M. Sasaki

Publication List Details

Period

1987 - 2009

Number

225

Co-Authors

Measurement of the Flux of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays by the Stereo Technique (2009)

Abbasi, R. U., Abu-Zayyad, T., Al-Seady, M., Allen, M., Amann, J. F., Archbold, G., ...

The High Resolution Fly's Eye experiment has measured the flux of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays using the stereoscopic air fluorescence technique. The HiRes experiment consists of two detectors that...

OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the Most Massive M Dwarf Planetary Companion? (2009)

Dong, Subo, Gould, Andrew, Udalski, Andrzej, Anderson, Jay, Christie, G. W., Gaudi, B. S., ...

We combine all available information to constrain the nature of OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the second planet discovered by microlensing and the first in a high-magnification event. These include...

Limits on Nonstandard Forces in the Submicrometer Range (2009)

Masuda, M., Sasaki, M.

We report the search for a nonstandard force by measuring the Casimir forces in the 0.48--6.5 $\mu$m range. By comparing the data and the theory of the Casimir force, we have obtained constraints for...

Non-Gaussianity as a Probe of the Physics of the Primordial Universe and the Astrophysics of the Low Redshift Universe (2009)

Komatsu, E., Afshordi, N., Bartolo, N., Baumann, D., Bond, J. R., Buchbinder, E. I., ...

A new and powerful probe of the origin and evolution of structures in the Universe has emerged and been actively developed over the last decade. In the coming decade, non-Gaussianity, i.e., the study...

OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the Most Massive M Dwarf Planetary Companion? (2009)

Christie, G.W., Gaudi, B.S., Kubiak, M., Szymanski, M.K., Pietrzynski, G., Soszynski, I., ...

We combine all available information to constrain the nature of OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the second planet discovered by microlensing and the first in a high-magnification event. These include...

OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, The Most Massive M Dwarf Planetary Companion? (2009)

Dong, S, Gould, A, Udalski, A, Anderson, J, Christie, GW, Gaudi, BS, ...

We combine all available information to constrain the nature of OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the second planet discovered by microlensing and the first in a high-magnification event. These include...

Transmembrane Region Prediction with Hydropathy Index/Charge Two-Dimensional Trajectories of Stochastic Dynamical Systems Abstract (2008)

T. Kaburagi, D. Muramatsu, S. Hashimoto, M. Sasaki, T. Matsumoto

A new algorithm is proposed for predicting transmembrane regions from two dimensional vector trajectories consisting of hydropathy index and charge of a test amino acid sequence by stochastic...

A multipixel silicon APD with ultralow dark count rate at liquid nitrogen temperature (2008)

Akiba, M., Tsujino, K., Sato, K., Sasaki, M.

The dark count rate of a multipixel photon counter (MPPC) was reduced to less than 0.2 cps by cooling the counter to 78.5 K. Characteristics of the MPPC other than the dark count rate were also...

Measurement of cosmic-ray low-energy antiproton spectrum with the first BESS-Polar Antarctic flight (2008)

Abe, K., Fuke, H., Haino, S., Hams, T., Itazaki, A., Kim, K. C., ...

The BESS-Polar spectrometer had its first successful balloon flight over Antarctica in December 2004. During the 8.5-day long-duration flight, almost 0.9 billion events were recorded and 1,520...

DECIGO pathfinder (2008)

Ando, M., Kawamura, Seiji, Nakamura, T., Tsubono, K., Tanaka, T., Funaki, I., ...

DECIGO pathfinder (DPF) is a milestone satellite mission for DECIGO (DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory) which is a future space gravitational wave antenna. DECIGO is expected...

The Japanese space gravitational wave antenna: DECIGO (2008)

Kawamura, Seiji, Ando, M., Nakamura, T., Tsubono, K., Tanaka, T., Funaki, I., ...

DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (DECIGO) is the future Japanese space gravitational wave antenna. DECIGO is expected to open a new window of observation for gravitational...

The Japanese space gravitational wave antenna - DECIGO (2008)

Kawamura, Seiji, Ando, M., Nakamura, T., Tsubono, K., Tanaka, T., Funaki, I., ...

DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (DECIGO) is the future Japanese space gravitational wave antenna. The goal of DECIGO is to detect gravitational waves from various kinds of...

Abstract- Japanese Universities have reformed since the Ministry of Education changed the (2007)

H. Akiyama, T. Fujiyoshi, T. Fukusako, S. Katsuki, T. Kita, K. Ogata, ...

university standards in 1991. The many things impacting on the quality of higher education, such as curricula, syllabi, entrance examinations and others have been reformed. Student laboratory for...

Pulsed and DC discharges in supercritical carbon dioxide (2007)

Kiyan, Tsuyoshi, Tanaka, K., Uemura, A., Takade, M., Roy, B.C., Namihira, Takao, ...

This paper reports the experimental results on the breakdown voltage and phenomena in carbon dioxide medium at 298, 304 and 373 K and within the pressure range of 0.1 to 12.0/20.0 MPa under the...

DC Breakdown Voltage of Carbon Dioxide Medium under Needle to Plane Electrode (2007)

Takade, M., Tanaka, K., Uemura, A., Roy, B.C., Kiyan, Tsuyoshi, Namihira, Takao, ...

This paper reports the experimental results on the corona onset voltage and breakdown voltage by positive and negative dc discharges in carbon dioxide medium within the pressure range of 0.1 to 15MPa...

Measurements of 0.2 to 20 GeV/n cosmic-ray proton and helium spectra from 1997 through 2002 with the BESS spectrometer (2006)

Shikaze, Y., Haino, S., Abe, K., Fuke, H., Hams, T., Kim, K. C., ...

We measured low energy cosmic-ray proton and helium spectra in the kinetic energy range 0.215 - 21.5 GeV/n at different solar activities during a period from 1997 to 2002. The observations were...

Joint LIGO and TAMA300 search for gravitational waves from inspiralling neutron star binaries (2006)

Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., ...

We search for coincident gravitational wave signals from inspiralling neutron star binaries using LIGO and TAMA300 data taken during early 2003. Using a simple trigger exchange method, we perform an...

Precision Electroweak Measurements on the Z Resonance (2006)

Schael, S, Abbiendi, G, Ainsley, C, Åkesson, P F, Alexander, G, Allison, J, ...

We report on the final electroweak measurements performed with data taken at the Z resonance by the experiments operating at the electron-positron colliders SLC and LEP. The data consist of 17...

Joint LIGO and TAMA300 search for gravitational waves from inspiralling neutron star binaries (2006)

Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., ...

We search for coincident gravitational wave signals from inspiralling neutron star binaries using LIGO and TAMA300 data taken during early 2003. Using a simple trigger exchange method, we perform an...

Results of the search for inspiraling compact star binaries from TAMA300's observation in 2000-2004 (2006)

Akutsu, Tomomi, Akutsu, Tomotadu, Ando, Masaki, Arai, Koji, Araya, Akito, Asada, H., ...

We analyze the data of the TAMA300 detector to search for gravitational waves from inspiraling compact star binaries with masses of the component stars in the range 1M[sun]–3M[sun]. In this...

The Japanese space gravitational wave antenna - DECIGO (2006)

Kawamura, Seiji, Nakamura, T., Ando, M., Seto, N., Tsubono, K., Numata, K., ...

DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (DECIGO) is the future Japanese space gravitational wave antenna. It aims at detecting various kinds of gravitational waves between 1 mHz and...

Forming sub-horizon black holes at the end of inflation (2006)

Lyth, D. H., Malik, K. A., Sasaki, M., Zaballa, I.

Previous authors have calculated the mass function of primordial black holes only on scales which are well outside the horizon at the end of inflation. Here we extend the calculation to sub-horizon...

Effect of Temperature and Pressure on the Extraction Yield of Oil from Sunflower Seed with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (2006)

Bhupesh C. Roy, M. Sasaki, M. Goto

Sunflower seed oil was extracted using supercritical carbon dioxide in a semi-continuous flow extractor with the temperature range 313-343 K and the pressure range 20-40 MPa. The extraction rates...

CTACK/CCL27 Accelerates Skin Regeneration via Accumulation of Bone Marrow-derived Keratinocytes (2006)

Inokuma, D., Abe, R., Fujita, Y., Sasaki, M., Shibaki, A., Nakamura, H., ...

Recent studies have suggested that bone marrow (BM) cells transdifferentiate to regenerate a variety of cellular lineages. Due to the relatively small population of BM-derived cells in each organ, it...

Early pregnancy factor in marsupials (2006)

Cruz, Y. P., Morton, H., Cavanagh, A. C., Selwood, L., Wilson, S. D., Sasaki, M.

Maternal recognition of pregnancy in marsupials occurs in more subtle ways than it does in eutherians. For instance, unlike in eutherians, the plasma progesterone profiles of pregnant and...

Measurements of Atmospheric Antiprotons (2005)

Yamato, K., Abe, K., Fuke, H., Haino, S., Makida, Y., Matsuda, S., ...

We measured atmospheric antiproton spectra in the energy range 0.2 to 3.4 GeV, at sea level and at balloon altitude in the atmospheric depth range 4.5 to 26 g/cm^2. The observed energy spectra,...

Pulsed discharge plasmas in supercritical carbon dioxide (2005)

Kiyan, Tsuyoshi, Uemura, A., Tanaka, K., Zhang, C.H., Namihira, Takao, Sakugawa, Takashi, ...

In recent years, several studies about electrical discharge plasma in supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) have been carried out. One of the unique characteristics of supercritical fluid is a large...

Extraction of Citrus Oil from Peel Slurry of Japanese Citrus Fruits with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (2005)

Bhupesh C. Roy, M. Sasaki, M. Goto

Peel slurry of some Japanese citrus fruits, such as lemon, shikuwasa and daidai, was used as an alternative source of citrus oil and the extraction was conducted by using supercritical carbon dioxide...

Measurement of the flux of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays from monocular observations by the High Resolution Fly's Eye experiment (2004)

Abu-Zayyad, T, Amann, J F, Archbold, G, Bellido, J A, Belov, K, ...

We have measured the cosmic ray spectrum above 10(17.2) eV using the two air-fluorescence detectors of the High Resolution Fly's Eye observatory operating in monocular mode. We describe the detector,...

The American Journal of Physiology- Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology publishes original investigations that (2004)

Kenju Miki, Makiko Kato, Suzuko Kajii, S. Koba, T. Yoshida, N. Hayashi, ...

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Development of active environmental and personal neutron dosemeters (2004)

Nakamura, T., Nunomiya, T., Sasaki, M.

For neutron dosimetry in the radiation environment surrounding nuclear facilities, two types of environmental neutron dosemeters, the high-sensitivity rem counter and the high-sensitivity...

Experimental demonstration of quantum source coding (2003)

Mitsumori, Y., Vaccaro, J.A., Barnett, S.M., Andersson, E., Hasegawa, A., Takeoka, M., ...

We report an experimental demonstration of Schumacher's quantum noiseless coding theorem. Our experiment employs a sequence of single photons, each of which represents three qubits in terms of eight...

Characterisation of a Real-time Personal Neutron Dosemeter with Two Silicon Detectors (1999)

Nakamura, T., Sasaki, M., Ueda, O., Suzuki, T.

A new real-time personal neutron dosemeter has been developed. The dosemeter contains two neutron sensors, a fast neutron sensor and a slow neutron sensor, which are both p-type silicon semiconductor...

Si micromechanical fiber-optic switch with shape memory alloy microactuator. (1999)

Hara, K., Hane, K., Sasaki, M., Kohl, M.

Transducers '99 : The 10th Internat.Conf.on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators, Sendai, J, June 7-10, 1999

Gene therapy of malignant glioma: Recent advances in experimental and clinical studies (1998)

Sasaki, M., Plate, K. H.

Recent advances in molecular tumor biology and gene technology have provided the possibility to treat patients with malignant brain tumors by altering gene expression in tumor cells. Tumor...

FABRICATION AND EVALUATION OF SiC/C FUNCTIONALLY GRADIENT MATERIAL (1991)

Sasaki, M., Hirai, T.

A plate-like deposit having a compositional gradient from carbon (C) to silicon carbide (SiC) (SiC/C FGM) was obtained on a graphite substrate with chemical vapour deposition (CVD) by changing the...

GAS FLOW SIMULATION OF CHEMICAL VAPOUR INFILTRATION IN A VERTICAL HOT-WALL REACTOR (1991)

Sasaki, M., Ohkubo, A., Hirai, T.

Deposition of silicon carbide (SiC) into two types of capillaries (1.5 mm dia. x 6 mm depth, 1.0 mm dia. x 4 mm depth) has been attempted by a vertical hot-wall-type chemical vapour infiltration...

FABRICATION AND EVALUATION OF SiC/C FUNCTIONALLY GRADIENT MATERIAL (1991)

Sasaki, M., Hirai, T.

A plate-like deposit having a compositional gradient from carbon (C) to silicon carbide (SiC) (SiC/C FGM) was obtained on a graphite substrate with chemical vapour deposition (CVD) by changing the...

GAS FLOW SIMULATION OF CHEMICAL VAPOUR INFILTRATION IN A VERTICAL HOT-WALL REACTOR (1991)

Sasaki, M., Ohkubo, A., Hirai, T.

Deposition of silicon carbide (SiC) into two types of capillaries (1.5 mm dia. x 6 mm depth, 1.0 mm dia. x 4 mm depth) has been attempted by a vertical hot-wall-type chemical vapour infiltration...

New mutation causing hereditary hepatitis in the laboratory rat (1987)

Yoshida, M. C., Masuda, R., Sasaki, M., Takeichi, N., Kobayashi, H., Dempo, K., ...

A new mutant causing hereditary hepatitis associated with severe jaundica has been discovered in the LEC strain of rats. Hepatitis appears suddenly in adult rats three to four months after birth. The...

Systemic interleukin 12 displays anti-tumour activity in the mouse central nervous system.

Kishima, H., Shimizu, K., Miyao, Y., Mabuchi, E., Tamura, K., Tamura, M., ...

In various systemic cancers, interleukin 12 (IL-12) induces anti-tumour immunity mediated by T lymphocytes and natural killer cells. To determine whether IL-12 has anti-tumour activity against...