Obstruction or Promotion? A Study into the Effects of Educational Interventions in Peer Tutoring in Foundational English Learning

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High Speed Holographic Optical Correlator for Face Recognition

Owing to the Japanese government plan, U-Japan, which promised to bring about the socalled ‘ubiquitous society ’ by 2010, the use of Internet has dramatically increased and accordingly, development of the system through IT networks is thriving. The term ‘ubiquitous society ’ became a buzzword, signifying easy access to content on the internet fo

Institutional logics and responsive government: Hospital sector reforms in England, Japan and Sweden, 1990-2006.

This thesis examines the mechanisms of policy change in the hospital sector in three countries (England, Sweden and Japan), and argues that pressure on central government to respond to public concerns can significantly alter conventional institutional arrangements. By analysing four types of pressure (two mainly political, i.e. local campaigns against hospital closure and corporatisation of public hospitals; two mainly technical, i.e. quality assurance system-building, and malpractice incidents), the thesis sheds light on the fact that, when institutional vulnerabilities are exposed to public criticism, central governments exhibit their capacity to reform the hospital sector irrespective of institutional constraints. Under these circumstances, the varieties of the institutions in the three countries do not matter, as the observed responses were similar. In order to compare and contrast the 'responsiveness' of central government within the different 'logics' of the respective health care systems, this thesis investigates selected parliamentary and unitary states with universal health coverage, each however with different degrees of state involvement in the hospital sector: England (nationally-run) as part of the United Kingdom, Sweden (locally-run) and Japan (predominantly privately-run). By differentiating the types of pressure and examining the saliency of each issue in the printed media, it is demonstrated that the responsiveness of government to pressure is largely affected by the institutional arrangements in which they operate. However, when the saliency of non-redistributive technical issues is high, institutional constraints are overcome and institutional choices by government are reversed under heightened pressure. The analysis of dynamic policy change questions the constraining nature of political institutions on health reforms, and explains how policy convergence comes about to an extent that goes beyond path dependency in this predominantly profession-driven policy sector

ピアチュータープログラム再構築－国内高等教育における 共同学習とディープラーニング促進へ向けた取り組み

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Polyploidy of Reynoutria japonica var. japonica （Polygonaceae）in Japan

The chromosome number of Reynoutria japonica var. japonica was determined based on a total of 305 indi-viduals from 37 localities in central and northern Honshu of Japan. Plants investigated showed three chromo-some counts of 2n=44, 66 and 88. Among these, the plants with 2n=66 chromosomes are the first finding in Ja-pan. In the 37 localities studied, 15 localities had two chromosome races of any one of the following three combi-nations : 2n=44 and 66 ; 2n=44 and 88 ; or 2n=66 and 88, and five localities harbored all the three chromosome races. Reynoutria is believed to have a base number of x=11（Darlington and Wylie 1955）. These chromosome counts were consistent with the proposed base number, showing euploid variation of tetraploid（2n=44）,hexa-ploid（2n=66）and octoploid（2n=88）. Chromosome sizes of the respective chromosome races were 1.0―1.8 μmin tetraploid（2n=44）plant, 1.1―1.8 μm in hexaploid（2n=66）plant, and 0.9―1.8 μm in octoploid（2n=88）plant. Their chromosome complements had similar ranges in chromosome length

Gossiping with interference in radio chain networks (upper bound algorithms)

International audienceIn this paper, we study the problem of gossiping with interference constraint in radio chain networks. Gossiping (or total exchange information) is a protocol where each node in the network has a message and wants to distribute its own message to every other node in the network. The gossiping problem consists in finding the minimum running time (makespan) of a gossiping protocol and efficient algorithms that attain this makespan