A Perspective for BODY PERCUSSION EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM to Improve Pupil’s Communication Abilities a clue for special education

In “special education,” pupils with various needs of support encounter many occasions to be put together for education in the same classroom. The imminent educational issue is: How can we improve the communication abilities of the pupils with different personalities, who have or who don’t have disabilities, so that they will be able to construct a society of co-existence? With that in mind, I would like to verify the effectiveness of the Body Percussion Education(Rhythmic Physical Performances)as an enjoyable and educational communication method in special education (education in schools for with hearing difficulties and in schools for physically handicapped or mentally challenged children). I would like to prove its effectiveness among all kinds of pupils including those with normal healthy bodies. The body percussion education started when I, as a primary school teacher, suggested a class activity that would bring a pupil who had trouble making friends with other pupils to the center. It was intended to improve their communication abilities. What kind of communication abilities do the pupils have? They include the abilities to convey one’s feelings not only in voiced or written words but also in expressions of the face, in the tones of the voice, in gestures and movements of the body. The concrete elements in this activity includes, in addition to voicing words, clapping hands, beating one’s stomach, hitting the knee, stomping one’s feet, jumping, beating one’s hips. Beating one’s various parts of the body and making sounds and movements becomes a expression that can be performed together in groups and with all members of the activity. Improvised ensemble(various combinations of physical expression)can be coordinated. These are done in the body percussion activity. Mr. Osamu Yaosaka, member of the Central Education Deliberative Council and professor at Kyushu University, has stated “Considering communication, sensitivity and emotion,(pupils)convey their messages to others through physical expressions(ex. body percussion),” and considers body percussion as a physical expression that enhances communication abilities. In considering this subject with special education, first, I would like to write about the importance of nonverbal communication in special education. Then, I would like to make a report about my 10 years of experience in this activity, with two cases of at special education schools(schools for the mentally or physically challenged)and a school for pupils having hearing difficulties), in order to provide body percussion education as a clue to enhance communication abilities of pupils

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Resolving tsunami wave dynamics: integrating sedimentology and numerical modelling

Tsunamis are a major hazard along many of the world's coastlines. To understand the impact of these events, a sufficiently long record of previous events is needed, which can be provided by their sedimentary deposits. A number of past events have left extensive sedimentary deposits that can be used to understand the hydrodynamics of the tsunami. The ca 8.15 ka Storegga submarine slide was a large, tsunamigenic mass movement off the coast of Norway. The resulting tsunami had estimated run-up heights of around 10 to 20 m on the Norwegian coast, over 30 m in Shetland and 3 to 6 m on the Scottish mainland coast. New cores were taken from the Ythan Valley in North-East Scotland, where Storegga tsunami deposits have previously been found. High-resolution sedimentary analyses of the cores, combined with statistical (changepoint) analysis, shows signatures of multiple waves. Moreover, detailed CT scans of the erosional basal surface reveal sole marks called skim marks. Taken in conjunction with the grain size and sedimentary fabric characteristics of the tsunami deposits, this indicates that the flow exhibited a high-concentration basal component, with an initial semi-cohesive phase and that deposition was dominantly capacity driven. A multiple wave hypothesis is tested by creating a high-resolution numerical model (metre-scale) of the wave inundation, coupled to a previously published regional model. The inundation model confirms that multiple waves passed over the site in agreement with the sedimentological analysis. The sensitivity of the model to the reconstructed palaeocoastal geomorphology is quantitatively explored. It is concluded that local palaeogeomorphological reconstruction is key to understanding the hydrodynamics of a tsunami wave group in relation to its sedimentary deposit. Combining sedimentological data with high-resolution inundation modelling is a powerful tool to help interpret the sedimentary record of tsunami events and hence to improve knowledge of their risks

Resolving tsunami wave dynamics: integrating sedimentology and numerical modelling

Tsunamis are a major hazard along many of the world's coastlines. To understand the impact of these events, a sufficiently long record of previous events is needed, which can be provided by their sedimentary deposits. A number of past events have left extensive sedimentary deposits that can be used to understand the hydrodynamics of the tsunami. The ca 8.15 ka Storegga submarine slide was a large, tsunamigenic mass movement off the coast of Norway. The resulting tsunami had estimated run-up heights of around 10 to 20 m on the Norwegian coast, over 30 m in Shetland, and 3 to 6 m on the Scottish mainland coast. New cores were taken from the Ythan Valley in North-East Scotland, where Storegga tsunami deposits have previously been found. High resolution sedimentary analyses of the cores, combined with statistical (changepoint) analysis, shows signatures of multiple waves. Moreover, detailed CT scans of the erosional basal surface reveal sole marks called skim marks. Taken in conjunction with the grain-size and sedimentary fabric characteristics of the tsunami deposits, this indicates that the flow exhibited a high-concentration basal component, with an initial semi-cohesive phase, and that deposition was dominantly capacity-driven. A multiple wave hypothesis is tested by creating a high resolution numerical model (metrescale) of the wave inundation, coupled to a previously published regional model. The inundation model confirms that multiple waves passed over the site in agreement with the sedimentological analysis. The sensitivity of the model to the reconstructed palaeocoastal geomorphology is quantitatively explored. It is concluded that local palaeogeomorphological reconstruction is key to understanding the hydrodynamics of a tsunami wave group in relation to its sedimentary deposit. Combining sedimentological data with high resolution inundation modelling is a powerful tool to help interpret the sedimentary record of tsunami events and hence to improve knowledge of their risks