Yasunobu Fujiwara (1935-1994)

Manako Fujiwara

Various researchers (i.e., Singelis, Triandis, Bhawuk, & Gelfand,1995; Triandis & Gelfand, 1998) have suggested that the cultural variables of horizontal and vertical individualism and collectivism correspond to Fiske’s (1991, 1992) relational models of collectivism, authority ranking, equality matching, and market pricing. In this study, we tested this claim in a cross-cultural comparison betw...

Homicide mortality in the United States, 1935-1994: age, period, and cohort effects.

The authors analyzed homicide mortality data for the United States from 1935 to 1994, to delineate temporal trends and birth cohort patterns. This study included 850,822 homicide-attributed deaths documented by the National Center for Health Statistics, and incorporated graphical presentation, median polish, and Poisson regression modeling in an age-period-cohort analysis. Death rates from homi...

Prognosis. Volume I. 1935

Roger Needham, 1935-2003

Cambridge Research Lab, which he founded in 1997. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was associated with Cambridge University for nearly half a century—as an undergraduate and graduate student, as a researcher, and eventually as a professor and head of the Computer Laboratory. In this EIC message, I focus on the significance of Needham's research contributions to pervasive computing. These contribu...

Alan Cowey (1935–2012)

Alan's work was necessarily interdisciplinary because he saw no way of understanding anatomy, physiology or behaviour without understanding all of them. Hence his work on visual plasticity and development incorporated retinal and collicular anatomy, lesion studies and neuropsychological work with patients. This led him to take up the discovery of blindsight by Larry Weiskrantz, his graduate sup...