Development of Japanese elementary curriculum that emphasises spoken-ness

This paper discusses the curriculum development which aims to enhance the spoken-ness or naturalness of two-way spoken conversation in Japanese. There are many special features in Japanese spoken conversation, such as particle omission, sentence-final particles, response tokens, fillers, repeat/repair and inversion. Being special characteristics of spoken Japanese, these features are indispensable to �natural� Japanese, and should be included in Japanese learning process if the goal of the Japanese education is to acquire natural Japanese. Despite their significance, these features have not sufficiently and systematically been taught in the current Japanese education. This is due to the fact that these features have not been recognised as formal learning objectives by Japanese teachers. However, there is no theoretical or empirical evidence that these features are too difficult for beginners and should not be taught at the elementary level. The study will discuss the curriculum development in the elementary courses of Japanese program at the Australian National University (ANU), which systematically adopts these features at the early stage of learning process. It will detail the development background, curriculum contents, and assessment of the special features. Since the curriculum was first implemented in the Japanese elementary courses at the ANU five years ago, no students or teachers have provided negative comments about learning/teaching these features. It is crucial that teachers first recognise those features as formal learning objectives and include in their Japanese courses

Self-Organizing Information Fusion and Hierarchical Knowledge Discovery: A New Framework Using Artmap Neural Networks

Classifying novel terrain or objects from sparse, complex data may require the resolution of conflicting information from sensors woring at different times, locations, and scales, and from sources with different goals and situations. Information fusion methods can help resolve inconsistencies, as when eveidence variously suggests that and object's class is car, truck, or airplane. The methods described her address a complementary problem, supposing that information from sensors and experts is reliable though inconsistent, as when evidence suggests that an object's class is car, vehicle, and man-made. Underlying relationships among classes are assumed to be unknown to the autonomated system or the human user. The ARTMAP information fusion system uses distributed code representations that exploit the neural network's capacity for one-to-many learning in order to produce self-organizing expert systems that discover hierachical knowlege structures. The fusion system infers multi-level relationships among groups of output classes, without any supervised labeling of these relationships. The procedure is illustrated with two image examples, but is not limited to image domain.Air Force Office of Scientific Research (F49620-01-1-0423); National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NMA 201-01-1-2016, NMA 501-03-1-2030); National Science Foundation (SBE-0354378, DGE-0221680); Office of Naval Research (N00014-01-1-0624); Department of Homeland Securit

Factors influencing the start of development in Daphnia pulex winter eggs [Translation from: Biological Reviews Vol. 13, 24-26, 1951]

The winter eggs of Daphnia pulex, after passing safely through the winter , develop and hatch in the spring, multiplying by themselves, while some males emerging among them with the changes in environment produce fertile eggs, which are universally known as winter eggs . This study researches the factors governing the development of winter eggs through experiments

Self-Organizing Hierarchical Knowledge Discovery by an ARTMAP Image Fusion System

Classifying novel terrain or objects front sparse, complex data may require the resolution of conflicting information from sensors working at different times, locations, and scales, and from sources with different goals and situations. Information fusion methods can help resolve inconsistencies, as when evidence variously suggests that an object's class is car, truck, or airplane. The methods described here consider a complementary problem, supposing that information from sensors and experts is reliable though inconsistent, as when evidence suggests that an object's class is car, vehicle, and man-made. Underlying relationships among objects are assumed to be unknown to the automated system or the human user. The ARTMAP information fusion system used distributed code representations that exploit the neural network's capacity for one-to-many learning in order to produce self-organizing expert systems that discover hierarchical knowledge structures. The system infers multi-level relationships among groups of output classes, without any supervised labeling of these relationships.Air Force Office of Scientific Research (F49620-01-1-0397, AFOSR F49620-01-1-0423); Office of Naval Research (N00014-01-1-0624); National Imagery and Mapping Agency and the National Science Foundation for Siegfried Martens (NMA501-03-1-2030, DGE-0221680); Department of Homeland Securit

Information Fusion and Hierarchical Knowledge Discovery by ARTMAP Neural Networks

Mapping novel terrain from sparse, complex data often requires the resolution of conflicting information from sensors working at different times, locations, and scales, and from experts with different goals and situations. Information fusion methods help resolve inconsistencies in order to distinguish correct from incorrect answers, as when evidence variously suggests that an object's class is car, truck, or airplane. The methods developed here consider a complementary problem, supposing that information from sensors and experts is reliable though inconsistent, as when evidence suggests that an objects class is car, vehicle, or man-made. Underlying relationships among objects are assumed to be unknown to the automated system of the human user. The ARTMAP information fusion system uses distributed code representations that exploit the neural network's capacity for one-to-many learning in order to produce self-organizing expert systems that discover hierarchial knowledge structures. The system infers multi-level relationships among groups of output classes, without any supervised labeling of these relationships. The procedure is illustrated with two image examples.Air Force Office of Scientific Research (F49620-01-1-0397, F49620-01-1-0423); Office of Naval Research (N00014-01-1-0624

HUBUNGAN ANTARA KECERDASAN EMOSI DENGAN TINGKAT KECEMASAN PADA SISWA KELAS XI SMA 3 SURAKARTA

ABSTRACT Background: Emotional quotient is an individual’s ability in regulating his/her emotional life with intelligence. One factor of emotional quotients is to motivate him/herself. Anxiety is a condition characterized by fear and somatic symptom. The students with high emotional quotient had regulated the their emotional life since adolescent period. This study aimed to analyze the relationship between emotional quotient and the anxiety level in the XI graders. Method: This study was an analytical observational research with cross-sectional approach. The research was conducted in August 2012 in SMA 3 Surakarta. The sample was taken using purposive sampling and simple random sampling. Emotional quotient was measured using Emotional Quotient inventory questionnaire and anxiety using Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale questionnaire. The data was analyzed using Shapiro Wilk normality test and Pearson correlation test using SPSS 17.0 for Windows. Result: This research indicated a very strong negative correlation between emotional quotient and anxiety, with the result of Pearson correlation test showing r = -0.921, p < 0.001. Conclusion: There was a meaningful and statistically significant relationship between Emotional Quotient and Anxiety Level in the XI Graders of SMA 3 Surakarta. Keywords: emotional quotient, anxiety, XI graders ASBTRAK Latar Belakang : Kecerdasan emosi adalah kemampuan seseorang mengatur kehidupan emosinya dengan inteligensi. Salah satu faktor dari kecerdasan emosional adalah memotivasi diri sendiri. Kecemasan adalah suatu keadaan yang ditandai dengan perasaan ketakutan yang disertai dengan tanda somatik. Siswa yang memiliki kecerdasan emosi tinggi telah mengatur kehidupan emosinya sejak remaja. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis hubungan antara kecerdasan emosi dengan tingkat kecemasan pada siswa kelas XI. Metode : Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian observasional analitik dengan pendekatan cross sectional. Penelitian dilaksanakan pada bulan Agustus 2012 di SMA 3 Surakarta. Pengambilan sampel dipilih secara purposive sampling dan simple random sampling. Kecerdasan emosi diukur dengan kuesioner inventori Emotional Quotient dan kecemasan diukur dengan kuesioner Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale. Data dianalisis dengan uji normalitas Shapiro Wilk dan uji korelasi Pearson melalui program SPSS 17.0 for Windows. Hasil : Penelitian ini menunjukkan korelasi negatif yang sangat kuat antara kecerdasan emosi dengan kecemasan, hasil uji korelasi Pearson menunjukkan r = -0,921, p < 0,001. Simpulan : Terdapat hubungan yang sangat bermakna dan secara statistik signifikan antara kecerdasan emosi dengan kecemasan pada siswa kelas XI SMA 3 Surakarta. Kata Kunci : kecerdasan emosi, kecemasan, siswa kelas X

HUBUNGAN TINGKAT KECEMASAN DENGAN HASILPUKULAN GATE-IN PADA OLAHRAGA WOODBALL

Pukulan gate-in dalam olahraga woodballmerupakan pukulan yang menentukan hasil akhir dari permainan. Untuk melakukan pukulan gate-in memerlukan mental yang kuat dan didukung tingkat kecemasan yang baik. Tujuan penelitian untuk mengetahui hubungan kedua variabel antara tingkat kecemasan dengan hasil pukulan gate-in. Metode penelitian menggunakan Deskriptif Korelatif dengan pendekatan kuantitatif, teknik pengambilan sampel yaitu purposive sampling dengan jumlah sampel yaitu 15 atlet UKM woodball UPI. Instrumen yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah mengadoptasi dari Kuesioner SCAT (Mackenzie, 2005) dan mengadoptasi dari tes Pukulan Gate-in (Putu, 2015).Hasil analisis data statistik diketahui nilai pearson correlation sebesar 0,906 dengan signifikansi 0,000. Hal ini menunjukan terdapat hubungan yang signifikan antara tingkat kecemasan dengan pukulan gate-in pada olahraga woodball. ketika atlet mengalami tingkat kecemasan tinggi maka makin tinggi hasil skor pukulan gate-in dan atlet yang mengalami tingkat kecemasan rendah maka makin rendah hasil skor pukulan gate-in. Nilai uji koefesien determinasi sebesar 0,820. Hal ini menunjukan sumbangan tingkat kecemasan sebesar 82% terhadap pukulan gate-in pada olahraga woodball. Rekomendasi untuk pelatih olahraga woodball harus memperhatikan latihan mental dan tingkat kecemasan atlet, atlet woodball harus terus melatih teknik pukulan lebih baik lagi, seperti halnya teknik pukulan gate-in dan lebih sering bertanding dengan tim-tim woodball dari daerah lain untuk melatih mental dan tingkat kecemasan atlet agar lebih baik lagi.;-- Gate-in stroke in woodball is a stroke which determines final result of the game. It requires a strong mental and a good anxiety level. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the two variables; the anxiety level and the result of gate-in stroke. The methodologyused descriptive correlative with quantitative approach, while the sampling technique used purposive sampling with 15 athletes of UPI Woodball Club. The instrument used in this study was adopted from SCAT Questionnaire (Mackenzie, 2005) and adopted from Gate-in Stroke (Putu, 2015). From the results of statistical data analysis known that the value of Pearson correlation is 0.906 with 0.000 significance. This shown a significant relationship between the anxiety level with gate-in stroke in woodball. When athletes experience high levels of anxiety then they got higher score at gate-in stroke,meanwhile athletes who experience low anxiety level got lower score at gate-in stroke. Coefficient determination value is 0.820. This shown contribution of anxiety level is 82% towards gate-in stroke inwoodball. Further recommendations for woodball coaches are they should pay attention to mental training and the anxiety level of the athletes, the woodball athletes should keep practice their stroke technique to be better, as well as gate-in stroke technique and often compete with woodball teams from other region to get better mental training and anxiety level

PENGARUH KEPRIBADIAN DAN EMOSI KARYAWAN PADA ABUSIVE SUPERVISION

Penelitian ini menguji pengaruh kepribadian dan emosi karyawan pada abusive supervision dengan lokasi dalam penelitian ini berada di PT. Kimberly – Clark Indonesia. Variabel penelitian ini meliputi variabel independent emotional stability, conscientiousness, agreeableness. Variabel mediasi negative emotions dan variabel dependen abusive supervision. Penelitian ini menggunakan data kuantitatif. Sampel yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini sebanyak 106 karyawan PT. Kimberly – Clark Indonesia. Pengujian yang dilakukan dalam penelitian ini menggunakan software SPSS 16.00 for windows untuk uji validitas, reliabilitas dan pengujian hipotesis. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa abusive supervision berhubungan negatif dengan emotional stability, conscientiousness dan agreeableness. Negative emotions memediasi hubungan negatif antara emotional stability, conscientiousness, dan agreeableness pada abusive supervision. Kata Kunci : emotional stability, conscientiousness, agreeableness, negative emotions, abusive supervision

Pengaruh Harga, Lokasi Dan Fasilitas Terhadap Kepuasan Pelanggan Pada Pemancingan Galatama Di Kota Tangerang (Studi Kasus Di 4 Pemancingan Galatama Kota Tangerang)

Dalam perkembangan zaman sekarang ini banyak sekali orang yang membutuhkan sarana hiburan yang murah, maka dari itu diperlukan suatu kegiatan yang dapat menanggulangi kebutuhanakan sarana hiburan yang murah, salah satu kegiatan yang dapat dilakukan untuk menjadi sarana hiburan yang murah yaitu dengan memancing, peluang ini cukup menjanjikan karena banyaknya orang yang ingin mencari kegiatan hiburan, semakin banyaknya usaha kolam pemancingan ikan patin sejenis maka harus diperlukan sebuah pengelolaan usaha yang baik sehingga bertujuan untuk memajukan usaha. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memperoleh bukti empiris tentang Pengaruh Harga, Lokasi dan Fasilitas Terhadap Kepuasan Pelanggan. Variabel independen yang digunakan adalah Harga, Lokasi dan Fasilitas. Sedangkan variabel dependen yang digunakan adalah Kepuasan Pelanggan. Sampel dalam penelitian ini berjumlah 80 konsumen yang berada pada PEMANCINGAN GALATAMA DI KOTA TANGERANG. Berdasarkan hasil analisis yang dilakukan, penulis dapat mengambil kesimpulan bahwa : (1), Harga berpengaruh signifikan terhadap Kepuasan Pelanggan dengan tingkat signifikasi 0,000. (2), Lokasi berpengaruh signifikan terhadap Kepuasan Pelanggan dengan tingkat signifikasi 0,000. (3), Fasilitas berpengaruh signifikan terhadap Kepuasan Pelanggan dengan tingkat signifikasi 0,001. (4), Harga, Lokasi dan Fasilitas secara simultan berpengaruh terhadap Kepuasan Pelanggan dengan tingkat signifikasi 0,00