内山正史:放 射線医学総合研究所環境衛生研究部,千 葉市穴川4-9-1〒280 Caesium-137/Biological Half-Life/Japanese The biological half-life of 137Cs in the total body of human subjects was determined in 23 individuals of Japanese male adult in their normal works by measuring amount of 137Cs in both their total body and daily urine in the same period. For the group, the value was determined by averaging the half-lives for indiv...

Scandium-44 (t1/2 = 3.9 h) is a relatively new radioisotope of potential interest for use in clinical positron emission tomography (PET). Herein, we report, for the first time, the room-temperature radiolabeling of proteins with (44)Sc for in vivo PET imaging. For this purpose, the Fab fragment of Cetuximab, a monoclonal antibody that binds with high affinity to epidermal growth factor receptor...

This 68-year-old patient with Stage 4 chronic kidney disease was reviewed in our low clearance clinic 2 months after formation of a left arteriovenous fistula. The prominent ‘half-and-half’ appearance of his nails was noted. Nail disorders are common in chronic renal failure, affecting up to 70% of haemodialysis patients [1]. Half-and-half or Lindsay nails [2], where the proximal half of the na...

Software often goes through a variety of extensions during its lifetime: adding new fields or new variants to a data structure, retroactively creating new type abstractions, and adding new operations on a data structure. As characterized by the extensibility problem, it should be possible to apply any combination of these types of extensions in any order. Mainstream object-oriented languages, h...

A 14-month-old child was diagnosed with a Veau Class II cleft palate. Von Langenbeck palatoplasty was performed for the right palate, and V-Y pushback palatoplasty was performed for the left palate. The child did not have a special problem during the surgery, and the authors were able to elongate the cleft by 10 mm. Contrary to preoperative concerns regarding the hybrid use of palatoplasties, t...

Example An operating system is a widely-used example of a complex concurrent system that manages many different types of applications and hardware. For instance, it coordinates and demultiplexes the communication between standard Internet networking applications, such as telnet, ftp, smtp, dns, and inetd, and hardware I/O devices, such as network interfaces, disk controllers, end-user terminals...