Kagawa Junior College

A T217M heterozygous mutation in the SLC22A12 gene caused renal hypouricemia; this patient with IgA nephropathy had no findings other than IgA nephropathy on renal biopsy. Hypouricemia was susceptible to oxidative stress, but IgA nephropathy in the patient with hypouricemia could be treated with steroid pulse therapy without adverse events.

Collaborative design is a suitable approach to obtain useful and practical results within a group of people in a relatively short period of time. Our focused problem is to build a large-scale poster for promoting our college and publicizing entrance examination; its mission is important, therefore, we need good performance and accountability in the process of collaboration for product design supported by Kansei Engineering, because of its capability. Since the design process can involve complex decision-making variables, traceability is important to validate the consistency of decision making toward results design. We decided to employ Kansei Engineering to achieve a respectable performance of collaborative design and to apply it to Web system for decision-making. This paper describes our approach in performing collaborative design through our Web system and in demonstrating confirmation of consistency in evaluating product design based on collaboration using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodology.

The Rare Sugars exist naturally and have many kinds (more than 50). They have good effect for health such as prevention of increasing the blood-sugar level after eating, suppression of fat accumulation, suppression of increasing the blood pressure, and anti-oxidative effect etc. It is in the spotlight for many people especially for those who are in the metabolic syndrome. There are few related papers concerning the marketing research and its utilization of this matter. In this paper, a questionnaire investigation is executed in order to clarify consumers’ current condition and their consciousness, and to seek the possibility of utilizing the Rare Sugars. Fundamental statistical analysis, Multivariate Analysis by Using Quantification Method Ⅱ are conducted based on that. Some interesting and instructive results were obtained.

We formed micropores on the surface of a carbon fiber reinforced polyetheretherketone (CFR-PEEK) and a glass fiber reinforced polyetheretherketone (GFR-PEEK) by immersing in sulfuric acid. In order to provide bioactivity to the CFR-PEEK and the GFR-PEEK, we treated the surfaces of the specimens with glow-discharge in oxygen gas atmosphere and precipitated apatite nuclei in the micropores. We evaluated apatite-forming ability of the specimens by using SBF and measured adhesive strength of formed apatite layer.

People in ICT domain must prepare some environmental changes based on Operating systems and Programming languages. Instructors and learners of higher education, for example, sometimes face unfortunately drastic changes where their educational tools can not work correctly nor suitably although they were exactly working at the previous environments. This paper describes one of such an environmental change and how to recover performance of relevant tools from before to after. One of keywords is Java programming language. And we have designed and implemented our tool with Java programming language not only as Applet but also as Stand-alone application. When we face an environmental change, we have struggled to adjust our tool for newly changed situation with possibly efficient modification. Although our results are not so good for several requests, they can bring us some kind of satisfaction to utilize our tools on the newly changed environment and provide tolerable effects on education using such tools in university lectures. Our employed approach did not assume environmental change, but its flexibility has been not only lucky but also suitable enough to override such a change and to keep its performance.

This paper presents a proposal to reconstruct some specific towns which were attacked and destroyed by Huge Tsunami, for example, in Tohoku region of Japan on the 11th of March, 2011. A collaborative approach has been employed to provide some trial proposal to reconstruct such damaged towns by means of Internet Community as follows. (1) Providing a proposal and pictures to reconstruct, especially offering visual design concept of living space for slope topography through social network system as an example of Internet Community; (2) consulting and discussing the above proposal and pictures among specific Internet Community with analysis by Kansei engineering; and (3) improving an original proposal into more efficient and flexible one. Suitable methods for adjustment are sometimes necessary to avoid occurrence of conflicts from many requests. Kansei Engineering may consolidate several kinds of requests, translate their expressions into set of numerical values(namely vectorize) and reduce conflicts of request into stable adjustment (namely, "not drastic" reformation). The paper explains in detail the above approach for practical collaboration for design of Living Space for Slope Topography and adjustment scheme by means of Kansei engineering approach. It also mentions some senario to brush up the proposal by means of the above collaborative approach and some problems to be resolved to make it more fruitful.

Cloud Computing is currently focused from various fields of engineering. Such a strategy is widely accepted in many domains of information processing and communication. Our study also employs a cloud approach for distance learning with distributed multiple server system. Distance learning is already realized on a single server and provides its service for many learners who are in distributed network environment. This time, we have tried to migrate such a distance learning mechanism to distributed multiple servers and realize its service as a kind of Cloud Computing. So our scheme has been customized as a cloud approach which can utilize Cloud Computing for Distance Learning using distributed multiple server system. The paper introduces our environment of previous studies about distance learning for computer architecture and others. Such an environment is tailored into distributed multiple servers and then implemented and utilized for position-independent clients to obtain some kinds of cloud services. Such a mechanism has been realized by means of virtualized-server approach and its specification can be improved to horizontal migration of virtualized servers.