Research resulting from a JSPS Short Term Award.

“ Reinterpreting silence in the second language classroom.”

Paper presented to the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference, March 6-9, The Sheraton Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia.

Citizen participation in the conservation and use of rural landscapes in Britain - the Alport Valley case study. Special Issue of the Springer Journal: Landscape and Ecological Engineering doi:10.1007/s11355-010-0115-2.

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The special issue is called "Local natural and cultural characteristics as the cornerstone of the future of rural landscapes -a comparative case study of cultural landscapes in Britain and Japan" and is edited by Prof. Katsue Fukamachi from Kyoto University.

The paper is an outcome of the research stay of Professor Lange as Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, Department of Natural Environment Studies with Professor Makoto Yokohari.

**Forthcoming**

62nd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), 11-16 September 2011, Niigata, Japan.

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(Congress Poster Presentations)

"Sub-micrometer Resolution Transverse Electron Beam Size Measurement System based on Optical Transition Radiation", in Proceedings of International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC'10, May 23 - 28, Kyoto, Japan, 2010, MOPEA052

"A Compact Soft X-ray Source based on Thomson Scattering of Coherent Diffraction Radiation", in Proceedings of International Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC'10, May 23 - 28, Kyoto, Japan, 2010, MOPEA053

**Forthcoming**

"Hybrid silicon-carbon nanostructures for photovoltaic applications" at EM-NANO 2010 (3rd International Symposium on Organic and Inorganic Electronic Materials and Related Nanotechnologies, Toyama, Japan, 22-25 June 2010).

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‘Citizenship education in Japan,” Conference on civic engagement at the University of York on 18 June 2010. The conference was hosted by the Department of Educational Studies, University of York with the support of the Society for Educational Studies.

2 papers were presented at “The International Symposium on Speed-up, Safety and Service Technology for Railway and Maglev Systems”, June 16-19, 2009, Niigata, Japan.

The papers have now been published in the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers:

Vasi__, G, Franklin, FJ, Fletcher, DI and Kapoor, A, Effect of traffic on crack initiation in rails, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Journal of Mechanical Systems for Transportation and Logistics, Vol. 3 (2010) pp.100-109

Hyde, P and Fletcher, DI, Planning rail grinding using crack growth predictions, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Journal of Mechanical Systems for Transportation and Logistics, Vol. 3 (2010) pp.216-225.

For more information please visit the group’s website at Sheffield University: www.merail.co.uk

Research continued on a project on Service Sector Innovation on a recent visit to Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration (RIEB), Kobe University. Seminars were presented and visits to companies made as part of the project.

The role of the ancestral tradition in bereavement in contemporary Japanese society. Mortality, 15 (4).

Presentation of details relating to joint UK-Japan research work at the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation’s 25th Anniversary celebrations, Embassy of Japan

JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship recipient publishes joint UK-Japan paper with Professor Yamada of Ochanomizu University in a Royal Society of Chemistry Journal, Chemical Communications

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"Handbook of Oral Cancer and Education- a Tested Guideline Protocol."

"Synthesis of a Highly Hydrophobic Cationic Lipid and its Structural and Thermodynamic Studies for Interaction with DNA."

Published by Professor Sakurai (Kitakyushu University) in the Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan.

[8] Kyushu University, Fukuoka (Japan) 20-04-2010

[7] University of Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu (Japan)

19-04-2010

[6] University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka (Japan)

16-04-2010

[5] Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo (Japan)

14-04-2010

[4] Kyoto University, Kyoto (Japan) 09-04-2010

[3] Ochanomizu University, Tokyo (Japan) 08-04-2010

[2] Tokyo University, Tokyo (Japan) 05-04-2010

[1] Osaka University, Osaka (Japan) 31-03-2010

Presentation Title: "Spectroscopy in Tandem with Microscopy on Rutile TiO2."

1st April 2010 at the Catalysis Research Center (CRC), Hokkaido University as part of the JSPS sponsored Fritz-Haber-Institut (Berlin)- CRC Joint International Symposium entitled "Surface Science and Catalysis for a Sustainable Society."

The following presentations were conducted as part of a JSPS BRIDGE Fellowship:

1. Seminar title: "The Spectroscopic Signature of Oxygen Vacancies on TiO2."

4th March 2010 at the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba

2. Seminar title: "Photoemission of defects on TiO2 (110) Under Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Control"

26th February 2010 at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (Wako), RIKEN

3. Seminar title: "Characterisation of Defects on Oxide Surfaces: TiO2 (110) and thin film CeO2 (111)."

1st February 2010 at the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University

4. Poster Presentation: "Self -assembled Metallic Nanowires on a Dielectric Support: Pd on TiO2 (110)",

13th January 2010 at the 7th International Workshop on Oxide Surfaces (Echigo-Yuzawa)