Scientists watching Japanese volcano

Sialic acids as link to Japanese scientists

This manuscript is dedicated to Prof. Tamio Yamakawa and describes my cooperations on sialic acid-related topics with Japanese scientists during the last 40 years. We studied sialic acids and their O-acetylated derivatives in the sea urchin Pseudocentrotus depressus, in Halocynthia species, and in human and bovine milk. In seafood we mainly searched for N-glycolylneuraminic acid. With synthetic...

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Influence of Watching Professional Baseball on Japanese Elders’ Affect and Subjective Happiness

Objective: To determine the effects of watching a professional baseball game on the affect and subjective happiness of elders without a specific team to support. Method: Elderly Japanese (n = 16) were instructed to watch baseball games at a ballpark. They answered a questionnaire several weeks before (baseline) and, on the day of the game, before and after watching the game. Participants' affec...

Membrane Watching

Several things, that were not all of my own choosing, have conspired to keep me out of active participation in membrane events for a while. But the spectator sport that I call "membrane watching" is far from dull. It may be as rewarding as such things as birds, Congress, girls, bali games, or the Berkeley campus-particularly when you feel yourself somewhat qualified. Of course you lose the trem...

Watching You Watching Me: The Art of Playing the Panopticon

As governments increasingly deliver services over the Internet, the opportunities for monitoring and surveillance of society increase. In public services to support the vulnerable, such as welfare, monitoring and surveillance functionality is often regarded by system designers as important components in defences against fraud and system misuse. However, the responses from the participants in th...