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D-Index
92
Citations
23242
World Ranking
709
National Ranking
386

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - ASM Lifetime Achievement Award, American Society for Microbiology
  • 1980 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1978 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Masayasu Nomura was affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the field of psychology, contributing extensively across various subfields including social psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, and literature and literary theory.

The scientist authored numerous papers on topics such as media influence and health, color perception and design, aesthetic perception and analysis, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, mindfulness and compassion interventions, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and infant health and development.

Notable recent publications included:

  • Does human-AI collaboration lead to more creative art? Aesthetic evaluation of human-made and AI-generated haiku poetry (2022, Computers in Human Behavior)
  • Neural representations of awe: Distinguishing common and distinct neural mechanisms (2020, Emotion)
  • Influence of Positive and Threatened Awe on the Attitude Toward Norm Violations (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • How Individual States and Traits Predict Aesthetic Appreciation of Haiku Poetry (2021, Empirical Studies of the Arts)
  • Differential Effects of Focused Attention and Open Monitoring Meditation on Autonomic Cardiac Modulation and Cortisol Secretion (2021, Frontiers in Physiology)

Frequent coauthors included Jimpei Hitsuwari, Yoshiyuki Ueda, Ryota Takano, Ryohei Nakatsu, and Naoko Tosa.

Major publication venues for Nomura's work encompassed:

  • The Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Research Square
  • Scientific Reports
  • Proceedings

Over the course of their career, Nomura received several recognitions including the ASM Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Microbiology in 2002, election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1980, and membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1978.

Best Publications

  • Regulation of the Synthesis of Ribosomes and Ribosomal Components

    Masayasu Nomura;Richard Gourse;Gail Baughman

  • Identification and Functional Characterization of the Protein controlled by the Streptomycin-resistant Locus in E. coli

    M Ozaki;S Mizushima;M Nomura

  • Expansion and contraction of ribosomal DNA repeats in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: requirement of replication fork blocking (Fob1) protein and the role of RNA polymerase I

    Takehiko Kobayashi;Denis J. Heck;Masayasu Nomura;Takashi Horiuchi

  • Nucleotide sequence of the ribosomal protein gene cluster adjacent to the gene for RNA polymerase subunit beta in Escherichia coli

    Leonard E. Post;Geneva D. Strycharz;Masayasu Nomura;H. Lewis

  • Structure and function of Escherichia coli ribosomes: VI. Mechanism of assembly of 30 s ribosomes studied in vitro☆☆☆

    P Traub;M Nomura

  • DNA determinants of rRNA synthesis in E. coli: Growth rate dependent regulation, feedback inhibition, upstream activation, antitermination

    Richard L. Gourse;Herman A. de Boer;Masayasu Nomura

  • SIR2 regulates recombination between different rDNA repeats, but not recombination within individual rRNA genes in yeast.

    Takehiko Kobayashi;Takehiko Kobayashi;Takashi Horiuchi;Takashi Horiuchi;Prasad Tongaonkar;Loan Vu

  • Feedback regulation of ribosomal protein gene expression in Escherichia coli: structural homology of ribosomal RNA and ribosomal protein MRNA

    Masayasu Nomura;John L. Yates;Dennis Dean;Leonard E. Post

  • Specific Inactivation of 16S Ribosomal RNA Induced by Colicin E3 In Vivo

    C. M. Bowman;J. E. Dahlberg;T. Ikemura;J. Konisky

  • Expression of rRNA and tRNA genes in Escherichia coli: Evidence for feedback regulation by products of rRNA operons

    Sue Jinks-Robertson;Richard L. Gourse;Masayasu Nomura

  • The spc rtbosomal protein operon of Eschenchia coli: sequence and cotranscriptlon of the rlbosomal protein genes and a protein export gene

    Douglas Pat Cerretti;Dennis Dean;Geneva R. Davis;David M. Bedwell

  • A temperature-sensitive mutant of E. coli exhibiting slow processing of exported proteins

    Koreaki Ito;Michael Wittekind;Masayasu Nomura;Kiyotaka Shiba

  • Specific inactivation of ribosomes by colicin E3 in vitro and mechanism of immunity in colicinogenic cells.

    C. M. Bowman;J. Sidikaro;M. Nomura

  • STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF E. coli RIBOSOMES, VIII. COLD-SENSITIVE MUTANTS DEFECTIVE IN RIBOSOME ASSEMBLY

    Christine Guthrie;Hiroko Nashimoto;Masayasu Nomura

  • CONSERVATION OF RIBOSOMES DURING BACTERIAL GROWTH.

    Matthew Meselson;Masayasu Nomura;Sydney Brenner;Cedric Davern

  • Translational attenuation: the regulation of bacterial resistance to the macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B antibiotics.

    David Dubnau;Masayasu Nomura

  • Reconstitution of 50S ribosomal subunits from dissociated molecular components.

    M. Nomura;V. A. Erdmann

  • In vitro expression of Escherichia coli ribosomal protein genes: autogenous inhibition of translation

    John L. Yates;Ann E. Arfsten;Masayasu Nomura

  • Correlation of 30S ribosomal proteins of Escherichia coli isolated in different laboratories.

    H. G. Wittmann;G. Stöffler;I. Hindennach;C. G. Kurland;C. G. Kurland

  • Transfer RNA genes between 16S and 23S rRNA genes in rRNA transcription units of E. Coli

    Elsebet Lund;James E. Dahlberg;Lasse Lindahl;S.Richard Jaskunas

Frequent Co-Authors

Dennis R. Dean
Dennis R. Dean Virginia Tech
Richard L. Gourse
Richard L. Gourse University of Wisconsin–Madison
David M. Bedwell
David M. Bedwell University of Alabama at Birmingham
Scott F. Gilbert
Scott F. Gilbert Swarthmore College
Kiyotaka Shiba
Kiyotaka Shiba Japanese Foundation For Cancer Research
Patrick P. Dennis
Patrick P. Dennis University of British Columbia
James A. Lake
James A. Lake University of California, Los Angeles
Sue Jinks-Robertson
Sue Jinks-Robertson Duke University
Toshimichi Ikemura
Toshimichi Ikemura Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology
Heinz Saedler
Heinz Saedler Max Planck Society

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