Mourning for Prof. Takashi Sugino

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Takashi Yoshimura

large-scale project to convert the rice plant to the C4 mechanism. Around a dozen genes are required for the process, a few of which have already been transferred to the rice plant. The bigger challenge, however, lies in the fact that the anatomy of the leaves has to be adapted to keep the initial carbon fixation reaction separated from the RuBisCO reaction. This might still take a while. Simil...

A Letter for Honoring Prof. Takeshi Matsuura

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" shows many features associated with seventeenth-century metaphysical poetry in general, and with Donne's work in particular. Donne's contemporary, the English writer Izaak Walton, tells us the poem dates from 1611, when Donne, about to travel to France and Germany, wrote for his wife this valediction, or farewell speech. Like most poetry of Donne's time, it ...

[Loss and mourning].

The human being needs ties to grow and develop. When some of these ties are broken a period of great intensity arises that we call mourning. If the loss is radical and definitive, as in the case of death, all of the person's dimensions are affected (the physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioural, social and spiritual dimensions), to such an extent that the person can feel unable to overcome th...