24 research outputs found
Implementing rubrics as formative assessment in English writing classes in Japan.
No full textThis study explored how the implementation of formative assessment with the use of rubrics in high school English classes in Tokyo, Japan, improved students' motivation and encouraged ownership of learning. The researcher implemented rubrics as a formative assessment strategy in her two English writing classes over two terms with her co-inquirer/team-teaching partner and reflected on student responses and her own teaching practice. The study was carried out using professional inquiry informed by action research, based on the cycle of actions and reflection developed by Brown and Cherkowski (2011). As a theoretical framework, learning community theory identified this inquiry as an act of leadership, one that began to build interpersonal and organizational capacity in a school by sharing personal learning. Findings focused on student responses, teacher learning, and the school-level organizational response. --Leaf ii.The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b186055
Forth Report on Olympic memorabilia, constituting sports cultural assets, relating to the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games
No full textThe author has presented part of a collection of Olympic memorabilia relating to the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games. The fourth report includes the autographed photo of Mikio Oda who became the first Japanese Olympic gold medalist, the autographed writing book by Kinue Hitomi who became the first Japanese woman to be an Olympian and a medalist, and the autographed photo of Leni Junker who was a German female sprinter and won the bronzemedal in the 4×100m relay. In addition, the commemorative photo album owned by an officer of Japanese team, the Olympic memorial shield presented to Kintaro Usuda who participated in boxing, and a commemorative report on the welcome party for Olympic athletes were showed. Finally, Olympic spectators, including the media, should watch the competitions without undue expectations and pressure on athletes, reflecting on what happened when Hitomi lost in the women’s 100m semifinal.research repor
Testing protoplanetary disc dispersal with radio emission
No full textWe consider continuum free–free radio emission from the upper atmosphere of protoplanetary discs as a probe of the ionized luminosity impinging upon the disc. Making use of previously computed hydrodynamic models of disc photoevaporation within the framework of extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray irradiation, we use radiative transfer post-processing techniques to predict the expected free–free emission from protoplanetary discs. In general, the free–free luminosity scales roughly linearly with ionizing luminosity in both EUV- and X-ray-driven scenarios, where the emission dominates over the dust tail of the disc and is partial optically thin at cm wavelengths. We perform a test observation of GM Aur at 14–18?GHz and detect an excess of radio emission above the dust tail to a very high level of confidence. The observed flux density and spectral index are consistent with free–free emission from the ionized disc in either the EUV- or the X-ray-driven scenario. Finally, we suggest a possible route to testing the EUV- and X-ray-driven dispersal model of protoplanetary discs, by combining observed free–free flux densities with measurements of mass-accretion rates. On the point of disc dispersal one would expect to find an M?2? scaling with free–free flux in the case of EUV-driven disc dispersal or an ?* scaling in the case of X-ray-driven disc dispersa
Prenatal diagnosis of unilateral pulmonary agenesis in a pregnant woman undergoing chronic hemodialysis due to chronic renal failure
No full textAnalysis of two genomic variants of orang-utan hepadnavirus and their relationship to other primate hepatitis B-like viruses
No full textWe recently described orang-utan hepadnavirus (OuHV) (Warren et al., Journal of Virology, 73, 7860–7865, 1999). Phylogenetic analyses indicated that the various isolates of OuHV can be divided into two genomic variants. Two representatives from each genomic cluster were analysed both molecularly and phylogenetically. Their genome organization was highly similar to other hepadnaviruses of apes and humans. The complete genome sequences of the two OuHV types had an overall 5% sequence difference. Research on 25 seropositive Bornean orang-utans showed that, of the 19 animals infected with one variant, 12 originated from East Kalimantan. Phylogenetic analysis was performed using the full-length genomes of various primate hepadnaviruses. The tree topology revealed one cluster of Old World hepadnaviruses that is divided into two subclusters, one consisting of the ape viruses, and the other comprising the human genotypes A–E. These data suggest that the great apes and gibbons have been infected with a common ancestor hepadnavirus
A Study on the Regional Housing Conditions and the Inhabitants Housing Imager -A Survey for the Housing Imagery of Junior High School Students and their Parents in Fukui City and its Environ
No full textThe purpose of this study is to make c1ear the relation between the regional housing
conditions and the inhabitants housing imagery in Fukui city and its environs. In
Hokuriku region，the dwelling space is much larger than the average of Ja pan and the ratio
of household with the elder1y is high. The author surveyed 710 households including a junior
high school student and compare the housing imagery between the children (junior high
school students) and their parents. The main results are as follows :1) Half of the parents
have lived in their parents house with the elder1y since they got married. 2) Most of the
parents don't expect their children to live with them after the children's marriage. 3) Most
of the children have a image of getting their owner-occupied detached house and living in
the neighborhood of their parents house，but the eldest son have ai mage of living with their
parents when they get married
A Study on the Regional Housing Conditions and the Inhabitants Housing Imager -A Survey for the Housing Imagery of Junior High School Students and their Parents in Fukui City and its Environ
No full textThe purpose of this study is to make c1ear the relation between the regional housing conditions and the inhabitants housing imagery in Fukui city and its environs. In Hokuriku region,the dwelling space is much larger than the average of Ja pan and the ratio of household with the elder1y is high. The author surveyed 710 households including a junior high school student and compare the housing imagery between the children (junior high school students) and their parents. The main results are as follows :1) Half of the parents have lived in their parents house with the elder1y since they got married. 2) Most of the parents don't expect their children to live with them after the children's marriage. 3) Most of the children have a image of getting their owner-occupied detached house and living in the neighborhood of their parents house,but the eldest son have ai mage of living with their parents when they get married.departmental bulletin pape
Effect of hypercapnia on self-sustained muscle activity
No full textThe aim of the present study was to determine the effect of hypercapnia on motor neuromuscular activity of the human triceps surae muscle. Nine subjects participated in trials in a normal breathing condition and a CO2 rebreathing condition. In both conditions, in order to provoke self-sustained muscle activity, percutaneous electrical train stimulation was applied to the tibial nerve while each subject lay on a bed. Self-sustained muscle activity, which is an indirect observation of plateau potentials in spinal motoneurons, was measured for 30 s after the train stimulation by using surface electromyography. The sustained muscle activity was increased by CO2 rebreathing (P < 0.05). This finding suggests that motor neuromuscular activity may be linked to the respiratory system that is activated during hypercapnia
Coherence between cardiorespiratory system and TOI
No full textIt has been shown that the tissue oxygen index (TOI) measured by near-infrared spectroscopy oscillates at very low frequencies during recovery after exercise and that this oscillation is derived from interactions among biochemical substances involved in oxidative metabolism in skeletal muscle. As a further step, we examined whether TOI in muscle interacts through oscillation with factors related to oxygen in the cardiorespiratory system. For this examination, coherence and phase difference between the TOI in the vastus lateralis and heart rate (HR) and between TOI and arterial oxygen saturation (SpO2) were sequentially determined during recovery (2–60 min) after severe cycle exercise with a workload of 7.5% of body weight for 20 s. Significant coherence between TOI and HR was obtained in the very low-frequency band (approximate range: 0.002–0.03 Hz) and in the low-frequency band (approximate range: 0.06–0.12 Hz). The phase difference was negative in the low-frequency band and positive in the very low-frequency band. The coherence between TOI and SpO2 was significant in the very low-frequency band. The phase difference was negative. There were no sequential changes in these coherences and phase differences. The results suggest that TOI in skeletal muscle interrelates with factors related to the heart and lungs
SPECTROSCOPY OF H AND CO TOWARD THE GALACTIC CENTER
No full textAuthor Institution: Dept of Astron. \& Astrophys. and Dept of Chem., Univ. of Chicago; Gemini Observatory, Hilo, Hawaii; Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany; Subaru Telescope, NAOJ, Hilo, Hawaii; Department of Chemistry and Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\maketitle \hspace{0.25in}Sightlines toward the Central MolecularZone (CMZ), a region of radius 200pc of the Galactic center (GC), contain column densities of H on the order of 3 cm, ten times higher than the most H-rich sightlines in the Galactic disk. They cross a variety of clouds in the intervening spiral arms and in the CMZ and the spectra show a wide velocity range from -150 km s to 50 km s indicating dynamic nature of the gas. It was a surprise when H in the \emph{J = K = 3} metastable rotational level, 361 K above the lowest (1, 1) level, was observed strongly in the CMZ indicating high temperature.} Our analyses of the very rich and unusual spectra using the \emph{R}(3, 3) absorption as the Rosetta stone have revealed a vast amount of warm (250 K) and diffuse (100 cm) gas in the CMZ with a large volume filling factor.} \hspace{0.25in}In addition to the sightline toward the brightest star GCS 3-2 so far studied in detail, we report results of several sightlines toward young stars near the Galactic nucleus and the super-massive Quintuplet and Arches Clusters within 30 pc from the center. They all indicate the presence of the gas with high temperature and low density demonstrating the ubiquity of the gas. The relationship between the newly revealed warm and diffuse gas and previously known gaseous components in the GC, i.e., the dense and mostly cold (50 K) clouds observed by radio spectra of CO and other molecules, the hot (10 K) gas with high electron density observed by radio-wave scattering and free-free emission and absorption measurements, and the ultra-hot (10 K) gas observed in X-ray emissions is an intriguing question.} \hspace{0.25in}In addition the location of the gas in the CMZ and its excitation mechanism are highly controversial. We will discuss some of those issues
