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In this paper, we propose an educational system that involves a business game simulator and related curriculum. To develop these two elements, we examined the decision-making process related to business management and identified some significant skills thereby. In addition, we created an original simulator, named BizLator (http://bizlator.com), to help students develop these skills efficiently. Next, we developed a curriculum suitable for the simulator. We confirmed the effectiveness of the simulator and curriculum in a business-game-based class at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo. On the basis of this, we compared our education system with a conventional system. This allowed us to identify advantages of and issues with our proposed system. Furthermore, we proposed a speech recognition support system named BizVoice in order to provide the teachers with more meaningful feedback, such as level of students' understanding. Concretely, BizVocie fetches students' speech of discussion during the game and converts the voice data to text data with speech recognition technology. Finally, teachers can grasp students' parameters of understanding, and thereby, the students also can take more effective class using BizLator. We also confirmed the effectiveness of the system in the class of Aoyama Gakuin Universiry.

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Molchanov is a prominent Canadian political scholar, professor and publicist. He has worked as a senior policy analyst for the Government of Canada and a professor of political science at several Canadian universities. He held a visiting professor appointment at the American University of Sharjah, UAE, and several visiting research appointments at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies, Waseda University and Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan, and at the United Nations University Institute of Comparative Regional Studies (UNU-CRIS) in Brugge, Belgium. Dr. Molchanovs research focuses on international relations in Eurasia and international political economy of regional integration. His research projects have been supported by the United States Institute of Peace, The Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), Japan Foundation, Soros Foundations, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation. In 2011, he was awarded the Japan Foundations prestigious Japanese Studies Fellowship, and in 2012, elected Foreign Member of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine. He is the winner of the inaugural Robert H. Donaldson prize of the International Studies Association for the best paper study of the post-communist region. He sits on the Board of the Global and International Studies Program, University of Salamanca, Spain. Dr. Molchanov has published extensively on comparative politics and international relations of the post-communist states. He has authored and co-authored 7 books and nearly 120 articles and book chapters, including, most recently, Eurasian Regionalisms and Russian Foreign Policy [Molchanov 2016a], and Management Theory for Economic Systems [Molchanov, Molchanova 2018], as well as Eurasian Regionalism: Ideas and Practices [Molchanov 2015], Russias Leadership of Regional Integration in Eurasia [Molchanov 2016b], The Eurasian Economic Union [Molchanov 2018a], New Regionalism and Eurasia [Molchanov 2018b], Russian Security Strategy and the Geopolitics of Energy in Eurasia [Molchanov 2019], and Eurasian Regionalisms and Russias Pivot to the East: The Role of ASEAN [Molchanov 2014]. In his interview Dr. Molchanov talks about the formation of Eurasian studies in the U.S., Europe and the post-Soviet states, leading scientists in this area and periodicals. Special attention is paid to the perception of the Eurasian space in Western countries, to the prospects for further institutionalization of the Eurasian Economic Union, to the partnership between Russia and China and to Russia - EU relations.

Reviewed by: The End of Two Illusions: Islam After the West by Hamid Dabashi Joseph Evans (bio) The End of Two Illusions: Islam After the West by Hamid Dabashi. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022, 333 pp. Hamid Dabashi's The End of Two Illusions is an insightful socio-political analysis. Dabashi argues that the strictly defined theoretical opposition between "Islam and the West" is a recent, but false, historical construct that is both obsolete and dangerous. This text demonstrates that the prevalence of supposed contradictions between "Islam" and "the West" is a pretense that disguises an exaggerated geopolitics of power. Dabashi, a professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, makes a compelling argument. He suggests that the "de-formative and dangerous binary" is a repercussion of the encounters between fading Muslim empires and growing global domination by European empires in the seventeenth century that is now utilized for contemporary political purposes (28). Dabashi proposes that the opposition in this false binary is an illusion supported by "the West" thinking that "it is exclusively bestowed with the gift of civilization" (29). The text successfully offers an alternative perspective for reconsidering the popular and influential arguments that place "Islam" in opposition to "the West." The End of Two Illusions begins with a perspective on Islam before its encounter with European colonialism, then a historical archeology of "the West," which allows for a deconstruction of the illusory opposition between them. It broadens the narrow scope of focusing only on military encounters by including cultural and intellectual engagements. After a lengthy introduction, Dabashi presents his argument in three interrelated parts: he accounts for the dissimilar categories of the binary, then he shows how the two parts of this relationship are erroneous, and finally he furnishes the reader with factual evidence to effectively understand the geopolitical reality. The author asks how a religion of one and a half billion people spread over five continents and developed over fourteen hundred years can be set at odds with an "imaginative geography, only recently invented, called 'the West'?" (38) This vital question drives the book's argument and should promote serious reconsideration of the contemporary world. Dabashi's approach is effective because he is equally critical of all sides and perspectives. He recognizes the complexities of global politics and cultural engagement. This text is not simply an attack on the West or an apologetic for Islam but an argument that these are two different entities that should not be oversimplified or even compared. The carefully crafted argument makes [End Page 90] it clear that the lines are blurred, and that this inappropriate binary is a cause, rather than a symptom, of the problem. The text contends that Islam and the West "are not two different phenomena, but coterminous, both the outcome of an identical colonial condition and in need of a simultaneous post-colonial critique" (18). Dabashi places the current state of Islamism in a larger frame of reference, in the global context of its categorical opposition posited against "the West." He concludes by arguing that the historical uses and abuses of that binary opposition are no longer useful or legitimate despite having been politically productive in the past. An important component of Dabashi's approach is the attention he gives to the formation of a transnational public sphere where "Islam and the West" is no longer a credible presupposition. The last three chapters of the book develop this approach by concentrating on the intersectionality of the crucial issues of race, class, and gender. A critical contribution of this text, which is handled skillfully by the author, is his treatment of the concept and practice of dialogue. Dabashi addresses the complexities of interreligious and intercultural dialogue, identifying some of the dangers in common approaches, while offering useful recommendations. He notes in chapter five that a "dialogue of civilizations" was lost after 9/11 because of the wide acceptance of Huntington's thesis of a clash of civilizations, resulting in a monologue rather than a dialogue (174). This model, which Dabashi refers to as "impossible dialogue," became a means of domination, which is a common pitfall of dialogue when utilized to impose one's...

Introduction - Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo (Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain) 1. Criteria for classifying and sequencing pedagogic tasks - Peter Robinson (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan) 2. Information distribution and goal orientation in second language task design - Craig P. Lambert and Steve Engler (The University of Kitakyushu, Japan) 3. The simultaneous manipulation of task complexity along planning time and ?+/- Here-and-Now?: Effects on l 2 oral production - Roger Gilabert (Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain) 4. Tasks, negotiation and l 2 learning in a foreign language context - Marisol Fernandez Garcia (Northeastern University, USA) 5. Attention to form across collaborative tasks by low-proficiency learners in an EFL setting - Ana Alegria de la Colina ( Universidad de Cantabria, Spain) and Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo ((Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain) 6. Cognitive task complexity and linguistic performance in French l 2 writing - Folkert Kuiken and Ineke Vedder (Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication) 7. The effect of manipulating task complexity and the ?+/- Here-and-Now? dimension on l 2 written narrative discourse - Tomohito Ishikawa (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan) 8. Writing tasks: The effects of collaboration - Neomy Storch and Gillian Wigglesworth (University of Merlbourne, Australia) 9. l 2 vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension: The influence of task complexity - Elke Peters (K.U. Leuven, Belgium) 10. Task-effect on the use of lexical innovation strategies in interlanguage communication - Elsa Gonzalez Alvarez (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) 11. Fostering EFL learners' awareness of requesting through explicit and implicit consciousness-raising tasks - Eva Alcon Soler (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) 12. Interactive task design: Metachat and the whole learner - Marie-Noelle Lamy (The Open University, UK)Index

List of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Part I: Overview:1. The Scope of Inquiry and Goals of SLA: Catherine J. Doughty and Michael H. Long (University of Hawai'i). Part II: Capacity and Representation:2. On the Nature of Interlanguage Representation: Universal Grammar in the Second Language: Lydia White (McGill University). 3. The Radical Middle: Nativism without Universal Grammar: William O'Grady (University of Hawai'i). 4. Constructions, Chunking, and Connectionism: The Emergence of Second Language Structure: Nick C. Ellis (University of Wales, Bangor). 5. Cognitive Processes in Second Language Learners and Bilinguals: The Development of Lexical and Conceptual Representations: Judith F. Kroll (Pennsylvania State University) and Gretchen Sunderman (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). 6. Near-Nativeness: Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh). Part III: Environments for SLA:7. Language Socialization in SLA: Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo (University of California, Davis) and Sarah Nielsen (Las Positas College). 8. Social Context: Jeff Siegel (University of New England, Armadale/University of Hawai'i). 9. Input and Interaction: Susan M. Gass (Michigan State University). 10. Instructed SLA: Constraints, Compensation, and Enhancement: Catherine J. Doughty (University of Hawai'i). Part IV: Processes in SLA:11. Implicit and Explicit Learning: Robert M. DeKeyser (University of Pittsburgh). 12. Incidental and Intentional Learning: Jan H. Hulstijn (University of Amsterdam). 13. Automaticity and Second Languages: Norman Segalowitz (Concordia University). 14. Variation: Suzanne Romaine (Merton College, University of Oxford). 15. Cross-linguistic Influence: Terence Odlin (Ohio State University). 16. Stabilization and Fossilization in Interlanguage Development: Michael H. Long (University of Hawai'i). Part V: Biological and Psychological Constraints:17. Maturational Constraints in SLA: Kenneth Hyltenstam and Niclas Abrahamsson (Stockholm University). 18. Individual Differences in Second Language Learning: Zoltan Dornyei (University of Nottingham) and Peter Skehan (King's College, London). 19. Attention and Memory during SLA: Peter Robinson (Aoyama Gakuin University). 20. Language Processing Capacity: Manfred Pienemann (Paderborn University). Part VI: Research Methods:21. Defining and Measuring SLA: John Norris and Lourdes Ortega (Northern Arizona University). 22. Data Collection in SLA Research: Craig Chaudron (University of Hawai'i). Part VII: The State of SLA:23. SLA Theory: Construction and Assessment: Kevin Gregg (Momoyama Gakuin (St. Andrew's) University). 24. SLA and Cognitive Science: Michael H. Long and Catherine J. Doughty (University of Hawai'i). Index.

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Event Abstract Back to Event Estimation method for biophysical properties of insect neurons in the combination of suitable stimulation and multi-compartment simulation with supercomputers Daisuke Miyamoto1*, Tomoki Kazawa2, Stephan Haupt2, Masashi Tabuchi3, Tomoaki Mori1, Kei Nakatani4 and Ryohei Kanzaki2 1 Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo , Japan 2 Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo , Japan 3 Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo , Japan 4 Graduate School of Life and Environmental Science, Tsukuba University , Japan The importance of local dendritic activicty in information processing of single neurons has been generally recognized. Constructing multi-compartment simulation models that also reflect the distribution of active conductances in real neurons is the one of the big challenges to achieve realistic modeling due to the paucity of experimental data. As a remedy to this problem, we propose an estimation method combining suitable electrical stimulation and massively parallel computation using genetic algorithms. We applied this method to projection neurons in antennal lobes of silkmoth (Bombyx mori) as the first model neurons. We obtained morphological tree models containing about 4,000 cylindrical compartments from confocal microscopy images. We assumed the presence of known insect K+, Na+ and Ca2+ channels and used candidate distribution models to estimate the corresponding conductances. Several types of electrical stimuli (current ramps, optionally with added sine waves of different frequencies, and voltage clamp pulses) stimuli, were evaluated for their efficiency in providing multi-compartment models reproducing the electrophysiological data. Such estimation methods need to run multi-compartment simulations many times. To meet the computational demands of the method, we used the Real Coded Genetics Algorithm (RCGA) for parallel efficiency and MPI/OpenMP hybrid implementations on the K computer which has 640,000 SPARC64VIIIfx CPU cores and on the RIKEN Integrated Cluster of Clusters (RICC).For estimating the position of a high-conductance area in an axon, injecting a current ramp with added sine wave showed good performance even after a small number of generations of the genetic algorithm (Fig. 1). This could be related to the frequency transmission characteristics of the axon. With 32,768 genes and 200 generations per estimation, we achieved parallel efficiency as high as p=0.99987 comparing the 1,024 cores and 8,192 cores cases (Fig. 2). We showed here that 1) RCGA is suitable for estimating biophysical properties for realistic multi-compartment models with high efficiency in massively parallel computation and that 2) suitable choice of stimulation paradigms can improve the efficiency of estimation. The interaction between experimental data simulation and parameter estimation can be a useful tool to improve multi-compartment models. Figure 1 Keywords: computational neuroscience, Biophysical methods, neuron models, supercomputer simulation, genetic algorithms Conference: 5th INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics, Munich, Germany, 10 Sep - 12 Sep, 2012. Presentation Type: Poster Topic: Neuroinformatics Citation: Miyamoto D, Kazawa T, Haupt S, Tabuchi M, Mori T, Nakatani K and Kanzaki R (2014). Estimation method for biophysical properties of insect neurons in the combination of suitable stimulation and multi-compartment simulation with supercomputers. Front. Neuroinform. 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Since 1992 the Pacific Second Language Research Forum (PacSLRF) has hosted biannual conferences on SLA issues and invited speakers predominantly from within the Pacific and South East Asian region. The proceedings from the Forum's third conference (held at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, in March 1998), collected in this volume, will prove interesting and useful for researchers and teachers in the field.

The first reference work to explore the 2000-year history of political realism and reassess its place in today’s world Download an ebook of the chapter abstracts and notes on contributors (pdf) Political realism is a highly diverse body of international relations theory. This substantial reference work examines political realism in terms of its history, its scientific methodology and its normative role in international affairs. Split into three sections, it covers the 2000-year canon of realism: the different schools of thought, the key thinkers and how it responds to foreign policy challenges faced by individual states and globally. It brings political realism up-to-date by showing where theory has failed to keep up with contemporary problems and suggests how it can be applied and adapted to fit our new, globalised world order. Key Features The first volume to offer a full, balanced guide to Political Realism: its history and its normative role in international affairs Covers the main thinkers, from Thucydides through Niccolò Machiavelli to Isaiah Berlin Engages with the major foreign policy issues of our times, such as strategic deterrence, nationalism, terrorism, cyber security, climate change, the open society and religion Considers political realism in non-Western contexts, including Israel, Russia and China Includes political realism’s ground-up growth and interpretation outwith Western contexts Contributors Uriel Abulof , Tel-Aviv University, Israel. Christopher Adair-Toteff , Zeppelin University, Germany. Erica Benner , Yale University, USA. John Bew , King’s College London, UK. Todd Breyfogle , Aspen Institute, Washington, D.C., USA. Joshua Cherniss , Georgetown University, USA. Alan Chong , S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore. Lindsay P. Cohn , U.S. Naval War College, USA. Kody W. Cooper , University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA. Marzieh Kouhi Esfahani , Durham University, UK. Markus Fischer , California State University, Fullerton, USA. Richard Forno , University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. Stuart Gray , Politics at Washington and Lee University, USA. Robert Howse , New York University School of Law, USA. David Martin Jones , University of Queensland, Australia and King’s College London, UK. Menno R. Kamminga , University of Groningen, Netherlands. Peter Iver Kaufman , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and University of Richmond, USA. David Kerr , Durham University, UK. Paul Kirkland , Carthage College, Wisconsin, USA. Douglas B. Klusmeyer , American University, Washington, DC, USA. Konstantinos Kostagiannis , University of Maastricht, Netherlands. Ayelet Haimson Lushkov , University of Texas at Austin, USA. Cecelia Lynch , University of California, Irvine, USA. David Mayers , Boston University, USA. Kenneth B. McIntyre , Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, USA. Neville Morley , University of Exeter, UK. John Mueller , Mershon Center for International Security Studies and Ohio State University, USA. Masashi Okuyama , International Geopolitical Institute Japan and Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan. Samir Puri , King's College London, UK. Grace Roosevelt , Metropolitan College of New York, USA. Felix Rösch , Coventry University, UK. William E. Scheuerman , Indiana University, USA. Tim Spiekerman , Kenyon College, Ohio, USA. Peter Stirk , Durham University, UK. Tom Switzer , Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney. Zhao Tingyang , Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, China. Jodok Troy , University of Innsbruck, Austria. Alex Wilner , Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Derek M. C. Yuen , University of Hong Kong. Rashed Uz Zaman , University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. "

Ide Laboratory's studies cover a broad area from the brain, neurological systems, and sensory substitutions to robots. Currently, the researchs have been specifically concentrating on the brain and the hardware/software development of robots. The dream is to develop a smart robot with artificial intelligence working with the human brain

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This edited volume contains the proceedings of a conference on the role of individual differences in instructed SLA held at Aoyama Gakuin University in 1999. It includes 11 studies as well as an introductory chapter written by the editors. The first two papers, by Yamashiro and McLaughlin and by Hiser, Croker, Kenudson, and Stribling, present multivariate statistical analyses to examine the interrelationship between motivation, second language (L2) proficiency, and other learner characteristics in Japanese student samples. Although both studies offer unique insights into the characteristics of their target population, the authors also call for methodological improvements that would go beyond the use of self-report questionnaires. Sharing a similar interest in improving motivation research methodology, another study by Hsiao explicitly sets out to test the construct validity of the most well known motivation test—Gardner's Attitude/Motivation Test Battery—in Taiwan, which is a very different learning environment from Canada, where the test was originally developed. Özek and Williams's paper is also of interest in this respect because in their study a questionnaire survey conducted in Turkey was complemented with qualitative interviews, thereby resulting in a particularly rich database.

1 This article is a revised version of the Invitation Fellowship Lecture that I gave at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, in March 2010 in conjunction with my visit to Japan funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. I would like to thank Professor Fujio Nakamura for inviting me to Japan as well as Professor Minoji Akimoto for giving me the chance to talk at his university. I would also like to thank all those present for an interesting discussion on a number of issues related to my lecture. Aspects of Grammaticalization: Current Resources and Future Prospects

The Business Innovation project group in the Human Innovation Research Center HiRC of Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan has engaged in some joint research activities with several universities and corporations related to manufacturing and IT software industries. The main objectives of this project group are to research and develop a new framework for global product lifecycle management PLM strategy and practical PLM educational programmes for undergraduates, graduates and adult education. The main purpose of this article is to report on three research issues. The first issue is an instructional design and practice of a new course named Global Product Strategy for undergraduates at the Department of Business in Aoyama Gakuin University. Secondly, an investigation of the PLM Expert Educational Program at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KAIST was made so as to re-design the educational programme for adult education in Japan. Finally, several policies to enhance the curriculum design of a Global PLM Strategy education programme through university-industry research collaboration and joint education are described. Furthermore, an action group project was implemented from October, 2012 to September, 2013 to prepare for research and development of a 'global production producer' GMP training programme in the future.