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Using a horizontal batch dry bead mill newly developed by our company, talc raw material was ground in air, and its grinding performance and mechanochemical effect on the sample were evaluated from various perspectives. First, the average diameter of the ground product as a grinding performance decreases with the increase in grinding time or power source unit, reaching the submicron size. In addition, when mill operation is continued, talc changes fine particle aggregation and crystal structure change due to mechanochemical effects, and the phenomenon of detachment of the (OH) group around Mg in the crystals becomes remarkable. The flowability of the ground product is inhibited by the withdrawal of (OH) from the talc crystal, but this flowability is restored when it is dried. When the power source unit in the grinding approaches 3 kWh/kg2 it asymptotes to the maximum value of 9% in the weight reduction percentage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nostalgia is a mixture of positive and negative emotions and is defined as 'a sentimental longing for one's past'. Previous psychological research has shown that nostalgia has positive psychological functions. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of contour thinness on nostalgia in university students, who spend a lot of time listening while doing something else and are considered to be less affected by the experimental situation. The results of a psychological experiment using cross-modal stimuli consisting of black and white line drawings and piano practice pieces showed that contour thinness induced nostalgia. In addition, it has been suggested that the nostalgia induced by thin contours, as if drawn with a fine-tipped pen, may have a positive impact on the temporal outlook of the future. These results can be used for scientifically based nostalgia marketing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article summarizes the contents of an annual symposium entitled “The Origin of Agriculture Development for Arid Lands: How to Make the Most of the “Absence” of Deserts in the Japanese Mind?”. Returning to the starting point of the subcommittee, we would like to rethink how to overcome the “missing” things in deserts and how to apply Japanese technology to them. Among them, soil, water, greenery, and electric power were focused. Four presenters were selected for the symposium. The audience was diverse, including universities, public institutions, consultants, material companies, construction companies, and others with a connection to or interest in the desert environment. The total number of participants was 44, including 38 offline and 8 online. The themes and contents of the lectures given by the speakers, who are active on the front lines in various fields, were of great interest. We would like to take this opportunity to express our respect to all the lecturers and participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

[Objective]Caragana korshinskii Kom. is one of the most widely used shrubs for slope protection and soil and water conservation in the northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Loess Plateau. The experimental study on the tensile mechanical properties of a single root of C. korshinskii was carried out to provide a theoretical basis for quantitative evaluation of soil fixation and slope protection of this plant. [Methods] Single root of C. korshinskii with root diameters of 2.33～9.16 mm at middle age was taken as the research object. The differences of tensile resistance characteristics of single root of C. korshinskii under different failure modes and different root diameter grades and their relationship with root diameter were compared and analyzed via single root tensile test, and the failure mode of single root and its stress-strain characteristics were further discussed. [Results] Two modes of failure of a single root, the periderm preferential breakage mode and the synchronous breakage mode, occurred when the roots were subjected to single root tensile test. The single root tensile force and single root tensile strength of the two failure modes were significantly different under the conditions of(2,4],(4,6],(6,8] mm and(6,8] mm root diameter grades, respectively (p＜0.05). The difference degree of four single root tensile resistance characteristics indexes was different between different root diameter grades with the same failure mode. Under the periderm preferential breakage mode and the synchronous breakage mode, the single root tensile force of C. korshinskii increased with the increase of root diameter, there existed exponential and power relationship between single root tensile force and root diameter, respectively. In addition, the single root tensile strength, single root elastic modulus and single root limit extensile rate of C. korshinskii decreased with the increase of root diameter. The occurrence of these two failure modes of roots depends on the stress state of the periderm, thin wall tissue of middle column sheath, and the secondary vascular tissue when a single root is under tension. The stress-strain curves for the two failure modes can be divided into four stages: elastic deformation, elastic-plastic deformation, strain hardening and fracture failure. [Conclusion] It is necessary to consider the influence of root diameter and failure mode on single root tensile properties when single root tensile test is used to obtain single root tensile properties indexes of woody plant species. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Plant cells regulate their metabolic activity in response to fluctuating environments, in part by changing the arrangement and interaction of organelles. This means that if we can manipulate the interactions of organelles, the plant can be engineered to have desirable metabolic activities. We recently developed the “organelle glue technique”, in which inter-organellar interactions are manipulated by using the multimerization property of fluorescent proteins. Using this technique, we established transformed plants with altered metabolic activity at the pathway level. Here, we review the current state of the organelle glue technique [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this study, the characteristics of exhaust gas temperature rise for different EH install positions was evaluated by experiments. In addition, the effect of EH install positions on the NOx purification rate in WHTC-cold test cycle was evaluated by simulation. As a result, when heated with EH installed on the front of SCR, exhaust gas reached target temperature rapidly, and therefore higher NOx purification rate was obtained. Also, it was suggested that electricity supplied to EH until the exhaust gas reach target temperature can be compensated by the power recovered with braking regeneration by combining with high-efficient braking regenerative systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given that morning erection is a subjective index of erectile function, it can be used as an index that can contribute to early detection of metabolic syndrome and prevention of cardiovascular disease. This is the first study investigating the association of morning erection with erectile function and metabolic syndrome. [Participants and methods] Participants were individuals who underwent a complete health checkup at our hospital between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020. They gave informed consent to participate in this clinical study and responded to the questionnaire on sexual function. The evaluation items included age, frequency of morning erection, erection hardness, erectile function, and presence/absence of metabolic syndrome and sleep disorder. To examine the association between frequency of early-morning erection and each evaluation item, participants were divided into those with and without morning erection at least once per week. For the items where a significant difference was found, the values were adjusted for age. [Results] Participants were 939 individuals, aged 23 to 87 years. The proportions of participants with decreased frequency of morning erection, impairment of erection hardness, and erectile dysfunction increased with age. Decreased frequency of morning erection was significantly associated with impairment of erection hardness, erectile dysfunction, and metabolic syndrome. However, after adjusting for age, statistical significance was found only for impairment of erection hardness and erectile dysfunction. Statistical significance was not found for sleep disorder. The analysis by age on the association between decreased frequency of morning erection and metabolic syndrome showed that significant association was found only in the age group of 23 to 39 years. [Conclusions] Morning erection is a subjective index of erectile function. In addition, decreased frequency of morning erection was associated with metabolic syndrome in a younger age group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Relationship between microstructural changes and hydrogen permeabilities of rolled and annealed Nb30Ti35Co35 alloys has been investigated. In the as-cast state, the alloy has a lamellar structure consisted of bcc-(Nb, Ti) and B2-TiCo phases. Hydrogen permeability was decreased with increasing rolling reduction. Granule (Nb, Ti) phase was formed in the TiCo matrix after annealing between 1173K and 1373 K. Hydrogen permeability of non-rolled alloys was almost constant after microstructural change by annealing. On the contrary, hydrogen permeability of rolled alloys was increased with increasing annealing temperature, recovered to 90％of the as-cast alloy by annealing at 1373 K, which is quite larger than the value expected by the mixing rule consisted of both two phases. Therefore, rolling and annealing technique is effective for industrial preparation of Nb-TiCo alloy foil to obtain large hydrogen flux for hydrogen production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recently, many embankments have often collapsed by overtopping an embankment because of heavy rain fall in natural disaster. Variation in water saturation in the embankment influences the collapse of the embankment in the precipitation. Then Hibi and Tomigashi developed a numerical simulation method coupling groundwater with atmosphere and surface (ASGMF method). Purpose of this study is to confirm that ASGMF could reproduce infiltration into the embankment and overtopping the embankment by two-dimensional tank experiments and numerical simulations. As a result ASGMF could reproduce distribution of water saturation in the embankment obtained by the infiltration experiment and the overtopping experiment. On the other hand ASGMF was successfully able to reproduce raise of water level on a side of overflow in the overtopping experiment. However the raise of water level obtained by ASGMF was not almost consistent with that obtained by the infiltration experiment. As the whole this study concluded that ASGMF could almost reproduce the infiltration of water into the embankment when water in a river overflowed the embankment, but we should estimate the ability of ASGMF for the reproduce of the raise of water level in the storage pond by some experiments without a slope of the embankment in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In recent years, 4 K-8K video, and virtual reality (VR) have become widespread in the society, creating a viewing environment that is more realistic and immersive than conventional video. However, this has given rise to the problems of visual induced motion sickness (VIMS) with symptoms including nausea, dizziness, and headache. after viewing such video. In this study, we focused on VIMS with flat display under different ambient illuminance conditions, which is one of the important elements of visual discomfort. In the experiments, two types of video were viewed on a flat display, one with little motion and the other with dynamic motion, under different conditions of ambient illuminance in a dark room (3.5 lux) and a bright room (340 lux). Visual sickness was examined using subjective evaluation (Simulator Sickness Questionnaire and time series subjective evaluation) and physiological motion evaluation (movement of center of gravity and LF-HF). The subjective indicators confirmed that dark room conditions were more likely to result in motion sickness than bright room conditions. Moreover, the physiological indicators showed that the distance of movement of center of gravity was greater in the bright room than in the dark room. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Freezing of extracellular spaces is the first event when plants are exposed to freezing temperatures, but mechanisms of ice nucleation and propagation remain poorly understood. Japanese cold hardy dwarf bamboos grow in one of the northernmost areas of bamboo distribution and are known to employ deep supercooling in most living tissues as the freeze survival strategy. Studies have been performed on mechanisms of their deep supercooling capability. However, little is known about the ice nucleating factors which may initiate freezing at the apoplast of the vascular and epidermal tissues. This study focused on ice nucleation activity (INA) in aploplast extracts from cold hardy bamboo species, Sasa kurilensis, S. nipponica and Sasamorpha borealis. We obtained apoplast extracts from leaf blades and culms and determined their INA following size fractionation using membrane filters. The apoplast extracts from leaf blades and culms had highly extractable and particulate INA (size: 10 kDa<<0.2 μm). INA of substances larger than 300 kDa (<<0.2 μm) were similar to the freeze initiation temperatures of the vascular and epidermal tissues. Results of heat and protease treatments indicated that the major substance(s) responsible for ice nucleation in the apoplast extracts is proteinaceous, irrespective of the seasons, tissues or species. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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More companies focus on open innovation (OI) practices that enable them to acquire external resources by collaborating with external parties (e.g., companies in different industries and universities). Even though OI has received much attention in recent years, several companies are struggling to coordinate with external parties or select them. The purpose of this study is to clarify what kinds of opportunities contribute to accumulating know-how to acquire external resources through more effective OI. To achieve this, this study mainly focuses on the collaboration with suppliers that may enable such opportunities. Although this type of collaboration is a long-term relationship for companies, through this relationship, organizations can build an adequate system for coordinating with or assessing external parties. As a result, organizations having experienced collaboration with suppliers can utilize their know-how to acquire external resources. Based on this discussion, a theoretical framework is constructed and the framework is analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). In the analytical process, this study utilized questionnaire data obtained from Japanese manufacturing companies. As a consequence of the SEM analysis, the relationship between the degree how companies collaborate with suppliers and the degree of OI practices is evaluated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]