"The first goal of this book is to extend Two Minds originating from behavioral economics to the domain of interaction, where the time dimension has to be dealt with rigorously; in human–machine interaction, it is of crucial importance how synchronization between conscious processes and unconscious processes is established for a sense of smoothness, and how memory processes and action selection processes are coordinated. The first half t ..."
"This latest volume, which marks the 1Oth anniversary of the series, deals mainly with studies conducted at the cellular level. It discusses the various new areas of research that have been adopted with the advancement of methodology, including platelet activating factor (PAF), nitric oxide (NO) as a vascular relaxing factor, oxygen free radicals and their scavengers, and even intracellular adhesive factors."
" "Sex, drugs and Okinawa. Capturing hedonism on the Japanese island during the hangover of the Vietnam and Korean wars", Dazed & Confused.
Keizo Kitajima visited Koza city in Okinawa, Japan, regularly during the years of the post Vietnam War in the late 70's.
The city was the epicenter of a celebrative rush that lasts for a few years. It experienced a momentary raucous spell where Japanese culture collides and becomes intimate with A ..."