Kansai University

Quality of life in hyperkalemia: baseline analysis of a cohort study of management of hyperkalemia in patients with chronic kidney disease or heart failure in Japan

Abstract Background Hyperkalemia is common in chronic kidney disease (CKD) and chronic heart failure (CHF), often leading to treatment dilemmas regarding renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system (RAAS) inhibitors. Although potassium binders and dietary restrictions are central to chr...

Mechanistic Elucidation of Silylation with Disilane via π-Allylpalladium Intermediates: Combined Experimentation and Automated Reaction Pathway Exploration

Abstract We report a comprehensive mechanistic study combining experimental investigations, global reaction route mapping (GRRM)/artificial force-induced reaction (AFIR)-based automated reaction path exploration, and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The computational...

Association Between EEG Activity and Motor Imagery Ability in Single-Joint Movements: A Pilot Study

Background/Objectives: This exploratory pilot study examined whether motor imagery ability is associated with electroencephalography (EEG) oscillatory activity during single-joint motor imagery. Methods: Eleven healthy young adults performed motor execution, kinesthetic motor ima...

Embryonic and larval development of the Pacific saury Cololabis saira : Distinctive characteristics of a rapidly growing beloniform fish

Abstract Background Pacific saury Cololabis saira is one of the important food resources drawing attention for its recent rapid decline of catch. Their life cycle and embryonic development have been largely unknown. It is important to clarify how the habitat and reproduction of t...

Bonded permanent magnets with vertically aligned magnetic particles having highly uniform surface magnetic field fabricated by electrical alignment

We fabricated a flexible bonded magnet with a uniform surface magnetic field using an electrical alignment method with electrode rotation to align SrFe 12 O 19 magnetic particles in a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) polymer matrix. According to optical microscopy images, the SrFe 12...

Tunable thermochromism of VO2 on SiO2/Si in the visible region

Vanadium dioxide (VO2) undergoes an insulator-to-metal phase transition above room temperature, across which the optical transmittance changes dramatically in the infrared region. In contrast, the transmittance modulation in the visible region is limited. Thus, VO2 exhibits visib...

Event-related potentials to emotional incongruence in dogs using non-invasive EEG

Abstract Previous behavioral and autonomic studies suggest that dogs are sensitive to their human emotional expressions, yet the neural mechanisms underlying how such information is processed across modalities remain unclear. This study investigated whether dogs exhibit different...

Children as citizen scientists at EXPO 2025 clarify geometry-dependent feeding mechanics in mushroom corals

Abstract Ciliary-mucus feeding of free-living Fungiidae (mushroom corals), in which coordinated ciliary currents transport food particles toward the oral aperture, remains poorly characterised despite over a century of descriptive study; understanding the physical determinants of...

Evaluating the Short-Form Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale in a Japanese university EFL context: internal-structure evidence and score-interpretation boundaries

Abstract Foreign language classroom anxiety remains a central construct in applied linguistics, but brief instruments require context-specific evidence before their scores are used for substantive interpretation. This study examined the eight-item Short-Form Foreign Language Clas...