This research investigates the role non-macroeconomic factors have played in subduing inflationary pressures in Japan. We investigate the hypothesis that the under-recognized presence of goods with high foreign produced content (FPC) in the consumer market basket has coincided with reduced price-level increases over the time period 1991-2004. An empirical examination and descriptive comparison ...

--The purpose of this letter is to study a new ECG measurement by an annular FPC (flexible print circuit) electrode to the arm of the subject. This study attempts to use one FPC patch to measure ECG signals from a single-arm. The measurement system for the ECG circuit and analysis software was built to be able to measure and interpret the very weak and noisy ECG signals from the electrode. To c...

Fixed-point continuation (FPC) is an approach, based on operator-splitting and continuation, for solving minimization problems with `1-regularization:

The 2007 decision of the Federal Patent Court of Germany ("FPC") invalidating the "Lipitor" patent is taken as a departure point for a review of the fundamental differences in how the European Patent Office ("EPO") and the FPC and Federal Supreme Court ("FSC") assess the novelty of chemical compound selection inventions. The article highlights EPO and German decisions pertaining to the novelty ...

We stabilized the frequency of a compact planar-waveguide external cavity laser (ECL) on a Fabry-Perot cavity (FPC) through a Pound-Drever-Hall scheme. The residual frequency stability of the ECL is 10(-14), comparable to the stability achievable with a fiber laser (FL) locked to an FPC through the same scheme. We set up an optical link of 100 km, based on fiber spools, that reaches 10(-19) rel...

BACKGROUND Targeted liposome-polycation-DNA complex (LPD), mainly conjugated with antibodies using functionalized PEG derivatives, is an effective nanovector for systemic delivery of small interference RNA (siRNA). However, there are few studies reporting the effect of different conjugation linkers on LPD for gene silencing. To clarify the influence of antibody conjugation linkers on LPD, we pr...

BACKGROUND Fabry disease. an X-linked deficiency of α-galactosidase A coded by the GLA gene, leads to intracellular globotriaosylceramide (GL-3) accumulation. Although less common than in males, chronic kidney disease, occurs in ∼ 15% of females. Recent studies highlight the importance of podocyte injury in Fabry nephropathy development and progression. We hypothesized that the greater the % of...

A technique for high-precision and high-accuracy assessment of both gas molar (and number) density pressure, Gas Modulation Refractometry (GAMOR), is presented. The achieves its properties by assessing refractivity as a shift directly measurable beat frequency use Fabry-Perot cavity (FPC) based refractometry utilizing the Pound-Drever-Hall laser locking technique. Conventional FPC-based is, how...

This article presents the main stages of development an automated system processes for determining and ensuring functional parametric compatibility (FPC) components production technological systems (PTS), in particular modules (PTM) machine-building production, respectively, based on analysis systematization zones loading equipment (MTE) construction coating surfaces, parameters industrial robo...