This study provides a direct comparison of boundary and prominence perception strategies between Japanese EFL learners and native speakers of English using the Rapid Prosody Transcription (RPT) method. Although RPT experiments are available for both native English speakers [1], [2], [3] and Japanese EFL learners [4], a direct comparison of the available data is problematic as the stimuli sets u...

Related party transactions (RPTs) are transactions made among affiliated companies in a conglomerate group. Heavy RPT ratio means high level of dependence of a firm on the captive market within a conglomerate group. This may depress the firm’s incentive to invest in R&D and the high level of R&D expenditure of a firm with heavy RPT ratio may not be efficiently led to high level of firm performa...

Bactericidal activities of HMR 3647 (HMR), moxifloxacin (MXFX), and rifapentine (RPT) against Mycobacterium leprae, measured by the proportional bactericidal technique in the mouse footpad system, were compared with those of the established antileprosy drugs clarithromycin (CLARI), ofloxacin (OFLO), and rifampin (RMP). Administered in five daily doses of 100 mg/kg of body weight, HMR appeared s...

The behavior of TRISO fuel used in high temperature gas reactors in order to achieve high fuel performance is difficult to model using traditional lattice codes due to the double-heterogeneity effect created by the multi-coated fuel kernels in a graphite matrix. A simple volume-weighted homogenization does not accurately reduce the problem to one degree of heterogeneity as it does not properly ...

Magnetic nanoparticle-supported sulfanilic acid (MNPs-PhSO3H) has been used as an efficient catalyst for the preparation of 1,4-diazepines containing tetrazole ring. The catalyst has been characterized by FT-IR (Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy), SEM (scanning electron microscope), XRD (X-ray diffraction) and VSM (vibrating-sample magnetometer). The present synthetic protocol provides se...

In this paper, we introduce and investigate the notion of projection invariant semisimple modules. Some structural properties aforementioned class modules are studied. We obtain indecomposable decompositions former under some module theoretical conditions. Moreover, explore when finite exchange property implies full for Finally, that endomorphism ring a is ?- Baer ring.

Every commuting set of normal matrices with entries in an AW*algebra can be simultaneously diagonalized. To establish this, a dimension theory for properly infinite projections in AW*-algebras is developed. As a consequence, passing to matrix rings is a functor on the category of AW*-

The most existing digital watermarking methods were robust to general attacks such as additive noise, image filtering, JPEG compression and so on, but resisting to geometric attacks is still a difficult challenge. This paper proposed a watermarking algorithm resisting to geometrical attacks. The Radon transform was employed to project two dimension image onto projection space. Then the rotation...

Telexistence is fundamentally a concept named for the technology that enables a human being to have a realtime sensation of being at a place other than where he or she actually exists, and to interact with the remote environment, which may be real, virtual, or a combination of both. It also refers to an advanced type of teleoperation system that enables an operator at the control to perform rem...

Abstract The phenomenon of weakness will – not doing what we perceive as the best action is recognized by neoclassical economics due to axiomatic assumptions revealed preference theory (RPT) that people do for them. However, present bias shows have different preferences over time. As they cannot be compared utility measurements, economists need normatively decide between selves (short- versus l...