Kano Jigoro Methods of Learning Judo as a way to Self-perfection

Bakalaura darba tēma ir “Kano Džigoro džudo apgūšanas metodes kā ceļš uz pašpilnveidošanos” galvenais uzdevums ir atspoguļot īpatnības Kano Džigoro džudo apgūšanas metodēs un parādīt, ka džudo pamatā ir pašpilnveidošanās ceļš, kas stiprina cilvēka prātu un ķermeni. Japāņu tradicionālā cīņas māksla un viens no budō veidiem džudo ir labi zināma visā pasaulē, un tas ir iekļauts moderno olimpisko spēļu disciplīnu sarakstā. Burtiski tulkojot, džudo nozīmē „maiguma ceļš”. Pateicoties starptautiskajai popularitātei, džudo var apgūt arī Rietumu valstīs. Mūsdienās tas tiek mācīts daudzās Japānas skolās, universitātēs un dažādu iestāžu pulciņos. Kano Džigoro iedibinātie principi un mērķi džudo apgūšanā nav ierobežoti tikai tehnikas un spēka attīstībā, tas ir dziļš pašattīstības process, kas palīdz veidot cilvēka raksturu. Darbā ir analītiski izpētītas meistara metodiskās pieejas džudo apgūšanā, kuras veidotas tiešā saistībā ar cēloņiem, kas mudināja Kano Džigoro radīt džudo. Ir arī sniegts ieskats džudo apgūšanas procesā saskaņā Kano Džigoro metodēm un principiem. Darba pamatteksta kopējais apjoms ir 40 lapas.The main aim of the Bachelor thesis “Kano Jigoro’s methods of learning Judo as a way to self-perfection” is to reflect the specific methods created by Kano Jigoro in a process of mastering Judo and to prove that a way to self-perfection is the basic principle in Judo which strengthens a human being’s mind and body. A Japanese traditional martial art and one of the budō, judo is well known all over the world and is included in the list of the modern Olympic Games. Literally, Judo means “the way of gentleness”. Nowadays, Judo is taught in many Japanese schools, universities and various institutions like sport clubs and circles. Due to international popularity, Judo can be learned in Western countries. Kano Jigoro’s established principles and objectives of learning Judo are not limited only with development of techniques and physical power, but it is also a deep self-development process that helps to build up a good character. The thesis shows analytic research on Kano Jigoro’s Judo teaching methodological approaches, which are directly connected with the Master’s reasons for creating Judo. There is also an overview of the Judo learning process in accordance with Kano Jigoro’s methods and principles. The total length of the main text is 40 pages

Restorative Justice and College Student Misconduct

This article reports the findings of a restorative justice program to address student disciplinary problems at Skidmore College. Based on the model of “Community Reparative Boards” developed by the Vermont Department of Corrections for probation cases, the Skidmore Integrity Board is representative board of students, faculty, and staff. The article describes the nature and purpose of the board and reports findings from three recent years of board activity. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2005organizational change, student misconduct, college judicial board, restorative justice,

Approach to withdrawal from tacrolimus in a fully allogeneic murine skin graft model

With few exceptions, transplant patients must take immunosuppressants throughout their lives. In this study, we used anti-T-cell receptor (TCR/CD3) monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to induce immunological tolerance to alloantigens after withdrawal from tacrolimus in a fully allogeneic murine skin graft model. Skin grafts from AKR donor mice were maintained in C57BL/6 recipients by administering tacrolimus for one month. Anti-T-cell receptor (TCR) αβ mAb was administered to recipient mice on the day of withdrawal from tacrolimus administration. Seven days after mAb administration, the recipient mice were treated with various combinations of the following treatments: low-dose whole body irradiation, AKR bone marrow transfer (BMT), and anti-CD3 mAb administration. The control recipient mice did not receive treatment with either mAb, nor any other treatment. All the control recipient mice showed rejection of AKR skin grafts 42 days after tacrolimus withdrawal (mean skin graft survival: 77 days). Mice treated with a combination of anti-TCR αβ antibody, low-dose irradiation and AKR BMT showed stable chimerism in their peripheral blood lymphocytes and significantly prolonged skin graft survival (mean skin graft survival: >151·2±15·3 days). Mice given the combination of anti-TCR αβ mAb, anti-CD3 mAb, low-dose irradiation, and AKR BMT exhibited more stable chimerism but had earlier skin graft rejection (mean skin graft survival: 116·7±17·6 days) than the mice that did not receive anti-CD3 mAb. These results suggest that anti-TCR αβ mAb, but not anti-CD3 mAb, in combination with low-dose irradiation and BMT, is useful for long-lasting allograft survival after withdrawal from tacrolimus in mice with fully allogeneic skin grafts

Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search

Document recommendation systems for locating relevant literature have mostly relied on methods developed a decade ago. This is largely due to the lack of a large offline gold-standard benchmark of relevant documents that cover a variety of research fields such that newly developed literature search techniques can be compared, improved and translated into practice. To overcome this bottleneck, we have established the RElevant LIterature SearcH consortium consisting of more than 1500 scientists from 84 countries, who have collectively annotated the relevance of over 180 000 PubMed-listed articles with regard to their respective seed (input) article/s. The majority of annotations were contributed by highly experienced, original authors of the seed articles. The collected data cover 76% of all unique PubMed Medical Subject Headings descriptors. No systematic biases were observed across different experience levels, research fields or time spent on annotations. More importantly, annotations of the same document pairs contributed by different scientists were highly concordant. We further show that the three representative baseline methods used to generate recommended articles for evaluation (Okapi Best Matching 25, Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency and PubMed Related Articles) had similar overall performances. Additionally, we found that these methods each tend to produce distinct collections of recommended articles, suggesting that a hybrid method may be required to completely capture all relevant articles. The established database server located at https://relishdb.ict.griffith.edu.au is freely available for the downloading of annotation data and the blind testing of new methods. We expect that this benchmark will be useful for stimulating the development of new powerful techniques for title and title/abstract-based search engines for relevant articles in biomedical science. © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press