Japanese cedar pollinosis (JCP) is an important illness caused by the inhalation of airborne allergenic cedar pollens, which are dispersed in the early spring throughout the Japanese islands. However, associations between pollen exposures and the prevalence or severity of allergic symptoms are largely unknown, due to a lack of understanding regarding personal pollen exposures in relation to ind...

Background: Cedar pollinosis is a widespread seasonal allergy that is unique to Japan. Environmental exposure units (EEU) assist in the development of effective therapeutic and preventive measures because outdoor studies are limited by seasonal variation in pollen exposure. Objectives: We constructed an EEU to conduct a randomized cross-over double-blind placebo-controlled study of the effi cac...

The Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation of Eastern Utah: a Comparison with the Coeval Burro Canyon Formation, Including New Measured Sections on the Uncompahgre Uplift

This paper proposes a method of preparing high-strength formed coke from woody biomass without binder. Chipped and pre-dried Japanese cedar was heat-treated in an inert atmosphere (i.e., torrefied) at 225–325°C (Tt), pulverized to sizes three different ranges, molded into briquettes (in the form thick disk with diameter/thickness ≈ 2.5) temperature up 200°C by applying mechanical pressure 128 M...

We studied hydraulic traits of young plants of the Mediterranean cedar species Cedrus atlantica (Endl.) G. Manetti ex Carrière (Luberon, France), C. brevifolia (Hook. f.) Henry (Cyprus), C. libani A. Rich (Hadeth El Jebbe, Lebanon) and C. libani (Armut Alani, Turkey). With an optimum water supply, no major differences were observed among species or provenances in either stem hydraulic conductiv...

Machine. An original goal for Cedar was to combine a compiled, strongly-typed language with the interpretive symbolic power of lnterlisp or Smalltalk. The Abstract Machine is a step in this direction. Its facilities are all ultimately based on the symbol tables and program graphs that the compiler, binder, and program loaders produce. Its primary use at present is in support of ordinary Cedar a...

We investigated interannual variability of canopy transpiration per unit ground area (E (C)) and per unit leaf area (E (L)) across seven tree species in northern Wisconsin over two years. These species have previously been shown to be sufficient to upscale stand-level transpiration to the landscape level during one growing season. Our objective was to test whether a simple plant hydraulic model...

BACKGROUND IgE antibodies against Japanese cedar pollen (JCP) play an important role for the pathogenesis of the cedar pollinosis, but the mechanism of their production has been unclear. We explored the capacity of peripheral blood B cells from pollinosis patients to produce anti-JCP specific IgE. METHODS Peripheral blood B cells from 16 pollinosis patients and 9 normal subjects were cultured...