The present author, previously, reported case studies of development about home management ability of housewives in the case of social education and home education.
Therefore, this paper reports on college education
In order to judge the development by college education, the investigation of 350 housewives who studied home management in the college was compared with that of 348 (out of home economics course) housewives who did not study home management in the same college.
The method of this study is same as the previous works.
The following are the major findings;
1) Home management ability can be developed by the study of home management in the college.
2) In the activities of home management, ability of planning had been developed especially.
3) In the resources that are the object of home management, management ability of family love and foods had been developed.

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The present study was designed to investigate the related factors to psychological well-being in old age. The data was obtained through questionnaire distributed to 1, 736 elderly people. The results were summarized as follows.
There were following four factors related to psychological well-being in the aged : 1) The physical and environmental factors such as living with spouse and/or grandchildren, and having good health and/or economical conditions, etc. 2) The factors of the subjective evaluation on actual life by elderly people themselves, such as satisfaction with family relationship, religion, and so on. 3) The factors before old age, such as vocation before retirement, and 4) The personality factors such as active needs.
The following points were suggested for achieving psychological well-being in old age. That is, it was necessary to improve the conditions related the four factors above, and support to carry out aged people's active needs.

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The present study was designed to analyze the family role for the formation of psychological well-being in old age. The data was obtained through questionnaire distributed 55 elderly people and 74 family members living with elderly parents.
The results were as follows :
1) It was suggested that acceptance of aging by family members helped to achieve psychological well-being for elderly people.
2) It was a important factor for elderly people to achieve psychological well-being that they could recognize mutual understanding and the meaning for their being in the families.
3) It was suggested that they were important factors for the family members to accept their parents' aging that they could evaluate old parents' lives and their own lives better, and provide for their old age.

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The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of social factors on actual conditions of lactation and mothers' attitudes toward breastfeeding. And the social factors which we investigated were mothers' working, their roles of child care, and their attitudes toward female roles. A questionnaire was given to 239 pairs of parents of infants in Ehime Prefecture.
The main findings were as follows :
1) The mothers' plans for lactation were influenced by the number of children they have, their family income, and the conditions of mothers' working.
2) More than 30% of the mothers had feelings of difficulty, which was related to the differences between their plans and practices. And these feelings of difficulty were related to the mothers' anxiety, the conditions of mothers' working, and the support from their husbands.
3) The parents' responses to their attitudes toward breastfeeding were factor-analyzed separately for mothers and fathers, yielding the four factors : mental and physical health of mother and child; restriction of mothers' activities; natural practice; economy and convenience. The mothers' attitudes toward breastfeeding were related to conditions of their working and their attitudes toward female roles as well as their experience of lactation.

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The study was undertaken to determine the effects of lactulose syrup on the growth and intestinal microflora of rats at different levels of dietary protein. Male rats of the Wistar strain (at 6 weeks of age and weight 97 g) were fed two control diets (15 % casein and 35 % casein) containing no lactulose syrup and two experimental diets (15% casein and 35% casein) containing 19% lactulose syrup for 35 days. The following results were obtained : 1) The two lactulose groups showed a decrease in body weight gain and total feed intake for 35 days. 2) The growth ratio (body weight gain/initial body weight), the feed efficiency ratio and protein efficiency ratio were lower in the two lactulose groups than in each control group. 3) The weight of liver, kidney, small intestine and cecum with contents were increased in the two lactulose groups. The weight of retroperitoneal fat pads were decreased in the two lactulose groups, and this effect in rats fed the 35% casein diet was affected significantly. 4) In the fatty acid composition of retroperitoneal fat pads, linoleic acid was increased and palmitic acid decreased. 5) In the cecum, pH was decreased, and thiamin, riboflavin and Bifidobacterium were increased in the two lactulose groups. These effects in the 35 % casein diet group were demonstrated significantly.

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Nutritional survey was carried out for aged individuals who lived singly in Akishima City and received community meal service twice a week, and the results were compared with those of the individuals, who did not receive the meal service. Their food habits were correlated with their daily activities. Thus, the more active life they spent, the better food habits they had.
Individuals, who received meal service, spent rather passive life and their food habits were poor and monotonous. On their nutrients intake, the estimated mean intake of protein was 41g/day and that of iron was 5.5 mg/day. These were significantly lower than those in the individuals who did not receivethe meal service (p< 0.01).
With respect to service meals offered, these meals contained rich nutrients compared with the requirements of them. However, the evaluation of present meal service program revealed that twice service a week did not serve to improve their food habits, or to correct their nutrients intake.

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The heat, moisture and air transfer through fibrous waddings of futon, thermal protective clothing, etc., influence our thermal comfort. The objective of this study is to obtain basic experimental data which will be useful in the theoretical analysis of this transfer phenomena.
The following is a list of the main results obtained from the measurement of the transfer properties of various kinds of waddings.
1) Air resistance per unit thickness of wadding R/L is inversely proportional to the square of the fiber diameter.
2) Apparent thermal conductivity k_e decreases as fiber packing density P increases within the measurement range of P. The larger the single fiber denier of polyester waddings, the larger the k_e value. The k_e values of polyester waddings tend to be larger in comparison with wool waddings of equivalent diameters.
3) Hollow fibers tend to have higher R values and lower k_e values in comparison with solid fibers of the same denier. The effect of the difference of fiber arrangement in the wadding can also be seen in both the R and k_e values, from the results of knops and card webs of wool fiber.
4) The heat transfer that accompanies water evaporation, which is measured by placing a sheet of wet filter paper on a heated plate simulating sweaty skin, is influenced by many fiber properties such as the shape of the cross section, hygroscopicity, thermal conductivity etc., the packing density and the fiber arrangement in the waddings.

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The present study aimed at evaluating female college students' preferences for apparel retail storesusing the Hierarchical Structure Analysis developed by T. L. Saaty. The hierarchical structure of thisstudy was composed of six evaluative criteria : 1) maker and/or brand merchandise, 2) size assortment, 3) pricing strategy, 4) sales assistance, 5) design assortment, and6) location and business hours forthree kinds of retail stores : department stores, discount stores, and speciality stores.
A paired comparison test was utilized to determine which criterion was perceived as being moreimportant for the retail stores and which store was viewed as having more accomplished eachcriterion. Paired comparison matrix of the six criteria or matrices of the three kinds of stores were utilized for solving the eigen equations in order to evaluate the students' preferences for the storesquantitatively.
The preference weights of department stores, discount stores, and speciality stores were 0.40, 0.23, and 0.36 respectively. This result was congruent with the ranking of the three kinds of stores assignedaccording to the frequency that the same subjects actually went shopping to buy their street dress.

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