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Design and Smell

  • Hofmann, Dieter;Igarashi, Horoya;Huebner, Fabienne
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society of Design Studies Conference
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    • 2001.10a
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    • pp.25.2-25
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    • 2001
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Digital Holography for 3D Color Display of Real Objects incoherently illuminated

  • Yatagai, Toyohiko;Sando, Yusuke
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.117-120
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    • 2005
  • The proposed method is based on extracting information from 3-D Fourier spectra calculated from some projection incoherent images. Three colored computer-generated holograms (CGHs) are synthesized from 3-D Fourier spectra. Optically reconstructed full-color images are presented.

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Variation in the Size of Light Harvesting 1 of Purple Bacteria

  • Akiyama, Machiko;Nagashima, Kenji V.P.;Inoue, Ryouji;Wakayama, Tatsuki;Kise, Hideo;Hara, Masayuki;Kobayashi, Masami
    • Journal of Photoscience
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.350-352
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    • 2002
  • We examined the bacteriochlorophyill/bacteriopheophytin ratios in several species of purple bacteria containing only LHI. The pigment ratios depended greatly on species. Further, Rhodospirillum rubrum showed wide variation when grown under different light intensity, and Rhodobium marinum showed significant variation from culture to culture even under the same light conditions. The protein ratios of a/RC and $\beta$/RC estimated by SDS-PAGE of chromatophores of Rsp. rubrum and Rbi. marinum exhibited the ratio of $\beta$/$\alpha$ > 1. These findings gave us the novel idea that there are two types of LHl; one is a C-shaped open antenna composed by $\alpha$$\beta$ units surrounding a RC, and another is a small closed ring antenna composed by $\alpha$$\beta$ units located peripherally in a variable ratio to the core complex like LH2.

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Immortalization of Rat Kidney Glomerular Mesangial Cell and Its Coculture with Glomerular Epithelial Cell

  • Toshinobu Kida;Sachi Fujishima;Masatoshi Matsumra;Wang, Pi-Chao
    • Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.92-98
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    • 2000
  • Mesangial cell has several key roles in thee control of glomerular function: it partocipates in the regulation of glomerular filtration rate, macromolecular clearance, and as both a source and target of numerous hormones and autocrines. Many of these insights into mesangial cell function have been obtained by studying mesangial cells in culture. However, no suitble cell lines have established yet. We here reported the immortalization of rat kidney glomeruar mesangial cell by transfection of E6 and E7 genes of human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16) via electroporation and lipofection. The reslts showed that only electroporation could transfect the genes to mesangial cells and the transfected cells maintained the viability for longer than 6 months. Fluorescence microscopic observation showed that cellular contractility and phagocytosis, which are the two main phenotypes of mesangial cells with rat glomerular epithelial cells showed that the growth of mesangial dells was suppressed by epithelial cell, but the growth of epithelisl cells was enhanced by mesangial cells. Moreover, Such results may imply that the glomerular cell-cell interaction plays an important role in the regulation of cell proliferation and differentiation.

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Experimental Study Shock Waves in Superfluid Helium Induced by a Gasdynamic Shock Wave Impingement

  • Yang, Hyung-Suk;Nagai, Hiroki;Murakami, Masahide;Ueta, Yasuhiro
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Applied Superconductivity and Cryogenics Conference
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    • 2000.02a
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    • pp.43-47
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    • 2000
  • Two modes of shock waves, a compression shock wave and a thermal shock wave, propagating in He II have been investigated. The shock waves are at a time generated by the impingement of a gasdynamic shock wave onto a He II free surface in the newly developed superfluid shock tube facility. Superconductive temperature sensors, piezo-type pressure transducers and visualization photograph were used for the measurement of them and the phenomena induced by them were investigated in detail. It is found that the compression by a compression shock wave in He II causes temperature drop because He II has negative thermal expansion coefficient. the thermal shock wave is found to be of a single triangular waveform with a limited shock strength. The waveform is similar to that generated by stepwise strong heating from an electrical heater for relatively long heating time. In the experiments at the temperatures near the lambda temperature, no thermal shock wave is sometimes detected in shock compressed He II. It can be understood that shock compression makes He Ii convert to He I in which no thermal shock wave is excited.

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