Identification of characteristics of foot position and angle during swing phase in fallers using principal component analysis.

Identifying the characteristics of fallers is important for preventing falls because such events may reduce quality of life. It has been reported that several variables related to foot positions and angles during gait (e.g.

Age Differences in the Interpretation of Facial Emojis: Classification on the Arousal-Valence Space.

Emojis are universal tools that are frequently used to express people's emotional states throughout daily communications. They are often applied in various fields of research, such as consumer surveys, as indicators of users' emotional states. Further analyses of emoji interpretation among people with age are required to ensure the validity of emojis as a metric in such fields of research, thereby reducing misunderstandings.

Classification of 74 facial emoji's emotional states on the valence-arousal axes.

Emojis are frequently used by people worldwide as a tool to express one's emotional states and have recently been considered for assessment in research. However, details regarding the ways in which they correspond to human emotional states remain unidentified. Thus, this study aimed to understand how emojis are classified on the valence and arousal axes and to examine the relationship between the former and human emotional states.

[Reliability and validity of the Japanese translation of Brief Self-Control Scale (BSCS-J)].

Self-control refers to the ability to execute goal-oriented behavior despite the presence of temptation(s) to do otherwise. Since self-control has a wide-range impact on our daily lives, it is of critical importance to assess individual differences of self-control with a highly reliable and valid, yet simple, measure. Toward this end, three studies were conducted to test reliability and validity of the Japanese-translated version of Brief Self-Control Scale (Tangney, Baumeister, & Boone, 2004).