Research Showcase Archive Updated!

Lips and Teeth: China’s Buffer Thinking Toward North Korea

Presenters:

• Yu-Hua CHEN, Assistant Professor, Global Studies Program

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Further Adventures in the Lab (WN23): Building Experimental Design Skills using Computer-Aided Design, 3D Printing, Programming, and the Phototrophic Protist Euglena gracilis

Presenters:

• Andy CROFTS, Professor, Global Connectivity Program
• Chizuru HONDA, AIU Undergraduate Student
• Yuki SHIMIZU, AIU Undergraduate Student
• Kiwamu SATO, AIU Undergraduate Student

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Digital Archives x Akita Tourism

Presenters:

• Kaeko CHIBA, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program

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Are Risk Premia Time-varying and Can They Be Explained by Economic Policy Uncertainty?

Presenters:

• Wenti DU, Assistant Professor, Global Business Program
• Eric PENTECOST, Professor, Loughborough University
• Christopher SPENCER, Senior Lecturer, Loughborough University

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Re-examining the Historical Growth of Human Playing Strength in Go Games

Presenters:

• Attila EGRI-NAGY, Professor, Global Connectivity Program

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ChatGPT in Japanese Higher Education: A Case Study

Presenters:

• Irina KUZNETCOVA, Assistant Professor, Global Connectivity Program

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Estimating the Potential Demand for Sharing Transportation: the Case of Toyota Car Sharing Service

Presenters:

• Hideyuki NAKAGAWA, Associate Professor, Global Business Program

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Beyond Envy or Sympathy: Overcoming Tropes in the Depiction of Blindness in Japanese Blockbuster Films

Presenters:

• Sean O’REILLY, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program

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From Crisis to Control: The Role of Emotions, Discourse, Values and Knowledge in Learner Autonomy

Presenters:

• Joe SYKES, Lecturer, English for Academic Purposes Program

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Unplanned urbanization: The transition of earthquake and flood hazards into major disasters in Kashmir contradicts the United Nations Sustainability Development Goal 11

Presenters:

• Afroz Ahmad SHAH, Sr. Assistant Professor, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei
• Muhammad Gazali RACHMAN, PhD Candidate, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei
• Rajesh KUMAR, Assistant Professor, Sikkim University, India
• Javed MALIK, Professor, IIT Kanpur, India
• SANA, University of Kashmir, India

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Development and Implementation of a Solar-Powered Smart Charger for EVs: An Integrated V2G-Enabled System with a Focus on Egypt’s Seasonal Solar Variations

Presenters:

• Omar ABDEL-RAHIM, Assistant Professor, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Egypt

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Mobile Application for Tourism: The Case of Egypt

Presenters:

• Safaa HUSSEIN, Assistant Professor, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology, Egypt

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Development of a Measure for Wise Leadership

Presenters:

• Abderrahman HASSI, Associate Professor, Al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco
• Giovanna STORTI, Advisor, Employment and Social Development. Canada

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Skincare Routine for Soviet People: The Use of Cosmetics in the USSR, 1950-1960s

Presenters:

• Evgenia PLATONOVA, PhD Student, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia

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Understanding the relationship between government financial support to migrant enterprises (MEs) during the COVID-19 pandemic and mental wellbeing of their entrepreneurs

Presenters:

• Charan BHATTARAI, Lecturer, University of Essex, U.K. (JSPS Fellow, Waseda University)
• Caleb KWONG, Professor, University of Essex, U.K.
• Cherry CHEUNG, Senior Lecturer, London South Bank University, U.K.
• Gracia LIU-FARRER, Professor, Waseda University, Japan

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A more resilient food future? The challenges and opportunities of surplus food redistribution in the UK

Presenters:

• Jordan LAZELL, Lecturer, University of Essex, U.K.
• Debashree DE, Lecturer, University of Essex, U.K.
• Ignas ARBACIAUSKAS, Undergraduate Student, University of Essex, U.K.

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Breaking Down the Islamic State Threat in Asia, a Study of the Current Tactics and Trends

Presenters:

• Rishi SINGH, Undergraduate Student, George Mason University, U.S.A.
• Mahmut CENGIZ, Research Associate Professor, George Mason University, U.S.A.

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Academic Writing Workshops for Akita High School Students

Presenters:

• Clay H. Williams, Professor, English Language Teaching Practices
• Leigh Bennett, Lecturer, English for Academic Purposes Program

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Ikebana Therapy for Dementia Patients

Presenters:

• Kaeko Chiba, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program
• Yuko Abe, Professor, Head of Japanese Language Program
• Ayako Motegi, Manager, Nagoyaka nursing care home
• Ayuk Eyong, Advisor, Sotoasahikawa hospital

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Developing a “Place” to Support Student Writing at AIU

Presenters:

• Rebecca Clegg-Sasaki, Select Lecturer, English for Academic Purposes Program
• Lee Friederich, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
• Ian Hurley, Assistant Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program

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Creativity & Wellbeing among Akita Students

Presenters:

• Lee Friederich, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
• Naoko Araki, Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
• Kaeko Chiba, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program
• Joel Friederich, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
• Tsuyoshi Cuhullan McGivern, Lecturer, Global Connectivity Program
• Naeko Naganuma, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes
• Mary Hoeft, Emeritus Professor of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin
• Hiromi Sone, Professor, Akita University of Art

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Service-learning for Rural Sustainability

Presenters:

• Shogo Kudo, Associate Professor, Global Studies Program
• Norihito Mizuno, Professor, Director of Global Studies Program
• Luke Dilley, Assistant Professor, Global Studies Program

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Lee FRIEDERICH (Associate Professor), Naoko ARAKI (Professor), Joel FRIEDERICH (Associate Professor), Naeko NAGANUMA (Associate Professor/Dean of Students)

• Title: Wellbeing through Creativity (President’s Fund Project)
• Abstract
• Presentation

Rebecca CLEGG-SASKI (Select Lecturer)

• Title: Privileging Dialogue with Academic Writing – the creation of a writing centre at AIU
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• Presentation

Clinton WATKINS (Professor)

• Title: Arbitrage and Liquidity in Platinum Futures
• Abstract
• Presentation

Hideyuki NAKAGAWA (Associate Professor)

• Title: Understanding Externality of Nursery Facilities
• Abstract
• Presentation

Sungkyu LEE (Assistant Professor)

• Title: The Role of Temporal Distance in Customer Responses to Scarcity Appeals
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• Presentation

Sungkyu LEE (Assistant Professor)

• Title: The Role of Temporal Distance in Customer Responses to Scarcity Appeals
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• Presentation

Noah Keone VIERNES (Associate Professor)

• Title: The Political Resonance of Film in the Works of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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• Presentation

Andy CROFTS (Professor) Sayaka OHIRA (AIU undergraduate student), Mashiho TAKAHASHI (AIU undergraduate student), Kanako TSUCHIYA (AIU undergraduate student)

• Title: Adventures in the Lab: Building Experimental Design Skills using Computer-Aided Design, 3D Printing, Programming, and the Phototrophic Protist Euglena gracilis
• Abstract
• Presentation

Attila EGRI-NAGY (Professor)

• Title: Recomputing all 4-state computational structures
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• Presentation

Florent DOMENACH (Professor)

• Title: Assessing the Challenges and Opportunities of the Various Course Delivery Formats
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• Presentation

Kaeko CHIBA (Associate Professor)

• Title: Ikebana thrapy
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Thaya NGAMPRAVATDEE (Mahidol University International College, Thailand)

• Title: The effect of monetary policy under quantitative easing to the exchange rate in Japan
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Hitoshi HORIUCHI (Associate Professor)

• Title: Visualizing the Syntactic Structure of L2 Japanese: The Suginoki Treebank
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Kazuhiko TAKEUCHI (Director of Office of Faculty and Staff Support)

• Title: SpeechCraft Akita: a community-initiated adult education for public speaking in English, introduced in northern Tohoku area of Japan as a way to address opportunity gaps.
• Abstract
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Brunei

Universiti Brunei Darussalam

Dr. Maria Carinnes ALEJANDRIA (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei)

• Title: Humanitarian Response in Urban Settings:
• Exploring the Role of Community Leaders during Complex Disasters in the Philippines
• Abstract
• Presentation

Germany

University of Passau

Dr. Kathrin Eveline PLANK (Academic Coucillor, University of Passau, Germany)

• Title: From Digital to Spatial Turn in Holocaust Education? (Re)Locating Remembrance and its Requirements and Opportunities for Media Education
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Dr.  Tamara RACHBAUER(Academic counselor, Chair of Education with a focus on Diversity Research and Educational Spaces in Middle Childhood, University of Passau, Germany)

• Title: Internationalization@home Promoting virtual mobility – an online group experiment
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Andrés David Castro LOTERO (PhD Student Communication Sciences, University of Passau, Germany)

• Title: Virtual reality and war reporting: uses, potentialities and challenges of 360° video to narrate armed conflicts
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Dr. Benjamin HEURICH (Research Associate, Chair of Education with a focus on Diversity Research and Educational Spaces in Middle Childhood, University of Passau, Germany)

• Title: A Social-theoretical Perspective on Educational Equality and Professional Teacher Training in Japan and Germany.
• Link to Abstract
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Ms. Siti MAIMUNAH (PhD Student, University of Passau, Germany)

• Title: Seeing Indonesia from East Kalimantan: An Invitation to Decolonizing Environmental Justice
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Norway

University of Bergen

Dr. Nathan HOPSON (Associate Professor, University of Bergen, Norway)

• Title: The MORALITY POLITICA of SPORKS in 1970s JAPAN
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Portugal

ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon

Dr. Jose CAMPINO (Professor, ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal)

• Title: Initial coin offerings (ICOs): Why do they succeed?
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• Presentation Documents
• Related articles

Spain

University of Malaga

Dr. Antonio PELAEZ-VERDET (Assistant professor., Dpt. of Management and Business,　University of Malaga, Spain)

• Title: The Cultural Heritage when Programming Cruise Itineraries
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• Presentation

Lee FRIEDERICH (Associate Professor), Naoko ARAKI (Professor), Joel FRIEDERICH (Associate Professor)

From Writing Workshop to Community Action: Storytelling as Immigration Advocacy

　Related Movie: Somali Stories of Family Separation in Barron, WI

Andy CROFTS (Professor), Reona YANAGI (AIU undergraduate student), Ryoka IGUCHI (AIU undergraduate student)

Adventures in the Lab: Building Analytical Thinking and Experimental Design Skills using Computer-Aided Design, 3D Printing, and the Phototrophic Protist Euglena gracilis

Attila EGRI-NAGY (Professor), Chrystopher L. NEHANIV（Professor University of Waterloo, Canada)

Computational Holonomy Decomposition of Transformation Semigroups

Irina KUZNETCOVA (Assistant Professor)

English-Medium Instruction in Japanese Universities: Focus on the Teacher

Hitoshi HORIUCHI (Associate Professor)

Syntactic Complexity of Oral and Written Outputs through Story-telling/writing in L2 Japanese: A Case of L1 English Learners

Yuto YOKOKURA (Graduate Student)

[Case study] The temporary use of L1 in an advanced classroom

• Lee FRIEDERICH (Associate Professor)
  Tomioka Taeko’s Poetry of Refusal
• Joel FRIEDERICH (Associate Professor)
  A Reading of Original Poetry: Merging Research and Creativity

• Andy CROFTS (Professor), Kaori FURUKAWA (AIU undergraduate student), Chiharu MORIYAMA (AIU undergraduate student)
  Using Computer-Aided Design and 3D Printing to Investigate Phototaxis in Euglena
• Attila EGRI-NAGY (Professor), Antti TÖRMÄNEN (Nihon Ki-in)
  Using Go AIs for detecting online cheating with Go AIs
• Kaeko CHIBA (Associate Professor)
  Traditional Arts in Higher Education
• Akiko FRISCHHUT (Assistant Professor)
  What Experience Cannot Tell Us About Time

• Wenti DU (Assistant Professor)
  Modeling contagion in the Eurozone: A Time-Varying Coefficients Approach

• Hinako ISHIKAWA
  Intersectionality in Japanese Queer Community ~We Are Not Just Gay~