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xi, 132 pp., plates, illus., diagrs., bibliogr. Oxfbrd, New York: Berghahn Books, 1999. 20.00 £ (cloth), 10.00 £ (paper) This slim, useful book is the first in a new series [...]

The authors discuss the role and interests of the U.S. Air Force to organize, train, and equip (OT&E) security cooperation (SC) efforts in the general purpose force (GPF) air advisors. Topics include the struggle of the country's military in making decisions about the development and deployment of its conventional capabilities, the definition of SC according to the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, and the role of SC in improving interoperability.

The article discusses the insights of Japanese critics on three classic manga comics series by Yoshiharu Tsuge. It presents the summaries of three classic manga by Tsuge including "A View of the Seaside," "Chiko" and "Mister Ben of the Igloo" then reviews visual and literary narratives in the stories and comments of Tsuge scholar Shimizu Masashi. It also notes that the three manga stories are centered on abnormal emotional states featuring a dyadic central relationship of people and animals.

The article compares classic 1960s manga by two artists, Tatsumi Yoshihiro and Tsuge Yoshiharu, that makes use of the same motif, fetuses in the sewer, for very different artistic and political ends. In Yoshihiro's "Sewer," a sewage worker finds a fetus and later is obliged to throw away his own girlfriend's fetus in the same place. In Yoshiharu's "Sanshouo," a salamander swimming in the sewers meets a floating fetus and puzzles over its meaning.

The article discusses the cartoon "The Incident at Nishibeta Village," by Japanese manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge as an example of his best work for the alternative magazine "Garo," where he published 22 manga between 1965 to 1970. A fishing trip that Tsuge made to Nishibeta with fellow manga artist Shirato Sanpei was the story's inspiration. The author describes the story as having the quality of a fable and explores the lonely feeling about the way the story ends.

Several methods were examined to characterize the binding between astaxanthin and salmon muscle protein(s) in order to provide tools for evaluation of the role of muscle proteins on astaxanthin retention in Atlantic salmonSalmo salarL. flesh. The methods included gel filtration chromatography, displacement of a hydrophobic probe and ultrafiltration. With gel filtration chromatography, aggregation of astaxanthin under the experimental conditions was a major problem for the separation of bound astaxanthin from free astaxanthin because the apparent molecular weight of aggregated astaxanthin or astaxanthin micelles was in the range of protein–astaxanthin complexes. Displacement of the fluorescent probe 8-anilino-1-naphthalenesulphonate (ANS) was not effective as astaxanthin quenched the fluorophore so that displacement could not be observed. An ultrafiltration method was developed using 200-mM sodium cholate for dispersion of astaxanthin aggregates. This allowed unbound astaxanthin to be separated from bound astaxanthin using a 30-kDa filter. After salmon muscle proteins were solubilized in different fractions by sequential extraction using low ionic strength solutions, the astaxanthin binding of different fractions was assessed using the ultrafiltration method. The significant difference (P<0.05) observed in the astaxanthin binding of the various fractions suggests an application of this assay to detect differences in affinity of proteins for astaxanthin. The results also suggest that proteins other than actomyosin or actin can bind astaxanthin in Atlantic salmon flesh. This method can be used for the identification of astaxanthin-binding proteins in salmon flesh and other tissues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]