Living experience of camping in parents and children: Creating a community where all adults protect and raise all children
KIKUTA Fumio, YONEDA Asaka
Japan Journal of Human Growth and Development Research(82) 56-67 Mar. 2019 [Refereed]
Attributes of supervisors at Forest Kindergartens supporting the development of young children through outdoor activities
KIKUTA Fumio
Life & Death Education 3(1) 7-15 Mar. 2018 [Refereed]
Lectures about Life by the Oldest Practicing Physician in Japan
KIKUTA Fumio, HINOHARA Shigeaki
Bulletin of St. Luke's International University 3 96-100 Mar. 2017
Current situation and overview of early childhood education based on experiencing nature: Results of a national survey on forest kindergartens in Japan
KIKUTA Fumio, WARAGAI Hisao, TANAKA Takahito, ITO Megumi
Bulletin of St.Luke's International University 2 72-77 Mar. 2016
Cultivating bystander awareness and ability in a life skills class ; The Development of a BLS Class for Sixth-grade Elementary School Students
KIKUTA Fumio, OTA Yuma, YOTSUMOTO Ryuichi, YAMADA Toru
Life & Death Education 1(1) 10-21 Feb. 2016 [Refereed]
Life Lessons that Raise Self-Esteem in Primary School Children
KIKUTA Fumio, OTSU Kazuyoshi
Life & Death Education 1(1) 2-9 Feb. 2016 [Refereed]
Significance and Efficacy of a Challenge Program in the Course Physical Education II (Outdoor Activity in Practice)
KIKUTA Fumio
Bulletin of St.Luke's International University 1 76-82 Mar. 2015
Development of Nursing Students' Self-Affirmation through Participation as a Camp Staff Member in a Work-study Program.
(37) 42-46 Mar. 2011
This paper examines how nursing students built up their self-affirmation throughparticipation in a work-study program. Lack of self-affirmation is common to manynursing students, especially those who have mental or physical problems. In order todevelop nursing students' self-affirmation through active learning, “St.Luke's Camp“for parents and children was started in 2004, where nursing students workand study as staff members and play an important role. Through the reports writtenby the nursing students in the program, it was found that experiences which helpthem feel that they are“a person of importance“ or “a person of value“, are importantfor their self-affirmation, and that this work-study program offered them much-neededopportunities to increase their self-affirmation.
The Mental Health Effects of Exercise (3):The Mental and Physical Effects of Rehabilitation Exercise with Music Therapy in a Group.
(36) 64-68 Mar. 2010
Effect of Backgroud Music that Reduces Mental Stress in Working with Computer.
(36) 91-96 Mar. 2010
Complementary distributions of amyloid-β and neprilysin in the brains of dogs and cats
Y. Takeuchi, K. Uetsuka, M. Murayama, F. Kikuta, A. Takashima, K. Doi, H. Nakayama
Veterinary Pathology 45(4) 455-466 Jul. 2008 [Refereed]
Neprilysin is an amyloid-β-degrading enzyme localized in the brain parenchyma. The involvement of neprilysin in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease has recently received much attention. We examined the localization of neprilysin and amyloid-β, as well as the activity of neprilysin, in the brains of dogs and cats of various ages to clarify the relationship between neprilysin activity and amyloid-β deposition. The distribution of neprilysin was almost identical in dogs and cats, being high in the striatum, globus pallidus, and substantia nigra, but very low in the cerebral cortex. The white matter and hippocampus were negative. Neprilysin activity in the brain regions in dogs and cats was ranked from high to low as follows: thalamus/striatum <
cerebral cortex lt
hippocampus <
white matter. Amyloid-p deposition was first detected at 7 and 10 years of age in dogs and cats, respectively, and both the quantity and frequency of deposition increased with age. In both species, amyloid-β deposition appeared in the cerebral cortex and the hippocampus. In summary, the localization of neprilysin and neprilysin activity, and that of amyloid-p, were complementary in the brains of dogs and cats.
Fractal analysis of senile plaques observed in various animal spieces.
Nakayama H, Kiatipattanasakul W, Nakamura S, Miyawaki K, Kikuta F, Uchida K, Kuroki K, Makifuchi T, Yoshikawa Y, Doi K
Neurosci Lett. 297(3) 195-198 Jan. 2001 [Refereed]
Individual Variation in the Sequence of Age at Peak Velocity in Seven Body Dimensions
SATAKE Takashi, ROBERT M.Malina, TANAKA Shigeho, KIKUTA Fumio
6 359-367 1994 [Refereed]
Relationship between the foot Shape of Japanese Adults and the Shoe Last Observed by the Projected Contours
Akira OTSUKA, Fumio KIKUTA, Shiro KONDO, Shuichi TAKAHASHI
Journal of Home Economics of Japan 45(9) 837-844 1994 [Refereed]
Changes of Foot Measurements Accompanied with shoes-heel Height
Akira OTSUKA, Mari KONDO, Fumio KIKUTA, Shuichi TAKAHASHI
Journal of Home Economics of Japan 45(9) 845-856 1994 [Refereed]
A Study Exploring Elements Interfering with Good Health Practice -From the Comparison of the Results Obtained through Brainstorming by College Students Majoring Nursing and Home Science -
Sakurai Shinobu, Kikuta Fumio
(19) 47-55 Mar. 1993
Nowadays, it is generally considered in the field of medicine and health care where most people take the promotion and improvement in their health for granted that health education is deeply concerned with the promotion and improvement of general health and disease prevention and is indispensable for that purpose.Traditional health education has been usually conducted in a pedagogical way, which only provides information, by didactic or one-sided lectures, which education has shown little effect on adult diseases which have no remarkable symptoms. Therefore, this study has been conducted in order to identify the reason why people do not, or cannot, implement health practice based on the opinions of the female nursing and home science college students obtained through their brainstorming and the common elements in those opinions drawn by KJ-method.Furthermore, two groups are compared for the purpose of identifying the difference seen between those who are engaged in health service and these who are not. The results are shown as follows:1.The data of both groups showed that lack of external environmental factors(money, time), their pleasure-oriented sense of value
Age at peak velocity and peak velocities for seven body dimension in Japanese children
SATAKE Takashi, KIKUTA Fumio, Ozaki Tadashi
Annals of Human Biology 20(1) 67-70 1993 [Refereed]
The Foot Shape of Japanese Adults from the Viewpoint of Foot Projected Contours
Akira OTSUKA, Mayumi FUJITA, Shiro KONDO, Fumio KIKUTA, Shuichi TAKAHASHI
J. Home Economics of Japan 44(5) 377-385 1993 [Refereed]
DIFFERENCES OF MEASUREMENT VALUES BETWEEN THE RIGHT AND LEFT FEET IN JAPANESE ADULTS
F KIKUTA, S KONDO, A OTSUKA, S TAKAHASHI
JOURNAL OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NIPPON 100(4) 511-525 Oct. 1992 [Refereed]
The dimensional differences between the right (R) and left (L) feet were investigated in each pair of 26 measurement items in Japanese adults (149 males and 178 females). The standard value of bilateral differences was determined, taking into consideration of the standard deviation of the bilateral difference (right minus left) in each item and variance calculated by the nested analysis of variance. The measurement error variance amounted to 25% approximately 40% of total variance in males and 30% approximately 50% in females.
The frequency of subjects without bilateral difference was about 17% in males and about 74% in females for foot length, about 53% both in males and females for foot width, and about 45% both in males and females for ball-joint girth.
Fifteen % of males had the most frequent pattern of L>R in foot length and L=R both in foot width and ball-joint girth, while 17% of females had the most frequent pattern of L=R in these three measurements. With respect to the foot girth measurements, 12% of males had the most frequent pattern of L=R in ball-joint and waist girths and L>R in instep girth, while 16% of females had the most frequent pattern of L=R in these three measurements.
The Secular Trend of Standing Height in Adolescent Girls from Longitudinal Data.
KIKUTA Fumio, TAKAISHI Masahiro
(18) 31-35 1992
In this study which is based on the longitudinal data aggregated from health examination records, the subjects consist of 287 girls who attended a private school in Tokyo.The subjects are divided into five groups according to birth year from 1950 to 1970 in order to find secular trend during twenty years with oneway analysis of variance.Age at Peak Height Velocity(APHV), Peak Height Velocity(PHV) and Height attained at Peak Height Velocity(HPHV) were computed in each height velocity curve derived from differential calculus of height distance curve. The result show that HPHV is gradually getting taller by year although APHV and PHV do not change.It may be considered that our subjects of the private school are girls of families in the relatively upper-middle class.
The Changes of Standing Height in Schoolgirls of a Private School in Tokyo during the last 20 years
TAKAISHI Masahiro, KIKUTA Fumio
Auxology88 203-206 1989 [Refereed]