This report is a summary of the 48th Annual Study Meeting, held online through Zoom in 2020. The theme of the year was “Universities in the new Corona Era”. Industry suffered serious damage as world economic activities shifted to a shut-in economy and microtourism, to m...

The purpose of this study was to develop "Feeling Share Pocket Chart". COVID-19 is, to children in high stress state, caused the miscommunication. "Feeling Share Pocket Chart" was used to promote understanding of other’s emotions and prevent miscommunication. This study...

Comment: 24 pages, 10 figures

This paper reports an opera concert which was held at Hiroshima University in November 2020 as well as the process surrounding this concert. Through an analysis, it aims to examine the educational significance of the Opera Project held at Hiroshima University. In 2020, ...

This article illustrates how two Japanese teachers design and implement a unit related to COVID-19 for promoting teaching controversial issues in Japan. We discovered the following two implications for achieving the aim: (a) improving teachers’ abilities of explaining h...

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly spread in 2020, emerging a mass of studies for lung infection segmentation from CT images. Though many methods have been proposed for this issue, it is a challenging task because of infections of various size appearing in ...

The diurnal cycle CO$_2$ emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement production reflect seasonality, weather conditions, working days, and more recently the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, for the first time we provide a daily CO$_2$ emission dataset for the...

Comment: 23 pages, 5 figures; to be submitted to RAA

Facing a global epidemic of new infectious diseases such as COVID-19, non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), which reduce transmission rates without medical actions, are being implemented around the world to mitigate spreads. One of the problems in assessing the effec...

ステューデントスキル教育とは、研究倫理・キャリア・情報セキュリティ・消費者・人権・知財・主権者・租税・依存症対策等、「社会からの要請に焦点化した」「個別のいわゆる現代的な課題やテーマに焦点化した教育」の総称である。鹿児島大学においては、2019年度に、このステューデントスキル教育を初年次必修科目（初年次セミナー）に導入することが決定された。その当初の案は、（1） 倫理関連分野、（2） キャリア教育分野、（3） 法務関連分野について２コマずつ、計６コマを必修化するというものであった。しかし、それを実行に移しそうとした矢先、COVID-1...