Circulating CD3+HLA-DR+ Extracellular Vesicles as a Marker for Th1/Tc1-Type Immune Responses by Ryutaro Oba, Motomichi Isomura, Akira Igarashi, Kinya Nagata

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Efficacy of Prophylactic Cerclage in Women with a Single History of Mid-Trimester Pregnancy Loss with Painless Cervical Dilation: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Atsuko Tezuka, Hiroyuki Tsuda, Yumiko Ito, Tomoko Ando

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Boosting high-performance in Zr-rich side protonic solid oxide electrolysis cells by optimizing functional interlayer by Chunmei Tang, Ning Wang, Sho Kitano, Hiroki Habazaki, Yoshitaka Aoki, Siyu Ye

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Estimation for Reduction Potential Evaluation of CO₂ Emissions from Individual Private Passenger Cars Using Telematics by Masahiro Mae, Ziyang Wang, Shoma Nishimura, Ryuji Matsuhashi

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Tailoring cell-inspired biomaterials to fuel cancer therapy by Qi-Hui Wang, Shi Cheng, Chun-Yu Han, Shuang Yang, Sheng-Rui Gao, Wan-Zhong Yin, Wen-Zhi Song

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Luminescent Iridium–Terpyridine Complexes with Various Bis-Cyclometalated Ligands by Ko Ikeda, Natsumi Yano, Makoto Handa, Yusuke Kataoka

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Parent Training Pamphlets: An Intervention Study Among Parents at Child Health Checkups by Kazuko Akutsu, Aya Goto, Fareeda Abo-Rass, Hiroyuki Yokoyama

“…Introduction: Parent training (PT) programs are recognized as effective interventions that enhance parenting techniques and improve the parent-child relationship. In Japan, these programs are increasingly implemented to help parents manage behavioral issues in children. …”
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Administration of PDE4 Inhibitors Suppressed the Pannus-Like Inflammation by Inhibition of Cytokine Production by Macrophages and Synovial Fibroblast Proliferation by Katsuya Kobayashi, Toshio Suda, Haruhiko Manabe, Ichiro Miki

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Verification of the Nutritional and Dietary Factors Associated with Skeletal Muscle Index in Japanese Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Takashi Himoto, Keiko Miyatake, Takashi Maeba, Tsutomu Masaki

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Development of a compact near-infrared lamp furnace for synchrotron powder diffraction and its application for in situ high-temperature observation of ferrite magnets by Shintaro Kobayashi, Shogo Kawaguchi

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Impact of the national health guidance intervention for obesity and cardiovascular risks on healthcare utilisation and healthcare spending in working-age Japanese cohort: regressio... by Yusuke Tsugawa, Shingo Fukuma, Mitsuru Mukaigawara, Toshiaki Iizuka

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of population-level health guidance intervention introduced nationally in Japan on healthcare utilisation and spending.Design Retrospective cohort study, using a quasiexperimental regression discontinuity design.Setting Japan’s nationwide employment-based health insurers.Participants Participants in the national health screening programme (from January 2014 to December 2014) aged 40–74 years.Predictors Assignment to health guidance intervention (counselling on healthy lifestyles, and referral to physicians as needed) determined primarily on whether the individual’s waist circumference was above or below the cut-off value in addition to having at least one cardiovascular risk factor.Primary and secondary outcome measures Healthcare utilisation (the number of outpatient visits days, any medication use and any hospitalisation use) and spending (total medical expenditure, outpatient medical expenditure and inpatient medical expenditure) within 3 years of the intervention.Results A total of 51 213 individuals within the bandwidth (±6 cm of waist circumference from the cut-off) out of 113 302 screening participants (median age 50.0 years, 11.9% woman) were analysed. …”
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A Cross-Modal Tactile Reproduction Utilizing Tactile and Visual Information Generated by Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks by Koki Hatori, Takashi Morikura, Akira Funahashi, Kenjiro Takemura

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Combining Software-Defined and Delay-Tolerant Networking Concepts With Deep Reinforcement Learning Technology to Enhance Vehicular Networks by Olivia Nakayima, Mostafa I. Soliman, Kazunori Ueda, Samir A. Elsagheer Mohamed

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Identification of the sex determination region and the development of a marker to distinguish males and females in megai abalone (Haliotis gigantea) by Taito Kina, Motoyuki Hara, Shotaro Hirase, Kiyoshi Kikuchi

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Comparison of upper eyelid skin thickness at 5 mm and 12 mm from the eyelid margin in Asian by Hirohiko Kakizaki, Chrisha Habaluyas, Osama AlSheikh, Munekazu Naito, Yasuhiro Takahashi

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Adiponectin Inhibits LPS-Induced HMGB1 Release through an AMP Kinase and Heme Oxygenase-1-Dependent Pathway in RAW 264 Macrophage Cells by Mohamed Elfeky, Ryuji Kaede, Yuko Okamatsu-Ogura, Kazuhiro Kimura

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Invariant sets for nonlinear evolution equations, Cauchy problems and periodic problems by Norimichi Hirano, Naoki Shioji

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Effect of Employees’ Values on Employee Satisfaction in Japanese Retail and Service Industries by Tomonori Matsuki, Jun Nakamura

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Review of JAEA’s Monte Carlo codes for nuclear reactor core analysis by Nagaya Yasunobu

“…Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has been developing a general-purpose continuous-energy Monte Carlo code MVP for nuclear reactor core analysis. …”
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Swirling Flow Field inside a Hollow Turbine Shaft for an Internal Cooling Air System by Tadaharu Kishibe, Shojiro Kaji

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