*Corresponding author: Mailing address: Virology and Bacteriology Division, Nara Prefectural Institute for Hygiene and Environment, Ohmori-cho 57-6, Nara 630-8131, Japan. Tel: +81742-20-2887, Fax: +81-742-27-0634, E-mail: [email protected]. nara.jp The serotypes of rotavirus are determined by neutralization epitopes in their outer capsid proteins, VP4 and VP7. In the past 5 years, we have conduc...

*Corresponding author: Mailing address: Virology and Bacteriology Division, Nara Prefectural Institute for Hygiene and Environment, Ohmori-cho, Nara City, Nara 630-8131, Japan. Tel: +81-742-20-2887, Fax: +81-742-27-0634, E-mail: y.inoue @ihe.pref.nara.jp Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe diarrhea among children. There are seven groups of this virus (A to G), and A, B and C rotaviruse...

This paper argues that a theory of situated vision, suited for the dual purposes of object recognition and the control of action, will have to provide something more than a system that constructs a conceptual representation from visual stimuli: it will also need to provide a special kind of direct (preconceptual, unmediated) connection between elements of a visual representation and certain ele...

Diabetes mellitus is the most common endocrine disease. It is the fourth leading cause of death by disea.se in western countries and it is a worldwide public health problem.H Prolongation of life is achieved by insulin therapy, but an increasing number of diabetic patients are treated for the complications associated with the disease, including blindness and endstage renal failure. Fifty percen...

*Corresponding author: Mailing address: Virology and Bacteriology Division, Nara Prefectural Institute for Hygiene and Environment, 57-6 Ohmori-cho, Nara city, Nara 630-8131, Japan. Tel: +81-742-20-2887, Fax: +81-742-27-0634, E-mail: y.kitahori @ihe.pref.nara.jp Norovirus (NoV) is usually prevalent in the early winter season and causes symptoms of acute gastroenteritis such as diarrhea or vomit...

*Corresponding author: Mailing address: Virology and Bacteriology Division, Nara Prefectural Institute for Hygiene and Environment, Ohmori-cho, Nara 630-8131, Japan. Tel: +81-74220-2887, Fax: +81-742-27-0634, E-mail: [email protected]. nara.jp An influenza outbreak occurred in summer, a non-epidemic season, in a hospital in the northern area of Nara Prefecture, Japan. The outbreak occurred in...

*Corresponding author: Mailing address: Department of Virology, Nara Prefectural Institute for Hygiene and Environment, Ohmoricho 57-6, Nara 630-8131, Japan. Tel: +81-742-20-2887, Fax: +81-742-27-0634, E-mail: [email protected] The epidemics of aseptic meningitis in the summer season are caused mainly by enteroviruses. A surveillance study in Japan showed that more than 70% of cases o...

No AccessTechnical NotesThermodynamic Small Scales in Transcritical Turbulent JetsPasquale Eduardo LapennaPasquale Lapenna https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1966-8743University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 00184 Rome, Italy*Research Associate, Department Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, via Eudossiana 18.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:25 Mar 2021https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J059664...

*Corresponding author: Mailing address: Virology and Bacteriology Division, Nara Prefectural Institute for Hygiene and Environment, 57-6 Ohmori-cho, Nara city, Nara 630-8131, Japan. Tel: +81-742-20-2887, Fax: +81-742-27-0634, E-mail: [email protected] Several viral strains have been associated with the development of acute gastroenteritis in humans. Norovirus (NoV), rotavirus, and ade...

Objective: Oxidative injury in schizophrenia may be caused not only by pathophysiological processes but partly also by treatment with antipsychotics. The purpose of the present study was to examine and to compare the effects of quetiapine (QUE), olanzapine (OLA) and haloperidol (HAL), at final concentrations corresponding to doses used for treatment of acute episodes of schizophrenia, on plasma...