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In November 2003, the Uniform Requirements for the Submission of Manuscripts to Biomedical Journals were revised. The Uniform Requirements are presently recognized by almost 600 bio-medical journals worldwide, and can be said to be the Bible of medical paper writing. This presentation describes the changes made in the 2003 edition in comparison to the previous edition. The main emphasis of the new edition is that it instructs authors to pay close attention to the Instruction to Authors of the target journal. While following the basic format of the Uniform Requirements, authors are exhorted to make sure that the format of their paper fits the target journal with regard to the style and format of abstracts, etc. The second part of the presentation deals with techniques to have papers accepted by high-impact factor journals, and steps that are needed to betaken in order to do this. In particular, attention is called to the necessity of suggesting the names, addresses and other contact infor-mation of three or more possible reviewers. The last section presents various examples based on the style of the New England Journal of Medicine appropriate for Introduction, Materials and Methods, Result and Discussion sections of papers.

The printing method of the thermal transfer printer is to push an ink ribbon that is heated and melted by a thermal head to a printing paper, and transfer the ink to desired positions on the paper. If the heating by the thermal head is not sufficient, the ink cannot be melted and cannot be transferred to the paper. Moreover, even if the heating is excessive, a high quality print cannot be done, because an excess amount of ink will be transferred to the paper. The heat generated by the thermal head is transmitted to the printing paper through the ink ribbon. Thus the thermal conductivity of the printing paper affects the temperature rise of the ribbon and as a result printing quality. The thermal conductivity of the paper is commonly measured with a quick thermal conductivity meter. However the printing paper is too thin for the measurement. A new method of evaluating the thermal conductivity of the printing paper using the thermal transfer printer was proposed.

本論文では,新潟大学の学士課程教育の実質化を目指し,新潟大学の教育課題を改善するための「プログラムFD」の実践とその機能が検討された.具体的には,新潟大学の4つの教育目標領域の枠組みに基づき,個々の授業科目の再配置という観点から,教育プログラムの教員集団による到達目標の再吟味及びカリキュラムマップの再整理が実施された.その結果,再設定された到達目標への授業科目の再配置と重みづけの過程で教育プログラム担当教員間の到達目標の共通理解や共有化が促進されることが示された.また,本実践によるカリキュラムマップの再整理が教育プログラムのカリキュラムの体系性を可視化する枠組みとして機能し,継続的なカリキュラム改善のための具体的な取り組みとなる可能性が示唆された.最後に,プログラムFDの実施展開に関わる課題の整理と日常の教育活動と乖離しないFDの必要性が議論された., This article examines the practice and function of "Program FD" that aims to give substance to bachelor's degree programs and improve educational issues at Niigata University. On the basis of the university's framework of four educational target areas, each program's teaching staff implemented the practice of Program FD through reexamining the attainment targets of the degree program and recoordinating its curriculum map from the viewpoint of relocation of individual courses. As a result, the common understanding of the attainment targets among the teaching staff was promoted in the course of relocating and weighting the courses with the targets. Moreover, the recoordination of the curriculum map functioned as a framework for making the systemic curriculum alignment visible. The results suggest that the practice of Program FD may become a concrete approach to continuous curriculum improvement. Finally, the article discusses issues left for further development of Program FD that is expected to be implemented in daily educational activities.

High resolution direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation algorithm for array antennas becomes popular in these days. However, there are several error factors such as mutual coupling among the elements in actual array. Hence array calibration is indispensable to realize intrinsic performance of the algorithm. In the many applications, it is preferable that the calibration can be done in the practical environment in operation. In such a case, the incident wave becomes coherent multipath wave. Calibration of array in the multipath environment is a hard problem, even when DOA of elementary waves is known. To realize array calibration in the multipath environment will be useful for some applications even if reference signals are required. In this report, we consider property of reference waves in the multipath environment and derive a new calibration technique by using the multipath coherent reference waves. The reference wave depends on not only the DOA but also complex amplitude of each elementary wave. However, the proposed technique depends on the DOA only. This is the main advantage of the technique. Simulation results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed technique.

本研究は,鳥取大学教育地域科学部附属小学校で実施されてきた紙上相談ピア・サポート実践に対する児童の評価を質問紙調査によって調べた結果を報告するものである。この紙上相談ピア・サポートは,対コミュニティ返答相談として,ある学校にある時期に学ぶ子どもたちの問題を,ピア・サポーター役の子どもたちとともに考えて,子どもたち全体に返していこうとする実践である。その実践の効用を評価するために,鳥取大学教育地域科学部附属小学校4年生71人,5年生72人,6年生73人(全体で,216人。男子97人,女子119人)に質問紙調査を実施した。調査内容は,(1)紙上相談の効用(相談者にとっての効用と読者全体にとっての効用)(2)C-フレンズへの参加希望とその理由などである。その結果,相談者にとっては,気持ちが楽になったり,また,結果的に問題の解決に結びついたこともあったりしたことが示されており,一定の効用はあったことがうかがえる。ただし,相談に応じてもらえていない,回答の内容が不十分である,あるいは解決してもらえていないという感想も寄せられており,改善の余地もあることがうかがえる。いやがらせの抑止効果も限定的ながら見られたが,活動内容に関する広報や相談システムをより充実させてから再度調査を行う必要があると考えられた。C-フレンズへの参加希望者の動機は,「返礼」「貢献」「自尊感情」という記述内容がよく見られたが,この動機と活動への関与とのかかわりについては,今後のさらなる検討を要する。上記の他にも,自由記述の分析などを行い,1)活動内容の広報,2)小学生の質問への中学生による回答,3)対個人返答相談よる回答,4)相談提出の機会の保障,5)C-フレンズへのフィードバックに関しての改善提案を行った。

Inoue Yasushi published the short story "Cyokenbo oboegaki" in the Literary World Magazine in June 1951. Inoue Yasushi quit his job at the Mainichi Newspaper, finishing his 15-year journalist career in May 1951. After one month, he started a new life for literary creation as a professional writer. He also combined his experience as a journalist and knowledge of Buddhism into his work. "Cyokenbo oboegaki" is his first short story that is based on a monk story. "Cyokenbo oboegaki" was written in the first-person perspective to develop the story. The story happened on the Koyasan mountain. The main characters are "me", "my friend Yoshimura Yoshiaki", the leading character "Cyokenbo" and his friend "Koei". The first half of the story tells Cyokenbo's emotional entanglement between three women after he got expelled from the Koyasan Temple. In the latter half of his life, he concentrated on Buddhist Scripture research. He spent 20 years of his life on writing the "Prajna Riomomukikei explanatory notes" and he completed it. He wanted to give his work to his old friend "Koei". However, when he met "Koei" who already became eminent monk at Koyasan Temple again after 50 years, he wasn't able to hand his work over. Then he froze to death on the wayside. That is the second half of the tragic story. In 1993, a movie called "KOYA Cyokenbo oboegaki" based on this short story was on screen. However, according to my research, there are few research papers related to this novel even today. Only a small number of research papers have mentioned the novel, but never goes into deep research on the character image creation background and the references. Therefore, this paper attempts to organize previous research and analyze Inoue Yasushi's creation background, and then deduce the references.

In the previous paper, I studied how computers can participate with humans more actively, and created a program that runs under the following two main relationships between humans and computer. Based on this relationship, several works were produced and analyzed. Finally, I mentioned the future possibility of the interactive relationship between a computer performer and a human performer. In this paper, I constructed a system for musical expression in the interactive relationship between a human and a computer, focusing on three roles of computer: ①A computer as a musical instrument ②A computer as a tool for executing a program (thoughts by a computer) ③A computer as a performer In order to use a computer as a musical instrument, I constructed a system that uses Max to output the MIDI note number of the harmonic overtone by the bang message. Furthermore, to recognize the motion of the human hand and send a bang message wirelessly to a computer, I used the R-IoT module developed by collaboration between IRCAM and PluX. In order to use the computer as a tool for executing the program, several systems were constructed. When displaying the score on Max, I used Max's external library bach. In order to make the computer play a role as a performer, I built a system, using Max's external library Antescofo. Through this research, I mention the possibility of musical expression by computer calculation, which is difficult for human beings.

Korean verb/adjective endings are classified into two groups: pre-final endings and final endings. This paper examines the function of the retrospective suffix -deo, which is one of the prefinal endings. Previous studies have pointed out that the retrospective suffix -deo is a tense suffix and is used when the speaker recollects previous experiences. This paper insists that the suffix -deo has an evidential meaning, and that the use of the suffix -deo depends on the subject person and the type of verbs or adjectives. When the speaker’s information source is visual, the suffix -deo can be attached with a verb or a non-psychological adjective. In contrast, when the information source is non-visual, the suffix -deo can be used with a psychological adjective.

In the previous paper, I mentioned several technical restrictions in the creation of my own work applying the real-time score following technology, and also described the effectiveness of the use of Antescofo, which works with Max as a solution to those. As a continuation of the previous paper, I studied how computers can participate more actively in this paper. I created a program that runs under the following two relationships: (1) A relationship between Max as a performer and a human as a performer (2) A relationship between Max as a performer and Max as a performer (A relationship between Max and Max) Based on this relationship, three works were produced and analyzed. Finally, I mentioned the future possibility of the interactive relationship between a computer performer and a human performer.