Josai on academic cooperation with V-4 universities

Uniwersytet Josai z Tokio podejmuje wzmożone wysiłki w zakresie rozwoju wzajemnych relacji z krajami Grupy Wyszehradzkiej. W rezultacie tych działań, w ciągu ostatnich pięciu lat gwałtownie rozszerzył współpracę w dziedzinie szkolnictwa wyższego, szczególnie w zakresie wymiany studentów. Całkowita liczba studentów przyjeżdżających na Josai osiągnęła liczbę ponad 100, podczas gdy liczba studentów z Uniwersytetu Josai oraz Josai International University, zmierzających na naukę do uczelni w krajach V-4 wyniosła około 200 osób. Opierając się na wcześniejszych doświadczeniach wymiany międzynarodowej, w roku 2013 Uniwersytet Josai uruchomił, jako pierwszy w Japonii, Instytut Studiów Europy Środkowej, aby promować w Japonii działalność badawczo-rozwojową w odniesieniu do krajów Grupy Wyszehradzkiej. W lutym 2014 r. na kampusie tokijskim Josai Instytut ten zorganizował konferencję studencką pod nazwą ”V-4 + Japan”. Przesłaniem konferencji było promowanie wzajemnego zrozumienia wśród przedstawicieli młodszej generacji naszych krajów. Studenci-uczestnicy konferencji, oprócz uświadomienia sobie regionalnych i kulturowych różnic między Japonią i krajami V-4, mogli skorzystać z okazji i pogłębić wzajemne zrozumienie w toku praktycznych dyskusji. A. Shirahata konkluduje, że wynik tych dyskusji pozostawił wśród władz uczelni silne przekonanie, że pewnego dnia uczestnicy tego wydarzenia utworzą „most dobrej woli” między Japonią i krajami V-4. Powyższy artykuł omawia dotychczasowe osiągnięcia i przybliża plany dotyczące dalszego rozwoju i zróżnicowania współpracy naukowo-dydaktycznej między naszymi uczelniami.The organizers of the conference wish to acknowledge the National Bank of Poland’s generous funding of this publication

The effect of explicit instruction and error correction on learners’ grammatical accuracy in the case of japanese learners of English as a second language

Este estudio afirma que la instrucción explicita (EI) con la corrección de error explicito (EEC) pueden ser eficaces para adquirir elementos lingüísticos que no se hayan enseñado lo suficiente y que mayormente expresen significado léxico. Por otra parte, EI con EEC no pueden ser eficaces para los elementos lingüísticos que mayormente expresen funciones gramaticales formales, que los aprendices ya conocen muy bien. El estudio asume que el orden linear fijo para algunos elementos (e. g., morfemas gramaticales) no es influenciado por estímulos externos (i. e. , EC con EEC): como L1, el proceso de la adquisición de la L2 no es al azar, sino ordenado. Sin embargo, el estudio no necesariamente niega el rol de la instrucción explicita del profesor para cada uno de los aspectos de la adquisición de la L2. El estudio también afirma que EI y EEC son más eficaces para aquellos aprendices quienes tengan sus niveles de competencia general de la L2 altos. Apoyamos estas suposiciones presentando tres experimentos con respecto a la adquisición de los sujetos de la oración y los morfemas gramaticales en inglés por japoneses adultos, aprendices del idioma Inglés.This study claims that explicit instruction (EI) with explicit error correction (EEC) can be effective for acquiring linguistic items which mainly convey lexical meaning, and have not been taught enough. On the other hand, EI with EEC cannot be effective for linguistic items which mainly convey formal grammatical functions, which are already well known to the learners. The study assumes that the fixed linear order for some grammatical items (e.g., grammatical morphemes) is not influenced by external stimuli (i.e., EC with EEC): Like L1, the L2 acquisition process is not random, but orderly. However, the study does not necessarily deny the role of teacher’s explicit instructions for every aspect of L2 acquisition. The study also claims that EI with EEC are more effective for those learners whose general L2 proficiency levels are high. We support these assumptions by presenting three experiments concerning the acquisition of English sentential subjects and grammatical morphemes by Japanese adult learners of English

Quantitative evaluations of the contribution of the excitatory ionic conductance to repetitive spiking in a mathematical model of medial vestibular nucleus neurons

Medial vestibular nucleus neurons show spontaneous repetitive spiking. This spiking activity was reproduced by a Hodgkin–Huxley-type mathematical model, which was developed in a previous study. The present study performed computer simulations of this model to evaluate the contribution of the excitatory ionic conductance to repetitive spiking. The present results revealed the difference in the influence of the transient sodium, persistent sodium, and calcium conductance on spiking activity. The differences between the present and previous results obtained from other neuronal mathematical models were discussed

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The Effects of Three L2 Vocabulary Learning Methods Through Reading Activity

This study examines the effectiveness of the three vocabulary learning methods the authors adopted. In search of this research issue, the study used longitudinal experiments with 93 university Japanese learners of English (JLEs) for fifteen weeks. Once a week for six consecutive weeks, participants of the three experiment groups were given different treatments for learning 110 targeted English words when they were mainly reading an English textbook: (i) Group A: the Implicit Vocabulary Learning Group with Questions in English/Answers in English Task, (ii) Group B: the Explicit Vocabulary Learning Group with a Cloze Test Task, and (iii) Group C: the Explicit Vocabulary Learning Group with Multiple-choice Word Test Task. A pretest, immediate posttest, and delayed posttest were conducted. The results showed that (i) all the groups improved their performances at the immediate posttest and almost maintained their performance levels at the delayed posttest, which indicate that all the learning methods were more or less effective. However, the developmental degrees of the vocabulary increase were different: Group C showed the highest improvement among the three. From these findings, the authors claim that using a (multiple-choice) word test is fairly effective for JLEs to develop their knowledge of English words

Infrared Spectroscopy of CO Ro-vibrational Absorption Lines toward the Obscured AGN IRAS 08572+3915

We present high-resolution spectroscopy of gaseous CO absorption in the fundamental ro-vibrational band toward the heavily obscured active galactic nucleus (AGN) IRAS 08572+3915. We have detected absorption lines up to highly excited rotational levels (J<=17). The velocity profiles reveal three distinct components, the strongest and broadest (delta_v > 200 km s-1) of which is due to blueshifted (-160 km s-1) gas at a temperature of ~ 270 K absorbing at velocities as high as -400 km s-1. A much weaker but even warmer (~ 700 K) component, which is highly redshifted (+100 km s-1), is also detected, in addition to a cold (~ 20 K) component centered at the systemic velocity of the galaxy. On the assumption of local thermodynamic equilibrium, the column density of CO in the 270 K component is NCO ~ 4.5 x 10^18 cm-2, which in fully molecular gas corresponds to a H2 column density of NH2 ~ 2.5 x 10^22 cm-2. The thermal excitation of CO up to the observed high rotational levels requires a density greater than nc(H2) > 2 x 10^7 cm-3, implying that the thickness of the warm absorbing layer is extremely small (delta_d < 4 x 10-2 pc) even if it is highly clumped. The large column densities and high radial velocities associated with these warm components, as well as their temperatures, indicate that they originate in molecular clouds near the central engine of the AGN.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in PASJ (Vol.65 No.1 2013/02/25

Identifications and SEDs of the detected sources from the AKARI Deep Field South

In order to find counterparts of the detected objects in the AKARI Deep Field South (ADFS) in all available wavelengths, we searched public databases (NED, SIMBAD and others). Checking 500 sources brighter than 0.0482 Jy in the AKARI Wide-S band, we found 114 sources with possible counterparts, among which 78 were known galaxies. We present these sources as well as our first attempt to construct spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for the most secure and most interesting sources among them, taking into account all the known data together with the AKARI measurements in four bands.Comment: 4 pages, 10 figures, To appear in: the proceedings of the conference "AKARI, a light to illuminate the misty Universe", February 16-19 2009, Toky