The international demand for hay has been increasedby the increased demand by newly industrializingcountries and the unstable production of feed causedby abnormal weather all over the world. Therefore,the price of imported hay has risen sharply, whichhas brought problems to beef and dairy farms inJapan. Utilization of domestic feed has the potentialto solve these issues.Common reed (Phragmites communis Trin.) andSilver grass( Miscanthus sinensis Anderss.) are a wildgrass distributed widely in abandoned paddy fields andriverside sites throughout Japan. Common reed has anannual dry matter( DM) yield to be 10t ha–1 and about20% of crude protein and 50% of total digestiblenutrients on a DM basis and could be made to highquality silage by using acemonium cellulase and lacticacid bacteria at ensiling. Silver grass was prepared thepelleted feed. Feeding trial was conducted to examinethe effect of inclusion level of pelleted silver grass inthe diets on rumen fermentation and blood metabolitesin breeding Japanese Black cows. These resultssuggested that common reed silage and pelleted silvergrass could be used as roughage for ruminants.

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Crop damages by wild boar have been drastically increased in this decade in Ishikawa Prefecture. Comprehensivestudy against crop damage by them has been carried out for two years by three departments and one institute inIshikawa Prefectural University. The environmental factors of crop damage were extracted by GIS analysis andMaxEnt model was used to predict where the damages break out. Microsatellite analysis revealed that most of wildboar population in Noto peninsula came from Western Toyama Prefecture. Questionnaire surveys for local farmerssuggested that pasturage retarded crop damage by wild boars. Finally, using an appropriate disinfectant in the processof processing, transportation and consumption make it possible for us to utilize wild boar meat safely.

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The beginning and the deployment of Industry-university-government collaboration in Czech Republic are analyzed.The industry-university-government collaboration began in the socialist professional universities. After the velvetrevolution, a variety of ways of the collaboration has developed in the public regional universities and the privatecolleges. It contributes to the pluralistic development of the Czech higher education in this time of Europeanization.

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We developed an eLearning system in order to provide supplementary lessons in mathematics. In this paper, weintroduce how these supplementary lessons were used during 2014 school year, and discuss the practicality of thiseLearning system.

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In this paper, the development and implementation of an attendance management system is discussed. Software forthe system was configured for managing attendance and the storage of data, which was uploaded via a web browserinto the database. Windows software was also configured for this system using a Raspberry Pi, which reads the barcode located on a studentʼs ID card at a QR or bar code reader. The use of the attendance management system inclassrooms, allowed instructors more time to conduct substantive lectures, and less time on traditional attendancerelated tasks.

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University students recalled their own play experiences during childhood and adolescence. These experienceswere then categorized into five types of play in order to investigate the actual conditions and development of them.Outdoor play reaches its maximum later in childhood, and develops into ball play and several other sports. Indoorplay gradually grows in number throughout the later part of childhood and adolescence, by which time various kindsof card, board and video games are added. A majority of students admit that they like to play with children, yet at thesame time, they are diffident about playing and interacting with them.

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