This report is based on the study of building up the new teaching seminar called “Career Psychology”, which is designed for undergraduate students to cultivate the fundamental competencies for the career development. The comparative research among undergraduate students of psychology major had been conducted to evaluate the educational effects of the core curriculum. The aim of this research is also to find out which skills should be maintained by the students during the process of learning at University. The study demonstrates that there are several critical differences between students and teaching staffs on the ideas of which skills are to be significant for the lifelong development. Discussion between the two will be necessary for making good efforts on both the teaching side and the learning side of generic skills. And for all students, building up the strength of mind to step forward in every situation seems to be something most important for their career development. Moreover, according to the comparison, there are significant characteristics in the junior students that they are with lower level of self-esteem and higher expectation of stability orientation. These results provide the ideas of how our new seminar can be suitable for the junior students who need to be empowered for their career development. Therefore three tasks would be recommended in this seminar, which are: (1) to consider their own lifelong career, (2) to learn by the observations through a graduate as a succeeded model, (3) to reevaluate their present achievement for helping them to be more self-confident. Furthermore, a new teaching method called “Project-Based Learning” has been also introduced and further discussed.

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Being a teacher, I have observed the school environment very closely. In school, there is a mason who works in various segments with the responsibility of sweeping the classrooms. She has multidimensional duty which has reduced their attention towards the waste management of the school. As a result, the waste management of the school has become poor and filthy. Most of the students know about it but nobody has paid any due attention. Since long, I have been seeking for how to change the student's behavior to maintain healthy school environment. I have conducted an action research with the purpose of exploring the ways for changing student's behavior toward HSE through performing waste management activities. Fundamentally, observation of the school surroundings, collection of the waste, segregation, disposal scaling/weighting up, audio-video recording etc. has been done as a part of waste management system and process. Strategically, encouraging students to perform the activities and make them self-motivated and motivating them with some kind of prizes was really difficult. However, objectives were accomplished with 4Ps (participation, practice, prolong-engagement and prize). Hence, 4Ps is the best way of changing student's behavior toward HSE which has been claimed through this research. The 4Ps should be operated in a cyclic way while action research is conducted because there is a link among stage of participation, practice, prolong-engagement and prizes. It is, thus, critically important for waste management in school. The more reduction in the quantity of the waste through the waste management activities and the more it brings the changes in their behavior toward HSE progressively. Hesitation in the part of students is taken as a challenge in their motivation towards waste management. There might be ample opportunities of changing their behavior to HSE who participate, practice, prolong-engaging and keeps prizes in mind while performing the activities. Hence, 4Ps is a way of changing their behavior toward HSE. It is equally important to consider that the intersectional initiatives in the course of maintaining healthy school environment, for example- initiative from the closer households, students, teachers, school administration and so on because such intersectional initiatives play vital role to encourage and increase the confidence of the students while they participate in the waste management activities. Their learning in the family also plays a key role to track down their behaviors towards HSE.

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The organochlorine environmental pollutants such as dioxins transfer to infants through mother’s milk. In the study we used less toxic hexachlorobenzene (HCB) and examined the effects of dietary lipid level on the distribution and transfer of HCB from dams to suckling pups. In pregnant rats fed with high-fat diet, the amount of HCB accumulated in fat tissues was slightly higher compared with the control diet and the low-fat diet groups. In all groups, a large proportion of HCB in the dams disappeared during lactation period and was transferred to their pups through the milk. In the pups of the high-fat diet group, the amount of HCB in stomach contents was lower immediately until 10 day after birth compared with those of the control and the low-fats diets. These results showed a high-fat diet reduced the speed of the transfer of HCB from the dams to suckling pups through milk.

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This study investigates artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Myanmar and presents analytical data on mercury pollution for the first time. The way of gold mining in Myanmar is detailed. The sampling and investigation areas were Kyaikhto in Mon State, Shwekyin in Bago Region, the middle reaches of the Ayeyarwaddy River in Mandalay and Sagaing regions, and north of Kalewa in Sagaing Region. The total mercury concentrations of river sediments and human hair samples were determined by cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry. Some river sediments were contaminated and the highest mercury concentration of 81 μg/g was found in a sample from Ayeyarwaddy River. The total mercury concentrations in the hair of mineworkers ranged from 0.6 to 6.9 μg/g and the average value was 2.9 μg/g, which is 2.4 times higher than the value of non-mineworkers. Although the data obtained in this study was not sufficient, the results indicated that the environment of Myanmar may be contaminated with mercury that originated from artisanal and small-scale gold mining. Large-scale environmental investigation is required in the near future to determine the detailed situation for water quality and human health.

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Women in Kayan society (the Kayan Lahwi tribe) still practice the custom (body modification) of wearing brass neck coils beginning in childhood. By adulthood, brass neck coils weigh 3kg. This research provides the first verified data analysis of the influence of this custom on the form, physique, and body proportion of Kayan women. The survey took place from 2012 to 2014 in S, P, and R villages in Demoso Township, Kayah State, Union of Myanmar. The survey consisted of taking anthropometric measurements of 76 women who had worn neck brass coils since childhood, and 52 women who had no experience wearing these neck brass coils. We calculated and compared the difference in average values of 11 key vertical dimensions and 10 body proportion indices of the two groups of women (coils wearers vs. non-wearers). For coils-wearers, the largest t-value was for neck length (t=9.207) and head-neck length (t=8.161). Comparing body proportion indices (by setting each subject’s height to 100), we similarly found the largest difference between the two groups to be the neck length index (t=9.508) and the head-neck length index (t=9.003). It is clear that women who wore neck coils achieved a large difference in their physique and proportion when compared to women who had not worn neck coils. The practice has a large influence on the position of shoulders and arms, and especially so on the area from center top edge of the sternum to the top of the head.

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The present study investigates how pupils in English classroom learn to complete tasks autonomously. A methodological framework to analyze teacher-pupil interactions is newly set up by applying sociocultural theory to corrective feedback framework. It is advantageous and well suited to this study in that it includes in the analysis not only pupils’ utterances but also any context relating to pupils’ completion of tasks, so that pupils’ learning activities can be analyzed from comprehensive perspective. Also, the framework adopts the strict definition of scaffolding that it is special kind of help which finally enables learners to complete a task on their own, so that a further investigation into how pupils gain autonomy is possible. Teacher-pupil interactions in English classrooms, transcribed from video-record into written data, were analyzed, and four features in the process of pupils’ task completion, and “indirect scaffolding,” which means interactions between the teacher and a pupil brings about another pupil’s autonomous task completion, were observed. The prerequisite for some types of help to function as scaffolding is that pupils understand the purpose of the activity.

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　This study analyzes a Hawaiian language radio program, Ka Leo Hawai‘i, broadcast in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. Based on a collection of recordings of over four hundred shows from the 1970s and 1980s, it attempts to describe what the program was like at that period. The program can be described as a media practice that formed and maintained a community through documenting the language and culture of Native Hawaiians. A central feature of the show was invited guests, many of whom were elders and native speakers of Hawaiian. After the program ended, the audio recordings were digitized, and they have been used for educational purposes and have continued to make a contribution to the revitalization of the Hawaiian language. These recordings are truly important because Hawaiian has almost no collections of audio recordings as large in volume and that were collected as systematically as Ka Leo Hawai‘i. It is also not easy to generate new audio recordings of elderly native speakers because their number is now presumably under one hundred.

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　　“A view of unnecessary for cultural science” is a hot topic of debate. Why did this problem come up? How to try to make a breakthrough in this situation? I would like to suggest that the original meaning of the Chinese character- “bun”. They say that cultural science is useless. But I think cultural science is very useful. Without cultural sciences, we can’t succeed in business and employment. If we are more widely publicizing the wonderfully of cultural science, we will be able to overcome that view of unnecessary.

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　The handmade contents were created by the use of the following three Information Communication Technologies (ICT), (1) the dot codes that can be linked with multimedia like audios, movies, html files, Web pages, and PowerPoint files, (2) e-books with Media Overlays and/or Authoring function, and (3) Augmented Reality (AR). Various useful activities were conducted to help the students with various disabilities at both general and special needs schools. One of the authors (S. I.) has performed two-days workshop to pass his recent knowhow both to the Kindergarten teachers at the Sultan’s School, Oman, and to the staffs at School for Young Children, University of Saint Joseph, Connecticut, USA. The collaborative network of the present project was very much spread over many Japanese schoolteachers at both the opportunities of the exhibition organized by National Institute of Special Needs Education and an outstanding lecture by one of the author (S. I.) at the meeting of the Basic Education Organization for Handicapped. The side reader of the unit “Growth of Salmon” in the second grade textbook of “Japanese” subject, created with AR and dot code technologies in collaboration with the schoolteacher, was very much welcomed by both the elementary students and also the board of education, Hachioji-city, Japan; its elementary school could get the fund to promote such new school activities with recent developed ICT technologies. The handmade cards to learn “Japanese Hirakana characters and vocabulary” was installed and used now at the regular lessons at an elementary division of the School for the Mentally Challenged at Otsuka, University of Tsukuba. At the Osaka Prefectural Special Needs Education School for the Visually Impaired, the school activity with dot code and EPUB3 with Media Overlays technologies has started. The dot code technology was also used to help the student with the disability of reading and understanding the texts; the worksheet with dot-code icons could help him nicely to understand the meaning.

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　Yishan Yining (J., Issan Ichinei; 1247-1317) as the representative monk of the history of Sino-Japanese exchanges, he went to Japan not only had brought the mission of the Yuan Dynasty, but also has been having significant impact on society. He established Isan Zen of Linzai, he cultivated a larger number of eminent monks, at the same time he created a new situation of later Zen Buddhism and Confucianism. After he passed away, Kokan Siren wrote a essay based on his life to memorize him. From then on, the researches from his life to other aspects constantly expanded and developed the Sino-Japanese mountain new situation, a rather new area of research. Recently in China, continuous thematic writings about their research has hot.

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　　Changing values in Germany since the 1970s led voluntary activity given by authorities on an honorary basis to stagnate and gave birth to a new individualistic motivation to participate; “I will do it because it is fun for me.” In the meantime, efforts were made to rebuild mechanisms of participation in civic engagement to cope with this transformation. Among these mechanisms, a mechanism of agency between volunteer organizations and potential volunteers is playing an important role in promoting civic engagement. We carried out research in Munich to clarify a number of the successful mechanisms. As a result, it has become clear that there are various ways to participate via agencies and events and precise consultation and connecting methods have developed to meet the individualistic requirements of each potential volunteer ―for instance, volunteering agencies and the volunteering fair in Munich.

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　　The rapid development of information science and artificial intelligence approaches may offer new insights into the huge amount of financial and economic-related time-series data that is being accumulated daily in large-scale databases. It is important to extract the meta information (for example, causality) from these time series data and offer new methodologies to decipher large-scale complex systems information. On the other hand, in financial institutions, the risk management and asset allocation are important. However, the conventional risk management methods exhibit problems and weaknesses that need to be addressed. Therefore, in this study, by analyzing huge financial time series data, we derive a new method to control the risk in financial markets in information engineering point of view.

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　The Hawaiian language has an exceptionally large body of resources for an indigenous language, including Hawaiian language newspapers, which have been used primarily for research on Native Hawaiians. However, these newspapers contain much information on various matters, not all of which are focused on the indigenous people. The present paper reports a study on issues relating to Japan, Japanese, and Japanese immigrants that was conducted by using Hawaiian language newspapers as the primary resource. It investigates newspaper articles published between 1904 and 1946 and collected in 2014, and it analyzes the way these articles describe Japanese people in Hawai‘i.

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　This report is the part of the study which considered a censorship system critically from the angle of the gender theory. Modern Japan adopted the blank type which changes the part of the expression for a circle and x as a censorship system. GHQ/SCAP prohibited this system in an occupation period, but an image of a blank type and influence remain in present Japanese. Two pillars of a censorship system are sexual prohibited and political prohibited, but its image construction shows that a blank type is genderized. The censorship system is connected with the politics which genderizes minority.

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　　Nodule organogenesis is initiated by dedifferentiation of root cortical cells that reenter cell cycle and form nodule primordial. Cytokinin has a central role in the formation of root nodules following inoculation with rhizobia. We showed that rhizobia induced the expression of IPT, cytokinin synthesis enzyme gene, LHK1, cytokinin receptor gene, in Lotus japonicus. Here we show that cytokinin signaling is required for nodule synthesis.

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　The purpose of this report is to clarify the feature of the modification processes in two families through Relationship Development Intervention (RDI). The participants were two families who each have a child with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The children were 7- and 5-year-old boys, and they each have a sibling. They have continued to do RDI for two years and one year respectively. The modification process were analyzed by the parents’ two types of reflection reports: 1) daily life in the relationship between them and their child, and 2) video clips of RDI activities focused on pacing, spotlighting, and sharing feelings. The results are as follows. In both of families, the mothers felt some difficulties in guiding their child compared with their siblings and worry about the relationship with their friends at the start of RDI. Each father has understood the mother’s feeling and has participated in doing RDI. It was important for them to have the opportunities to discuss and consider interaction with child through video clips. They realized that they are apt to use a lot of instructions with words, and the necessity of making use of declarative words and non-verbal tools in their interaction. Their child has often come to guess their parents’ reactions and as a result, decrease speaking one-sidedly at their own pace in their deeds. According to the results of the above case studies, the author focused on parents’ guiding, not on improving the child’s behavior. This report suggested that the importance of focusing on the parents’ reflections, their feelings and emotions in interacting with their child.

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　　Two cationic polymer compound-producing microorganisms, Penicillium sp. K9A and K17G, were newly isolated by screening using cationic dye, methylene blue. MS analysis revealed that the molecular weight of the cationic polymer compound produced by K9A was shown based on the formula 128×n＋32. It suggests that the polymer produced by K9A may be poly-lysine. The molecular weight of the cationic polymer produced by K17G was shown based on the formula 208×n＋153, it suggests that this polymer might be a novel cationic polymer.

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　　The process and outcome, as well as the ability, of a person overcoming and adapting successfully to a psychologically unhealthy state the person temporarily fell into after experiencing a difficult situation are referred to as resilience.

　　In resilience study, attention is often focused on the ability. Some theoretical studies place an eye on the process, but there are few practical studies doing so.

　　The clinical practice for this analysis included a total of 29 sessions of play therapy with an 8-year-old boy (at that time) during my training.

　　Thus, this study was conducted to examine the resilience process for the purpose of reviewing the process of play therapy using the concept of resilience.

　　Consequently, significant changes observed in the play of boys, along with favorable reports obtained from their daily lives, support the efficacy of play therapy.

　　Classification and conversion into numerical values of resilience factors with regard to speech and behavior during play therapy in this study found that at early stages, the “independence/self-control,” “emotional adjustment” functions as personal factors of resilience were often counted as negative aspects.

　　However, the rating of “independence/self-control” and “emotional adjustment” was also found to gradually improve with these functions counted as positive aspects.

　　The study demonstrated that the significance of play therapy could be directly explained by analyzing the process of play therapy in practicing clinical psychology from the perspective of resilience factors.

　　It also suggested a possibility of identifying resilience factors that could greatly affect the adaptation process.

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　　This research has the following main purposes: to achieve sanitation fosters will take; to raise community awareness of sanitation and hygiene education; to encourage the participation of the entire community (students, teachers, school heads, Parent Teacher Association, School Board of Trustees) in sanitation and hygiene education; to improve unsanitary schools; to encourage the ‘4 cleans’ behaviors through community-planned grassroots projects and improve health and quality of life through these behavior changes; to prevent contamination of water from source to mouth.

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　　This study is the first report of basic research to support the volunteer students who work with the children with developmental disabilities. It is found, to work with the children with developmental disabilities, these volunteer students have the difficulties. To solve the difficulties, the following three points were considered to be important measures. First, sharing informations among volunteer members, secondly, the increase of knowledge concerning developmental disorders, and finally, handover of the skills of activities. Also, it was found that senior students are getting difficult to gain a sense of accomplishment because of the increase of responsibility in their volunteer activities, and also feeling the difficulties strongly. Furthermore, the existence of situation was implied that senior students could not feel receiving the supports from other members. As the future tasks, through interviews, further detailed measures to be explored to cope with existing difficulties.

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　　The final aim of this study is to disclose the process of acquiring the skill of assertion for the youth in modern times who tend to avoid others but to wish for deep relationships among them. The aim of this year is to research the effect on acquiring the skill of assertion by using role playing method. I examined the effect of role playing in trial counseling and its supervision. As a result, it’s suggested that role playing in trial counseling is to train the assertion skill which study in advance on real communication sheen. And it’s also suggested the interactive supervision which advises on communication skills in role playing from overlooking point of view, is indispensable for acquiring the skill of assertion. Then I will examine how the groups of postgraduate students are made independently, and how these groups contribute to acquire the professional skills, next year.

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　　When production of the yukata, beginner has a particularly hard time “pattern arrangement and cutting” of the stage before sewing.

　　Already, there are some of studies that methods to support it to be able to cutting of the cloth immediately. However, both methods have some problems when it really used by a lecture, and it isn’t generalized under the present conditions.

　　Therefore, I pick up tyusen-yukatazi the representative cloth used for a yukata, and consider technique when beginners perform the pattern arrangement of the yukata.

　　This study’s purpose is consider the cutting method that even kimono-dressmaking beginners, they can produce yukata has a good appearance at the time of arming.

　　In 2014, I analyzed a problem of the pattern arrangement that became clear by a precedent study. And I investigated the present conditions of tyusen-yukatazi in order to consider a method to solve the problem. In addition, I thought about a method to simulate yukata’s look of a design in a state dressed in the arming using a cloth visual.

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　　American political scientist Joseph Nye defined soft power as a power which can raise voluntary support in other Nations without using compelling force. Soft power is nothing but a Nation’s charm.

　　Japan’s Gross National Cool written by American Economist Douglas McGray in 2002 made the word soft power well known in Japan. Popular culture of Japan such as manga and animation, J-pop, TV drama, fashion, architecture, cuisine, has received enthusiastic support all over the world since the 1990s. While the economy were stagnant and Japan’s "Gross National Product" (GDP) continued to decline, Japan’s "Gross National Cool" was remarkably rising. McGray says, Japan, Which was economic superpower in the 1980s, becomes a super power of soft power in the early 21th century.

　　Soft power is the concept of international political science. To adapt soft power to a domestic phenomenon may seems to be incollect. However, Japan’s local governments are exposed to fierce inter regional competition. Now tertiary industries becomes the major force of economy, and the Japan’s big companies has been moving their factories abroad. So, such as factory attraction is out of date. Establishing the regional brand of primary products and the promoting of tourism becomes important for any region. The Local Governments cannot survive without demonstrating the fascination of the region. Inter regional competition in Japan can said to be the competition of the local soft power. The core of the "cool Japan" is its popular culture, especially manga and animations. So the attempts to use the manga and the animations closely related to their regions as the trigger of community development has been made throughout the country. The most remarkable succeed case among them is Mizuki Shigeru road, Sakaiminato city, Tottori Prefecture. The mighty efforts of the Sakaiminato citizens work together with various stake holders out of the region makes their city theme park of the monstrous being (youkai). Now over 3 million tourists are visiting Mizuki Shigeru road per year. The road becomes the most famous tourist resort of Tottori prefecture along with the Tottori-sakyu Sand Dunes.

　　Prefectural Governmen of Tottori declared the founding of "Manga Kingdom Tottori" in 2012. "Manga Kingdom Tottori" put up three prominent manga artists (Mizuki Shigeru, Taniguch Jiroi, Aoyama Gosho) coming from Tottori as the Icons, conducts various events such as the International Manga Expo. But "Tottori Manga Kingdom" is not getting enough understanding in the People of Tottori Prefecture.

　　Kochi Prefecture, as well as Tottori Prefecture, produced many notable manga artists, are also advocating "Manga Kingdom/ Tosa", has a long term tradition of culture ordinary people enjoy drawing manga. And "Manga Koshien" which has a long history over more than 20 years has been encouraging high school Manga Artist(koukoupenji) creating the cartoons implying the social criticism. "Manga Kingdom/ Tosa" appealing the close ties with the spiritual tradition of Tosa emphasizing the value of "freedom" and "rebellious" spirit and the tradition of its manga culture. "Manga Koshien", seems trying to breathe young spirit of "rebellious" and "freedom" through its challenges.

　　On the other hand, Tottori Prefecture lacks the tradition of ordinary people enjoy drawing manga, nor definite identity such as represented by the word "rebellious" and "freedom" in Kochi. Three great manga artists are powerful media, but sad to say, there are no messages to load with. This may be the reason why many people in Tottori seems to be embarrassed at the establishment of "Manga Kingdom Tottori".

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　　There are two predominant ways to describe sentence structures: from words and from patterns. I attempt to advocate hybrid grammar which is a combination between the advantage of word grammar and that of pattern grammar. Furthermore, hybrid grammar is a blend of the advantage of corpora and that of native speaker’s intuition. In my previous paper, I applied hybrid grammar to the light verbs have and take in order to exemplify that hybrid grammar is useful for description of sentence structures. In this paper, I insist that hybrid grammar reveals the features of event nouns which follow the light verbs have and take.

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　　Research into Japanese apology expressions has been conducted for many years. This study looks at more specific objectives of apology expressions, and considers them more deeply. Specifically data for eight Japanese dramas from 1990 to 2014 was collected and classified into three expression types. Then it was analyzed with respect to the purpose and situation.

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　　It is found that empathy has a good influence for the therapeutic effect and the curative effect in a clinical scene. However counselors may not empathize with the contents of all clients. Kakuta (1998) proposed ‘insufficient sharing’ and ‘sufficient sharing’, which lead to mature empathy. Accordingly, it is important how therapists deal with insufficient sharing experience.

　　Where also, Super Vision become important but there is little concrete knowledge that focused on Super Vision. In addition, although the good use of counselors’ feelings are effective in psychotherapy sessions, it is pointed out that novice counselors get easily confused about their own feelings. It seems that there are different processes between the novice counselor and skilled counselor, facing to their own feelings and insufficient shared experience.

　　In this study, the author focused on the insufficient shared experience in a clinical setting of counselors, and aimed to investigate the process of dealing with insufficient shared experience of counselors. A preliminary investigation was conducted.

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　One of the characteristics of people who suffer from anxiety over interpersonal relationships is that who have a low self-esteem. As its cause, past negative experiences, namely “rejected experiences” are presumed. I examined 33 case studies of clinical psychology. As the result, clients were not telling such experience directly. However, it was found, in interpersonal situations, they were strongly aware of “Oneself expressing”, “Oneself hiding from others” and “Oneself being seen from others”. The coexistence of these three “Oneself” generates dilemma which relates to the cause of interpersonal anxiety.

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　　I classified the characteristic of the bullying assailant by "4 types of the bullying" (the bullying at an public place, the physical bullying, the bullying by relationship, the bullying in the shadow). The bullying assailants who performed "the bullying at the public place" were brought up in a family without the problem, but were problem children at school. The bullying assailants who performed "the bullying in the shadow" were brought up in an overprotective family or in an indifferent family, were both of problem children and honor students. According to teachers, the bullying assailants who performed "the bullying by relations" were children of various characteristics. But, according to students, they were avoided. In this study, I could not interview a bullying assailant and was not able to check a mental factor.

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　　This study attempts to determine the further features of the Star-Wave Test as a projective method, by investigating the test results from the second administration which had been taken after 11 years of the first administration. It provided us with some ideas that the Star-Wave Test is likely to describe people’s mental states which may easily change in the very short term, and also the long-lasting states which we call “the personality” in general. Furthermore, by comparing the results of the Star-Wave Test and that of the Rorschach inkblot test, it was discovered that both projective methods give the similar descriptions about some change in subjects’ character in the long term. It can be explained that the Star-Wave Test is also likely to detect the personality change, according to the clinical validity of the Rorschach inkblot test.

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　　In late years a learning class formed according to degree of achievement of the learning is spreading as one education form. However, by the conventional research which observed the educational form, since there were many by which the focus was put on changes of academic ability, by this research, it focused on the attitude side and verified about the high school student's feeling of class adaptation.

　　In addition, we were intended that we made use for the adaptation support in the educational front by investigating a tendency to adaptation of the high school student who lived in modern youth in this study.

　　It was shown clearly that an investigation candidate had a difference in an adaptation tendency according to a student's affiliation environment with the results at the time of an entrance examination as a result of research for the student who was able to distribute to the class according to study skill level of three groups.

　　For concrete taxonomy; Value an individual way of life in a high rank results group. Try a suitable life in a middle results group. The field which it can be proud of for itself in a low grade results group is set forth. The result shown above was a factor of adaptation of each group.

　　It is a big theme that the role of the psychology job in the school community maximizes environmental compatibility with a student. For the promotion of the education consultation in the educational front, the action that made much of school community surrounding the individual is indispensable (Kabasawa, 2014).

　　By it having been shown that an adaptation tendency had the feature according to a student's affiliation environment, a possibility that it will be applicable to consultation to a teacher, case management, etc. As one knowledge is suggested at the time of adaptation support. However, the room for question remains by analogy with the fewer other similar studies about reliability, the consistency of these findings. It is a future problem. We carry out the study in other high schools presenting class organization according to the degree of achievement of the learning. Furthermore, we perform comparison when class organization according to the degree of achievement of the learning was carried out in the high school which does not carry out this education form and will think that there is the need of the still deeper examination in future.

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　　White adipocytes have endocrine functions and secrete hormones and cytokines in response to various changes in their energy states. Mitochondria are the keystones of energy metabolism and they continuously join and divide, controlling the energy states of the cells. In contrast to the brown adipocytes, which is specialized for the non-shivering thermogenesis and in which the role of the mitochondria in cellular function has been intensively investigated, the role of mitochondria in the white adipocytes is virtually unknown. In this study, we observed 3T3-L1 adipocytes, the model of white adipocytes during differentiation by live cell imaging with fluorescent dyes focusing on the mitochondria and the lipid droplets. The shapes of mitochondria were clearly observed in the cells on 32 days after differentiation, although the lipid droplets were well-developed and the space for mitochondria was limited in the cells. At all differentiation stages, mitochondria appeared to be gathered around the lipid droplets, which suggests the existence of some functional relationships between the mitochondria and lipid droplets.

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　　The Japanese Literature Department introduced its "Basic Seminar I" for first-year students as part of the new curriculum, which launched with the 2014 academic year. The goal of this course is primarily to provide students with the foundation necessary for their training, including research and presentation skills, as a way of facilitating their entry into university-level studies. In order to achieve that goal, the instructing faculty members established six topics to be covered during the course, and then worked together to develop the necessary teaching materials.

　　In Japan today, society is directing increased scrutiny at the significance and efficacy of a university education. This experiment by the Japanese Literature Department has become an opportunity for faculty themselves to reconceive of the form that Humanities should take, rather than being a superficial attempt to meet the demands of the neoliberal marketplace.

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　　Mo Karakoromo costume is a full dress of the Heian aristocratic women hakama, Hitoe, Uchigi, table clothes, Karakoromo, it is composed of such as Mo. This time in which was carried out an analysis of some of organizing and examples of wear realities about the wear of Uchigi and Akome.

　　Distinction as to confirm the Uchigi and Akome in dictionary, Uchigi is assumed for the long ones and women skirt, Akome is the called the one for short and men and young child of hem. But when you check the dynasty story, down to the men wearer of Uchigi, women to the wearer's similarly Akome seen. Also which it is often used as an object to be things, which had been given to both men and women. The thing that description that has been written in Yusokukojitsu statement also contradicts many, the actual shape and it is often unclear about the wear. Or in response to the fact that, are also increasingly places ambiguous description of the modern dictionary class and commentary. The purpose of this study, carried out an analysis of some of organizing and examples of wear realities per "Akome" the literary works and the full record, is that it will consider the actual wear and Akome.

　　It should be noted in particular I do consider wearing men this time. Therefore, examples of the wear of the child and the priest was removed.

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　　“Aisho-ka” is an Elegy, a kind of WAKA (an old Japanese poem which consists of 31 syllables) mouring the dead. I have collected and analyzed numerous WAKA of Elegy which include expressions or scenes from “The Tale of Genji”. Those WAKA of Elegy were composed during the latter half of the 12th to 14th century (the Japanese medieval period). In my report, I would like to express my views on “The Shoku-Shika Wakashu” which was compiled around 1165. So I have chosen these quotations, analyzed the way they’ve been used, and provided my interpretation of the compiler’s intentions.

　　Many consider the quotations from “The Tale of Genji”, “The Shin-Kokin Wakashu” as a remarkable piece. However, I think “The Shoku-Shika Wakashu” deserves greater attention, it precedes “The Shin-Kokin Wakashu”.

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　The purpose of this study is to create a hypothetic model of the recovery process of clinical psychologists with the loss experience. Semi-structured interview was carried out on four clinical psychologists in the palliative care field. The revised Grounded Theory Approach was selected for qualitative analysis. As a result of this analysis, 17 categories have been found.

　First, the results revealed a transition in the recovery process of clinical psychologists with the loss experience; “Stage of encounter,” “Stage of deepening the relationship,” “Stage before bereavement,” “Stage after bereavement,” and “Stage of recovery,” phases.

　During the first stage of the loss experience, clinical psychologists showed typical grief reactions as well as the bereaved family. But, this stage was shown in a short term. Then, for the purpose of the mourning work, they used the support resources by participating in the case study meeting.

　During the “Stage of recovery”, clinical psychologists actively reflected both on their counseling process with the patients, and on their own minds. Consequently, they could find an affirmative side of their counseling process. Furthermore, they could recognize the way to develop their career.

　It will be necessary to do the elaboration of the model by increasing the number of interviewee in the future.

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　The authors focused on emotional experience in psychotherapy sessions and the development process of therapists, from the viewpoint of Emotional Competence. We interviewed 16 clinical psychologists and through its qualitative analysis by Grounded Theory Approach, 10 categories were generated.

　Therapists have a “feeling of imperfection” and “cannot rely on their supervisor and colleagues well”. Likewise therapists “cannot face his/her own feelings”. Although therapists are “confused by clients”, through the experience to “be relieved by supervision”, they come to “understand” and “deal with clients’ emotions”. After therapists “experience a deepening of relationship between clients”, therapists “get a point of view to learn from therapist-client relationship”. Then therapists’ “Emotional Self-efficacy improve”.

　As for the therapists’ Emotional Competence, it is very insufficient at the beginning, but will continue to develop through the efforts of the therapist's own, while repeating the relationship between the client and supervisor.

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　　The Internet today provides users with a great amount of convenience due to the improvement of tools and their functions, and the expansion in the numbers of users. However, with the expansion of both online content and time spent online, new and potential risks have emerged in this virtual space. A majority of Japanese students experience communication troubles over the Internet, and therefore higher education institutions have increased their efforts to reduce risks on the Internet by, for example, offering basic security education through information literacy programs. However, because of the number and variability of Internet risks, it is unlikely that these efforts have achieved satisfactory results. This study reports the results of a self-report questionnaire used to examine the problems or difficulties encountered on the Internet by young women in Japan.

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　　In this paper, about implementation method of the subject "information", I summarized about human resource development, which have raised as an issue after implementation the subject “information”, connection with education at elementary, junior high, and university high school, including the raised problem of school education overall re-examination, which has been pointed out from the starting period, while having the raised issues as an axis, such as conflict with management information field of commercial department. In addition, as a way of the future information education, I referred to the ICT education at an elementary school in Takeo City as a precedent. From there, I pointed out that it is essential that social consensus, including budget allocation of Ministry of Education, and re-examination from the perspective to solve social issues for infrastructure of information society. In addition, in a perspective of graduates of human resources responsible for the information society, I pointed out that professional education fields, such as commercial high schools and technical high schools, will have more social significance, that those vocational education is important, and that those vocational education is essential to be prioritized as intellectual foundation.

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　　This study explores one core question: why we must reconsider 2^nd Sino-Japanese war today? Anyone interest in the various literary, philosophical, filmic, and sub-culture texts produced in postwar Japan, is well aware of the giant shadow cast by the experiences and memories of the Second World War. Words and images concerning “the great war” have come to form one of the largest archives in Japanese-language discourse. There is no doubt, however, that this is a biased archive. The paucity in Japanese society of collective memories of war in Asia, and in particular of the eight years of continuous fighting on the Chinese continent, is extremely odd. Today, at a moment in which the international situation in East Asia seems worse than it has been since the 1990s, I believe that it is of the upmost importance that we turn back to the Japanese-language archive of the war memories and re-interrogate it over the question of how those experiences were recounted and represented.

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　　C57BL/6 mice were randomly divided into 3 groups and fed high-fat diet. The amounts of β-glucan from barley A group and barley B group were 2.1%, respectively. The experimental diets and tap water were provided ad libitum for 88 days. Serum GLP-1 concentrations were measured by ELISA. No significant difference was observed among three groups in the serum GLP-1 concentrations.

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　The basic elements of “school meal program management” in “off-campus learning” should be universally understood by both registered and unregistered dietitians. In this study, a survey was conducted to assess the current status of “school meal program management” training curricula at different facilities contracted to conduct “off-campus learning” and existing practicum programs at institutions that offer student placement. The results of the survey showed that these institutions were not actually teaching practicum components considered critical by training facilities, even though this was their contractual duty. However, over 50% of future graduates of such programs can be expected to be involved in “school meal program management”. The conditions that would allow the teaching of basic elements of “school meal program management” in such institutions need to be determined. It is also important to make sure that instruction regarding the educational and teaching components of “school meal program” in “off-campus learning” is provided in sufficient detail.

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　　We investigated the effects of dietary supplementation with softened kombu on lipid metabolism in genetically type 2 diabetic mice (KK/Ta). KK/Ta mice were randomly divided into three groups and fed a high-fat diet containing cellulose (CO group), dried kombu (IN group) and softened kombu (SO group) corresponding to 5% total dietary fiber for 68 days. The total abdominal fat mass was lower in the SO group than that of the IN group. The serum cholesterol concentrations were significantly lower in the both IN and SO groups than in the CO group, and the SO group was also lower than that of the IN group. These results indicate that dietary supplementation with softened kombu attenuate dyslipidemia in diabetic mice.

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　　Milk micellar calcium phosphate prepared form milk and calcium carbonate were administrated to the rat diets. The mRNA expressions related to the calcium transport from the intestinal tract in rats were measured. A significant difference was observed in the calcium concentrations of the portal vein after four hours in rats fed experimental diets, and also observed in hormone concentrations.

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　Male C57BL/6J mice were fed a high-fat diet containing high β-glucan barley, lactic acid bacteria (Lactobacillus plantarum) or whey protein concentrate for 12 weeks. The mRNA expression of inflammatory markers in epididymal fat cell or hepatic cell were measured. The mRNA expression of inflammatory markers such as macrophage marker (F4/80) and chemokine in epididymal fat was significantly reduced in the both of high β-glucan barley group and lactic acid bacteria (Lactobacillus plantarum) group which promote colonic fermentation compared to the control group. On the other hand, the mRNA expression of NADPH oxidase subunit which promotes active oxygen production was significantly reduced in the non-fermentable whey protein group compared to the control group.

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　This study is conducted to establish the evaluation method of preventive effect of hypertension by using several animal models previously established. And the preventive effect of hypertension of dietary factors which were reported to attenuate the obesity and hyperglycemia was also investigated. Blood pressures were compared in male C57BL/6J mice which was induced obesity by high fat diet (DIO mice), genetically obese and diabetic mice (KK mice), and arteriosclerosis model mice (apoE knockout mice). These results showed that systolic blood pressure was highest in the DIO mice compared to other mice models. Blood pressure was normal in apoE KO mice fed normal diet, but it is speculated that hypertension might be induced by hypercholesterolemic diet. Blood pressure was slightly high in the KK mice. Effects of barley, rye, and oats on blood pressures in DIO mice fed high fat diet were investigated. These results showed that barley intake is effective in lowering systolic blood pressure. Further studies indicated that cooked Kombu intake is also effective in lowering systolic blood pressure compared to the control mice.

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　This study conducted the survey of dietary habits in infants and their parents in order to conduct the dietary education at parents who are responsible for eating habits of their children. The result indicated the association between dietary habits of parents childhood and current eating habits of their children. In a dietary education of early childhood, it is reaffirmed that we need to implement a dietary education and also for parents who are responsible for the eating habits of their children not only to children.

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　　An Introduction to the 3 volume "HOUBUTSUSHU" held in Otsuma Women's University Library.

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　　Valuation of professional sports teams is much more difficult than valuation of general business companies, because value of professional sports teams depends strongly on options of transfer and free agent that players and teams have, fluctuation of the number of games per year due to advance to higher-level tournament, and the possibility of promotion to a higher league and demotion to a lower league, etc. The ultimate goal of this study is to develop valuation techniques of the various factors, such as described above, which is difficult by DCF method, using the option pricing models. As a first step, this year’s study classed these various factors in some patterns by differences of time patterns of cash flow, character of a risk, and degree of decision-making flexibility, and further extracted models with possibility to contribute to valuation of professional sports teams from the various option pricing models which had been studied till now.

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