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The Umami Taste Could Have an Important and Beneficial Role in Health
Jan 28, 2015The umami taste could have an important and beneficial role in health, according to Japanese research. A series of studies published in the journal Flavour in January 2015 found that umami and ‘kokumi’ substances, which modify ...
Tags: low-fat foods, Agriculture
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Higher Breakdown Voltage for FP GaN HEMTs Over Convention Field-Plate Designs
Sep 3, 2014Researchers in Japan and USA have claimed the first experimental demonstration of higher breakdown voltage for slant field-plate (FP) gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) over convention field-plate designs ...
Tags: GaN, HEMTs, Electronics
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Fukuda Crystal Lab Grown Scandium Aluminium Magnesium Oxide Crystal with a Diameter
Aug 22, 2014Fukuda Crystal Laboratory Co Ltd has grown ScAlMgO4 scandium aluminium magnesium oxide (SCAM) crystal with a diameter of 50mm (2 inches) that could be used as a substrate for gallium nitride (GaN)-based light-emitting devices such as blue ...
Tags: Fukuda Crystal Lab, a diameter, Electrical
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A Diet High in Animal Protein May Help Prevent Functional Decline in The Elderly
Mar 13, 2014A diet high in animal protein may help prevent functional decline in the elderly, researchers in Japan suggest. Megumi Tsubota-Utsugi of the National Institute of Health and Nutrition in Japan, and her colleagues in Tohoku University and ...
Tags: protein, Identifying nutritional factors, absorb or process protein
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Way to Teleport Energy Long Distances Is Suggested by New Theory
Feb 8, 2014(Phys.org) —A trio of researchers at Tohoku University in Japan, led by Masahiro Hotta, has proposed a new way to teleport energy that allows for doing so over long distances. In their paper published in Physical Review A, the team ...
Tags: teleport energy, Star Trek, LED, Hotta
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SMM Succeeded in Developing a New Silicon-Containing Oxide-Based Red Phosphor1
May 23, 2012Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. (SMM), working in collaboration with a research team from Tohoku University’s Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM) headed by Professor Masato Kakihana, has succeeded ...
Tags: phosphor
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New Oxide-Based Red Phosphor Will Be Developed in Future
May 23, 2012Lately, Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. (SMM) has teamed up with a research team from Tohoku University's Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM) headed by Professor Masato Kakihana, to successfully develop a ...
Tags: SMM Cooperates, Tohoku University, red phosphor, white LEDs