How a serial manga turned a Toyota Corolla into Japan’s most famous automotive pop-culture export.
This was also a great excuse to catch up with a lot of old friends in Tokyo, which I was able to do thanks to the Japanese government. They flew me over to Japan the first week of March for a JET conference. I had a few days on the front half of my trip to myself, and I u...
Over the last two decades, the understanding of how dysregulated ion channels and transporters are involved in carcinogenesis and tumor growth and progression, including invasiveness and metastasis, has been increasing exponentially. The present review s
Ranma 1/2[xv], the anime based on Takahashi Rumiko’s manga, follows the comedic adventures of Saotome Ranma, a boy, who, as the result of a curse, turns into a girl when he is hit by water. His father turns into a Panda and many of the other characters likewise are transformed....
Fish, which were considered non-conscious, non-sentient, instinct-driven animals, revealed to be affected by stress as are mammals. The goal of the chapter, thus, is to use the concept of allostasis as a conceptual framework for understanding how culture
Jacob Schiff, who ran Kuhn Loeb before his son-in-laws (Paul & Felix Warburg) took over had a close connection to the bankers who run Japan. Schiff was especially close to Takahashi Korekiyo. Schiff made Takahashi's career when Schiff lent Japan millions of dollars to fight Russia in the...
points (Supplementary Fig.11). The consistency in the overlap of experimentally observed changes in solvent exposure and our predicted changes in self-entanglement for Enolase is of particular interest in light of the decades-old evidence that it can adopt stable, soluble misfolded conformations38,39...
A 75-year-old woman presented with progressive shortness of breath and fatigue over a 6-month period. Blood work demonstrated: a white blood count (WBC) of 26 × 109/L with 79% blasts; hemoglobin, 89 g/dL; neutrophils, 0.76 × 109/L; and platelets, 28 × 109/L. The bone marrow ...
We would have had all the top eight had Gebrhiwet not struggled in and been caught on the line by Crippa, who broke the 30-year-old Italian record. Marathon Prediction:1 M Geremew (2); 2 G Kirui (14); 3 M Wasihun (DNF); 4 Y Kawauchi (29); 5 S Mokoka (5); 6 T Abraham ...
These concepts are old; what is new is our ability to design antigens, to invoke the innate immune system in order to enhance adaptive immunity, and to char- acterize the T cells that are needed for the responses we want (BOX 2). 892 | DECEMBER 2011 | VOLUME 9 © 2011 ...