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Introduction
This introductory chapter lays out the aim and scope of this book to provide readers with a clear overview of what to expect in each chapter. It provides a list of objectives that this book aims to help reader...
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Innovating Your Own Strategy Instruction
This chapter provides readers with a step-by-step guide to innovate their own strategy instruction. This guide is applicable to teachers who want to try out strategy instruction with their students in class, a...
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Emotion Regulation and Emotion Regulation Strategies
The focus of this chapter is emotion regulation. The first half of the chapter helps to deepen theoretical and empirical understanding of the concept. Laying out the discussion of why emotion regulation is a b...
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Emotions in Learning
This chapter explains what emotions are as well as how one experiences emotions, based on theories in the fields of psychology and educational psychology. The first half of this chapter offers theoretical and ...
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Strategy Instruction
This chapter introduces strategy instruction as a venue for teachers/researchers to introduce and for students to practice emotion regulation strategies. It first summarizes four strategy instruction models th...
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Article
A Simple Experimental Setup for Simultaneous Superfluid-Response and Heat-Capacity Measurements for Helium in Confined Geometries
Torsional oscillator (TO) is an experimental technique which is widely used to investigate superfluid responses in helium systems confined in porous materials or adsorbed on substrates. In these systems, heat ...
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A Classroom-Based Study on the Antecedents of Epistemic Curiosity in L2 Learning
This classroom-based study investigated the antecedents of epistemic curiosity among 25 Thai university students in an English oral communication course. Using a whole-class survey and focus group interview, w...
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Open AccessCorrelation between estimated plasma remnant-like particle cholesterol and vegetable fat intake in Uku town, Japan
Remnant-like particle cholesterol (RLP-C) is highly atherogenic, which is associated with atherosclerosis. However, RLP-C has not been routinely measured in the clinical practice. We estimated RLP-C levels usi...
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Open AccessLower albumin levels are associated with frailty measures, trace elements, and an inflammation marker in a cross-sectional study in Tanushimaru
There is little data on the association between the lower nutrition represented by serum albumin levels and related factors in a general population. The present study aimed to determine whether the albumin lev...
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Association between growth hormone and hypertension in a general population
Insulin-like growth factors are polypeptides, with arrays similar to insulin, and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) is secreted via stimulation by growth hormone (GH) in the liver. The lack of both GH and I...
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Trends in nutritional intake and coronary risk factors over 60 years among Japanese men in Tanushimaru
We investigated the relationship between time trends in nutrient intake and coronary risk factors/mortality rates in Tanushimaru, a Japanese cohort of the Seven Countries Study. All men between the ages of 40 ...
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Habitual coffee intake reduces all-cause mortality by decreasing heart rate
It is well known that subjects with metabolic syndrome show an elevated resting heart rate. We previously reported that elevated heart rate was significantly related to all-cause mortality, and that coffee con...
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The Scope of Innovation in Japanese Language Education
In addition to introducing the various contributions to the book, this chapter also discusses some of the core themes informing the book. The chapter provides a platform for the subsequent contributions to the...
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Innovation in Japan: Looking to the Future
This chapter simultaneously functions as a summary of the contents of the book and as a practical guide for educators looking to implement their own future innovations. Drawing on the lessons of the various in...
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Characterization of Pyrolytic Graphite Sheet: A New Type of Adsorption Substrate for Studies of Superfluid Thin Films
We have measured the surface morphology and gas adsorption characteristics of an uncompressed pyrolytic graphite sheet (uPGS) which is a candidate substrate for AC and DC superflow experiments on monolayers of ...
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Determination of Phenol in Tap Water and River Water Samples by Solid-Phase Spectrophotometry
A sensitive solid-phase spectrophotometric method for the determination of phenol in tap water or river water samples was developed. The antipyrine dye formed by the reaction between phenol and 4-aminoantipyri...
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Association of upper arm circumference at muscle flexion with lumbar spine bone mineral density
We investigated the association of upper arm circumference at muscle flexion with lumbar spine (L2–L4) bone mineral density (BMD) in 252 postmenopausal Japanese women (mean age, 62.0 ± 7.6 years; range, 43–78...
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Lean mass as a significant determinant of regional and total body bone mineral density in premenopausal women
We investigated the relations of body composition to regional and total body bone mineral density (BMD) in 275 healthy Japanese premenopausal women (mean age, 37.1 ± 9.2 years; range, 16–55 years). In all sub...
