The purpose of this series of study is to systematize the theory of Risk Management in Family Life.
This paper aims to make clear the substantial way to carry out the risk management in family life.
The major findings of this paper are as follows :
1) Family risks refer to all elements which hamper whole system functions. Therefore, a risk management process should be systematized so that all distributive processes may be coordinated into a single main process.
2) The risk manager is a person in charge of execution as well as decision making in a family. The risk manager should possess the administrative, practical, and educational abilities.
3) The risk management process consists of the following steps : recognition of management purpose and goals (1st Step), risk identification (2nd Step), risk evaluation (3rd Step), consideration of alternatives and selection of a risk treatment device (4th Step), implementation of the decision (5th Step), review of risk treatment (6th Step). The Risk management process forms a management cycle to take place under the direction and control of the whole system.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate women's junior college students' consciousness of marriage life and of the proposed revision of marriage law.
The questionnaires on these issues were sent to 370 students and 272 replies received in November, 1994. The results are as follows :
1) They don't seem to accept the conventional pattern of the husband working outside and the wife doing domestic work. And they are not free from the idea of the division of labor by sex.
2) The traditional “Ie” consciousness has been fading away and a new family pattern has been formed.
3) They tend to respect the legitimacy of marriages with respect to chastity obligation.
4) Many students support a 5-year separation as a justifiable reasons of divorce, but not so in case the married couple has a child or children.
5) Concerning illegitimate children, students consider the legitimacy of marriage important while respecting the dignity of children. Such being the cast, they seem to withhold a definite view on this subject.

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The cooking conditions for inhibiting the growth of Salmonella enteritidis cells are clarified. The cells were viable under cooking conditions with the temperature below 50 t, at pH 5-9, at above 0.92 of water activity, and in the frozen state. The thermal conductivity of heat-coagulated egg was so low that heat treating eggs for a short time was not enough to inhibit the cell growth. The addition of sake, wine and/or shiitake mushroom to egg dishes was effective for inhibiting the cell growth.

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Selected rheological properties of three kinds of freeze-dried yam (Nagaimo, Ichouimo and Tsukuneimo) were investigated.
The viscogram behaviour of each sample by Brabender DC-3 showed low viscosity at the starting point of 30 °C. The freeze-dried yams had a similar on set temperature of increasing viscosity, and a similar maximum viscosity to the equivalent values for raw yams, although showing greater breakdown than the raw types.
The freeze-dried yams had lower values for initial viscosity and maximum viscosity than the raw yams by dynamic viscoelasticity measurements, although Tsukuneimo was not affected by freeze-dried very much.
The stress-relaxation curve for each variety corresponds to a Maxwell generalized mechanical analysis model of seven elements. The E and η values incresed in the order of Nagaimo, Ichouimo and Tsukuneimo.

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The purpose of this study is to clarify female student's conditions of dietary habits, and the relationship between dietary habits and the factors that regulate them.
Questionnaires were replied by 430 women's university students, and 958 senior high school girl students.
Part 1 is a report on the image of eating-out, ready-to-serve dishes, semi-prepared dishes, and homemade dishes.
The results obtained were as follows :
1) The images of eating-out were “convenient, ” “happy, ” “atmosphere, ” “contains a lot of salt, ” “high in calories” and so on.
2) The images of ready-to-serve dishes and semi-prepared dishes were “convenient, ” “fast, ” “timesaving, ” “high in calories, ” “lacking in vegetables, ” “low in nutritional value, ” “bad for the health, ” “loveless” and so on.
3) The images of handmade dishes were “exquisite, ” “hot, ” “delicious, ” “good for the health, ” “reliable, ” “happy, ” “atmosphere, ” “affectionate, ” “a lot of trouble” and so on.
4) The images of handmade dishes according to group who were satisfied with their dietary habits were better than the others.
5) The images according to college students were clearer than high school students, especially in the field of economy, nutritional value, and safety.
6) A factor analysis of the date of images obtained showed seven factors. From this analysis, it is clear that the main factor is atmosphere.

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The reduction in strength in loop elongation in comparison with simple elongation of nylon monofilaments was estimated theoretically and then compared with experimental data. We expressed the ratio of loop strength/tensile strength with a theorematic equation, on the assumption that monofilaments break when the strain of outside layers in a loop reach the breaking strain of a simple elongation. In experiments, we measured the strength of nylon monofilaments looped around a metallic pin. The calculated loop strength corresponded qualitatively to the experimental values. It was also determined that the reduction in modulus by bending affected loop strength.

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We often use softening agents in washing. However, nobody knows how clothing treated with household softeners affects human senses.
Five kinds of towels were treated with two different types of household softeners. After absorbing water, these samples were then used for sensory evaluation.
It was learned that cotton and non-twist cotton towels treated with conventional softeners tended to cause cooler or wetter sensations than non-treated towels or towels treated with “improved” softeners. It is supposed that these differences were caused by differences of molecular structure of surfactants.
Moreover, it is presumed that these differences were influenced by the combination of the softeners with the towel fibers, as well as by the structure of the towel fabrics.
Thus, it is clear that dry and wet clothing treated with household softeners affects human senses.

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This paper introduces a method for studying the ability of women to determine the chronological order of apparel fashions as a function of age.
Photographs of seven items of apparel were selected from issues of a typical fashion magazine, “SOEN, ” published between 1979 and 1990. Panels of volunteers were asked to arrange the randomly ordered photographs into chronological order. Each panel consisted of women from the same age bracket, ranging from the late teens to the sixties.
The orders provided by the panels were compared with the actual chronological order of the photographs and were analyzed using Spearman's rank correlation coefficient.
The mean rank correlation coefficient for each panel group showed a tendency to decrease with higher age. The highest mean rank correlation coefficient value was that of the panel of women in their early twenties.
Ambiguousness in discrimination increased with the older fashions. The discrimination ability of the younger panels was excellent, especially for recent fashions, and was notably good even for the older ones. Upon comparing the age of the panels with the date of publication of the fashion photographs, it seem slikely that a strong impression about apparel fashions is formed in the years from upper primary school to lower middle school.

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Based on the data obtained in the third report (Part 3), we categorized the stability of the residential life of the elderly persons which was observed in the change of their residential relationship with their families for the past 15 years (1975-1990). Three factors were analyzed and their characteristics defined; 3 factors are the changes seen in their working conditions, employment status and the changes of residential relationship stemming from their selection of residential site. Having compared with the features of Toyama City in the same period of time, we found the followings;
1) The residential relationship of elderly persons with their families in Kanazawa changed like in Toyama due to the selection of their residential site on the occasion of their children's marriage, of finding employment, etc., thereby forming a variety of residential lives such as stable, quasi-stable, quasi-unstable and unstable types.
2) Classifying the residential lives of elderly persons in Kanazawa, we had 73 families (64.6% of the total families sampled) of the stable type and 40 families (35.4%) of the unstable type. Like in Toyama, there were about 40.0 % of the total sampled families (not counting the stable type) that formed the residential relationship.
3) In Kanazawa, there were only about half as many families living near their daughters as in Toyama. It seems that there is a difference of consciousness of family relationship between the two cities. The stability of residential life does not seem closely related with the tenure of residence in Kanazawa so much as in Toyama. Sampling, however, gave no clarification as to the relation between the residential life and the tenure of residence.
4) Eighty-five elderly persons were not employed, 80 financially supported by their children, and 5 had no supporting children. Seventy-three were in the category of future stable type. In other words, they were expected to receive financial support from their children.
5) Families with elderly persons will need some kind of public support as the number of children is on the decrease, making mutual supports among the family members very difficult in the forseeable future. Care of the aged and other welfare as well as residential measures will have to be systematized by families, local communities and administrations.

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