Since 1993, Japan has experienced party breakups, mergers and the formation of new parties that are rare in industrial democracies. As a result, the one-party dominance by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), with perennial opposition parties, has evolved into a LDP-centered governing coalition faced with the Democratic Party (DP) contending with it for office. While an electoral system change t...

Abstract—A novel scheme of combining non-uniform rational Bsplines (NURBS) model with higher-order moment method (HOMM) is presented. The mesh precision of conforming to practical object is a major factor for HOMM to yield accurate results. In the present paper, NURBS technique is employed to model complex objects accurately with large curved Bezier patches and no factitious geometric discontin...

BACKGROUND The Child Perception Questionnaire (CPQ11-14) is a self-report instrument developed to measure oral-health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in 11-14-year-olds. Earlier reports confirm that the 16-item short-form version performs adequately, but there is a need to determine the measure's validity and properties in larger and more diverse samples and settings. AIM The objective of th...

In this paper we use a research design that exploits unique features of Japanese elections to estimate and decompose the incumbency advantage in Japan’s Lower House elections. Like some existing related studies we also use repeated observations on the same candidates to account for unobserved factors that remain constant across observations. We find evidence that much of incumbent LDP represent...

EnglishCouple interactions are characterized by two types of communication patterns: complementary (e.g., demand/withdraw) and symmetrical mutual constructive communication, avoidance). Christensen Heavey’s Communication Patterns Questionnaire - Short Form (CPQ-SF) aims to assess patterns in couples. This was a cross-sectional, observational study with the aim exploring factor structure psychom...

Aim: The purpose of this study was to predict being abused in close relationship based on communicational patterns and fear intimacy married women. method research is descriptive-correlational.
 Methods: This a correlation study, which 300 women Tehran were selected through convenience sampling they completed the Communication Patterns Questionnaire – short form (CPQ- SF) (Christense &...