A Town in Fukushima Prefecture evacuated its residents after a nuclear power accident 2011. We investigate a series of radiation risk communication round table discussions among the residents and researchers/experts over three years, beginning five years after the said evacuation order and ending one year after its partial lifting. By analyzing the language used in the sessions, we explore the residents’ perceptions of radiation, how they changed and the trends in the content of explanations provided in response to the questions. The conferences were transcribed and analyzed using language analysis software. These were divided into questions and explanation data groups. The former was associated with daily life matters, including health effects, diet, the evacuated town and annual changes in the decontamination progress and the cancellation of evacuation orders. Women focused on their offspring, while men focused on health topics and the future of nuclear power, as indicated by subject popularity. These questions were intended to confirm the authenticity of what residents heard from other people. The explanation data group was associated with radioactive materials’ characteristics, particularly the transfer mechanisms of cesium by nature. These explanations were related to health effects. Often, “It is thought” or “I think” was mentioned after giving information, probably to avoid assertions, entrust the questioner with decisions and foster radiation literacy.

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Since the accident of Tokyo Electric Power Company, the food radiation contamination that is a problem of internal exposure of low doses is greatly rumored. However, there is no accepted theory for exposure of low doses, and several different descriptions have been made. An overview of such current situation, along with the review of the theories about the health effects of low-dose radiation, we will propose real food safety.

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Intending to know whether the quantitative relationship of water-extractable proteins to non-myosins in muscle is correlated with the development of SB in its aqueous extract, a comparative study was made with muscles of some Mollusca, Crustacea, fishes and bull-frog.
(1) Muscles of used animals were found to be practically grouped into three types: Mollusca-, Crustacea-, and Fish-types (cf. Table 4).
(2) In Mollusca-type muscles SB was detected in aqueous extracts and water soluble proteins far exceed non-myosins in amount (∑S>N).
(3) In fish and Crustacea-types SB was not detectable in aqueous extracts, and ∑S ?? N in the former but ∑S>or ?? N in the latter.
(4) Intensity of SB of salt extracts was apparently greater in Cephalopada and Crustacea than in fishes.
(5) Muscles showed each characteristic pattern corresponding to the three types also in aspects of precipitates spun down in aqueous extraction mixture.

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This letter presents a no-reference blocking artifact measure based on analysis of color discontinuities in YUV color space. Color shift and color disappearance are first analyzed in JPEG images. For color-shifting and color-disappearing areas, the blocking artifact scores are obtained by computing the gradient differences across the block boundaries in U component and Y component, respectively. An overall quality score is then produced as the average of the local ones. Extensive simulations and comparisons demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method.

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2021年8 月11日～14日に秋雨前線が停滞して雨が断続的に降り続き，最大値は1,000 mm を越え，長崎県の東彼杵から福岡県の筑後地方の東西方向に豪雨域が認められた。嬉野アメダスの14日の日降水量は439.5 mm で，リターンピリオドは約600年で非常に稀な降水現象であった。六角川の潮見橋の水位は，計画高水位の4.00 m を14日3 時前に越え，7 時には最高水位の4.85 mに達し，計画高水位を6 時間半も越えた。高水位により， 7 か所の排水ポンプ場では延べ8 時間30分にわたり運転調整が実施され，堤内地に溜まった雨水が六角川に排水出来ずに内水氾濫が発生した。武雄市の朝日町では最高で約150 cm の浸水深を観測し，2019年水害とほぼ同程度の深さであったが，橘町では200 cm を超える浸水深となった地点が多くを占め，2019年の浸水深を最高で1 m も上回った。北方町や大町町でも，2019年を上回る浸水深が認められた。

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Where context effect occurs in word recognition process has been a constant debate in exploring language processing system. Our previous study (Ikemura, 2001) suggests that context effect occurs in the activation phase of the word recognition process, rather than in the selection phase. This study tries to reinforce the claim by analyzing word recognition results with two models: the logogen model and the cohort model. The experiment is conducted with Japanese college students. The same target words were dictated to the subjects in isolation, in linguistic context, and in situational context. The recognition of target words significantly increased when both linguistic and situational contexts were given together. This significant increase can be explained better by the logogen model, which argues for context effect in the activation phase. The results of the experiment suggest that auditory input and context can interact to inform appropriate word candidates.

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This papers describes a low running cost treatment system for livestock excreta with anaerobic membrane bioreactor. There are a lot of livestock excreta in Japan. Most of that are used for compost. However in the area which the supply of compost exceeds the demand, they need waste water treatment system. Conventional waste water treatment methods are in need of high running cost. So we developed a treatment system for livestock excreta with anaerobic membrane bioreactor and we could succeed in cutting down 30% of running cost.

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The olfactory organ of African lungfish, Protopterus annectens, contains two distinct sensory epithelia: the lamellar olfactory epithelium and the recess epithelium. These epithelia correspond to the olfactory epithelium and the vomeronasal organ of tetrapods, respectively. In contrast to the lamellar olfactory epithelium, which has no associated gland, the recess epithelium is equipped with associated glands. Although the glandular cells and/or the supporting cells are generally presumed to secrete proteins involved in the function of olfactory sensory epithelia, the properties of these proteins in lungfish have not been evaluated to date. In this study, we investigated the associated glands in the olfactory organ of lungfish by transmission electron microscopy and found that the glandular cells contain numerous secretory granules and secrete them from the apical membrane. In addition, we analyzed the olfactory organ by lectin histochemistry using 16 biotinylated lectins. All lectins labeled the secretory granules in the glandular cells with different staining patterns from those of the supporting cells in the lamellar olfactory epithelium or in the recess epithelium. Furthermore, lectin blotting analysis showed that multiple bands were detected by the lectins which specifically labeled the glandular epithelium of the olfactory organ. These results indicate that the secretory products of the associated glands in the recess epithelium have different properties from those of the supporting cells in the olfactory sensory epithelia and contain multiple glycoproteins with different carbohydrate moieties.

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This paper consists of two parts. The first part is environmental map construction algorithm with RGB-D camera. 3D indoor environmental map is generated by feature based alignment. RANdom SAmple Consensus(RANSAC) is used to obtain the alignment between point clouds. Lastly, experiment is performed using RGB-D camera, and the computational cost of the map construction algorithm is evaluated. The second part is selecting shape feature. Two shape descriptors are evaluated about computational costs and errors, and either descriptor is selected to recognize landmarks.

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　膵癌術後難治性腹水に対し，Denver shunt^®（以下，DSと略記）を施行した3例を経験したので報告する．症例は54歳の女性，81歳の男性，75歳の男性の3例である．手術は全例D2郭清を伴う幽門輪温存膵頭十二指腸切除術（pylorus preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy）を施行しており，術後1～34か月に発症し保存的治療に抵抗性であった難治性腹水に対しDSを施行した．全例で腹水はDS後数日以内に激減し，腹部膨満症状は改善した．DS後の生存期間は2例で約1年，1例が46日であった．DSは膵癌術後の明らかな再発のない難治性腹水に対する治療の選択肢の一つとして有用と考えられた．

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The study explored the image style preferences of different lifestyle values for wedding dress consumers. Evaluation grid method (EGM) with Miryoku engineering were also used to construct attractiveness factors for wedding dresses evaluation. Then, weights of the attractiveness factors were further analyzed according to Hayashi's Quantitative Theory Type I. The results of correspondence analysis (CA) revealed that, on the belongingness seekers preferred the wedding dress image style of noble and formal. For self-realization followers, they preferred the image styles of noble and formal and attractive and charming while hedonists preferred the style of romantic and pretty. The results of quantification Type I analysis also indicated the categories of ball gown, mermaid cut, emphasis on neckline, slim fit cut, embroidered lace pattern, chiffon and yarn, long/short-sleeved, lotus leaf hemmed, pleated, waistband and back had statistically significant positive influences. The value and contribution of the study was to conclude the results of wedding dress attractiveness factor analysis for industries and wedding dress designers to utilize as their design references.

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In this study, we developed and evaluated a dialogue system which enables an android robot to have a chat with users on Niconico Live provided by Dwango Co., Ltd. which is a live streaming service. In Niconico Live, broadcasters can talk to users who write comments displayed on the video stream. Therefore, by using Niconico Live chat, we eliminated speech recognition errors which can occur during speech conversations. In addition, the dialogue system can keep consistency of conversation by selecting the comment to which it can correctly respond because many comments are shown simultaneously on the video stream. The dialogue system was designed as a retrieval-based one which finds the appropriate response to user’s utterance from a dialogue corpus. Therefore, we collected a dialogue corpus containing 4,460 pairs of comments and robot responses by teleoperating the android robot talking with users, as a first step. In the next step, we completed the dialogue system on Niconico Live integrating the dialogue corpus into it. To evaluate the performance of the dialogue system, we recorded the conversation between the android and users while running the designed system. After that, we showed the recorded conversation to evaluators and asked them how they feel about the naturalness and consistency of the conversation. Results of the experiment indicate that Niconico Live users perceived the responses of the dialogue system to be natural and found the chat with the android entertaining. Through this study, we demonstrated the applicability of the dialogue system on Niconico Live. However, it is difficult to discuss its effectiveness when applying it to other situations or other communication media such as a humanoid robot or a virtual agent. Therefore, as a future work, conducting a comparative experiment might lead to better understanding of the effectiveness of the dialogue system for androids.

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ライブの意味情報を用いてユーザの設定に従い見たいシーンを知らせるライブ中継システムLiveWatchを, ライブ中継のインタラクティブサービスを実現するシステムの1つとして提案した.LiveWatchサービスは, ユーザにライブ中継の情報を提示すると共に, ユーザが指定する条件成立時にアクションを起こすサービスであると定義し直せば, 「お知らせ」の他にも様々なサービスへの対応が考えられる.本稿では, 様々なLiveWatchサービスを実現する上での課題を整理し, サービスを実現するLiveWatchシステムの構築法について述べる.

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Japan is the most westernized country in Asia and her economic structure seems to place her colser to Europe or the United States than to any one of her neighbours. But her agriculture shows many differences and peculiarities as compared with that of any European country or the United States. One of the remarkable peculiarities is the small average scale of farming operation by one farm household. Some farmers or some members of some farm households engage in other jobs than their household farming.
At first, the writer compars the rate of such part-time farmers to the total farmers or the rate of part-time farm households to the total farm households in Japan with those of similar kinds of farms or farmers in the United States, Germany, England and Wales, and India and obtains the following conclusions:
1. Comparing the United States and the Western Germany before 1930 with Japan in 1960, all of which have similer percentages of workers engaging in the secondary and tertiary industries, Japan has the highest percentage of part-time farm households to the total farm households. But differences among them are not so great. The percentage of part-time farm households to the total farm households in India is much higher than that in Japan in 1950. These facts seem to come from differences in scales of avarage farming operations.
2. As an industrial structure of a country is more and more urbanized and farm land is converted into land of urban uses, the rate of part-time farms, farmers, or farm households increases. The increase is supported or promoted by such economic instabilities as panic, war, potential unemployment etc.
3. In accordance with economic growth, income of part-time farms, farmers or farm households in-crease more quickly than full-time farms, farmers or farmhouseholds and number in hobby farms increases.
In the second place, the writer examines increase in the rate of part-time farm households and their change in characterics in various areas in Japan and points out that the general trend mentioned above is found also in Japan. Almost the same trend is expected in the process of urbanization of rural Asia in near future.

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