Main Body Portion Research Articles

機那サフラン酒造本舗 吉澤家住宅主屋の大正2(1913)年増築について

This article examined enlargement construction of the Yoshizawa's main house in 1913 from the building and the building document both sides. It's the following points to become clear. The entrance hall part built in the front of the main house at the time in the middle of the Meiji era is connected. It was revealed that the main house body portion was enlarged in 1913 from the building document and the inscription of the ridge-end tile. The main house was modified from wood-roofing to tile-roofing in 1913. This is a precious example indicating the tile-roofing having spread here from this time. Eikichi Kaneyasu estimated the central room enlargement construction of 1913 at first in July, 1912. And Eikichi showed the estimate with changing it again in November, 1912, but the estimate to change of December was shown by Hamakichi Nishiwaki. Eikichi Kaneyasu cannot carry out construction and can I judge that Nishiwaki succeeds a contract of Eikichi and carried it out. By the enlargement construction of 1913, there were at least three times of estimates by changing it. A roof was changed from thatching the roof with shingles to the tile-roofing by the first change of November, 1912. The expansion of the scale and the second-floor plan were added by the second change of December, 1912. The third change of March, 1913 changed the eaves. As a result, the building area of the central room increased 3.7 times as much as the estimate at first. This enlargement is a precious example indicating the tile-roofing having spread here from this time. Moreover, the maker who supplied the tile to the enlargement construction of the main house was Shiono Takezo of Zingamine.

ACOUSTIC PANELS, APPARATUS AND ASSEMBLIES WITH AIRFLOW-RESISTIVE LAYERS ATTACHED TO SOUND INCIDENT SURFACES

An acoustic panel includes a main body portion having a substantially planar front surface for orientation toward a sound source and an opposite, substantially convoluted rear surface. An airflow-resistive layer of material is secured to the planar front surface in face-to-face contacting relationship. The airflow-resistive layer of material may have a specific airflow resistance of between about 50-20,000 mks rayls, and may be configured to attenuate sound at one or more predetermined frequencies. A depth of convolution of the rear surface is between about forty percent to about seventy-five percent (40%-75%) of a thickness of the main body portion.

Human dopamine response to drugs and natural rewards

The anhedonia hypothesis of drug addiction posits that drugs of abuse target the same neural systems as natural rewards such as food and sex. The most likely candidate brain region is the mesolimbic dopamine system. In animals, dopamine is released in the ventral striatum, or nucleus accumbens, in response to food, sexual mates, and to almost all drugs of abuse. There are several predictions one can make from the anhedonia hypothesis: (1) dopamine release in response to reinforcers will correlate with the degree of pleasure experienced; (2) natural reinforcers and drugs of abuse will release dopamine in the same brain areas; (3) aversive stimuli will not release dopamine. These predictions can be tested with PET experiments in human subjects. The method we use consists in comparing the binding potential of the D2 ligand [11C]raclopride in baseline and activation conditions. Studies in humans: Oral amphetamine and alcohol caused dopamine release in the ventral striatum in humans. The effect was greater in individuals with the novelty-seeking personality, a risk factor for addiction. The effect did not correlate with pleasure. However, while alcohol and amphetamine caused dopamine release in the ventral striatum, two natural rewards (money and food) targeted the main body and dorsal portion of the striatum. Thus there may be a dissociation between natural and drug rewards with respect to dopamine transmission. Another possibility is that conditioned rewarding stimuli target different brain regions than novel ones. We provided evidence for this second explanation by measuring dopamine release in response to smoking cigarettes in habitual smokers. Cigarette smoking caused dopamine release in the dorsal striatum. Finally, human and animal data suggest that hyper-responsiveness of the dopamine system may be a risk factor for addiction. How does dopamine hyper-responsiveness develop? We investigated this issue using two paradigms. We showed that poor parental bonding early in life was associated with a greater dopamine response to mental stress in adulthood. We also demonstrated sensitization in human subjects: we showed that repeated doses of oral amphetamine caused an enhanced response to subsequent amphetamine. This effect persisted after one year (See Figure 1).

Hollow tubular device to assist patients during speech therapy

A hollow tubular device to assist patients during speech therapy a main body portion of a tubular configuration having a hollow interior with an interior surface and having an exterior surface, the main body portion being formed of a plastic material; a pair of parallel end caps at each end of the main body portion, the end caps being circular in shape with a thickness essentially the same thickness as the side wall; and an centrally disposed aperture extending through each end cap.

Cardiovascular assist devices

A cardiovascular assist device for producing an inwardly orienting pulsating pressure circumferentially to the entire length of each extremity of a patient, including a main body portion surrounding the extremity and a lateral body portion being inflatable to tightly constrict the main body portion about the extremity before pulsation. The lateral body portion includes a single inflatable tube having connecting tapes extending substantially entirely circumferentially therearound and oppositely circumferentially at least partially around said main body portion to terminal ends secured to the main body portion. The main body portion includes an outer restraint material reinforced by a plurality of circumferentially extending and a plurality of longitudinally extending restraint tapes, two sheets of resilient material circumferentially bonded together at longitudinal intervals and longitudinally along seams to produce a plurality of overlapping circumferentially extending inflatable bladders, which are longitudinally spaced from each other, an inner pouch material and a plurality of fluid couplings communicating with each bladder and inflatable tube. Mittens are provided to close one end of each main body portion and similarly constructed to provide an inwardly pulsating pressure to the respective hand or foot of the patient. The main body portions and mittens may be donned and doffed by means of respective longitudinally extending fasteners, and thereafter manually circumferentially constricted by means of longitudinally extending lacings prior to the pressure constriction caused by inflating the lateral body portion.

Ceiling tile section support

A ceiling tile section support. A flat rectangular main body portion has a plurality of wedge-shaped prongs extending laterally thereform and at least two rectangular support members extending laterally from substantialy the central portion of the main body portion in a direction opposed to that of the prongs. The prongs are inserted into the cut edge of a ceiling tile. The rectangular support members rest on a wall runner to support the cut edge of the ceiling tile.

Calibration impact hammer

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Earplug mounting device with audio passageway

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Vibration dampening ring

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