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503 A Marquis Who's Who Magazine Y umiko Takahashi has worked diligently to solidify herself in her field. To prepare for her career, Ms. Takahashi earned a bachelor’s degree from Tokyo Woman’s Christian University in 1972. Motivated by her desire to live a meaningful life and wanting to decrease poverty in developing countries, she founded Matsuba Fund in 2003, a microcredit loan company. The company, which is a nonprofit organization, benefits the island of Timor-Leste in South East Asia and provides low-interest loans, which are donations from the people of Japan to the people of Timor-Leste. With her strong desire to help those in need, she has received the Order of Timor-Leste Medal for her hard work and dedication in eradicating poverty. Matsuba Fund’s interest rate is cheap at 10 percent, and its management is gentle. If the clients can’t return money because of family problems, the company will wait, unlike other micro-creditors who would take furniture, cars and other precious items from clients’ homes. Ms. Takahashi attributes her success to the many supporters who have helped her over the years. She also credits her father for giving her money toward her career and believing in her. D avidTalbert is a retired science educator who began his professional career as an electronic engineer at GEC Hirst Research Laboratories. His career falls into two parts: industrial electronics and medical physiology. In the former, he was involved with various companies in Radar, Sonar and aircraft jet engine and fuel controls. In the latter, he worked in the Institute of Reproductive and Development Biology at the Imperial College of London University. Here, he applied engineering knowledge from the former industrial period to paediatric concepts. In particular, he studied shaken baby syndrome, in which the caregiver is assumed to have criminally injured an infant by shaking. To study this and other problems, he invented computer models of the fetus, placenta and infant. When he retired, Imperial College London granted Dr. Talbert the position of Honorary Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering to continue his studies of engineering aspects of perinatal conditions, such as shaken baby syndrome. He has proposed an alternative hypertensive mechanism in which the caregiver is innocent. Dr. Talbert is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the Institute of Physics. He has a Ph.D. from the University of London. Yumiko Takahashi Matsuba Fund Sendai-shi, Japan David Talbert, PhD Science Educator (Retired) London, United Kingdom