Recently, Kyoto' company “Ichizawa Shinzaburo Hanpu” known by having settled in household trouble have developed the innovative and unique products which there are not in the age of the former ...Ichizawa Hanpu Industrial. So, it has been offered a lot of their products, such as a patterned bag, a bag by collaboration and so on. However, this company has been setting up the business system which is manufacturing and distribution, and has not had the section of product planning and design in their organization. Therefore, it seems to be difficult for them to do the product development with a change of an era and lifestyle, only based on their customers' feedback. In this study, we analyze their elaborate creation from the viewpoint of Kansei, based on the case study of their business bag development and the interview of their developer who determined the entry of business bag market.
The practical case had as its central objective the determination of the Work Breakdown
Structure (WBS) using the theme of Project Planning and Control for the manufacture of a new
electric car, ...considering that in the Netherlands and some European countries they have a zero
emissions policy. from 2030, the research was exploratory and descriptive; where from an
analysis, all the guidelines of Project Management were applied under the standards of good
quality practices described in the PMBOK, and thus meet the need to create a new fuel-efficient
car and also increase the division's market share of the company. The EDT of the project was
designed based on the PMBOK guide and it was possible to detail the phases of the project to
create an electric car in the Netherlands and it was noted that the use of new transport
technologies, including the use of electric vehicles, is increasing Worldwide.
El caso práctico tuvo como objetivo central la determinación de la Estructura de Desglose del Trabajo (EDT) usando la temática de Planificación y Control de Proyectos para la fabricación de un nuevo automóvil eléctrico, considerando que en Holanda y algunos países europeos tienen como política cero emisiones a partir del 2030, la investigación fue de tipo exploratoria y descriptiva; en donde a partir de un análisis, se aplicaron todos los lineamientos propios de la Gestión de Proyectos bajo los estándares de buenas prácticas de calidad descritos en el PMBOK, y así cumplir la necesidad de crear un nuevo automóvil eficiente en el uso de combustible y además aumentar la porción de mercado de la división de la empresa. Se diseñó la EDT del proyecto basado en la guía del PMBOK y en ella se pudo detallar las fases del proyecto para crear un automóvil eléctrico en Holanda y se denotó que el uso de nuevas tecnologías de transporte, incluido el uso de vehículos eléctricos, está aumentando a nivel mundial.
• Background and Aims Australian Spermacoce species display various types of elaborate petals. Their precise morphology, ontogenetic origin, and function are hitherto unknown. The aim of the present ...paper is to unravel the development and nature of the diverse types of elaborate petals in Spermacoce through a floral ontogenetic study. • Methods The floral ontogeny of six species characterized by different types of corolla appendages was studied by scanning electron microscopy and light microscopy. In order to elucidate the possible functions of the elaborate petals, field observations were conducted as well. • Key Results Scanning electronmicrographs show that full-grown petals of Spermacoce lignosa, S. phaeosperma and S. redacta bear appendages on their ventral side. Despite their different appearance at anthesis, the appendages develop very similarly in all three species. They are initiated at the same developmental stage and are first visible as two arcs of primordia converging from the upper margins of the petal towards its midvein and downwards. In S. brevidens, S. caudata and S. erectiloba, the full-grown petals have two long, concave protuberances, which develop from the tissue at both sides of the petal's mid-vein. In these three species, initiation of appendages on the ventral side of the petals is also observed, but they are hardly visible on the mature petals. The two types of elaborate petals tightly enclose the anthers, both in bud and during most of the flowering period. • Conclusions Among Australian Spermacoce species, two types of elaborate petals can be distinguished. The former hypothesis that the two types of elaborate petals are essentially homologous is here rejected. Field investigations point out that the elaborate petals might play a role in the pollination biology of the species.
Elaborate male and female plumage can be maintained by mutual sexual selection and function as a mate-choice or status signal in both sexes. Both male and female Turquoise-browed Motmot (Eumomota ...superciliosa) have long tails that terminate in widened blue-and-black rackets that appear to hang, unattached, below the body of the bird. I tested whether mutual sexual selection maintains the Turquoise-browed Motmot's elaborate tail plumage by testing the prediction that mating occurs in an assortative manner for tail plumage. I also tested whether assortative mating occurs for body size, a potential measure of dominance, and for phenotypic condition, a measure of individual quality. Assortative mating was measured (1) within all pairs in the study population, (2) within newly formed pairs, and (3) within experimentally induced pairs that formed after removal of females from stable pairs. Assortative mating was not found for tail plumage, body size, or phenotypic condition in any of these samples. Therefore, there was no support for the “mutual sexual selection” hypothesis. I discuss the hypothesis that the tail is sexually selected in males only, and that natural selection accounts for the evolutionary maintenance of the elaborate female tail. Ausencia de Apareamiento Asociativo con Respecto a la Cola, el Tamaño Corporal o la Condición en Eumomota superciliosa
Educators in large-enrollment courses are faced with the challenge of effectively disseminating information to their students to ensure that they learn the content provided. A related issue involves ...the means by which instructors evaluate student performance. Offering effective forms of performance feedback may be one technique to provide students with additional information to facilitate learning. Accordingly, the purpose of this investigation was to determine the effects of elaborate feedback and basic feedback on student performance. Two groups from an introductory psychology course participated in the current study. The Basic Feedback Group (N = 108) received basic feedback on all quizzes. The Elaborate Feedback Group (N = 102) received elaborate feedback on all quizzes. Response accuracy and learning gain were evaluated between groups. Visual analyses demonstrated the relative effectiveness of elaborate feedback on subsequent student performance. Descriptive and inferential statistical analyses revealed that elaborate feedback was beneficial in general and particularly for questions that were determined to be difficult by item analyses. Results and implications are discussed in further detail.
Introduction: The following study investigates relationships between spaced practice (re-studying after a delay) and transfer of learning. Specifically, the impact on learners ability to transfer ...learning after participating in spaced model-building or unstructured study of narrated text. Method: Subjects were randomly assigned either to a model-building or a free study group. All subjects completed a pre-test of topic knowledge. In addition, participants in the model-building group watched a short demonstration of the model-building task. Participants listened to passages and either built a model or studied a transcript of the narration at increasing time lags. Finally, participants wrote a test of memory for detail and an extension test of knowledge transfer. Results: Knowledge transfer test scores improved for the model-building group as time lag between encoding and restudy increased. No effect was found between time lags in the free study group. No statistically detectable time lag affect was found for the detail test. Discussion: The following study provides evidence of improved knowledge transfer resulting from elaborate constructive model-building. When participants' study methods were unstructured transfer did not statistically detectably improve as time lags increased between study intervals. (Contains 1 figure.)
Cases of suicide by use of elaborate and complex devices are rare in the literature and popular media, despite the media attention such cases attract. These suicide cases have employed guillotines, ...contraptions involving guns and self-made firearms, and devices capable of delivering asphyxiating gases such as carbon monoxide. All previously reported cases of suicide by guillotine have been by decapitation. While suicidal sharp force injuries are rare, suicidal injuries to the chest are rarer still. This case is unusual because the lethal sharp force injury to the chest was inflicted by a home-made “guillotine”. Investigators initially suspected a homicide because the body was found face down in the woods, far from human habitation. Thorough death scene and background investigation were essential in classifying it as an elaborate suicide.
This study examines how Japanese students perceive the qualities of written arguments that were constructed to have different forms. Based on the theoretical dimensions of verbal communication styles ...that Gudykunst and Ting-Toomey (1988) proposed, the research questions asked whether the respondents would perceive direct arguments to be of higher quality than indirect arguments. They also asked whether they would perceive elaborate arguments to be of higher quality than succinct arguments. Japanese college students voluntarily responded to a questionnaire. The results revealed that they gave higher ratings to direct arguments than to indirect arguments for both of the two indicators, and higher ratings to elaborate arguments than to succinct arguments for two indicators out of the three. The results were discussed and implications were offered.
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