1. Guest Editorial

   • Shigeru Terabe

   EditorialNotes 12 January 2008 Pages: 1 - 1

2. Synchrotron X-ray Experiments in Pulsed High Magnetic Fields

   • Yasuhiro H. Matsuda

   Reviews 10 January 2008 Pages: 3 - 10

3. X-ray Microcalorimeter Based on Superconducting Transition Edge Sensors

   • Masashi Ohno
   • Hiroyuki Takahashi
   • Fumiakira Mori

   Reviews 10 January 2008 Pages: 11 - 14

4. Lifetime-Broadening-Suppressed Selective XAFS Spectroscopy

   • Hisashi Hayashi

   Reviews 10 January 2008 Pages: 15 - 23

5. Fabrication and Analytical Applications of Hybrid Mesoporous Membranes

   • Akira Yamaguchi
   • Norio Teramae

   Reviews 10 January 2008 Pages: 25 - 30

6. Development of Highly Potent Chiral Discrimination Methods That Solve the Problems of Diastereomer Method

   • Hiroshi Ohrui

   Reviews 10 January 2008 Pages: 31 - 38

7. Anisotropic Nuclear Spin Interactions for the Morphology Analysis of Proteins in Solution by NMR Spectroscopy

   • Shin-ichi Tate

   Reviews 10 January 2008 Pages: 39 - 50

8. Sensitive and Selective Tumor Imaging with Novel and Highly Activatable Fluorescence Probes

   • Yasuteru Urano

   Reviews 10 January 2008 Pages: 51 - 53

9. Newly Developed Chemical Probes and Nano-Devices for Cellular Analysis

   • Aki Honda
   • Hirokazu Komatsu
   • Koji Suzuki

   Reviews 10 January 2008 Pages: 55 - 66

10. Recent Advances in Cell Micropatterning Techniques for Bioanalytical and Biomedical Sciences

    • Jun Nakanishi
    • Tohru Takarada
    • Mizuo Maeda

    Reviews 10 January 2008 Pages: 67 - 72

11. Production of a Positron Microprobe Using a Transmission Remoderator

    • Masanori Fujinami
    • Satoshi Jinno
    • Takashi Akahane

    Original Papers 10 January 2008 Pages: 73 - 79

12. Development of Spin-Polarized Ion Scattering Spectroscopy

    • Taku Suzuki
    • Yasushi Yamauchi

    OriginalPaper 10 January 2008 Pages: 81 - 85

13. Construction and Evaluation of a Miniature Electron Ion Coincidence Analyzer Mounted on a Conflat Flange with an Outer Diameter of 114 mm

    • Takuhiro Kakiuchi
    • Eiichi Kobayashi
    • Kazuhiko Mase

    OriginalPaper 10 January 2008 Pages: 87 - 92

14. Novel Dating Method for Speleothems with Microscopic Fluorescent Annual Layers

    • Kousuke Kurisaki
    • Kazuhisa Yoshimura

    OriginalPaper 10 January 2008 Pages: 93 - 98

15. Application of Confocal 3D Micro-XRF for Solid/Liquid Interface Analysis

    • Kouichi Tsuji
    • Tasuku Yonehara
    • Kazuhiko Nakano

    OriginalPaper 10 January 2008 Pages: 99 - 103

16. Experimental Optimization of p-Polarized MAIR Spectrometry Performed on a Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer

    • Takeshi Hasegawa
    • Yuki Itoh
    • Akiyoshi Kasuya

    OriginalPaper 10 January 2008 Pages: 105 - 109

17. Electron-Enhanced Vibrational Spectroscopy: A Theoretical Approach

    • Hiroharu Yui
    • Takahito Nakajima
    • Tsuguo Sawada

    OriginalPaper 10 January 2008 Pages: 111 - 114

18. A Novel Chemiluminescence Technique for Quantitative Measurement of Low Concentration Human Serum Albumin

    • Wei Xu
    • Yanchun Wei
    • Qun Chen

    OriginalPaper 10 January 2008 Pages: 115 - 119

19. Microscopic Measurements of Deformation of Liquid Surfaces Induced by Localized Direct Current Electric Field

    • Tsuyoshi Tsuruta
    • Satoshi Tsukahara
    • Terufumi Fujiwara

    OriginalPaper 10 January 2008 Pages: 121 - 126

20. “Drop-and-Sip” Fluid Handling Technique for the Reagent-Release Capillary (RRC)-based Capillary-Assembled Microchip (CAs-CHIP): Sample Delivery Optimization and Reagent Release Behavior in RRC

    • Terence G. Henares
    • Fumio Mizutani
    • Hideaki Hisamoto

    OriginalPaper 10 January 2008 Pages: 127 - 132

21. Magnetophoretic Evaluation of Interfacial Adsorption of Dysprosium(III) on a Single Microdroplet

    • Masayori Suwa
    • Hitoshi Watarai

    OriginalPaper 10 January 2008 Pages: 133 - 137

22. Retention Prediction Modeling of Ginsenosides on a Polyvinyl Alcohol-bonded Stationary Phase at Subambient Temperatures Using Multiple Linear Regression and Artificial Neural Network

    • Noel S. Quiming
    • Nerissa L. Denola
    • Kiyokatsu Jinno

    OriginalPaper 10 January 2008 Pages: 139 - 148

23. A Novel Chip Device Based on Wired Capillary Packed with High Performance Polymer-based Monolith for HPLC: Reproducibility in Preparation Processes to Obtain Long Columns

    • Ken Hosoya
    • Mari Sakamoto
    • Nobuo Tanaka

    OriginalPaper 10 January 2008 Pages: 149 - 154

24. Fundamental Studies on Electrokinetic Chromatography with PEGylated Phospholipid Micelles

    • Fumihiko Kitagawa
    • Takayuki Hasegawa
    • Koji Otsuka

    OriginalPaper 10 January 2008 Pages: 155 - 159

25. Automated Phosphoproteome Analysis for Cultured Cancer Cells by Two-Dimensional NanoLC-MS Using a Calcined Titania/C18 Biphasic Column

    • Koshi Imami
    • Naoyuki Sugiyama
    • Yasushi Ishihama

    OriginalPaper 10 January 2008 Pages: 161 - 166

26. Arginine-modified DNA Aptamers That Show Enantioselective Recognition of the Dicarboxylic Acid Moiety of Glutamic Acid

    • Kazuomi Ohsawa
    • Toshiyuki Kasamatsu
    • Hiroaki Sawai

    OriginalPaper 10 January 2008 Pages: 167 - 172

27. The Effect of Local Structural Disruption on the Yield of Photochemical Ligation between Anthracene-Oligonucleotide Conjugates

    • Pelin Arslan
    • Toshihiro Ihara
    • Akinori Jyo

    Notes 10 January 2008 Pages: 173 - 176

28. Announcements

    Announcement 12 January 2008 Pages: 177 - 177

29. Erratum to: Precise Chelatometric Titrations of Zinc, Cadmium, and Lead with Molecular Spectroscopy

    • Toshihiro Suzuki
    • Diwakar Tiwari
    • Akiharu Hioki

    Erratum 12 January 2008 Pages: 178 - 178