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Why Freeter and NEET are Misunderstood: Recognizing the New Precarious Conditions of Japanese Youth
In developed countries, the transition from school to work has radically changed over the past two decades. It has become prolonged, complicated and individualized (Bynner et al., 1997; Walther et al., 2004). Young people used to transition directly from school to stable employment, or with a very s...
Unemployment and innovation patterns: the role of business coordination and market competition
The paper explores the institutional determinants of differences in European, Japanese and American unemployment and innovation pattern in a comparative institutional analysis perspective. Building on the definition of different modes of coordination among firms, the question is addressed as to ho...
The bacterial flora of the gastro intestinal (GI) tract may be involved in chronic inflammation and colon cancer and affected by antibiotics, cytotoxic drugs and radiotherapy, trauma and intensive care therapy. It is important to map the mucosa-associated flora in healthy individuals to clarify the ...
The future of the U.S.-Japanese security alliance
"Das Ende des Kalten Krieges macht eine Neudefinierung der US-Japanischen-Sicherheitsbeziehungen erforderlich. Diese Analyse beleuchtet die Verhandlungen für eine neue bilaterale Sicherheitsallianz." (Autorenreferat)
Technology Transfer and Technological Capability Building in Informal Firms in Tanzania
Technology transfer is important to understand how knowledge is transformed to economic value. Applying a case study approach, this thesis investigates the technology transfer efforts from the University of Dar Es Salaam to indigenous informal SMEs in Tanzania and examines the impact of one of their...
Maglev (>400 km/h) refer to Maglev such as the Japanese JR-Maglev MLX, the German Transrapid and the USA Inductrack. The Swissmetro Project, presenting a unique aspect of Maglev, is designed to work under partial vacuum (400 km/h). The authors investigat...
Long memory and volatility dynamics in the US dollar exchange rate
This paper focuses on nominal exchange rates, specifically the US dollar rate vis-à-vis the Euro and the Japanese Yen at a daily frequency. We model both absolute values of returns and squared returns using long-memory techniques, being particularly interested in volatility modelling and forecasting...
Ein Vergleich der Umsatzzahlen zeigt, daß Japan im internationalen Vergleich nach Deutschland, Italien und den USA den vierten Rang bei der Herstellung von Holzbearbeitungsmaschinen einnimmt. Die auch in dieser Sparte stark technologie-orientierte Industrie konnte in den vergangenen zehn Jahren eine...
Japanese and German adolescents' control orientation a cross-cultural study
The purpose of this study was to compare the preference/or primary and secondary control among adolescents in "individualistic" (Canada. USA. Germany) and "collectivistic" (Malaysia and Japan) cultures. A total of 536 persons (195 males and 341 females) participated in the study and answered two que...
Japanese and German adolescents' control orientation : a cross-cultural study
The purpose of this study was to compare the preference/or primary and secondary control among adolescents in "individualistic" (Canada. USA. Germany) and "collectivistic" (Malaysia and Japan) cultures. A total of 536 persons (195 males and 341 females) participated in the study and answered two que...
International cooperation and its new challenges in fighting the new security threats
"Terrorismusbekämpfung verlangt nach mittel- und langfristigen Strategien und bedarf interregionaler Kooperation. Effektive ist sie nur, wenn die einzelnen Akteure Kenntnisse über die Gegebenheiten über den eigenen Horizont hinaus berücksichtigen." (Autorenreferat)
Der Zusammenhang zwischen einer erhöhten Herzfrequenz (HF) und kardialer Morbiditäten und Mortalität ist belegt. Durch die Entwicklung der If-Inhibitoren ergibt sich eine Möglichkeit, zur direkten Einflußnahme auf die HF. Mit Ivabradin (Iva) ist seit 2005 der erste Vertreter dieser Substanzklasse au...
On their first sexual encounter, naïve male Japanese quail will attend to and approach a female; they sometimes mount but they do not always copulate. During the second encounter, most males successfully copulate. Although sexual experience facilitates subsequent sexual interactions, sensory cues pr...
Effects of central administration of Naloxone on the extinction of appetitive sexual responses
Several studies indicate that opioids are involved in the control of consummatory sexual behavior in male Japanese quail. Naloxone has been reported to increase copulatory responses. In the current study, the effect of naloxone on appetitive sexual behaviors was assessed during extinction test trial...
Cultural universals: Measuring the semantic structure of emotion terms in English and Japanese
Research is presented on the semantic structure of 15 emotion terms as measured by judged-similarity tasks for monolingual English-speaking and monolingual and bilingual Japanese subjects. A major question is the relative explanatory power of a single shared model for English and Japanese versus cul...
Comparaison de trois index de qualité de l'huître creuse Crassostrea gigas
Three indexes of quality of Japanese oyster Crassostrea gigas were studied in 3 lots of oysters bred in the r.1arennes-oléron basin from february to july 1979: condition index of MEDCOF &-. NEEDLER, thickness coefficient of IMAI & SAKAI and external quality coefficient of BERTHOME. These different ...
Business R&D expenditure and capital in Europe
This study presents new estimates of business R&D capital stocks for 22 countries at the aggregate and industry levels. At 9 percent of GDP, the EU business R&D capital stock falls short of its US and Japanese counterparts. Within the EU, R&D capital stocks are much lower in the southern and the new...
Bone turnover markers and prediction of bone loss in elderly women
Around 70,000 osteoporosis-related fractures occur in Sweden annually and approximately half of the women in western world will sustain a fragility fracture after the age of 50 years. Fracture preventive efforts require the identification of individuals who are at high risk. Biochemical markers of b...
Recent identification of a C3-like gene in sea urchins revealed the presence of a complement system in invertebrates. To elucidate further the components and function of the pre-vertebrate complement system, we attempted to isolate an ascidian (urochordata) C3 convertase. After identification of C3 ...
Many OECD economies suffered a productivity slowdown beginning in the early 1970s. However, the increase in unemployment that followed this slowdown was more pronounced in European economies relative to the USA. In this paper we present an efficiency wage model, which enables us to identify two basi...
Uppsatsens syfte är att se hur homosexuella diskurser är framställda i utvalda japanska tecknade TV-serier för barn, samt hur dessa ändrats när dessa TV-serier importerats till USA. Med utgångspunkt från Norman Faircloughs diskursanalytiska modell har nyckelscener från de utvalda TV-serierna Cardcap...
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