Category: Research

Excited to be in the classroom again

Anderson Passos

Since my arrival at Lakeland University Japan I have been so busy with administrative duties that just imagining being in the classroom was overwhelming. Well, it seems that life does not wait for us to be ready. From May I will be teaching two courses, and I am very, very excited to be back in the classroom. The course will be something new to me, but a course that I have been planning and thinking about for a long time: Read More …

Two good news in one day

Anderson Passos

Today I got two surprises, both of them academic ones. The first one was a package from the SUTLF team. My paper from the 2017 conference was selected for publication in a book. No big deal, except that only 4 papers were selected. I feel really honored and happy for their selection. The second one was an evaluation copy of a book I am co-authoring. I haven’t got the evaluation copy myself,  but the publisher was distributing it during the Read More …

Introduction to Global Citizenship: At last, the material

Anderson Passos

Finally, the material for my ICT module is ready. It took me a while and although not perfect, it is good to go. Today we have our third class in the course where we discuss what a global citizen is. Next week I am changing classroom and will start the ICT module with a different cohort. So far so good, except that, for my lesson to go well, I need next week students to prepare for the class!!! This will Read More …

JSMBE54

Anderson Passos

The study presented here relates a tissue hardness (stiffness) measurement system, or more precisely for example, external labor transducer for monitoring of gravidae, including possible cases of fetal and maternal combined signal transducer. As a theory of measurement, suction cup is applied on subject body surface where the tissue hardness thereon or shallow depth, is to be measured. Unlike conventional “pushing” type measurement, our method is to apply negative pressure (sucking) thereon by suction cup. Response of the body surface Read More …