Improving Students’ Listening Comprehension by Teaching Connected Speech

This present research was conducted in order to find out students’ improvement in listening comprehension and to figure out students’ interest in listening increase after being taught the aspects of connected speech. This research used a quantitative method with pre-experimental design, namely one group pretest-posttest model design. The population of this research was all students of the eleventh-grade students who study at MAS Darul Ihsan Islamic Boarding School which amount to 184 students. In addition, the sample of this research was 30 students of class XI.F that was chosen purposively. Moreover, this research used pre-test and post-test as well as questionnaires as data collection instruments. The research found that teaching connected speech in the listening classroom can improve students’ listening comprehension. This was revealed through the comparison of t-score is higher than t-table, (3,61 > 2,04). Therefore, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. Furthermore, the result of students’ response sheets indicated that students have positive perception toward the teaching connected speech can increase their interest in learning listening

Survey Relating to the Market Entry Objectives and Current Situation in Thailand and Myanmar

専修大学社会知性開発研究センター/アジア産業研究センターの研究プロジェクト,文部科学省私立大学戦略的研究基盤形成支援事業「メコン諸国における経済統合の中小企業への影響についての研究 : 『ASEAN サプライチェーン』の観点から」(2014年度～2018年度)departmental bulletin pape

Effects of bioturbation on the erodibility of cohesive versus non-cohesive sediments along a current-velocity gradient: A case study on cockles

Soft-bottom bioturbators are ecosystem engineers in the sense that they can have considerable effects on sediment erodibility and resuspension. The common cockle Cerastoderma edule is a bioturbating filter feeder that is widespread along the European Atlantic coastline. Its presence and activity can decrease sediment erosion thresholds in cohesive sediments but little is known about its effect on non-cohesive sediments. Using controlled annular flume experiments, we investigated the relative effects of different cockle densities on sediment re suspension in cohesive vs. non-cohesive sediments by assessing the following: (i) the mud and sand burrowing behavior of cockles, (ii) critical erosion thresholds, (iii) the mass of eroded sediment and (iv) erosion rates. Our results show that cackles were more active in non-cohesive sediment compared with cohesive sediment. Despite their lower activity, the presence of cockles in cohesive sediment increased sediment erodibility by reducing the critical erosion threshold (U-crit) and increasing both the mass of eroded sediment and erosion rate. In contrast, cockles had no effect on erodibility in non-cohesive sediment, especially on the eroded sediment mass and erosion rate. The mass eroded was not significantly different between cohesive and non-cohesive sediments when cockles were present. Our experiments show that the increased erodibility of cohesive sediment due to the. bioturbation by cockles is density dependent: higher cockle density results in stronger effects on erodibility. Moreover, this increase in cohesive sediment erosion due to cockle bioturbation was positively correlated with current velocity. In contrast, the erosion of non-cohesive sediment only depended on the current stress and was unaffected by cockle density. Considering the high abundance of C. edule, its widespread distribution and its extensive activities, the results of this study could be widely applicable to intertidal mud flats around the world.</p

Issues related to the understanding of the central dogma.

概要（和文）：　フランシス・クリックによるセントラルドグマは分子生物学の基本原理ともされるが、実際にクリックの提唱した内容とは異なる内容のものが流布される、という事態となっている。本稿では、クリックの提唱した内容を確認すると同時に、流布されている内容の問題点、および歯学教育において注意しなくてはならない点を整理する。概要（英文）：The Central Dogma, proposed by Francis Crick, is considered a fundamental principle of molecular biology. However, the actual content of Crick’s proposal differs from the content that is currently being circulated. This paper will confirm Crick’s proposal and identify the issues with the circulated content, as well as organize the points that must be noted in dental education.departmental bulletin pape

Constructing Pictorial Space with Multilayered Color Planes -Methodological Genealogy from Poussin to Cézanne-

京都造形芸術大学博士2015年度doctoral thesi

Few-Shot Optimization for Sensor Data Using Large Language Models: A Case Study on Fatigue Detection

In this paper, we propose a novel few-shot optimization with Hybrid Euclidean Distance with Large Language Models (HED-LM) to improve example selection for sensor-based classification tasks. While few-shot prompting enables efficient inference with limited labeled data, its performance largely depends on the quality of selected examples. HED-LM addresses this challenge through a hybrid selection pipeline that filters candidate examples based on Euclidean distance and re-ranks them using contextual relevance scored by large language models (LLMs). To validate its effectiveness, we apply HED-LM to a fatigue detection task using accelerometer data characterized by overlapping patterns and high inter-subject variability. Unlike simpler tasks such as activity recognition, fatigue detection demands more nuanced example selection due to subtle differences in physiological signals. Our experiments show that HED-LM achieves a mean macro F1-score of 69.13 ± 10.71%, outperforming both random selection (59.30 ± 10.13%) and distance-only filtering (67.61 ± 11.39%). These represent relative improvements of 16.6% and 2.3%, respectively. The results confirm that combining numerical similarity with contextual relevance improves the robustness of few-shot prompting. Overall, HED-LM offers a practical solution to improve performance in real-world sensor-based learning tasks and shows potential for broader applications in healthcare monitoring, human activity recognition, and industrial safety scenarios.journal articl

拡張性を備えた企業アプリケーションのモデルベース設計開発手法に関する研究

公立はこだて未来大学博士（システム情報科学）指導教員：高橋　修doctoral thesi

The Hokosai porcelain series : Aesthetics and Practice in the Work of Itaya Hazan

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Various impressive crossroads of life (Jinsei iro-iro) : in remembrance of my retirement

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[特集] 注射マニュアルの作成過程と実際

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