Changes in Scholarly Communications and University Libraries : Electronic Journals, Open Access, Institutional Repository

This article describes the present situation and recent changes in scholarly communications, focusing on the Open Access and related movements and the activities and roles of university libraries in Japan. The monopolization of the scientific publication market and the increasing prices of paper journals have caused the “Serials Crisis”, and the electronic journals consortium of university libraries have some fruits and faces the increasing prices again. The stakeholders concerned with scholarly communications, Researchers, universities, libraries, academic societies, publishers, research foundations, Parliament/Congress and governments, have all joined the Open Access and related movements and are developing a new business model for academic publishing and a new way of accessing academic information. There are two roads to open access. One is the creation of open access journals (i.e. the gold road), and the other is self-archiving (i.e. the green road). The university libraries should inform the faculties of these movements. Especially, the institutional repository that is one way of the self-archiving is very important to university libraries for disseminating research results

女子大学生の養育者効力感に及ぼす、ペアレントトレーニングの効果について

This study examined the differences in expectations for parent training among female college students depending on whether or not they had taken it.As a result of asking the students to answer whether they could obtain the benefit from learning parent training for each question item such as parenting self-efficacy, no significant differences were found.On the other hand, in the diagram of co-occurrence network in text mining, qualitative differences were observed. The unlearned students\u27 expectations were connected with vague words, while the learned students\u27 expectations were connected with keywords related to specific knowledge and skills related to parent training

大血管、中血管における動脈瘤とその形状の関連についての検討

学位の種別: 課程博士審査委員会委員 : （主査）東京大学教授 江頭 正人, 東京大学講師 高山 利夫, 東京大学講師 山内 治雄, 東京大学講師 森 芳映, 東京大学講師 佐藤 次郎University of Tokyo(東京大学

Clinical study of the prognostic factors in colorectal cancer patients with synchronous liver metastasis

This study was aimed to clarify the prognostic factors in colorectal cancer patients with synchronous liver metastasis. Fifty-four patients were assessed to evaluate prognoses according to various clinico-pathological factors and therapeutic procedures. The patients' survival was significantly related to extrahepatic distant metastasis and therapeutic procedures. Regarding therapeutic procedures, the liver resection group showed significantly improved survival compared with the chemotherapy group, especially in liver metastasis Grade B. For colorectal liver metastases, it is clear that liver resection is the most effective treatment at present. Further improvement of patient prognoses is expected to be achieved by future research on combination chemotherapy

A case of strangulated ileus caused by transomental hernia with reference to previously reported cases

Transomental hernia often develops into strangulated ileus. We report on an 81-year-old man with strangulated ileus due to transomental hernia, diagnosed preoperatively by abdominal CT. The patient was referred to our surgical division because of progressive abdominal pain and vomiting. He had no history of laparotomy. An abdominal CT scan showed dilated small intestinal loops with intraluminal air and strangulated small intestinal loops with engorged mesenteric vessels. We diagnosed this as a strangulated internal hernia due to transomental hernia and conducted an emergency laparotomy. The jejunum had herniated through an abnormal hiatus of the greater omentum to the peritoneal cavity. The strangulated intestinal loop, about 15 cm long, was released and the postoperative course was uneventful. In the absence of a previous laparotomy, the differential diagnosis of intestinal obstruction should include internal hernia. An abdominal CT scan is useful for the preoperative and prompt diagnosis of transomental hernia