著者
五十嵐 伸吾
出版者
法政大学地域研究センター
雑誌
地域イノベーション (ISSN:18833934)
巻号頁・発行日
no.5, pp.89-104, 2012

我が国、特に地方における産業活性化あるいは雇用創出の担い手として、新規開業企業群(スタートアップ企業)への期待は大きい。しかし、これまで地域において起業促進政策が顕著な成功を見た例は少ない。岩手県は県内総生産、失業率などの指標で他県と比較すると決して恵まれているとは言えない。岩手県下のある企業しかも一つの工場から40余りのスタートアップ企業が誕生 し、しかもほぼすべてが生存している。このような事例は他に類を見ない。本稿では、このアルプス電気盛岡工場の事例を分析することによって、どのような経緯によって起業を促進する組織文化が形成されたのかを明らかとする。それが地域における起業促進政策に対する一助と なることを期待する。The Japan government and especially local government have expected to emerging start- ups as the role of industrial activator and job creator. However, such policies for promoting entrepreneurship have not been a significant successful. The indicates of Iwate Prefecture, for example, Gross Prefecture Product (GPP) and Unemployment rate show that Iwate Prefecture is not better than the others. More than forty start-up companies were founded from only the Morioka Factory of Alps Electric Co., Ltd. Almost all of them are alive so far. Similar cases aren't seen. This paper analyzed the case of the Morioka Factory of Alps Electric Co., Ltd, and revealed how the organizational culture that promotes entrepreneurship was generated there. I hope that it will give some suggestions which contribute to the economic policy for promoting entrepreneurship in the region.
著者
Valtcho D. Zheljazkov Thomas Horgan Tess Astatkie Vicki Schlegel
出版者
公益社団法人 日本油化学会
雑誌
Journal of Oleo Science (ISSN:13458957)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.62, no.9, pp.665-672, 2013 (Released:2013-09-03)
参考文献数
26
被引用文献数
7 35

Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill) is an essential oil crop grown worldwide for production of essential oil, as medicinal or as culinary herb. The essential oil is extracted via steam distillation either from the whole aboveground biomass (herb) or from fennel fruits (seed). The hypothesis of this study was that distillation time (DT) can modify fennel oil yield, composition, and antioxidant capacity of the oil. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of eight DT (1.25, 2.5, 5, 10, 20, 40, 80, and 160 min) on fennel herb essential oil. Fennel essential oil yield (content) reached a maximum of 0.68% at 160 min DT. The concentration of trans-anethole (32.6–59.4% range in the oil) was low at 1.25 min DT, and increased with an increase of the DT. Alpha-phelandrene (0.9-10.5% range) was the lowest at 1.25 min DT and higher at 10, 80, and 160 min DT. Alpha-pinene (7.1-12.4% range) and beta-pinene (0.95-1.64% range) were higher in the shortest DT and the lowest at 80 min DT. Myrcene (0.93-1.95% range), delta-3-carene (2.1-3.7% range), cis-ocimene (0-0.23% range), and gamma-terpinene (0.22-2.67% range) were the lowest at 1.25 min DT and the highest at 160 min DT. In contrast, the concentrations of paracymene (0.68-5.97% range), fenchone (9.8-22.7% range), camphor (0.21-0.51% range), and cis-anethole (0.14-4.66% range) were highest at shorter DT (1.25-5 min DT) and the lowest at the longer DT (80-160 min DT). Fennel oils from the 20 and 160 min DT had higher antioxidant capacity than the fennel oil obtained at 1.25 min DT. DT can be used to obtain fennel essential oil with differential composition. DT must be reported when reporting essential oil content and composition of fennel essential oil. The results from this study may be used to compare reports in which different DT to extract essential oil from fennel biomass were used.
著者
Kuniyasu SODA Yoshihiko KANO Masako SAKURAGI Koichi TAKAO Alan LEFOR Fumio KONISHI
出版者
Center for Academic Publications Japan
雑誌
Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology (ISSN:03014800)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.55, no.4, pp.361-366, 2009 (Released:2009-09-18)
参考文献数
19
被引用文献数
28 106

Although the intracellular de novo synthesis of the polyamines decreases with age, there is no similar trend in blood polyamine levels, but rather there is wide individual variability. We hypothesized that dietary polyamines attenuate a decrease in blood polyamine levels with age and augment the previously observed individual variability. The effect of a polyamine rich diet, in both mice and humans, on blood polyamine concentrations was examined in this study. Jc1:ICR male mice were fed test diets containing 3 different polyamine concentrations. Healthy human male volunteers added 50 to 100 g of the polyamine-rich fermented soybean product, natto, to their daily intake. After 26 wk, the mean blood spermine concentration in mice receiving the test diet with high polyamine concentrations was 10.1±2.4 μmol/L, while the mean concentrations found in mice fed with a diet with normal or low polyamine concentrations were 5.2±0.9 and 4.7±0.5 μmol/L, respectively (p<0.05). A mean daily intake of 66.4±3.7 g (range=46.4-89.3 g) of natto for 2 mo by human volunteers increased the mean blood spermine concentration by a factor of 1.39 (n=10) (p<0.01), while in control volunteers (n=7), asked to exclude polyamine-rich foods from their diet, blood spermine concentration remained unchanged. The individual variability of blood polyamine levels was enhanced after polyamine intake in mice and, to a lesser extent, in humans. The long-term oral intake of enhanced polyamine diets increases blood polyamine levels in both mice and humans.
著者
Hiroyuki OKADA Kohtaro MIYAZAWA Shigeo FUKUDA Yoshifumi IWAMARU Morikazu IMAMURA Kentaro MASUJIN Yuichi MATSUURA Takashi FUJII Kei FUJII Soichi KAGEYAMA Miyako YOSHIOKA Yuichi MURAYAMA Takashi YOKOYAMA
出版者
公益社団法人 日本獣医学会
雑誌
Journal of Veterinary Medical Science (ISSN:09167250)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.13-0363, (Released:2013-08-27)
被引用文献数
3 9

The aim of this study was to investigate the presence of disease-associated prion protein (PrPSc) in the skeletal muscle of cattle infected with classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (C-BSE). The study was carried out systematically in 12 different muscle samples from 43 (3 field and 40 experimental) cases of C-BSE; however, muscle spindles were not available in many of these cases. Therefore, analysis became restricted to a total of 31 muscles in 23 cattle. Even after this restriction, low levels of PrPSc were detected in the muscle spindles of the masseter, intercostal, triceps brachii, psoas major, quadriceps femoris and semitendinosus muscles from 3 field and 6 experimental clinical-stage cases. The present data indicate that small amounts of PrPSc are detectable by immunohistochemistry in the skeletal muscles of animals terminally affected with C-BSE.
著者
奥田 夏樹 Okuda Natsuki
出版者
沖縄大学地域研究所
雑誌
地域研究 = Regional Studies (ISSN:18812082)
巻号頁・発行日
no.3, pp.83-116, 2007-03-31

日本では1990年頃から、伝統文化や自然環境の保全、環境教育等の効果を持つ観光であるとされるエコツーリズム等、新しいタイプの自然体験型観光が、各地で積極的な導入が進められており、2000年頃より産業として急速に発展している。エコツーリズムの最大の特徴はガイドを伴うことであり、これによって以前は一定の努力や技能が必要であった良質な自然へのアクセスが容易になることは自然環境保全上大きな懸念材料である。本研究では、ガイドツアーブーム以降、急速に大衆化が進んだ結果、特に自然環境保全上、多くの問題を引き起こしつつある沖縄県西表島のエコツーリズム(自然体験型ガイドツアー)に注目し、その現状を現地調査およびインタビュー等により明らかにし、問題点を抽出した。現地調査は、西表島における自然体験型ガイドツアーによる入域が最も多いと推定される、ヒナイ川流域を含む、複数の地域で実施した。エコツーリズム問題の背景について学際的な視点から議論し、善後策の提案を行なった。エコツーリズムは発展途上国では、現金収入手段が限られる地域における森林伐採→観光への産業転換などで、自然環境保全上も評価できる例も見られる。だが日本では、新たな観光産業ニッチの創出による、新しいタイプの自然破壊要因として機能している側面が強く、さらに地域出身者が携わるケースは稀であり、地域からの収奪と地域アイデンティティの破壊の側面が強いことから、今後エコツーリズムは制限あるいは禁止するべきであると考えられた。 During recent years ecotourism has spread fast in Japan. Such tourism is now causing a threat to the environment. Preliminary surveys have revealed many examples of human impact on the environment. Such cases are probably derived from the absence of reasonable designs for the application of ecotourism in the target areas. Field studies were conducted during three seasons (Aug 2005, Nov 2005, and Mar 2006) in Iriomote Island, Okinawa, Japan. The areas used by tourist companies for guided nature tours and where human impact is seen were identified, and guides and local inhabitants were interviewed. Evaluation of the programs for environmental education included in the ecotours was conducted by joining tours. Many examples of human impact that could cause disruption of the environment were found. It might not be appropriate for all tour programs to usefully act as agencies of environmental education. Interdisciplinary discussion produced recommendations for conservation. The design of ecotourism may need to be completely changed to fit the social conditions of advanced countries such as Japan, since ecotourism was originally aimed to fit the socio-economic conditions of developing countries. The current practices of ecotourism in Japan are unlikely to offer trade off for those natural ecosystems which remain largely intact. This is because, compared with the local communities' traditional ways of getting access to natural resources, the practices of ecotourism in those areas will cause more damage to the ecosystem. Therefore, ecotourism in Japan should be limited or restricted in order to conserve the regional environment and traditional culture that give a region its cultural identity.
著者
豊沢 純子 唐沢 かおり 福和 伸夫
出版者
日本教育心理学会
雑誌
教育心理学研究 (ISSN:00215015)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.58, no.4, pp.480-490, 2010-12-30
被引用文献数
13

本研究は,脅威アピール研究の枠組みから,小学生を対象とした防災教育が,児童の感情や認知に変化を及ぼす可能性,および,これらの感情や認知の変化が,保護者の防災行動に影響する可能性を検討した。135名の小学校5年生と6年生を対象に,防災教育の前後,3ヵ月後の恐怖感情,脅威への脆弱性,脅威の深刻さ,反応効果性を測定した。また,防災教育直後の保護者への効力感,保護者への教育内容の伝達意図と,3ヵ月後の保護者への情報の伝達量,保護者の協力度を測定した。その結果,教育直後に感情や認知の高まりが確認されたが,3ヵ月後には教育前の水準に戻ることが示された。また共分散構造分析の結果,恐怖感情と保護者への効力感は,保護者への防災教育内容の伝達意図を高め,伝達意図が高いほど実際に伝達を行い,伝達するほど保護者の防災行動が促されるという,一連のプロセスが示された。考察では,防災意識が持続しないことを理解したうえで,定期的に再学習する機会を持つこと,そして,保護者への伝達意図を高くするような教育内容を工夫することが有効である可能性を議論した。
著者
Hiroki KAWABATA Ai TAKANO Teruki KADOSAKA Hiromi FUJITA Yoshiki NITTA Mutsuyo GOKUDEN Toshiro HONDA Junko TOMIDA Yoshiaki KAWAMURA Toshiyuki MASUZAWA Fubito ISHIGURO Nobuhiro TAKADA Yasuhiro YANO Masako ANDOH Shuji ANDO Kozue SATO Hideyuki TAKAHASHI Makoto OHNISHI
出版者
JAPANESE SOCIETY OF VETERINARY SCIENCE
雑誌
Journal of Veterinary Medical Science (ISSN:09167250)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.13-0162, (Released:2013-05-13)
被引用文献数
4 7

Lyme disease Borrelia spp. are transmitted by Ixodes ticks, and more than 10 species of borreliae have been identified around the world. Recently another Borrelia sp. has been reported in Asia (Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan and Thailand) as Borrelia valaisiana-related sp. In the present study, we obtained and genetically characterized 19 B. valaisiana-related sp. strains from mammals and ticks. Genetic analyses showed that the Borrelia strains were distinct from B. valaisiana found in Europe. Multilocus sequencing typing revealed that these Borrelia isolates formed a monophyletic group with B. yangtze strains in China. Some of strains were isolated from the bladders of small mammals, and also two strains were experimentally confirmed to be infectious to C3H/HeN mice. We observed that the Borrelia sp. was maintained in Ixodes granulatus tick after molting. These results suggested that small mammals and I. granulatus were possible reservoir hosts and vector tick for the Borrelia sp., respectively. B. valaisiana, originally found in Europe, was transmitted mainly by I. ricinus, and birds were mainly thought to be reservoir hosts. Our results suggested Japanese isolates of B. yangtze (formerly B. valaisiana-related sp.) were distinguishable from B. valaisiana according to the reservoir host and its vector tick. In this study, we also deposited borrelia strain Okinawa-CW62 to bioresource centers as a reference strain of the B. yangtze (=DSM 24625, JCM 17189).
著者
酒向 貴子 川田 伸一郎 手塚 牧人 上杉 哲郎 明仁
出版者
国立科学博物館
雑誌
Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology = 国立科学博物館研究報告. A類, 動物学 (ISSN:18819052)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.34, no.2, pp.63-75, 2008-06

The distribution of latrines of the raccoon dog, Nyctereutes procyonoides, was examined from July 2006 to December 2007 in the Imperial Palace grounds, Tokyo, Japan. The raccoon dog is accustomed to defecate at fixed locations, forming holding latrines; thus the distribution of latrines is a good indicator of their abundance. The results suggest that the latrines are widely scattered in the study site, but are more dense in the Fukiage area, where an old-growth broad-leaved forest is established. The latrine sites are used more frequently from September to December, as the number of fresh feces increased in the autumnal season. To examine the seasonal food changes of the raccoon dogs, 10 pieces of feces from some latrines were collected every month and analyzed the indigestible contents in the sampled feces. The food items identified consisted of animal, plant and man-made materials, suggesting that the raccoon dogs were highly omnivorous. The animal materials found from the feces included mammals (4% of total feces), birds (37%), reptiles (2%), amphibians (3%), insects (95%), chilopods (56%), isopods (2%) and gastropods (12%). Invertebrates were the most abundand food item throughout the year. Three coleopteran families, the Carabidae, Staphylinidae and Scarabaeidae, accounted for a large proportion of the insects and they showed seasonal fluctuations. These suggest that the raccoon dogs fed on them as major animal food resources in the study site, and perhaps the seasonality is related to the temporal changes of availability of the insects. The majority of plant materials found in the feces was a variety of seeds, suggesting that the raccoon dogs fed on berries and fleshy fruits throughout the year. The occurrence of seeds decreased from March to April, which coincided with a low availability of fruits. The seeds found in feces were categorized into three types : (1) the short-term berry type including Prunus (Cerasus) spp., Moms spp., Rubus hirsutus and Machilus thunbergii, which occurred only a short term after their fruiting periods ; (2) the long-term berry type, including Celtis sinensis, Aphananthe aspera and Swida controversa, which occurred continuously for three or more months after the fruiting periods ; (3) the acorn type, including Castanopsis spp., Quercus spp. and Ginkgo biloba, which occurred in early spring (January to April) when the other fruits are scarce. The seasonal change of the three fruit types implies that the raccoon dogs consume the available fruits in relation to the successive fruiting periods. The proportion of artificial materials found in the feces was considerably lower than in previous studies carried out in the suburbs of Tokyo, suggesting that the raccoon dogs in the study site strongly depend on natural foods. Most of the natural food items were native to Japan since the past Edo period. Thus we conclude that the preservation of biodiversity in the Imperial Palace grounds was essential for the re-colonization by the raccoon dogs of the Tokyo metropolitan area after the 1970s.
著者
景気研究所 編
出版者
千倉書房
巻号頁・発行日
1935
著者
加藤 清司 平野 眞
出版者
東海大学
雑誌
東海大学紀要. 課程資格教育センター (ISSN:09169741)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.3, pp.69-77, 1993

In Japan, many public junior high schools have a rule on close-cropped for boys on the grounds for protection against a delinquency, good sanitation, and concentration in school studies as a part of guidance. Although many assert the rule to invide schoolboy's fundamental human rights, little study has been done on the pedagogical value of the rule. Recently, we attempted to clarify the effects of the rule using statistical analysis. Our working hypothesis was that if the rule had pedagogical effects, the prevalence of the rule in each prefecture would be associated with indices on those effects. We calculated single correlation coefficients of the prevalence of rule with some indices on pedagogical effects and also with indices on pedagogical environment or on regional characteristics. The prevalence of the rule in each prefecture was represented by that in the prefectural capital. After the single correlation coefficient analysis, the multiple correlation analysis was done using indices for which the single correlation coefficient with the pevalence was over 0.2. Of the indices of pedagogical effects, the mean score of the Entrance Examination Center test showed a weak but not significant negative correlation, especially physics and English. Ratio of long-term absentees due to illness and ratio of juvenile delinquent arrested under larceny offenses showed weak but not significant positive correlations. Other indices on pedagogical effects showed no correlations. None of the indices on pedagogical environment showed significant correlations. In indices on regional characteristics, ration of runaways showed a strong positive correlation (p=0.45), and perinatal mortality showed statistically significant positive and number of museums per population showed statisitcally significant negative correlations. According to the multiple correlation analysis, ratio of runaways, number of people per copy of the newspaper, perinatal mortality, number of museums per population and ratio of longterm absentees due to illness were selected and the coefficient of determination was 0.33. These results clearly disprove the pedagogical value of the school rule on closecropped hair for boys. Moreover, they suggested that the rule hinders them from developing their flexible thinking power. From the strong correlation of the ratio of runaways with the prevalence of the rule, it is suspected that the educational function of the family is impaired in regions where the prevalence of the rule is high. In conclusion, this rule has inverse educational effects, and its prevalence would be an index for educational incompetence of the family and school, or backwardness in culture.