Building consumes large amount of energy for its operation. At present, maintenance of indoor artificially controlled environment contributes to the higher building energy consumption and environmental problems. Sorpt...
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Building consumes large amount of energy for its operation. At present, maintenance of indoor artificially controlled environment contributes to the higher building energy consumption and environmental problems. Sorption based cooling system is an alternative device for the maintenance of indoor thermal comfort condition that operates using alternative energy sources and harmless working substances to lessen the impact of building energy consumption and environmental problem. Sorption wheel is the most important component of the sorption based cooling system and the performance of the whole system depends on it. Experimental studies had been conducted on the performance evaluation of the sorption processes based on important parameters such as of regeneration temperature, flow rates and rotational speed for practical performance evaluation. Evaluation of the energy consumption of the system has been done when sensible wheel is in tandem operation with the sorption wheel.
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition(EMT)was first reported as an essential process in embryonic cells and later showed that cancer cells,regardless of the context,exhibited a similar phenomenon that was crucial for tumo...
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Epithelial-mesenchymal transition(EMT)was first reported as an essential process in embryonic cells and later showed that cancer cells,regardless of the context,exhibited a similar phenomenon that was crucial for tumor *** cells lose their adhesive characteristic capacity which is necessary for their functions but gain a mesenchymal *** change from epithelial to the mesenchymal phenotype of cancer cells makes it difficult to understand the mechanism underlying cancer biology and tumor progression.A number of transcription factors involved in tumor cell EMT and microRNA-regulated EMT have been *** review discussed recent findings and new players in EMT in gastrointestinal *** the molecular mechanisms of tumor progression are sometimes context-dependent,the recent findings of EMT have been reviewed in a context-dependent manner.
[Background] Medical staff have many occasions to be exposed to anticancer drugs (ACDs) in the process of performing cancer chemotherapy. Although guidelines for the safe handling of ACDs have been published, actual m...
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[Background] Medical staff have many occasions to be exposed to anticancer drugs (ACDs) in the process of performing cancer chemotherapy. Although guidelines for the safe handling of ACDs have been published, actual measures against exposure to ACDs differ between hospitals, and no surveillance data regarding the conditions of each hospital in relation to performing chemotherapy in Japan are available. [Methods] To understand current measures against exposure to ACDs and problems related to cancer chemotherapy at outpatient departments, we conducted a questionnaire survey on doctors, pharmacists, and nurses in 10 leading hospitals for cancer chemotherapy in Japan. [Results] Responses were received from all 10 institutions. The hospital pharmacists prepared all ACDs for outpatients in each institution. All hospitals took basic measures against ACD exposure, such as using personal protective equipment and penetration-resistant waste containers. Conditions against exposure to ACDs generally improved between 2012 and 2015, especially in terms of conveyance of ACDs and use of a closed-system drug transfer device. However, no measures linking ACDs with administration routes or injection sites were commonly taken in any of the hospitals in 2015. [Conclusions] Conditions against ACD exposure improved between 2012 and 2015, possibly because new guidelines were issued. To improve measures for ACD exposure in Japan, preparing more appropriate manuals and offering more opportunities to medical staff for continuing education are considered important.
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