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I would like to thank Mssrs. S. Kishida and Y. Uchida for their collaboration and Profs. S. Furukawa and K. Takahashi of Tokyo Institute of Technology for their encouragement. A part of this work was supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture of Japan with a Grant-in-aid for Special Project and Scientific Research by Hoso-Bunka Foundation, and by the Research and Development Corporation of Japan. 

Research and Development Corporation of Japan (JRDC), Eniwa RBP, Eniwa-Shi, Megumino Kita 3-1-1, Hokkaido 061-13, Japan... 

We thank Mr. S. L. Kela (Balewa University, Nigeria), Dr. M. O. Akanbi (Forestry Research Institute, Nigeria), as well as Dr. H. Nakai (Hokkaido University, Japan) for their help in plant collection and identification, and Miss Y. Matsuzawa for technical help. This work was funded by the Research and Development Corporation of Japan (JRDC) under the ERATO program. 

National Research Council of Canada, 25 North Carolina State University, 172 Research and Development Corporation of Japan (JRDC), 162 Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, 449 Sandoz Agro Ltd., 25 Sankyo Company, Ltd., 74 The Scripps Research Institute, 230 Stine-Haskell Research Center, 407 Texas A M University, 210 U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2,85,172, 182,210,268,292,320,324,474,497 University of Arkansas, 384 University of California—Berkeley, 130,336 University of California— Davis, 348,368 University of California— Riverside, 249 University of Nottingham, 259 Virginia Commonwealth University, 230 ZENECA Agrochemicals, 37... 

Special thanks are given to several individuals at Kyocera Corporation Research and Development in Kagoshima, Japan, including Mr K. Onitsuka, Mr S. Satou, Mr H. Otomaru, and Mr T. Miyao. Also a special acknowledgment is given to the members of Fraunhofer Institute of Solar Energies Systems for their advice for evaluations and product development. 

The Research Development Corporation of Japan (JRDC) is a statutory entity of the Japanese Government administered by the Science and Technology Agency. The Biophoton Project is a research activity of the JRDC s Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology Program (ERATO). 

Most studies related to this chapter were carried out at Central Research Laboratories, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd and at the Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids, University of California, Santa Barbara and in the Quantum Wave Project, one of the research programs of Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) in the Research Development Corporation of Japan (JRDC). 

L. E. Manzer, Corporate Catalysis Center, Central Research and Development, Du Pont Company, Experimental Station, Wilmington, Delaware 19880 (329) Yutaka Morikawa, Research Laboratory of Resources Utilization, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 227, Japan (303)... 

Toyota Motor Corporation is one of many major automakers that has built and is currently field testing a small handful of FCVs. As discussed by Taiyo Kawai, from Toyota s headquarters in Japan, the company will continue to accelerate the research and development of FCV technologies and to test this technology in a growing fleet of demonstration vehicles. 

Denso Corporation Manager of Research and Development Section IC 1-1 Showa-cho, Kariya-shi Aichi-ken, 448-8661 Japan... 

Related research and development works are underway at several organizations under the discussion and coordination of the Japanese FBR R D Steering Committee, which is composed of Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation(PNC), JAPC, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute(JAERI) and Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry(CRIEPI). 

Canada Canada has focused primarily on PEFC research and development over the last decade. To commercialize its PEFC technology, Ballard Power Systems has developed a major international network of strategic partners, including DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company, GPU international (US), Alstom SA (a UK company based in France), and Ebara Corporation (Japan). Ballard 250 kWe stationary prototypes are developed by Ballard Generation Systems. The first prototype operating is in Vancouver, Canada. Ballard delivered a second 250-kilowatt PEFC power system to Cinergy Technology. This is the first field trial unit built by Ballard. The... 

Department of Materials Science and Technology, Science University of Tokyo, Noda 278-8510, Japan Research and Development Center, Hokushin Corporation, Turumi, Yokohama 230-0003, Japan... 

Hiroshi Asahara Department of Systems Biomedicine, National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan JuTTA Bachmann Bachmann Consulting, Ncsoddtanpjcn, Norway TORU Ezure Life Science Laboratory, Analytical and Measuring Instruments Division, Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto, Japan... 

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