IMPACT magazinePub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/2058802x.2023.2198296
G. Royston
{"title":"☑ I Am Not a Robot","authors":"G. Royston","doi":"10.1080/2058802x.2023.2198296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2058802x.2023.2198296","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88895,"journal":{"name":"IMPACT magazine","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81275651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IMPACT magazinePub Date : 2022-10-13DOI: 10.21820/23987073.2022.5.12
M. Satomi
{"title":"Research on improving the lunch environment for female workers to build an improved dietary environment","authors":"M. Satomi","doi":"10.21820/23987073.2022.5.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21820/23987073.2022.5.12","url":null,"abstract":"Nutritional health is important and in order to ensure that dietary needs are being met, research on this area, leading to recommendations that can help adjust behaviour, is key. In Japan, the dietary needs of working women are often not met. Professor Satomi Maruyama, Faculty of Human\u0000 Life and Environment, Kinjo Gakuin University, is a registered dietitian who is investigating the dietary environment of working women in Japan. This includes factors such as where to buy food, whether they cook at home and what kind of diet they choose. Maruyama and her team found that women\u0000 with a social network have a healthier ‘dietary consciousness’, enjoying meals and having an awareness of the benefits of a balanced diet, while those outside of a social network have poorer diets, leading to negative impacts on health. A key negative impact of interest for the\u0000 researchers is salt consumption, which is prevalent in Japan. Maruyama conducted a survey on the dietary intake of female workers and found the salt content to be high. The researchers explored the impact of the use of tabletop memos containing information on the negative impact of too much\u0000 salt and found that having this information on view raised awareness of salt reduction which led to changes in behaviour. A current focus for Maruyama and the team is on how the lunch environment for female workers can be improved.","PeriodicalId":88895,"journal":{"name":"IMPACT magazine","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82397371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IMPACT magazinePub Date : 2022-10-13DOI: 10.21820/23987073.2022.5.26
Kenji Ishigaki
{"title":"Uniqueness of \"us\" created by physical education","authors":"Kenji Ishigaki","doi":"10.21820/23987073.2022.5.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21820/23987073.2022.5.26","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of intercorporeality refers to a fundamental function of an individual’s body that enables them to be or feel interconnected with other human beings. Researchers at the Department of Sport and Health Science, Tokai Gakuen University, Japan, led by Professor Kenji Ishigaki\u0000 are exploring whether intercorporeality can help inform the physical education, play and sports included in the school curriculum. They hope that by encouraging ‘corporeal feeling’ towards others, children can gain a better sense of morality and belonging. This, in turn, can improve\u0000 mental health and engagement with physical education. Ishigaki believes that the intercorporeal approach will reveal what kind of exercise play will contribute to the development of children’s morality or what kind of ‘corporeal feeling’ is important for the children’s\u0000 body. The expectation is that philosophical analysis of these ‘corporeal feelings’ will shed light on the types of exercise, play and sports that should be arranged and incorporated into the Japanese school curriculum. An important idea for Ishigaki and the team is that when we\u0000 think in the same way as others do about a particular thing, an intersubjective ‘we’ is established but in practising physical education and exercise in sports, a different kind of ‘we’ is established. This is the the intercorporeal ‘we’ as corporeal feeling\u0000 that is unknowingly generated in the dimension of the human body,’","PeriodicalId":88895,"journal":{"name":"IMPACT magazine","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75514505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IMPACT magazinePub Date : 2022-10-13DOI: 10.21820/23987073.2022.5.31
Fumihito Ikeda
{"title":"Development of training programs and evaluation methods for question intelligence","authors":"Fumihito Ikeda","doi":"10.21820/23987073.2022.5.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21820/23987073.2022.5.31","url":null,"abstract":"Asking questions is key to advancing knowledge and asking the creative questions is especially important. Being able to properly frame and focus on the creative questions is an important skill but this isn’t something that is taught or evaluated within educational systems. Professor\u0000 Fumihito Ikeda, Brain Science Research and Education Center, Institution for the Advancement of Higher Education, Hokkaido University, Japan, believes that nurturing children’s development of creative questioning skills at school would be beneficial for the leaders of tomorrow. He and\u0000 his team are developing test questions and training programmes for schools that generate questions focused on three types of logical reasoning: inductive, deductive and abductive. Ikeda’s goal is to develop and train mainly primary and high school students in question-intelligence. A\u0000 test question using the three types of reasoning was created and tried on around 200 high school students. The researchers utilised, a deep neural network (DNN), a form of machine learning, to assist in the automatic classification and evaluation of questions.Ikeda plans to create an inquiry\u0000 learning programme that will improve the quality of scientific questions while asking different types of logic in order to collect more appropriate questions for DNN to learn. He will use his partnerships with the Japan Society for Science Education and the Japan Creativity Society to roll\u0000 these programmes out to students at educational institutions.","PeriodicalId":88895,"journal":{"name":"IMPACT magazine","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72935844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IMPACT magazinePub Date : 2022-10-13DOI: 10.21820/23987073.2022.5.28
T. Fujiwara
{"title":"Comprehensive analysis of female reproductive dysfunction induced by clock genes due to asynchronous feeding rhythm","authors":"T. Fujiwara","doi":"10.21820/23987073.2022.5.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21820/23987073.2022.5.28","url":null,"abstract":"Dieting can be harmful, particularly for adolescents who are still developing. For example, diet and reproductive health are closely linked and dieting in adolescence can have long-term effects on reproductive health. Indeed, the incidence of gynaecological disease is rising, in parallel\u0000 with food skipping and dieting in young women. Dr Tomoko Fujiwara, Department of Human Life Environments, Kyoto Notre Dame University, Japan is exploring the little known links between menstrual pain and eating habits, with a focus on female students. She and her team are interested in the\u0000 concept of hunger stress and the implications of negative hunger stress and are using animal models to explore this concept and interrelated ideas in more detail. In a world first, the researchers reported that breakfast skipping is associated with menstrual pain and menstrual pain worsens\u0000 after dieting and, building on this result, they conducted research to establish further links between dietary habits and menstrual disorders and explore whether breakfast skipping can be an effective predictor for the management and prevention of menstrual disorders. In another project, Fujiwara\u0000 and the team unearthed findings that support the existence of a new hypothesis called Adolescent Dietary Habit-induced Obstetric and Gynecologic Disease (ADHOGD) and plan to elucidate further detailed mechanisms that will lead to preventative methods. In another study, the researchers explored\u0000 the effects of meal timing during the circadian cycle on ovarian function and confirmed that the timing of food intake during the circadian cycle is a key factor influencing reproductive function.","PeriodicalId":88895,"journal":{"name":"IMPACT magazine","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84498040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IMPACT magazinePub Date : 2022-10-13DOI: 10.21820/23987073.2022.5.23
Kayoko Watanabe
{"title":"Basic theory and policy validation of youth mentoring program","authors":"Kayoko Watanabe","doi":"10.21820/23987073.2022.5.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21820/23987073.2022.5.23","url":null,"abstract":"Many mentorship programmes pair more experienced elders with trainees, enabling experienced practitioners to pass knowledge down to younger generations. Professor Kayoko Watanabe, Aichi-Shukutoku University, Japan, believes in the importance of mentoring programmes and has been investigating\u0000 mentoring programmes. The idea of mentoring programmes has yet to gain traction in Japan and Watanabe helped implement and continues to play a role in improving the Hiroshima City Youth Support Mentor System, which was launched in 2004 by the Board of Education in Hiroshima City and connects\u0000 school-aged children with volunteers who act as mentors. Watanabe believes the theory and practice of mentoring programmes are interconnected, working together in a feedback loop to improve mentoring programmes. She has been studying the current status and core issues surrounding the mentoring\u0000 movement in the US, UK, Germany, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and uses a number of theories in her work, including lifelong development, social capital and social investment. Watanabe has evaluated the mentoring programmes, considering the viewpoints of mentors, mentees and parents of\u0000 mentees and found a clear recognition of the benefits of the programme for all stakeholders.","PeriodicalId":88895,"journal":{"name":"IMPACT magazine","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72986194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IMPACT magazinePub Date : 2022-10-13DOI: 10.21820/23987073.2022.5.48
Kazunobu Horiuchi
{"title":"Social contribution movement by the American Christian Evangelicals: addressing poverty","authors":"Kazunobu Horiuchi","doi":"10.21820/23987073.2022.5.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21820/23987073.2022.5.48","url":null,"abstract":"Politics and religion are closely related. Professor Kazunobu Horiuchi, Reitaku University, Japan, is interested in the relationship between evangelicals and politics in the US and believes there are misconceptions about conservative evangelicals. He is knowledgeable about the involvement\u0000 and influence of conservative evangelicals in politics and is also interested in the links between religion and poverty. Indeed, in recent years, Horiuchi has been focusing on his research on evangelical efforts to address poverty issues, including conservative evangelicals’ reluctance\u0000 to contribute to societal issues such as eradicating poverty and the active role of the Evangelical Left in such societal issues. In one study, he is working to empirically verify how conservative evangelical and liberal Evangelical Left churches actually tackle social or international poverty\u0000 issues in church-side social contribution activities centred on poverty issues. To do this, he is exploring the history of the formation of the Religious Left and the Evangelical Left, the contents of the movement and an examination of the possible impact of these movements on the future of\u0000 US society and politics. Horiuchi now has a grant to conduct research on the relationship between the US evangelical movement and race issues and this will be an area of focus for the next three years.","PeriodicalId":88895,"journal":{"name":"IMPACT magazine","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90602036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IMPACT magazinePub Date : 2022-10-13DOI: 10.21820/23987073.2022.5.6
Hyung Je Jo
{"title":"High Road Strategy in the Era of Eco-friendly Car Paradigm - Making of Korean Production System Version 4.0","authors":"Hyung Je Jo","doi":"10.21820/23987073.2022.5.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21820/23987073.2022.5.6","url":null,"abstract":"R&D enables car manufacturers to remain innovative and competitive. For example, producing eco-friendly cars in light of environmental concerns. Professor Hyung Je Jo, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ulsan University, South Korea, has studied the development process of the Korean automobile\u0000 industry for more than 30 years and is conducting research to help this industry transition to the ‘green car’ paradigm and overcome interrelated challenges. A current research focus for Jo and the team is how internal combustion and electric vehicle production systems are impacted\u0000 when this is transferred to a different country. The researchers have performed a case study looking at Hyundai’s motor plant in Alabama, US for which Jo visited the plant for a week in July 2009, during which time he conducted interviews and performed participant observation and then\u0000 published a paper. He revisited the plant in July 2012 for a complementary study. The team also compared German and Korean automotive manufacturers in Central-Eastern Europe, discovering that the disparate strategies and labour-management relations of the mother company have different effects\u0000 on the product development and human resource management methods of local factories in Slovakia. Now, the researchers are working on a ‘high road strategy’ in the era of the eco-friendly car paradigm.","PeriodicalId":88895,"journal":{"name":"IMPACT magazine","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75589153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IMPACT magazinePub Date : 2022-10-13DOI: 10.21820/23987073.2022.5.40
Y. Ohe
{"title":"Evidence-supported Rural Community-based Tourism and Social Impact","authors":"Y. Ohe","doi":"10.21820/23987073.2022.5.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21820/23987073.2022.5.40","url":null,"abstract":"Rural tourism is an activity that can provide farmers with a second income, which is often required due to the small size of some farms. Examples of rural tourism are allowing the public to visit the farm or providing social benefits such as educational experience services where visitors\u0000 experience farm operations, creating income opportunities for farmers and also teaching about food production and rural life. Professor Yasuo Ohe, based in the Department of Agribusiness Management, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan, leads a team of researchers committed to expanding\u0000 understanding about the economics and mechanics of rural tourism. The team has adopted a microeconomic approach to community-based rural tourism and entrepreneurship and Ohe has proposed a theoretical framework supported by quantitative empirical evidence. The goal is to advance the progress\u0000 of the theoretical and empirical aspects of rural tourism studies. In one study, Ohe and the team are performing theoretical and empirical evaluations of the efficiency of educational dairy farms that provide educational tourism. Ohe has published a book entitled ‘Community-based Rural\u0000 Tourism and Entrepreneurship’ which is helping advance the field and considers how to make rural tourism practices sustainable. Next, he will explore hospitality issues in rural tourism, with a view to contributing to building rural hospitality in rural tourism both conceptually and\u0000 empirically. Ohe also plans to work on evidence-supported rural community-based tourism and the social impacts, looking at the rice harvest in paddy fields.","PeriodicalId":88895,"journal":{"name":"IMPACT magazine","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73076347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}