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Published on 2010-02-13 20:18:00

只今、来週にあるUSCPAの試験対策のため 最後の力を振り絞ってもがいております。 一気に詰め込みすぎで頭の中をうまく 整理し切れていない感じもしますが、 なんとかうまくいってくれないかなぁと 淡い期待を胸に抱いています。 試験は渡米しないと受ることができないため、 恐らく20日くらいまでこのブログの更新は できないかと思います。 またよろしければ足�

Departure from locked-in syndrome

Published on 2010-02-11 14:46:49

A man who had been in vegetable state for five years answered the questions using only his thought. Note) If you dont know the difference between vegitable state and locked-in syndrome, please check here. The 29-year-old Belgian was able to respond to simple Yes/No questions such as “Is your father’s name Alexander?” by changing his brain activity. British and Belgian researchers then read his response by checking functional magnetic resonance imaging known as fMRI scans. In their

The deifferences among some kinds of conciousness

Published on 2010-02-10 07:30:42

Just out of curiosity, I checked the differences among brain death, vegetable state, locked-in syndrome and coma. In order to understand the figure above, we need to know the definitions of “the Level of Consciousness” and “the Content of Consciousness”. The level of consciousness is related to arousal and used to determine whether or not patients are awake. Meanwhile, the content of consciousness is more related to what we mention a patient is conscious or unconscious. This migh

Frontier of Emerging Issue

Published on 2010-02-08 08:07:46

There is a word I have really loved since I had heard. The word is “Frontier of Emerging Issue”, say in Japanese “Kadai Shenshi Koku”. Hiroshi Komiyama, the precedent president of the University of Tokyo, said Japan is one of these countries. It means that … Japan has many problems that other countries have yet to face. However, other counties are expected they will suffer from some of those problems in near future. Therefore, what we need to do is find the way to solve the probl

What would you do, if...

Published on 2010-02-07 07:37:32

You are asked by a pedestrian on a road, “What time is it now?” but you don’t have a watch. What would you do? This is the story when I was in Portland, OR. It was the second or third day since I started to live in United States for studing English. That day I left my watch in my apartment. Although I really need to know the time, there was no big clock around me. There was no way to know the time. As a last resort, I asked a woman the time with my all courage I had. I can remember s

6, 300, 1000 and more?

Published on 2010-02-06 18:51:28

What do you think this numbers are? Be ready to be surprised. When I knew it, I was really surprised. Those numbers are how many boars are killed in Japan as a harmful animal in each year. The first number 6 is the data in 1994. The second number 300 is in few years ago and last one 1000 is in last year. It is really easy to understand the damages to crops by boars are getting bigger and wider year after year. I knew those numbers from my ex-boss’s blog. He is a kind of educator to te

Matching arrangement by parents

Published on 2010-02-05 15:46:51

Recently, the number of matching arrangement parties has increased. In addition, those parties are not just usual arrangement parties where single people themselves join in but arrangements parties which are hold by their parents for their single son/ daughter's sake. Those parents say that they have a responsibility to deal with their children’s problem that they cannot find their future spouse by themselves. In fact, the data in 2006 provided by Japanese statistic bureau report that

My Other Car's A Toyota

Published on 2010-02-05 06:00:06

This is the cartoon made by Peter Brookes from The Times online. I think You know that Toyota is recalling 4.45 million cars due to an acceleraor pedal problem. This cartoon is a kind of joke on this issue. The following is the explanation about this cartoon. The person in the coffin who is a Toyota owner died in an accident because of the faulty accelerator pedal. The humour comes from the fact that people who own cheap car　sometimes put stickers like 'My other car's a Prsche' in their r

Hunting civil servants

Published on 2010-02-04 17:23:25

"Hunting civil servants" does not mean killing civil servants to eat them. It means that civil servants who have a hunting license. Should I mention them like “civil servants hunter” or something? Anyway, this is the article about them and what I feel. Recently, the number of civil servants with a hunting license has increased steadily especially in rural area. There are three main reasons. One reason is damages to farm-goods from wild animals such as boars, monkeys and deer. These

One straight cut creates all shapes

Published on 2010-02-03 16:10:18

Please look over three photos above. Do you know how to make it? It is so amazing and exciting!! To make this swan’s shape, only thing you need to do is fold paper several times and one nice straight cut with your scissors. I found this in the newspaper on Feb 3rd. You can check the same article here. This article tells us the idea Eric Demaine, the 28-year-old professor in MIT, proved in which all shapes can make with one piece of paper and one straight cut. However, main subject of