Dissertations / Theses: 'Relation (general) with Japan'

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Backman, Mayumi. "Teaching Methods in Japan with relation to English Syntax." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-17854.

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Barnes, Dayna. "Armchair occupation : American wartime planning for postwar Japan, 1937-1945." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2013. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/855/.

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By the late 1930s, it became clear to informed Americans that the international system in East Asia had failed. The outbreak of war between Japan and China in 1937 demonstrated that the current system could no longer provide stability in the region. Four years later, Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor ended American neutrality and united the regional conflict with the World War. Even as war raged, Japanese aggression raised questions for the future. If Imperial Japan, the most powerful country in Asia, were defeated, what might replace its regional dominance? What would become of its colonies? What had caused Japanese militarism, and how could its resurgence be prevented? If America were to emerge from the war powerful enough to reshape global politics, what future for Japan would best serve American interests? The story of how these questions were answered and why a particular set of responses became American policy is the subject of this dissertation. This work provides an account of the post-war planning process and the deliberative period which shaped American policy towards Japan after surrender in 1945. It will look at how these questions came to be answered, both in terms of the formulation of actual policies implemented after the war and the inputs and environment in which responses developed. Much has been written on the outcome of these choices, there have been many histories of the postwar occupation of Japan and postwar US-Japan relations. But very little attention has been given to where the eventual policy came from. By bringing the aims and intentions of the planners to light, this work provides a new perspective on the policy that the United States imposed on Japan during the occupation period and after.

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Sato, Atsuko. "A Study of Japan's Foreign Policy Behavior: The Discrepancy between Japan's Foreign Policy and Its Voting Behavior in the United Nations General Assembly." PDXScholar, 1994. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4787.

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Japan has maintained a low profile in its diplomacy since the end of World War II, relying heavily on the United States for its security and prosperity. The cold war structure allowed Japan to maintain its passive foreign policy behavior. By the end of 1980s, West-East confrontations largely ended and global issues such as arms control, environmental problem, human rights, economic development, and ethnic conflicts became the main international concerns. It was expected that in this changed world environment, Japan as an economic power, would take on a more active international role. Yet Japan has not shown any significant political initiative despite of its willingness to contribute to international peace and prosperity. The primary purpose of this thesis is to identify the underlying factors that have kept Japan from being a strong voice and taking initiatives in world affairs. This study presents Japan's official guidelines on global issues as its foreign policy. The guidelines indicate that Japanese foreign policy is too general and broad; it aims at cooperation with everybody. Japan's foreign-policy behavior is represented by its voting behavior in the United Nations General Assembly. Inasmuch as it has adopted a U.N.-centered diplomacy, I believe that Japan's voting in the U.N. delineates its foreign-policy behavior. A statistical method of factor analysis I apply in this study delineates Japan's stance and voting cohesion issue by issue. The voting maps reveal Japan's ambivalent stance on most of the issues. Japan's voting pattern often does not follow its idealistic guidelines. The study further inquires into the discrepancy between Japan's foreign policy and its foreign-policy behavior. The main reasons seem to stem from its dependent security relations with the United States, the close economic ties with Asian countries and the oil-producing Middle East states, and historical constraints in relations with Asia. In addition, Japan's ambiguous foreign policy guidelines are themselves a factor which creates the discrepancy. These factors prevent Japan from independently reacting to international incidents. Yet given its financial and technological advances, Japan could play a leading role within the framework of international organizations, especially on global environmental issues.

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Kim, Hyun-Wook. "Critical junctures and alliance cohesion : the post-Cold War US-Korea and US-Japan alliances." View abstract/electronic edition; access limited to Brown University users, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3318340.

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Uyar, Aysun. "Chinese And Japanese Economic Attitutes Towards Association Of Southeast Asian Nations." Master's thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12604803/index.pdf.

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In recent years, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has become the main driving force of the economic dynamism of Southeast Asia. Japan, being the economic leader of the Southeast Asian countries during the 1980s and the early 1990s, is in a declining position in terms of leadership. Japan has also been experiencing economic recession since the mid-1990s and displaying only subtle signs of recovery recently. China, however, has taken the advantage of being the most demanding market of the region and already established the functional mechanisms of economic integration with ASEAN. This economic configuration of the region is the main inquiry of this study. Although the growing economic integration of China with ASEAN is fairly recent, it is generally discussed in the academic circles, that China has been taking the lead as an economic player in Southeast Asia. However, it is argued in this study that China is not yet ready to replace Japan as an economic leader of Southeast Asian in the long-term. Given the recent economic interaction between ASEAN and China, it is early to predict that China would replace Japan'
s leading economic position. In addition to that, China'
s blooming economy with its domestic crisis potential and China'
s long-erm geo-strategic interests in the South China Sea should also be taken into account while analysing economic potentials of Japan and China in the ASEAN market. The study examines the related literature with a comparative methodology including the analysis of the recent statistical data and survey of the news.

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Sayan, Serdar. "A computable general equilibrium analysis of U.S. budget and current account deficits, their interrelationship and sectoral effects with special reference to bilateral economic relations with Japan : 1982-1986 /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487777170404404.

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Gonen, Hakan. "Japan." Phd thesis, METU, 2013. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615372/index.pdf.

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This dissertation aims at exploring and analysing the effects of Japan&rsquo
s trust-based relations in the region of East Asia in the post-Cold War period within the framework of its anti-militaristic state identity and outlook. The main research question is based on how the Japanese policy makers constructed the meaning of the post-Cold War period, opening the ways and ideas to solidify the anti-militaristic state identity and posture. In this sense, Japan provides a significant case study for examining ontological security. The main argument of dissertation is based on building up Japan&rsquo
s ontological security structure in the regional context. Since the end of the Second World War, Japan has pursued an anti-militaristic state identity and posture. This attitude has been the guiding principle of Tokyo&rsquo
s foreign and security policy. In this dissertation, for the continuance of anti-militaristic identity successfully in the post-Cold War period, Japanese policy decision-makers have both configured and further sustained the country&rsquo
s trust-based relations with neighbouring countries in the region. This dissertation was analysed under the five main headings except the introduction chapter: (1) The historical background telling the story of anti-militaristic identity and posture of Japan, (2) Japan&rsquo
s emerging human security agenda in the Post-Cold War period, (3) Japan&rsquo
s cooperative initiatives at the regional level by focusing in particular on APEC and ARF. (4) Japan&rsquo
s relations with the significant others for its identity preservation. (5) The conclusions.

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Ichikawa, Midori. "American missionaries in contemporary Japan their shared expressive practices /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3354913.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2009.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Feb. 4, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-04, Section: A, page: 1378. Adviser: Roger L. Janelli.

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Karlström, Carl. "Pojkars relation till läsning." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-33160.

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Onishi, Hiroko. "Well-known trade mark protection : confusion in EU and Japan." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2009. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/210843/.

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In this thesis concerning the protection of well-known trade marks against confusion in the European Community Trade Mark (CTM) and Japanese trademark systems, the author critically considers the difficulties in comprehensively defining ‘well-known trade mark’ in the relevant international trade mark instruments. After critical analysis of various definitions of both ‘trade mark’ and ‘well-known trade mark’, she undertakes a comparison of the definitions of the parallel concepts of ‘trade mark of repute’ and ‘syuchi-syohyo’, and also undertakes an assessment as to the extent to which these trade marks are protected against confusion and kondo in the CTM and Japanese systems, respectively. It is concluded that the protection of well- known trade marks against confusion in the CTM and Japan cannot be said to be completely clear, and the author identifies some areas for legal reform

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Johnson, Christopher S. "The United States-Japan Security Treaty of 1951: An Essay on the Origins of Postwar Japanese-American Relation." PDXScholar, 1993. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4596.

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The early September day in 1951 that brought the Pacific War to an official end, with the signing of a treaty of peace, concluded as representatives of Japan and the United States signed the Bilateral Security Treaty. The security treaty symbolized new realities of international relations, just as the peace treaty had buried the old. By cementing into place a strategic alliance between the former Pacific antagonists, the treaty represented the great and lasting achievement of postwar American diplomacy in Asia. Nevertheless, the treaty was both the outcome and the perpetuation of a stereotyped and lopsided relationship, now fixed firmly into place, as a Japan diminished by defeat acceded to the necessity of a security embrace with its former conqueror, and the United States enlisted a most valued, albeit a most reluctant ally for the ongoing struggle to meet and defeat the Soviet threat. At the end of the Pacific War such an outcome had been beyond the pale. The security treaty was the product of years of crisis adaptation. Hopes that the U.S. could make China the great power of Asia were dashed by revolution. As cherished verities of U.S. diplomacy fell by the wayside, new truisms, based upon strategic interests inherited from victory in the Pacific and the cold war policy of containment, staunchly rose to assume their place. As a result, U.S. attitudes towards Japan underwent a tortuous reassessment. The initial occupation policies of disarmament and reform were replaced by the urgent need to enlist Japan as a vital cold war asset. However, this reorientation was not easily accomplished. Competing interests within the U.S. Government clashed over the means necessary to insure Japan's security and stability, while also guaranteeing the creation of a reliable ally -- a debate that became ever more heated as the cold war intensified. The Japanese, at great disadvantage, skillfully attempted to negotiate a role for themselves in the postwar world, eager for an alliance, yet fearful of domination. The goal of this thesis is to chart and document the evolution of this policy transformation, in all its twists and odd turns. To accomplish this task I turned to an older tradition of political science, one widely practiced at the dawn of the discipline. To be sure, judicious use was made of many of the theories and methodological approaches prevalent currently. Yet while useful at times, these methods often failed to adequately explain those indeterminate moments of idiosyncratic chance and contingency of events upon which so much, to my mind, the final outcome depended. I turned therefore to a more historical approach. My primary sources became the diplomatic record as revealed in the Foreign Relations of the United States and the memoirs of those who participated in the fashioning of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty. By the time the security treaty was concluded, the agreement reached was not one of shared joint purpose, but one which defined and gave sanction to diverging national aims that could not, nonetheless, be realized in isolation. The continued U.S. military presence in Japan had been the goal of a policy process ultimately defined in military terms, as the final bastion of cold war containment on the rim of Asia. The Japanese understood the need for security in a volatile world, but not the necessity of providing it for themselves, as the postwar political system slowly organized around emerging economic priorities. It was an odd arrangement, but one which met respective needs and desires. Yet its lack of reciprocity and mutual commitment has ensured through the years the continuation of an ambiguous and uncertain alliance.

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Choi, Peter. "The Abenomics Difference: Three Arrows of Roosevelt Resolve in Japan." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:26519854.

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This study investigates Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic policy package, known as “Abenomics.” Abenomics is intended to end two decades of deflation in Japan, based on a Three Arrow approach (monetary policy, fiscal stimulus, and structural reform). This study examines how it is different from past policies and actions, its initial results, and the outlook concerning future results. In 1990, Japan’s asset bubble burst and the country became mired in two decades of deflation and low GDP growth. This study examines existing analysis and compare past policies to the present. It concludes that although the First Arrow (monetary policy) and Second Arrow (fiscal stimulus) have been able to achieve initial success, Abenomics may struggle to succeed without a firmly executed Third Arrow (structural reform). All three arrows are needed. However, many difficult barriers pose an obstacle for reform. American President Roosevelt also pursued aggressive measures in the 1930’s to take the United States out of the Great Depression. Roosevelt’s resolve was instrumental in his succeed. Japan will need seamless and simultaneous execution of the Three Arrows, along with aggressive Roosevelt Resolve to ensure success in its domain.

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Ueno, Tomotake. "Subsurface discontinuities derived from receiver function analysis in southwest Japan : relation to seismic activity." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/136772.

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Nagai, Trevor Paul. "Financial fragility and corporate debt: An empirical investigation of Canada, United States and Japan." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/10295.

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The paper will assess the relevance of a rising debt to equity ratio for the fragility of the Canadian, U.S., and Japanese economies. In addition, it will also attempt to ascertain the significance of the nonfinancial corporations' liquidity and profits, as well as, the effects of moral hazard, adverse selection, and investor's confidence to the fragility problem. A series of Granger causality tests are performed in addition to the general statistical analysis of each country. The basic finding is that, despite a somewhat different banking structure, a rising debt to equity seems to be an important factor for the long-run stability of both the Canadian and U.S. economies. Whereas, in Japan, this seems to be less of a factor due to the relatively close ties between the banking and nonfinancial corporate sectors. Moreover, the lack of the moral hazard and adverse selection problems, coupled with the relatively smaller use of the securities market, the higher liquidity ratio, and the cooperative attitude of the Japanese workers and consumers, constitutes additional reasons as to why rising debt to equity has played less of a significant role in Japan.

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Lebo, Franklin Barr. "Between bureaucracy and democracy| Regulating administrative discretion in Japan." Thesis, Kent State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3618878.

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This study explores the link between democracy and bureaucracy using Japan as the critical case study. The research question is whether competition by multiple principals creates opportunities for bureaucratic drift. This project hypothesizes that policy settings including multiple principals (independent variable) are more likely to manifest bureaucratic drift (dependent variable). At the same time, policy settings excluding multiple principals (independent variable) are more likely to manifest less bureaucratic drift (dependent variable). Variation in agent discretion is the critical effect of the independent variable (i.e., number of principals) on the dependent variable (bureaucratic drift).

Evaluating the exercise of discretion of administrators is feasible if one's evidence is primarily from the administrators themselves. To test these hypotheses, therefore, this project adopts a research design based on a qualitative case study methodology. The case studies include four of Japan's ministries: the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), the Ministry of Land, Industry, Transportation, and Tourism (MLITT), and the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW). Likewise, the role of the National Personnel Authority (NPA) in the administrative system is also evaluated. Research participants include both participants in the Mike Mansfield Fellowship Program along with NPA administrators.

This study contributes to the extant corpus of research in a number of salient respects. First, this project proposes a different dependent variable in that most studies are focused on administrative reform whereas the focus here is on bureaucratic drift. Second, this project discusses the important effect of bureaucratic discretion. Third, while relevant to the quality of the Japanese democracy in particular, these findings may be leveraged to a larger conversation about the relationship between bureaucracy and democracy in the Asian context and perhaps beyond. Finally, this project provides an explicit policy recommendation for contemporary Japanese politics proposing that greater authority be delegated to administrative agents, albeit supervised by a powerful intermediary, to minimize bureaucratic drift.

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Davies, Ceri Rees. "The Taylor principle and the Fisher relation in general equilibrium." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2013. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/57432/.

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This thesis presents a structural framework which accounts for two key empirical phenomena in monetary economics: the ‘Taylor principle’ and the ‘Fisher relation’. The former suggests that there exists a greater-than-proportional relationship between the nominal interest rate and inflation in the short-run and the latter implies that a one-for-one relationship holds at lower frequencies. Although these relationships do feature in the ubiquitous, ‘cashless’ New Keynesian framework, it has been suggested that monetary variables are required in order to render this model ‘complete’ (e.g. Nelson, 2008a). Chapter-I demonstrates that an ‘implicit’ interest rate rule can be derived as a general equilibrium condition of models in which the central bank adheres to a money growth rule. Chapter-II compares the equilibrium condition of a standard cash-in-advance model to the interest rate rule of Taylor (1993) for a post-war sample of U.S. data. However, we demonstrate that in order to replicate the Taylor principle, the underlying model must be generalised to allow the velocity of money to vary. We use the model of Benk et al. (2008, 2010) to do so and show analytically that the resulting ‘implicit rule’ features the requisite greater-than-proportional relationship. Chapter-III applies standard econometric techniques to simulated data obtained from the Benk et al. model and the estimates obtained offer support for this theoretical prediction. Chapter-IV establishes that the Fisher relation emerges when low frequency trends in the simulated data are retained and under a related ‘long-run’ implicit rule. Chapter-IV also considers the post-war sample of U.S. data analysed in Chapter-II. While disparate empirical literatures have obtained evidence for both the Taylor principle and the Fisher relation, we show that these results can be obtained from a unified theoretical framework. Several restricted empirical specifications further suggest that standard interest rate rules which omit monetary variables might provide biased coefficient estimates.

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Gowlett, Benjamin. "Justice denied? : the trial of general Yamashita Tomoyuki /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18980.pdf.

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Alkandari, Faridah Mohammad E. "HDL-structure and function in relation to cardiovascular disease." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8277/.

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Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the most common cause of death in Western societies. This disease affects both men and women and accounts for approximately 500,000 deaths annually in the U.S.A. alone. For a number of years, plasma concentration of HDL cholesterol (HDL-C) was found to correlate inversely with the incidence of coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis. In addition, other studies in humans showed that higher plasma HDL-C levels correlates with slower progression of atherosclerotic lesions and possible stabilization of unstable atherosclerotic plaque. These findings have led to the suggestion that raising HDL-C will protect from the disease. One of the first trials demonstrating the potential benefit of raising HDL-C levels was the Helsinki Heart Study. In this randomized trial, 4081 men with dyslipidemia received gemfibrozil or placebo and five years later it was seen that the drug reduced CHD risk. Gemfibrozil treatment increased HDL-C levels by 11% but also reduced total plasma cholesterol levels by 10%, LDL-C cholesterol levels by 11% and triglyceride levels by 35%. Although all fibrates have been revealed to raise HDL-C significantly, their overall effect on all-cause mortality and cardiac mortality remains debatable. More recent studies have suggested that the relationship between HDL and cardiovascular risk is more complex than first thought and extends beyond consideration of levels of total HDL-C in plasma. In particular, Mendelian randomization studies challenged the existing view on HDL-C and cardiovascular risk and prompted a discussion as to whether low HDL-C is a causal risk factor for the development of heart disease. In parallel, research interest has intensified in studies aimed at better understanding the many biological functions of HDL and the partner proteins and receptors with which it interacts. There have been a number of studies over recent years indicating that HDL can fail to function effectively in subjects at risk for coronary diseases. It is important therefore to attempt to understand if abnormalities in HDL function are associated with variation in CVD risk. This is especially true in light of the failure of recent trials that raise total HDL to reduce risk of myocardial infarction and CVD. A feature that appears to be related to the atheroprotective functions of HDL is the relative level and distribution of HDL subpopulations in different individuals. Although HDL is unusually regarded as a single entity in clinical settings, studies using non- denaturing two-dimensional electrophoresis have revealed a number of HDL particles with distinct shape, size and composition. Along the same lines, administration of statins - a medication proven to reduce CHD risk - to patients increases specific subpopulation of HDL suggesting that some of the atheroprotective properties of statins may be mediated by increasing selected HDL subpopulations. The overall objective of the present work was to examine in details the relationship of HDL oxidation potential, the ability of HDL to protect LDL from oxidation, and the abundance of the major antioxidant enzyme, PON1, to atherosclerosis in a cross section of subjects recruited from across the social economic spectrum in the West of Scotland (the pSoBid study). PSoBid is valuable as a means of testing these properties of HDL because of its mix of males and females, wide age range, and the fact that it focused in recruiting people at extremes of social deprivation with widely varying lifestyles. The population has been well characterized in terms of classical risk factors and this thesis takes the investigation to a new level of detail with respect to HDL. The major questions addressed were: 1. Is HDL oxidation (measured by three factors; time at half maximum (T1/2max), maximum velocity of oxidation (Vmax), or maximum amount of oxidized HDL measured by optical density) related to a commonly used index of atherosclerosis? 2. Is HDL antioxidant potency to protect LDL from oxidation related to its protective effect in atherosclerosis risk? 3. Is HDL PON1 activity related to atherosclerotic marker? 4. If some HDL subclasses, rather than HDL-C, are particularly related to atherosclerosis? Our major findings revealed that: 1. HDL is more readily oxidized in those subgroups associated with less atherosclerosis. 2. The susceptibility of HDL to oxidation was also related to lifestyle factors associated with less atherosclerotic disease such as moderate alcohol intake, not smoking, active exercise habit and high intake of fruits and vegetables. 3. For HDL structure, %HDL2b was inversely associated with atherosclerosis while %HDL3b was directly associated with atherosclerosis. 4. Comparing the two factors which were inversely associated with atherosclerosis, HDL oxidation and the distribution of HDL subpopulations, our results revealed that HDL oxidation potential was more important than the percentage HDL subfraction distribution in relation to atherosclerosis. 5. HDL mediated inhibition of LDL oxidation was not found to be associated with carotid atherosclerosis nor did it appear to be related to major risk factors. Our interpretation for atherosclerosis is that HDL particles, which are very abundant in the circulation, might play a sacrificial role in that they are oxidized first and therefore have the capacity to prevent LDL oxidation in vivo.

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Cameron, Owen Kyle. "The political ecology of environmentalism in Japan : protest and participation, 1983-1995." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272270.

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Druet, Lucile. "KUMONEKOTABI L'art de la relation, la relation comme oeuvre d'art : Japon, emprunts, possibles et nuances comme dispositifs formels pour une figure photographique entre paysage, animal et détour. Passages." Thesis, Saint-Etienne, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014STET2202.

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Réfléchir les images pour réfléchir le monde. Entre unité, éclats et nuances, Kumonekotabi est un travail de recherche fonctionnant à la fois sur des images et des écritures qui sont comme autant d’espaces où une figure photographique entretient une relation à la fois simple et pourtant liée avec le Japon. Construites sur des modalités comme le plié, l’encadré, le sériel, les images construisent une logique bricolée mais également performative qui expose le corps capté dans sa relation avec le Japon, ses rêves et ses ancrages. Le travail d’écriture est une analyse de ces mêmes images, mettant en évidence les histoires mais aussi les forces et les intertextes qui habitent leurs territoires.Ainsi, à la fois théoricienne, poète et plasticienne, Kumonekotabi est une thèse éventail, entremêlant expériences visuelles et écrites avec la culture japonaise. C’est une ouverture et une fermeture, une interface de créativité, un espace entre lenteur et vitesse, la maturation et la fulgurance. Un phénomène qui avec ces emmêlements nous donne finalement les outils pour comprendre la pertinence de cet archipel éphémère créé par les images et leur simultanéité.En cela, Kumonekotabi est un travail qui envisage avec des images et leurs interprétations une certaine idée de la limite et de l’écart, du contact et de la distance. Un travail d’ambiance pris dans ce dialogue entre l’art de la relation, la relation comme œuvre d’art pour aboutir à cette idée que réfléchir les images permet de comprendre une certaine partie de notre monde et vice-versa
Think about the pictures to think about the world. Between unity, slivers and nuances, Kumonekotabi is a research work balanced between visual shapes and articulated theory, both working like spaces where the idea of a photographic figure is having a simple and yet established relationship with Japan.Based on visual specificities like folds, frames, series, the pictures are building an homemade logic but also a performative one that display the captured body in its relationship with Japan, its dreams and anchors. The writing part then is an analysis of those very pictures, putting together the stories but also the strenghts and the interexts living in their territories.Thus, at the same time theoritical, poetic and artistic, Kumonekotabi is a dissertation to be considered like a fan, intertwining visual and literary experiences with the Japanese culture. It’s an opening, a creative interface, a space between slowness and speed, maturation and outbreaks. A phenomenon that, with its intricacy, gives us tools to understand the relevance of this archipelago created by the pictures and their simultaneity.In short, Kumonekotabi is a dissertation to contemplate with pictures and their interpretations a certain idea of limits and contrasts, contacts and distances. An atmospheric work placed in this dialog between the art of relation, relationship as a work of art in order to get to this idea that thinking about pictures allows to understand a certain part of our world, and vice-versa

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Bafarawa, Buhari Attahiru. "Structural characterisation of porous materials in relation to entrapment of non-wetting fluids." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2015. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28320/.

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An understanding of the physical mechanisms by which non-wetting fluids become entrapped is important to oil recovery techniques from reservoir rocks, and the structural characterization of porous media. The mechanisms of entrapment and the spatial distribution of non-wetting fluid (mercury) within model materials with similar chemical and geometrical properties to oil reservoir rocks have been investigated using mercury porosimetry and computed X-ray tomography. The combination of both techniques has allowed the direct observation of entrapped mercury within the model materials. In this thesis, a novel experimental technique involving combined mercury porosimetry and mercury thermoporosimetry techniques has been used to determine pore size distributions for disordered porous solids. Mercury porosimetry was conducted, and the mercury entrapped following porosimetry was used as the probe fluid for thermoporosimetry. The fully integrated combination of techniques described here permits the validation of assumptions used in one technique by another. Mercury porosimetry scanning curves were used to establish the correct correspondence between the appropriate Gibbs-Thomson parameter, and the nature of the meniscus geometry in melting, for thermoporosimetry measurements on entrapped mercury. Mercury thermoporosimetry has been used to validate the pore sizes, for a series of sol-gel silica materials, obtained from mercury porosimetry data using the independently-calibrated Kloubek correlations. A Liquid-liquid exchange (LLE) process within mesoporous materials has also been investigated using NMR relaxometry and NMR diffusimetry experiments. In this method, a high affinity liquid (water) displaced a low affinity liquid (cyclohexane) from the sol-gel silica samples. Entrapment of low affinity liquid was observed which was similar to the entrapment of non- wetting fluid observed in mercury porosimetry. In addition, the molecular diffusion of n-pentane has been measured in mesoporous sample using PFG NMR method in a broad temperature range.

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Niemiec, Anna, Eric Jullo, Marceau Limousin, Carlo Giocoli, Thomas Erben, Hendrik Hildebrant, Jean-Paul Kneib, et al. "Stellar-to-halo mass relation of cluster galaxies." OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625737.

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In the formation of galaxy groups and clusters, the dark matter haloes containing satellite galaxies are expected to be tidally stripped in gravitational interactions with the host. We use galaxy-galaxy weak lensing to measure the average mass of dark matter haloes of satellite galaxies as a function of projected distance to the centre of the host, since stripping is expected to be greater for satellites closer to the centre of the cluster. We further classify the satellites according to their stellar mass: Assuming that the stellar component of the galaxy is less disrupted by tidal stripping, stellar mass can be used as a proxy of the infall mass. We study the stellar-to-halo mass relation of satellites as a function of the cluster-centric distance to measure tidal stripping. We use the shear catalogues of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) science verification archive, the Canada-France-Hawaii Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS) and the CFHT Stripe 82 surveys, and we select satellites from the redMaPPer catalogue of clusters. For galaxies located in the outskirts of clusters, we find a stellar-to-halo mass relation in good agreement with the theoretical expectations from Moster et al. for central galaxies. In the centre of the cluster, we find that this relation is shifted to smaller halo mass for a given stellar mass. We interpret this finding as further evidence for tidal stripping of dark matter haloes in high-density environments.

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Wanser, Donna L. "The emotional intelligence of general counsels in relation to lawyer leadership." PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3499361.

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Abrar, Muhammad. "Enforcement and regulation in relation to TV broadcasting in Pakistan." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3771/.

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In 2002, private broadcasters started their own TV transmissions after the creation of the Pakistan Electronic Media Authority. This thesis seeks to identify the challenges to the Pakistan public and private electronic media sectors in terms of enforcement. Despite its importance and growth, there is a lack of research on the enforcement and regulatory supervision of the electronic media sector in Pakistan. This study examines the sector and identifies the action required to improve the current situation. To this end, it focuses on five aspects: (i) Institutional arrangements: institutions play a key role in regulating the system properly. (ii) Legislative and regulatory arrangements: legislation enables the electronic media system to run smoothly. It needs some more improvement as proposed in the thesis. (iii) International efforts: these efforts are very positive to enforce the broadcasting regulation at international level. It will also have a gradual effect on the national market. (iv) Current enforcement challenges: some current media enforcement issues are analysed for the first time in this thesis. (v) Regulatory Reforms: after the development of the technology, the broadcasting sector is now facing some significant regulation issues. These five aspects are examined in Chapters 2 to 4 respectively. These three chapters constitute the main part of the thesis.

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Irving, Hyacinth Michèle. "An analysis of Ontario's junior division social studies textbooks in relation to multiculturalism." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4674.

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Furusawa, Katsuto. "Values and democracy postmaterialist shift versus cultural particularity in Russia, the USA, Britain and Japan /." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/247/.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2008.
Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Department of Politics, Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, 2008. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

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Nakao, Tomyo. "The representation of Japan in British POW films of the 1950s." Thesis, University of Essex, 2015. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/16055/.

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This thesis analyses the formation of images and representations of Japan in British films of the 1950s. Japan's image changed drastically during and after World War II, as knowledge of Japan's maltreatment of prisoners of war (POWs) became known. The thesis considers four films and the novels or scripts from which they were made: The Wind Cannot Read (both David Lean's and Ralph Thomas's version), A Town Like Alice, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and The Camp on Blood Island. This study shows how film became a venue for expressing untold experiences and the battle over 'proper' representations of both the POWs themselves and the Japanese Army. Japan's side is more sympathetically addressed in Lean's work; those critical of the country are represented in Alice. A film that led to greater intervention related to Japan's point of view was Kwai, aspects of which were extended, and others overturned, in a subsequent horror film (Blood Island). As further argued here, Japan as an (ex) enemy often assumes a feminine or demonised form in these texts, and sometimes blurs with the Nazi image. Generally, the West portrays the 'Other' as hostile male or available female, while Japanese women in Thomas's Wind are frequently presented as insensitive. This thesis further reveals that Japan's envoys endeavoured to present the country as a trustworthy state before the United Nations in an attempt to inhibit the circulation of negative images, while Britain, in the process of reconfiguring rapidly changing relations to its colonies and ex-colonies, tried to present itself as a new Empire with its Commonwealth. These studies of representations of Japan are examined in the context of oral histories of those who lived in the POW camps, showing how each experience interacts with the ways Japan, as the (former) captors, was represented.

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Deans, Kevin Alexander. "Psychosocial and biological determinants of ill health in relation to deprivation." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2424/.

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Background: Despite public health campaigns and improvements in healthcare, socioeconomic gradients in health and life expectancy persist, and in many cases are becoming more marked – the gradient in coronary heart disease being a prime example. Classic cardiovascular risk factors (e.g. smoking, cholesterol and blood pressure) only partially explain the deprivation effect, and attempts to narrow the health gap by focussing on such risk factors do not appear to be succeeding. There also appear to be socioeconomic differences in uptake of healthy lifestyle advice. The work described in this thesis aimed to expand current understanding of the deprivation-based gap in health and life expectancy, focussing particularly on the socioeconomic gradient in cardiovascular risk. Methods: Using a cross-sectional, population-based study design based in the Greater Glasgow area, 666 participants were selected on the basis of area-level social deprivation (Scottish Index for Multiple Deprivation ranking). The study was designed to include approximately equal numbers from most deprived and least deprived areas; equal numbers of male and female participants and equal numbers of participants from each age group studied (35-44; 45-54 and 55-64 years). Participants completed an extensive questionnaire on health, lifestyle and early life experiences. Anthropometric measures (height, leg length, weight, waist, hip and thigh circumferences) were recorded. Blood pressure, heart rate and parameters of lung function (Forced Expiratory Volume in 1 second [FEV1] and Forced Vital Capacity [FVC]) were recorded. Psychological assessments (General Health Questionnaire-28, Generalised Self-Efficacy Scale, Sense of Coherence Scale, Beck Hopelessness Scale, Eysenck Personality Scale and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale) and assessments of cognitive function (Auditory Verbal Learning Test, Choice Reaction Time and Stroop Test) were undertaken. Fasting blood samples were obtained for classic and emerging cardiovascular risk factors including lipid profile, glucose, insulin, leptin, adiponectin, C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1, von Willebrand Factor, fibrinogen, D-dimer and tissue plasminogen activator antigen. Carotid ultrasound assessment of intima-media thickness (cIMT), plaque score and arterial stiffness was performed. Results: Total and low density lipoprotein cholesterol were significantly higher in the least deprived group (both p<0.0001). Triglycerides were higher and high density lipoprotein cholesterol lower in the most deprived group (both p<0.0001). Fasting glucose, insulin and leptin were higher in the most deprived group. C-reactive protein, interleukin-6 and soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 were higher in the most deprived group (all p<0.0001). Von Willebrand factor, fibrinogen and D-dimer were higher in the most deprived group. Age- and sex-adjusted cIMT was significantly higher in the most deprived group, but on subgroup analysis this difference was only apparent in the highest age tertile in males (>56.3 years). Plaque score showed a much more highly significant deprivation difference in the group as a whole (p<0.0001). No differences in parameters of arterial stiffness were found between the most deprived and least deprived groups. Neither adjustment for classic nor emerging cardiovascular risk factors, either alone or in combination, abolished the area-level deprivation-based difference in plaque presence or cIMT. Adjustment for early life markers of socioeconomic status in addition to classic cardiovascular risk factors abolished the deprivation-based difference in plaque presence. Further associations between early life factors and health outcomes were noted: lung function (FEV1) and cognitive performance appeared to be influenced by father’s occupation, whether the parents/guardians were owner-occupiers or tenants, and by degree of overcrowding; cIMT was modestly related to father’s occupation and carotid plaque was related strongly to father’s occupation and parental home status. Socioeconomic differences were noted in the impact of personality in determining mental wellbeing, and also in relation to the health behaviours of fruit and vegetable consumption and smoking cessation. Conclusions: The relationship between social deprivation and health is complex and multifactorial and appears to involve the interplay of early life factors, biological mediators, psychological parameters such as personality and cognitive function, health behaviours and outcomes such as atherosclerosis. Approaches aiming to narrow the deprivation gap in health will need to be designed to take into account this complexity, addressing factors such as early life experiences and personality, as well as the more classically recognised factors such as smoking, cholesterol and blood pressure, if they are to have a chance of succeeding in improving the health of those most in need.

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Kerkhoff, Sebastian. "A General Duality Theory for Clones." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2011. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-74783.

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In this thesis, we generalize clones (as well as their relational counterparts and the relationship between them) to categories. Based on this framework, we introduce a general duality theory for clones and apply it to obtain new results for clones on finite sets.

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Go, Dong-Hun. "Three Essays in Economics of Prey-Predator Relation." DigitalCommons@USU, 2018. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7031.

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This dissertation explores how natural ecosystem can be integrated with economic system through two case studies of multiple species interactions, or predator-prey relations. By the inclusion of biological, ecological and economic aspects, the integrated approaches aim at more clearly understanding of how regional ecosystem and economy interact with each other, given threats of resource extinction and environmental shock. I also explain strategies and policy regimes that can be considered to achieve efficient and sustainable ecosystem management in those circumstances. The first case study focuses on a predator-prey relation in the Pacific Ocean between the United States and Canada, where endangered/threatened predators feed primarily on commercially valuable species as prey. Accounting for the importance of those predators as critical natural resources for whale watching industry, this case study synthesizes the species biological and the regional economic systems, and analyzes possible management strategies for both ecosystem conservation and sustainable economic growth. A long-term drought and fragmented management has been one of the critical issues in the Great Salt Lake (GSL) ecosystem that is linked with its regional economy in Utah. For this issue, the second case study builds an integrated model for describing how the lakes main natural resources, such as water, brine shrimp, and migratory birds, are related to primary industries in the region including agriculture, mining, fishery, and recreation. With the model framework, the study presents how the prolonged drought affects both the GSL ecosystem and its rigional economy, and suggests economic management strategies for the lakes ecosystem recovery in the presence of drought.

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Tomita, Kiyomi. "Informed consent and the right to refuse medical treatment : a comparative study of common-law Canada and Japan." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61156.

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Common law in Canada recognizes the rights to self-determination and autonomy and the right of competent persons to decide for themselves on medical treatment which includes the right to refuse all treatment. The legal profession has caused Japanese law to begin to recognize these basic rights, however professional and societal factors combine to accord the Japanese physician a wide discretion to determine what information to disclose, especially in the case of cancer. This thesis examines the similarities and differences existing between Canada and Japan in the controversial area of informed consent and the patient's right to refuse treatment and as well as the current attitudes within the legal and medical professions in Japan toward recognition and enforcement of these rights.

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Ozaki, Mizuho. "A Juku childhood : children's experiences in Juku attendance and its relation to their well-being in Japan." Thesis, University of Bath, 2016. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.687327.

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Many children and young people in urban Japan attend Juku, a private tuition in after-school hours. Juku supplements school education or prepares students for entrance examinations. This research looks at the role of Juku in children’s lives, how children perceive their well-being, and association of these two from the child-centred perspective. The motives of this research are three-folds. Firstly, Japanese childhood seems to be problematised with a concern about their low level of well-being, for which Juku is often raised as one of the influencing factors. Despite Juku being significant for Japanese children, it has been treated with laissez-faire approach from fields of both policy and research. Finally, children’s voices still appear to be missing in public discourse. For these, it was evident that there is a need to fill the distinctive lack of knowledge. To explore the topic of interest, qualitative interviews were conducted in urban Japan with girls aged 10 to 18. Other research tools such as timeline, time-use and eco-map sheets are used to perform child-centred research. These tools appeared useful also because this research considered time and space aspects in childhood. Three key findings are suggested by highlighting the relationality of Japanese society. Firstly, Juku experience is not necessarily negative for participant children. In fact, children feel the need of attending Juku, because school pedagogy appears to be unfavourable for them. Regarding child well-being, it became evident that maintaining Ibasho, a physical, emotional and relational space, is essential. Given the significance of relationship, these findings are discussed with application of rhizome theory suggested by Deleuze and Guattari (1987). Following these, this thesis suggests that current child well-being discourse is deeply embedded in Western-middle class ideology, and it appeared unsuitable when it is applied in Japanese context. Therefore, more diverse cultural-understanding is required when exploring children’s well-being.

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Hallberg, Ted, and Zakarias Åhlén. "Fisk som outnyttjad resurs : - en undersökning av svensk konsumtion och gastronomi ställt i relation till japansk sjömatskultur." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Restaurang- och hotellhögskolan, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-61181.

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Miles, Lynn M. "The relation of gender, religiosity, and spirituality with empathy." Thesis, Alfred University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3558786.

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Empathy is considered an important aspect of social interactions thus allowing social harmony and understanding however, little is known about what factors influence its development. This study examined how a child's gender, religiosity, and spirituality affect their level of empathy. A total of 79, nine- to 12-year-old students, from two rural school districts, completed questionnaires with parents providing additional information. Results indicate that the children's reported level of spirituality is not related to their reported level of empathy. Their particular religion was also not related to empathy. Additionally, Catholics and other religions were not significantly different from Protestants in terms of reported levels of spirituality. Gender was found to be significantly related to empathy, with females earning higher empathy scores than males. However, gender was not significantly related to spirituality. Although this study did not find factors related to the development of empathy, it is still important to continue research in order to determine what factors are involved. If we can learn what factors positively contribute to the development of empathy, we can support those factors in order to assist all children in becoming more empathic contributors to our society.

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Matsuoka, Misato. "Moving beyond (traditional) alliance theory : the neo-Gramscian approach to the U.S.-Japan alliance." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2015. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/69001/.

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While the nature of security is transforming, alliances remain at the centre of foreign policymaking in the contemporary era. Although such ideas as 'the end of alliances' and 'the end of alliance theories' have been discussed with the emergence of a 'coalition of willingness', alliances have continuously evolved in the post-Cold War and post-9.11 contexts. The forms of security are transforming by comprehending not only the traditional but also non-traditional types, consisting of peacekeeping operations (PKO), humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR), global commons and energy security. In the face of changing and malleable international security surroundings, alliances have been reshaped. Yet, alliances remain to be treated as mere military alliances rather than political ones in the realm of IR scholarship and a negative perception of the interdependence of allies still exists, which may have limited the understanding about alliance relationships in the post-Cold War period. This PhD thesis aims to refine the theory of alliance by incorporating the neo- Gramscian account of hegemony, which is crucial to be taken into consideration. This research project is intended to go beyond the military understanding of alliances. In light of alliance politics, it is important to explore not only material but also the economic and ideational aspects of alliances. In consideration of the current circumstances, it seems that it is not only material elements that have bolstered the alliance, which underlines the importance of examining other elements such as ideology. Although some literature addresses the causes of the continuity of alliances, there have not been in-depth investigations about the durability of the U.S.-Japan alliance, particularly within the International Relations (IR) framework. Furthermore, the alliance may have become deeply embedded in Japanese society as the pillar of Japanese foreign policy, which is another aspect that shall be examined.

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Kawai, Maho. "THE APPLICATION OF POLITENESS THEORY INTO ENGLISH EDUCATION IN JAPAN." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för språk och kultur, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-102766.

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In Japan, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) revised the Course of Study in English education twice in the last decade (in 2002 and in 2011), and the drastic changes have been made especially in the section of communicative skills: introduction of English study in elementary school, teaching English in English in high school, requirement of the subject ‘Oral Communication I’ in high school, etc. The aim of the revisions is to produce international individuals, who have high English proficiency not only in input-skills but also in output-skills, especially in speaking (MEXT 2004: 90, MEXT 2011). Despite the revisions of the Course of Study, Japan is still ranked low in English proficiency not only among the developed countries but also among the Asian countries (Sakamoto 2012: 409; Sullivan and Schatz 2009: 586; Educational Testing Service 2012). Inputs on different cultures and languages take an important role in language learning especially in the modern society where students have high chances to encounter cross-cultural communication. The politeness strategy is one of those factors that the social actors must learn for the sound relationships with others. Each culture has its own politeness strategy; therefore, miscommunication is observed more often in intercultural conversations due to the various conceptualization of politeness in different cultures (Sifianou 1992: 216). That is, comprehending the diversity in politeness strategy seems to be a clue of smooth communication and better apprehension of different cultures in cross-culture conversations. The Course of Study for foreign languages and English language also refers to the significance of comprehending various cultures and languages (MEXT 2009); however, as previous studies represent the Japanese students studying abroad or the Japanese businessman in intercultural communications seem to lack the understanding of the western politeness strategy (cf. Fujio 2004, Nakane 2006). Besides, it is vague what ‘different cultures’ refers to in the Course of Study for English. Based on the attitudes of the Japanese students towards cross-cultural communication and ambiguous explanation on ‘cultural learning’ by the Course of the Study, I assume that one of the reasons why Japan cannot achieve the communication-focused curriculum might be attributed to the lack of politeness theory perspective in English learning. Taking differences in politeness strategies between the western societies and the Japanese ones into consideration, it seems to be unfeasible and insufficient to only increase the number of communicative lessons and compel students into speaking English. The differences in politeness strategy should be applied into English learning in order to boost the English proficiency of Japanese students and produce globalized students. The present paper focuses on the following two aspects of English learning in Japan in order to test the hypothesis: The Course of Study in English learning in Japan does not specify what is ‘cultural learning’, which triggers the lack of politeness perspective The lack of politeness learning obstruct Japanese students to successful crosscultural communication In the present paper, in order to observe the application of the politeness theory in English learning, firstly English textbooks used in Japan are analyzed in terms of the politeness theory by focusing on the following four aspects: silence, speech style, ambiguity, and hierarchical relationship. Previous studies have shown that extinctive differences between the western politeness and the Japanese politeness in communication are obviously revealed in those four points (cf. Fujio 2004; Kameda 2001; Nakane 2006). In addition to the analysis of the English textbooks, an interview on the correlation between English learning and politeness theory is conducted on international Japanese in order to observe how they acquire the western politeness strategy, how English learning at school functioned to learn the western politeness strategy, etc. (cf. see 3. for details). To contextualize this paper, the politeness theory and the previous studies on the relation between the Japanese politeness and crossculture communication will be presented first, and a brief overview of English education in Japan and tendencies in Japanese schooling will follow.

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Kalkbrenner, Erin Lee. "Determining how Tertiary Education and Human Capital Formation Influenced Economic Expansion in Israel, Japan, and Norway from 2000--2010." Thesis, Lindenwood University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3619232.

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Researchers have calculated the relationship between human capital development and economic output by various means of econometric modeling and by use of numerous indicators under the context of an assortment of human capital theory. This study was conducted to identify new interpretations of the expansion of human capital in the form of tertiary education enrollment in the countries of Israel, Japan, and Norway from 2000 to 2010. The researcher applied an OLS non-linear regression to establish four hypotheses, including modeling with regional dummy variables to generate point estimates for each country in order to analyze each country’s educational policy implementation. The researcher collected data from UNESCO UIS, OECD, and the World Bank on tertiary enrollments, tertiary expenditures, and other measures utilized during modeling. Regional dummy variables allowed the researcher to calculate educational returns for five different regions: Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States, Latin America, and Former Communist countries. Optimization of tertiary education enrollment to maximize the real growth rate in each region was estimated and point estimates were computed for Israel, Norway, and Japan. Results indicated that tertiary education did in fact effect economic growth, but whether this growth was positive or negative was dependent on a country-by-country basis. Israel and Norway reported positive returns to tertiary education in terms of economic growth, where Japan exhibited negative returns to tertiary education in terms of economic growth. Government and educational policy recommendations were made based on computed outputs.

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Rynell, Erik. "Action reconsidered : cognitive aspects of the relation between script and scenic action /." Helsinki : Teatterikorkeakoulu, 2008. http://www.teak.fi/general/Uploads_files/rynell_action_reconsidered.pdf.

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Kim, Byung-Kon. "A comparative study of the theories of absolutism developed in relation to Stuart England by Thomas Hobbes and in relation to Tokugawa Japan by Ogyu Sorai." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240091.

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Boyle, Suzanne. "Men's and Women's Meta-Stereotypes and Out-Group Stereotypes in Relation to Sexism." Thesis, Boston College, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/423.

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Thesis advisor: Timothy A. Duket
Abstract The primary goal of this research was to examine men's and women's meta-stereotypes, the stereotypes that group members expect out-group members to hold about their own group, and out-group stereotypes, the stereotypes that group members hold about the opposite gender. It was predicted that the magnitude of these stereotypes would be greater among individuals with higher sexism scores than among individuals with lower sexism scores. Results of this study indicate the existence of meta-stereotypes and out-group stereotypes held by men and women, along with specifying the adjectives that comprise these views. At the same time, only weak correlations were found between levels of sexism and magnitudes of meta-stereotypes and out-group stereotypes
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2003
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Psychology
Discipline: College Honors Program

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Kubo, Katsuyuki. "The determinants of executive compensation and its effect on company performance in Japan and the UK." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2000. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/47/.

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The purpose of this thesis is to analyse directors' incentives in large companies in Japan and the UK, with particular emphasis on the relationship between corporate governance and executive compensation. This thesis seeks to contrast the effect of corporate governance on the determinants of executive pay, by comparing the UK and Japan. Firstly, this research estimates the determinants of executive compensation in Japan. We find a positive relationship between an employee's wage and a director's salary, which is consistent with our hypothesis that both directors and employees are paid in similar ways. In contrast, this research can not find any relationship between shareholders' return and directors' pay in Japan, suggesting that directors have little incentive to pursue shareholders' interest. In contrast, this research finds that top pay in the UK is positively correlated with most company performance variables, including profit, stock market capitalisation and sales, which is consistent with our hypothesis that shareholders in large UK companies have relatively strong powers to control top managers and their compensation through remuneration committees. This research also analyses the effects of company's pay policy on corporate performance. Our analysis on data from the UK shows that there is a positive relationship between `company's pay policy' and firm performance. The company with an annual bonus scheme is more likely to improve company profit and earnings per share, for example. In contrast, there is no relationship between pay-performance sensitivity and firm performance in Japan, showing that the performance-pay sensitivity does not affect company performance in Japan's large companies, or the directors in those companies are not motivated by the change in performance-pay sensitivity.

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Watanabe, Airi. "Perceptions of barriers to suitable education for children with medical needs in England and Japan." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4834/.

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This study investigates the difficulties of ensuring a suitable education for children with medical needs. The aims are to identify barriers to education and to suggest possible areas for improvement. The research questions are: (1) What are the educational needs of children with medical needs? (2) How do the systems function to respond to the child’s needs? (3) What are the barriers to suitable education for children with medical needs? The study reports on two case studies undertaken in England and Japan, in which data were collected from a range of stakeholders (people who experienced hospitalisation in childhood, parents, teachers of hospital and mainstream schools) through face to face interviews and email interviews. The findings identify the children’s academic needs, their health condition and medical care related needs, as well as their social emotional needs. Hospital school, home teaching and main school maintain continuity of education in both cases. As obstacles to education, regional differences in available support were identified in both countries. Teacher’s lack of awareness of the child’s education, insufficient knowledge and skill, lack of communication, lack of information about the child’s illness, and unsupportive school leadership were identified as barriers. This study suggests 1) to improve teachers’ knowledge of teaching ill children, 2) to improve their knowledge of the available support systems, 3) to improve communication, 4) to obtain sufficient information about the child’s difficulties and illness, and 5) to improve supportive school leadership. Further developments may be needed in inadequate systems, teacher training, and social emotional support for children.

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Aydin, Bayram Selma. "The Relation Of Freedom And Evil In Kant." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12607596/index.pdf.

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The purpose of this study is to examine concepts of freedom and evil, and to clarify their relation in terms of Kant&rsquo
s moral philosophy. In this study, I firstly examine Kant&rsquo
s understanding of freedom and the problems that this understanding leads to. I also discuss how the concept of freedom can be reconciled with the concept of evil expressed in the form of &ldquo
propensity to evil&rdquo
. Additionally, I attempt to show the significance of the notion of evil for Kant&rsquo
s moral theory. Evil is one of the most criticized concepts of Kant&rsquo
s philosophy and it is considered as inconsistent with his earlier thoughts by his contemporaries. Kant claims that the &ldquo
propensity to evil&rdquo
is universal to all of human race, but it does not mean that human beings are actually evil. They become good or evil with their free will (Willkü
r). In this study, I propose that Kant&rsquo
s understanding of evil is a concept that helps to conceive one&rsquo
s own freedom in terms of Kant&rsquo
s morality. I also try to show that in spite of its similarities with the Christian doctrine of &ldquo
original sin&rdquo
, Kant&rsquo
s conception of evil should not be considered as a religious issue
it is a matter of freedom as the extension of his moral theory and his earlier thoughts. Kant&rsquo
s earlier works do not seem to be sufficient for comprehending his moral thoughts. Therefore, it can be proposed that with the introduction of the concept of evil in the Religion within the Limits of Reason, the missing part of Kant&rsquo
s moral theory is completed.

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Gashi, Erelinda. "The English Language Syllabus in Sweden and Japan : A comparative study." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-54149.

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This independent paper compares the Swedish and the Japanese national syllabi for English. Making use of White’s (1988) Type A and Type B syllabus distinction, a number of dimensions are put forward to permit a comparison between the syllabus documents for the two countries. The methods used are hermeneutics and word counting. By counting content signal word frequencies and observing the context in which the words were found, the relative linguistic and pedagogical focuses of the two syllabi are illuminated. The results of the word counting procedures indicate that both countries are somewhat similar when the results were combined from all the Type A dimensions. When observing the word counting for the Type B on the other hand, Sweden has more than 70 % of a word frequency, while Japan has a bit below 30 %. One consequence of this could be the proficiency in the English language that each country has, and the attitude towards learning the language. The results put forward, suggest the basis for an automatized quantitative comparison between the national syllabi which could be implemented in the form of a computer application.

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Simet, Melanie, Tom McClintock, Rachel Mandelbaum, Eduardo Rozo, Eli Rykoff, Erin Sheldon, and Risa H. Wechsler. "Weak lensing measurement of the mass–richness relation of SDSS redMaPPer clusters." OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623938.

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We perform a measurement of the mass-richness relation of the redMaPPer galaxy cluster catalogue using weak lensing data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We have carefully characterized a broad range of systematic uncertainties, including shear calibration errors, photo-z biases, dilution by member galaxies, source obscuration, magnification bias, incorrect assumptions about cluster mass profiles, cluster centring, halo triaxiality and projection effects. We also compare measurements of the lensing signal from two independently produced shear and photometric redshift catalogues to characterize systematic errors in the lensing signal itself. Using a sample of 5570 clusters from 0.1 <= z <= 0.33, the normalization of our power-law mass versus. relation is log(10)[M-200m/ h-M-1(circle dot)] = 14.344 +/- 0.021 (statistical) +/- 0.023 (systematic) at a richness lambda= 40, a 7 per cent calibration uncertainty, with a power-law index of 1.33(- 0.10)(+0.09) (1 sigma). The detailed systematics characterization in this work renders it the definitive weak lensing mass calibration for SDSS redMaPPer clusters at this time.

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村瀬, 聡美, Satomi Murase, Shisei Ochiai, Masashi Ueyama, Shuji Honjo, and Tatsuro Ohta. "Psychiatric Features of Seriously Life-Threatening Suicide-Attempters : A Clinical Study from a General Hospital in Japan." Elsevier, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/2748.

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Ono, Ayako. "Japonisme in Britain : a source of inspiration : J. McN. Whistler, Mortimer Menpes, George Henry, E.A. Hornel and nineteenth century Japan." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2001. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30763/.

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This thesis explores Japanese influences on British Art and will focus on four artists working in Britain: the American James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), the Australian Mortimer Menpes (1855-1938), and two artists from the group known as the Glasgow Boys, George Henry (1858-1934) and Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864-1933). Whistler was one of the earliest figures who incorporated Japanese elements in his art but never visited Japan; Menpes visited the country and learned Japanese artistic methods from a Japanese artist; Henry and Hornel visited Japan and responded to Japanese photography mass-produced for foreign market. The purpose of this thesis is to consider how Western artists understood and accepted Japanese art as a source of inspiration. To emphasise and support my view that Japanese art was one of the sources of inspiration for the creation of European art, I will also discuss western influences on Japanese art in the second half of the nineteenth century since this movement, supported by the Japanese government, is a good comparison with Japonisme. The historical background of Japonisme will be discussed in chapter one with a variety of examples taken from decorative art, paintings and cartoons. These examples have been chosen from the works of artists who were associated with the Aesthetic Movement and interested in the improvement of Design, since the early stages Japonisme in Britain was developed by leading figures of these movements. The breadth of the phenomenon is too wide to be included in any one thesis so theatre, music, architecture, sculpture or photography are not included. I will examine the essence of Japonisme by making comparisons between Whistler, Menpes, and Henry and Hornel. For the sake of consistency in these comparisons, I am going to concentrate on pictorial art. However, Menpes' studio-house with its Japanese decoration is also going to be discussed since despite his wish to recreate an authentic Japanese interior, he did not understand the fundamental basis of Japanese architecture, so that the result was superficial. The artists have been chosen and discussed as follows.

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Tsai, Chia-hung. "Party voting in comparative perspective the United States, Taiwan, and Japan /." Connect to this title online, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1054756643.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiv, 308 p.; also includes graphics Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-308). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

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Terauchi, Hajime. "English for academic purposes in Japan : an investigation of language attitudes and language needs in a Department of Law." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1996. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/34707/.

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This thesis is concerned with the development of English courses in a Department of Law in Japan. It presents a case for the introduction of courses in English for Academic Purposes. It begins with a description of the setting for the present research, which consists of the historical development of legal education in Japan (chapter 1) and a study of Japanese approaches to English language teaching (chapter 2). This is followed by a survey of previous work into the language of the law and the teaching of legal English (chapters 3 and 4). Chapter 5 considers the needs of students who are required to read legal textbooks in English and reports on an investigation into the lexis of these textbooks. The analysis (using computational concordancing methods) demonstrates that the needs of undergraduates are not covered by existing wordlists or by proposed standards that would ignore the special needs of law students. A list of essential lexis is proposed, and the collocations of frequent legal terms are identified, thus providing a list of common legal phrases that could be valuable as a teaching resource. Chapter 6 reports on a questionnaire survey into the attitudes of students, law teachers and English teachers to the existing courses and to possible innovations. This reveals that many students and some teachers would welcome changes but that there are conflicting of attitudes and resistance to change by some staff members. Chapter 7 draws on the findings of the lexical research and the attitude survey to suggest the introduction of a more varied English curriculum that should be acceptable to teachers and students and that includes courses relating to the language of the law. Proposals are also made for staff development. Chapter 8 provides a short postscript with suggestions for further research.

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Xu, Fei. "The effect of viscoelasticity and damage in relation to the acceleration of fatigue and creep testing of composites using time-temperature superposition." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/55036/.

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This project is focused on accelerating fatigue tests and constant strain rate (CSR) creep tests for composites which are widely used in aircraft due to a higher strength-to-weight ratio. To achieve this ultimate objective, research will be conducted to establish a damage model for linear viscoelastic materials and combine this model with time temperature superposition principle (TTSP). Since the mechanical behaviour of polymer resins exhibits linear viscoelastic properties which are time and temperature dependent, we wish to accelerate fatigue test by using the TTSP which is empirical and phenomenological. Then a damage model needs to be built for these linear viscoelastic materials to provide a physically-based interpretation for TTSP. To understand the properties of viscoelastic materials, a complete damage model was constructed for linear viscoelastic UD composites. Firstly, the damage representation for the corresponding elastic UD composites with an array of dispersed matrix cracks was derived from Li's work based on continuum damage mechanics (CDM). The elastic-viscoelastic correspondence principle was used to obtain the damage representation for corresponding linear viscoelastic UD composites in the Laplace domain. Secondly, a damage evolution law for the transverse direction of the UD composites was derived by making using of the Weibull distribution of defects, and by assuming that damage is driven by strain. To explain the time and temperature effects on the strength of the UD composites, a long-term creep strength prediction model was built by taking advantage of conventional strength prediction models, known as the global load sharing (GLS) model and simultaneous fibre failure (SFF) model. Finally, a rational test acceleration method was proposed by modelling the behaviour of the UD composites during deformation.

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