Historical Perceptions of World War II in Japan: The Influence of Textbooks and Film（論文要旨／抄録）

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Landscape of Participant-Centric Initiatives for Medical Research in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan : Scoping Review

Hamakawa N, Nakano R, Kogetsu A, Coathup V, Kaye J, Yamamoto BA, Kato K, Landscape of Participant-Centric Initiatives for Medical Research in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan:Scoping Review, J Med Internet Res 2020;22(8):e16441, DOI: 10.2196/16441, PMID: 32749228, PMCID: 743562

Landscape of Participant-Centric Initiatives for Medical Research in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan : Scoping Review

Background: Information and communication technology (ICT) has made remarkable progress in recent years and is being increasingly applied to medical research. This technology has the potential to facilitate the active involvement of research participants. Digital platforms that enable participants to be involved in the research process are called participant-centric initiatives (PCIs). Several PCIs have been reported in the literature, but no scoping reviews have been carried out. Moreover, detailed methods and features to aid in developing a clear definition of PCIs have not been sufficiently elucidated to date. Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to describe the recent trends in, and features of, PCIs across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan. Methods: We applied a methodology suggested by Levac et al to conduct this scoping review. We searched electronic databases—MEDLINE (Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online), Embase (Excerpta Medica Database), CINAHL (Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature), PsycINFO, and Ichushi-Web—and sources of grey literature, as well as internet search engines—Google and Bing. We hand-searched through key journals and reference lists of the relevant articles. Medical research using ICT was eligible for inclusion if there was a description of the active involvement of the participants. Results: Ultimately, 21 PCIs were identified that have implemented practical methods and modes of various communication activities, such as patient forums and use of social media, in the field of medical research. Various methods of decision making that enable participants to become involved in setting the agenda were also evident. Conclusions: This scoping review is the first study to analyze the detailed features of PCIs and how they are being implemented. By clarifying the modes and methods of various forms of communication and decision making with patients, this review contributes to a better understanding of patient-centric involvement, which can be facilitated by PCIs.Hamakawa N, Nakano R, Kogetsu A, Coathup V, Kaye J, Yamamoto BA, Kato K, Landscape of Participant-Centric Initiatives for Medical Research in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan:Scoping Review, J Med Internet Res 2020;22(8):e16441, DOI: 10.2196/16441, PMID: 32749228, PMCID: 743562

Participant-centric initiatives and medical research: Scoping review protocol

Background. Significant advances in digital technologies have meant that health care data can be collected, stored, transferred, and analyzed for research purposes more easily than ever before. Participant-centric initiatives (PCI) are defined as “tools, programs, and projects that empower participants to engage in the research process” using digital technologies and have the potential to provide a number of benefits to both participants and researchers, including the promotion of public trust in medical research, improved quality of research, increased recruitment and retention, and improved health care delivery. Objective. The main objective of this scoping review is to describe the extent and range of PCIs across the United Kingdom, United States, and Japan that are designed to facilitate medical research. Methods. The methodological framework described by Levac et al will be applied to this scoping review. We will search electronic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsychINFO, Cumulative Index to Nursing, and Allied Health Literature and CiNii), grey literature sources, Internet search engines (Google and Bing), and hand search key journals and reference lists of relevant articles. All digital tools and programs will be eligible for inclusion if there is a description of key features and functions that fall within the parameters of a PCI. Only those that play a role in medical research will be included. Results. Preliminary searches conducted in MEDLINE and EMBASE retrieved 1820 and 2322 results, respectively. The scoping review will be completed by January 2018. Conclusions. The scoping review will be the first to map the extent and range of PCIs currently available across the United Kingdom, United States, and Japan, and will be the first review to contribute to a better understanding of what PCIs patients may benefit from. Researchers and practitioners will be able to use information in this review as a guide for patients and also as a guide for the development of future tools and programs. The results will be disseminated through a peer-reviewed publication and conference presentations

CHJ-WLSP : Annotation of \u27Word List by Semantic Principles\u27 Labels for the Corpus of Historical Japanese

National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics / Tokyo University of Foreign StudiesSaitama UniversityUniversity of TokyoKyoto Prefectural UniversityUniversity of TokyoMejiro UniversityNational Institute for Japanese Language and LinguisticsThis article presents a word-sense annotation for the Corpus of Historical Japanese: a mashed-up Japanese lexicon based on the \u27Word List by Semantic Principles\u27 (WLSP). The WLSP is a large-scale Japanese thesaurus that includes 98,241 entries with syntactic and hierarchical semantic categories. The historical WLSP is also compiled for the words in ancient Japanese. We utilized a morpheme-word sense alignment table to extract all possible word sense candidates for each word appearing in the target corpus. Then, we manually disambiguated the word senses for 647,751 words in the texts from the 10th century to 1910

Power System Development of the AGU Remote Innovative CubeSat Alert System -2 – ARICA-2

We present the power system development of the 2U CubeSat, AGU Remote Innovative CubeSat Alert system -2(ARICA-2). The main goal of the ARICA-2 project is to demonstrate the real-time alert system of transient astronomical sources using commercial satellite network devices. 1U CubeSat ARICA was launched in November 2021. However, we have not been able to send and receive the data at this point. Therefore, we started developing 2U CubeSat ARICA-2, which is an improved version of ARICA, in April 2022. One of the possible causes of the communication problem of ARICA is the power system, such as a negative power budget or a failure in the installation of the inhibit switches. ARICA-2 is upsized from 1U to 2U to ensure a sufficient power generation and is equipped with improved inhibit switches. The calculation of power consumption and simulation of power supply on orbit have been finished. We confirmed the performance of our Electric Power System (EPS) and the health of the installed batteries. We are currently in the EM development phase with the goal of launching in Japanese fiscal year 2024

Development of the ARICA-2 Satellite Using Spresense as an Onboard Computer

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are transient astronomical phenomena that emit enormous amounts of energy in electromagnetic waves, mainly in the gamma-ray range, for several seconds to tens of seconds. GRB observations are challenging because of the difficulty in predicting the location and time of occurrence and its extremely short duration. Therefore, it is necessary to notify about the discovery in space and to conduct follow-up observations by researchers. The AGU Remote Innovative CubeSat Alert system-2 (ARICA-2) has been developed to demonstrate a new alert system using commercial satellite network services. ARICA-2 uses SONY’s Spresense as its onboard computer (OBC). We manufactured the special board to attach two Spresenses as a redundancy of the OBC system. We will present the system development of ARICA-2 using Spresense

Overview and Status of AGU Remote Innovative Cubesat Alert System-2 on 2023

We present the overview of the 2U CubeSat, AGU Remote Innovative Cubesat Alert system - 2 (ARICA-2). ARICA-2 was selected as a feasibility study phase of the JAXA-Small Satellite Rush Program (JAXA-SMASH) and the JAXA Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-4 project in 2022. The main goal of ARICA-2 is to demonstrate the real-time alert system of transient astronomical sources, such as gamma-ray bursts, using commercial satellite network services. The first 1U CubeSat ARICA, which had the same mission goal as ARICA-2, was successfully launched in 2021 by the JAXA’s Epsilon rocket No.5. However, communication with ARICA has yet to be established due to severe hardware issues. Therefore, ARICA-2 is the re-challenging mission of ARICA. ARICA-2 has several different features compared to ARICA. First, a transceiver using amateur radio frequency is added to the commercial satellite network devices to communicate directly from the ground. Second, ARICA-2 uses Sony’s low-power board Spresense as an onboard computer. Third, the attitude control system using magnetorquer is installed to establish better communication with the commercial network satellites. Fourth, the size of a gamma-ray detector is 70 mm x 70 mm x 10 mm, which is larger by a factor of 200 in volume compared to ARICA, to enhance the detection rate of gamma-ray bursts. We plan to develop the engineering model (EM) in 2023 and perform thermal vacuum and vibration tests on the EM. We report the current status and a prospect of ARICA-2