In late years interest in preservation and utilization of cultural assets or registration of the World's Cultural Heritage rises among the nations. And the individual community-based town planning to put weight on the significance of local cultural assets becomes active. To this, the so-called Historical Community Planning Law was established by Agency for Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in 2008.
This report confirms conventional progress about these Historical Community Planning. And I examine the current situations and issues.
In addition, I report significance and the activity plan of "Tochigi Historical Community Planning Center" which was established as a satellite campus by Oyama National College of Technology. This institution uses a house which is registered as national cultural property in the historic center of Tochigi City.

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This paper considers "reading aloud" in Japanese language learning.
A new study course focuses on the system of learning through elementary and junior high schools as well as high schools. It requires the repetition of voice language activities such as onndoku (reading aloud for understanding the text contents), rôdoku (reading aloud for conveying the text contents), and annsyô (reciting for appreciating the text contents). These activities provide the foundation of speaking and communication abilities.
We have to ensure that there is sufficient time for voice language education and that we provide students with the opportunity to read aloud.

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The majority of teenagers in Japan go to college without having been taught how to engage in Internet society in a morally responsible manner. Those bereft of rectitude engage in various problematic behaviors on campus. In order to provide a hint of how to solve these problems, this paper will give an overview of the history of network/information ethics education in Japan and clarify issues and prospects with regard to Japanese network/information ethics education. To clearly delineate the path to our current impasse we have divided the history of Japanese network/information ethics education into roughly three periods: the late 1990s, the early 2000s and the late 2000s. An analysis of the salience of certain terms that have been used in network/information ethics for each of the three periods is provided. This examination is intended to clarify the aims of Japanese network/information ethics education; what little has been achieved and the crucial issues that remain to be resolved.

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In school education, it is important to teach while watching student's face directly. However, the educational effect is more increasing when combined with indirect teaching using various tools. Indirect teaching method has a　variety of means. As the traditional　educational materials, it is printed on paper. Recently, also it is using the electronic media. Here, I will focus on e-mail by mobile phones in particular. This paper considers that in the supporting extracurricular activities, e-mail by mobile phones is useful.

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The purpose of this study was to examine physical fitness and motor ability based on the same age. This study was used the data of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology for 42 years from 1965 to 2007.We compared the mean value of each year based on the same age. The results as follows; 1. In 50-m dash, it is showed a tendency to decrease gradually of measurement from to 9 years in males and females. 2. In long-distance running, it is showed a tendency to decrease gradually of measurement from to 19 years in males. But it is showed a tendency to increase gradually of measurement from to 19 years in females. 3. In standing broad jump, it is showed a tendency to decrease gradually of measurement from 7 years to 9 years in males and females. 4. In handball throwing , it is showed a tendency to decrease gradually of measurement from to 16 years in females.The body height and weight were increasing each year. Accordingly, the physique is developmental tendency , but it is seems that physical fitness is decreasing each year. Especially, the growth of the muscle of trunk is decreasing.

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This paper reports on what beliefs Oyama Kosen students hold regarding English learning. Their beliefs were elicited via a discursive approach by investigating metaphors they used in a questionnaire. Metaphors are supported to reflect students' beliefs about their experiences of learning English. By classifying and examining their metaphors, what students think about learning English can be revealed. The paper also describes implementations of English ExpressionⅠ, which were designed based on the findings of the students' beliefs.

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As a result of the research, the insect with fast passing speeds such as cockroaches and ants is clear moving by alternation tripod walk. It is not influenced and it is possible to walk even in the place where ground is uneven because three legs of six legs contact the ground in turn, and there is center of gravity of the body in a triangular inside. This paper describes the mechanism and the control of the alternation tripod walk movement body which was produced, and the experiment that changed the walking patterns by the control program.

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Self-propulsion of a liquid droplet on a hot aluminum surface with ratchet geometry was investigated experimentally. The top of the heated metal surface is brought to a level. A water droplet in Leidenfrost film boiling dispensed on the ratchet surface starts moving perpendicular to the ratchet features at speeds of as high as 0.2m/s . To analyze the displacement and velocity of the drople for water, ethanol and acetone, a series of observations were made using a high-speed camera. The effects of surface temperature and diameter of droplet to a terminal velocity of droplet were investigated. We propose a physical model of propulsion and the calculated results of terminal velocity are compared to the experimental results.

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In many machine parts and electronic parts, junction of dissimilar material which utilized the properties is carried out. But, the concentration of stress is generated in the bonded interface. This causes the deterioration of strength, and reliability is lost. There is a stress analysis for three-dimensional bonded structures by finite element analysis based on eigenvalue problem as an example of a computational mechanics approach method of this problem. But when analyzing by this method, unstable distribution is appeared in the boundary part. In this study, to improve the calculation accuracy, try to increase the degree of element used for the analysis. And the improvement of accuracy was confirmed by some analytical models.

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This paper proposes an inexpensive simplified particle image velocimetry (PIV) system which uses LED as a light source instead of Laser. For this double-exposed PIV system, a new two-colored LED light sheet (LLS) generator was constructed. With this LLS generator, PIV was applied to measure velocity of two Couette flow around/inside the rotating cylinder. That experimental results show this PIV system has sufficient accuracy to analyze low-speed (up to a few cm/s) simple flow.

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This paper is the result that applied Linear Notch Mechanics when a notch is very small. In addition, I examined the simple and easy method of the element division of finite element method.

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In this study we researched the effect of the listening to music on heart rate R-R intervals variability after the stress loading. Eleven healthy people aged from 19 to 22 participated in the experiment as subjects. Heart rate R-R intervals were measured in each of the three cases when (1) subjects had no stress loading, (2)they were listening to the music after the stress loading, and (3)they were not listening to the music after the stress loading of all the subjects. Furthermore, the subjects were asked to respond to questionnaire about how much they felt relaxed when they were and were not listening to the music after the stress loading. The analysis of the results shows that the L/H of heart rate R-R intervals variability in the case of listening to the music after the stress loading is smaller than that in the case of not listening to the music after the stress loading. Moreover, questionnaire results also show that the degree of relaxing in the case of listening to the music after the stress loading is higher than that in the case of not listening to the music after the stress loading. These results suggest music has stress reduction effect.

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Recently, ″Telecommunication″ is common wireless communication by the electromagnetic radiation. However, the electromagnetic radiation has a problem on the information leakage and the service space might be limited. Then, our research team has studied digital information transmission system using modulated ultrasonic waves and electric field hybridly, which are generated by one piezoelectric ceramic oscillator. The system can prevent leakage of information, because the electric field is very small amplitude and the ultrasonic wave has a large attenuation at high frequency in air. This study deals with each problem on the electric field and the ultrasonic wave communication, and performed to realize the hybrid communication using both energies.

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In recent years, it became an information society and information became important in social economy. There is sex as one element of the customer analysis, and automatic male-and-female discernment is necessary. This laboratory discovered the male-and-female difference to be at the hair in the near-infrared ray area. This research combines the hair with the male-and-female difference with overhead-photography that the load of the customer is a little at the time of photography, investigation of male-and-female discernment using the near-infrared image from overhead, and the automation from image processing to male-and-female discernment is investigated.

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The portable and small lock-in amplifier was manufactured. Though the frequency is being fixed, it is to change some elements, and it is easy to change at other frequency. It is possible to include this equipment in various measuring devise, and therefore, it is rich in various applicability.

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This paper reports a little improvement in the forecast method that uses the Lorenz analogical method of the chaotic time series. The forecast point is calculated from the neighborhood point in the Lorenz analogical method. In that case, it is shown that it is a method of requesting the improved forecast point that uses the generalized internally dividing point, and there is a possibility that the prediction accuracy improves. It is easily shown whether there is a possibility that the prediction accuracy improves on what condition. Moreover, the forecast of the natural phenomenon shows that the improvement of some prediction accuracies is seen.

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The Web site using the data basesystem which cooperates with map information server is very useful. However, the construction of such Web site is generally costly. The site using an open map server like "Google Maps" has been increasing. "Denshi-kokudo Web System" which was made by The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan in 2003 is one of the open map servers. We built a Web system using database and "Densi-kokudo Web system". We got the way to use "Denshi-kokudo Web System API" and found the "Denshi-kokudo Web System" very beneficial. This paper shows an example how to construct the Web system using database and "Densi-kokudo Web System"

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This paper proposes simplified frame model with hyper-link method, to expand engineers' curiosity on Japanese literary works and scientists essays. Since each of the writers has writings and relationship to the other, the modeling is considered relating to the concept of analogy and duality. The representation of the model is expressed in the C like manner, and its hyper-link simulator developed is shown as well.

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The controlled object of this study is the double pendulum. The torque is given at one place, and two angles of the pendulum are manipulated. It is proposed that the gain of swing up control of the double pendulum using energy method is adjusted. It is controlled to be a purpose using proposed gain.

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In recent years, English handbells become popular instruments. However, its characteristics are not really investigated. So, we studied the characteristics of Malmark Handbell, Schulmerich Handbell and handbell-like instruments such as choir chimes and Music-bell by analyzing the power spectra and spectrograms. As a result, some acoustic differences among the instruments made cleared. In this paper, after brief introductions to English handbells and handbell-like instruments, its acoustic characteristics and differences are discussed.

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Enzymes utilizable for teaching devices may be divided into "Commercial enzymes", "Extracted enzymes", and "Added enzymes" . Activity of Added enzymes in detergents was determined to lead new themes of extension lectures. A dish detergent and automatic dish detergents mixed with starch gave a positive response (brown precipitate formation) for Benedict reagent, respectively. However, a laundry detergent gave a negative response for the same reagent. A synthesized specific substrate of α-amylase was also used for activity-determination to give yellow color and visible light absorption at 400 nm in case of a dish detergent and two automatic dish detergents. Improvement of the reaction conditions and substrate selection will make these reactions be useful to visualize the works of the added enzymes in extension lectures.

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Denitrifying bacteria (Pseudomonas stutzeri) performs denitrification of waste water under anaerobic condition. Generally, this bacterium for waste water treatment is operated high density cultivation (high concentration bacteria shows high removal rate of ammonium nitrogen). However, this bacteria shows float in medium and flow outside a bioreactor. Therefore, this bacterium has to be immobilized on polymer carrier. In this study, we try to immobilize of P. stutzeri, and evaluate culture conditions by removal of ammonium nitrogen. We got the following results, (1) P. stutzeri adheres to carrier in culture medium, (2) PU (polyurethane) carries strongly adhere P. stutzeri.

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Greening on wall is a possible solution to relieve solar reflection and to relax the influence of the global warming. Some mosses with highly drought tolerance are suitable for building greening and actually some of them have been applied as greening plants. In this study, two species of mosses, Hypnum plumaeforme and Rhacomitrium canescens, were investigated on their adaptability to an original medium for greening on walls. The results showed that binders in the original medium gave an adverse effect on growth of both of the mosses, while plant polysaccharides (agar and sodium alginate) had no obstructive effects on their growth. These plant polysaccharides could be useful as substitutional binders of the present one due to their viscosity.

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Questionary survey was carried out fact-finding of the earthquake disaster prevention education in the junior high school of Utsunomiya and Oyama in Tochigi prefecture. As a result of questionary survey, the earthquake disaster prevention education in the junior high school of both cities was not substantial very much.　This paper poroses new methods and teaching material for disaster prevention education at junior high school.

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This paper focuses on the school for disabled boys and girls by grasping and analyzing the condition of the change of the acceptable sort of handicap and the system of acceptance after the revision of law, and also by showing its issues and problems.

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There is much data processing that is not based on statistical knowledge in the report of experiments of analytical chemistry and is seen and lacks the training of the data processing of student experiments in the information processing practice.
And then we perform a mutual cooperation for experiments of analytical chemistry and information processing practice. We report an attempt for improving data processing for experiments of analytical chemistry and information processing practice.

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Historical novels written by Ogai Mori show his high awareness of how describe history. It is considered that Ogai seems to have kept seeking the way to depict history by referring to modern history. Why did he keep writing history in his last days while he had observed the modern civilization process in Japan? In order to answer this question, it is necessary to examine relationship between modern history and historical novels written by Ogai. Recently, attempts were made to understand Ogai′s history depiction comprehensively. However, little literature has demonstrated the direct influence that modern history had on Ogai. The objective of this paper is to captured the atmosphere that created his novels by articulating his view on modern history.

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