Scholars, implementers (disaster prevention government offices or private weather corporations), communica-tors (i.e., mass-media), users, advisers (disaster management consultant), who concerned with information for haz-ardous weather, must intimately cooperate with one another and establish disaster management. Especially, con-sidering with the true recognition of scores, the Scholars, implementers must investigate and express the weather phenomena probabilities and the quantitative trade-off relation between hit rate and false alarm rate, i.e., ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curve in the signal detection theory.

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hree-hour "HATAMOKU" workshops were carried out twice between college students and business persons to think about the purpose to work through dialog, and the effects of this program on college students were exam-ined by a quasi-experimental method.The result shows that 43.8% of the college students had positive images of the work people at the end of the second workshop compared with 18.5% at the start, while the negative images decreased from 43.0% to 24.6%. The result shows that this reversal is strongly affected by the "business persons whom the college students actually ob-served."As a result of analysis of variance, it was confirmed that there is a major effect on each factor of "occupational career maturity", "speech skills" and "generalized self-efficacy" at the point of examination. As a result of multiple comparison, each factor was significantly high at the time after the first and second workshop than the prior point in time.These results indicate that HATAMOKU which facilitates "awareness" through direct interaction with the business persons make college students form positive image of the work people, think of their future, talk with their own words, and gain confidence.As a program in the career education of the universities, dialog with business persons is thought to affect the consciousness (positive image of the work people, career maturity, self-recognition about interpersonal skills, and generalized self-efficacy) of college students, and to be effective in raising the feeling of college students that they can pursue their career choice activities.

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In recent years, it has become vital to demand the stability of the body trunk when athletes train or when treating low back pain. According to the theory Cresswell advocates, to stabilize the trunk muscles, of the two muscles of the trunk muscle, the local muscles, rather than the global muscles need to be exercised. In our previous work, we reported on the effectiveness of using high load exercise to stimulate the local muscles. However, though this method was effective with athletes, it was not appropriate for people in a weakened state or the elderly. So in order to develop a method that would use a light load to stimulate the local muscle, this time we experimented with vibration stimulation.The subjects were 52 men in normal health (17.0±0.8 years old, 171.0±5.5cm, and 63.2±5.4kg). The evaluation method measured a muscular thickness of the external oblique, the internal oblique muscle, and the transversus abdominis muscle by using ultrasonic diagnostic equipment. The ratio of each muscle was calculated from the combined thickness of these three muscles. The vibrational frequency was 30Hz and the amplitude was set at low, using the Redcord Stimula. The movement task was a push up position suspended in the air by using two Redcord trainers. The vibratory stimulation was separately stimulated from the part of the hand and the part of the foot and trunk muscles thickness was then measured. As a result, it was confirmed that vibration from the upper extremities maximized the contraction of the TrA local muscle. Moreover, it was confirmed to oppress the shrinkage of the external oblique and the internal oblique muscle that are Global muscles. It was concluded that vibration stimulation is effective in stimulating Local muscles.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate how international students learn their note-taking techniques. Although Learners are expected to take notes efficiently, most of international students face a difficulty in writing it down. In this study, educational practices which learners take notes by watching lecture videos are conducted. It isessential to acquire note-taking techniques for university students, hence I decided to do this educational practices.It is difficult for international students to take notes of a lecture. They are required to get the point of the contents,write it down speedy. It is essential to have an ability which takes notes properly. Through 15-week Japanese instructions, the participants in the study took notes of the lecture, had a question-and-answer session and commented about notes each other.Summary of research processes are as follows;1. Lecturer films a trial lesson.2. Students take notes on a lecture.3. After watching a trial lesson, lecturer and students have Q and A sessions.4. Lecturer comments on the quality of students' notes.Results show that learners could enhance their note-taking strategy, get used to take lectures.The author suggest that learners are expected to do basic practices from the beginning, increase their vocabulary including technical term, practice to take various lectures. Furthermore, we are expected to analyze lecture's discourse.

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