and B-sH(0),...

Search for the Higgs boson in events with missing transverse energy and b quark jets produced in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., Amerio, S., ...

We search for the standard model Higgs boson produced in association with an electroweak vector boson in events with no identified charged leptons, large imbalance in transverse momentum, and two...

Strong evidence for ZZ production in pp collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., Amerio, S., ...

We report the first evidence of Z boson pair production at a hadron collider with a significance exceeding 4 standard deviations. This result is based on a data sample corresponding to 1.9 fb(-1) of...

Observation of the decay B-c(+/-) -> J/psi pi(+/-) and measurement of the B-c(+/-) mass (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., Amerio, S., ...

The B-c(+/-) meson is observed through the decay B-c(+/-) -> J/psi pi(+/-), in data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.4 fb(-1) recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab II detector...

Search for heavy toplike quarks using lepton plus jets events in 1.96 TeV p(p)over-bar collisions (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., Amerio, S., ...

We present the results of a search for pair production of a new heavy toplike quark t' decaying to a W boson and another quark using the Collider Detector at Fermilab II detector in run II of the...

Evidence for D-0-(D)over-bar(0) mixing using the CDF II detector (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., Amerio, S., ...

We measure the time dependence of the ratio of decay rates for the rare decay D-0 -> K+pi(-) to the Cabibbo-favored decay D-0 -> K-pi(+). A signal of 12.7x10(3) D-0 -> K+pi(-) decays was obtained...

Search for B-s(0)->mu(+)mu(-) and B-0 ->mu(+)mu(-) Decays with 2 fb(-1) of p(p)over-bar Collisions (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., Amerio, S., ...

We have performed a search for B-s(0)->mu(+)mu(-) and B-0 ->mu(+)mu(-) decays in p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV using 2 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity collected by the CDF II...

Measurement of inclusive jet cross sections in Z/gamma*(-> e(+)e(-))+jets production in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., Amerio, S., ...

Inclusive jet cross sections in Z/gamma* events, with Z/gamma* decaying into an electron-positron pair, are measured as a function of jet transverse momentum and jet multiplicity in p (p) over bar...

First measurement of W boson production in association with a single charm quark in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., Amerio, S., ...

We present the first measurement of the production cross section of a W boson with a single charm quark (c) in p (p) over bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV, using soft muon tagging of c jets. In a...

Direct measurement of the W boson width in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., Amerio, S., ...

A direct measurement of the total decay width of the W boson Gamma(W) is presented using 350 pb(-1) of data from p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV collected with the CDF II detector at...

Cross-section-constrained top-quark mass measurement from dilepton events at the tevatron (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., Amerio, S., ...

We report the first top-quark mass measurement that uses a cross-section constraint to improve the mass determination. This measurement is made with a dilepton t (t) over bar event candidate sample...

First observation of the decay B-s(0)-> Ds-Ds+ and measurement of its branching ratio (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., Amerio, S., ...

We report the observation of the exclusive decay B-s(0)-> Ds-Ds+ at the 7.5 standard deviation level using 355 pb(-1) of data collected by the CDF II detector in p (p) over bar collisions at root s...

Model-independent and quasi-model-independent search for new physics at CDF (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., ...

Data collected in run II of the Fermilab Tevatron are searched for indications of new electroweak scale physics. Rather than focusing on particular new physics scenarios, CDF data are analyzed for...

Search for new heavy particles decaying to Z(0)Z(0)-> eeee in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., Amerio, S., ...

We report the results of a search for the anomalous production of a massive particle decaying to four electrons via two Z(0) bosons in 1.1 fb(-1) of p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV...

Search for standard model Higgs boson production in association with a W boson at CDF (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., Amerio, S., ...

We present a search for standard model Higgs boson production in association with a W boson in proton-antiproton collisions (p (p) over bar ->(WH)-H-+/-->center dot nu b (b) over bar) at a center of...

Search for heavy, long-lived neutralinos that decay to photons at CDF II using photon timing (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., Amerio, S., ...

We present the results of the first hadron collider search for heavy, long-lived neutralinos that decay via chi(0)(1)->gamma G in gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking models. Using an integrated...

Search for pair production of scalar top quarks decaying to a tau lepton and a b quark in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2008)

Aaltonen, T., Adelman, J., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Gonzalez, B. A., Amerio, S., ...

We search for pair production of supersymmetric top quarks((t) over tilde (1)), followed by R-parity violating decay (t) over tilde (1)->tau b with a branching ratio beta, using 322 pb(-1) of p (p)...

Large-eddy simulations of a drizzling, stratocumulus-topped marine boundary layer (2008)

Ackerman, A. A., VanZanten, M. C., Stevens, B., Savic-Jovcic, V., Bretherton, C. S., Chlond, A., ...

Photosynthesis rates and photosynthesis–leaf nutrient relationships were analysed in nine tropical grass and sedge species growing in three different ecosystems: a rain-fed grassland, a seasonal...

Ageing of anode-supported solid oxide fuel cell stacks including thermal cycling, and expansion behaviour of MgO–NiO anodes (2008)

Van Herle, Jan, Perednis, Dainius, Nakamura, K., Diethelm, Stefan, Zahid, Mohsine, Aslanides, Antoine, ...

This paper reports on medium term tests of anode-supported five-cell short stacks, as well as on some separate anode development. Two stacks were operated under steady-state conditions: one with...

DECIGO pathfinder (2008)

Ando, M., Kawamura, Seiji, Nakamura, T., Tsubono, K., Tanaka, T., Funaki, I., ...

DECIGO pathfinder (DPF) is a milestone satellite mission for DECIGO (DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory) which is a future space gravitational wave antenna. DECIGO is expected...

The Japanese space gravitational wave antenna: DECIGO (2008)

Kawamura, Seiji, Ando, M., Nakamura, T., Tsubono, K., Tanaka, T., Funaki, I., ...

DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (DECIGO) is the future Japanese space gravitational wave antenna. DECIGO is expected to open a new window of observation for gravitational...

The Japanese space gravitational wave antenna - DECIGO (2008)

Kawamura, Seiji, Ando, M., Nakamura, T., Tsubono, K., Tanaka, T., Funaki, I., ...

DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (DECIGO) is the future Japanese space gravitational wave antenna. The goal of DECIGO is to detect gravitational waves from various kinds of...

Basal Ganglia Orient Eyes to Reward (2008)

J Neurophysiol, O. Hikosaka, B. D. Corneil, D. P. Munoz, E. Olivier, J Neurophysiol, ...

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Limits on anomalous triple gauge couplings in p(p)over-bar collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

8 pages, 3 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 12.15.Ji, 13.40.Em, 14.70.Fm, 14.70.Hp.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000251987200003.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2247

Precise Measurement of the Top-Quark Mass in the Lepton+Jets Topology at CDF II (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., G. Albrow, M., ...

We present a measurement of the mass of the top quark from proton-antiproton collisions recorded at the CDF experiment in Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron. We analyze events from the single lepton...

Precise Measurement of the Top-Quark Mass in the Lepton+Jets Topology at CDF II (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., G. Albrow, M., ...

We present a measurement of the mass of the top quark from proton-antiproton collisions recorded at the CDF experiment in Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron. We analyze events from the single lepton...

Precise Measurement of the Top-Quark Mass in the Lepton+Jets Topology at CDF II (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., G. Albrow, M., ...

We present a measurement of the mass of the top quark from proton-antiproton collisions recorded at the CDF experiment in Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron. We analyze events from the single lepton...

Observation of the heavy baryons Σ(b) and Σ(b)* (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

7 pages, 2 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 14.20.Mr, 13.30.Eg.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000251003600013.-- ArXiv pre-print available: http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.3868

Search for chargino-neutralino production in p(p)over-bar collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

7 pages, 2 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 14.80.Ly, 12.60.Jv, 13.85.Rm.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000250810500020.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2362

Precise measurement of the top-quark mass in the Lepton plus Jets topology at CDF II (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

7 pages, 3 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 14.65.Ha, 12.15.Ff, 13.85.Qk.-- ISI Article Identifier :000250644000015.-- ArXiv pre-print available: http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ex/0703045

Final results on $\nu_{\mu} \to \nu_{\tau}$ oscillation from the CHORUS experiment (2007)

Eskut, E, Kayis-Topaksu, A, Onengüt, G, Van Beuzekom, M G, Van Dantzig, R, De Jong, M, ...

The final oscillation analysis of the complete set of data collected by CHORUS in the years 1994-1997 is presented. Reconstruction algorithms of data extracted by electronic detectors were improved...

Search for high-mass diphoton states and limits on Randall-Sundrum gravitons at CDF (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

7 pages, 4 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 13.85.Rm, 11.25.Wx, 13.85.Qk, 14.80.-j.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000250506000016.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2294

Search for new physics in high-mass electron-positron events in p(p)over-bar collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

7 pages, 4 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 13.85.Rm, 04.50.+h, 13.85.Qk, 14.70.Pw.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000250506000017.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2524

Search for new particles leading to Z plus jets final states in p(p)over-bar collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

24 pages, 38 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 13.85.Rm; 13.85.Qk; 14.70.Hp; 14.80.-j.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000250621200011.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.3264

First measurement of the W-boson mass in run II of the Tevatron (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

7 pages, 4 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 14.70.Fm; 13.38.Be; 13.85.Qk.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000250140600014.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.0085

Observation and mass measurement of the baryon Ξ(-)(b) (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

7 pages, 2 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 14.20.Mr, 13.30.Eg, 13.60.Rj.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000248597500013.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.0589

Measurement of the top-quark mass using missing E-T plus jets events with secondary vertex b-tagging at CDF II (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

8 pages, 4 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 12.15.Ff, 13.85.Ni, 14.65.Ha.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000247625300003.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0705.1594

Precise measurement of the top quark mass in the lepton+jets topology at CDF II (2007)

Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M.G., Amerio, S., ...

We present a measurement of the mass of the top quark from proton-antiproton collisions recorded at the CDF experiment in Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron. We analyze events from the single lepton...

Observation of the anisotropy of 10 TeV primary cosmic ray nuclei flux with the Super-Kamiokande-I detector (2007)

Guillian, G., Hosaka, J., Ishihara, K., Kameda, J., Koshio, Y., Minamino, A., ...

The relative sidereal variation in the arrival direction of primary cosmic ray nuclei of median energy 10 TeV was measured using downward, through-going muons detected with the Super-Kamiokande-I...

Limits on anomalous triple gauge couplings in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

We present a search for anomalous triple gauge couplings (ATGC) in WW and WZ boson production. The boson pairs are produced in p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV, and the data sample...

Measurement of the top-quark mass using missing E-T plus jets events with secondary vertex b-tagging at CDF II (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

We present a measurement of the top-quark mass in p (p) over bar ollisions at root s = 1.96 TeV which uses events with an inclusive signature of missing transverse energy and jets. The event...

Search for exclusive gamma gamma production in Hadron-Hadron collisions (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

We have searched for exclusive gamma gamma production in proton-antiproton collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV, using 532 pb(-1) of integrated luminosity taken by the run II Collider Detector at...

Observation of the heavy baryons Sigma(b) and Sigma(b)* (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

We report an observation of new bottom baryons produced in p (p) over bar collisions at the Tevatron. Using 1.1 fb(-1) of data collected by the CDF II detector, we observe four Lambda(0)(b)pi(+/-)...

Search for chargino-neutralino production in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

We present a search for associated production of the chargino and neutralino supersymmetric particles using up to 1.1 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity collected by the CDF II experiment at the...

Precise measurement of the top-quark mass in the Lepton plus Jets topology at CDF II (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

We present a measurement of the mass of the top quark from proton-antiproton collisions recorded at the CDF experiment in Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron. We analyze events from the single lepton...

Search for high-mass diphoton states and limits on Randall-Sundrum gravitons at CDF (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

We have performed a search for new particles which decay to two photons using 1.2 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity from p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV collected using the CDF II...

Search for new physics in high-mass electron-positron events in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s p=1.96 TeV (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

We report the results of a search for a narrow resonance in electron-positron events in the invariant mass range of 150-950 GeV/c(2) using 1: 3 fb(-1) of p (p) over bar collision data at root s =...

First measurement of the W-boson mass in run II of the Tevatron (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

We present a measurement of the W-boson mass using 200 pb(-1) of data collected in p (p) over bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV by the CDF II detector at run II of the Fermilab Tevatron. With a...

Observation and mass measurement of the baryon Xi(-)(b) (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., ...

We report the observation and measurement of the mass of the bottom, strange baryon Xi(-)(b) through the decay chain Xi(-)(b)-->J/psi Xi(-), where J/psi-->mu(+)mu(-), Xi(-)-->Lambda pi(-), and...

Polarizations of J/psi and psi(2S) mesons produced in p(p)over-bar collisins at root s-1.96 TeV (2007)

Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Amerio, S., ...

We have measured the polarizations of J/psi and psi(2S) mesons as functions of their transverse momentum p(T) when they are produced promptly in the rapidity range |y|< 0.6 with p(T)>= 5 GeV/c. The...

Search for heavy long-lived particles that decay to photons at CDF II (2007)

Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Amerio, S., ...

We present the first search for heavy, long-lived particles that decay to photons at a hadron collider. We use a sample of gamma+jet+missing transverse energy events in p (p) over bar collisions at...

First measurement of the ratio of central-electron to forward-electron W partial cross sections in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2007)

Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Amerio, S., ...

We present a measurement of sigma(p (p) over bar -> W)xB(W -> e nu) at root s=1.96 TeV, using electrons identified in the forward region (1.2

Observation and Mass Measurement of the Baryon $\Xi^-_b$ (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., G. Albrow, M., ...

We report the observation and measurement of the mass of the bottom, strange baryon Xi-_b through the decay chain Xi-_b --> J/psi Xi-, where J/psi --> mu+ mu-, Xi- --> Lambda pi+-, and Lambda --> p...

Search for Heavy, Long-Lived Particles that Decay to Photons at CDF II (2007)

Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., G. Albrow, M., Amerio, S., ...

We present the first search for heavy, long-lived particles that decay to photons at a hadron collider. We use a sample of gamma + jet + missing transverse energy events in p anti-p collisions at...

First Measurement of the W Boson Mass in Run II of the Tevatron (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M.G., ...

We present a measurement of the W boson mass using 200 pb-1 of data collected in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV by the CDF II detector at Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron. With a sample of...

Performance of MPGD-based TPC prototypes for the linear collider experiment (2007)

Kobayashi, M., Araki, T., Arogancia, D.C., Bacala, A.M., Boudjemline, K., Burke, D., ...

We conducted a series of beam tests of prototype TPCs for the International Linear Collider (ILC) experiment, equipped with an MWPC, a MicroMEGAS, or GEMs as a readout device. The prototype operated...

Search for new particles leading to Z+jets final states in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=1.96 TeV (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., G. Albrow, M., ...

We present the results of a search for new particles that lead to a Z boson plus jets in p[overline p] collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV using the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF II). A data sample...

Search for Chargino-Neutralino Production in $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 1.96 TeV (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M.G., ...

We present the results of a search for associated production of the chargino and neutralino supersymmetric particles using up to 1.1 fb-1 of integrated lumimosity collected by the CDF II experiment...

Search for Chargino-Neutralino Production in $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 1.96 TeV (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M.G., ...

We present the results of a search for associated production of the chargino and neutralino supersymmetric particles using up to 1.1 fb-1 of integrated lumimosity collected by the CDF II experiment...

Performance of MPGD-based TPC prototypes for the linear collider experiment (2007)

Kobayashi, M., Araki, T., Arogancia, D.C., Bacala, A.M., Boudjemline, K., Burke, D., ...

We conducted a series of beam tests of prototype TPCs for the International Linear Collider (ILC) experiment, equipped with an MWPC, a MicroMEGAS, or GEMs as a readout device. The prototype operated...

Search for new particles leading to Z+jets final states in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=1.96 TeV (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., G. Albrow, M., ...

We present the results of a search for new particles that lead to a Z boson plus jets in p[overline p] collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV using the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF II). A data sample...

First Measurement of the W Boson Mass in Run II of the Tevatron (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M.G., ...

We present a measurement of the W boson mass using 200 pb-1 of data collected in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV by the CDF II detector at Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron. With a sample of...

Search for Heavy, Long-Lived Particles that Decay to Photons at CDF II (2007)

Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., G. Albrow, M., Amerio, S., ...

We present the first search for heavy, long-lived particles that decay to photons at a hadron collider. We use a sample of gamma + jet + missing transverse energy events in p anti-p collisions at...

Observation and Mass Measurement of the Baryon $\Xi^-_b$ (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., G. Albrow, M., ...

We report the observation and measurement of the mass of the bottom, strange baryon Xi-_b through the decay chain Xi-_b --> J/psi Xi-, where J/psi --> mu+ mu-, Xi- --> Lambda pi+-, and Lambda --> p...

Performance of MPGD-based TPC prototypes for the linear collider experiment (2007)

Kobayashi, M., Araki, T., Arogancia, D.C., Bacala, A.M., Boudjemline, K., Burke, D., ...

We conducted a series of beam tests of prototype TPCs for the International Linear Collider (ILC) experiment, equipped with an MWPC, a MicroMEGAS, or GEMs as a readout device. The prototype operated...

Search for Chargino-Neutralino Production in $p\bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 1.96 TeV (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M.G., ...

We present the results of a search for associated production of the chargino and neutralino supersymmetric particles using up to 1.1 fb-1 of integrated lumimosity collected by the CDF II experiment...

Search for new particles leading to Z+jets final states in $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=1.96 TeV (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., G. Albrow, M., ...

We present the results of a search for new particles that lead to a Z boson plus jets in p[overline p] collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV using the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF II). A data sample...

First Measurement of the W Boson Mass in Run II of the Tevatron (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M.G., ...

We present a measurement of the W boson mass using 200 pb-1 of data collected in p anti-p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.96 TeV by the CDF II detector at Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron. With a sample of...

Search for Heavy, Long-Lived Particles that Decay to Photons at CDF II (2007)

Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., G. Albrow, M., Amerio, S., ...

We present the first search for heavy, long-lived particles that decay to photons at a hadron collider. We use a sample of gamma + jet + missing transverse energy events in p anti-p collisions at...

Observation and Mass Measurement of the Baryon $\Xi^-_b$ (2007)

Aaltonen, T., Abulencia, A., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., G. Albrow, M., ...

We report the observation and measurement of the mass of the bottom, strange baryon Xi-_b through the decay chain Xi-_b --> J/psi Xi-, where J/psi --> mu+ mu-, Xi- --> Lambda pi+-, and Lambda --> p...

Association of CXCR4 and CCR7 chemokine receptor expression and lymph node metastasis in human cervical cancer (2007)

Kodama, J, Kusumoto, T, Seki, N, Matsuo, T, Ojima, Y, ...

Background: The chemokine receptors CXCR4 and CCR7 have been suggested to play an important role in cancer invasion and metastasis. The expression of these receptors in human cervical cancer,...

Prognostic significance of stromal versican expression in human endometrial cancer (2007)

Kodama, J, Kusumoto, T, Seki, N, Matsuo, T, Ojima, Y, ...

Background: Versican expression may enhance tumor invasion and metastasis. However, the expression of versican in human endometrial cancer has seldom been characterized. The aim of this study was to...

Search for the Invisible Decay of Neutrons with KamLAND (2006)

Araki, T., Enomoto, S., Furuno, K., Gando, Y., Ichimura, K., Ikeda, H., ...

The Kamioka Liquid scintillator Anti-Neutrino Detector (KamLAND) is used in a search for single neutron or two neutron intra-nuclear disappearance that would produce holes in the $\it{s}$-shell...

GeV electron beams from a cm-scale accelerator (2006)

Leemans, W.P., Nagler, B., Gonsalves, A.J., Toth, C., Nakamura, K., Geddes, C.G.R., ...

GeV electron accelerators are essential to synchrotron radiation facilities and free electron lasers, and as modules for high-energy particle physics. Radio frequency based accelerators are limited...

Deuteron and Anti-deuteron Production in $e^+ e^-$ Collisions at the Z Resonance (2006)

Schael, S, Aubert, B, Zalipska, J, Yoshida, M, Yoo, J, Yokoyama, M, ...

Deuteron and anti-deuteron production in Z decays has been observed in the ALEPH experiment at LEP. The production rate of anti-deuterons is measured to be 5.9+-1.8+-0.5 10^-6 per hadronic Z decay in...

Generalised Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes (2006)

Bezuglyy, V., Mehlig, B., Wilkinson, M., Nakamura, K., Arvedson, E.

We solve a physically significant extension of a classic problem in the theory of diffusion, namely the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process [G. E. Ornstein and L. S. Uhlenbeck, Phys. Rev. 36, 823, (1930)]....

Staggered Ladder Spectra (2006)

Arvedson, E., Wilkinson, M., Mehlig, B., Nakamura, K.

We exactly solve a Fokker-Planck equation by determining its eigenvalues and eigenfunctions: we construct nonlinear second-order differential operators which act as raising and lowering operators,...

Decay to the nonequilibrium steady state of the thermal diffusion in a tilted periodic potential (2006)

Monnai, T., Sugita, A., Hirashima, J., Nakamura, K.

We investigate asymptotic decay phenomenon towards the nonequilibrium steady state of the thermal diffusion in the presence of a tilted periodic potential. The parameter dependence of the decay rate...

Search for the Invisible Decay of Neutrons with KamLAND (2006)

Araki, T., Enomoto, S., Furuno, K., Gando, Y., Ichimura, K., Ikeda, H., ...

The Kamioka Liquid scintillator Anti-Neutrino Detector (KamLAND) is used in a search for single neutron or two neutron intra-nuclear disappearance that would produce holes in the $\it{s}$-shell...

The Japanese space gravitational wave antenna - DECIGO (2006)

Kawamura, Seiji, Nakamura, T., Ando, M., Seto, N., Tsubono, K., Numata, K., ...

DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (DECIGO) is the future Japanese space gravitational wave antenna. It aims at detecting various kinds of gravitational waves between 1 mHz and...

Comparison of the incidence of sibling cannibalism between male-killing Spiroplasma infected and uninfected clutches of a predatory ladybird beetle, Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) (2006)

Nakamura, K., Miura, K., Ueno, H.

The incidence of sibling cannibalism in clutches of Harmonia axyridis infected by the male-killing Spiroplasma was compared with that in uninfected clutches, and the way in which fitness compensation...

Fundamental Property of Electric Field in Rapeseed Ester Oil based on Kerr Electro-Optic Measurement (2006)

Nakamura, K., Kato, K., Koide, H., Hatta, Y., Okubo, H.

In the future, environmentally friendly insulating oil such as rapeseed ester oil is expected to be utilized as a substitute for mineral oil for power transformers. In addition, electrical insulation...

Neuroprotection by PlGF gene-modified human mesenchymal stem cells after cerebral ischaemia (2006)

Liu, H., Honmou, O., Harada, K., Nakamura, K., Houkin, K., Hamada, H., ...

Intravenous delivery of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) prepared from adult bone marrow reduces infarction size and ameliorates functional deficits in rat cerebral ischaemia models. Placental growth...

Association of CXCR4 and CCR7 chemokine receptor expression and lymph node metastasis in human cervical cancer (2006)

Kodama, J., Kusumoto, T., Seki, N., Matsuo, T., Ojima, Y., ...

Background: The chemokine receptors CXCR4 and CCR7 have been suggested to play an important role in cancer invasion and metastasis. The expression of these receptors in human cervical cancer,...

Prognostic significance of stromal versican expression in human endometrial cancer (2006)

Kodama, J., Kusumoto, T., Seki, N., Matsuo, T., Ojima, Y., ...

Background: Versican expression may enhance tumor invasion and metastasis. However, the expression of versican in human endometrial cancer has seldom been characterized. The aim of this study was to...

Neuroprotection by PlGF gene-modified human mesenchymal stem cells after cerebral ischaemia (2006)

Liu, H., Honmou, O., Harada, K., Nakamura, K., Houkin, K., Hamada, H., ...

Intravenous delivery of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) prepared from adult bone marrow reduces infarction size and ameliorates functional deficits in rat cerebral ischaemia models. Placental growth...

Association of CXCR4 and CCR7 chemokine receptor expression and lymph node metastasis in human cervical cancer (2006)

Kodama, J., Kusumoto, T., Seki, N., Matsuo, T., Ojima, Y., ...

Background: The chemokine receptors CXCR4 and CCR7 have been suggested to play an important role in cancer invasion and metastasis. The expression of these receptors in human cervical cancer,...

Prognostic significance of stromal versican expression in human endometrial cancer (2006)

Kodama, J., Kusumoto, T., Seki, N., Matsuo, T., Ojima, Y., ...

Background: Versican expression may enhance tumor invasion and metastasis. However, the expression of versican in human endometrial cancer has seldom been characterized. The aim of this study was to...

Staggered Ladder Spectra (2005)

Arvedson, E., Wilkinson, M., Mehlig, B., Nakamura, K.

We exactly solve a Fokker-Planck equation by determining its eigenvalues and eigenfunctions: we construct nonlinear second-order differential operators which act as raising and lowering operators,...

Sensitivity of r-Process Nucleosynthesis to Light-Element Nuclear Reactions (2005)

Sasaqui, T., Kajino, T., Mathews, G. J., Otsuki, K., Nakamura, K.

We study the efficiency and sensitivity of r-process nucleosynthesis to 18 light-element nuclear reaction rates. We adopt empirical power-law relations to parameterize the reaction sensitivities. We...

Measurement of fragmentation properties of charmed particle production in charged-current neutrino interactions (2005)

Onengüt, G, Van Dantzig, R, De Jong, M, Konijn, J, Melzer, O, Oldeman, R G C, ...

During the years 1994-97, the emulsion target of the CHORUS detector was exposed to the wideband neutrino beam of the CERN SPS. In total about 100 000 charged-current neutrino interactions were...

Measurement of charm production in antineutrino charged-current interactions (2005)

Onengüt, G, Van Dantzig, R, De Jong, M, Konijn, J, Melzer, O, Oldeman, R G C, ...

During the years 1994-97, the emulsion target of the CHORUS detector was exposed to the wideband neutrino beam of the CERN SPS collecting about 10^6 neutrino interactions. A measurement of...

Equatorial and related non-equilibrium states in magnetization dynamics of ferromagnets: Generalization of Suhl's spin-wave instabilities (2005)

Kosaka, C., Nakamura, K., Murugesh, S., Lakshmanan, M.

We investigate the nonlinear dynamics underlying the evolution of a 2-D nanoscale ferromagnetic film with uniaxial anisotropy in the presence of perpendicular pumping. Considering the associated...

Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation with KamLAND: Evidence of Spectral Distortion (2005)

Araki, T., Eguchi, K., Enomoto, S., Furuno, K., Ichimura, K., Ikeda, H., ...

We present results of a study of neutrino oscillation based on a 766 ton/year exposure of KamLAND to reactor antineutrinos. We observe 258 [overline nu ]e candidate events with energies above 3.4 MeV...

Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation with KamLAND: Evidence of Spectral Distortion (2005)

Araki, T., Eguchi, K., Enomoto, S., Furuno, K., Ichimura, K., Ikeda, H., ...

We present results of a study of neutrino oscillation based on a 766 ton/year exposure of KamLAND to reactor antineutrinos. We observe 258 [overline nu ]e candidate events with energies above 3.4 MeV...

Estimation of Power Balance in Steady State LHCD Discharges on TRIAM-1M (2004)

Sugata, Tomoya, Hanada, K., Imamura, N., Sakamoto, M., Zushi, H., Idei, H., ...

On TRIAM-1M, a long duration discharge for more than 5 h was achieved successfully by fully non-inductive lower hybrid current drive. Heat load distribution to the plasma facing components (PFCs) in...

Estimation of Power Balance in Steady State LHCD Discharges on TRIAM-1M (2004)

Sugata, Tomoya, Hanada, K., Imamura, N., Sakamoto, M., Zushi, H., Idei, H., ...

On TRIAM-1M, a long duration discharge for more than 5 h was achieved successfully by fully non-inductive lower hybrid current drive. Heat load distribution to the plasma facing components (PFCs) in...

Ion acceleration during internal magnetic reconnection events in TST-2 (2004)

Hoshika, Hiroyuki, Zushi, H., Aramasu, M., Idei, H., Iyomasa, A., Ejiri, A., ...

Characteristics of ion acceleration in the internal magnetic reconnection events (IRE) have been studied by means of a neutral particle energy analyzer (NPA) in Tokyo Spherical Tokamak (TST-2). The...

Estimation of Power Balance in Steady State LHCD Discharges on TRIAM-1M (2004)

Sugata, Tomoya, Hanada, K., Imamura, N., Sakamoto, M., Zushi, H., Idei, H., ...

On TRIAM-1M, a long duration discharge for more than 5 h was achieved successfully by fully non-inductive lower hybrid current drive. Heat load distribution to the plasma facing components (PFCs) in...

Laser triggered injection of electrons in a laser wakefield accelerator with the colliding pulse method (2004)

Nakamura, K., Fubiani, G., Geddes, C.G.R., Michel, P., Van Tilborg, J., Toth, C., ...

An injection scheme for a laser wakefield accelerator that employs a counterpropagating laser (colliding with the drive laser pulse, used to generate a plasma wake) is discussed. The threshold laser...

Transport barrier formation by LHCD on TRIAM-1M (2004)

Hanada, K., Iyomasa, A., Zushi, H., Hasegawa, M., Sasaki, K., Hoshika, H., ...

Internal transport barrier (ITB) has been obtained in full lower hybrid current driven (LHCD) plasmas on a superconducting tokamak, TRIMA-1M (R=0.84m, a x b=0.12mx0.18m, BT

Limits on the neutrino magnetic moment using 1496 days of Super-Kamiokande-I solar neutrino data (2004)

Ashie, Y, Fukuda, S, Fukuda, Y, Ishihara, K, Itow, Y, ...

A search for a nonzero neutrino magnetic moment has been conducted using 1496 live days of solar neutrino data from Super-Kamiokande-I. Specifically, we searched for distortions to the energy...

Experimental Study of Trimuon Events in Neutrino Charged-Current Interactions (2004)

Kayis-Topaksu, A, Onengüt, G, Van Dantzig, R, De Jong, M, Konijn, J, Melzer, O, ...

This paper reports on a study of trimuon events induced by neutrino interactions in the CHORUS calorimeter exposed to the CERN SPS wide-band nu_mu beam. Among the multimuon events produced in the...

Experimental Study of Trimuon Events in Neutrino Charged-Current Interactions (2004)

Kayis-Topaksu, A, Onengüt, G, Van Dantzig, R, De Jong, M, Konijn, J, Melzer, O, ...

This paper reports on a study of trimuon events induced by neutrino interactions in the CHORUS calorimeter exposed to the CERN SPS wide-band nu_mu beam. Among the multimuon events produced in the...

Ion acceleration during internal magnetic reconnection events in TST-2 (2004)

Hoshika, Hiroyuki, Zushi, H., Aramasu, M., Idei, H., Iyomasa, A., Ejiri, A., ...

Characteristics of ion acceleration in the internal magnetic reconnection events (IRE) have been studied by means of a neutral particle energy analyzer (NPA) in Tokyo Spherical Tokamak (TST-2). The...

Transport barrier formation by LHCD on TRIAM-1M (2004)

Hanada, K., Iyomasa, A., Zushi, H., Hasegawa, M., Sasaki, K., Hoshika, H., ...

Internal transport barrier (ITB) has been obtained in full lower hybrid current driven (LHCD) plasmas on a superconducting tokamak, TRIMA-1M (R=0.84m, a x b=0.12mx0.18m, BT<8T). The formation of...

Ion acceleration during internal magnetic reconnection events in TST-2 (2004)

Hoshika, Hiroyuki, Zushi, H., Aramasu, M., Idei, H., Iyomasa, A., Ejiri, A., ...

Characteristics of ion acceleration in the internal magnetic reconnection events (IRE) have been studied by means of a neutral particle energy analyzer (NPA) in Tokyo Spherical Tokamak (TST-2). The...

Transport barrier formation by LHCD on TRIAM-1M (2004)

Hanada, K., Iyomasa, A., Zushi, H., Hasegawa, M., Sasaki, K., Hoshika, H., ...

Internal transport barrier (ITB) has been obtained in full lower hybrid current driven (LHCD) plasmas on a superconducting tokamak, TRIMA-1M (R=0.84m, a x b=0.12mx0.18m, BT<8T). The formation of...

Estimation of Power Balance in Steady State LHCD Discharges on TRIAM-1M (2004)

Sugata, Tomoya, Hanada, K., Imamura, N., Sakamoto, M., Zushi, H., Idei, H., ...

On TRIAM-1M, a long duration discharge for more than 5 h was achieved successfully by fully non-inductive lower hybrid current drive. Heat load distribution to the plasma facing components (PFCs) in...

Ion acceleration during internal magnetic reconnection events in TST-2 (2004)

Hoshika, Hiroyuki, Zushi, H., Aramasu, M., Idei, H., Iyomasa, A., Ejiri, A., ...

Characteristics of ion acceleration in the internal magnetic reconnection events (IRE) have been studied by means of a neutral particle energy analyzer (NPA) in Tokyo Spherical Tokamak (TST-2). The...

Transport barrier formation by LHCD on TRIAM-1M (2004)

Hanada, K., Iyomasa, A., Zushi, H., Hasegawa, M., Sasaki, K., Hoshika, H., ...

Internal transport barrier (ITB) has been obtained in full lower hybrid current driven (LHCD) plasmas on a superconducting tokamak, TRIMA-1M (R=0.84m, a x b=0.12mx0.18m, BT<8T). The formation of...

Estimation of Power Balance in Steady State LHCD Discharges on TRIAM-1M (2004)

Sugata, Tomoya, Hanada, K., Imamura, N., Sakamoto, M., Zushi, H., Idei, H., ...

On TRIAM-1M, a long duration discharge for more than 5 h was achieved successfully by fully non-inductive lower hybrid current drive. Heat load distribution to the plasma facing components (PFCs) in...

Ion acceleration during internal magnetic reconnection events in TST-2 (2004)

Hoshika, Hiroyuki, Zushi, H., Aramasu, M., Idei, H., Iyomasa, A., Ejiri, A., ...

Characteristics of ion acceleration in the internal magnetic reconnection events (IRE) have been studied by means of a neutral particle energy analyzer (NPA) in Tokyo Spherical Tokamak (TST-2). The...

Transport barrier formation by LHCD on TRIAM-1M (2004)

Hanada, K., Iyomasa, A., Zushi, H., Hasegawa, M., Sasaki, K., Hoshika, H., ...

Internal transport barrier (ITB) has been obtained in full lower hybrid current driven (LHCD) plasmas on a superconducting tokamak, TRIMA-1M (R=0.84m, a x b=0.12mx0.18m, BT<8T). The formation of...

Cross-section measurement for quasi-elastic production of charmed baryons in $\nu N$ interactions (2003)

Kayis-Topaksu, A, Onengüt, G, Van Dantzig, R, De Jong, M, Melzer, O, Oldeman, R G C, ...

A study of quasi-elastic production of charmed baryons in charged-current interactions of neutrinos with the nuclear emulsion target of CHORUS is presented. In a sample of about 46000 interactions...

Signature of Quantum Chaos in SQUID's (2003)

Kato, T., Tanimoto, K., Nakamura, K.

Spectral statistics in band structures is studied in a realistic model describing superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUID's). By controlling an external magnetic flux, the level...

Analytic calculation of nonadiabatic transition probabilities from monodromy of differential equations (2003)

Kato, T., Nakamura, K., Lakshmanan, M.

The nonadiabatic transition probabilities in the two-level systems are calculated analytically by using the monodromy matrix determining the global feature of the underlying differential equation. We...

Two interacting hard disks within a circular cavity: towards a quantal equation of states (2003)

Kato, T., Nakazono, N., Nakamura, K.

We investigate a circular cavity billiard within which a pair of identical hard disks of smaller but finite size is confined. Each disk shows a free motion except when bouncing elastically with its...

Measurement of the $Z/A$ dependence of neutrino charged-current total cross-sections (2003)

Kayis-Topaksu, A, Onengüt,G, Van Dantzig, R, De Jong, M, Konijn, J, Melzer, O, ...

A relative measurement of total cross-sections is reported for polyethylene, marble, iron, and lead targets for the inclusive charged-current reaction nu_mu + N -> mu^- + X. The targets, passive...

Measurement of the $Z/A$ dependence of neutrino charged-current total cross-sections (2003)

Kayis-Topaksu, A, Onengüt,G, Van Dantzig, R, De Jong, M, Konijn, J, Melzer, O, ...

A relative measurement of total cross-sections is reported for polyethylene, marble, iron, and lead targets for the inclusive charged-current reaction nu_mu + N -> mu^- + X. The targets, passive...

Search for nu(e) from the sun at Super-Kamiokande-I (2003)

Fukuda, S, Fukuda, Y, Ishitsuka, M, Itow, Y, Kajita, T, ...

We present the results of a search for low energy nu(e) from the Sun using 1496 days of data from Super-Kamiokande-I. We observe no significant excess of events and set an upper limit for the...

Cu Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Study of La_{2-x}Sr_xCu_{1-y}Zn_yO_4 (x=0.10, 0.15 and 0.20): Zn-induced Wipeout Effect near the Magnetic and Electric Instability (2003)

Yamagata, H., Miyamoto, H., Nakamura, K., Matsumura, M., Itoh, Y.

We studied Zn-substitution effect on the high-T_c superconductors, underdoped La_{2-x}Sr_xCu_{1-y}Zn_yO_4 (x=0.10; y=0, 0.01, 0.02), optimally doped (x=0.15; y=0, 0.02), and overdoped (x=0.20; y=0,...

Design of Functional Foods using Synthetic Conjugates (2003)

Nakamura, K

Nutrigenomics can provide a new development of research on functional food and we can create new effective functional foods using the nutrigenomical technique in the future. Many functional...

Search for supernova relic neutrinos at Super-Kamiokande (2003)

Morii, M, Fukuda, S, Fukuda, Y, Ishitsuka, M, Itow, Y, ...

A search for the relic neutrinos from all past core-collapse supernovae was conducted using 1496 days of data from the Super-Kamiokande detector. This analysis looked for electron-type antineutrinos...

Indications of neutrino oscillation in a 250 km long-baseline experiment (2003)

Aoki, S, Bhang, H, Casper, D, Choi, J H, ...

The K2K experiment observes indications of neutrino oscillation: a reduction of nu(mu) flux together with a distortion of the energy spectrum. Fifty-six beam neutrino events are observed in...

Measurement of $\Lambda^{+}_{c}$ production in neutrino charged-current interactions (2003)

Kayis-Topaksu, A, Onengüt, G, Van Dantzig, R, De Jong, M, Melzer, O, Oldeman, R G C, ...

A measurement of $\Lambda_c^+$ production in neutrino nucleon charged-current interactions is presented. In a sub-sample of about 50 000 interactions located in the emulsion target of the CHORUS...

Virtual Baby Used as a Virtual Environment for Patients with Severe Dementia (2003)

Yonemitsu, S., Nakamura, K., Itoh, A., Higashi, Y., Fujimoto, T.

We gave patients with severe dementia a baby-like doll to serve as a virtual baby in a therapeutic program and after dinner when the subjects missed their homes. In the therapeutic program, an...

Animal-Shaped Toys as Therapeutic Tools for Patients with Severe Dementia (2003)

Nakajima, K., Nakamura, K., Yonemitsu, S., Oikawa, D., Ito, A.

An animal-shaped toy was provided as a therapeutic tool to patients with severe dementia during a therapeutic program and after dinner. The occupational therapist delivered three animal shaped toys a...

Recent advances in the LHD experiment (2003)

Motojima, O., Ohyabu, N., Komori, A., Kaneko, O., Yamada, H., Kawahata, K., ...

In the first four years of the LHD experiment, several encouraging results have emerged, the most significant of which is that MHD stability and good transport are compatible in the inward shifted...

Determination of the semi-leptonic branching fraction of charm hadrons produced in neutrino charged-current interactions (2002)

Kayis-Topaksu, A, Onengüt, G, De Jong, M, Melzer, O, Oldeman, R G C, Pesen, E, ...

During the years 1994--1997, the emulsion target of the CHORUS detector was exposed to the CERN-SPS Wide Band Neutrino Beam. The improvements of the past few years in the automatic emulsion scanning...

Zn-induced wipeout effect on Cu NQR spectra in La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$Cu$_{1-y}$Zn$_y$O$_4$ (2002)

Yamagata, H., Miyamoto, H., Nakamura, K., Matsumura, M., Itoh, Y.

We report a systematic study of Zn-substitution effect on Cu NQR spectrum for high $T_c$ superconductors La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$Cu$_{1-y}$Zn$_y$O$_4$ from carrier-underdoped to -overdoped regimes...

Canted ferromagnetism in RuSr$_2$GdCu$_2$O$_8$ (2002)

Nakamura, K., Freeman, A. J.

First principles calculations using the full-potential linearized augmented plane wave (FLAPW) method including intra-atomic noncollinear magnetism have been performed to determine the magnetic...

Tracking Performance of the Scintillating Fiber Detector in the K2K Experiment (2002)

Kim, B. J., Iwashita, T., Ishida, T., Jeon, E. J., Yokoyama, H., Aoki, S., ...

The K2K long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment uses a Scintillating Fiber Detector (SciFi) to reconstruct charged particles produced in neutrino interactions in the near detector. We describe...

Observation of one event with the characteristics of associated charm production in neutrino charged-current interactions (2002)

Kayis-Topaksu, A, Onengüt, G, Van Dantzig, R, De Jong, M, Konijn, J, Melzer, O, ...

We report on a search for associated charm production in neutrino charged-current interactions in the CHORUS experiment, based on the visual observation of charmed-particle decays. The search differs...

Generation of polarization-entangled photon pairs in a cascade of two type-I crystals pumped by femtosecond pulses (2002)

Nambu, Y., Usami, K., Tsuda, Y., Matsumoto, K., Nakamura, K.

We report the generation of polarization-entangled photons by femtosecond-pulse-pumped spontaneous parametric down-conversion in a cascade of two type-I crystals. Highly entangled pulsed states were...

Measurement of $D^0$ production in neutrino charged-current interactions (2002)

Kayis-Topaksu, A, Onengüt, G, Van Dantzig, R, De Jong, M, Melzer, O, Oldeman, R G C, ...

During the years 1994--1997, the emulsion target of the CHORUS detector was exposed to the Wide Band Neutrino Beam from the CERN-SPS. About 170,000 neutrino interactions were successfully located in...

Assembly and antigen-presenting function of MHC class I molecules in cells lacking the ER chaperone calreticulin (2002)

Gao, B., Adhikari, R., Howarth, M., Nakamura, K., Gold, M.C., Hill, A.B., ...

MHC class I molecules expressed in a calreticulin-deficient cell line (K42) assembled with β 2-microglobulin (β2-m) normally, but their subsequent loading with optimal peptides was defective....

Solar Neutrinos (2002)

K. Nakamura, High Energy Accelerator

Introduction The Sun is a main-sequence star at a stage of stable hydrogen burning. It produces an intense flux of electron neutrinos as a consequence of nuclear fusion reactions whose combined...

Gene-specific response of dynamic ventricular repolarization to sympathetic stimulation in LQT1, LQT2 and LQT3 forms of congenital long QT syndrome (2002)

Noda, T., Takaki, H., Kurita, T., Suyama, K., Nagaya, N., Taguchi, A., ...

Aims Differences in the sensitivity of the genotype of the congenital long QT syndrome to sympathetic stimulation have been suggested. This study compared the influence of sympathetic stimulation on...

Restoration of Entanglement by Spectral Filters (2001)

Usami, K., Nambu, Y., Ishizaka, S., Hiroshima, T., Tsuda, Y., Matsumoto, K., ...

We experimentally demonstrate that entanglement of bi-photon polarization state can be restored by spectral filters. This restoration procedure can be viewed as a new class of quantum eraser, which...

Near Muon Range Detector for the K2K Experiment -Construction and Performance- (2001)

Inagaki, T., Breault, J., Chikamatsu, T., Choi, J. H., Hasegawa, T., ...

A muon range detector (MRD) has been constructed as a near detector for the KEK-to-Kamioka long-baseline neutrino experiment (K2K). It monitors the neutrino beam properties at the near site by...

The JHF-Kamioka neutrino project (2001)

Itow, Y., Kajita, T., Kaneyuki, K., Shiozawa, M., Totsuka, Y., Hayato, Y., ...

The JHF-Kamioka neutrino project is a second generation long base line neutrino oscillation experiment that probes physics beyond the Standard Model by high precision measurements of the neutrino...

Dynamics vs electronic states of vortex core of high-T_c superconductors investigated by high-frequency impedance measurement (2001)

Maeda, A., Tsuchiya, Y., Iwaya, K., Kinoshita, K., Hanaguri, T., Kitano, H., ...

Dynamics of vortices reflects the electronic states of quasiparticles in the core. To understand this, we investigated the following three issues. (1) We investigated the complex surface impedance,...

Observation of weak neutral current neutrino production of $J/\psi$ (2001)

Eskut, E, Kayis-Topaksu, A, Onengüt, G, Van Dantzig, R, De Jong, M, Konijn, J, ...

Observation of \jpsi production by neutrinos in the calorimeter of the CHORUS detector exposed to the CERN SPS wide-band \numu beam is reported. A spectrum-averaged cross-section...

Low-temperature superplasticity in a Cu-Zn-Sn alloy processed by severe plastic deformation (2001)

Neishi, K., Uchida, T., Yamauchi, A., Nakamura, K., Horita, Z., Langdon, T.G.

A copper alloy containing 38% Zn and 3% Sn was subjected to severe plastic deformation at a temperature of 400°C using the procedure of equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP). The microstructures...

Observation of weak neutral current neutrino production of $J/\psi$ (2001)

Eskut, E., Kayis-Topaksu, A., Onenguet, G., Van Dantzig, R., De Jong, M., Konijn, J., ...

Observation of \jpsi production by neutrinos in the calorimeter of the CHORUS detector exposed to the CERN SPS wide-band \numu beam is reported. A spectrum-averaged cross-section...

New results from a search for $\nu_{\mu} \to \nu_{\tau}$ and $\nu_{e} \to \nu_{\tau}$ oscillation (2001)

Eskut, E., Kayis-Topaksu, A., Onenguet, G., Van Dantzig, R., De Jong, M., Konijn, J., ...

A first analysis of the complete set of data collected by CHORUS in the years 1994-1997 is presented. The search for $\nut$ charged current events has been performed for both leptonic and hadronic...

Observation of weak neutral current neutrino production of $J/\psi$ (2001)

Eskut, E., Kayis-Topaksu, A., Onenguet, G., Van Dantzig, R., De Jong, M., Konijn, J., ...

Observation of \jpsi production by neutrinos in the calorimeter of the CHORUS detector exposed to the CERN SPS wide-band \numu beam is reported. A spectrum-averaged cross-section...

New results from a search for $\nu_{\mu} \to \nu_{\tau}$ and $\nu_{e} \to \nu_{\tau}$ oscillation (2001)

Eskut, E., Kayis-Topaksu, A., Onenguet, G., Van Dantzig, R., De Jong, M., Konijn, J., ...

A first analysis of the complete set of data collected by CHORUS in the years 1994-1997 is presented. The search for $\nut$ charged current events has been performed for both leptonic and hadronic...

Observation of weak neutral current neutrino production of $J/\psi$ (2001)

Eskut, E., Kayis-Topaksu, A., Onenguet, G., Van Dantzig, R., De Jong, M., Konijn, J., ...

Observation of \jpsi production by neutrinos in the calorimeter of the CHORUS detector exposed to the CERN SPS wide-band \numu beam is reported. A spectrum-averaged cross-section...

New results from a search for $\nu_{\mu} \to \nu_{\tau}$ and $\nu_{e} \to \nu_{\tau}$ oscillation (2001)

Eskut, E., Kayis-Topaksu, A., Onenguet, G., Van Dantzig, R., De Jong, M., Konijn, J., ...

A first analysis of the complete set of data collected by CHORUS in the years 1994-1997 is presented. The search for $\nut$ charged current events has been performed for both leptonic and hadronic...

Observation of weak neutral current neutrino production of $J/\psi$ (2001)

Eskut, E., Kayis-Topaksu, A., Onenguet, G., Van Dantzig, R., De Jong, M., Konijn, J., ...

Observation of \jpsi production by neutrinos in the calorimeter of the CHORUS detector exposed to the CERN SPS wide-band \numu beam is reported. A spectrum-averaged cross-section...

New results from a search for $\nu_{\mu} \to \nu_{\tau}$ and $\nu_{e} \to \nu_{\tau}$ oscillation (2001)

Eskut, E., Kayis-Topaksu, A., Onenguet, G., Van Dantzig, R., De Jong, M., Konijn, J., ...

A first analysis of the complete set of data collected by CHORUS in the years 1994-1997 is presented. The search for $\nut$ charged current events has been performed for both leptonic and hadronic...

Observation of weak neutral current neutrino production of $J/\psi$ (2001)

Eskut, E., Kayis-Topaksu, A., Onenguet, G., Van Dantzig, R., De Jong, M., Konijn, J., ...

Observation of \jpsi production by neutrinos in the calorimeter of the CHORUS detector exposed to the CERN SPS wide-band \numu beam is reported. A spectrum-averaged cross-section...

New results from a search for $\nu_{\mu} \to \nu_{\tau}$ and $\nu_{e} \to \nu_{\tau}$ oscillation (2001)

Eskut, E., Kayis-Topaksu, A., Onenguet, G., Van Dantzig, R., De Jong, M., Konijn, J., ...

A first analysis of the complete set of data collected by CHORUS in the years 1994-1997 is presented. The search for $\nut$ charged current events has been performed for both leptonic and hadronic...

Cytokine and immunogenetic profiles in Japanese patients with adult Still's disease. Association with chronic articular disease (2001)

Fujii, T., Nojima, T., Yasuoka, H., Satoh, S., Nakamura, K., Kuwana, M., ...

Objective. To determine cytokines and MHC class II alleles in Japanese patients with adult Still's disease (ASD) and clarify the association between those profiles and chronic articular...

New results from a search for $\nu_{\mu} \to \nu_{\tau}$ and $\nu_{e} \to \nu_{\tau}$ oscillation (2000)

Eskut, E, Kayis-Topaksu, A, Onengüt, G, Van Dantzig, R, De Jong, M, Konijn, J, ...

A first analysis of the complete set of data collected by CHORUS in the years 1994-1997 is presented. The search for $\nut$ charged current events has been performed for both leptonic and hadronic...

Magnetic and electronic structures of superconducting RuSr$_2$GdCu$_2$O$_8$ (2000)

Nakamura, K., Park, K. T., Freeman, A. J., Jorgensen, J. D.

The coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity in RuSr$_2$GdCu$_2$O$_8$ was reported both from experiments (by Tallon et. al.) and first-principles calculations (by Pickett et. al.). Here we...

Fermi Surface Topology of Bi_{2}Sr_{2}CaCu_{2}O_{8+d} at h\nu=33eV: hole or electron-like? (2000)

Gromko, A. D., Dessau, D. S., Nakamura, K., Ando, Yoichi

We present new results from Angle-Resolved Photoemission experiments (ARPES) on overdoped Bi_{2}Sr_{2}CaCu_{2}O_{8+d} (BSCCO) crystals. With greatly improved energy and momentum resolution, we...

Functional delineation of the human occipito-temporal areas related to face and scene processing: A PET study (2000)

Nakamura, K., Kawashima, R., Sato, N., Nakamura, A., Sugiura, M., Kato, T., ...

By measuring regional cerebral blood flow using PET, we delineated the roles of the occipito-temporal regions activated by faces and scenes. We asked right-handed normal subjects to perform three...

Quantum Key Distribution using Two Coherent States of Light and their Superposition (1999)

Nambu, Y., Tomita, A., Chiba-Kohno, Y., Nakamura, K.

Quantum mechanical complementarity ensures the security of the key-distribution scheme reported by Brassard and Bennet in 1984 (BB84), but does not prohibit use of multi-photons as a signal carrier....

A re-examination of the electronic structure of Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+d} and Bi_2Sr_2Cu_1O_{6+d} - An electron-like Fermi Surface and the absence of flat bands at $E_F$ (1999)

Chuang, Y. D., Gromko, A. D., Dessau, D. S., Aiura, Y., Yamaguchi, Y., Oka, K., ...

We present a re-examination of the electronic structure and Fermi Surface (FS) of Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O (BSCCO) as obtained from angle-resolved photoemission experiments. By applying a stricter set of FS...

Vortex phase transformations probed by the local ac response of Bi_{2}Sr_{2}CaCu_{2}O_{8+\delta} single crystals with various doping (1999)

Ando, Yoichi, Nakamura, K.

The linear ac response of the vortex system is measured locally in Bi-2212 single crystals at various doping, using a miniature two-coil mutual-inductance technique. It was found that a step-like...

Involvement of fibroblast growth factor-2 in joint destruction of rheumatoid arthritis patients (1999)

Manabe, N., Oda, H., Nakamura, K., Kuga, Y., Uchida, S., Kawaguchi, H.

Objective. To investigate the effect of the synovial fluid from knee joints of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with different severities of joint destruction on osteoclastogenesis and bone...

Lifestyle and the development of hypertension: a 3-year follow-up study of middle-aged Japanese male office workers (1999)

Nakanishi, N., Nakamura, K., Ichikawa, S., Suzuki, K., Tatara, K.

The association of lifestyle factors with the development of hypertension (blood pressure ≥ 140/90 mmHg) over a 3-year follow-up period was studied in 949 hypertension-free Japanese male office...

Temperature- and magnetic-field-dependent thermal conductivity of pure and Zn-doped Bi_{2}Sr_{2}CaCu_{2}O_{8+\delta} single crystals (1998)

Ando, Yoichi, Takeya, J., Abe, Yasushi, Nakamura, K., Kapitulnik, A.

The thermal conductivity \kappa of Bi-2212 is measured in pure and Zn-doped crystals as a function of temperature and magnetic field. The in-plane resistivity is also measured on the identical...

The Effects of Retained Austenite Content on Low Cycle Fatigue in Austempered Ductile Iron. (1998)

Nakamura, K., Sumimoto, H., Umeda, Y., Komatsu, R. S.

Two austempered ductile iron specimens with different retained austenite contents were tested for fatigue properties. The specimen with the lower austenite content had a longer fatigue life. The...

Oxidation Resistance of Silicon Nitride Ceramics with Various Additives. (1998)

Maeda, M., Nakamura, K., Yamada, M.

Five silicon nitride ceramics with various additives were evaluated for their oxidation resistance at 1300C in flowing dry and wet air. In a dry atmosphere, the oxidation of all types of Si3N4 except...

Preparation of Boron Nitride Thin Films by Chemical Vapor Deposition. (1998)

Nakamura, K.

Two methods are applied for the preparation of boron nitride films, molecular flow chemical vapor deposition (MFCVD) and metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). The MFCVD, which is chemical...

Mechanical Properties of Silicon Nitride With Different Powder Processing Routes. (1998)

Nakamura, K., Ohashi, M., Nagaoka, T., Yasuoka, M., Kanzaki, S.

It has been well recognized that the sinterability of powders, microstructural development and mechanical properties of sintered materials are remarkably influenced by the characteristics of the...

Observation of neutrino induced diffractive $D_s^{*+}$ production and subsequent decay $D_s^{*+} \to D_s^+ \to \tau^+ \to \mu^+$ (1998)

Annis, P, Aoki, S, Artamonov, S A, Barbuto, E, Di Bartolomeo, A, Bonekämper, D, ...

We report on the first direct observation of a neutrino induced charged-current interaction with two subsequent decays of short-lived particles close to the interaction vertex. This rare double- kink...

Search for $\nu_\mu \to \nu_\tau$ oscillation using the $\tau$ decay modes into a single charged particle (1998)

Eskut, E, Kayis, A, Onengüt, G, Van Dantzig, R, De Jong, M, Konijn, J, ...

Part of the neutrino events collected in 1994-1995 by the CHORUS experiment has been analysed. A search was performed for $\nu_{\tau}$ charged current interactions followed by the $\tau$ lepton deca...

A Search for $\nu_\mu \to \nu_\tau$ Oscillation (1998)

Eskut, E, Kayis, A, Onengüt, G, Van Dantzig, R, De Jong, M, Konijn, J, ...

CHORUS is an experiment searching for $\numtonut$ oscillation in the CERN wide band neutrino beam with a {\sl hybrid} setup consisting of a nuclear emulsion target followed by electronic detectors....

Alteration of circadian time structure of blood pressure caused by night shift schedule (1998)

Motohashi, Y., Higuchi, S., Maeda, A., Liu, Y., Yuasa, T., Motohashi, K., ...

The effects of night shift schedules on circadian time structure of blood pressure were studied in seven healthy young subjects by continuous monitoring of blood pressure every 30 min for 72 h. In...

Increases in body mass index and waist circumference as outcomes of working overtime (1998)

Nakamura, K., Shimai, S., Kikuchi, S., Takahashi, H., Tanaka, M., Nakano, S., ...

This epidemiologic study was undertaken to determine whether working overtime is associated with anthropometric indices and serum lipids, risk factors for obesity, in white-collar workers....

Cylindrical Domain Walls and Gravitational Waves -- Einstein Rosen wave emission from momentarily static initial configuration -- (1997)

Nakamura, K., Ishihara, H.

A self-gravitating cylindrical domain wall is considered as an example of non-spherical wall to clarify the interaction between a domain wall and gravitational waves. We consider the time evolution...

The CHORUS scintillating fiber tracker and its monitoring systems (1997)

Annis, P, Aoki, S, Brooijmans, G, Brunner, J, Dupraz, J P, Dupont, J, ...

A scintillating fiber tracker system consisting of more than one million fibers has been successfully constructed and made operational for the CERN WA95/CHORUS experiment. The design and construction...

The CHORUS experiment to search for $\nu_{\mu} \rightarrow \nu_{\tau}$ oscillation (1997)

Eskut, E, Kayis, A, Onengüt, G, Van Dantzig, R, Konijn, J, Oldeman, R G C, ...

A new experimental apparatus, designed principally for a high sensitivity search for $\nu_{\mu}~\rightarrow~\nu_{\tau}$ oscillation, has been successfully constructed and made operational by the...

The CHORUS neutrino oscillation search experiment (1997)

Eskut, E, Kayis, A, Onengüt, G, Van Dantzig, R, Konijn, J, Oldeman, R G C, ...

The CHORUS experiment has successfully finished run I (320~000 recorded \numu\ CC in 94/95) and performed half of run II (225~000 \numu\ CC in 96). The analysis chain was exercised on a small data...

Shift work and risk factors for coronary heart disease in Japanese blue-collar workers: Serum lipids and anthropometric characteristics (1997)

Nakamura, K., Shimai, S., Kikuchi, S., Tominaga, K., Takahashi, H., Tanaka, M., ...

This study was conducted to determine if there is an association between shift work and risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) in Japanese mate blue-collar shift workers. Health check-up data...

Measurement of B(D_s+ -> mu+ nu_mu)/B(D_s+ -> phi mu+ nu_mu) and Determination of the Decay Constant f_{D_s} (1996)

Kodama, K., Torikai, S., Ushida, N., Mokhtarani, A., Paolone, V. S., Volk, J. T., ...

We have observed $23.2 \pm 6.0_{-0.9}^{+1.0}$ purely-leptonic decays of $D_s^+ -> \mu^+ \nu_\mu$ from a sample of muonic one prong decay events detected in the emulsion target of Fermilab experiment...

Surface gravity in dynamical spherically symmetric spacetimes (1996)

Fodor, G., Nakamura, K., Oshiro, Y., Tomimatsu, A.

A definition of surface gravity at the apparent horizon of dynamical spherically symmetric spacetimes is proposed. It is based on a unique foliation by ingoing null hypersurfaces. The function...

Solar Neutrinos (1996)

K. Nakamura

3> 0:02)E10 6.02E10 pe \Gamma p ! d pep 1.43(1 \Sigma 0:04)E8 1.3E8 3 He p ! 4 He e + hep 1.23E3 7 Be e \Gamma ! 7 Li + (fl) 7 Be 4.89(1 \Sigma 0:18)E9 4.33E9 8 B ! 8 Be e + 8 B 5.69(1 \Sigma...

Thermal Field Theory in Non-Equilibrium States (1995)

Henning, P. A., Nakamura, K., Yamanaka, Y.

Conventional transport theory is not really applicable to non-equilibrium systems which exhibit strong quantum effects. We present two different approaches to overcome this problem. Firstly we point...

The Internal Structure Of An Active Sea-floor Massive Sulfide Deposit (1995)

Humphris, SE, Herzig, PM, Miller, DJ, Alt, JC, Becker, K, Brown, D, ...

THE hydrothermal circulation of sea water through permeable ocean crust results in rock-water interactions that lead to the formation of massive sulphide deposits. These are the modern analogues of...

Quantum Formation of Black Hole and Wormhole in Gravitational Collapse of a Dust Shell (1995)

Nakamura, K., Oshiro, Y., Tomimatsu, A.

Quantum-mechanical model of self-gravitating dust shell is considered. To clarify the relation between classical and quantum spacetime which the shell collapse form, we consider various time slicing...

Performance and calibration of the CHORUS scintillating fiber tracker and opto-electronics readout system (1995)

Annis, P, Aoki, S, Brooijmans, G, Brunner, J, De Jong, M, Fabre, Jean-Paul, ...

An essential component of the CERN WA95/CHORUS experiment is a scintillating fiber tracker system for precise track reconstruction of particles. The tracker design, its opto-electronics readout and...

Critical Behavior of Black Hole Formation in a Scalar Wave Collapse (1994)

Oshiro, Y., Nakamura, K., Tomimatsu, A.

We present a self-similar model of spherically symmetric collapse of a massless scalar field with a parameter $p$. The black hole formation is explicitly shown to occur only in the strong-field...

Quantum Fluctuations of Black Hole Geometry (1993)

Nakamura, K., Konno, S., Shiro, Y., Tomimatsu, A.

By using the minisuperspace model for the interior metric ofstatic black holes, we solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation to study quantum mechanics of the horizon geometry. Our basic idea is to introduce...

Multichannel Amplification Characteristics of Saturated Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers, (1992)

Cheng, Y. H., Kagi, N., Oyobe, A., Nakamura, K.

Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) are attractive for various optical fiber transmission systems and networks owing to their several advantages such as high gain and low noise. A EDFA with its...

DIRECT VASOCONSTRICTOR AND VASODILATOR EFFECTS OF PROPOFOL IN ISOLATED DOG ARTERIES (1992)

NAKAMURA, K., HATANO, Y., HIRAKATA, H., NISHIWADA, M., TODA, H., MORI, K.

We have measured the direct effects of propofol 10−7-10−4 mol litre−1 on isolated canine cerebral, coronary, mesenteric, femoral and renal arteries. In arterial strips precontracted...

Closed Dual Fluid Gas Turbine Power Plant Without Emission Of Co (1989)

Into The Atmosphere, P. S. Pak, K. Nakamura, Y. Suzuki

. This paper describes a construction and characteristics of a coal-gas-burning high eciency power plant which emits no carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into the atmosphere. In the plant, CO 2 gas and...

Closed Dual Fluid Gas Turbine Power Plant Without Emission Of Co (1989)

Into The Atmosphere, P. S. Pak, K. Nakamura, Y. Suzuki

. This paper describes a construction and characteristics of a coal-gas-burning high eciency power plant which emits no carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into the atmosphere. In the plant, CO 2 gas and...

MULTI-FRACTALS OF STRANGE ATTRACTORS IN PARALLEL-PUMPED SPIN-WAVE INSTABILITIES (1988)

Nakamura, K., Mino, M., Yamazaki, H.

Strange attractors beyond the critical point are numerically studied on the basis of a theoretical model for parallel-pumped spin-wave instabilities. In the transition region leading to the growth of...

6000 meters deep : a trip to the japanese trenches (1988)

FUJIOKA, K, TAIRA, A, KOBAYASHI, K, NAKAMURA, K, IIYAMA, J.T., CADET, J.P., ...

In 1985, a team of French and Japanese scientists made a systematic scientific exploration of the deep trenches surrounding the Japanese islands using the brand new French IFREMER's Nautile...

MULTI-FRACTALS OF STRANGE ATTRACTORS IN PARALLEL-PUMPED SPIN-WAVE INSTABILITIES (1988)

Nakamura, K., Mino, M., Yamazaki, H.

Strange attractors beyond the critical point are numerically studied on the basis of a theoretical model for parallel-pumped spin-wave instabilities. In the transition region leading to the growth of...

MULTI-FRACTALS OF STRANGE ATTRACTORS IN PARALLEL-PUMPED SPIN-WAVE INSTABILITIES (1988)

Nakamura, K., Mino, M., Yamazaki, H.

Strange attractors beyond the critical point are numerically studied on the basis of a theoretical model for parallel-pumped spin-wave instabilities. In the transition region leading to the growth of...

Static induction thyristor (1978)

Nishizawa, J., Nakamura, K.

Recent experimental results of Static Induction thyristor, in which the injection of the carrier is controlled by the electro-static field around the gate, are reported comparing with the theoretical...

Static induction thyristor (1978)

Nishizawa, J., Nakamura, K.

Recent experimental results of Static Induction thyristor, in which the injection of the carrier is controlled by the electro-static field around the gate, are reported comparing with the theoretical...

Static induction thyristor (1978)

Nishizawa, J., Nakamura, K.

Recent experimental results of Static Induction thyristor, in which the injection of the carrier is controlled by the electro-static field around the gate, are reported comparing with the theoretical...

Interaction of metal layers with polycrystalline Si (1976)

Nakamura, K., Olowolafe, J. O., Lau, S. S., Nicolet, M-A., Mayer, J. W., Shima, R.

Solid-phase reactions of metal films deposited on 0.5-µm-thick polycrystalline layers of Si grown by chemical vapor deposition at 640 °C were investigated by MeV 4He backscattering spectrometry,...

Ti and V layers retard interaction between Al films and polycrystalline Si (1976)

Nakamura, K., Lau, S. S., Nicolet, M-A., Mayer, J. W.

Fine-grained polycrystalline Si (poly Si) in contact with Al films recrystallizes at temperatures well below the Si-Al eutectic (577 °C). We show that this interaction can be deferred or suppressed...

Antimony doping of Si layers grown by solid-phase epitaxy (1976)

Lau, S. S., Canali, C., Liau, Z. L., Nakamura, K., Mayer, J. W., ...

We report here that layers of Si formed by solid-phase epitaxial growth (SPEG) can be doped intentionally. The sample consists initially of an upper layer of amorphous Si (~1 µm thick), a very thin...

Interaction of Al layers with polycrystalline Si (1975)

Nakamura, K., Nicolet, M-A., Mayer, J. W., Blattner, R. J.

Auger electron spectroscopy, MeV 4He + backscattering spectrometry and scanning electron microscopy have been used to investigate interactions between Al films and polycrystalline layers of CVD Si...

Progression toward tumor cell phenotype is enhanced by overexpression of a mutant p53 tumor-suppressor gene isolated from nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Sun, Y, Nakamura, K, Wendel, E, Colburn, N

We recently reported the detection of a heterozygous G-->C point mutation at codon 280 of p53 in nasopharyngeal carcinoma, which causes an Arg-->Thr substitution. To test whether this mutant p53 has...

Characterization of Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite surface protein 2.

Rogers, W O, Malik, A, Mellouk, S, Nakamura, K, Rogers, M D, Szarfman, A, ...

Immunization of mice with Plasmodium yoelii sporozoite surface protein 2 (PySSP2) and circumsporozoite protein protects completely against P. yoelii. The amino acid sequence of PySSP2 suggested that...

Propeptide of a precursor to a plant vacuolar protein required for vacuolar targeting.

Matsuoka, K, Nakamura, K

Sporamin is a protein without glycans that accumulates in large quantities in the vacuoles of the tuberous root of the sweet potato. It is synthesized as a prepro precursor with an N-terminal...

Antigenic and Genetic Characterization of Influenza C Viruses Which Caused Two Outbreaks in Yamagata City, Japan, in 1996 and 1998

Matsuzaki, Y., Sugawara, K., Mizuta, K., Tsuchiya, E., Muraki, Y., Hongo, S., ...

During the 3 years from January 1996 to December 1998, a total of 33 strains of influenza C virus were isolated from 10,726 throat swab specimens collected from children with acute respiratory...

A Vacuolar-Type H+-ATPase in a Nonvacuolar Organelle Is Required for the Sorting of Soluble Vacuolar Protein Precursors in Tobacco Cells.

Matsuoka, K, Higuchi, T, Maeshima, M, Nakamura, K

In plant cells, vacuolar matrix proteins are separated from the secretory proteins at the Golgi complex for transport to the vacuoles. To investigate the involvement of vacuolar-type ATPase...

Sugar-inducible expression of a gene for beta-amylase in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Mita, S, Suzuki-Fujii, K, Nakamura, K

The levels of beta-amylase activity and of the mRNA for beta-amylase in rosette leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. increased significantly, with the concomitant accumulation of starch, when...

Negative regulation in the expression of a sugar-inducible gene in Arabidopsis thaliana. A recessive mutation causing enhanced expression of a gene for beta-amylase.

Mita, S, Hirano, H, Nakamura, K

Expression of a beta-amylase gene of Arabidopsis thaliana (AT beta-Amy) is regulated by sugars. We identified a mutant, hba1, in which the level of expression of AT beta-Amy in leaves of plants that...

The N-terminal propeptide of the precursor to sporamin acts as a vacuole-targeting signal even at the C terminus of the mature part in tobacco cells.

Koide, Y, Hirano, H, Matsuoka, K, Nakamura, K

An asparagine-proline-isoleucine-arginine-leucine (NPIRL) and its related sequences in the N-terminal propeptides (NTPP) of several plant vacuolar proteins, including that of sporamin from sweet...

Inhibitors of Protein Phosphatases 1 and 2A Block the Sugar-Inducible Gene Expression in Plants.

Takeda, S., Mano, S., Ohto, Ma., Nakamura, K.

Genes coding for two major proteins of the tuberous root of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), namely, sporamin and [beta]-amylase, are inducible in leaves and petioles when they are supplied with high...

Colocalization of barley lectin and sporamin in vacuoles of transgenic tobacco plants.

Schroeder, M R, Borkhsenious, O N, Matsuoka, K, Nakamura, K, Raikhel, N V

Various targeting motifs have been identified for plant proteins delivered to the vacuole. For barley (Hordeum vulgare) lectin, a typical Gramineae lectin and defense-related protein, the vacuolar...

Sugar-Induced Increase of Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinases Associated with the Plasma Membrane in Leaf Tissues of Tobacco.

Ohto, Ma., Nakamura, K.

The sugar-inducible expression of genes for sporamin and [beta]-amylase in leaf explants of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) and that of a [beta]-glucuronidase-fusion gene, with the promoter of the...

Autolysis of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is involved in synergism between imipenem and cefotiam.

Matsuda, K, Nakamura, K, Adachi, Y, Inoue, M, Kawakami, M

Imipenem-induced autolysis and the activity of imipenem plus cefotiam were studied in 16 strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The degree of imipenem-induced autolysis and...

In vitro evaluation of BO-3482, a novel dithiocarbamate carbapenem with activity against methicillin-resistant staphylococci.

Adachi, Y, Nakamura, K, Kato, Y, Hazumi, N, Hashizume, T, Nakagawa, S

BO-3482, a dithiocarbamate carbapenem, inhibited clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant staphylococci (MRS) at 6.25 microg/ml (MIC at which 90% of isolates tested are inhibited [MIC90]), while...

Administration of aminoglycosides to hemodialysis patients immediately before dialysis: a new dosing modality.

Matsuo, H, Hayashi, J, Ono, K, Andoh, K, Andoh, Y, Sano, Y, ...

We describe a new modality for administering aminoglycosides to hemodialysis (HD) patients, namely, a modification of the once-daily regimen which consists of administering the aminoglycosides over...

Polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: expression of ethanol tolerance and the FAD2 gene from Arabidopsis thaliana.

Kajiwara, S, Shirai, A, Fujii, T, Toguri, T, Nakamura, K, Ohtaguchi, K

The Arabidopsis thaliana delta-12 fatty acid desaturase gene (FAD2) was overexpressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by using the GAL1 promoter. S. cerevisiae harboring the FAD2 gene was capable of...

Cloning, nucleotide sequence, and regulatory analysis of the Nitrosomonas europaea dnaK gene.

Iizumi, T, Nakamura, K

The dnaK gene of an ammonia-oxidizing bacterium, Nitrosomonas europaea, was cloned and sequenced. It was found that the dnaK gene product was highly homologous to previously analyzed dnaK gene...

Microplate hybridization for Borna disease virus RNA in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells.

Fujiwara, S, Takahashi, H, Nakaya, T, Nakamura, Y, Nakamura, K, Iwahashi, K, ...

We developed a simple and sensitive microplate hybridization procedure with which to identify Borna disease virus cDNA in amplified products from human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. The mean...

Biological properties of "partial" transformation mutants of Rous sarcoma virus and characterization of their pp60src kinase.

Anderson, D D, Beckmann, R P, Harms, E H, Nakamura, K, Weber, M J

We have isolated mutants of Rous sarcoma virus from an unmutagenized stock of the Schmidt-Ruppin strain of Rous sarcoma virus. These mutants induce only a "partial" transformation, and the...

Comparative activities of several nucleoside analogs against influenza A, B, and C viruses in vitro.

Shigeta, S, Konno, K, Yokota, T, Nakamura, K, De Clercq, E

A set of 20 nucleoside analogs were examined for their inhibitory effects on the cytopathogenicity and growth of influenza virus type A, B, and C strains in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells....

Engineering hybrid pseudomonads capable of utilizing a wide range of aromatic hydrocarbons and of efficient degradation of trichloroethylene.

Suyama, A, Iwakiri, R, Kimura, N, Nishi, A, Nakamura, K, Furukawa, K

We constructed hybrid Pseudomonas strains in which the bphA1 gene (coding for a large subunit of biphenyl dioxygenase) is replaced with the todC1 gene (coding for a large subunit of toluene...

Organomercurial-volatilizing bacteria in the mercury-polluted sediment of Minamata Bay, Japan.

Nakamura, K, Sakamoto, M, Uchiyama, H, Yagi, O

A total of 4,604 bacterial strains isolated from the sediments of Minamata Bay and nearby low-level-mercury stations (control stations) were screened for the ability to volatilize mercury from...

Antiviral activities of ribavirin, 5-ethynyl-1-beta-D-ribofuranosylimidazole-4-carboxamide, and 6'-(R)-6'-C-methylneplanocin A against several ortho- and paramyxoviruses.

Shigeta, S, Mori, S, Baba, M, Ito, M, Honzumi, K, Nakamura, K, ...

5-Ethynyl-1-beta-D-ribofuranosylimidazole-4-carboxamide (EICAR) and 6'-(R)-6'-C-methylneplanocin A (TJ13025) are two novel antiviral agents which are targeted against IMP dehydrogenase and...

Characterization of a second protein (CM2) encoded by RNA segment 6 of influenza C virus.

Hongo, S, Sugawara, K, Muraki, Y, Kitame, F, Nakamura, K

The biochemical properties of a second protein (CM2) encoded by RNA segment 6 of influenza C virus were investigated. Three forms of CM2 with different electrophoretic mobilities (CM2(0), CM2a, and...

Membrane ATPase from the aceticlastic methanogen Methanothrix thermophila.

Inatomi, K, Kamagata, Y, Nakamura, K

A new isolate of the aceticlastic methanogen Methanothrix thermophila utilizes only acetate as the sole carbon and energy source for methanogenesis (Y. Kamagata and E. Mikami, Int. J. Syst....

Molecular analysis of mercury-resistant Bacillus isolates from sediment of Minamata Bay, Japan.

Nakamura, K, Silver, S

Bacillus isolates from Minamata Bay sediment were selected for the ability to volatilize mercury from a range of organomercurials (including methylmercury). Chromosomal DNA from 74 of 78 such strains...

Expression of the insecticidal protein gene from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai in Bacillus subtilis and in the thermophile Bacillus stearothermophilus by using the alpha-amylase promoter of the thermophile.

Nakamura, K, Imanaka, T

Expression of the insecticidal protein gene from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai IPL7 in B. subtilis MI113 and B. stearothermophilus SIC1 was examined. Production of the protein (130...

Simplified X-ray film method for detection of bacterial volatilization of mercury chloride by Escherichia coli.

Nakamura, K, Nakahara, H

A simplified X-ray film method for detecting bacterial production of Hgo by Escherichia coli was developed. There was excellent agreement of results between this X-ray film method and radioactive...

Structural requirements of Bacillus subtilis alpha-amylase signal peptide for efficient processing: in vivo pulse-chase experiments with mutant signal peptides.

Sakakibara, Y, Tsutsumi, K, Nakamura, K, Yamane, K

The Bacillus subtilis alpha-amylase signal peptide consists of 33 amino acids from its translation initiation site. To analyze the structural requirements for efficient processing of the signal...

Cloning and bacterial expression of the CYS3 gene encoding cystathionine gamma-lyase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the physicochemical and enzymatic properties of the protein.

Yamagata, S, D'Andrea, R J, Fujisaki, S, Isaji, M, Nakamura, K

By screening a yeast genomic library, we isolated and characterized a gene rescuing the cysteine requirement in a "cys1" strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Except for four residues in the open...

Cloning and characterization of a Bacillus subtilis gene encoding a homolog of the 54-kilodalton subunit of mammalian signal recognition particle and Escherichia coli Ffh.

Honda, K, Nakamura, K, Nishiguchi, M, Yamane, K

By using a DNA fragment of Escherichia coli ffh as a probe, the Bacillus subtilis ffh gene was cloned. The complete nucleotide sequence of the cloned DNA revealed that it contained three open reading...

Structural requirements of Bacillus subtilis small cytoplasmic RNA for cell growth, sporulation, and extracellular enzyme production.

Nishiguchi, M, Honda, K, Amikura, R, Nakamura, K, Yamane, K

Bacillus subtilis small cytoplasmic RNA (scRNA; 271 nucleotides) is a member of the signal recognition particle (SRP) RNA family, which has evolutionarily conserved primary and secondary structures....

Efficient degradation of trichloroethylene by a hybrid aromatic ring dioxygenase.

Furukawa, K, Hirose, J, Hayashida, S, Nakamura, K

Engineering of hybrid gene clusters between the toluene metabolic tod operon and the biphenyl metabolic bph operon greatly enhanced the rate of biodegradation of trichloroethylene. Escherichia coli...

Small cytoplasmic RNA of Bacillus subtilis: functional relationship with human signal recognition particle 7S RNA and Escherichia coli 4.5S RNA.

Nakamura, K, Imai, Y, Nakamura, A, Yamane, K

Small cytoplasmic RNA (scRNA; 271 nucleotides) is an abundant and stable RNA of the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis. To investigate the function of scRNA in B. subtilis cells, we developed...

In vivo and in vitro characterization of the secA gene product of Bacillus subtilis.

Takamatsu, H, Fuma, S, Nakamura, K, Sadaie, Y, Shinkai, A, Matsuyama, S, ...

The putative amino acid sequence from the wild-type Bacillus subtilis div+ gene, which complements the temperature-sensitive div-341 mutation, shares a 50% identity with the sequence from Escherichia...

Formation of crystals of the insecticidal proteins of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai IPL7 in Escherichia coli.

Oeda, K, Inouye, K, Ibuchi, Y, Oshie, K, Shimizu, M, Nakamura, K, ...

Escherichia coli JM103 cells harboring expression plasmid pTB1 or pKC6 synthesized the 130- and 135-kilodalton insecticidal proteins, respectively, of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai IPL7, and...

Elucidation of the Erwinia uredovora carotenoid biosynthetic pathway by functional analysis of gene products expressed in Escherichia coli.

Misawa, N, Nakagawa, M, Kobayashi, K, Yamano, S, Izawa, Y, Nakamura, K, ...

The most important function of carotenoid pigments, especially beta-carotene in higher plants, is to protect organisms against photooxidative damage (G. Britton, in T. W. Goodwin, ed., Plant...

Putrescine and cadaverine are constituents of peptidoglycan in Veillonella alcalescens and Veillonella parvula.

Kamio, Y, Nakamura, K

Veillonella alcalescens ATCC 17745, a strictly anaerobic, gram-negative small coccus, requires putrescine or cadaverine for growth (M. B. Ritchey, and E. A. Delwiche, J. Bacteriol. 124:1213-1219,...

Expression of the Serratia marcescens lipoproteins gene in Escherichia coli.

Lee, N, Nakamura, K, Inouye, M

The lipoprotein gene (lpp) of Serratia marcescens was cloned in a lambda phage vector (K. Nakamura and M. Inouye, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 77: 1369-1373, 1980). This lpp gene was recloned in...

Biosynthesis of membrane proteins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: effects of various antibiotics.

Yasumura, M, Nakamura, K, Mernoff, D, Inouye, M

The biosynthesis of membrane proteins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa was examined using various antibiotics (puromycin, streptomycin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, and rifampin). Among six major membrane...

Preferential selection of deletion mutations of the outer membrane lipoprotein gene of Escherichia coli by globomycin.

Zwiebel, L J, Inukai, M, Nakamura, K, Inouye, M

Globomycin is an antibiotic which inhibits the processing of the prolipoprotein. Eighty globomycin-resistant mutants were independently isolated from Escherichia coli K-12 which had a deletion...

Purification and characterization of selenocysteine beta-lyase from Citrobacter freundii.

Chocat, P, Esaki, N, Tanizawa, K, Nakamura, K, Tanaka, H, Soda, K

The purification and characterization of bacterial selenocysteine beta-lyase, an enzyme which specifically catalyzes the cleavage of L-selenocysteine to L-alanine and Se0, are presented. The enzyme,...

Isolation of an antigenically unique methanogen from human feces.

Misawa, H, Hoshi, T, Kitame, F, Homma, M, Nakamura, K

A methanogenic bacterium with the morphological and physiological properties of the genus Methanobrevibacter was isolated from the feces of a Japanese man who excreted methane in his breath. Indirect...

Detection of Giardia lamblia by immunofluorescence.

Riggs, J L, Dupuis, K W, Nakamura, K, Spath, D P

High-titer immune sera to cysts of Giardia lamblia, produced in guinea pigs, were labeled with fluorescein isothiocyanate. The resulting conjugates were used to detect G. lamblia in stool specimens...

Intracellular distribution of the envelope glycoprotein of human immunodeficiency virus and its role in the production of cytopathic effect in CD4+ and CD4- human cell lines.

Koga, Y, Sasaki, M, Nakamura, K, Kimura, G, Nomoto, K

Human CD4+ and CD4- monocytoid cell lines were transfected with a constructed plasmid that has the envelope gene of human immunodeficiency virus under the transcriptional control of human...

Cell-mediated immunity induced in mice after vaccination with a protease activation mutant, TR-2, of Sendai virus.

Tashiro, M, Fujii, Y, Nakamura, K, Homma, M

Our previous study has shown that, although a trypsin-resistant mutant of Sendai virus, TR-2, replicates only in a single cycle in mouse lung with a negligible lesion, the animal acquires a strong...

Tumorigenicity of partial transformation mutants of Rous sarcoma virus.

Kahn, P, Nakamura, K, Shin, S, Smith, R E, Weber, M J

Chicken embryo cells infected with partial transformation mutants of Rous sarcoma virus were tested for tumor-forming ability in chickens and in nude mice. Cells transformed by each of these partial...

Human malignant melanoma cell line (HMV-II) for isolation of influenza C and parainfluenza viruses.

Moriuchi, H, Oshima, T, Nishimura, H, Nakamura, K, Katsushima, N, Numazaki, Y

HMV-II, a human malignant melanoma cell line, was compared with other cell lines (MDCK, Vero, and LLC-MK2) and primary cultures of monkey kidney (PMK) cells for the isolation and quantification of...

Bacteriostatic and bactericidal activities of beta-lactam antibiotics enhanced by the addition of low concentrations of gentamicin.

Masuda, G, Nakamura, K, Yajima, T, Saku, K

The combined effects of low concentrations of gentamicin on certain beta-lactam antibiotics were studied by the agar plate method. the combination of gentamicin with cephalothin produced synergism...

Ultrastructure of Chlamydomonas eugametos palmelloids induced by chloroplatinic acid treatment.

Nakamura, K, Bray, D F, Wagenaar, E B

Palmelloids induced in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas eugametos by chloroplatinic acid treatment have been studied electron microscopically. Thin-sectioned specimens revealed the multilayer...

Purification of a factor which provides a costimulatory signal for gamma interferon production.

Nakamura, K, Okamura, H, Nagata, K, Komatsu, T, Tamura, T

A protein factor which induces high levels of gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) in resting splenic nonadherent cells was isolated from the sera of mice with generalized inflammation caused by endotoxic...

Endotoxin-induced serum factor that stimulates gamma interferon production.

Nakamura, K, Okamura, H, Wada, M, Nagata, K, Tamura, T

Serum from Mycobacterium bovis BCG-infected mice that had been challenged with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) exhibited a marked ability to induce gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) in cultures of spleen cells...

Nucleotide sequence of a full-length cDNA coding for 3-methylcholanthrene-induced rat liver cytochrome P-450MC.

Yabusaki, Y, Shimizu, M, Murakami, H, Nakamura, K, Oeda, K, Ohkawa, H

We constructed a full-length cDNA coding for 3-methylcholanthrene-inducible rat liver cytochrome P-450MC by the method of Okayama and Berg. The isolated clone pAU157 contained the cDNA insert of 2.7...

Length and structural effect of signal peptides derived from Bacillus subtilis alpha-amylase on secretion of Escherichia coli beta-lactamase in B. subtilis cells.

Ohmura, K, Nakamura, K, Yamazaki, H, Shiroza, T, Yamane, K, Jigami, Y, ...

The precursor of Bacillus subtilis alpha-amylase contains an NH2-terminal extension of 41 amino acid residues as the signal sequence. The E. coli beta-lactamase structural gene was fused with the DNA...

Cloning and nucleotide sequences of the linear DNA killer plasmids from yeast.

Hishinuma, F, Nakamura, K, Hirai, K, Nishizawa, R, Gunge, N, Maeda, T

The linear DNA killer plasmids (pGKL1 and pGKL2) isolated from a Kluyveromyces lactis killer strain are also maintained and expressed its killer character in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. After these...

Operation of an efficient site-specific recombination system of Zygosaccharomyces rouxii in tobacco cells.

Onouchi, H, Yokoi, K, Machida, C, Matsuzaki, H, Oshima, Y, Matsuoka, K, ...

Recombinase encoded by the R gene of pSR1 of Zygosaccharomyces rouxii mediates reciprocal recombination between two specific recombination sites (RSs) to induce excision or inversion of the DNA...

Enhancement of foreign gene expression by a dicot intron in rice but not in tobacco is correlated with an increased level of mRNA and an efficient splicing of the intron.

Tanaka, A, Mita, S, Ohta, S, Kyozuka, J, Shimamoto, K, Nakamura, K

The first intron of castor bean catalase gene, cat-1 was placed in the N-terminal region of the coding sequence of the beta-glucuronidase gene (gusA) and the intron-containing gusA was used with the...

Oxidative inactivation of glutamine synthetase subunits.

Nakamura, K, Stadtman, E R

Escherichia coli glutamine synthetase (GS) was inactivated by a nonenzymic mixed-function oxidation system composed of ascorbate, O2, and Fe(III). Partial inactivation of GS by this system leads to...

Role of positive charge on the amino-terminal region of the signal peptide in protein secretion across the membrane.

Inouye, S, Soberon, X, Franceschini, T, Nakamura, K, Itakura, K, Inouye, M

The positively charged amino-terminal region of the signal peptide has been proposed to have an important role at an initial step of protein secretion across the membrane (loop model). To test this...

Radiofrequency hyperthermia with successive monitoring of its effects on tumors using NMR spectroscopy.

Naruse, S, Higuchi, T, Horikawa, Y, Tanaka, C, Nakamura, K, Hirakawa, K

Radiofrequency (rf) hyperthermia was generated on rat glioma inoculated s.c. in CD Fisher rats by applying the rf pulse using the surface coil in the NMR spectrometer, and the effect was monitored...

Growth of measles virus in cultures of rat glioma cells.

Nakamura, K, Homma, M, Ishida, N

The interaction of measles virus with RG-6 cells derived from rat glioma was investigated. When a culture of RG-6 cells was infected with measles virus, the synthesis of viral antigens was detected...

Redox control of resistance to cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II) (CDDP): protective effect of human thioredoxin against CDDP-induced cytotoxicity.

Sasada, T, Iwata, S, Sato, N, Kitaoka, Y, Hirota, K, Nakamura, K, ...

Thioredoxin is a small ubiquitous protein with multiple biological functions, including cellular defense mechanisms against oxidative stress. In the present study, we investigated the role of human...

Nicotinic receptor mediates nitric oxide synthase expression in the rat gastric myenteric plexus.

Nakamura, K, Takahashi, T, Taniuchi, M, Hsu, C X, Owyang, C

The mechanism that regulates the synthesis of nitric oxide synthase (NOS), a key enzyme responsible for NO production in the myenteric plexus, remains unknown. We investigated the roles of the vagal...

Construction of versatile expression cloning vehicles using the lipoprotein gene of Escherichia coli.

Nakamura, K, Inouye, M

The gene for the outer membrane lipoprotein (lpp), the most abundant protein of Escherichia coli, was used to construct multi-purpose expression cloning vehicles. These vehicles consist of two types...

A linear DNA plasmid from Streptomyces rochei with an inverted terminal repetition of 614 base pairs.

Hirochika, H, Nakamura, K, Sakaguchi, K

The terminal structure of a linear plasmid pSLA2 , which was isolated from Streptomyces rochei , was analysed. The 5' ends of pSLA2 DNA were blocked by the association of a protein probably...

Role of cyclic nucleotides in store-mediated external Ca2+ entry in human platelets.

Nakamura, K, Kimura, M, Aviv, A

This study explores the role of cyclic nucleotides (i.e. cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP) in store-regulated external Ca2+ entry in human platelets. To stimulate store-regulated external Ca2+ entry,...

Distribution of basement membrane antigens in clinical gastric adenocarcinomas: an immunohistochemical study.

Nakamura, K, Mori, M, Enjoji, M

The distribution of laminin and collagen type IV in the basement membranes of 85 gastric adenocarcinomas was studied using immunoperoxidase techniques to check for invasive carcinoma. Lymph nodes...

Signal transduction pathway regulating prostaglandin EP3 receptor-induced neurite retraction: requirement for two different tyrosine kinases.

Aoki, J, Katoh, H, Yasui, H, Yamaguchi, Y, Nakamura, K, Hasegawa, H, ...

We reported previously that activation of the prostaglandin E receptor EP3 subtype triggered neurite retraction through the small GTPase Rho-, and its target, RhoA-binding kinase alpha (ROKalpha)-,...

Calreticulin: one protein, one gene, many functions.

Michalak, M, Corbett, E F, Mesaeli, N, Nakamura, K, Opas, M

The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) plays a critical role in the synthesis and chaperoning of membrane-associated and secreted proteins. The membrane is also an important site of Ca(2+) storage and...

Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel dual-specificity protein phosphatase possibly involved in spermatogenesis.

Nakamura, K, Shima, H, Watanabe, M, Haneji, T, Kikuchi, K

Dual-specificity protein phosphatases (DSPs) play roles in the regulation of mitogenic signal transduction for extracellular stimulation and the cell cycle. In the present study, we identified a...

Perivascular eosinophilic droplets in swine brain induced by Escherichia coli toxin.

Nakamura, K, Kashiwazaki, M, Isayama, Y, Shoya, S

Pigs inoculated intravenously with the culture supernatant and extract of Escherichia coli were investigated histologically. Perivascular eosinophilic droplets and slight vascular degeneration were...

Ocular lesions in chickens inoculated with Escherichia coli.

Nakamura, K, Abe, F

Specific-pathogen-free chickens (two, four and ten weeks of age) which were inoculated via the air sac with Escherichia coli developed ocular lesions. Histologically, the main ocular lesions...

The effect of sodium chloride extract and commercial lipopolysaccharides of Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium on chickens.

Nakamura, K, Abe, F

In chickens inoculated into the heart with a sodium chloride extract of Escherichia coli strain (serotype O2) isolated from a chicken with colibacillosis, characteristic hemorrhages into the anterior...

Hydrogen peroxide plays a key role in the oxidation reaction of myoglobin by molecular oxygen. A computer simulation.

Wazawa, T, Matsuoka, A, Tajima, G, Sugawara, Y, Nakamura, K, Shikama, K

The stability properties of the iron(II)-dioxygen bond in myoglobin and hemoglobin are of particular importance, because both proteins are oxidized easily to the ferric met-form, which cannot be...

Humans' choice in a self-control choice situation: sensitivity to reinforcer amount, reinforcer delay, and overall reinforcement density.

Ito, M, Nakamura, K

Human subjects were exposed to a concurrent-chains schedule in which reinforcer amounts, delays, or both were varied in the terminal links, and consummatory responses were required to receive points...

Restriction enzyme cleavage sites surrounding the structural gene for the lipoprotein of the Escherichia coli outer membrane.

Nakamura, K, Katz-Wurtzel, E T, Pirtle, R M, Inouye, M

The purified messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) for the lipoprotein of the Escherichia coli outer membrane was hybridized with fragments obtained by digestion of E. coli chromosomal deoxyribonucleic...

An approach for acute disruption of large arteries in patients with advanced cervical cancer: endoluminal balloon occlusion technique.

Sakakibara, Y, Kuramoto, K, Jikuya, T, Sato, F, Nakamura, K, Abe, M, ...

OBJECTIVE: To test the feasibility of an intraluminal balloon occlusion technique for the control of sudden arterial disruption from cervical branches in patients with advanced malignancy....

Congenital choledochal dilatation with emphasis on pathophysiology of the biliary tract.

Iwai, N, Yanagihara, J, Tokiwa, K, Shimotake, T, Nakamura, K

Of 37 patients with congenital choledochal dilatation, aged 8 days to 12 years, who had undergone excision with Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy, 26 patients could be analyzed for morphologic...

Intestinal transplantation in composite visceral grafts or alone.

Todo, S, Tzakis, A G, Abu-Elmagd, K, Reyes, J, Nakamura, K, Casavilla, A, ...

Under FK 506-based immunosuppression, the entire cadaver small bowel except for a few proximal and distal centimeters was translated to 17 randomly matched patients, of whom two had antigraft...

G protein-mediated inhibition of phosphoinositide metabolism evoked by metabotropic glutamate receptors in frog oocytes.

Nakamura, K, Nukada, T, Haga, T, Sugiyama, H

1. Metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 1 (mGluR1), when expressed in Xenopus oocytes, activates phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (PLC) in a G protein-dependent manner. This reaction...

Progression toward tumor cell phenotype is enhanced by overexpression of a mutant p53 tumor-suppressor gene isolated from nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Sun, Y, Nakamura, K, Wendel, E, Colburn, N

We recently reported the detection of a heterozygous G-->C point mutation at codon 280 of p53 in nasopharyngeal carcinoma, which causes an Arg-->Thr substitution. To test whether this mutant p53 has...

Characterization of Plasmodium falciparum sporozoite surface protein 2.

Rogers, W O, Malik, A, Mellouk, S, Nakamura, K, Rogers, M D, Szarfman, A, ...

Immunization of mice with Plasmodium yoelii sporozoite surface protein 2 (PySSP2) and circumsporozoite protein protects completely against P. yoelii. The amino acid sequence of PySSP2 suggested that...

Propeptide of a precursor to a plant vacuolar protein required for vacuolar targeting.

Matsuoka, K, Nakamura, K

Sporamin is a protein without glycans that accumulates in large quantities in the vacuoles of the tuberous root of the sweet potato. It is synthesized as a prepro precursor with an N-terminal...

Antigenic and Genetic Characterization of Influenza C Viruses Which Caused Two Outbreaks in Yamagata City, Japan, in 1996 and 1998

Matsuzaki, Y., Sugawara, K., Mizuta, K., Tsuchiya, E., Muraki, Y., Hongo, S., ...

During the 3 years from January 1996 to December 1998, a total of 33 strains of influenza C virus were isolated from 10,726 throat swab specimens collected from children with acute respiratory...

A Vacuolar-Type H+-ATPase in a Nonvacuolar Organelle Is Required for the Sorting of Soluble Vacuolar Protein Precursors in Tobacco Cells.

Matsuoka, K, Higuchi, T, Maeshima, M, Nakamura, K

In plant cells, vacuolar matrix proteins are separated from the secretory proteins at the Golgi complex for transport to the vacuoles. To investigate the involvement of vacuolar-type ATPase...

Sugar-inducible expression of a gene for beta-amylase in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Mita, S, Suzuki-Fujii, K, Nakamura, K

The levels of beta-amylase activity and of the mRNA for beta-amylase in rosette leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. increased significantly, with the concomitant accumulation of starch, when...

Negative regulation in the expression of a sugar-inducible gene in Arabidopsis thaliana. A recessive mutation causing enhanced expression of a gene for beta-amylase.

Mita, S, Hirano, H, Nakamura, K

Expression of a beta-amylase gene of Arabidopsis thaliana (AT beta-Amy) is regulated by sugars. We identified a mutant, hba1, in which the level of expression of AT beta-Amy in leaves of plants that...

The N-terminal propeptide of the precursor to sporamin acts as a vacuole-targeting signal even at the C terminus of the mature part in tobacco cells.

Koide, Y, Hirano, H, Matsuoka, K, Nakamura, K

An asparagine-proline-isoleucine-arginine-leucine (NPIRL) and its related sequences in the N-terminal propeptides (NTPP) of several plant vacuolar proteins, including that of sporamin from sweet...

Inhibitors of Protein Phosphatases 1 and 2A Block the Sugar-Inducible Gene Expression in Plants.

Takeda, S., Mano, S., Ohto, Ma., Nakamura, K.

Genes coding for two major proteins of the tuberous root of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), namely, sporamin and [beta]-amylase, are inducible in leaves and petioles when they are supplied with high...

Colocalization of barley lectin and sporamin in vacuoles of transgenic tobacco plants.

Schroeder, M R, Borkhsenious, O N, Matsuoka, K, Nakamura, K, Raikhel, N V

Various targeting motifs have been identified for plant proteins delivered to the vacuole. For barley (Hordeum vulgare) lectin, a typical Gramineae lectin and defense-related protein, the vacuolar...

Sugar-Induced Increase of Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinases Associated with the Plasma Membrane in Leaf Tissues of Tobacco.

Ohto, Ma., Nakamura, K.

The sugar-inducible expression of genes for sporamin and [beta]-amylase in leaf explants of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) and that of a [beta]-glucuronidase-fusion gene, with the promoter of the...

Autolysis of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is involved in synergism between imipenem and cefotiam.

Matsuda, K, Nakamura, K, Adachi, Y, Inoue, M, Kawakami, M

Imipenem-induced autolysis and the activity of imipenem plus cefotiam were studied in 16 strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The degree of imipenem-induced autolysis and...

In vitro evaluation of BO-3482, a novel dithiocarbamate carbapenem with activity against methicillin-resistant staphylococci.

Adachi, Y, Nakamura, K, Kato, Y, Hazumi, N, Hashizume, T, Nakagawa, S

BO-3482, a dithiocarbamate carbapenem, inhibited clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant staphylococci (MRS) at 6.25 microg/ml (MIC at which 90% of isolates tested are inhibited [MIC90]), while...

Administration of aminoglycosides to hemodialysis patients immediately before dialysis: a new dosing modality.

Matsuo, H, Hayashi, J, Ono, K, Andoh, K, Andoh, Y, Sano, Y, ...

We describe a new modality for administering aminoglycosides to hemodialysis (HD) patients, namely, a modification of the once-daily regimen which consists of administering the aminoglycosides over...

Polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: expression of ethanol tolerance and the FAD2 gene from Arabidopsis thaliana.

Kajiwara, S, Shirai, A, Fujii, T, Toguri, T, Nakamura, K, Ohtaguchi, K

The Arabidopsis thaliana delta-12 fatty acid desaturase gene (FAD2) was overexpressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by using the GAL1 promoter. S. cerevisiae harboring the FAD2 gene was capable of...

Cloning, nucleotide sequence, and regulatory analysis of the Nitrosomonas europaea dnaK gene.

Iizumi, T, Nakamura, K

The dnaK gene of an ammonia-oxidizing bacterium, Nitrosomonas europaea, was cloned and sequenced. It was found that the dnaK gene product was highly homologous to previously analyzed dnaK gene...

Microplate hybridization for Borna disease virus RNA in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells.

Fujiwara, S, Takahashi, H, Nakaya, T, Nakamura, Y, Nakamura, K, Iwahashi, K, ...

We developed a simple and sensitive microplate hybridization procedure with which to identify Borna disease virus cDNA in amplified products from human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. The mean...

Biological properties of "partial" transformation mutants of Rous sarcoma virus and characterization of their pp60src kinase.

Anderson, D D, Beckmann, R P, Harms, E H, Nakamura, K, Weber, M J

We have isolated mutants of Rous sarcoma virus from an unmutagenized stock of the Schmidt-Ruppin strain of Rous sarcoma virus. These mutants induce only a "partial" transformation, and the...

Comparative activities of several nucleoside analogs against influenza A, B, and C viruses in vitro.

Shigeta, S, Konno, K, Yokota, T, Nakamura, K, De Clercq, E

A set of 20 nucleoside analogs were examined for their inhibitory effects on the cytopathogenicity and growth of influenza virus type A, B, and C strains in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells....

Engineering hybrid pseudomonads capable of utilizing a wide range of aromatic hydrocarbons and of efficient degradation of trichloroethylene.

Suyama, A, Iwakiri, R, Kimura, N, Nishi, A, Nakamura, K, Furukawa, K

We constructed hybrid Pseudomonas strains in which the bphA1 gene (coding for a large subunit of biphenyl dioxygenase) is replaced with the todC1 gene (coding for a large subunit of toluene...

Organomercurial-volatilizing bacteria in the mercury-polluted sediment of Minamata Bay, Japan.

Nakamura, K, Sakamoto, M, Uchiyama, H, Yagi, O

A total of 4,604 bacterial strains isolated from the sediments of Minamata Bay and nearby low-level-mercury stations (control stations) were screened for the ability to volatilize mercury from...

Antiviral activities of ribavirin, 5-ethynyl-1-beta-D-ribofuranosylimidazole-4-carboxamide, and 6'-(R)-6'-C-methylneplanocin A against several ortho- and paramyxoviruses.

Shigeta, S, Mori, S, Baba, M, Ito, M, Honzumi, K, Nakamura, K, ...

5-Ethynyl-1-beta-D-ribofuranosylimidazole-4-carboxamide (EICAR) and 6'-(R)-6'-C-methylneplanocin A (TJ13025) are two novel antiviral agents which are targeted against IMP dehydrogenase and...

Characterization of a second protein (CM2) encoded by RNA segment 6 of influenza C virus.

Hongo, S, Sugawara, K, Muraki, Y, Kitame, F, Nakamura, K

The biochemical properties of a second protein (CM2) encoded by RNA segment 6 of influenza C virus were investigated. Three forms of CM2 with different electrophoretic mobilities (CM2(0), CM2a, and...

Membrane ATPase from the aceticlastic methanogen Methanothrix thermophila.

Inatomi, K, Kamagata, Y, Nakamura, K

A new isolate of the aceticlastic methanogen Methanothrix thermophila utilizes only acetate as the sole carbon and energy source for methanogenesis (Y. Kamagata and E. Mikami, Int. J. Syst....

Molecular analysis of mercury-resistant Bacillus isolates from sediment of Minamata Bay, Japan.

Nakamura, K, Silver, S

Bacillus isolates from Minamata Bay sediment were selected for the ability to volatilize mercury from a range of organomercurials (including methylmercury). Chromosomal DNA from 74 of 78 such strains...

Expression of the insecticidal protein gene from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai in Bacillus subtilis and in the thermophile Bacillus stearothermophilus by using the alpha-amylase promoter of the thermophile.

Nakamura, K, Imanaka, T

Expression of the insecticidal protein gene from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai IPL7 in B. subtilis MI113 and B. stearothermophilus SIC1 was examined. Production of the protein (130...

Simplified X-ray film method for detection of bacterial volatilization of mercury chloride by Escherichia coli.

Nakamura, K, Nakahara, H

A simplified X-ray film method for detecting bacterial production of Hgo by Escherichia coli was developed. There was excellent agreement of results between this X-ray film method and radioactive...

Structural requirements of Bacillus subtilis alpha-amylase signal peptide for efficient processing: in vivo pulse-chase experiments with mutant signal peptides.

Sakakibara, Y, Tsutsumi, K, Nakamura, K, Yamane, K

The Bacillus subtilis alpha-amylase signal peptide consists of 33 amino acids from its translation initiation site. To analyze the structural requirements for efficient processing of the signal...

Cloning and bacterial expression of the CYS3 gene encoding cystathionine gamma-lyase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the physicochemical and enzymatic properties of the protein.

Yamagata, S, D'Andrea, R J, Fujisaki, S, Isaji, M, Nakamura, K

By screening a yeast genomic library, we isolated and characterized a gene rescuing the cysteine requirement in a "cys1" strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Except for four residues in the open...

Cloning and characterization of a Bacillus subtilis gene encoding a homolog of the 54-kilodalton subunit of mammalian signal recognition particle and Escherichia coli Ffh.

Honda, K, Nakamura, K, Nishiguchi, M, Yamane, K

By using a DNA fragment of Escherichia coli ffh as a probe, the Bacillus subtilis ffh gene was cloned. The complete nucleotide sequence of the cloned DNA revealed that it contained three open reading...

Structural requirements of Bacillus subtilis small cytoplasmic RNA for cell growth, sporulation, and extracellular enzyme production.

Nishiguchi, M, Honda, K, Amikura, R, Nakamura, K, Yamane, K

Bacillus subtilis small cytoplasmic RNA (scRNA; 271 nucleotides) is a member of the signal recognition particle (SRP) RNA family, which has evolutionarily conserved primary and secondary structures....

Efficient degradation of trichloroethylene by a hybrid aromatic ring dioxygenase.

Furukawa, K, Hirose, J, Hayashida, S, Nakamura, K

Engineering of hybrid gene clusters between the toluene metabolic tod operon and the biphenyl metabolic bph operon greatly enhanced the rate of biodegradation of trichloroethylene. Escherichia coli...

Small cytoplasmic RNA of Bacillus subtilis: functional relationship with human signal recognition particle 7S RNA and Escherichia coli 4.5S RNA.

Nakamura, K, Imai, Y, Nakamura, A, Yamane, K

Small cytoplasmic RNA (scRNA; 271 nucleotides) is an abundant and stable RNA of the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis. To investigate the function of scRNA in B. subtilis cells, we developed...

In vivo and in vitro characterization of the secA gene product of Bacillus subtilis.

Takamatsu, H, Fuma, S, Nakamura, K, Sadaie, Y, Shinkai, A, Matsuyama, S, ...

The putative amino acid sequence from the wild-type Bacillus subtilis div+ gene, which complements the temperature-sensitive div-341 mutation, shares a 50% identity with the sequence from Escherichia...

Formation of crystals of the insecticidal proteins of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai IPL7 in Escherichia coli.

Oeda, K, Inouye, K, Ibuchi, Y, Oshie, K, Shimizu, M, Nakamura, K, ...

Escherichia coli JM103 cells harboring expression plasmid pTB1 or pKC6 synthesized the 130- and 135-kilodalton insecticidal proteins, respectively, of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai IPL7, and...

Elucidation of the Erwinia uredovora carotenoid biosynthetic pathway by functional analysis of gene products expressed in Escherichia coli.

Misawa, N, Nakagawa, M, Kobayashi, K, Yamano, S, Izawa, Y, Nakamura, K, ...

The most important function of carotenoid pigments, especially beta-carotene in higher plants, is to protect organisms against photooxidative damage (G. Britton, in T. W. Goodwin, ed., Plant...

Putrescine and cadaverine are constituents of peptidoglycan in Veillonella alcalescens and Veillonella parvula.

Kamio, Y, Nakamura, K

Veillonella alcalescens ATCC 17745, a strictly anaerobic, gram-negative small coccus, requires putrescine or cadaverine for growth (M. B. Ritchey, and E. A. Delwiche, J. Bacteriol. 124:1213-1219,...

Expression of the Serratia marcescens lipoproteins gene in Escherichia coli.

Lee, N, Nakamura, K, Inouye, M

The lipoprotein gene (lpp) of Serratia marcescens was cloned in a lambda phage vector (K. Nakamura and M. Inouye, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 77: 1369-1373, 1980). This lpp gene was recloned in...

Biosynthesis of membrane proteins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: effects of various antibiotics.

Yasumura, M, Nakamura, K, Mernoff, D, Inouye, M

The biosynthesis of membrane proteins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa was examined using various antibiotics (puromycin, streptomycin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, and rifampin). Among six major membrane...

Preferential selection of deletion mutations of the outer membrane lipoprotein gene of Escherichia coli by globomycin.

Zwiebel, L J, Inukai, M, Nakamura, K, Inouye, M

Globomycin is an antibiotic which inhibits the processing of the prolipoprotein. Eighty globomycin-resistant mutants were independently isolated from Escherichia coli K-12 which had a deletion...

Restriction enzyme cleavage sites surrounding the structural gene for the lipoprotein of the Escherichia coli outer membrane.

Nakamura, K, Katz-Wurtzel, E T, Pirtle, R M, Inouye, M

The purified messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) for the lipoprotein of the Escherichia coli outer membrane was hybridized with fragments obtained by digestion of E. coli chromosomal deoxyribonucleic...

Purification and characterization of selenocysteine beta-lyase from Citrobacter freundii.

Chocat, P, Esaki, N, Tanizawa, K, Nakamura, K, Tanaka, H, Soda, K

The purification and characterization of bacterial selenocysteine beta-lyase, an enzyme which specifically catalyzes the cleavage of L-selenocysteine to L-alanine and Se0, are presented. The enzyme,...

Isolation of an antigenically unique methanogen from human feces.

Misawa, H, Hoshi, T, Kitame, F, Homma, M, Nakamura, K

A methanogenic bacterium with the morphological and physiological properties of the genus Methanobrevibacter was isolated from the feces of a Japanese man who excreted methane in his breath. Indirect...

Detection of Giardia lamblia by immunofluorescence.

Riggs, J L, Dupuis, K W, Nakamura, K, Spath, D P

High-titer immune sera to cysts of Giardia lamblia, produced in guinea pigs, were labeled with fluorescein isothiocyanate. The resulting conjugates were used to detect G. lamblia in stool specimens...

Intracellular distribution of the envelope glycoprotein of human immunodeficiency virus and its role in the production of cytopathic effect in CD4+ and CD4- human cell lines.

Koga, Y, Sasaki, M, Nakamura, K, Kimura, G, Nomoto, K

Human CD4+ and CD4- monocytoid cell lines were transfected with a constructed plasmid that has the envelope gene of human immunodeficiency virus under the transcriptional control of human...

Cell-mediated immunity induced in mice after vaccination with a protease activation mutant, TR-2, of Sendai virus.

Tashiro, M, Fujii, Y, Nakamura, K, Homma, M

Our previous study has shown that, although a trypsin-resistant mutant of Sendai virus, TR-2, replicates only in a single cycle in mouse lung with a negligible lesion, the animal acquires a strong...

Tumorigenicity of partial transformation mutants of Rous sarcoma virus.

Kahn, P, Nakamura, K, Shin, S, Smith, R E, Weber, M J

Chicken embryo cells infected with partial transformation mutants of Rous sarcoma virus were tested for tumor-forming ability in chickens and in nude mice. Cells transformed by each of these partial...

Human malignant melanoma cell line (HMV-II) for isolation of influenza C and parainfluenza viruses.

Moriuchi, H, Oshima, T, Nishimura, H, Nakamura, K, Katsushima, N, Numazaki, Y

HMV-II, a human malignant melanoma cell line, was compared with other cell lines (MDCK, Vero, and LLC-MK2) and primary cultures of monkey kidney (PMK) cells for the isolation and quantification of...

Bacteriostatic and bactericidal activities of beta-lactam antibiotics enhanced by the addition of low concentrations of gentamicin.

Masuda, G, Nakamura, K, Yajima, T, Saku, K

The combined effects of low concentrations of gentamicin on certain beta-lactam antibiotics were studied by the agar plate method. the combination of gentamicin with cephalothin produced synergism...

Ultrastructure of Chlamydomonas eugametos palmelloids induced by chloroplatinic acid treatment.

Nakamura, K, Bray, D F, Wagenaar, E B

Palmelloids induced in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas eugametos by chloroplatinic acid treatment have been studied electron microscopically. Thin-sectioned specimens revealed the multilayer...

Purification of a factor which provides a costimulatory signal for gamma interferon production.

Nakamura, K, Okamura, H, Nagata, K, Komatsu, T, Tamura, T

A protein factor which induces high levels of gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) in resting splenic nonadherent cells was isolated from the sera of mice with generalized inflammation caused by endotoxic...

Endotoxin-induced serum factor that stimulates gamma interferon production.

Nakamura, K, Okamura, H, Wada, M, Nagata, K, Tamura, T

Serum from Mycobacterium bovis BCG-infected mice that had been challenged with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) exhibited a marked ability to induce gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) in cultures of spleen cells...

Nucleotide sequence of a full-length cDNA coding for 3-methylcholanthrene-induced rat liver cytochrome P-450MC.

Yabusaki, Y, Shimizu, M, Murakami, H, Nakamura, K, Oeda, K, Ohkawa, H

We constructed a full-length cDNA coding for 3-methylcholanthrene-inducible rat liver cytochrome P-450MC by the method of Okayama and Berg. The isolated clone pAU157 contained the cDNA insert of 2.7...

Length and structural effect of signal peptides derived from Bacillus subtilis alpha-amylase on secretion of Escherichia coli beta-lactamase in B. subtilis cells.

Ohmura, K, Nakamura, K, Yamazaki, H, Shiroza, T, Yamane, K, Jigami, Y, ...

The precursor of Bacillus subtilis alpha-amylase contains an NH2-terminal extension of 41 amino acid residues as the signal sequence. The E. coli beta-lactamase structural gene was fused with the DNA...

Cloning and nucleotide sequences of the linear DNA killer plasmids from yeast.

Hishinuma, F, Nakamura, K, Hirai, K, Nishizawa, R, Gunge, N, Maeda, T

The linear DNA killer plasmids (pGKL1 and pGKL2) isolated from a Kluyveromyces lactis killer strain are also maintained and expressed its killer character in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. After these...

Operation of an efficient site-specific recombination system of Zygosaccharomyces rouxii in tobacco cells.

Onouchi, H, Yokoi, K, Machida, C, Matsuzaki, H, Oshima, Y, Matsuoka, K, ...

Recombinase encoded by the R gene of pSR1 of Zygosaccharomyces rouxii mediates reciprocal recombination between two specific recombination sites (RSs) to induce excision or inversion of the DNA...

Enhancement of foreign gene expression by a dicot intron in rice but not in tobacco is correlated with an increased level of mRNA and an efficient splicing of the intron.

Tanaka, A, Mita, S, Ohta, S, Kyozuka, J, Shimamoto, K, Nakamura, K

The first intron of castor bean catalase gene, cat-1 was placed in the N-terminal region of the coding sequence of the beta-glucuronidase gene (gusA) and the intron-containing gusA was used with the...

Oxidative inactivation of glutamine synthetase subunits.

Nakamura, K, Stadtman, E R

Escherichia coli glutamine synthetase (GS) was inactivated by a nonenzymic mixed-function oxidation system composed of ascorbate, O2, and Fe(III). Partial inactivation of GS by this system leads to...

Role of positive charge on the amino-terminal region of the signal peptide in protein secretion across the membrane.

Inouye, S, Soberon, X, Franceschini, T, Nakamura, K, Itakura, K, Inouye, M

The positively charged amino-terminal region of the signal peptide has been proposed to have an important role at an initial step of protein secretion across the membrane (loop model). To test this...

Radiofrequency hyperthermia with successive monitoring of its effects on tumors using NMR spectroscopy.

Naruse, S, Higuchi, T, Horikawa, Y, Tanaka, C, Nakamura, K, Hirakawa, K

Radiofrequency (rf) hyperthermia was generated on rat glioma inoculated s.c. in CD Fisher rats by applying the rf pulse using the surface coil in the NMR spectrometer, and the effect was monitored...

Growth of measles virus in cultures of rat glioma cells.

Nakamura, K, Homma, M, Ishida, N

The interaction of measles virus with RG-6 cells derived from rat glioma was investigated. When a culture of RG-6 cells was infected with measles virus, the synthesis of viral antigens was detected...

Redox control of resistance to cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II) (CDDP): protective effect of human thioredoxin against CDDP-induced cytotoxicity.

Sasada, T, Iwata, S, Sato, N, Kitaoka, Y, Hirota, K, Nakamura, K, ...

Thioredoxin is a small ubiquitous protein with multiple biological functions, including cellular defense mechanisms against oxidative stress. In the present study, we investigated the role of human...

Nicotinic receptor mediates nitric oxide synthase expression in the rat gastric myenteric plexus.

Nakamura, K, Takahashi, T, Taniuchi, M, Hsu, C X, Owyang, C

The mechanism that regulates the synthesis of nitric oxide synthase (NOS), a key enzyme responsible for NO production in the myenteric plexus, remains unknown. We investigated the roles of the vagal...