Interactive Visualization System for Psychological Topology

Recently, there is increasing interest in mental support activities, including mental health care, counseling, and mental training in workplaces, schools, and sports teams. As a background to these things, various analysis methods have been developed to clarify and visualize the subject’s mental state based on these data. We tried to reveal and visualize the transition patterns of the subjects’ mental states by analyzing their utterances. Furthermore, we developed an interactive system of visualization of psychological state to support visual understanding of psychological topology. Features have been implemented to enable multidimensional data to visualize the movements shown on the SOM map. In this paper, we describe the system that can interactively visualize psychological states

Comparison of crystal structures and effects of Co substitution in a new member of Fe-1111 superconductor family AeFeAsF(Ae = Ca and Sr): a possible candidate for higher Tc superconductor

We refined crystal structures of newly found members of the Fe-1111 superconductor family, CaFe\_{1-x}Co\_{x}AsF and SrFe\_{1-x}Co\_{x}AsF (x = 0, 0.06, 0.12) by powder synchrotron X-ray diffraction analysis. The tetragonal to orthorhombic phase transitions were observed at ~120 K for unsubstituted CaFeAsF and at ~180 K for unsubstituted SrFeAsF, the transition temperatures agreeing with kinks observed in temperature-dependent resistivity curves. Although the transition temperature decreases, the structural phase transitions were observed below 100 K in both samples of x = 0.06, and finally they were suppressed in the doping level of x = 0.12. The refined structures reveal that distortions of the FeAs4 tetrahedron from the regular tetrahedron likely originate from mismatches in atomic radii among the constituent elements. In this system, the enlarged FeAs4 tetrahedron resulting from larger radius of Sr than that of Ca is flattened along a-b plane, whereas the smaller radius of Ca makes the tetrahedron closer to regular one, and their characteristic shapes are further enhanced by Co substitution. These results suggest that the CaFeAsF compound is a promising candidate for higher-Tc superconductor.Comment: 17 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables, Supplementary information is included at the end of the documen

Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Methane When Using TiO2- or WO3-Doped Sm2O3 in the Presence of Active Oxygen Excited with UV-LED

There are active oxygen species that contribute to oxidative coupling or the partial oxidation during the oxidative dehydrogenation of methane when using solid oxide catalysts, and those species have not been definitively identified. In the present study, we clarify which of the active oxygen species affect the oxidative dehydrogenation of methane by employing photo-catalysts such as TiO2 or WO3, which generate active oxygen from UV-LED irradiation conditions under an oxygen flow. These photo-catalysts were studied in combination with Sm2O3, which is a methane oxidation coupling catalyst. For this purpose, we constructed a reaction system that could directly irradiate UV-LED to a solid catalyst via a normal fixed-bed continuous-flow reactor operated at atmospheric pressure. Binary catalysts prepared from TiO2 or WO3 were either supported on or kneaded with Sm2O3 in the present study. UV-LED irradiation clearly improved the partial oxidation from methane to CO and/or slightly improved the oxidative coupling route from methane to ethylene when binary catalysts consisting of Sm2O3 and TiO2 are used, while negligible UV-LED effects were detected when using Sm2O3 and WO3. These results indicate that with UV-LED irradiation the active oxygen of O2− from TiO2 certainly contributes to the activation of methane during the oxidative dehydrogenation of methane when using Sm2O3, while the active oxygen of H2O2 from WO3 under the same conditions afforded only negligible effects on the activation of methane

The Postsynaptic Density Proteins Homer and Shank Form a Polymeric Network Structure

The postsynaptic density (PSD) is crucial for synaptic functions, but the molecular architecture retaining its structure and components remains elusive. Homer and Shank are among the most abundant scaffolding proteins in the PSD, working synergistically for maturation of dendritic spines. Here, we demonstrate that Homer and Shank, together, form a mesh-like matrix structure. Crystallographic analysis of this region revealed a pair of parallel dimeric coiled coils intercalated in a tail-to-tail fashion to form a tetramer, giving rise to the unique configuration of a pair of N-terminal EVH1 domains at each end of the coiled coil. In neurons, the tetramerization is required for structural integrity of the dendritic spines and recruitment of proteins to synapses. We propose that the Homer-Shank complex serves as a structural framework and as an assembly platform for other PSD proteins.Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Biophysical Instrumentation FacilityRIKEN Brain Science InstituteNational Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant R01DA17310)Japan. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research

「中１ ギャップの解消」に向けての創価教育学の視点からの実践と考察 ―「自ら未来を拓く子」の育成のために―

The author, a principal of a merged public elementary and junior high school, noticed thatelementary school children who did not have major issues in school, began showing signs ofproblematic behaviour and absenteeism upon entering junior high school. This issue is referredto as the 中１ギャップ chu-ichi gyappu [the transitional “junior high school first year gap”between elementary and junior high school education]. This paper discusses an attempt toresolve this issue based on the theme of fostering “children who pave their own paths to thefuture.”Causes of the “junior high school first year gap” are examined and the effectiveness ofpractices implementing concrete strategies to resolve the issue based on literature and previousstudies are discussed. The author’s views are based on Tsunesaburo Makiguchi’s educationalperspective of “living a life of value-creation” found within his value-creating pedagogy, SokaEducation

インクルーシブ教育のあり方と特別支援学校の役割 ～交流及び共同学習を通して～

In this article, first we investigate the relationship between the inclusive education systemand the idea of normalization so that we can clarify the model of the inclusive education.We next review “the exchange activities and collaborative learning” at the special-needsschool where one of the authors works as well as the situation of the inclusive educationsystem in other prefectures. Then we consider how we can construct “the exchange activitiesand collaborative learning” and the inclusive education systems from primary to uppersecondary education.Moreover, we get suggestions on the formation of cohesive society, the model of theinclusive education, and the role of special-needs schools, based on the view of TsunesaburoMakiguchi, the author of “The Theory of Value-Creating Pedagogy” and the founder of thephilosophy of Soka University