Multifaceted well-being experienced by community dwelling older adults engaged in volunteering activities of frailty prevention in Japan.

Aim: This study aims to elucidate what volunteering activities mean for older adults in Japan by analyzing their emotions and evaluations from hedonic (e.g., happiness), eudaimonic (e.

Time-Resolved X-ray Observation of Intracellular Crystallized Protein in Living Animal.

Understanding the cellular environment as molecular crowding that supports the structure-specific functional expression of biomolecules has recently attracted much attention. Time-resolved X-ray observations have the remarkable capability to capture the structural dynamics of biomolecules with subnanometre precision. Nevertheless, the measurement of the intracellular dynamics within live organisms remains a challenge.

Generalised analytical method unravels framework-dependent kinetics of adsorption-induced structural transition in flexible metal-organic frameworks.

Flexible metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) exhibiting adsorption-induced structural transition can revolutionise adsorption separation processes, including CO separation, which has become increasingly important in recent years. However, the kinetics of this structural transition remains poorly understood despite being crucial to process design. Here, the CO-induced gate opening of ELM-11 ([Cu(BF)(4,4'-bipyridine)]) is investigated by time-resolved in situ X-ray powder diffraction, and a theoretical kinetic model of this process is developed to gain atomistic insight into the transition dynamics.

Research Participant Selection Bias in the Workshop Using Socially Assistive Robots for Older Adults and Its Effect on Population Representativeness.

Every research participant has their own personality characteristics. For example, older adults assisted by socially assistive robots (SAR) may have their own unique characteristics and may not be representative of the general population of older adults. In this research, we compared the average personality characteristics of participants in a workshop on robotics recruited directly through posting with those of older Japanese adults to examine participant selection bias and group representativeness for future study of SARs.