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This article reports on a first-person action research study in which the teacher-researcher reflects in/on his three-cycle (three-semester) project on summative peer assessment undertaken by undergraduate students using a rating scale. The settings for each cycle were two successive interpreting classes taught by the researcher using the same teaching materials. In each cycle, the participants (students in the two intact classes) were provided with training opportunities for 4 weeks running before the midterm examination. Their examination performances were assessed "post situ" by either classmates or students in the other class. The way in which the project was implemented in each cycle was changed according to the researcher's analysis of data collected. Data collection methods included reflective journals, interviews, rating sheets, end-of-semester questionnaires, and a validation meeting. This study demonstrates the credibility, benefits, and procedural difficulties of scale-referenced, summative peer assessment in a local interpreter training situation.

To provide clear see‐through image quality is one of the most important performances of a transparent display, because of its see‐through capability. Purity is one of the quantitative measure can evaluate the see‐through image quality in terms of perceived blurriness. In this paper, the characteristics of purity are investigated. Experimental results indicate that the purity values have highly correlated with perceptual blurriness of see‐through images. Furthermore, the perceptual limit of purity value is also derived. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Interpreting Self-Efficacy (ISE) is the belief one holds about their own interpreting capabilities. One of the first instruments to measure this self-belief is S.-B. Lee's ISE scale, a statistically sound self-report questionnaire designed to measure the ISE levels of undergraduate students majoring in consecutive interpreting (Cronbach's a = 0.896). In theory, this scale helps to predict how successful a student will be in an interpreting task. The present study aims to show whether there is a strong correlation between ISE and actual performance among undergraduate students. For this purpose, the study was conducted in three steps. First, the ISE scale was administered to 33 undergraduate students enrolled in an advanced course on consecutive interpreting, in order to measure the students' ISE levels. Second, the students' interpreting performances were assessed on multiple occasions, using triangulation involving three different assessor groups, namely the classroom teacher, peer students, and external raters. Third, statistical analysis was performed to find out whether there is a relationship (and what kind of relationship exists) between the students' ISE and performance levels. Findings from this study and their implications for interpreter training are also discussed.

Electrophotography is a digital, on-demand, dry, and page printing technique that operates based on toner particles of electronic materials using an electrostatic force and generates an electrical circuit via distribution of the toner particles. We developed a 10 μ m linewidth resolution with various electronic materials, including conductors, semiconductors, and insulators, without any chemical pretreatments on the substrate films, while a 5 μ m resolution was also possible for limited materials. The electrical resistivity of the printed Ag–Ni after an intense pulse light sintering was comparable to that of commercial indium tin oxide transparent films. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BACKGROUND: To control subterranean termite pests, chitin synthesis inhibitor (CSI) baits have been widely applied. Despite CSI baits having low impacts on the environment, they require a lengthy time period to eliminate colonies. 20‐hydroxyecdysone (20E) was proposed to speed up the baiting process as it showed faster mortality than CSI baits. However, the efficacy of 20E has previously not been tested at the colony level prior to applying in the field. RESULTS: We compared the effect of 20E, 20E + noviflumuron, noviflumuron and untreated control using colonies of Coptotermes formosanus. Our result revealed that both 20E and 20E + noviflumuron did not accelerate colony elimination and termite activity remained relatively stable during the observation periods. To determine the limited effects of 20E, we further investigated feeding duration and consumption amount of 20E with different concentrations (control, 100 and 1000 ppm) for 10 days. Termites ceased feeding after 1 day in 100 and 1000 ppm treatment and 100% mortality was observed within 10 days in 1000 ppm 20E, while mortality in the 100 ppm 20E treated group was much lower than that in the 1000 ppm group. Furthermore, no termites molted in the control and termites died from hyperecdysonism in 1000 ppm 20E treatment, whereas about 20% of termites molted in 100 ppm 20E. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated that 20E may not be suitable as a sole active ingredient to accelerate elimination of a subterranean termite colony, while CSI baits and lower concentrations of 20E may reduce the lengthy time period in colony elimination. © 2023 Society of Chemical Industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the importance of peer assessment in interpreter education, little is known about how peer assessment is experienced by interpreting students. This case study aims to explore how undergraduate students feel about their scale-referenced, peer assessment activities in/for an interpreting examination. For this purpose, three Korean undergraduate students' self-reports of what they experienced in a scale-referenced summative peer assessment project were analysed in detail, using Giorgi's descriptive phenomenological method. The analysis revealed a general meaning structure consisting of the following six constituents: the students (1) worry about the proposed peer assessment scheme and their ability, (2) feel empowered and responsible, (3) realise that assessment results may be greatly divergent, (4) have difficulty applying criteria in practice and suffer from rating fatigue, (5) believe that peer assessment is reliable and helpful and (6) express regrets about feedback. This study provides a better empirical understanding of what peer assessment is like, particularly for teachers interested in scale-referenced, summative peer assessment.

Reticulitermes speratus (Kolbe) is economically important pest in East Asia including Korea, Japan, and China where they infest wooden structures in urban areas. Previously, it has been reported that R. speratus consists of 5 subspecies, R. speratus kyushuensis Morimoto, R. speratus speratus Kolbe, R. speratus leptolabralis Morimoto, R. speratus okinawanus Morimoto, R. speratus yaeyamanus Morimoto, while only R. speratus kyushuensis was recorded in Korea in the past. However, it remains elusive if different subspecies of R. speratus other than R. speratus kyushuensis are present in Korea. In this study, we report the first record of R. speratus speratus from Korea, which was verified using soldier morphology and molecular characteristics obtained from a mitochondrial gene. R. speratus speratus Kolbe, 1885 (Blattodea: Rhinotermitidae) are found in several provinces, mainly southern regions in Korea, whereas R. speratus kyushuensis are distributed throughout the country. Our morphological comparison showed that R. speratus speratus can be distinguishable from R. speratus kyushuensis by the ratio of the posterior postmentum width to length. In the molecular comparison, R. speratus speratus revealed genetic differences of 3.06% (range 2.60–4.10%) from R. speratus kyushuensis using cytochrome oxidase subunit II gene sequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]