The purpose of this study is to clarify differences in social networks arise by such factors as residential areas (urban, agricultural and fishing), occupations and age. The survey method was mentioned in the first report.
The major findings are as follows :
1) Neighbor linkages in agricultural areas were stronger than those in other areas.
2) Kinship linkages in fishing areas were stronger than those in other areas.
3) Women who worked were less satisfied with the present state of their networks than those who didn't. However, they did not make any effort to improve it.
4) The younger were less satisfied with the present state of their networks than the older, but they did not make any effort to improve it.
It seems to be our future tasks to find out what kind of social networks the working and the younger women want and what types of social systems are needed to support them.

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The present study was designed to examine factors related to self-rated health of the elderly and to clarify possible causes of subjective well-being of poorer self-rated health. The data was obtained through questionnaires distributed to 508 (206 males, 302 females) elderly people, andχ² test and Quantification Theory I, II were applied to the data.
Main findings are as follows :
1) As the result of Quantification Theory II analysis on good-poor self-rated health of the elderly people, 7 factors such as presently working or not, seeing physicians or not, social network, social activity, doing sports or exercise or not, ADL, MPI·E scale show a significant canonical correlation of R=0.5150 with good-poor self-rated health of the elderly people.
2) As to each category of factors related self-rated health, not seeing physicians, lesser social network, doing sports or exercise, normal ADL, more extraversion, respectly promote to let the elderly rate better self-rated health.
3) As the result of Quantification Theory I analysis performed to examine possible causes of subjective well-being of the poor self-rated health elderly, 7 factors such as age, marital status, having roles or not in the neighborhood, social network, doing sports or exercise or not, ADL, MPI·N scale are selected and show a significant multiple correlation coefficient of R=0.7346 (R²=0.5397) on subjective well-being of the poor self-rated health elderly.
4) The independent variables having statistically significant influence on the level of subjective well-being of the poor self-rated health elderly are MPI·N scale, social network, having roles or not in the neighborhood, age in strong influential order. As to each category of above four factors, lesser neuroticism, more social network, not having roles in the neighborhood, younger age, respectively promote to let the poor self-rated health elderly rate better subjective well-being.

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We analysed human relations in which children thought to have a sence of togetherness in daily lives, using the questionnaire data obtained from children who live in suburban areas.
The results were as follows :
1) Children rarely spend “quality time” with their fathers, while the reverse is true in that they spend it with their mothers doing such things as household chores.
2) Children tend to have meals not with their parents, but alone or with siblings.
3) Children usually spend their time within similar homogeneous groups, not requiring wider communication. So there is little opportunity for expansion of their human relations.
4) They are not very familiar with their neighbours.

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The physical properties and the sensory attributes of chicken white meat cooked under vacuum conditions were compared with those of chicken cooked by steaming and boiling. The most suitable heating temperature and time duration for the vacuum cooking were also established.
The chicken white meat cooked by the vacuum process at 62°C was softer and exhibited a much smaller weight-loss than when prepared by boiling and steaming. However, if the vacuum cooking process occurs at a higher temperature, an appreciable loss of weight and size, and an increase in firmness are caused : a correlation between higher temperatures and greater losses of weight, size and softness was observed. As regards sensory evaluation, temperatures of 90°C and 60°C were found to be less favorable. In this case the sensory evaluation of the cooked chicken white meat was concerned with the likeability of the appearance and texture, and also with the relative strengths of these physical properties. Seasoning also had a slight effect on the experiment.
In conclusion, it was found that the most favorable conditions for the vacuum cooking of chicken white meat were a temperature of 70°C and a cooking time of 30 minutes.

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An investigation was made for clarifying the effect of cooling conditions of gelatin sols on the characteristics of gels using various gelatins with different processings and extraction temperatures. The results can be summarized as follows.
The gel stirred at gelation point had lower rupture stress than standing gel, and the values of rupture stress for low temperature-extracted gelatins were higher than those of high-temperature-extracted gelatins. The values of the rupture strain, however, were constant for both cases. The rupture stress for gels increased with decreasing the cooling temperature of sols. The rupture strain for high temperature-extracted gelatins decreased with increasing the cooling temperature as 15 and 20°C. The rupture stress for 10°C gel obtained by slow cooling method was higher than that by fast cooling method. However, if the cooling time was kept constant, the values for fast cooled gel, on the contrary, were higher. The rupture strain for fast cooled 10°C gel was much lower than the other gels, and they had almost same values. The values of the rupture stress for the gels increased with the elapse of the cooling time of sols, and the equilibrium values were not obtained even after 24 hrs. The values of the rupture strain were almost constant from 1 to 8 hrs, and decreased after cooling for more than 24 hrs. The structures of gels were observed by using the scanning electron microscope, and the network structures (networks) were identified. The density of the network increased with increasing the cooling time.

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In order to prepare basic materials for designing maternity wear in the later stage of pregnancy, we conducted body measuring and silhouette photographing every other week after 26th week of pregnancy, to chase down the body changes. The measuring, conducted from October 1989 through March 1991, was applied on 27 subjects, covering 38 items in the realm of height, breadth, depth, girth and length, in the state of standing straight and stationary, of sitting on chair, also in their forward bending movement.
The measured results showed that remarkable increase of waist girth and hip girth, was observed every other week. These are the result especially of the thickness increase of front portion, which also led to the significant increase of anterior full length.
Girth change of pregnant women in their daily moving, especially when forward-bending by 60°, showed significant increase compared to unpregnant women. This trend proved to be bigger in the later stage of pregnancy.
The waistline position of some subjects showed becoming higher at the front with the progress of pregnancy, while others showed their waistlines kept constantly horizontal. It was also apprehended that the lower the navel position became in the week-by-week progress of pregnancy, the more horizontal the waistline position tended to be.

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A study was made for designing a maternity dress that may conform to the wearer in connection with her body deformation accompanying with the pregnancy growth and, further, make her feel comfortable, safe and easy to move.
Tests were conducted on five subjects, with the preparation of four kinds of maternity dress varying in width and seam design position, in the 32nd- and 38th-week of their pregnancy. Attired in these dresses, the subjects placed themselves in various movements, such as up-and-down, walking on stairs, to show up for judging of the dresses' suitability. Parallel with movement objective analysis by researchers, the subjects reached their subjective judgement through their own feeling of comfort, safety and easiness to move.
In the 32nd-week test, one of the dresses, smaller in width and having the seam design at horizontal waist, won a high appraisal from a view-point of the subjects' clear visibility at and around their feet. Stick pictures taken by a microcamera played a role in the judgement. This test result gave a suggestion that a problem lies in most of ready-made maternity dresses which have bigger width, with the seam design being positioned at underbust.
The dress, suitably worn at the time of the 32nd-week test, had become unsuitable in the 38th-week test, as it was felt oppressive at abdomen by the wearer. Objective judgement by the observers also was unfavorable for the dress. Accordingly, it was recognized that more than 5% increase of peripheral length at waist seam design, after 32nd-week of pregnancy, must be taken into consideration in the designing of a maternity dress.

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Recently the family structure and relationship has been changed greatly and as a result the new situation among the families with elderly people has been brought about. In order to investigate these changes and related problems, we have chosen 113 families with elderly people in Kanazawa City and investigated the change of the families.
Those family types and residential history for the past 15 years have been categorized and the characteristic points compared with the counterpart is Toyama City, (related on the first report) we have found are as follows.
1) About 43.4% families have experienced the change in family type and there is a noticeable tendency of dispersion to a graying conjugal family and a family with the oldest son's family, a family with another child's family, a family without child or single. This point is different from the case of Toyama City, where there is a noticeable tendency of polarization to a graying conjugal family and a family with the oldest son's family. Above all, not a few families changed family types to a person who lives alone or live single or a graying conjugal family because of a marriage of their child. In addition not few families changed a family type to a family with another child's family because of a divorce of their child.
2) About 42.5% families have experienced the change in residential relationship. More families have been found to become to live separately with their child's family than to live in the same house. This tendency is the same as Toyama City. Among them recently there are many changes to live nearer. Especially living next door to their child to respect their life styles each other is increasing. It is the noticeable tendency in the residential relationship in Kanazawa City.
In Kanazawa City, the change in family type and residential relationship are more various than in Toyama City, but the general situation is similar to Toyama City.

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