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Contents List Feature:The 5th AIST Advisory Board Meeting Feature:Global Warming Research Hotline In Brief

Front Cover
Front Cover [ PDF:195KB ]

The 5th AIST Advisory Board Meeting
The 5th AIST Advisory Board Meeting [ PDF:816KB ]

Global Warming
Mitigation Technology and its Assessment
Climate Change Mitigation in a Sustainable World
- Findings of the IPCC 4th Assessment Report -		 [ PDF:1.9MB ]
The 2005 IPCC/TEAP Special Report on the Ozone Layer and the Global Climate System
Summary of the Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (SRCCS)
CCS Technology Development and Evaluation
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Photovoltaic Power Generation
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Biomass Utilization
Assessment of Biomass Utilization System
Assessment of Forest CO2 Absorption

Research Hotline
UPDATE FROM THE CUTTING EDGE (Jan.-Mar. 2008)
The abstracts of the recent research information appearing in Vol.8 No.1-3 of "AIST TODAY" are introduced here, classified by research area.
For inquiry about the full article, please contact the author via e-mail.
Isolation of enzyme involving in activation of vitamin D
 - High-efficient production of hydroxylated vitamin D used for pharmaceutical purposes -

Life Science and Biotechnology
Estimation technology of species composition of phytoplankton
- Estimation method of species composition of phytoplankton based on in-situ measurement of excitation spectrum -
Successful re-activation of human mesenchymal stem cells by transducing single gene
- Leads to the spread of regenerative medicine using stem cells -
Universal design with robots
- Making robots more adaptable to human living environment -

Information Technology and Electronics
Novel SRAM circuit using double-gate-MOSFET devices
 - Promising solution for operational-stability enhancement in 22-nm generation -
Integration and simplification of ceramic manufacturing process
- Reduces the manufacturing periods to less than half by using microwave -		 Nanotechnology, Materials and Manufacturing
Highly sensitive and wide spectral range image sensor based upon the CuInGaSe2 solar cell techniques Environment and Energy
A total fluorine analyzer with an unprecedented high level of sensitivity as a conventional method
- Easy and rapid analyses of PFOS and total fluorine in environmental samples and industrial products -
Development of new gas separation methods using ionic liquids
- Technology for global warming with advantage of specific absorption phenomena of acidic gases -
Synthesis of single crystalline spinel LiMn2O4 nanowires
- Promising materials for the positive electrode of a high rate Li ion battery -
Octave-spanning optical frequency comb using mode-locked fiber laser
- Fiber comb - 		Metrology and Measurement Science
DNA quantitation by isotope-dilution mass spectrometry
- Development of method for accurate quantitation of DNA and the application to the development of DNA reference material -

In Brief
Fourth Biomass-Asia Workshop
CAS-AIST-NEDO Workshop on Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
AIST Contribution to Rare Metal Diplomacy with Southern Africa
-Accompanying Mr. Akira Amari, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry to the Republic of South Africa and the Republic of Botswana-
Presentation of GEO Grid at Fourth Earth Observation Summit
MOU Follow-up Workshop between Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology of India and AIST

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