Received: February 21, 2012; Accepted: March 30, 2012 Corresponding author: Tomonori Ooka, MD, PhD. Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Medicine, Kita-14, Nishi-5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8648, Japan Email: [email protected] ©2012 The Editorial Committee of Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. All rights reserved. Ann...

1 Instituto de Psicologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Av. Paulo Gama 110, Farroupilha. 90040-060 Porto Alegre RS Brasil. [email protected] 2 Hospital Universitário Prof. Polydoro Ernani de São Thiago, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Florianópolis SC Brasil. 3 Instituto de Ciências Humanas e da Informação, UFRGS. Porto Alegre RS Brasil. 4 Instituto de Ciên...

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Post-depositional changes in snow isotope content: preliminary results of laboratory experiments A. A. Ekaykin, T. Hondoh, V. Y. Lipenkov, and A. Miyamoto Institute of Low Temperature Sciences, Hokkaido University, 060-0819 Sapporo, Japan Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, 199397 St. Petersburg, Russia Received: 3 September 2009 – Accepted: 8 September 2009 – Published: 8 October 2009 Cor...

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Experiments were conducted to determine the tryptophan (Trp) requirement of 10- to 20-kg pigs. A Trp-deficient experimental diet (.11% total Trp, 18% CP, 3,320 kcal of ME/kg) was composed of corn, feather meal, corn gluten meal, soybean meal, and dried whey. True digestibility of Trp in the experimental diet was 70% (.077% digestible Trp) as established in a digestibility assay that involved ce...

Department of Chest Surgery, Kyushu Cancer Center, Notame 595, Minami-ku, Fukuoka 8 15 (K. V., H. M., E. V., N. N., H. U., N. H., M. 0.); Department of Immunology, Cancer Research Institute, Kyushu University Medical School, Maidashi 3-1-1 , Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 8 12 (K. N.); Institute of Immunological Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060 (I. A.]; and The Third Department of Intern...

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Jacob Linder,1 Takehito Yokoyama,2 Yukio Tanaka,2 Yasuhiro Asano,3 and Asle Sudbø1 1Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway 2Department of Applied Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan, and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Nagoya 464-8603, Japan 3Department of Applied Physics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo...