In Western countries underestimation of energy intake (EI) is considered a serious problem in dietary surveys, but information on the accuracy of EI among Japanese people is sparse. We compared estimated EI with measured total energy expenditure (TEE) in 21 Japanese women aged 20-22 y. Dietary intake was estimated by 7-d weighed dietary records (7dWR) and a self-administered diet history questi...

We describe the fabrication and properties of high critical current density (Jc) Nb/AlOx/Nb Josephson junctions with deep-submicron dimensions. The junctions are fabricated using a planarized process in which all levels are patterned using a combination of optical and electron beam lithography. The base and counter electrodes are defined by reactive ion etching using quartz etch masks to give a...

To date, various measurement approaches have been proposed to assess emotional intelligence (EI). Recently, two new EI tests have been developed based on the situational judgment test (SJT) paradigm: the Situational Test of Emotional Understanding (STEU) and the Situational Test of Emotion Management (STEM). Initial attempts have been made to examine the construct-related validity of these new ...

OBJECTIVE Emotional intelligence (EI) is regarded an important factor related to psychiatric disorder. Most of previous studies of EI and depression only dealt with EI in present of depressive symptoms. Our study investigated EI both before and after remission of depression and to identify which component of EI is changeable by depression condition. METHODS EI was evaluated for 23 depression ...

In this note I describe a recent result ([14]-[15]) on homogenization and error estimates of a free boundary problem, which describes quasi-static contact angle dynamics on inhomogeneous surface. The method presented here also applies to more general class of free boundary problems with oscillating boundary velocities. Let us define ei ∈ IR, i = 1, ..., n such that e1 = (1, 0, .., 0), e2 = (0, ...

the synthesis of nb doped batio3 has been investigated under microwave-hydrothermal (mh) conditions in the temperature of 150°c for only 2 h using c16h36o4ti, bah2o2.8h2o and nbcl5 as ba, ti and  nb sources, respectively.  typical experiments performed on mh processing have not yet reported for nb doped batio3.  in the mh process, the formation of high purity nano tetragonal nb-batio3 was stron...