Recently, the study for master-slave surgical robots, which has bilateral force feedback control, is attracting a lot of attention. At the moment, need haptic interfaces which are effective for controlling these surgical robots safely and precisely. In our laboratory, we have developed some admittance-based haptic interfaces because these interfaces have some characteristics which are effective for robotic surgery. However, when those devices move, they generate a little vibration because those devices are designed with unduration wave gearing systems. This vibration makes ill effect for controlling surgical robots precisely. In this research, we design a new admittance-based haptic interface and taking away such vibrations.

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The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how and why native speakers of English use dysfluencies such as 'er', 'erm', '...' , repeats and repair. Comparison between Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, The Remains of the Day (1989) and its film (1993) reveals that the film has a larger number of dysfluencies and a larger variety of dysfluencies than the novel. Never being at the end of sentences, filled pauses (= um, er, erm) signal that the speaker is still holding the floor. Concordance among hesitation pauses (=...) and filled pauses shows there is no repetition of the same dysfluency. Filled pauses are most frequently followed by ... (pause). Longer concordances, expanded to left 5 and right 5, help us understand that discourse markers such as 'and', 'but', 'well' often collocate with pauses. Several case studies confirm that when you face the need to keep saying what you want to say and plan what to say next at the time, hesitate, which implies to your listener that new information is upcoming. The more demanding your need of doing the two different jobs at a time becomes, the less fluently you speak, producing more dysfluencies, discourse markers, and vocatives.

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　Indexes of the words in Japanese literary classics are generally arranged in a-i-u-e-o order, under which headings the words are given with various prefixes, suffixes, inflections, and so forth. Thereafter the volume, page, and line numbers of each entry are given. Very occasionally, particles, auxiliary verbs, and other associated words are also listed.
　Such indexes are useful in defining where and in what context each word of a classic is used. However, if you want to know whether some particular word is always used in the context, must check every page on which it appeares and note with what other words it appears in conjunction. This can become a very cumbersome process for words frequently used.
　The current study aimed at creating a software program that could list up words (in boldface type) in a-i-u-e-o order, together with five to six preceding and the same number of following words that revealed the context. This was achieved using our previously completed full-text database of Genji Monogatari Taisei in which all words had been identified by parts of speech.

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湿潤分散剤は顔料を含むあらゆる塗工液を設計する時にとても重要な役割を果たしてくれる添加剤である。適切な湿潤分散剤は，顔料／液体間の固／液界面張力を下げて，機械的エネルギーによって脱凝集した高いエネルギー状態にある一次粒子顔料を液相中で安定化する優れた機能を持っている。
適切な湿潤分散剤を正しく使用することによって，処方中の顔料濃度をより高くすることができるようになるだけでなく，高濃度配合でも低粘度化ができ，なおかつ紙基材面或いは別の乾燥塗工膜面への塗工液の濡れ性を大きく改善することができる。
カーテン塗工においては，湿潤分散剤は特にカーテン膜の安定性や弾性の改善に極めて効果があることが知られていて，Point of Impact後のElongation Zoneでの塗膜面のレベリングも改善することができる。
本報告は，カーテン塗工処方によく使用される重炭酸カルシュウム（Ground　CalciumCarbonate）の表面処理の違いが，分散された後のSlurry粘弾性プロファイルにどのように影響を与えるかを，化学構造の異なる湿潤分散剤を用いて評価検討したもので，Haake CaBER測定データーから，同GCC Slurry粘弾性と（カーテン塗工時のBack Side Coatingのリスクのない）カーテン膜安定性との相関性を考察したものである。
その相関関係に湿潤分散剤は大きな影響を及ぼすことがわかる。

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Whiplash has been increasing in number and it is so difficult to cure that many are under a long-term treatment.

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In this paper we investigate the stability of the regularization scheme with respect to the cut-off energy in greater detail for both spherical and deformed nuclei. Differences between the HFB results emerging from the pairing renormalization and pairing regularization procedures are analyzed.

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In this study, we examined the process of problem solving in mailing list discussion groups. We analyzed subjects' participation in discussions and e-mail messages when solving two types of tasks (a mechanical spring problem and a catch phrase making task) by groups of three sizes (small, medium, large). Group performance was compared with the performance of non-collaborating artificial work groups. Results indicate that group size and task type influence the degree of participation and group performance. We found a significant contrast in large-groups. In the ‘spring problem’, which is a difficult scientific task, the group process was inactive and group performance got worse as group size increased. In the ‘catch phrase’ task, communication was active and various opinions were proposed, and group participation and performance did not drop even in large groups.

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Immediately after the crisis of 2007-9 resulted from a financial bubble, it appeared as if policymakers had learned the lessons of the great depression in the 1930s. Not only were interest rates cut rapidly, but when they hit zero then expansionary fiscal policy packages were undertaken in a number of countries. However, everything changed quite dramatically in 2010. The near-default of Greece, with contagion gradually spreading in the eurozone, led policymakers around the world to switch from fiscal stimulus to fiscal austerity. To all the world it looks like government debt is the overwhelming problem, dwarfing concerns about a weak recovery. UK is a typical country which changed dramatically economic policy in 2010. Chancellor George Osborne of the new coalition government played the leading role in making plan of fiscal austerity. When George Osborne unveiled his deficit-reduction plan in June 2010, he claimed not only that it would reduce government borrowing, but it would increase growth. An adherent of the theory of "expansionary fiscal contraction", Osborne assumed confidence would rise as borrowing fell and that a bloated public sector was crowding out private spending. But Osborne's policies, rather than stimulating growth, have strangled it. The point is this: if both the government and private sector are trying to increase their saving at the time, don't just liquidate the bad investments, you kill the economy as well, by reducing national income until everyone is too poor to save. The truth is that the policy of all-round cutting down increase the problem of indebtedness. Growth, not debt reduction, should be the chief aim of economic policy today. Cuts to social security were also at the heart of the Government's fiscal austerity. While the Coalition was keen to emphasize that "we are all in it together", the reality is that the combination of welfare reform and the spending cut will fall hardest on those that have least. Welfare regime of UK produces a lot of young people without job every day. The archbishop of Canterbury has warned that England risks a repeat of the riots across England during summer of 2011 unless the government and civil society do more to rescue those young people think they have nothing to lose. Welfare state regime of UK is still very fragile.

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The Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013, also known as K to 12 Program, primarily aims to bring the Philippine education system at par with international standards through preparing graduates for college education, employment, or entrepreneurship. The Philippines has a clearer model with four Senior High School tracks compared to other countries. As the new program puts focus on student-centered learning, the quality of agriculture teacher education seems to be left behind. Previous literatures show that majority of the Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs) still has not aligned their curriculum to the needs of the K to 12 Program while current high school agriculture teachers have insufficient relevant trainings or seminars that relates to teaching strategies and in-service specialization. Aside from the effect of TEIs, one of the factors that can affect the quality of teachers is their teaching attitude. Teaching attitude encompasses complex topics, but this study focused only on preferences and motivations of high school agriculture teachers as these can be reflected to the interventions done in concurrent challenges in the Philippine education and agriculture. This study employed a semi-structured questionnaire for preferences on teaching and teaching agriculture and motivations in teaching. A five-point Likert-type scale revealed that the median for both preferences was ’5’ which means most of the respondents have ’very high’ preferences. This is despite only one (1) among seven (7) respondents stated that the first choice of profession was teaching. Qualitative analysis revealed that respondents encountered challenges in school facilities, professional development focusing on content knowledge, and lack of teaching and non-teaching personnel. The recommendation of this study is to focus on improving the holistic skills of high school agriculture teachers not only in teaching strategies but in content knowledge as well since these relate to their professional development.

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There is an apparent gap between the LCA or other assessment's outcomes and its effective application in the decision making process. It is needed to provide to the decision makers a simple, less human interfered mechanism that integrates all the key criteria (environmental, economic, technical and safety etc.). The proposed index: Interiink Decision Making index (IDMI) has all these features: simple, interlink (all criteria) and automatically and quantified influence of critical criteria (ie. no human weighting needed) and is able to assist the mufti-criteria decision making for sustainability based on the outcomes of specific assessments (eg. LCA, EIA etc.). The index represents a pure numerical value and does not necessarily have any physical meanings, but it reflects the total merits of a particular option once the normal decision making criteria and (up to two) critical criteria (CC) have been chosen. Then, without arbitrarily weighting process, the comparison and selection of the best possible option, ie, decision can be made based on the derived IDMI results. Two hypothetical examples are presented in part 2 of the paper to demonstrate the application of the IDMI concept and it's differences with the traditional “tabular method” in the decision making process.

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日本では，地震や津波などのさまざまな自然災害が多く発生している．このような自然災害の対策には，被災想定区域を視覚的に把握できるハザードマップが有効である．ハザードマップとは，災害から生じる被害範囲を地図化したものである．一方，近年では犯罪や事故を扱うハザードマップも作成されているが，これらを同時に確認できるものはまだ存在しない．そこで本研究では，災害だけでなく犯罪や事故などの複数要因を考慮したハザードマップを提案する．3 つの要因を同時に可視化することができれば，居住地の探索や旅行地の選択など， よりさまざまな状況で活用可能となる．

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日本では，地震や津波などのさまざまな自然災害が多く発生している．このような自然災害の対策には，被災想定区域を視覚的に把握できるハザードマップが有効である．ハザードマップとは，災害から生じる被害範囲を地図化したものである．一方，近年では犯罪や事故を扱うハザードマップも作成されているが，これらを同時に確認できるものはまだ存在しない．そこで本研究では，災害だけでなく犯罪や事故などの複数要因を考慮したハザードマップを提案する．3つの要因を同時に可視化することができれば，居住地の探索や旅行地の選択など，よりさまざまな状況で活用可能となる．

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[Purpose] The aim of this study was to observe the effect of self-selected intensity or imposed intensity during aerobic training on perceptual and affective responses in obese women. [Subjects] The study included 26 obese women aged 30–60 years. [Methods] The subjects were randomly divided into two groups, with 13 subjects in each group: self-selected intensity and imposed intensity (10% above ventilatory threshold) groups. All subjects completed an intervention program that lasted 12 weeks, with three exercise sessions a week. The rating of perceived exertion and affective responses (Feeling Scale and Felt Arousal Scale) were monitored in the first, sixth, and twelfth weeks. [Results] Significant differences were observed between groups in heart rate and rating of perceived exertion. The affective responses during exercise were more negative in the imposed intensity group. [Conclusion] Use of a self-selected exercise intensity can promote smaller negative affective responses during exercise and provide a sufficient stimulus for improvement in cardiorespiratory fitness.

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[Purpose] This study investigated the effects of musical tempo on physiological, affective, and perceptual responses as well as the performance of self-selected walking pace. [Subjects] The study included 28 adult women between 29 and 51 years old. [Methods] The subjects were divided into three groups: no musical stimulation group (control), and 90 and 140 beats per minute musical tempo groups. Each subject underwent three experimental sessions: involved familiarization with the equipment, an incremental test to exhaustion, and a 30-min walk on a treadmill at a self-selected pace, respectively. During the self-selected walking session, physiological, perceptual, and affective variables were evaluated, and walking performance was evaluated at the end. [Results] There were no significant differences in physiological variables or affective response among groups. However, there were significant differences in perceptual response and walking performance among groups. [Conclusion] Fast music (140 beats per minute) promotes a higher rating of perceived exertion and greater performance in self-selected walking pace without significantly altering physiological variables or affective response.

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The results of x-ray diffraction, the size of lattice parameter, and the values of oxygen diffusion coefficient in YO_1.5-CeO₂, GdO_1.5-CeO₂, and NdO_1.5-CeO₂ systems were reviewed. In YO_1.5-CeO₂ system, the lattice parameter decreases as the concentration of YO_1.5 increases. In GdO_1.5-CeO₂ system, the lattice parameter does not change very much. And in NdO_1.5-CeO₂ system, it increases as the concentration of NdO_1.5 increases. When the oxygen diffusion coefficient was plotted as a function of lattice parameter, there was no correlation between them. However, when the oxygen diffusion coefficient was plotted as a function of the concentration of trivalent cation additives, there was very good correlation between them. Consequently, the diffusion coefficient does not depend on the size of crystal lattice in ceria solid solutions, but it depends on the concentration of trivalent cation additives.

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