A New Test for the Absorption Mechanism of GPS Radio Sources Using Polarization Properties

We consider the use of polarization properties as a means to discriminate between Synchrotron Self-Absorption (SSA) and Free--Free Absorption (FFA) in GHz-Peaked Spectrum (GPS) sources. The polarization position angle (PA) of synchrotron radiation at high frequencies for the optically thin regime is perpendicular to the magnetic field, whereas it is parallel to the magnetic field at low frequencies for the optically thick regime. Therefore, SSA produces a change in PA of $90^{\circ}$ across the spectral peak, while FFA does not result in such a change. We analyzed polarization data from VLA observations for six GPS sources to see if such a change in PA was present. Our results indicate that there is no significant evidence for $90^{\circ}$ change in PA across the spectral peak, suggesting that FFA is more likely than SSA for low-frequency cutoffs in these sources

A brainstem anosognosia of hemiparesis

A woman had anosognosia for hemiplegia as a manifestation of brainstem infarction. She had no mental or neuropsychological disturbances, and had involvement of the brainstem in the frontal/parietal-subcortical circuits to the right cerebral hemisphere. Brainstem lesions that disrupt frontal/parietal-subcortical areas may affect anosognosia for hemiplegia

Camptocormia in Parkinson's Disease

Objectives. Abnormalities of posture represent one of the main features of Parkinson's disease (PD). Among them, camptocormia has been considered as rare in PD. We investigated frequency and clinical features of camptocormia in PD patients. Methods. 153 PD patients (mean 68.5 ± 10.7 years old, duration 5.9 ± 2.4 years) outpatiently recruited. After neurologic examination, patients were rated on the Unified PD Rating Scale motor scale (UPDRS Part III), minimental state examination (MMSE). Also we evaluated patients with camptocormia by MRI. Of the 153 PD patients, 27 had camptocormia (mean age, 67.9 ± 7.9 years old; disease duration, 6.1 ± 3.9 years). For further evaluation, we recruited age- and sex-matched 27 PD patients without camptocormia (11 men and 16 women; mean age ±  SD, 69.2 ± 10.1 years, duration 6.0 ± 2.7 years) These selected 54 patients completed several self-assessments. Lumbar and thoracic paraspinal muscles were studied by EMG. Results. There were no significant differences in age, duration, severity, and drug dose between patients with and without camptocormia. Analysis of NMSS subitems indicated that PD patients tended to show lower scores for sleep/fatigue, attention/memory, and miscellaneous items. Conclusions. We found significant differences concerning nonmotor signs and symptoms evaluated by FAB, PDQ-8, FSQ, VAS-F, and NMSS between patients with and without camptocormia. Our findings indicate that camptocormia is a relatively common sign in PD and that patients with camptocormia scores on the PDQ-8 compared with PD patients without camptocormia. This suggests that improvements in camptocormia of PD patients may improve their QOL

AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL OBSERVATION OF JAPANESE B ENCEPHALITIS PREVAILED OVER OKAYAMA PREFECTURE DURING THE PAST 8 YEAR FROM 1946 TILL 1953

From the epidemiological point of view, an observation was made on the features of Japanese B encephalitis, which occurred and prevailed in Okayama Prefecture, where the outbreak of this disease has been reported all these 8 years from 1946 till 1953. Almost every year, the number of patients in this prefecture exceeded the average one of the whole country. In addition, it seemed to indicate serious outbreak with the period of about 10 years. Every outbreak has taken place between mid-August and early September. Both children and aged people were susceptible to this disease, the mortality being low in children and somewhat high in the aged patients. Male patients were more numerous than female patients. It is interesting to note that, when the local origin of the patients was investigated, it appeared that many children patients were of the southern parts of the prefecture and many aged patients of the northern parts, where the mortality caused by the disease is somewhat higher. Further investigation in this respect will be done in the future. The peak of this disease was usually seen to be reached in the south about two weeks earlier than in the north. Thus it may well be said that the features of the prevalence of this disease have an intimate relation with the climatic condition. The differential diagnosis of this disease was found to be difficult when accompanied with tuberculolus meningitis, ekiri, dysentery and some other disease with encephalitic or meningitic symptom

Distribution of Faraday Rotation Measure in Jets from Active Galactic Nuclei II. Prediction from our Sweeping Magnetic Twist Model for the Wiggled Parts of AGN Jets and Tails

Distributions of Faraday rotation measure (FRM) and the projected magnetic field derived by a 3-dimensional simulation of MHD jets are investigated based on our "sweeping magnetic twist model". FRM and Stokes parameters were calculated to be compared with radio observations of large scale wiggled AGN jets on kpc scales. We propose that the FRM distribution can be used to discuss the 3-dimensional structure of magnetic field around jets and the validity of existing theoretical models, together with the projected magnetic field derived from Stokes parameters. In the previous paper, we investigated the basic straight part of AGN jets by using the result of a 2-dimensional axisymmetric simulation. The derived FRM distribution has a general tendency to have a gradient across the jet axis, which is due to the toroidal component of the magnetic field generated by the rotation of the accretion disk. In this paper, we consider the wiggled structure of the AGN jets by using the result of a 3-dimensional simulation. Our numerical results show that the distributions of FRM and the projected magnetic field have a clear correlation with the large scale structure of the jet itself, namely, 3-dimensional helix. Distributions, seeing the jet from a certain direction, show a good matching with those in a part of 3C449 jet. This suggests that the jet has a helical structure and that the magnetic field (especially the toroidal component) plays an important role in the dynamics of the wiggle formation because it is due to a current-driven helical kink instability in our model.Comment: Accepted for publication in Ap

Novel characteristics of electroluminescent diodes utilizing poly(3-Alkylthiophene)s and organic molecules

IS&T/SPIE's Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, 1993, San Jose, CA, United StatesYutaka Ohmori, Masao Uchida, Chikayoshi Morishima, Akihiko Fujii, and Katsumi Yoshino "Novel characteristics of electroluminescent diodes utilizing poly(3-alkylthiophene)s and organic molecules", Proc. SPIE 1910, Electroluminescent Materials, Devices, and Large-Screen Displays, (27 August 1993). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.15113

Local sympathetic neurons promote neutrophil egress from the bone marrow at the onset of acute inflammation

This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in International Immunology following peer review. The version of record Tomoka Ao, Junichi Kikuta, Takao Sudo, Yutaka Uchida, Kenta Kobayashi, Masaru Ishii, Local sympathetic neurons promote neutrophil egress from the bone marrow at the onset of acute inflammation, International Immunology, Volume 32, Issue 11, November 2020, Pages 727–736. is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/intimm/dxaa025

Distribution of Faraday Rotation Measure in Jets from Active Galactic Nuclei I. Prediction from our Sweeping Magnetic Twist Model

Using the numerical data of MHD simulation for AGN jets based on our ``sweeping magnetic twist model'', we calculated the Faraday rotation measure (FRM) and the Stokes parameters to compare with observations. We propose that the FRM distribution can be used to discuss the 3-dimensional structure of magnetic field around jets, together with the projected magnetic field derived from the Stokes parameters. In the present paper, we supposed the basic straight part of AGN jet, and used the data of axisymmetric simulation. The FRM distribution we derived has a general tendency to have gradient across the jet axis, which is due to the toroidal component of the helical magnetic field generated by the rotation of the accretion disk. This kind of gradient in the FRM distribution is actually observed in some AGN jets (e.g. Asada et al. 2002), which suggests helical magnetic field around the jets and thus supports our MHD model. Following this success, we are now extending our numerical observation to the wiggled part of the jets using the data of 3-dimensional simulation based on our model in the following paper.Comment: Accepted for publication in Ap