Capacitive deionization (CDI) has newly emerged as a desalination technology because of its energy and cost effectiveness. In particular, CDI using flow electrode (FCDI) significantly increased salt removal by continuous even at concentrations both brackish seawater. Since mainly uses the electrosorption ions onto an electric double layer on electrodes, carbon materials their derivatives have b...

Graduate Student, Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan *E-mail: [email protected], Japan Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8579, Japan Research and Development Center, Tohoku Electric Power Co., I...

In this paper, we consider a dynamic model in which a firm’s headquarters (HQ) allocates the limited capital budget into two divisions which are privately informed of their investment opportunities, having an overstating incentive. The vertical communication between HQ and each division is based on a contract, while the horizontal communication between divisions is collusive to overstate. The m...

Escherichia coli class Ib ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) converts nucleoside 5'-diphosphates to deoxynucleoside 5'-diphosphates and is expressed under iron-limited and oxidative stress conditions. This RNR is composed of two homodimeric subunits: alpha2 (NrdE), where nucleotide reduction occurs, and beta2 (NrdF), which contains an unidentified metallocofactor that initiates nucleotide reduction...

Imparting knowledge of the physical processes of a system to a model and determining a set of parameter values for a hydrologic or water quality model application (i.e., parameterization) are important and difficult tasks. An exponential increase in the literature has been devoted to the use and development of these models over the years. Few articles, however, have been devoted to developing g...

This study examines the determinants and outcomes of the adoption of high performance work systems (HPWS) in foreign subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNCs). Region-of-origin of MNCs, headquarters (HQ) influence, and strategic human resource management (SHRM) orientation are expected to determine subsidiaries’ use of HPWS, which affects firm performance via organizational climate. We ...

For an orbifold M we define a homology group, called t-singular homology group t-Hq(M), which depends not only on the topological structure of the underlying space of M , but also on the orbifold structure of M . We prove that it is a b-homotopy invariant of orbifolds. If M is a manifold, t-Hq(M) coincides with the usual singular homology group. We calculate the t-singular homology groups with ...

Apoptosis-inducing factor (Aif) is a mitochondrial flavoprotein that regulates cell metabolism and survival in many tissues. We report that aif-hypomorphic harlequin (Hq) mice show thymic hypocellularity and a cell-autonomous thymocyte developmental block associated with apoptosis at the β-selection stage, independent of T cell receptor β recombination. No abnormalities are observed in the B ce...

We evaluate heavy-quark (HQ) transport properties in a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) within a Brueckner many-body scheme employing interaction potentials extracted from thermal lattice QCD. The in-medium T matrices for elastic charm- and bottom-quark scattering off light quarks in the QGP are dominated by attractive meson and diquark channels which support resonance states up to temperatures of ~1.5...

Mice with the hypomorphic AIF-Harlequin mutation exhibit a highly heterogeneous mitochondriopathy that mostly affects respiratory chain complex I, causing a cerebral pathology that resembles that found in patients with AIF loss-of-function mutations. Here we describe that the antidiabetic drug pioglitazone (PIO) can improve the phenotype of a mouse Harlequin (Hq) subgroup, presumably due to an ...