Sachi Sri Kantha- Ph.D.
- Editor Emeritus at Gifu University
Sachi Sri Kantha
- Ph.D.
- Editor Emeritus at Gifu University
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Introduction
I'm an interdisciplinary biologist, with a B.Sc.(Special) degree in Zoology, Master's degree in Biochemistry, and Ph.D. degree in Food Chemistry. I consider myself as the 'Muhammad Ali' of tramp scientists in Japan, and also double as a science historian cum clinical medical interpreter.
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Current institution
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April 2016 - March 2020
April 2017 - March 2019
October 2016 - March 2017
Education
August 1981 - December 1985
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
Field of study
- Food Science
March 1978 - October 1980
January 1972 - January 1976
University of Colombo
Field of study
- Zoology
Publications
Publications (196)
I propose a new term ‘orgasmilalia’ (human coital vocalization or human copulatory vocalization) for this type of vocalization. This term is derived from combining the adjectival form ‘orgasmic’, as promoted by Masters and Johnson (but the last alphabet ‘c’ clipped for convenience) plus ‘lalia’ (Greek lalein – to babble or speak). A classification...
I present here the text of chapters 33 to 64 – volume 2 of my biography on charismatic Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran, aka MGR (1917-1987), one of the foremost drama cum cinema actor of his era in India, who later switched to politics and became the three times elected Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu state. Previously, in January 2016, I had posted cha...
A retrospective narrative analysis of 61 serial murderers (a few, belonging to health care profession, such as physicians and midwives) in Japan was attempted. Materials available in the online databases including Wikipedia entries on individual criminals were studied. Among the studied total of 61 serial murderers covering the time span from 1882...
Introduction: To mark the 80th birth anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi (1944-1991), a one-term prime minister of India (1984-1989), I present a comparative analysis of two assassination attempts in 1987 (failed) and successful (1991) in his short life of 46+ years.
Materials and Methods: Scattered information in open sources on the assassination attempt...
Nine years ago, I contributed a commentary on the medical aspects in tackling fertility decline among Japanese [1]. It is so unfortunate that the official policies currently adopted by the Japanese government on the issue of fertility decline in the past quarter of a century, is akin to crossing a violent river in a leaky boat with bare hands of th...
Background
. To mark the 130th birth anniversary of Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892–1927), I revisit his suicide (as recorded by his hand) in comparison to that of his junior contemporaries, who also chose a similar mode of death.
Data sources
. Two works of Akutagawa, namely Tenkibo (1926: Death Register ) and Aru Ahono Issho (1927: The...
Year 2023 marks the 140th year of the publication of the first English translation of Indian author Vatsyayana’s ‘Kama Sutra’ treatise in Sanskrit, by a four member team (Richard Burton, Forster Arbuthnot, Bhagavanlal Indrajit and Shivaram Bhide). I provide a commentary on Vatsyayana’s AD 3rd century treatise composed in Sanskrit, it’s intended aud...
Two specific issues in the Double Helix book by James Watson namely (1) citations to books and previously published research studies in the text. (2) an influence of sleep on idea generation, are commented. Altogether, five books and five papers have been cited by Watson. The cited books include, The Thread of Life; An Introduction to Molecular Bio...
James Watson, a co-discoverer of the DNA double helix model, had received much flak for his unsympathetic portrayal of Rosalind Franklin, fellow woman crystallographer, in his popular ‘The Double Helix’ memoir of 1968. I asked the question whether Watson can be tagged as a proponent of misogyny, based on his treatment of Franklin? Anne Sayre’s port...
To commemorate the 75th death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), I revisit the pre-and post-assassination events of his assassination in the newly independent India. Available information on the January 30th 1948 assassination in New Delhi was gathered from period news reports, Gandhi biographies and related reference sources as well as the...
In his 1837 book on signs and symptoms of human pregnancy, William Montgomery described the tubercles (glands) in the areolar region of women, now eponymously identified with his name. As themes such as lactating man, pregnancy of transgender men, nipple-areola complex (NAC) enhancement in plastic surgery and nipple sparing mastectomy for women bre...
I present a survey of citations to India, Indian and Indies by William Shakespeare in his ten plays. Characters in these plays make reference to India, Indians and (East) Indies. I infer that Shakespeare's portrayal of India carries three specific images: (1) as a land of the plenty-with gemstones, gold and spices, (2) a country for trade, and (3)...
To mark the 130th birth anniversary of Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), I revisit his suicide (as recorded by his hand) in comparison to that of his junior contemporaries, who also chose a similar mode of death. Two works of Akutagawa, namely 'Tenkibo' (1926: Death Register) and 'Aru Ahono Issho' (1927: The Life of a Stupid Man) in...
In this brief commentary, I present a comparison of the two tragicomedy 'Nose' stories, authored by Nikolai Gogol and Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Though, Gogol's story had attracted the attention of psychoanalysts and literati, Akutagawa's story had failed to receive equal attention. English translation of both 'Nose' stories, originally published in Russ...
The objective of this study was to identify the medically relevant themes portrayed in the 1956 novel 'The Key' by Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965). It created controversy in Japan, for being pornographic in recording the sexual cravings revealed in the separate diaries of an aging married couple. I offer a re-evaluation of this novel, for it's consp...
In this short memoriam of my Sri Lankan mentor in biochemistry, I recollect my interactions with him during 1970s, at the University of Colombo and University of Peradeniya. Apart from being a specialist in coconut biochemistry, Prof. K. Balasubramaniam was a dedicated institution builder who served as the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Universit...
This is Part 2 of our paper 'Medical Issues on Marilyn Monroe's Life and Death; a retrospective. It contains the Discussion, Table 3 and 4, and references 95-135.
Part 1 was published in the International Medical Journal, April 2022, vol. 29, no. 2, 132-136.
To mark the sesquicentennial year of publication of the Descent of Man, I present a wider view of this somewhat 'controversial' book, in the history of biological sciences and Darwin's response to his critics.The first edition (1871) and the second edition (1874) of 'The Descent of Man' were studied. Selected quantitative details related to the Des...
Apart from film studies, Marilyn Monroe's name recognition and career profile had generated investigations and research on diverse themes, since 1956. To mark the 60th anniversary of her death, we present a retrospective on the medical issues Marilyn faced during her short life span and subsequently, after death, is presented in two parts.
For reli...
Somnambulism is characterized as a parasomnia occurring during slow-wave sleep stages. It is also an autosomal dominant disorder, and its genetic locus has been identified at chromosome 20 q12-q13.12. The prevalence of somnambulism among children and adults has been estimated as 1-6%. Among the specific environmental factors precipitating somnambul...
The forensic aspects of the assassination of Ceylon Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike on Sept. 25, 1959 and the wounds received by the assassin Buddhist physician monk Somarama Thero is revisited. Details presented in a primary source, a book by Lucian G. Weeramantry entitled Assassination of a Prime Minister: The Bandaranaike Murder Case, was cu...
Coprophagia is defined in the 32nd edition of Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary as "ingestion of feces; called also coprophagy". A classification scheme for coprophagy types in humans is presented in this review. Literature on coprophagy, and its affiliated keywords like coprophilia, scatolia and fecal bacteriotherapy, as indexed in the PubM...
To find what freshman medical and nursing students in Japan, think about kissing behavior as practiced in Japan. Freshman students who entered the medical and nursing curriculum (N = 37, with 12 men and 25 women) at a national university in 2015 were asked the question: 'Write your impressions and criticism to a published editorial 'Kissing
behavi...
I analyze the sexography of Wardell Pomeroy (1913-2001), a junior collaborator of Alfred Kinsey in case history collection and the 2nd author of the two landmark volumes of 'Human Sexual Behavior published in 1948 and 1953 respectively. Pomeroy's oeuvre (books, book chapters and journal articles) was studied. Pomeroy was a clinical psychologist wit...
Although native to Neo-Tropical countries, squirrel monkeys are reared in captivity in zoos, amusement parks, primate research labs conducting clinical vaccine research for malaria parasite, space physiology and as exotic pets in Japan. We quantitated behavioral sleep-activity data among captive-reared (in a group cage), geriatric squirrel monkeys....
I present an analysis on the reference citations included in the, Human Sexual Response (1966) book, authored by William Masters and Virginia Johnson. This 366 page book is now identified as one of the land mark medical books of the 20th century.The citations in this book were quantitatively analyzed. Five tables summarize the obtained results. Amo...
A study on the sexography of Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) that remain scattered in his books, brochures and voluminous letters was attempted. The focus of this appraisal is not on what Gandhi did, but on what he wrote and spoke about human sexual behavior. Gandhi had acknowledged that he was familiar with the writings on sexuality by Havelock Ellis a...
Frotteurism is considered as a nuisance crime, where young women are the major victims. This is a review of frotteurism-related studied among Asian countries reported in peer-reviewed journals and a few post-graduate student dissertations. Between 1983 and 2020, a total of 34 reports on frotteurism were identified and summarized in a table. Countri...
We propose a hypothesis that lactic acid may be a primary chemosignal molecule for pairbonding (both mother-baby and romantic pair) in humans. A definite pattern of the presence of lactic acid in all the body fluids deserves recognition. Based on quantitative studies reported in body fluids of humans, we provide six reasons for why lactic acid is a...
The research of scientists and meritorious activities of other individuals pertaining to human sexuality that had received Nobel class recognition is reviewed. The official website of the Nobel Prize [https://www.nobelprize.org/] and the nomination database available via the website were searched and studied. Particularly, five prizes for chemistry...
Objective: The term 'sexual harassment' (sekushuaru harasumento, commonly abbreviated as sekuhara) became recognized in Japan only in 1989. The aim of this study was to gather perceptions on what Japanese undergraduate students understand by the term 'sexual harassment'. Design: Responses were elicited from 90 freshman and sophomore students attend...
Objective: Year 2020 being the birth centenary year of polymath physician Alex Comfort (1920-2000), I provide a synopsis of his sexography literature that remain dispersed in many medical journals as well as in the Nature, between 1950 and 1991. Methods: Alex Comfort's publications in bio-medical journals included in the Pub Med database (https://w...
This commentary provides details on the cancer research done by Paul Ehrlich, Katsusaburo Yamagiwa, George Papanicolaou, Albert Claude, Albert Szent Gyorgyi. Whereas Ehrlich, Claude and Szent Gyorgyi were recognized with Nobel prizes for contributions to research other than cancer, the cancer-related research of Yamagiwa and Papanicolaou had gone u...
Objective: Two fold. (1) to quantitate what percentage of university entering freshmen in the 2 nd decade of the 21 st century in Japan, have engaged in romantic kissing. (2) To investigate humor sense in the personal definition of 'kiss', as comprehended by the Japanese undergraduate students. Design: Two prospective, interrelated questionnaire st...
I provide a chronological bibliography on Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) - the man and his career. It consists of 104 items, mostly in English. I emphasize that this is NOT a bibliography on Nobel prizes and Nobel laureates.
Objective: As a humor theme, we present a new angle on how a small sample of Japanese university students viewed Haruko Obokata's behavior and her two reports of the so-called 'STAP cell' (2014), first published in the Nature and subsequently retracted. Methods: 28 sophomore students (26 men and 2 women, aged 19-20 years) of the Gifu University par...
Objectives: In a 1981 essay, renowned molecular biologist James Watson (b. 1928) wrote, "The main formative moments in my early life came from films. I went to the movies all time because they showed you something outside the south side of Chicago. Reading this rather unusual quote stimulated me to search for any additional citations to movies in h...
Objective: We present a review of published medical diagnosis of the Mona Lisa model, portrayed by Leonardo da Vinci, and now identified as Lisa Gherardini (1479-1542 or 1551). We also question the reliability of such a diagnosis on an individual (who had lived 500 years ago), based on the evidence of a single portrait. Methods: A literature search...
Objective: This short communication is not a study on Leonardo da Vinci's standing coitus sketch dated around AD 1493. Rather, it is a survey on the interpretation of this sketch by the Japanese undergraduate students in the second decade of the 21st century. Methods: 205 university undergraduates (127 men and 78 women), aged 18 to 20, of a Japanes...
Background: We aimed to categorize the types of productivity among published scientists and correlate them with the Nobel Prize.
Data source: Nobel Foundation website (www.nobelprize.org/nobel_organizations/nobelfoudnation/) and PubMed database.
Inclusion criteria: Scientists born from 1867, the year in which Alfred Nobel patented dynamite to accum...
Background.:
We aimed to categorize the types of productivity among published scientists and correlate them with the Nobel Prize.
Data source.:
Nobel Foundation website ( www.nobelprize.org/nobel_organizations/nobelfoundation/) and PubMed database.
Inclusion criteria.:
Scientists born from 1867, the year in which Alfred Nobel patented dynamite...
Since 2002, our research muse has been owl monkey (Aotus), a native to Neo-tropical region. Due to their evolutionary choice of nocturnal life, owl monkeys do possess many secrets which diurnal living species like humans still cannot fathom. As of now, nothing is known about the circadian variation of melatonin in owl monkeys. Simply stated, two es...
Objective: Among the more than thousands of papers, reviews, commentaries and editorials published on the theme of ill health due to smoking tobacco products, I present an overview of the literature mostly published since 1980. Commentary: In 1908, less than 10 chemical compounds were identified from tobacco smoke. Now, this number has increased to...
We investigated the genetic structure among populations of the Ryukyu wild boar (Sus scrofa riukiuanus) on Tokunoshima Island by analyzing DNA from modern and archaeological samples. Four and two mtDNA haplotypes were found in the modern and archaeological samples, respectively. One haplotype was shared between the modern and archaeological samples...
Objective: Previously, I had reviewed the Nobel prizes awarded for medicine or physiology from 1901 to 1987. This is a sequel in which I focus on the last 30 years of awards, beginning from 1988.
Commentary: From 1988 to 2017, 69 scientists were recognized with the Nobel prizes in medicine or physiology. Among 69 laureates, eight (Gertrude Elion,...
In an exploratory study on the appearance of the word 'genius' in paper titles, I found that at least 29 adjective qualifiers had been used by the authors. These adjective qualifiers to the noun 'genius' range from asexual to unrecognized. Individuals readily recognized like Michelangelo and Einstein share the billing with persons with extreme noto...
Objective: Lack of clarity on the sexuality education for freshman students at Japanese universities prompted me to challenge the existing status quo by introducing a sex-relevant and medically appropriate theme as a discussion topic, and observe its effects on the participating students. Method: To elicit basic information on first impressions rel...
Darwin identified 51 primate species by zoological names and five additional primates by common names in his three major books on evolution, namely The Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871) and The Expression of the Emotion in Man and Animals (1872). However, owl monkey, a native of South America and the only nocturnal extant simian p...
In this preprint, I have collected materials available on ancient Tamil King Elala (aka Elara), who reigned Ceylon from 205 BC to 161 BC. The impetus for this commentary was from a 'Note' that appeared in Buddhist monk Mahinda Deegalle's 2003 paper 'Is violence justified in Theravada Buddhism?', published in Ecumenical Review [2003, 55(2), 122-131]...
Objective: Among the three papers Teizo Iwai (1858-1915) published in the Lancet in 1907, on polymastia condition in Japan, I comment on the details offered in the lengthiest paper providing polymastia statistics in the Meiji period of Japan. Commentary: The percentages for women (5.19% or 6.09%) and men (1.68% or 2.04%) with polymastia condition,...
Objective: Since Teizo Iwai's pioneering study on polymastia among Japanese women in 1907, health implications of the congenital anomalies associated with breast tissue in 15 Asian countries (Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Iran, Oman, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Israel) are reviewed. Methods: Sca...
The Nobel Prizes awarded in two appropriate science categories (chemistry as well as physiology or medicine) and the peace category since 1901 were studied to evaluate the plant science related research that had received recognition. We also checked the Nobel prize nomination database for the two appropriate science categories to verify the number...
Retention of nipples in men has been a biological curiosity. We were intrigued by the fact that if nipples do not serve any function, why it failed to get lost (like tails) during the course of evolution in the past 5 million years. Published literature on nipple and areola in men and women related to physical dimensions, histology, functional role...
A brief analysis of self-reported health problems faced by Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) between 1878 and 1892 is presented. 127 love letters written by Nobel to Sofie Hess (1858-1912) were studied for self-recorded descriptions of his health problems. When Nobel began his correspondence with Sofie, he was 45. From 127 love letters, 21 health-related de...
While teaching a seminar on scientific paper writing to graduate students a couple of years ago, I had an impression that giving birth to a manuscript has much in common with the birth of a human baby. I present this analogy for its usefulness. Eleven parameters are presented in one table. These are, (1) sex of birthing parent(s), (2) sexual maturi...
Apart from citation counting, the study of recorded acknowledgements by researchers as a recognizable metric to evaluate peer influence is currently gaining momentum. As a metric, acknowledgements have an advantage over citations. Whereas citations can be copied and pasted from one publication to the next by an unscrupulous researcher without being...
Anonymous papers have been permitted by editors and journals for specific reasons, such as self-experimentation reports, medical errors and whistle-blowing. However, specific merits of having authors names tagged to the research papers are highlighted in this opinion piece. These include, (1) Names offer ornamentation to papers. (2) Names also offe...
The Nobel Prizes awarded in two appropriate science categories (chemistry as well as physiology or medicine) and the peace category since 1901 were studied to evaluate the plant science related research that had received recognition. We also checked the Nobel prize nomination database for the two appropriate science categories to verify the number...
In this editorial, Francis Crick’s research corpus of 105 papers, spanning from 1950 to 2013, is promoted as useful guides in manuscript preparation for graduate students. Especially to be noted is Crick and his co-authors’ versatility in formulating the different components of a research paper such as, title composition, abstract writing, brevity...
Objective: Dr. William H. Masters (1915-2001) was one of the most recognized medical researchers of the 20th century. This year marks the 50 th anniversary of the publication of 'human Sexual Response', authored by Masters and Virginia Johnson (1925-2013). In this report, I have surveyed the scientific contributions of Masters to the fields of repr...
Why did Shakespeare use so many naughty synonyms for penis in his plays? Shakespeare's canon of 38 plays was scanned for his word play for penis. Six broad types of naughty synonyms for penis can be categorized. These include: anatomy, sports, warfare, gardening and farming, domestic items and miscellaneous. 22 examples are offered from 16 plays na...
Regrettably, love taxonomists among psychologists have not taken infidelity (adultery) into their conceptualiza-tion and measurement of love. To resolve this dilemma, we propose a dichotomous categorization of love into eu-love and pseudo love. We studied published literatures on love types in the past 30 years by prominent love taxonomists in pred...
I present here the text of first 32 chapters of my biography on charismatic Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran, aka MGR (1917-1987), one of the foremost drama cum cinema actor of his era in India, who later switched to politics and became the three times elected Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu state. I have been serializing this biography in the website of...
An update on medical trauma caused by love bites, including a few case reports omitted by Al Fallouji (in his 1990 review on traumatic love bites or monkey bites which appeared in the British Journal of Surgery) is presented. Published surveys in sexuality books and reports in medical journals on love bites were studied.
Based on original papers, r...
'More than kisses, letters mingle souls' wrote John Donne (1572-1631), English poet and cleric. I present here 71 letters, exchanged between Dr. Eugene (Gene) Garfield and me. These letters span the years 1984 to 2015. Correspondence from 1984 to 1997 (Letters 1 to 35) were conducted via snail mail. Subsequently, correspondence from 2000 to 2015 (L...
The 260th birth anniversary of the word ‘serendipity’ was marked in 2014. Based on a scan of 27 English dictionaries, I provide a synopsis of its history as an English word, especially focusing on its etymology and how these dictionaries had presented it’s etymology. Though ‘serendipity’ was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754, it didn’t become a popu...
Objective: Owl monkey (genus Aotus) is the only evolutionary kin of Homo sapiens among Primates which has perfectly adopted to nocturnal life, more than 30 million years ago. We measured three parameters (activity, total sleep time and sleep episode length) in a captive owl monkey (A. lemurinus) colony.
Materials and Methods: Using non-invasive act...
We highlight the medical aspects in tackling fertility decline among Japanese. The central issues of concern are, what health-related factors contribute against (1) initiation of pregnancy and (2) completion of pregnancy.
Published medical literature which are directly and/or indirectly linked to fertility decline on Japanese men and women was sear...
Critics not withstanding, citations seems to have gained a golden currency status in contemporary research. Among the 58 million items collected in the Thomson Reuter’s Web of Science database, 100 of the most cited papers up to Oct 7, 2014 was presented in Nature journal last year. I present an analysis of the most cited papers such as (1) how man...
Among the 58 million items collected in the Thomson Reuter’s Web of Science database, 100 of the most cited papers up to Oct 7, 2014 was presented in Nature journal last year. I offer a tangential view of the most cited papers of medical relevance placed within this top 100. By scanning the database of ‘The Top 100 Papers’ presented by van Noorden...
I have reviewed the suicides committed by 84 newsworthy Japanese collectively, since 1912. Print databases in English (such as Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan) and electronic databases (such as www.generals.dk and wikipedia) were used to locate references to suicides between 1912 and May 2015. The 1912 (the death of Emperor Meiji followed by subsequ...
Primatology studies of the past 140 years can be tentatively categorized into three distinct periods - classical (1876-1930), ascendant (1931-1981) and restrictive (since 1982). We define a primatologist as one who has published research conducted on nonhuman primates in peer-reviewed science journals. From this definition, among the total of 207 N...
In the aftermath of Haruko Obokata’s flawed research on the so-called Stimulus Triggered Acquisition of Pluripotency (STAP) cells in 2014, we highlight the need for trend-setting women scientists of biomedical research in Japan. Our focus was on identifying trend-setting women scientists of biomedical research in Japan, who did establish solid repu...
Objective: Vasectomy and castration constitute two prominent sexually-challenged categories. There has been a paucity of data on how castration and vasectomy practices influence human sleep. In this study, we report sleep quantitation data in captive normal females, normal males, vasectomized males and castrated males of Japanese macaque monkeys Ma...
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) spent the final 35 years of his life as the most recognizable scientist of the 20th century. Though limericks were (are) conventionally associated with bawdy themes, limerick poets did prove that even Einstein's physics can be tackled with such poems. In this study, I analyse 22 limericks which describe Einstein's theori...
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) spent the final 35 years of his life as the most recognizable scientist of the 20th century. Though limericks were (are) conventionally associated with bawdy themes, limerick poets did prove that even Einstein’s physics can be tackled with such poems. In this study, I analyse 22 limericks which describes Einstein’s theor...
Objective: The focus of this review is to identify Charlie Chaplin’s movies and specific life events, which had served as a muse for medical researchers.
Methods: Published research reports in databases such as PubMed (www.pubmed.gov), Thomson Reuter’s Web of Knowledge (apps.webofknowledge.com), JSTOR (www.jstor.org), Elsevier (www.sciencedirect.c...
I bring to focus a notable lack of reported studies on the kissing behavior among Japanese population. Only a handful of studies exist on the kissing behavior among Japanese. The bias in the methodology (questionnaire and interviews) used by researchers deserve scrutiny. H. Kimata in 2003 and 2006 had published data that kissing reduces allergic co...
I have reviewed 9 original studies and 5 case reports, published since 1977, describing the medical maladies during honeymoon. The databases PubMed, Thomson Reuters' Web of Knowledge, JSTOR, project MUSE and those of commercial publishers Elsevier, SAGE publications and Springer Verlag were used to collect the published literature. Though marginal...
Since this year marks the 450th birth anniversary of William Shakespeare (1564–1616), I provide a synopsis on how primatology-linked words had been used by him. Ape, monkey, baboon and marmoset are the four words relating to subhuman primates which occur in Shakespeare’s oeuvre. Inferences derived were: (1) Shakespeare was unaware of the existence...
Karl Landsteiner (1868–1943) was one of the scientific giants of the 20th century. He was awarded the undivided 1930 Nobel Prize in Medicine. As the records of the science Nobel Prize archives had opened for the first 50 years (1901–1951), I found that Landsteiner’s trend-setting discoveries received a cumulative 16
nominations from 15 of his peers...
To celebrate Alfred Nobel’s munificence of 33 million Swedish kronor (approximately US$ 9.2 million) in
his signed will of 27 November 1895 to posterity, I provide a brief overview on how scientists as well as
other members of the society are portrayed by two American cartoonists, Sidney Harris and Jim Berry, on
Nobel’s 180th birth anniversary. Thr...
Properly citing the contributions of rival groups in research papers is a contentious issue which touches many inter-related themes such as due acknowledgement, priority and deception. To felicitate the 60th anniversary of the announcement of the accurate double helix model of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick, I analysed the citation patterns...
To felicitate the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, for the 1953 announcement of the DNA double helix model, I analyse here 13 humorous anecdotes described by James Watson in his The Double Helix (1968) memoir for selfdeprecating humour. This memoir covered the...
The demonstration of the first human flight in a power operated airplane in 1903 was an event unmatched in the annals of 20th century science and deserved a Nobel Prize in physics. To commemorate the death cen-tenary of Wilbur Wright (1867–1912), the elder sibling of the Wright brothers, I offer six postulates on why their invention failed to recei...
The Descent of Man' by Charles Darwin contains nine annotations about India and Indians. Being a recluse since his marriage to Emma Wedgwood, Darwin did not travel to India personally, but relied on his informant living in Calcutta and on books published by non-natives who had resided in India. As noted by Paul Ekman, the method of data collection...
According to bibliographer Ellen Wells, earliest 'true scientific reprints' were published in 1748 and 1750. The popularity peak phase of reprints lasted for 70 years (1900–1970) until photocopier became routine office equipment. Based on 52 brief letters published in 'Science' between 1920 and 1970, the functions, varied use and problems with repr...
Calreticulin (Crt) is a molecular chaperone ubiquitously present in the endoplasmic reticulum. In non-human primates, age-related occurrence of anti-Crt antibody has not been reported. We developed an ELISA assay for an anti-Crt antibody and determined the age-related increase in the levels of anti-Crt antibody in three groups of cynomolgus monkeys...
Forty years after his death, the creativity of mathematician–philosopher Bertrand Russell remains unmatched. He also had the distinction of being the only mathematician to receive the Nobel Prize in Litera-ture. Unfortunately, his bibliographers had lumped all of his 'serial publications' into a single basket and recorded about 2050 publications fr...
Quantitative evaluations of vocalizations of nocturnally active owl monkeys (Aotus species) have been attempted only twice. Andrew (1963) identified four call types in 2 captive individuals. Moynihan (1964) identified six call types in a quasi-wild condition.
We studied vocalizations of 16 owl monkeys (Aotus azarae) reared at the Kyoto University's...
The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that activity-behavioral sleep parameters differ between nocturnallyactive owl monkeys and diurnally-active squirrel monkeys which are sympatric and of Bolivian origin. The total sleep time (TST) and sleep episode length (SEL) of 7 adult owl monkey siblings and 4 adult squirrel monkeys were qua...
In the post-publication controversy that erupted following the release of his influential book On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin came to be identified with monkeys in the popular press of the day. Caricatures of Darwin's head in a monkey body appeared in periodical cartoons. The objective of our study was to identify the primate species that...
I concur with the opinion that John Maddox's multi-faceted views expressed in Nature were entertaining and infor-mative 1 . He also instilled confidence in scientists from non-English speaking nations. I consider myself as a benefi-ciary of his benevolence. Between 1986 and 1995, thirteen of my brief letters submitted to the scientific correspon-de...
141 obtained during interviews with the ex-inhabitants of an abandoned village near the Igarapé do Urucú (a left affluent of the Rio Sucundurí, along the Serra do Sucundurí) indi-cates that M. acariensis and another species of marmoset with blackish hairs occur in the area. As M. melanurus has been confirmed as occurring in the Sucundurí Mountains...
The fibrous protein paramyosin is characteristic of invertebrate muscles. It is distributed in the phyla Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Annelida, Mollusca, Arthropoda and Echinodermata. Of these, the last three contain important edible seafood species. The molecular weights, amino acid profile and immunological features of the paramyosins...
A table summarizing the primary literature on 19 species of longevous non-human primates, other than owl monkey, is presented.
We prospectively quantitated the sleep of a longevous female owl monkey (Aotus azarae), aged >30 years, longitudinally for 2 years and also evaluated the senility-induced change in spinal curvature.
The mean daily total sle...
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Questions (5)
Chat GPT had become popular since November 2022, in writing reports. I wonder whether Chat GPT can do a good peer review.
In the net, there are many anecdotal reports on coital-crying or post-coital crying by women. I'm interested in knowing whether any published studies exist on this. Even case reports published in medical journals may be of some interest.
Different databases provide different citations count for the same researcher. For example, my citation count in Google Scholar, Research Gate and SCOPUS (as of Jan 11, 2020) are respectively 1211, 929 and 670. Why this variation exist? Can't something be done to fix this annoying variation?
According to the Nobel Foundation website (as per rules), information on the past nominations will not be revealed for 50 years. The past nominations for physics and chemistry prizes upto 1966 are made available now. But, the past nominations for medicine prize prize are not updated to 1966, and restricted to 1953.Queries to the Nobel Foundation website don't receive any response at all.
Technically, a sole author paper should receive a citation of 1 for each of his/her paper. But, in a ten-author paper, each author should be given a citation of 0.1 for each of his/her paper. Unless this calibration is done, I consider that giving each author in a ten-author paper a citation count of 1, is flawed.
