絵本の読み聞かせは，乳幼児の言語発達を後押しするとともに，就学後の文章読解力や算数の成績に寄与する可能性も指摘され，注目が集まっている．本稿では，絵本の読み聞かせを支援するためのツールとして考案した個別最適化した絵本や，個人の発達や興味に合わせて検索するAI 絵本検索システムなどについて解説するとともに，それらを用いて自治体と共同で取り組んでいる実践的試みについても紹介する．

The  present  study  investigated  the  effects  of  three  methods  of  vocabulary  presentation,  i.e., picture,  song,  and  the  keyword  method  on  Iranian  EFL  learners'  vocabulary  recognition  and production.  The  participants  were  102  Iranian  lower-intermediate  EFL  learners  in  Zaban  Sara English language institute in Kermanshah. To make sure that they had no previous knowl...

Gross and microscopic studies of the auriculoventricular conduction system were performed in 60 human hearts. A unique technic is introduced which will produce a photographic. record of undistorted serial sections through a block containing the auriculoventricular node, auriculoventricular bundle and branches. By projecting the completed film as a motion picture, the course and changing relatio...

Nanobubbles, whose existence on hydrophobic surfaces immersed in water has previously been inferred from measurements of long-ranged attractions between such surfaces, are directly imaged by tapping mode atomic force microscopy. It is found that the nanobubbles cover the surfaces in an irregular, interconnected or close-packed network whose morphology is dependent on pH and whose lifetimes are ...

Can one of the most important Italian Renaissance frescoes reduced in hundreds of thousand fragments by a bombing during the Second World War be re-composed after more than 60 years from its damage? Can we reconstruct the missing parts and can we say something about their original color? In this short paper we want to exemplify, hopefully effectively by taking advantage of the seduction of art,...

It is pointed out that the recently measured left-right asymmetries in inclusive pion and lambda hyperon production processes are in very good agreement with the relativistic quark model, proposed some time ago. Further predictions based on this model for hyperon productions, for lepton pair productions and for W/Z-boson productions are also presented.

Although evidences that cell membrane contains microdomains are accumulating, the exact properties, diversity and levels of organization of small lipid patches built mainly of cholesterol and sphingomyelin, termed rafts, remain to be elucidated. Our understanding of the cell membrane is increasing with each new raft feature discovered. Nowadays rafts are suggested to act as sites of cell signal...