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Research Frontiers 2008

 

CONTENTS
 
(*) Each title on this contents page is linked to a PDF file.
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Contents 2
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Editor's Note 8
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Preface 9
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Scientific Frontiers 10
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  A Place in the "X-ray" Sun Life Science: Structural Biology – Endeavors at Frontiers of Research
M. Takata
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  Life Science: Structural Biology 16
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    The Structural Basis for an Essential Subunit Interaction in Influenza Virus RNA Polymerase
E. Obayashi, H. Yoshida and S.-Y. Park
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    Crystal Structure of an Active Form of BACE1, an Enzyme Responsible for Amyloid β Protein Production
H. Shimizu and N. Nukina
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    Protein Biotinylation Visualized Using a Complex Structure of Biotin Protein Ligase with a Substrate
N. Kunishima and B. Bagautdinov
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    Crystal Structure of the Oxidative-Stress Sensor SoxR Bound to DNA
S. Watanabe and K. Miki
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    Hypervalent Intermediate in the Oxidation of Archaeal Peroxiredoxin
T. Nakamura and T. Inoue
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    Structural Basis for the Exclusive Specificity of Slac2-a /Melanophilin for the Rab27 GTPases
M. Kukimoto- Niino, M. Shirouzu and S. Yokoyama
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    Structure of Squid Rhodopsin
M. Murakami and T. Kouyama
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    Crystal Structures of LOV1 Domains in Arabidopsis Phototropin 1 and 2
M. Nakasako and S. Tokutomi
32
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    Structural Versatility of a Bacterial Aconitase as Revealed by Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering Analysis
D. Tsuchiya
34
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    Structure and Function of Stationary Phase-Dependent Regulatory Protein
from Thermus thermophilus HB8
Y. Agari and A. Shinkai
36
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    Conformational Changes upon Activation of a Replication Initiator Protein, RepE
A. Nakamura and K. Miki
38
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    Combined Study of Crystallography and NMR Reveals Structural Basis for a Reversible Switchable Fluorescent Protein
A. Kikuchi
40
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  Life Science: Medical Biology 42
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    Structural Model Construction of the Photointermediate of Photoactive Yellow Protein by High-Angle X-Ray Scattering
H. Kamikubo and M. Kataoka
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    Structural Changes in the Muscle Thin Filament during Contraction Caused by Single and Double Electrical Pulses
T. Matsuo and N. Yagi
46
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    The Use of Microbeam X-Ray Diffraction for the Characterization of Crystal Structure of Rice Starch
A. Kubo, Y. Yuguchi and S. Kitamura
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    High-Resolution 4D In Vivo-CT for Visualization of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Motion of Small Animals
T. Sera
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    Assessment of the Pulmonary Circulation in Health and Disease Using Synchrotron Radiation Microangiography
D. O. Schwenke, K. Umetani and M. Shirai
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    Atherosclerotic Plaque Imaging Using Phase-Contrast X-Ray Computed Tomography
M. Shinohara, K. Hirata and A. Momose
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  Materials Science: Structure 56
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    Time-Resolved Investigation of Nanosecond Crystal Growth in Rapid-Phase-Change Materials for Rewritable Digital Versatile Disc
S. Kimura, Y. Tanaka and M. Takata
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    Towards In Situ X-Ray Diffraction Imaging at the Nanometer Scale: Early Detection of Nanoparticle Growth in Light Metal Alloys
N. A. Zatsepin, A. Y. Nikulin, R. A. Dilanian and O. Sakata
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    In Situ X-Ray Diffraction Measurement of Hydrogenation and Dehydrogenation of Aluminum at High Pressure and Temperature
H. Saitoh and K. Aoki
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    Direct Observation of Motion in an Atom Cage
S. Tsutsui, H. Kobayashi and A. Q. R. Baron
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    Giant Negative Thermal Expansion in Magnetic Nanocrystals
X. G. Zheng
66
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    Recent Findings on Metal Nanoparticles as New-Type Hydrogen-Storage Materials
H. Kobayashi, M. Yamauchi, H. Kitagawa and M. Takata
68
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    Rational Design of Iron Oxides with Square Planar Coordination
H. Kageyama
70
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    Helical X-Rays Probe Crystal Chirality
Y. Tanaka, A. Chainani and S. Shin
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  Materials Science: Electronic & Magnetic Properties 74
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    Resolving Subsurface Magnetism at Atomic Scale by "Diffraction Spectroscopy"
F. Matsui, T. Matsushita and H. Daimon
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    Magnetic Ordering and Fluctuation in One-dimensional Fe Nanowires
S. Shiraki
78
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    Nature of Magnetic Coupling between Mn Ions in As-Grown Ga1-xMnxAs – Systematic Temperature and Magnetic Field Dependent XMCD –
Y. Takeda
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    SR-PES and STM Observation of Metastable Chemisorption State of Oxygen on Si(110)-16× 2 Surface
M. Suemitsu
82
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    Recoil Effect of Photoelectron in the Fermi-Edge of Simple Metals
Y. Takata and Y. Kayanuma
84
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    Detection of the Valence Band in Buried Co2MnSi-MgO Tunnel Junctions by Means of Hard X-Ray Photoemission Spectroscopy
G. H. Fecher, C. Felser and K. Kobayashi
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    Experimental Magnetic Form Factors in Co3V2O8: A Combined Study of Ab Initio Calculations, Polarized Neutron Diffraction and Magnetic Compton Scattering
N. Qureshi, M. Zbiri and Y. Sakurai
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    Phonons in the New Iron-Based High-Temperature Superconductors
T. Fukuda and A. Q. R. Baron
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    Pressure-Induced Valence Anomaly in TmTe Probed by Resonant X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy
I. Jarrige, J. P. Rueff and Y. Q. Cai
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    Infrared Magneto-Optical Imaging on Phase Separation of Solids
S. Kimura
94
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    Infrared Optical Probe of Carrier Doping by X-Ray Irradiation in Organic Dimer Mott Insulator κ-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Cl
T. Sasaki
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  Chemical Science 98
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    Liquid Structure of Water: Observation of Two Structural Motifs
T. Tokushima, Y. Harada and S. Shin
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    Orientational Correlations in High-Pressure Fluid Oxygen and Nitrogen
L. Temleitner, L. Pusztai, Y. Akahama and S. Kohara
102
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    Crystal Structures of the Odd and Even Electron One-Dimensional Metal-Metal Bonded Chain Compounds
M. Mitsumi, Y. Ozawa and K. Toriumi
104
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    Structural Collapse of Fluorohydrogenate Anions in Molten Cs(FH)2.3F Detected by High-Energy X-Ray and Neutron Diffraction Studies Combined with RMC Calculation
R. Hagiwara, K. Matsumoto and S. Kohara
106
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    NifB-co, a Key FeMo-co Precursor, is a Fe6S9 Core with an Interstitial Light Atom
Y. Guo, S. J. George, L. M. Rubio and S. P. Cramer
108
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    Grasping Carbon - Bonding Nature of Penta- and Hexacoordinated Carbon by Experimental Electron Density Distribution Analysis
D. Hashizume
110
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    Selective Chemical Bond Breaking Induced by Resonant Inner-Shell Excitation of Acetone Molecule on the Ar Clusters
Y. Tamenori
112
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    A Molecular Knife - Control of Chemical Reactions Using Core Ionization -
S. Nagaoka, G. Prümper and K. Ueda
114
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    Ab Initio Structure Determination of Medium-Sized Pharmaceuticals
E. Nishibori, S. Aoyagi and M. Sakata
116
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  Earth & Planetary Science 118
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    Chondrules in the Short-Period Comet 81P/Wild 2
T. Nakamura and A. Tsuchiyama
120
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    Composition of the Mantle Transition Region Constrained by Sound Velocity Measurements at High Pressure and Temperature
T. Irifune and Y. Higo
122
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    The Electrical Conductivity of Post-Perovskite in Earth's D'' Layer
K. Hirose, K. Ohta and K. Shimizu
124
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    Melting Experiments on Fe3C and FeHx under High Pressures
Y. Nakajima, K. Sakamaki and E. Takahashi
126
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    Oxygen K-edge X-Ray Raman Scattering Study of MgSiO3 Glass at High Pressure
S. K. Lee
128
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  Environmental Science 130
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    Micro-X-Ray Fluorescence Imaging and Micro-X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Cadmium Hyperaccumulating Plant, Arabidopsis halleri ssp. gemmifera, Using High-Energy Synchrotron Radiation
A. Hokura, N. Kitajima, Y. Terada and I. Nakai
132
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    Origin of Difference in Solubility between Tellurium and Selenium into Water at Earth's Surface
Y. Takahashi
134
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    Snapshots of Metal Nanoparticles Generated on TiO2 Photocatalyst: In Situ Time-Resolved Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure Analysis
K. Teramura and T. Tanaka
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    XAFS Study of Tungsten L1-, L3-Edges: Structural Analysis of Loaded Tungsten Oxide Species
S. Yamazoe, T. Shishido and T. Tanaka
138
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  Industrial Applications 140
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    Energy Band Bending Profile of Ultra-Shallow Junction in Silicon Studied by Hard X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
M. Yoshiki
142
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    Chemical Analyses of Heavily Doped Boron in Silicon-Based Shallow Junctions by Soft X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
K. Tsutsui, H. Iwai and T. Hattori
144
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    Excellent Crystallinity of Truly Bulk Ammonothermal GaN
R. Dwilinski, M. Zajac and Y. Kanbara
146
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    Analysis of Electronic and Crystal Structures of Graphene Multi-layers by Hard X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Grazing Incidence X-Ray Diffraction
D. Kondo, S. Sato, M. Nihei and Y. Awano
148
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    Effects of Ion Implantation in Fabrication of Bit Patterned Media by Micro-XMCD Measurement
Y. Kondo, J. Ariake and M. Suzuki
150
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    X-Ray Nanospectroscopic Characterization of Single Molecular Ferromagnetic Ti1-xCoxO2 Nanosheet
K. Ono
152
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    Development of Hydrogen Storage Materials by Crystal Structure Analysis of Light Element Hydrides
T. Noritake, S. Towata and S. Orimo
154
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    Imaging of Damaged and Undamaged Hairs Using X-Ray Microtomography
K. Takehara, T. Inoue and K. Uesugi
156
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    X-Ray Diffraction Analysis of Intercellular Lipid Structure in Human Stratum Corneum Collected by Less Invasive Method
N. Kunizawa and I. Hatta
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  Instrumentations & Methodology 160
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    Precise Determination of Elastic Constants by Inelastic X-Ray Scattering
H. Fukui and A. Q.R. Baron
162
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    Construction and Development of Time-Resolved XMCD-PEEM System using Femtosecond Laser Pulse at BL25SU
K. Fukumoto
164
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    Is Lifetime-Broadening Free X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Really Feasible?
Y. Hikosaka and E. Shigemasa
166
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  Nuclear Physics 168
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    First Production of the Σ* Nucleon Resonance using the LEPS Spectrometer
K. Hicks
170
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    Photoproduction of Λ(1405) and Σ0(1385) on the Proton at Eγ = 1.5 -2.4 GeV
M. Niiyama
172
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Accelerators and Beamlines Frontiers 174
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  Beam Performance 175
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    Developments and Upgrades of Storage Ring
175
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    Developments and Upgrades of Linac
185
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  Controls & Computing 188
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    Development of Flexible and Logic-Reconfigurable VME Boards
188
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  New Apparatus & Upgrades 190
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    Upgrade at Hyogo Prefectural Beamline BL24XU
190
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    Upgrade of the SAXS Apparatus at BL40B2
191
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    Stabilization of Double-Crystal Monochromator at BL41XU
192
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    Upgrade of Engineering Science Research III, BL46XU
194
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Facility Status
196
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  Introduction
197
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  Machine Operation
198
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  Beamlines
199
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  User Program and Statistics
203
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  Budget and Personnel
207
272 KB
  Research Complex
208
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  Users Societies, Conferences and Other Activities
210
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Project XFEL
212
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    Progress of the XFEL Project
213
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NewSUBARU
220
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    Construction of a High-Resolution Beamline BL-5 for Soft X-Ray Spectroscopic Analysis on Industrial Materials
221
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Cover  
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Colophon  
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Back Cover  
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Note: The principal publication(s) concerning each article is indicated with all author's names in italics in the list of references.