Factors Underlying the Formation of Industrial Clusters in Japan and Industrial Cluster Policy: A Quantitative Survey

The purpose of this report is to use information provided by a questionnaire survey to analyze the factors and processes underlying the formation of industrial clusters in Japan. The study, based on questionnaire surveys, forms part of an "Industrial Cluster Project". The Japanese government has implemented policies for industrial clusters so as to enable Japanese industries to maintain competitive power in global markets, and to aid the self-sufficient expansion of local industries. The government's project goes under the heading "Industry Agglomeration for the Recovery of Local Industries with respect to so-called "Industry Clusters." The authors aim to identify what expectations are held of government by the enterprises that make up industrial clusters. As part of our investigation, we used the results of a survey conducted by UNDP in 2004. Tsuji's study, published by the Osaka School of International Public Policy, surveyed 1198 small or medium sized manufacturing companies located in O ward, Tokyo and Higashi Osaka city, Osaka prefecture. The outcome of the present study, together with data from Tsuji's work on IT usage by SMEs in Japan, is meant to form the basis for policy design and implementation.

Resources to introduce Inquire Based Scientic Education in Secondary and High School

The global Hands-on Universe association is producing and distributing free resources world- wide to implement Inquire Based Scienti?c Education (IBSE) at secondary and high school levels. The materials are inspired in astronomical research and space exploration. The association is implementing the Galileo Teacher Training Program world-wide. In this contribution, a summary on the most recent resources being implemented by HOU-Espa~na and developed with Spanish participation is presented.

The role of automated feedback in training and retaining biological recorders for citizen science

© 2016 The Authors. Conservation Biology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Acknowledgments The authors thank H. H. Nguyen for his early development work on the BeeWatch interface; E. O'Mahony, I. Pearce, and R. Comont for identifying numerous photographed bumblebees; B. Darvill, D. Ewing, and G. Perkins for enabling our partnership with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust; and S. Blake for his investments in developing the NLG feedback. The study was part of the Digital Conservation project of dot.rural, the University of Aberdeen's Digital Economy Research Hub, funded by RCUK (grant reference EP/G066051/1).

Course of study : manual training department of the elementary public schools, Chicago, 1898-1899 /

Includes index to drawings.

Effective speech, including public speaking, mental training and the development of personality /

v. 1. Manual I-II. -- v. 2. Manual III-IV. -- v. 3. Manual V-VI. -- v. 4. Manual VII-VIII. -- v. 5. Manual IX-X. -- v. 6. Manual XI-XII.

Final report on a survey of training and research in applied mathematics in the United States,

Mode of access: Internet.

A brief history of the Industrial School for Boys, Lansing, Michigan, 1902.

Mode of access: Internet.

The industrial education survey of the city of New York.

Lewis A. Wislson, director.

Leadership training and parliamentary procedures for FFA /

Mode of access: Internet.

Stonewall Jackson: an address,

Mode of access: Internet.

Stonewall Jackson; address of Colonel R. P. Chew, chief of horse artillery, Army of northern Virginia, delivered at the Virginia military institute, Lexington, Virginia, on the unveiling of Ezekiel's statue of General T. J. Jackson, June 19, 1912.

Mode of access: Internet.

Life of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson) /

Abridged from the larger work of Professor Dabney.

History of the campaign of Gen. T.J. (Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia : From November 4, 1861, to June 17, 1862 /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Handbook on human resources and industrial and labor relations in selected industrial areas in New York State.

Mode of access: Internet.

The effectiveness of in-service training and of reduced workloads in aid to dependent children; a report of an experiment conducted in Michigan

Mode of access: Internet.