Publications by authors named "Takeshi Hirai"

This paper presents the communication performance of PC5-based Cellular-Vehicle-to-Everything mode 4 (called mode 4) to measure the feasibility of a Crash Warning System (called CWS). The CWS requires nodes (e.g.

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Background: The use of anesthesia in patients older than 90 years has been increasing. We examined the perioperative management of these patients.

Methods: The perioperative complications, waiting period for surgery, method of anesthesia, and prognosis in patients older than 90 years undergoing operations for femoral neck/trochanteric fractures were retrospectively examined in our anesthesia database.

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The potential for room-temperature lasing in densely doped organic crystals has been examined using (fluorene)0.8-(anthracene)0.2 thin crystals fabricated in a narrow gap between two quartz plates.

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has its onset in middle age and is a progressive disorder characterized by degeneration of motor neurons of the primary motor cortex, brainstem and spinal cord. Most cases of ALS are sporadic, but about 10% are familial. Genes known to cause classic familial ALS (FALS) are superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1), ANG encoding angiogenin, TARDP encoding transactive response (TAR) DNA-binding protein TDP-43 (ref.

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Angiomyofibroblastoma is a rare, usually small benign mesenchymal tumor that occurs in vulvar lesions of premenopausal women. A case of angiomyofibroblastoma that arose as a unique pedunculated and particularly large mass in the left vulva of a 48-year-old woman is presented herein. The patient had been aware of a gradually enlarged mass of 7 years duration without any other gynecological symptoms or signs.

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The dependences of cathodoluminescence (CL) from ZnO:Zn phosphor powder upon local space, accelerating voltage and beam current have been investigated at room temperature. Ultraviolet (UV) luminescence, which is hard to be observed in photoluminescence (PL) at room temperature, has been clearly observed in CL as well as green luminescence. The intensity ratio of the UV luminescence to the green one varies from point to point.

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