There were two forms of nativism1 during the Tokugawa period. The first was literary in orientation. Literary nativists undertook exhaustive and comprehensive studies of Japan’s classical literature, and both poetry and prose works were central to their scholarship. An array of luminary intellects mostly from the eighteenth century made their mark on this form of nativism, including Keichū (164...

This study examined the importance assigned by Human Resource personnel to the personality traits of Information Technology officers. The extent to which these traits were evident among Information Technology officers was determined and compared to their level of importance among Human Resource personnel. The well-known 16 Personality Factors model was used and data was collected by questionnai...

It is well known that Dharmakı̄rti followed Dignāga in accepting that there are exactly two sources of new knowledge (pramān. a), namely, sensation (pratyaks. a) and inference (anumāna), and that the criteria by which these two means of acquiring knowledge are distinguished were somewhat different for the two philosophers. Dignāga claimed that the two sources of knowledge were distinct in that s...

This paper reports on the automatic metadata generation applications (AMeGA) project’s metadata expert survey. Automatic metadata generation research is reviewed and the study’s methods, key findings and conclusions are presented. Participants anticipate greater accuracy with automatic techniques for technical metadata (e.g., ID, language, and format metadata) compared to metadata requiring int...

it is said that the theory of active intellect is among the most ambiguous and controversial topics of aristotle’s philosophy. this ambiguity is generally regarded as being resulted from the brevity and vagueness of aristotle’s speech in his on the soul. however; is the ambiguity of aristotle’s speech to such an extent that the active intellect attributed to him can be regarded as separate from...