Recent advances in Japan

Ko, F.K., Oastorc, C.M., Yang, J.M. and Chou, T.W. (1986). Structure and properties of multi-layer, multidirectional warp knit fabric reinforced composites. In Composites 86 Recent Advances in Japan and the United Slates, Japan Society for Composite Materials, Tokyo. 

Nishiyama, K. and Umekawa, S. in Proc. Composites 86 Recent Advances in Japan and in the United States, Proc. 3rd Japan US Conf. on Composite Materials, Tokyo, Kawata, K., Umekawa, S., Kobayahi, A. (Eds.), 1986, pp. 433-440. 

Figure 4.32 Schematic structures of spinnerets (a) Laminar flow disturbed by drop of molten pitch formed on spinneret surface. Jet material with good wettability gives larger drop (b) Shape of spinneret hole with narrow and wider parts designed to convert from laminar to turbulent flow (c) Laminar flow disturbed by a plug of stainless steel particles or mesh. Source Reprinted with permission from Otani S, Oya A, In Kawata K, Umekawa S, Kobayashi A eds. Composites 86 Recent Advances in Japan and the United States. Proc Japan-US CCM III Jpn Soc Compos Mater, Tokyo, 1-23,1986. Copyright 1986, Japan Society of Composite Materials.

Otani S, Oya A, Kawata K, Umekawa S, Kobayashi A eds.. Composites 86 Recent Advances in Japan and the United States, Proc Japan-US, CCM-III, Jpn Soc Compos Mater, Tokyo, 1-10, 1986. 

R. Spitz, Recent Advances in Mechanistic and Synthetic Aspects of Polymerization, Reidel Publishing Co., Japan, p. 485 (1987). 

Harada, R., Maeda, T., Nakashima, A., Sadakata, M., Ando, M., Yonomine, K., Otsuji, Y. and Sato, H. (1970) Electron-microscopical studies on the mechanism of oogenesis in Dirofilaria immitis. In Sasa, M. (ed.) Recent Advances in Researches on Filariasis and Schistosomiasis in Japan. Baltimore University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, pp. 99-121. 

Scotland, UK). Maybe the youngest branch of crystallography, combining photochemistry and X-ray diffraction, viz. photocrystallography, is introduced by Professor Pance Naumov (Osaka, Japan) with the chapter Chemical X-Ray Photodiffraction Principles, Examples, and Perspectives . This concise five chapter volume is closed by an in-depth treatise of the recent advances in the field of X-ray powder diffraction by Professor Keruieth Harris (Cardiff, Wales, UK) titled Powder Diffraction Crystallography of Molecular Solids . 

SappingtonT. W. and Raikhel A. S. (1995) Receptor-mediated endocytosis of yolk proteins by insect oocytes. In Recent Advances in Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, eds E. Onishi H. Sonobe and S. Y. Takahashi pp. 235-257. Nagoya University Press, Nagoya, Japan. 

Tolstikhin, I. N. (1978) A review Some recent advances in isotope geochemistry of light noble gases. In Terrestrial Noble Gases, E. C. Alexander, Jr. M. Ozima, Eds., pp. 33-62. Tokyo Japan Scientific Societies Press. 

Session 4 focused on recent advances in the thermochemical copper chloride and calcium bromide cycles. Much of the current research on thermochemical cycles for hydrogen production involves the sulphur cycles (sulphur-iodine, hybrid sulphur), however, these cycles require very high temperatures ( 800-900°C) to drive the acid decomposition step. The interest in the Cu-Cl and Ca-Br cycles is due to the lower peak temperature requirements of these cycles. The peak temperature requirement for the Cu-Cl cycle is about 550°C, which would allow this cycle to be used with lower temperature reactors, such as sodium- or lead-cooled reactors, or possibly supercritical water reactors. Ca-Br requires peak temperatures of about 760°C. Both of these cycles are projected to have good efficiencies, in the range of 40%. Work on Cu-Cl is ongoing in France, Canada and the United States. Work on Ca-Br has been done primarily in Japan and the US, with the more recent work being done in the US at ANL. The papers presented in this session summarised the recent advances in these cycles. 

Kinra, V. K., "Dispersive Wave Propagation in Random Particulate Composites, Recent Advances in Composites in the U.S. and Japan," ASTM STP 864. 1985, pp. 309-325. 

In the third article, Porter describes the chemistry of thiophenium salts and ylids, to which he has contributed extensively. The chemistry of 1,4-diazocines is presented by Perlmutter this article follows an earlier review by the same author on azocines in Volume 31 of Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry. The final article of this volume, and the second contribution from Japan, is by Tsuge and Kanemasa and deals with recent advances in azomethine ylide chemistry. 

T Isoya, K Nagakawa, A Aoshima. Recent Advances in Electroorganic Synthesis, Proceedings of the First Intern Symposium on Electroorganic Synthesis, Kurashiki, Japan, October, 31-November 3, 1986, pp 415-422. Tokyo Kodansha-Elsevier, 1987. 

Tsubaki T, Takahashi H. 1986. Recent advances in Minamata disease studies. Tokyo, Japan ... 

Yamada, K. Recent advances in industrial fermentation in Japan. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 1977,19,1563. 

H. Hatta, Y. Kogo, T. Yarii, "Oxidation Behavior of SiC coated C/C Composites", Proc. 7th Japan-US Conf. on Cmpos. Mater., Composites 95 Recent Advances in Jr an and the United States., 1995. 

Recent Advances in the Development of Doped NaAlH4 as a Hydrogen Storage Material X-ray Diffraction and Solid State H, A1, and Na NMR Studies. The 2" International Symposium on New Protium Function, Miyazaki, Japan, 12/14/01. 

Recent Advances in Environmentally Compatible Polymers, International Cellucon Conference, 11th, Tsukuba, Japan, Mar.24-26, 1999, ed. J.F. Kennedy, Woodhead Publishing Ltd., Cambridge, UK., 2001 R 295 M. Kuwahara, Characterization and Utilization of Ligninolytic Enzymes Produced by Basidiomycetes , p. 387... 

The chapter C-H Functionalizations of Heteroaromatic N-Oxides , prepared by Yoshinori Kondo (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan), gives an excellent account of the recent advances in the field of nucleophilic C-H functionalization of heteroaromatic N-oxides, by using metal-free Sn processes, as attractive environmentally benign methods of organic synthesis. 

Nittono, H. Electrophysiology of kansei recent advances in event-related brain potential research. Paper presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Kansei, Fukuoka, Japan (Proceedings (2008) pp 15-18). 

Eurukawa F, Yamamoto Y (2006) Recent advances in chemical peeling in Japan. J Dermatol 33 655-661... 

Ando S, Kuroko H, Ando I. Recent Advances in Polyimides. In Imai Y, Kakimoto M, editors. Proceeings of Japan polyimide conference 95, Tokyo, Tokyo Ra3tech, 1996. p. 92. 

Kuroda et al. Recent advances in concrete containment vessels in Japan, Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol. 140, 1993. 

B. Ranby, paper presented at Recent Advances in Environmentally Compatible Polymers, International Cellucon Conference, 11th, Tsukuba, Japan, Mar. 24—26, 1999. 

Saito Y (1998) The origin of traditional oral hygiene practices and their modem development in Japan. Recent Advances in cUnical pe-riodontology. Elsevier Sciences Publishers, Amsterdam. 

Fujimoto, S., Recent advance in plastic optical fibers in Japan, SPIE Proc., 799, 139, 1987. 

Yamaguchi K. 1997. Recent advances in microalgal bioscience in Japan, with special reference to utilization of biomass and metabolites a review. Journal of Applied Phycology 8 487-502. 

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