Crisis Takahiro Kiyohara, Masanobu Kumakiri, Hitoshi Kobayashi, Mariko Mayuzumi and Akira Ohkawara Department of Dermatology, Fukui Medical University, 23 – 3 Shimoaizuki, Matsuoka-cho, Yoshida-gun, Fukui 910 – 1193, Japan, Department of Dermatology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, N15 W7 Sapporo, JP-060-8638, Japan. E-mail: kiyo @ fmsrsa.fukui-med.ac.jp Accepted November 18, 2...

Creative Research Institution, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 001–0021, Japan (K.M.); Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113–8657, Japan (K.M., H.O., T.F.); Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060–8589, Japan (S.W., S.T., K.I., J.T., S.N.); and Agricultural Research Center, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization,...

Ampfied Bioresearch Center, Corporate Research and Developtnent Division Kirite Breiveo, Co. 3 MiJ,aharacho, Takasakishf, GNntna370-12, .Jbpan 'Department of Food Science and Technolog.y, fucutt.i' ofAgrictitttire, Ky'oto Unh'ersi4y, Oiwaketnachi, Kitashirakawa, Sak.yo-ku, IC)'oro 606, laJ)ati ""Deparrtnent o.fBioscience and Chemistttv, Faculij' ofAgricutture, Hokkaido Universit.y, Kita 9 Niski...

Departments of 1Radiological Life Sciences and 2Biomedical Sciences, Division of Medical Life Sciences, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Health Sciences, 66-1 Hon-cho, Hirosaki 036-8564, Japan 3Research Center for Biomedical Sciences, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Health Sciences, 66-1 Hon-cho, Hirosaki 036-8564, Japan 4Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-12 Nis...

Discounted utilitarianism and the Ramsey equation prevail in the debate on the discount rate on consumption. The utility discount rate is assumed to be constant and to reflect either the uncertainty about the existence of future generations or a pure preference for the present. We question the unique status of discounted utilitarianism and discuss the implications of alternative criteria addres...

Yasuhiro Asano,1 Toshihiro Yoshida,1 Yukio Tanaka,2 and Alexander A. Golubov3 1Department of Applied Physics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan 2CREST-JST and Department of Applied Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan 3Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands Received 13 March 2008; revised manuscript received 16 June 2...

E. Mikuli, A. Migdał-Mikuli, I. Natkaniec', and J. Mayer Faculty of Chemistry of the Jagiellonian University, ulica Ingardena 3, 30-060 Krakow, Poland a Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, JINR, 141980 Dubna, Russia b H. Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, ulica Radzikowskiego 152, 31-342 Krakow, Poland Reprint requests to Dr. E. M.; Fax: (+4812) 634 05 15, E-mail: [email protected]...

Yumi Une*, Asuka Sanbe, Satoru Suzuki, Takeshi Niwa, Kazuto Kawakami, Reiko Kurosawa, Hidemasa Izumiya, Haruo Watanabe and Yukio Kato Laboratory of Veterinary Pathology and Laboratory of Public Health, Azabu University, Kanagawa 229-8501; Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Ibaraki 305-8687; Institute of Low Temperature Science Hokkaido University, Hokkaido 060-0819; and National I...