Physicochemical properties of bactericidal plasma-treated water

S Ikawa, A Tani, Y Nakashima… - Journal of Physics D …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Plasma-treated water (PTW), ie distilled water (DW) exposed to low-temperature atmospheric
pressure helium plasma, exhibited strong bactericidal activity against Escherichia coli in …

Millennial-scale oscillations of the westerly jet path during the last glacial period

K Nagashima, R Tada, A Tani, Y Sun, Y Isozaki… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2011 - Elsevier
It has been established that East Asian summer monsoon intensity varies with Dansgaard–Oeschger
cycles, suggesting a connection between the climates of East Asia and the North …

Pluto's ocean is capped and insulated by gas hydrates

…, K Kuramoto, N Noguchi, J Kimura, A Tani - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Many icy Solar System bodies possess subsurface oceans. On Pluto, Sputnik Planitia’s location
near the equator suggests the presence of a subsurface ocean and a locally thinned ice …

Tracing the provenance of fine‐grained dust deposited on the central Chinese Loess Plateau

…, J Chen, Q Liu, S Toyoda, A Tani… - Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Eolian dust deposits in north China provide an excellent means of determining past variations
in continental paleoclimate and atmospheric circulation. However, debate still exists on …

Free radicals induced in aqueous solution by non-contact atmospheric-pressure cold plasma

A Tani, Y Ono, S Fukui, S Ikawa, K Kitano - Applied Physics Letters, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
To understand plasma-induced chemical processing in liquids, we investigated the formation
of free radicals in aqueous solution exposed to different types of non-contact atmospheric-…

Orbital-and millennial-scale variations in Asian dust transport path to the Japan Sea

K Nagashima, R Tada, H Matsui, T Irino, A Tani… - Palaeogeography …, 2007 - Elsevier
Orbital- and millennial-scale variations in the Asian monsoon and its probable association
with the Dansgaard–Oeschger (D–O) Cycles have been demonstrated by previous studies. …

FDG PET/CT and diffusion-weighted imaging for breast cancer: prognostic value of maximum standardized uptake values and apparent diffusion coefficient values of …

…, T Kaneko, Y Kaneko, T Takasaki, A Tani… - European journal of …, 2010 - Springer
Purpose To correlate both primary lesion 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) maximum
standardized uptake value (SUVmax) and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) apparent diffusion …

Deep-biosphere methane production stimulated by geofluids in the Nankai accretionary complex

…, M Nishizawa, VJ Orphan, H Røy, F Schmidt, A Tani… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Microbial life inhabiting subseafloor sediments plays an important role in Earth’s carbon
cycle. However, the impact of geodynamic processes on the distributions and carbon-cycling …

FDG PET/CT and diffusion-weighted imaging of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: comparison of prognostic significance between primary tumor standardized …

M Nakajo, M Nakajo, Y Kajiya, A Tani… - Clinical nuclear …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Purpose: To compare primary tumor 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) maximum standardized
uptake value (SUV max) and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) apparent diffusion …

Distinguishing the sources of Asian dust based on electron spin resonance signal intensity and crystallinity of quartz

…, R Tada, J Chen, H Chen, S Toyoda, A Tani… - Atmospheric …, 2007 - Elsevier
We report a newly developed provenance-tracing method by using a combination of electron
spin resonance (ESR) signal intensity of the E 1 ′ center in quartz and crystallinity index (…