The research on organizational climates in workplace of X Company was conducted in 2002 (N=615) as the previous study for the second research in 2006 (N=453). The purpose of this study was to investigate themeasurement of the feature of organizational climates and the possibility of using it for the actual organizational change process. Eight kinds of organizational climates were found by factor analysis. Those are: (1) trust for top managements and their policy, (2) trust for one's immediate superiors, (3) one's transformational behavior,(4) positive climate in workplace, (5) negative management style for change, (6) value of pursuing the essentialfeature, (7) acceptance of organizational vision, and (8) evaluation for conservative way of working. Compared with those eight factors between 2002 and 2006, the results show the improvement in the organizational climates because of the efforts in X Company following the previous research. Implications for future research werediscussed concerning the relationship between performance of change and organizational climates.

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David Garrick's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet established "the Romeo as a lover" and enjoyed long popularity for 97 years on the British stage since its first erformance in 1748. But in the eighteenth century, the theme of "love"was often despised as immoral and anti-social, and therefore, not suitable for tragedy. The aim of this study is to reveal how Garrick established "the Romeo as a lover" which could be easily opposed by the ethical code of the century, through the analysis of the eighteenth-century essays on Romeo and Juliet and the play-text adapted by Garrick himself.Garrick's play-text realizes his intention to deal with the problems which Romeo and Juliet was then thought to have. He drastically cut "the jingle and quibble", simplifi ed and clarifi ed its plot and the characterization of the characters, and eliminated many sexual allusions, in order to solve the problems of its diction, structure, and ethics.Garrick also sets the frame of the feud between the two families around the theme of love. He clarifi es the sufferings Romeo bears because of the feud which forbids his love to Juliet, to purify his love and elevate his love into a heroic act, and emphasizes the foolishness of the stubborn parents who would never stop the feud whichbrings the lovers to death, so that the theme of love is transformed into the theme suitable for tragedy. Garrick's adaptation has been underestimated since the end of the nineteenth century because of its drasticelimination of the words and alterations of the plot. However, the fact that his "Romeo as a lover", and even Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, were accepted and applauded by the audience in the Eighteenth Century wouldnot have been possible without Garrick's ingenuity. The contributions of the Garrick's adaptation to the stage history of Romeo and Juliet should once again be appreciated.

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Giovanni Rucellai scrisse nel suo famoso Zibaldone che "due cose principali sono quelle che gl'uomini fanno in questomondo: la prima lo'ngienerare, la seconda l'edifi chare". Queste parole testimoniano chiaramente l'importanzasociale che i signori del Rinascimento davano ai loro palazzi.In questo testo si desidera trattare brevemente delle funzioni e dei signifi cati sociali dei palazzi del Rinascimentofi orentino e, a tale scopo, seguendo le ricerche portate avanti da Goldthwaite, da F. W. Kent e da Preyer, si vuoleesaminare soprattutto la base morale che promuoveva l'attività edile e l'infl uenza del cambiamento assai drasticodel legame socio-familiare che la società rinascimentale subì dopo lo scioglimento della consorteria medievale.Per ciò che attiene l'influenza del cambiamento sociale, è stato preso in esame soprattutto il dibattito sortointorno all'ipotesi avanzata da Goldthwaite, ovvero se il palazzo rinascimentale di grandi dimensioni e ricco diornamenti era davvero un "rifugio privato del padrone e della sua familia nucleare", oppure se esso rappresentavail "centro politico-sociale dei vicini, amici, e parenti, cioè della clientela", come invece sostiene Kent.Dallo studio dei caratteri architettonici dei palazzi e dei documenti coevi si può affermare che l'ipotesi di Kentè valida. Inoltre si ritiene che la grandezza e i caratteri artistici dei palazzi assumevano il valore simbolico dirappresentare l'allora nuova rete sociale basata sulle relazioni fra gli individui che si stava sostituendo a queilegami fi sici fondati sulla consanguineità e convivenza che invece era

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To attain a performance improvement obtained from an effi cient operation of the network server is one of themost important objectives of the system construction and maintenance.For such purposes a variety of benchmark programs and analytical tools on an application level has beendeveloped.On the other hand, many benchmark programs have also been developed for each hardware as the systemcomponent, such as CPU's, memories, networks, disk-drives and so forth.However, most of the effi ciency measurement results so far published have been those which were tested froman application performance point of view on an average concept and very few of them have been those derivedfrom testing of the performance limit of the component of hardware.This study is concerned with a measurement of the performance limit of component of hardware and itscomparison with theoretical values which are calculated from the data sheet.Thus, the adequacy of such test methods is examined.In the next step the performance is measured in an environment, where each component of hardware reachesits performance limit and fi nally, a method of technique, which may help the system attain an overall optimumeffi ciency, is proposed.

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To control large system such as large tanker is diffi cult for human operator, so that previous studies have madethe characteristics of making progress in the predictive manual control clear. However, the relation between themanual control skill and the operator's mental activity has not been revealed although some human informationprocessing model has estimated according to some observational studies (for example Rasmussen's SRK-model iswidely known). In this study, we tried to make it clear that there is the causal relationship between the mentalactivity and the performances in steering large tanker using the operator's background electroencephalogram (EEG)through simulator experiment. Every subject's EEG were measured based on international 10-20 method whilethe subject tried to steer the tanker. In this experiment, twelve male students ranging from twenty to twentyfouryears old participated. As the result, every subject progressed in the predictive manual control of the tankerstatistically from the view of the subject's performance. On the other hand, the amplitude of theta waves at Fzrelating to the operator's highest concentration was revealed before their manual control skill of their performancewas highest. Consequently, the relation between the operator's mental activities and their performance could befound.

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